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Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

Sobs in intellectual.

NYC No Kings—these are 8 different pics of an aerial shot panning for blocks. Enormous crowd.

Just out with a few friends. #NoKings

Without ACA subsidies, a couple in Watertown, MA earning $85,000 a year could see their health care premium increase from $1,394 to $3,194 per month. This is what Democrats are fighting to prevent—and what Republicans shut down the government over.

Another flight, another dude who feels entitled to my legroom. 🙄

Join us on Wednesday, October 8, for SciCafe: Mapping the Costs of AI. Kate Crawford (@katecrawford.bsky.social), research professor at the University of Southern California, will explore the environmental and human cost of AI systems. SciCafe is 21+ and free with RSVP. Get tickets: bit.ly/4nB7w33

Heading to the Bronx. Betting hard on the idea that they won’t throw punches at a middle aged professor.

Happy new year to all my peace-loving, freedom-fighting, justice-seeking Jews. May 5786 bring peace to the people of Palestine, freedom to the prisoners of the empire, and justice to the workers of the world.

I’ve snatched victory from the jaws of defeat! Who is my foe? Why, the dumbass I was last week, of course.

Penn State Psychology is Hiring! Full-time Assistant Professor of Quantitative/Computational Psychology. The position is co-funded by @ssripennstate.bsky.social Questions can be sent to: [email protected]. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

New Yorkers: ICE is arresting electeds for fighting for our immigrant neighbors. Now is the time to make your voice heard. Show up for immigrant New Yorkers on September 25th at Foley Square at 6PM ET.

Guys? I had a coldbrew at 3:00 this afternoon and think I might be able to sleep sometime next week. We’ll see if I can stop shaking so I can at least use the buzz to finish some reviews

#Sciop hit a Petabyte (actually a Pebibyte but nobody knows that word) of total proven capacity a week or two ago. That's all the seeders * the size of the things they are seeding. All volunteers, zero dollars in funding, piggybacking off existing resources […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

incredible Ada Lovelace quote highlighted in a talk by Steve Furber. She spells out the dream of computational neuroscience, 2 centuries ago. The sheer ambition 🤩

A great piece on female servitude in science fiction is mostly a story of male dissatisfaction/worship and female rebellion. Certain men never seem to appreciate that ‘the perfect woman’ is likely to despise them - if they notice them at all. www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

if you're not from or have never been to new york i cannot stress enough how normal the subway is 99% of the time. kids take it to school. everyone is basically chill. you learn to be in proximity with harmless weirdos or minor irritations pretty quick. for all its issues it's an incredible thing

We are HIRING! The Department of Psychology at NDSU is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology (broadly defined) to begin August, 2026. Full details here: tinyurl.com/3sjknmxn Questions can be directed to me. Please share widely!

Vibe *thinking*? Excuse me while I lock myself in a room and cry.

Over 2.5 million Israelis joined today’s anti-Netanyahu protests, organisers estimate. 300,000 are now in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. (Haaretz)

Thanks for the excellent conference! Had a wonderful time!

Really excellent thread with great resources.

The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!

Check out @catrinahacker.bsky.social's #CCN2025 poster this afternoon! We've long worked with spikes. Here we ask: would we have made the same inferences about memory with the signals often recorded in human neurosci (iEEG, LFPs)? The answer surprised me. Not only yes! but with 3-fold *less* data.

Really excited for #CCN2025! Come see our poster (A58). We asked people to describe the same pictures with different task instructions and trained a CNN to learn these sentence embeddings. Both networks learned task-relevant visual features that humans also needed for the same tasks!

So you're going to "teach AI" this year. That's great! Start with "How Eugenics Shaped Statistics" nautil.us/how-eugenics... #mtbos #ITeachMath #AIinEd

On my way to @cogcompneuro.bsky.social in Amsterdam! Who’s around tomorrow for a long walkabout to explore and get on local time? #CCN2025

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NEW FROM ME: new research has found millions of ex's of personal info, including credit cards, passports, résumés, birth certificates etc in 1 of the largest web-scraped datasets used to train image generation AI models. It's a major privacy violation. www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...

🚨 We’re hiring! The Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Virginia Tech is looking for a postdoc to join our team studying the neural + computational mechanisms of structure learning and flexible cognition: ccnvt.github.io#positions

Wat?

“Our chatbot went full Hitler a few days ago so what better time to launch its weird new girlfriend experience functionality? Who wouldn’t want to tell all their most shameful and degrading sex fantasies to a hitlerbot?”

🚨 New paper in Journal of Vision! We show that scene affordances—what you can do in a space—shape how we perceive and categorize scenes. This shapes your similarity preferences, predicts your categorization false alarms, and even alters neural representations. 🧵👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1167/jov.... (1/7)

Heading to the NYC Dyke March! Who else is going?

I'm pretty sure no police face recognition system can handle this

Just when I thought I was all out of fucks! Thanks, @benwolfevision.bsky.social!

I'm originally from Kent, Ohio. Nothing good will come from pitting the National Guard against civilians. #4DeadinOhio

I will be looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, using EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI, or related methods. If you know anybody, please tell them to email me. Formal ad to follow. Lab website: wessellab.org

TONIGHT: #ICEOUT Protest in San Francisco

I'm excited to announce that my lab's open textbook on Scientific Computing for Cognitive Neuroscience (v1.0) has just gone live! Our goal is to help mend the gap between the computational skills needed by cognitive neuroscience, and typical curricula that don't yet include it. 1/3

🚨PSA for anyone using GPT in human subjects research🚨 A judge has ruled that OpenAI must retain ChatGPT and API data indefinitely, with few exceptions. This might have implications for your IRB compliance and the security of your participants' data. 1/

As an elder millennial, I would welcome a return to Prides with less corporate nonsense and more.... queers.

And a mediocre pride from the world’s okay-est bisexual!

Summer research students start on Tuesday, and I'm thinking a lot about the role of gen-AI in the lab. While I agree with many of the critiques of AI, I'm not an anti-AI absolutist. I am a realist who knows that my students are already using it, and I want them to use it most constructively. 1/6