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Cognition, Language, Data Science cibpsi.psico.edu.uy cicada.uy
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Patrick Meade
7 days ago
In the context of the FY27 PBR it helps to go back to Robert Wilson’s famous testimony to Congress about funding for the NAL(Fermilab) in FY1970 and ask the natural question, why are there some people so hell-bent on tearing down so much of what makes this country worth defending?⚛️🧪
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Ignacio Rebollo
8 days ago
rs-fMRI methods question for the hive mind: What’s your practical cutoff for excluding a whole resting-state run due to motion? Using FD > 0.3 mm as the threshold, at what % of contaminated frames do you usually drop the run?
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💢Marx Was Right.🕊
8 days ago
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PLOS Biology
17 days ago
Perceived
#sleep
depth is generally thought to reflect reduced brain activity.
@giuliobernardi.bsky.social
&co show this relationship weakens during
#dreaming
, suggesting that dreaming helps sustain the subjective experience of deep sleep
@spacelabimt.bsky.social
@plosbiology.org
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plos.io/4v8OxkH
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#cogsci2026
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Ignacio Rebollo
25 days ago
So thrilled to see this work out. the stomach rhythm modulates brain wide electro physiological rhythms in resting wakefulness. It’s been a real privilege to collaborate with brilliant
@teresaberther.bsky.social
and
@danlikesbrains.bsky.social
in this project. hopefully first of many
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Michael Lepori
about 1 month ago
I'm excited to share that this paper was accepted at ICLR 2026! We show that language models encode one of the most basic ingredients of a world model: the ability to distinguish plausible from implausible states. Check out the paper for more details! See you in Rio! Paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2507.12553
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Royal Society Publishing
about 2 months ago
We are thrilled to announce that, thanks to the support of our institutional subscribers, all Royal Society subscription journals will be open access in 2026 through
#S2O
. Researchers can read all articles and publish
#OpenAccess
in our eight subscription journals for free
buff.ly/4Lu9VpW
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Stéphanie Gascón
about 2 months ago
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
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Paris Brain Institute - Institut du Cerveau
about 2 months ago
🧠 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
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The Paris Brain Institute is launching a Call for Junior Group Leaders, inviting outstanding early-career scientists in artificial intelligence, data science, computational neuroscience, and related f...
https://parisbraininstitute.org/news/paris-brain-institute-call-junior-group-leaders-artificial-intelligence-and-data-science
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The Scholarly Kitchen
about 2 months ago
So… IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/11/s...
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So... IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_ - The Scholarly Kitchen
How are two competing neuroscience journals faring since the editorial board of one departed to create the other?
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/11/so-is-the-essence-of-a-journal-portable-checking-in-on-_neuroimage_-and-_imaging-neuroscience_/
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Ricard Solé
2 months ago
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
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Pierre Orhan
2 months ago
Novel study: Emergence of Phonemic, Syntactic, and Semantic Representations in Neural Networks. Joint work with P. Diego supervision: Y. Lakretz, E. Chemla, Y. Boubenec,
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We explore the emergence of 3 linguistic structures in Neural Networks. Arxiv:
arxiv.org/abs/2601.18617
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Jeffrey Perkel (he/him)
2 months ago
🚨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...
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Is this journal legitimate? This tool can help you decide
Aletheia-Probe provides a one-stop shop to help you assess whether journals and conferences are trustworthy or predatory.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00223-6
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Andrew Lampinen
2 months ago
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/
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Tomer Ullman
2 months ago
now accepted at ICLR! 🐺🥳🐺
arxiv.org/abs/2506.20666
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Jessica Kant
2 months ago
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.
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Ev Fedorenko
3 months ago
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!
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Andrew Perfors
3 months ago
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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🌍🔥 The Suicide Pact: What Happens the Moment We Touch Greenland
If the United States follows through on the threat to invade Greenland, we need to be crystal clear about what happens the next morning.
https://brentmolnar.substack.com/p/the-suicide-pact-what-happens-the
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Cheri Jacobus
3 months ago
Who did this> 🤣
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Stanislas Dehaene
3 months ago
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:
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Ivan Mindlin
3 months ago
📄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...
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The impact of homeostatic inhibitory plasticity in a generative biophysical model
A main characteristic of biological systems is their capacity to dynamically adapt to environmental changes. In the brain, synaptic plasticity enables the strengthening or weakening of connections bet...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.12.699008v1
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Dorothy Bishop
3 months ago
remember that much of this damage was done by Doge, run by Elon Musk FRS
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Eiko Fried
3 months ago
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...
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BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex - Nature Neuroscience
Using quantitative brain imaging, the authors show opposite fMRI BOLD signal to metabolic activity due to variable oxygen extraction across the human cortex. This questions the canonical interpretatio...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02132-9
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Tim Flanagan
4 months ago
Since it's a tense time of year 🫠
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Tamar Regev
4 months ago
New preprint on prosody in the brain!
tinyurl.com/2ndswjwu
HeeSoKim NiharikaJhingan SaraSwords
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@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→🧵
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A distinct set of brain areas process prosody--the melody of speech
Human speech carries information beyond the words themselves: pitch, loudness, duration, and pauses--jointly referred to as 'prosody'--emphasize critical words, help group words into phrases, and conv...
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Anna (Anya) Ivanova
4 months ago
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! 🧵👇
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Semantic reasoning takes place largely outside the language network
The brain's language network is often implicated in the representation and manipulation of abstract semantic knowledge. However, this view is inconsistent with a large body of evidence suggesting that...
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Paula Pouso
4 months ago
🚨 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 🐸🎶🌡️☀️
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Environmental drivers of calling activity in a southern subtropical anuran assemblage: insights from passive acoustic monitoring
In anurans, acoustic communication is a crucial reproductive behaviour shaped by individual traits, social interactions and environmental cues. External factors such as temperature, rainfall and ph...
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XIK2EGKXUHRNWCHWFJHV/full?target=10.1080/09524622.2025.2597859
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Tomer Ullman
4 months ago
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
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Harry Wallop
4 months ago
Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s
@thetimes.com
about Tom Stoppard
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Bohdan &%@#ing Pavuk
over 1 year ago
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
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Andrew Perfors
10 months ago
Save the date! The 2026 *gasp* Australasian MathPsych conference will be in Singapore -- looks to be a great one :)
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Sociedad de Neurociencias del Uruguay
11 months ago
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
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Mesa abierta: Neurociencias e Inteligencia Artificial – Sociedad de Neurociencias del Uruguay
https://sociedadneurociencias.uy/2025/05/15/m..
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Sociedad de Neurociencias del Uruguay
11 months ago
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
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Mesa abierta: Neurociencias e Inteligencia Artificial – Sociedad de Neurociencias del Uruguay
https://sociedadneurociencias.uy/2025/05/15/mesa-neurociencias-ia/
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Federico Lecumberry
about 1 year ago
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...
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@iibceuy.bsky.social
@latambioimaging.bsky.social
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-You see, I'm microdosing. -Oh.. LSD, psilocybin, MDMA? -Nutella.
about 1 year ago
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Badr AlKhamissi
over 1 year ago
🚨 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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Carlos Briones
about 1 year ago
Definición de ironía:
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Jean-Rémi King
about 1 year ago
🚨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
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Dan Jurafsky
about 1 year ago
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...
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Speech and Language Processing
Speech and Language Processing
https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/
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Sub Cmon
over 1 year ago
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...
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Hay secretos - CANTICUÉNTICOS
YouTube video by CANTICUENTICOS MUSICA PARA CHICOS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPN484uZm2g
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Virginie van Wassenhove
over 1 year ago
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
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DIM C-BRAINS
Cognition and Brain Revolutions: Artificial Intelligence, Neurogenomics, Society
https://dim-cbrains.fr/en/news/news/50
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Jean-Rémi King
over 1 year ago
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
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Anna Rogers
over 1 year ago
📢 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.
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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar
over 1 year ago
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)?
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Mark Lemley
over 1 year ago
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?...
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Ev Fedorenko
over 1 year ago
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
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Science Magazine
over 1 year ago
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
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Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted
Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds
https://scim.ag/4iR9bQ6
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Jacobo SITT
over 1 year ago
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
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