I wrote the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science entry on 'Intuitive Physics': oecs.mit.edu/pub/m27ympza... --- for those who don't know it yet, OECS (@oecs-bot.bsky.social) has accessible, informative, free, serious entries on many basic topics in cognitive science

Our major conceptual and technical update on findings that describe a new medial temporal lobe (MTL) computation, now posted. Kudos to Simon Bohn for listening to community feedback, thinking hard, and solidifying what these clear differences between brain regions imply. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

On the last day of SIGGRAPH this year, we will hold a new technical workshop called "From Human Vision to Machine Vision", with talks ranging from low-level human visual perception, to applied perception, art & photography, and to machine vision. #SIGGRAPH For more info, see: fromhv2mv.github.io

Lovely to see the full range of excellent commentaries on our BBS article with @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, together with our response, now out: Target article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Our response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

check out the inaugural cohort of @neuromatch.bsky.social AI Sentience Scholars! this is a seriously impressive bunch!

If you're in London and want to sit in air conditioning (so I am told) tomorrow afternoon, you can also get a free lecture out of it! Come join me to talk about consciousness, neuroscience, & adversarial collaborations tomorrow afternoon at the Crick! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

Thank you for the invitation! I will hopefully not be a zombie after coming straight from the airport!

Delighted Megan Peters (@meganakpeters.bsky.social) is able to join us as a speaker! Over 160 people registered so far! Full schedule: computationalconsciousness.github.io

If you join this committee, your ideas will influence the educations & scientific trajectories of thousands of students. Neuromatch's interactive student body has topped 14,000, estimated 40,000 engaging with Neuromatch activities & materials. One of the most impactful things you can do in science!

New work with Roberta Raileanu: A Compositional Framework for Open-ended Intelligence Open-ended intelligence is the capacity to adapt to novel problems & environments that are substantially different from those seen in training. But most models of open-mindedness don't have compositionality. 1/n

Open post-doc position in the study of perceptual fluctuations Position: post-doctoral (2 years) Locations: Paris, France (Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS) and Lausanne, Switzerland (University of Lausanne / CHUV) Deadline: September 4th, 2026 Start Date: Fall 2026 (with some flexibility) (1/8)

New paper draft: On Cheap Artificial Consciousness. When investigating AI consciousness, it's natural to look at what theories of consciousness tell us. Problem: you can build simple systems that meet their conditions. So, what should we say? A thread. (Paper in the last post)

Over 100 people registered! Come join us!

Excited to announce #CCN2026 satellite event: Modeling and Understanding Human Brain Computation at Scale Organized with Hossein Adeli, Fan Cheng, Andrew Luo, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte Link for details and registration: tinyurl.com/3jf2urze @cogcompneuro.bsky.social

New paper out ! 📣 Across a careful and extensive set of experiments spearheaded by @rimskyrobert.bsky.social, we show that conscious access to a word’s meaning can occur *without* access to its appearance or low-level sensory features. #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

@cogcompneuro.bsky.social Satellite Event: COMPUTATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS SCIENCE Saturday, 1 August 2026 New York University Bringing computational modelling, neuroscience, and philosophy together to understand consciousness NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness #CCN2026

So excited to be a part of this, join us!!

@cogcompneuro.bsky.social Satellite Event: COMPUTATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS SCIENCE Saturday, 1 August 2026 New York University Bringing computational modelling, neuroscience, and philosophy together to understand consciousness NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness #CCN2026

With profound sadness we announce the sudden and unexpected death of our Editor-in-Chief, Tim Meese. A founding editor of i-Perception, Tim was a pillar of the vision science community and instrumental in shaping the landscape of scientific publishing in our field.

I really enjoyed this terrific review by two terrific scientists. It tackles challenging and deep ideas about the neural basis of cognitively complex behavior in an accessible way. Highly recommended!

Excited to share our new review in Trends in Neuroscience with Gouki Okazawa @gouki-okazawa.bsky.social : "The 'neat' and 'messy' in task-dependent neural geometry and computation" where we reviewed what we know about the 'task-manager' in the brain. A thread 👇

New paper: "Introspection and Scientific Data" for the Handbook of Introspection, about the role of introspection in the production of scientific data. My view: introspection doesn't deliver a special 'subjective' kind of data and there's nothing special about studying consciousness.

🚀 PhD position in #NeuroAI & neurodevelopment 🚀 Co-supervised by Sarah Lippé and myself, to investigate visual processing & cognition abnormalities in children with neurodevelopmental disorders in a neuroAI framework. Full project details and how to apply here: tinyurl.com/kbuyntpn 🧠🤖 📈

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

1/ New preprint + VSS poster! Attention has long been thought to enable efficient vision. But does it? First demonstration that attention—consuming just 4-5% of the energy budget—can cut the energetic costs of vision in half. #VSS2026

Incredibly interesting paper by @tknapen.bsky.social and colleagues. Retinotopic reference frame for the win!

Packed house at #phiVis! #vss2026 @matthiasmichel.bsky.social kicking us off

I'm proud to say we are releasing LAION-fMRI, a densely sampled 7T fMRI dataset of natural images, with very broad stimulus sampling for testing countless hypotheses and for deeply exploring brain representations. The dataset is now available at laion-fmri.hebartlab.com What does LAION-fMRI offer? 🧵

At @vssmtg.bsky.social on Friday 8-10am, @nancykanwisher.bsky.social and I are organizing a symposium on 'Intuitive Physical reasoning in brains, minds, and machines'. Speakers include @tomerullman.bsky.social, @shariliu.bsky.social, @sparuniisc.bsky.social, Kelsey Allen, and me! See you there!!

Massive congratulations to DR Veronica Bossio Botero (@veronicabossio.bsky.social) for a wonderful PhD defence: "Mapping the representational geometry of human face perception with generative models of face space" Watch this space for some exciting research!

Celebrating Italian Academy Fellows, family, and staff at the end of the academic year @lintonvision.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!

Wonderful talk today by Ilker Yildirim on “How to Model the Mind Simultaneously Across the Computational, Algorithmic, and Neural Levels“ Can’t wait for his VSS talk!!

🧵Excited to announce— "Reimagining the binding problem(s) for the 21st century": A VSS Symposium St. Pete Beach @vssmtg.bsky.social May 15th, 10:30am Presenters: Peter Tse, JohnMark Taylor, Seda Karakose-Akbiyik, Ana Chica, Anne Sereno, & Jake Quilty-Dunn visionsciences.org/symposia/?sy...

I thoroughly enjoyed talking about our recent work on nested control systems for action, in which ancient subcortical visuomotor pathways are embedded within more recently evolved cortical pathways. A real team effort with @brian-corneil.bsky.social, @davidmekhaiel.bsky.social, and others🧠

Fresh views on recent research: "Conscious and Unconscious Vision." This term's final Fellows Seminar—opened by Barbara Faedda (Interim Director); moderated by Prof. Stefano Fusi; talks by Academy Fellows Paul Linton & Marco Tamietto. @lintonvision.bsky.social , @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

The recording of Mel Goodale's talk at the MIT Consciousness Club is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kThw....

Save the date 👁🧠🧪 Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) 2026 📅 Sep 24–27, 2026 📍 University of Rochester, NY (@cvsuor.bsky.social) A single-track meeting built for depth, discussion, and community in #VisionScience. #OpticaFVM #AcademicSky #neuroskyence #Vision #perception #eye #ophthalmology

check out the faculty supervising *funded fellowship projects*! (yes, me included!) you won't want to miss this opportunity folks. seriously, it will be fabulous.

Congratulations to Ian Thornton and colleagues who published their Mainz-Linez illusion in i-Perception (@pec-ipe.bsky.social): the red dots appears to wave left and right when one looks at one of the black dots, but they actually move straight journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🥁Now announcing the winner of the 2026 Stanton Prize: Congratulations, Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ This honor will be celebrated at the upcoming meeting of the SPP

Looking for YOUR INPUT on what we've learned in neuro in the past 20 years. I've only heard pessimistic takes! Come on, grid cells, manifolds, optogenetics, connectomes, moving past the monoamine theory of depression and the Ab theory of AD, glymphatics and lymphatics, what is sleep?! We did stuff!

Absolutely wonderful talk by Roland Fleming on “Grasping: measuring and modeling how we use our hands to pick things up” at @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social

Still learning the ropes at YouTube, but I've got a new version of my Ames Room video set up as a Short now! Check out the #science of how linear perspective cues can lead you to make big errors when judging object size! #psychscisky #visionscience youtube.com/shorts/a0uPD...

Why do children struggle to recognise objects in cluttered scenes more than adults? Our new paper looks at the development of visual acuity and crowding across childhood, and the way the visual system fine tunes our ability to see detail: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New work from the lab led by @fatatai.bsky.social together with Dimitris Voudouris, @dominikstrb.bsky.social, Katja Fiehler as part of 'The Adaptive Mind' cluster

10 PhD positions at JLU Giessen in the new Research Training Group "PIMON"! We will explore how humans perceive and interact with materials and objects in natural environments. More information on the project, the PIs, and how to apply here: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... Please share!

I had five wonderful years in Giessen, both scientifically and personally. The vision science research environment at JLU has gone from strength to strength. A really incredible opportunity if you're interested in experimental perception science!

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/

Tues, Mar 31, 4PM "Conscious and Unconscious Vision" Register here: tinyurl.com/bdet7a5c @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @lintonvision.bsky.social