For all those involved in drafting so-called AI guidelines, but being overwhelmed with nonsense, this is a lifesaver. Great work by Dagmar and Ariel! Resisting Enchantment and Determinism: How to critically engage with AI university guidelines. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

I learned a lot from this piece by Cory Doctorow, like "The primary goal [for tech bosses] is to keep the market convinced that your company will continue to grow" (hey, I'm a scientist, I don't know business, eh). www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Seeking PhD students for research in computational models of rhythm perception at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada). Work may also include experiments on rhythm production in Parkinson’s patients and/or analysis of intracranial dopamine and LFO data, depending on interests and skills.

Seeking students — especially Canadian residents, who are less expensive, but all applicants welcome — to study the computational and neural underpinnings of rhythm perception and production! Reach out with questions or interest at [email protected].

Back home after a fantastic @rppw.bsky.social . A “home conference” is where you don’t have to explain why people should care about what you care about, and having one is such a luxury.

Preprint alert: how do we learn to synchronize our movement with rhythmic sounds? And why is it so much fun? We’ve created a reinforcement learning model to explore possible hypotheses, and one hypothesis came out on top! Read on! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Kurt Vonnegut man

SEEKING POSTDOCS AND STUDENTS for computational/experimental collaboration on neuroscience of human rhythm perception! Thread!

Not that anybody would be looking for opportunities outside the states these days, but I'm recruiting a PhD student in auditory stuff (Developmental and/or Cognitive / citizen science etc) here in Auckland, NZ www.themusiclab.org/about#join

It's a crazy time, but I've been sitting on this for a while and I want to get word out. I've been thinking about the role of sensory feedback in rhythmic behaviour, and I wrote a synthesis/reflection/modeling piece. Accepted by J. Music Perception in August! osf.io/preprints/ps... Thread...

Dorsal striatum is a different beast from the ventral reward prediction machine — that’s where dopamine is more involved in movement, but this paper shows it doing a lot of other things too. I’m looking forward to digging into this.

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