Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio. led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓ #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

For anyone who is not yet taking part, join the full cultural and academic boycott of Israel bdsmovement.net/get-involved...

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Sad to hear that Margaret Boden, pioneer in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, has passed away. Just a few days ago, someone reactivated the post below. I warmly recommend watching the video. Thank you Margaret for founding and shaping our field. www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

Did you all know that Margaret Boden founded the first School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences in 1987. No? Well, now you do 😌 Btw, listen to this great talk by her. I'll be adding this to the resources from our 1st year students in Intro to AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRA...

If you are UK academic please consider signing this open letter to Starmer, Cooper, Lammy and Falconer calling on them to do what France, Italy, Ireland and others have already done: defer the req for biometrics & enable the safe passage of students in Gaza to the UK docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The “appalling scenes in Gaza” have been enabled by the arms, surveillance & diplomatic cover Keir Starmer’s Labour government have provided to a genocidal apartheid state. He still refuses to call it a genocide because he is complicit in it. Keir Starmer belongs in The Hague.

This is the most appalling sophistry. I don't even know where to start, but here are some of my personal highlights: 1. "AI-shaming" is classist because AI allows everyone to "pass" as part of the bourgeoisie, which would be a good thing that Marx would like

This is the most appalling sophistry. I don't even know where to start, but here are some of my personal highlights: 1. "AI-shaming" is classist because AI allows everyone to "pass" as part of the bourgeoisie, which would be a good thing that Marx would like

It's a thrill to see this project, led by @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social, see the light of day. It's led me to rethink how emergence and consciousness relate, and it's been an honour and pleasure to work on it with Boki and team (@thomasandrillon.bsky.social, Lionel Barnett, Olivia Carter).👇🏽

This is disgraceful. Students in Gaza accepted to many universities (not just Cambridge or Oxford!) being blocked by the UK Home Office's unreasonable and inflexible demands. www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

1/3) This may be a very important paper, it suggests that there are no prediction error encoding neurons in sensory areas of cortex: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction. But... 🧠📈 🧪

The "reproducibility crisis" in science constantly makes headlines. Repro efforts are often limited. What if you could assess reproducibility of an entire field? That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience A 🧵 1/n

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Every person aboard the Madleen is a hero. The genocidal Israeli state's attack on unarmed activists aboard a UK-flagged vessel delivering aid to Gaza is a flagrant breach of international law. The UK must sanction Israel, end all arms & surveillance, & expel its ambassador.

#madleen #flotilla #gaza #greta

Take one minute: go to bit.ly/IsraelOnNotice and send a letter to the Israeli government, UN officials, and diplomatic missions demanding that Israel abide by international law and refrain from attacking, sabotaging or otherwise interfering with the #Madleen and her mission.

The first preprint from Clémence Compain's PhD 🎉 She showed that on a low-stakes numerosity task, people can reduce their decision bias on instruction and do so non-trivially, in a manner distinct from simply "trying harder". Well done Clémence! with @anilseth.bsky.social

A Stage 1 registered report with Zoltan Dienes: "Reversing the Rubber Hand Illusion with demand characteristics and phenomenological control." A test of whether PC can reverse typical RHI effects, with stronger illusion responses for asynchronous than synchronous conditions. osf.io/preprints/ps...

This paper makes important point that we're not talking about impact of AI on reading enough. Marking work that's full of AI is demoralising but in some ways, the threat AI poses to comprehension is bigger than the threat to what students produce... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #AcademicSky

🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...) Below a thread summary 🧵1/n #metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy

🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!

Israel refused to move to phase two of the ceasefire, violating the agreement it signed up to. Israel kept killing Palestinians throughout phase one, never actually ceasing its fire. And now it's right back in its comfort zone: genocide. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...

Today, mothers and fathers in Gaza are mourning their children because governments across the world did not deem their lives worthy of protection.

Please repost this PhD opportunity in my group working on cognitive computational and decision neuroscience.

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Tired but happy to say this is out w @andreaeyleen.bsky.social: Are Neurocognitive Representations 'Small Cakes'? philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24834/ We analyse cog neuro theories showing how vicious regress, e.g. the homunculus fallacy, is (sadly) alive and well — and importantly how to avoid it. 1/

Israeli forces in the illegally-occupied West Bank have stepped up their assaults on Palestinian communities and vital humanitarian organisations. All governments must condemn these attacks and the ethnic cleansing in Gaza, and end arms sales to Israel.

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

We are very excited to announce the open release of a new 170 participant dataset: Linked MEG, TMS, multimodal 3T MRI, 7T MRI, Connectom MRI, cognitive /questionnaire data. Immense effort from a fabulous CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

This Registered Report masterpiece just dropped at BMC Biology, brilliantly led by a great team with the help of 300+ analysts & reviewers Same question, same data: go figure! tl;dr: Substantial heterogeneity among results comes from differences among analytical choices 🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s129...

Curso online "This course series will give an introduction to open and reproducible research practices and guides on how to implement them in your own research practice and make them more visible to the research community" www.ub.uio.no/english/cour...

Perhaps we can blame Donald Trump for the Ethnic Cleansing and show support for the Palestinians, rather than blaming people who didn't vote for Kamala Harris and ignoring the Palestinians completely?

Cognitive psych is often traced back to the 1950s. Psychology is often traced to Wundt's lab in 1879. Textbooks speak of "proto-psychologists" like Fechner & Helmholtz in the 1800s... Westerners all. Have you heard about Ibn al-Haytham, whose work predated them by 100s of years? 1/4

The DugueLab is looking for a candidate to apply to the @fondationfyssen.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowship program! Contact me if you are interested ! www.fondationfyssen.fr/en/study-gra...

New from my lab: "Priors for natural image statistics inform confidence in perceptual decisions" We used a natural image statistics approach to investigate the computations underlying perceptual confidence. 🧵 Article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

informal announcement: we'll be doing a *cluster* hire of faculty in theoretical/computational neuroscience in the coming year(s). a senior/mid-career person could be selected to bring in 2-3 more ppl of their choosing (subject to committee approval), or we could otherwise hire together a group 1/

My article "A comprehensive assessment of current methods for measuring metacognition" is finally out in Nature Communications 🎉 If you work on metacognition and think you know the psychometric properties of your favorite measure, you may be surprised. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

srsly if you hate that publishers charge your grant $5-10K for open access, there's a simple solution don't write for those journals don't review for those journals don't edit for those journals Scientific Reports, Nature Comms, Comms Psych, Frontiers <- I auto-delete all their emails. easy 👍🏻

I’m advertising for a 3.5yr fully-funded PhD position at the lovely Sussex Uni. If you're interested in combining behavioural experiments & computational modelling to study how we evaluate our inferences about others, please see here: www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f... [1/2]

Saw a discussion on metaphor-based metaheuristics. It's funny how I initially got into #AI / #ALife, through bio-inspired #optimisation, and now it turns out that the entire field has barely moved for decades, and most of the "results" in the last two decades are part of various running jokes. 1/

We’re still looking for applicants for this PhD position on bees and anthropogenic stressors 🐝

Those who sow chaos and disinformation to disrupt others should remember: the forces they unleash have no loyalty, and one day, will turn on them. That day was today.

Our Sussex Neuroscience 4-year PhD Programme is open for applications! Deadline Jan 13th, for Sept 2025 entry. Brilliant community of students and supervisors, and a choice of >60 labs for rotations- come and join us by the sea! www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

"The only democracy in the Middle East"

There are no ‘humanitarian zones’ or ‘evacuation orders’ in Gaza — #AJOpinion by Othman Moqbel ⤵️

🎉 Our paper "Criterion placement threatens the construct validity of neural measures of consciousness" is now out in eLife! 🎉 TL;DR: Both simulations and empirical data show that you should not post-hoc sort neural data based on subjective measures of consciousness. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Time to start promoting the Consciousness Club on here! 🦋 On Wed 27th November at 11am-1230pm UK time we are excited to host @keithfrankish.bsky.social for his talk: "How to think about artificial consciousness" For more info and how to join see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes... All welcome! 🧠🧪

Important paper! www.biorxiv.org/content/bior... Im not sure the Discussion fully delineates its radical implications. No more... * Place cells * Grid cells, splitter cells, border cells * Mirror neurons * Reward neurons * Conflict cells (continued)