SPAN just dropped their new mentorship program open to undergrads and grads! Apply with or without mentors! 🥳🥳🥳

presenting TODAY at #SfN2025 🧠 if you're curious about distinct structure learning & metacognitive dynamics across multiple statistical patterns & stimuli types, come check out my poster w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social 📈 📍PSTR363.17 / UU13 🕐 Tues Nov 18 1-5 PM www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

#SfN Poster 5 of 6 TODAY! Tuesday 11/18 1-5p @rochellekaper.bsky.social PSTR363.17 / UU13 Quantifying the emergence of metacognition in structure learning www.abstractsonline....

#SfN2025 Poster 4 of 6 TODAY! Tuesday 11/18 1-5p @hazimi.bsky.social PSTR363.09 / UU5 Modeling Prior-like Higher-Order Representations in DecNef with a Generative NERD Model www.abstractsonline....

gooood morning #SfN2025! i’m presenting this poster at board CC11 *today* from 8am-noon stop by to chat learning, memory, (perceptual) decision making, and normative modeling that bridges cross-species and cross-task findings 🧠🐒 w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social

#SfN2025 Poster 3 of 6 TODAY! Tuesday 11/18 8a-12p @khoudary.bsky.social PSTR291.11 / CC11 Precision-weighted integration explains dynamic effects of expectations on perceptual decisions, with @aaronbornstein.bsky.social www.abstractsonline....#SfN2025

Good morning from San Diego. Come see my poster (UU7) on splitting and merging latent states in non-Markovian environments, at #Sfn2025 right now !

me & my Theme K poster are finally at #SfN25! stop by board WW13 anytime between now & tomorrow evening to learn more about how philosophy can help navigate meta-scientific questions about models in neuroscience 🧠 w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social

Come see the lab's work at #SfN2025! (🧵) Featuring: @khoudary.bsky.social @biancaleonard.bsky.social @malejandra.bsky.social @jungsuy.bsky.social @dalezhou.bsky.social @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social @sharonmnoh.bsky.social

Our group has SIX posters at SfN! 🧵👇 links below in thread:

Kath really exemplifies the type of thinking that makes our weird little department so unique and valuable — definitely give this a read!

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.

Friends (and friends-of-friends) in LA: Please help spread the word! On Saturday, November 15th 2p, @mameister4.bsky.social and I will be in conversation at the Burbank Library discussing bottlenecks and next steps for brain research. It's free! Register here: burbank.libnet.info/event/14639190

🚨 New preprint 🚨 How do people's mental models shape memory, prediction, and generalization? We find that people spontaneously construct goal-dependent causal abstractions that compress experience to privilege relevant information. 📃 osf.io/preprints/ps... 🔗 github.com/cicl-stanfor...

I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com

Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/

“…for an AI chatbot to generate an autopsy report, contract workers have to sift through thousands of gruesome crime scene images, a gig known as ‘data labeling.’”

A compressed code for memory discrimination https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.12.681901v1

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

i always knew writing my dissertation was going to be tedious, intimidating, overwhelming, etc. but no one ever told me it was also going to be *fun* 😳

join the protest: YES! register for the protest: NO!

From student to 3-time TA, Shahrzad M. Esfahan’s journey shows how Neuromatch Academy opens doors to global science and community 🌍🧠✨ ➡️ Read her story: www.linkedin.com/posts/neurom... #MyNeuromatchStory #ComputationalNeuroscience #STEMEducation #Neuroscience #DeepLearning

personally i do not think human rights should be up for “debate” but what do i know, i’m emotional and biased because those are my rights they’re talking about

New opinion piece! @amirtal.bsky.social and I argue that "wake reactivation" is not a scientifically useful construct; It encompasses nonconscious & conscious processes w/ varying levels of elaboration & diverging consequences, leading to conflicting results authors.elsevier.com/a/1lgli4sIRvW-LQ

How much does the environment we’re raised in change how we see the world? Wonderful piece in @sciam.bsky.social by @norabradford.bsky.social, ft. an interview with @dorsaamir.bsky.social about our work on the 'cultural byproduct hypothesis'. www.scientificamerican.com/article/does...

Therefore: Please don't use LLMs as research participants. LLMs do not simulate human psychology. (11/12)

seriously 😭 pls keep posting your posters & papers, especially if you work on expectations in perceptual decision making 🤲

Are you planning to attend #CCN2025? Do you want to reflect on how to direct your skills and aptitudes to tackle today's most pressing social problems? Make sure you come to Amsterdam a day early to attend our satellite event on Science for Social Good. Register here: forms.gle/TFRCZYX2qfwD...

I’m looking forward to our symposium at @ispsm.bsky.social on Sat at 5:30pm CEST. Zoom in to catch me, @kenaizawa.bsky.social, @gualtiero.bsky.social, and @francesegan.bsky.social talk about realism in Neuroscience! 🧠 🥳

Sign a letter demanding that UC and the state of California refuse to appease the fascists any further: tinyurl.com/ucstandup

presenting today at #CogSci2025🚀 come check out my poster on how stress & state anxiety influence the representation of info needed for visual working memory & decision-making🧠! underline.io/events/489/p... 📍P2-K-92, Salon 8 🕐 Fri Aug 1, 10:30 AM

💫 Just out! A tour de force by my colleague @olivia.science, new paper 📝: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? 🧮 ⏰ 🧠 Keywords: AI; cognitive science; sociotechnical relationship; cognitive labour; ANN; technology; cognition; human-centred AI Link to the paper on arXiv: lnkd.in/e9nHGkMK 1/n

Accepted in the European Journal of Neuroscience: "Wider than the Sky: An Alternative to “Mapping” the World onto the Brain" (Barwich, A.S., Firestein, S., and M. Dietrich) Open Access link to journal as soon as the paper is online! Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... #NeuroSky #PhilSky #HPS

Detecting dementia earlier | With $4 million grant, UC Irvine cognitive scientist Aaron Bornstein seeks to develop inexpensive assessment of cognitive ability @ucirvine.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

NO. AI. FOR. WAR. CRIMES!!!

check out this blogpost where I share some of the behind-the-scenes motivations for this new paper w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social & @aaronbornstein.bsky.social! v grateful to get to share how philosophy helped me move thru the "existemic" angst that is years 3-4 of a comp cog neuro phd 🥲 🧠 🖥️

Who doesn't like a good model of the brain? Yet, from simple regression to neural nets, some limitations keep popping up (e.g., overfitting) @mjwolff.bsky.social & I saw some cool but puzzling data, ran a quick analysis & found one such limitation: model mimicry. Now in #naturecommunications &🧵below

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

Nice write up on our recent work on memory and forgiveness, spearheaded by Gabriela Fernández Miranda, and in collaboration with Matt Stanley, Sam Murray and Leonard Faul. www.psypost.org/scientists-s...

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

“Those with the clearest view are the ones bearing the brunt of such attacks...’ICE sent the city of Los Angeles a message when its agents showed up in full force and in broad daylight, and that message was responded to in kind by the people.’”

Congratulations to Dr. Jungsun Yoo (@jungsuy.bsky.social) on her successful PhD defense! We're sad that her time with us is past, but excited to see how her future research trajectory unfolds working with @yaelniv.bsky.social and @nathanieldaw.bsky.social

super excited that the first paper from my PhD is now out! we develop a "philosophical toolkit" for computational cognitive modeling & use it to conceptually re-analyze a long-standing debate about evidence accumulation models of decision making 🧠📈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨🚨 Alarming NSF policy update By accepting an NSF award, an institution now must say it's: 1. Not engaging in boycotts of Israel (yes really) 2. Not advancing or promoting DEI in violation of anti-discrimination laws Announced via a footnote today: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/gc1-ma...

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

Science is not collection of findings. Progress happens through theories.As we move from findings to theories things r less amenable to automation. Proliferation of scientific findings based on AI hasn't accelerated—& might even have inhibited—higher levels of progress www.nature.com/articles/d41...

There are salient updates to attend to BUT if you’re wondering how they organize your memory, here’s a review/simulation offering diff. roles of prediction errors in building & breaking our models of the world w/ @davidclewett.bsky.social @jameswardantony.bsky.social inspired by Sarah DuBrow (1/7)