"Science is not simply a sequence of tasks that can be optimized....The scientific system thrives on inefficiency: redundant efforts, failed attempts, and divergent paths. These are not costs to be eliminated but sources of discovery." Excellent essay! ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I‘m looking for postdoc candidates in computer vision and control theory (2 positions). Get in touch if you’re interested.

LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate (Laban et al., 2026) arxiv.org/pdf/2604.15597 "[E]ven frontier models (Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude 4.6 Opus, GPT 5.4) corrupt an average of 25% of document content by the end of long workflows, with other models failing more severely"

I am presenting our work this week at #NCMKobe26 @ncmsociety.bsky.social Our poster is during the Thursday/Friday session: **P2-G-182** - _A computational account of tactile suppression during reaching movements_ Dimitris Voudouris @dominikstrb.bsky.social Katja Fiehler @c-rothkopf.bsky.social

„Der meiste Schaden, den der Computer potenziell zur Folge haben könnte, hängt weniger davon ab, was der Computer tatsächlich kann oder nicht kann, als vielmehr von den Eigenschaften, die das Publikum dem Computer zuschreibt.“ - Weizenbaum, "Albtraum Computer"

For those attending @ncmsociety.bsky.social this week, come check out posters and talks from the Physical Intelligence Lab! #NCM #MotorLearning #CognitiveNeuroscience

Happy to share my first PhD preprint! We show that magnitude estimation measures the perceptual noise distribution (it's Poisson-like!), resolving the sources of Weber's law & the pedestal effect. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thanks to @linaresdani.bsky.social @jlmoliner.bsky.social !

We are hiring a tenure track (!) senior researcher in political economy! This is obviously a great job (permanent without teaching obligation) and I hope you all apply. However, I would like to take a moment to share just how significant this is in the German academic context ⬇️

“In our culture, preferring an algorithm to a trainee feels like a betrayal of the academic mission.” That’s because it is. www.science.org/content/arti...

I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.

I'm looking for a skilled PhD student who doesn't want to work too hard but still do great science: unisc-cp.enquire.cloud/round/RND-00...

I will be at #cosyne2026 next week presenting some new work on "Simultaneous sensorimotor and contextual inference" www.cosyne.org/poster-sessi... Looking forward to seeing many familiar and new faces in Lisbon!

I'm not gonna touch most of this but two things: 1. The apprenticeship model of science was never supposed to be about the PI's workflow. The point isn't to have research assistants to help to publish stuff faster. Training the next generation researcher *is* the point. Because we care. Allegedly.

Why is touch perceived as weaker during movement? In our new preprint 📝, we examine tactile suppression during reaching. Using optimal control theory, we show that tactile suppression reflects dynamic, uncertainty-dependent integration of forward model predictions and sensory feedback.

My goodness.

It’s time to turn towards the motor control side of interoception!

Why are tactile sensations suppressed during movements? In our new preprint, we explain this as optimal integration of sensory signals with an internal model. Work led by @fatatai.bsky.social with Dimitris Voudouris, Katja Fiehler and @c-rothkopf.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

In light of the current funding situation (worldwide), a modest proposal: instead of pouring billions of dollars into GenAI claiming "it *could* accelerate science and research," consider putting 1% of that amount in what *will* accelerate science and research. Namely, funding science and research.

Even if bots may not have been a problem in online behavioural datasets 2-3 years ago, we should still be careful about generalizing between online studies and lab studies. See our study on dataset bias: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

**Postdoc position in human category learning** @thecharleywu.bsky.social, Frank Jäkel and I are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to lead a joint project on human category learning at the Centre for Cognitive Science @tuda.bsky.social. www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...

The European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany, is coming back in 2026! Deadline: 8 March 2026 www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch/

🚨Four postdoc positions at the #ReasonableAI excellence cluster @tuda.bsky.social! jobs.rhein-main-universitaeten.de/rmu/job/52370 Please share widely 🙏

Useful reminder!

Vibe coding kills open source. Our most direct title yet. @koren.mk @julianhi.nz @aaron-lohmann.bsky.social Theory paper with numbers and policy recs. First at arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494 Comments welcome. @ceu-economics.bsky.social @kiel.institute

Final paper of my PhD 🤗 www.nature.com/articles/s44... There is growing interest in how cognitive control may improve value-based decision making. However, we find that a recent paper overestimated the role of control in their task, leading to erroneous interpretations of dACC recordings.

Nice article but the social dynamics of science mean that peer review is de facto a "throughout problem". LLM usage in PR will increase because it reduces pressures on overstretched researchers. We can't stop LLM PR without addressing those pressures. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ai-n...

+++ Teilt und unterschreibt unseren offenen Brief an die Hessische Landesregierung! +++ Wir werden die bevorstehende katastrophale Verschlechterung unseres Hochschulsystems nicht hinnehmen und fordern eine Neuverhandlung des Hochschulpakts! #nocuts #nocutsinhessen cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/...

#IchBinHanna ist heute Thema im Forschungsausschuss des Bundestags -- & Ihr könnt live dabei sein! Fachgespräch wird via Livestream übertragen (endlich wieder Parlamentsfernsehen): www.bundestag.de/mediathek/live Sachverständige u.a. @frauforschung.bsky.social & @rosefeldt.bsky.social. #WissZeitVG

Important talk by @meredithmeredith.bsky.social and @udbhav-tiwari.bsky.social at #39c3 on the risks of AI agents in operating systems youtu.be/0ANECpNdt-4?...

Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike. The 10th of these, would you believe? This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...

Was fiese Flegel und Lobbyverbände mit den Verschärfungen bei der Grundsicherung zu tun haben, erfahrt ihr in meinem Talk beim diesjährigen #39c3. media.ccc.de/v/39c3-wer-l...

Videotipp: AI-generated content in Wikipedia - a tale of caution By Mathias Schindler media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-ge... #39c3

I'll start replying to my emails like this. #science #academia #academic #philosophy #philsky

Absolutely essential piece by @kevinbaker.bsky.social critiquing AI automation of science by pulling back the curtain on what modern science actually is. LLMs already replicate and accelerate its irrational bureaucratic structure.

Last month, our new Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE) held their first annual meeting at the foundation. Learn more about SCENE: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/neuroscience/simons-collaboration-on-ecological-neuroscience/ #science #neuroscience

This a pretty funny encapsulation of ai scientist work. The authors hand it some softball software tasks, then it comes back with very different results than what it’s replicating and the authors shrug at the data being different www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🚀🎓We have exciting opportunities at the PhD and Postdoc level, including in the new Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience, a 10-year initiative spanning a powerful international network of labs working across species and disciplines - please reach out if interested bsky.app/profile/simo...

was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans at all levels in the scientific process. So I stood up and protested that what they are doing is evil. Full post: togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...

3. I appealed to the joy of doing science—and got the predictable question: Would you rather live in a world where AI cured cancer or live in a world where you personally get to do science? But that's not the dilemma we face at all. There's no cause to think that AI could do anything of the sort.

8000 Artikel über zu viel "Wokeness" an den deutschen Unis; vornehmes Schweigen dazu, dass diese Unis gerade im Rahmen einer harten Austeritätspolitik abgewickelt werden.

Tobias Niehues @tobnie.bsky.social is presenting our work with @dominikstrb.bsky.social 'Amortized Bayesian decision-making for inferring decision-making parameters from behavior' at the Amortized ProbML Workshop and the @ellis.eu UnConference. Please come by our poster!

If you're looking for a PhD position, check out this opportunity! I had a great time doing my PhD in Darmstadt. Exciting research with lots of opportunities for collaboration across AI and cognitive science in a very livable city.

Q: Why did the LLM cross the road? A: We're not sure, but it achieved 94.7% on CHIKENBench-Large

The vision of human-out-of-the-loop science fundamentally mistakes what knowledge production is. It aims at the production of, wait for it, knowledge: a thing that definitionally involves an epistemic agent or agents, unless you are theistic about it.

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

In other news, I am now a ✨ COXI ✨ (cognitive scientist in Osnabrück, Germany) www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li... I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀

G'day #ECVP! Today, three more colleagues present their posters. 38: @celinehonekamp.bsky.social will introduce you to dual adaptation in the temporal domain. 48: Tarek will present a relative depth experiment conducted on the multifocal display he built.

I won't get to join you all at #ecvp2025 @ecvp.bsky.social this year because I'm on holiday in Australia... but my lab is there in force! Please do go say hi, and check out my students' and postdocs' amazing work! @ben.graphics @lschmittwilken.bsky.social @lreining.bsky.social

#ECVP2025 be ready: my poster on repeated exposure to delay in two different tasks is up on Thursday 15:30-17:00 (No 38) Come and say hi