We’ve loved having Dr. Matias Arim with us this week! 🙌 Super inspiring visit, great chats about what we’ve done so far #funMETANET and what’s coming next🚀... and thanks for jumping in to help with the field sampling too 😉🌿 @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social

🧠 The Paris Brain Institute is launching a Call for Junior Group Leaders, inviting early-career scientists to establish their own independent research groups within one of Europe’s most dynamic neuroscience research centers. 👉 More information: parisbraininstitute.org/news/paris-b... #Hiring #AI

So… IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/11/s...

Why did consciousness evolve at all? A superb special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org brings together experts across disciplines to explore the functions of consciousness and why it emerged in some species but not others. @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

Novel study: Emergence of Phonemic, Syntactic, and Semantic Representations in Neural Networks. Joint work with P. Diego supervision: Y. Lakretz, E. Chemla, Y. Boubenec, @jeanremiking.bsky.social We explore the emergence of 3 linguistic structures in Neural Networks. Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2601.18617

🚨Scientists 🚨: Tired of come-ons from journals & conferences that may or may not be predatory? A new tool called Aletheia-Probe could help. 🧪 By @silverjacket.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New paper! In arxiv.org/abs/2601.20834 we study how language models representations of things like factuality evolve over a conversation. We find that in edge case conversations, e.g. about model consciousness or delusional content, model representations can change dramatically! 1/

now accepted at ICLR! 🐺🥳🐺 arxiv.org/abs/2506.20666

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

Could not be more excited about Colton's @coltoncasto.bsky.social work! A deep dive into the linguistic cerebellum, and a discovery of an area remarkably functionally similar to the core left-hemisphere language areas, including in its selectivity for language. Go Colton and team!

I am no expert in geopolitics, but I came across this piece which seems extremely plausible to me about what comes next if the US actually invades Greenland. brentmolnar.substack.com/p/the-suicid...

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Mon nouveau livre "Le rectangle de Lascaux : et Homo sapiens inventa la géométrie" sortira en libraire le 28 janvier. J'y aborde l'origine des mathématiques depuis la préhistoire jusqu'à nos jours ; c'est un peu la suite de mon tout premier livre, "La Bosse des Maths". Quelques explications:

📄Very happy to share our new pre-print!! 🧠 We introduce a homeostatic inhibitory plasticity rule into the Dynamic Mean Field (DMF) model which stabilizes firing rates and expands the model’s dynamical repertoire—for example, enabling slow-wave activity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 1/5

remember that much of this damage was done by Doge, run by Elon Musk FRS

Would love to hear expert views on this paper. It appears to show that the operationalization of brain activity the field has relied on for 3 decades—the BOLD response—is not actually a sensible measure of brain activity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Since it's a tense time of year 🫠

New preprint on prosody in the brain! tinyurl.com/2ndswjwu HeeSoKim NiharikaJhingan SaraSwords @hopekean.bsky.social @coltoncasto.bsky.social JenniferCole @evfedorenko.bsky.social Prosody areas are distinct from pitch, speech, and multiple-demand areas, and partly overlap with lang+social areas→🧵

The last chapter of my PhD (expanded) is finally out as a preprint! “Semantic reasoning takes place largely outside the language network” 🧠🧐 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... What is semantic reasoning? Read on! 🧵👇

🚨 New paper out! "Environmental drivers of calling activity in a southern subtropical anuran assemblage: insights from passive acoustic monitoring" by Paula Pouso @almadana.bsky.social y Clara Nieto Methol 🐸🎶🌡️☀️ www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XIK2E...

new: Eric Bigelow @ericbigelow.bsky.social suggests the 2 main ways of controlling LLMs (prompting & steering) can be understood as changing model beliefs (as in Bayesian belief updating) "Belief Dynamics Reveal the Dual Nature of In-Context Learning & Activation Steering" arxiv.org/pdf/2511.00617

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

The value of knowledge is in having done the work. The value of research is in having done the research. The value of a summary is in having summarized the information. The value of writing is in having done the writing.

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Save the date! The 2026 *gasp* Australasian MathPsych conference will be in Singapore -- looks to be a great one :) @ozmathpsych.bsky.social

sociedadneurociencias.uy/2025/05/15/m... Organizan: Álvaro Cabana. Facultad de Psicología, UdelaR @almadana.bsky.social Juan Carlos Valle Lisboa. Facultad de Ciencias, UdelaR @lentobio.bsky.social Sociedad de Neurociencias de Uruguay @socneurouy.bsky.social Apoya: @ibroorg.bsky.social

sociedadneurociencias.uy/2025/05/15/m... Organizan: Álvaro Cabana. Facultad de Psicología, UdelaR @almadana.bsky.social Juan Carlos Valle Lisboa. Facultad de Ciencias, UdelaR @lentobio.bsky.social Sociedad de Neurociencias de Uruguay @socneurouy.bsky.social

Desde IMAGINA abrimos la convocatoria 📢 a becas IMAGINA+CZI 2025 para realizar pasantías en laboratorios 🦠🧪🫁💻🧮🔬🧬🧫 de bioimágenes en Latinoamérica. 🏁Cierra el 21Abr/2025 +info y registro: iie.fing.edu.uy/investigacio... @cziscience.bsky.social @iibceuy.bsky.social @latambioimaging.bsky.social

-You see, I'm microdosing. -Oh.. LSD, psilocybin, MDMA? -Nutella.

🚨 New Paper! Can neuroscience localizers uncover brain-like functional specializations in LLMs? 🧠🤖 Yes! We analyzed 18 LLMs and found units mirroring the brain's language, theory of mind, and multiple demand networks! w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, @abosselut.bsky.social, @mschrimpf.bsky.social 🧵👇

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🚨Job alert (Please RT) What: masters internship and/or PhD positions Where: Rothschild Foundation Hospital (Paris, France) Topic: AI and Neuroscience Supervised by: Pierre Bourdillon and myself Apply here: forms.gle/KKnea2QAjhAe... Deadline: Feb 5th

Happy New Year everyone! Jim and I just put up our January 2025 release of Speech and Language Processing! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

El gobierno nazifascista de Milei y macri censuró esta canción, distribuyan y pasenla todo el día...que suene en todas partes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPN4...

Please, spread! 🧠 Competitive PhD funding is available for neuroscience projects in the Parisian region. Consider your options 👇 dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr... @c-brains.bsky.social

Beware: My impersonating bot (jeanremikingg.bsky.social) is apparently reaching out through direct messages to convince you into some crypto scam. Please report if you have a chance

📢 The survey 👇 on "intelligence" & ChatGPT is open until Jan 14. All fields are welcome, but a special invitation goes to folks in Philosophy, Psychology, HCI, Cognitive Science, CSS, and AI ethics. Please repost.

Hey #StatsSky, what are you favorite papers to cite when you need to justify something that is obvious (I once had a reviewer ask we justify the use of logistic regression on a binary outcome) or when you need to push-back on silly reviewer requests (e.g., asking for p-values in table 1)?

I want to thank Elon Musk for attacking Wikipedia for being a part of the internet he can't currently control. It reminded me to donate to support Wikipedia, the best remaining thing about the internet. You can donate here: donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

A lovely response to our NRN review (nature.com/articles/s41...) from Yannick Becker @ybecker.bsky.social and Angela Friederici, providing a nice link to the evolution of language-relevant brain machinery. And our echo response here: tinyurl.com/5n9x53au 1/n

Breaking news: A 2020 paper that sparked widespread enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine as a #COVID19 treatment has been retracted, following campaigning by scientists who alleged the research contained major scientific flaws and may have breached ethics regulations. scim.ag/4iR9bQ6

I am happy to return to Bluesky to promote Dragana's work. Her work is a tour-de-force that demonstrates the importance of multimodal assessment of patients with disorders of consciousness. Thanks to all the EraBrain consortium partners behind this project. @ERANET_PerMed

1/ 🎉 Thrilled to share part of my PhD work published in @PNAS_Nexus! 🌍 This collaboration spanned France, Italy, and Uruguay. We explored how brain-heart interactions reveal attentional focus—insights relevant to patients with #DisordersOfConsciousness (DoC). 🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Great work from Emilia exploring attentional focus. This could be an interesting avenue to explore DoC patients. The rest of the amazing work that Emilia did during her PhD will soon go out. Stay attentive!