🧠 New year, new preprint! Why does motor learning involve multiple brain regions? We propose that the cortico-cerebellar system learns a "map" of actions where similar movements are nearby, while basal ganglia do RL in this simplified space. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

when the referee tells you to cite more of your work

Pop-up AI defacing your article critical of AI captures a lot of what it feels like to work in this space. @lmesseri.bsky.social

Please join us tomorrow at UPF Poblenou, Barcelona, for the Valence Asymmetries seminar (12:00-13:30). Our own project member Morgan Moyer will give the talk "Affect is prominent in word meaning", based on joint work with Anouch Bourmayan, Brent Strickland, and myself.

There is also good work.

Sensory reformatting for a working visual memory www.cell.com/trends/cogni... #neuroscience

Effort research is booming & it’s tough to keep up with how it's defined and measured. Huge kudos to @dhprlab.bsky.social PhD student @lukas-hack.bsky.social for leading our attempt to create an impartial overview & starter guide. Great effort (pun intended 😉)! Interested? Check it out ⬇️

This is now out (by me, Patrick Forber and Josh Shepherd): www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Just accepted: 'The Imagery Debate Exhumed and Reanimated' – Peter Langland-Hassan Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

so Nous, PPR, and now Phil Imprint, aren't taking submissions. Nice.

The APSC affiliated conference "Creativity, Agency, and Value," which will take place at the University of Geneva 21-22 May 2025, will also be available remotely! Info and program available here: www.creaphil.org/creativity-a...

if even eye movements are driven by effort minimization, then what's going on with conscious feelings of effort

Excited to have @susanamonso.com speaking at #Oxfordlitfest today oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...

It's my honor to announce the 2025 winner of the Stanton Prize given out by the Society of Philosophy and Psychology (drum roll 🥁): Shannon Spaulding 🏆 Huge congratulations!! Make sure to see Shannon's prize lecture at the SPP conference at Cornell this June. www.socphilpsych.org/meetings.html

I can’t get over the fact that after all the amazing things AI could have been, we got a bunch of sycophantic little machine shits that at any given moment are stealing from you, plagiarizing you, defaming you, manipulating you, lying to you, or turning you into nonconsensual porn

🧵 How do psychedelics shape brain activity? Our new paper presents the largest neuroimaging study of psilocybin to date—revealing how context structures psychedelic brain states. Title: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context Paper: lnkd.in/gt-kMR6d A thread 🧵👇 1/n

Love this (below); Here's a short piece to a similar tune from me, @alvanoe.bsky.social, & @evanthompson.bsky.social (2024) –– "LLMs Don't Know Anything" philpapers.org/archive/GODL...

Today is a great day to ditch your Echo. #privacy #AIEthics #surveillance

Everyone clap for the crap artists A pat on the back to whichever one sounds smartest Capture the magic of blabberin' half-hearted And the last rambling man standing laughs hardest -Despot

the most disastrous team in the eastern conference is using LLMs

New paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in @nature.com led by @mkwittmann.bsky.social with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Lakatos Award Lecture! ✨ 📅 This Friday @ 6PM (London time), our Scientific Director, Carl Hoefer, winner of the 2024 Lakatos Award, presents his acclaimed book: 📖 Chance in the World: A Humean Guide to Objective Chance 🔗 Info: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e... 💻 Join Online: t.ly/2FztR 👇👇👇

TFW Led Zeppelin thinks you suck for appropriating others’ art.

Concluding 2024 with a thread on our most recent empirical manuscript. "Natural forgetting reversibly modulates engram expression" elifesciences.org/articles/92860 - by Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. James O'Leary at @tcddublin.bsky.social in @elife.bsky.social #engram #memory #forgetting

My thoughts from yesterday's hoo ha at the AI Action Summit for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social (Very happy for this to be mistaken as a slightly misty-eyed application for French citizenship) blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

what happens when we slash US public funding for a biomedical field, & increase the availability & significance of private funding, when the media generally become less restricted by traditional/expert regulations? unfortunately, i may know the answer, based on some related experiences 1/

So grateful for @abeba.bsky.social on stage at the AI Action Summit, challenging us to be honest about the fact that we’re moving backward, not forward toward a shared social contract as Big Tech have now walked back nearly every voluntary commitment they once made to be responsible social actors.

Ever wondered how basketball players know when their throws are in/out? L. Brun & @perrineporte.bsky.social asked players to rate confidence in their throws under variable visual feedback. Turns out vision helps adjust confidence in successful, but not failed throws: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“Theories in our field are often sketchy, they are indispensable in providing explanations for important phenomena...” Only a psychologist would think both these things can be true

I just watched the film Conclave with a friend who said “haha imagine if real-life jobs were decided by a bunch of old dudes who don’t get to leave the room until they’ve agreed to vote for the person they dislike the least!” I didn’t have the heart to tell her about academia.

✨ Check out our stunning website! ✨ 🧠 Our DFG-funded project "Mechanistic and Representational Explanations in Cognitive Neuroscience (MeReX)" is excited to introduce itself. Explore what we're all about: www.merex-project.org 🌐 #philsky #philsci #CognitiveNeuroscience #Conference #Berlin2025

it’s real!! 🥰

‘humans are drinking poop again only this time by choice’ would be a much clearer and shorter headline

i never do new year's resolutions, but maybe this year i'll get rich blasting bad translations of stoic ideas on youtube or sthg

Exciting new job opportunity at the IoN, UCL, London. The post is based at the Department of Imaging Neuroscience. It is a 70-30%research to teaching split. If anyone requires more information on the teaching part then please do get in contact with me. Please repost www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Barnard and Columbia are going through a difficult period. Here's more information about the latest crisis at Barnard: www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/12...

trying to finish writing this grant

The 02 only became apologetic once the press started covering the story. The 02 still sounds smarmy, corporate, inauthentic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

this is peak america

l’étoile bleue (Blue Star) by Joan Miró, 1972, 📸 by @RomanPuno

"I’ve come to regard one company as perhaps the worst of the lot in how it visually presents its policies: #Meta. Regulators and lawmakers should take note." #AIEthics #privacy www.techpolicy.press/metas-privac...

i forgot it's thanksgiving in USA. already hosted a thxgiving party in barcelona, and then one in oxford. i have had so much sweet potato casserole and fried okra already.

wild but believable - a lot of fields don't seem to have a norm that a citation to something should express a basic understanding of the thing cited

Fun thing is that the majority of the papers citing this work don't at all make use of the theory advanced therein, adopt our definitions, or build on our results. They do whatever they were going to do anyway, oftentimes in the way we warn against, and cite us to highlight the importance of theory!

lol starter pack. my days here are clearly limited

true, but the incentive structure runs in the opposite direction.

congrats @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social! i certainly lost optimism a long time ago

now out in Cerebral Cortex! my newest opinion piece, "Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience" #neuroskyence #neuroAI #consciousness #introspection #psychology academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...