Brown’s Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working in the area of AI and the Mind (start July 1, 2026). Apply by Nov 8, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173939 #AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity

With Pieter Roelfsema, our TICS response to Scholte & de Haan (2025): in deep nets, distributed codes ≠ solved binding. Flexible vision needs dynamic grouping + attention (or object-centric slots) to link features to objects/relations. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Day of Action planned for July 21 to protect science protectscienceandinnovation.org

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

From the NIH news desk: "NIH to prioritize human-based research technologies; new initiative aims to reduce use of animals in NIH-funded research" www.nih.gov/news-events/...

🚨 New preprint alert! Our latest study, led by @DrewLinsley, examines how deep neural networks (DNNs) optimized for image categorization align with primate vision, using neural and behavioral benchmarks.

Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow: elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106...

WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?

AI researchers should be worried about all their funding to make formers TRANS

Francis Collins has had enough. Good on him.

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

Laudable stance and brilliant letter from @scurry.bsky.social Musk has no place amongst scientists, let alone one as a member of one of its most revered institutions. Science sky, please consider signing and letting @royalsociety.org know your views. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/

The US government has been turned over to a group of extraordinarily ignorant people, and they are working to destroy science in this country. Cutting over half the NSF budget would save < 0.1% of the federal budget, but do incalculable harm. Simply heartbreaking. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Do you want to study cognitive science and live in Paris? Our master’s program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for 2025-2026. All courses are in English. Deadline: 13 March 2025 More info: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en

Excellent post discussing whether "AI progress is slowing down". www.aisnakeoil.com/p/is-ai-prog... And if you're not subscribed to @randomwalker.bsky.social and @sayash.bsky.social 's great newsletter, what are you waiting for?

Apropos of never ending discussions about whether ANNs are "good" models of the nervous system, here is a slide I present to masters students showing a network that is found in motor control circuits *across phyla* (that's pretty ubiquitous!) I ask them to guess what it does...

At Neurips to present my article : “Latent Representation Matters: Human-like Sketches in One-shot Drawing Tasks”! We pit humans vs. regularized Latent Diffusion Models in the one-shot drawing task. Who’s the best sketch master? Come to my poster to know (poster #1600 tomorrow at 4:30pm)🖌️🤖 !