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go work with Rachel!

Neuromatch will be at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting #SfN,2025 (15–19 Nov, San Diego, USA) and we’d love to meet you at our community meetup! ➡️Let us know if you're attending & we will send you the meetup & our booth details: airtable.com/appWO8lu7xm3...

I am accepting graduate students for the UCI Cognitive Sciences PhD program for Fall 2026. Check out my lab website - www.relcoglab.org for our recent themes. Our funded work focuses on combinatorial reasoning, moral decision-making, and conceptual cognition in humans and large language models.

PSA for prospective grad students: Professors usually have no clue what labs' names are. If you say you worked in the Perception Lab at U of X *maybe* I can make an educated guess of who the PI is but not always (lab names are too generic). Always use the lab PI's name in your CV/emails/applications

This is wild!

read this.

Of all the bad stories, this is one of the worst. Read the thread if you want to really understand the current barbarism

DODGERS

happy halloween!

Neuromatch will be at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting #SfN,2025 (15–19 Nov, San Diego, USA) and we’d love to meet you at our community meetup! ➡️Let us know if you're attending & we will send you the meetup & our booth details: airtable.com/appWO8lu7xm3...

oh my god how long is this game are we stuck in groundhog day all the innings are the same now...

This is such a horrifically bad idea that I don't even know where to begin. www.nature.com/articles/d41... Oh wait, yes I do. I wrote a whole article about it last year: www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/a...

This article is well worth reading. The siren call of wanting to "just get it" is also more intoxicating when you're stressed, tired, overburdened--i.e. when symbolic/effortful thinking might best help avoid heuristic mistakes. So populists will of course strive to make those conditions manifest.

Such a pleasure to discuss this with Lauren! Thank you Tev Naidu for the opportunity!

The Trump Administration is demanding/stealing California taxpayer dollars through extorting UCLA, & top-level UC officials were trying to hide details from us all. Massive kudos to the UCLA faculty for fighting for transparency. The UC system belongs to ALL the people of CA, not the UC Regents.

"In February 2024, then–UC President Michael Drake announced all employee computers connected to university networks would be required to install Trellix by May 2025. Campuses failing to comply would face penalties of up to $500,000 per ... incident." www.science.org/content/arti...

Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants (1/2)

what a beautiful and powerful sentiment! thank you so much for being part of our family!

i wholeheartedly agree. even if you think there's subverting special about biology, eschewing functionalism will not drive progress towards explanation or understanding.

woohoo, congratulations!

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a peaceful sunday evening in southern california

I'm confused as to why you/anyone might think the Turing Test is better applied to consciousness than to intelligence. This seems entirely wrong to me, and goes against historical/current consensus.

As fundraising heats up this cycle, it's a good time to announce the publication of my new book, The Money Signal! The main argument is that money matters because it is a widely used indicator of viability and strength in American politics. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

I disagree that the Turing Test is a test for consciousness in any way. We explore the difficulty of testing for C in this article: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38485576/ ... (1/2)

Yes! @upenn.edu declines signing The Compact. I'm proud of this decision.

So proud of my alma mater! Awesome. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

📣 Calling all early career #neuroscientists! @thetransmitter.bsky.social & Neuromatch are teaming up to better understand how to support #EarlyCareer Researchers. Whether you're a student, postdoc, or launching your career, we want to hear from you. ➡️ www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

@aliekhlasi.bsky.social has been doing some brilliant work on domain adaptation approaches to characterizing the nature of higher order representations. Please come see our work at @sfn.org this year!

#justsayno to bribes and extortion drag your feet. convene a committee of 25 senior & emeritus faculty who will argue over it for 6 months. require consensus (& quorum at every meeting) to make any decision to adopt. solicit community feedback & require 90% reply rate. weaponize inefficiency.

we want to hear from you!!

📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce… 🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉 The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!

MIT leading the way on how to refuse a bribe. Well done, MIT. A beacon we can all hope others will follow. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Consciousness science as a marketplace of rationalizations my commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social and @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's thought-provoking BBS paper, and more generally about the field. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

confirmed: real footage from portland, my hometown. many of my my family and friends are still there and they keep telling me about all the horrors*. *people dancing in inflatable unicorn outfits. (i actually feel like i need one of these outfits, where can i get one)

Nadeen Kort from Palestine turned unimaginable challenges into a story of resilience and hope. Despite living through violence that made attending university impossible, they found a way to continue their education with Neuromatch Academy. ➡️ Read more here: www.linkedin.com/posts/neurom...

How exciting! Congratulations to our new Impact Scholars!

From notebook sketches to a global movement! Titipat Achakulvisut helped shape the first Neuromatch logo...and with it, the identity of a worldwide education community in computational neuroscience. ➡️ Read more: www.linkedin.com/posts/neurom...

🎉 We’re thrilled to introduce our 2026 Ambassador Co-Chairs, two incredible leaders who will be our Advocate and Ambassadors go-to guides, mentors, & cheerleaders throughout the year. ✨Peter Ohue & Tolulope Gbayisomore 👉 Learn more: www.linkedin.com/posts/neurom...

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my task management software is down. oh no. oh nooooo.

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JUST IN: President Trump has told top U.S. commanders that the military would be used against "enemy within."

no pressure.

this TNG episode is an influential and poignant commentary on cultural exchange, cultural memory, and semantics. it's also a lot of fun! ... and thank GOODNESS i saw this post in time to change my shirt this morning.

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