You think you can(not) multitask? Turns out that the sensorimotor system is flexible and intelligent when perceiving and acting on the environment in parallel. Check out one of the main projects from my @dfg.de funded Walter Benjamin!

I resigned from Google DeepMind bc it broke its founding promise by selling AI to the military without restrictions against killer robots or mass spying. For months, I worked to stop this but watched powerful ethicists and institutions choose silence. Here's what happened. 🧵

I'm shocked; shocked I tell you.

That they're manifestly in completely different baths only, somehow, enhances this.

This is excellent from Sam Neill - good lessons for academics here as well

On June 29th 2026, Fabian Kessler defended his PhD thesis 'Probabilistic path planning as a computational model of human navigation under uncertainty' with distinction. Congratulations! Important and fundamental contributions to understanding human goal-directed navigation in the framework of 1/4

Physicist & chemist Marie Curie was the: + First woman to win a Nobel Prize + First person & only woman to win twice + Only person to ever win a Nobel Prize in 2 different sciences: Physics (1903) & Chemistry (1911) Marie Skłodowska Curie died #OTD in 1934. #WomenInSTEM

Peacock Spider (genus Maratus), a group of tiny Australian jumping spiders famous for their vibrant colours and elaborate courtship dances to attract its mate. They are very tiny in size only between 2-5 millimetres ( the size of a pea)

Can't wait to see everyone tomorrow for the kick off! Tomorrow is workshops during the afternoon then the conference welcome at 17:30 followed by a drinks and canapés reception. If you can keep track of all the letters, the conference hashtag is #APCVEPC2026

Podcast alert!!!! Together with Hanna Schraffenberger I am launching the Computer Science Off Course Podcast Today! Computer Science curricula are very very narrow in scope with a lot of math and algorithms, but very little meta science, philosophy or history.

Very proud of my doctoral student Lina Eicke-Kanani and co-authors: Lina's first first-author paper received the Early Career Best Paper Prize from i-Perception! We use the oblique effect to naturally vary sensory uncertainty, finding effects on subjective causality judgments in launching displays.

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On May 27th 2026, @ingaibs.bsky.social defended her PhD thesis 'Cognitive strategies and explanations for sequential decision-making: a task-centric approach' with distinction. Congratulations! Beautiful and super careful contributions to computationally categorizing problem-solving tasks in the 1/3

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

🧵 Thread: Does the internet threaten democracy? I argue that it does in my latest piece in Science: doi.org/10.1126/scie... Here's the short version. 1/9 1/10

8️⃣ So will democracy survive the internet? Maybe — but only with action: debiasing algorithms, transparency under the DSA, & tools to help people recalibrate their perception of what views are actually prevalent. The technology to fix this exists. The political will is lacking 🧵/end 10/10

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.

"The results suggest that remote work is not simply a labor market innovation. It is a large-scale removal of an unpriced social good." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sci Fi Author: in my book I invented The Cure For Cancer as an aspirational tale MedTech Company: At long last, we have created The Cure for Cancer from classic sci-fi novel Please God Someone Create A Cure for Cancer

LRS-Personen gesucht! www.linkedin.com/posts/janos-... @jnpauli.bsky.social

So glad to finally share work years in the making! What started with fMRI effect size benchmarks ended up showing that conventional study planning detects ~half of expected brain effects, suggesting more distributed processes than the lit shows (+ new methods for mass univ effect/power estimation)

We are grateful to all of the 17,491 reviewers who helped make #CVPR2026 possible. We are especially pleased to recognize the following Outstanding Reviewers, whose high-quality reviews (as judged by their Area Chairs) placed them among the top 5% of reviewers. 1/2

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? 🧵

Researching visual imagery? Consider submitting to this new cross-journal special issue on visual imagery at Nature Communications, Communications Psychology, and Scientific Reports! We welcome a broad range of topics and methods - more info below 👇 www.nature.com/collections/...

Can’t wait to see everyone at #VSS2026! We hope you can make it to our lab’s presentations! (see below) Come and visit us at the talks and posters, and make sure you come to our workshop about the community replication initiative re:vision. Low bar for entry! Details on the day of each presentation!

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

the em dash thinks now is a good time to share this again @mcsweeneys.net

Tenure-track position in Denmark "with a particular focus on visual perception, including visual attention, working memory, and visual neuroscience" #neurojobs #neuroskyence #visionscience fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

My lab is going to print these words and staple them to my forehead.

Peak retired academic moment. 1. One of those emails: Are you the R Watt who wrote xxxxxx? 2. Nope, but it sounds vaguely interesting. Wonder what they found. 3. Google - read it and discover that I did write it.

"Much of OA policy is grounded in an ideology that treats everything as a market problem to be fixed through market instruments....neoliberal logic that gave rise to APCs" Whether or not you agree with the main thrust of this article, the above is accurate. 1/2 www.samuelmoore.org/2026/04/14/w...

Children exhibit visual understanding from limited experience, orders of magnitude less than our best models. We introduce the Zero-shot World Model (ZWM). Trained on a single child's visual experience, BabyZWM rapidly generates competence across diverse benchmarks with no task-specific training. 🧵

I think we finally made really significant progress on the biggest unsolved "developmental AI" problem: learning from human-scale data. Key idea: zero-shot world models that support concept extraction via approximate causal inference. amazing collab w/ @mcxfrank.bsky.social @khaiaw.bsky.social

AI seems to be the topic of the year — nearly every conversation I have in my role as academic lead for good research practice touches on it in some way. I’d like to lay out my developing thoughts for conversation and critique. (1/7)

I created this collection of common brain models in neuroscience, all to scale Across species, brains share fundamental principles and many homologous regions But as size increases, complexity and connectivity change. We need the full spectrum, from flies to rodents, non-human primates, and humans

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

I wrote up something that's been in my head for a while: psychometric methods alone can't tell us what cognitive tasks and their indicators measure. Correlating indicators across tasks is circular when constructs are defined by those same correlations. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵1/3

Really happy we, @koberauer.bsky.social & Ricardo Rebmann & I, could finally put all the pieces together with the right framing. The take home message: better #Psychometrics methods and models won't fix this. We need explicit theories of how cognition produces behavior. 3/3

Holy shit. This is like if a foreign country bombed MIT. Sharif University is the top science and engineering institution in Iran, and one of the top in the world. Absolutely unconscionable www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Are we all Agents of Chaos in AI? (Hope not!) In recent weeks using OpenClaw has taught us a lot about this wooly new kind of autonomous software agent. Its valuable to see what @NatalieShapira, @wendlerch et al. have seen: agentsofchaos.baulab.info/

guardrails are a scam

🧵 3 papers by me & my team Ullrich Ecker Fabio Carrella Emily Spearing Almog Simchon ask an urgent question: if you tell people they're being manipulated by AI — deepfakes, AI-written articles, microtargeted ads — is the manipulation defanged? Thread 👇 1/10

11/12 Across all three papers, the same pattern: transparency — simply telling people they're being manipulated — reduces AI-driven influence at best partially, and often not at all. This is a critical problem, because the EU AI Act relies heavily on transparency as its main tool.

Today's my first day of the second year of my doctoral degree and I want to share some things I struggle with and things I learned throughout the first year. Just a brain dump and no particular order. Feel free to add yours :) 1/n

Behold this most serious paper, in submission to Acta Prima Aprilia. A three-way collaboration with @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, myself & Laura Revell 🛰️🐄🤠🔭

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

“The reason, according to the study, is that women have almost five times the amount of childcare responsibilities that men have.”