#CCN2026 will feature three GAC debates: Does NeuroAI adopt suitable methods & frameworks to understand mind & brain? Do world models emerge in prediction networks? Should neural population activity explain representations or transformations? The review period is now open. 🖥️ 2026.ccneuro.org/gac

interesting dicussion of "AI psychosis" as manifest by programmers/technologists www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVUV...

The tech layoffs suck. But the smart people they let go aren't going to retire -- they will start competing companies.  Tech CEOs used to understand that and buy early stage startups, but now seems possible they are letting a lot of highly skilled people free to innovate against them.

📢 Registration for #CCN2026 is now open! Join us August 3–6, 2026 at NYU, New York City for the 9th Annual Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. 🗓 Early registration: May 28 🗓 Standard registration: July 15 🗓 Onsite Register: 2026.ccneuro.org/meeting-regi...

i have had only one very important world changing idea: slack makes you dumber AND makes you pay to access your own data and ideas. email rulez.

Excited that this work with @rachitdubey.bsky.social and @cocoscilab.bsky.social is finally officially out!

@michael.muthukrishna.com and I are hiring a postdoc to join our labs at NYU!  We're looking for someone excited to work on one of society's newly emerging and potentially generation-shaping challenges: the multi-agent alignment problem.

designing interesting and subtle exams that aren't too difficult but also not too easy is so a real mental puzzle. interestingly, its one very glaring case I've felt where AI is really of limited usefulness (aside from like formatting, etc...).

Use this picture of the iconic Washington Square Park in the summer to motivate you to get to CCN at NYU.

Where are you on your abstract submission timeline? Slowly and steadily preparing your two-pager, or prepping to be up late on the 2nd like me 😅?

📄 2-page Extended Abstracts are open for submission until April 2nd (Anywhere on Earth, AOE)! Submission guidelines: cogcompneuro.github.io/docs We look forward to your #CCN2026 submissions!

extra time to get those proposals in!

Slack is bad for thinking todd.gureckislab.org/2026/03/19/s...

draft lab ai policy, feel free to use, modify, or discuss! todd.gureckislab.org/2026/03/06/g...

i relate

i'm kinda excited about markup languages for cooking: cooklang.org

We are excited to announce that the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting (CCN 2026) will be held at New York University from August 3–6, 2026. 2026.ccneuro.org

🚨 #CCN2026 Proceedings submissions are open! CCN 2026 again features an 8-page Proceedings track (alongside extended abstracts). Accepted papers will appear in CCN-Proceedings (CCN‑P) with DOIs on OpenReview.

⏰ Two important #CogSci deadlines are coming up: 🗓️ Jan 19 - Glushko Dissertation Prize Nominate an outstanding cognitive science dissertation: cognitivesciencesociety.org/glushko-diss... 🗓️ Feb 2 - #CogSci2026 submissions Check the guidelines and templates: cognitivesciencesociety.org/submissions/

The cost of AI Over-Gloss todd.gureckislab.org/2026/01/08/a...

teach students `git` early todd.gureckislab.org/2025/12/19/g...

some of the most vocal advocates for high quality advising will upload the wrong person's letter for phd admissions.

Several people have mentioned online that they get terrible responses from online services such as Prolific, e.g., bots, LLM responses. I'm curious if anyone who has experienced that in a memorable way would mind sharing the details of their project (code, etc.).

Today is #GivingTuesday! Join us in helping to make computational science education accessible to everyone, everywhere! Since, 2021, Neuromatch Academy and Climatematch Academy have supported nearly 14,000 learners from 135 countries. Your support makes this possible. neuromatch.io/donate/

is anyone using marimo? it has some selling points over jupyter, esp. for better ai integration marimo.io

we may not have agi yet, but claude code and i coded a dashboard so i can understand the geographic and demographic recruitment patterns in our Smile experiments and i'm excited how it turned out! 🤖+😎=✨ (a public version of this likely in a future Smile release, internal for now)

If you start someone on an online experiment and the subject reloads the page or browser quits -- what happens? Usually we are resigned that they just start over 😢 With the magic of Smile you can determine trials at run time and it picks up where it left off! smile.gureckislab.org/coding/steps...

"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition". Intuitive cell types are found in random artificial networks using the same selection criteria neuroscientists use with actual data. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 1/2

1963 JExp. PSych -- if you can't see a significant between-subject effect with 28 subjects then might as well just accept your nulls. 🫠 (Worth nothing the effect they are referring to is a manipulation applied to only the first 5 out of ~140 total learning trials.)

CDS is hiring Faculty Fellows for 2026! This two-year role offers time and support to pursue independent research with a minimal teaching load. Learn more and apply by Nov 24: nyudatascience.medium.com/cds-is-hirin...

I'm recruiting a grad student! My lab at NYU (psych dept) studies the computational basis of moral cognition and aims to build AI systems that are aligned with human values. Now admitting a PhD student for Fall 2026. Apps due 12/1. sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...

super awesome, including the presentation of the project!

Are you looking to do independent research related to machine learning and/or data science? Want to get some teaching experience too? Apply to be a faculty fellow at the Center for Data Science at New York University! Positions are for two years. apply.interfolio.com/174686

exciting collaboration on what people people forget when recalling stories! cool results and a great example of how big data + ai can help address difficult to study psychological questions in more naturalistic ways.

I'm recruiting grad students!! 🎓 The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠 Applications through Psych (tinyurl.com/nyucp) are due Dec 1. Reach out with Qs & please repost! 🙏

one of the reason older academics become less productive is that they eventually have worked with so many people, it takes up all their time just updating their website about what all the former lab people are currently doing.

anyone have a good technique for tracking project progress (app? whiteboard? a piece of paper?). i know someone that list all lab projects on a white board and have magnets that track through status like “coding” “in review” “in revision” etc…i’m wondering if someone dialed in a process for that

* my lab's new interest intake form was inspired by @brendenlake.bsky.social's process (lake-lab.github.io/apply/) which has served him well, and i welcome people to copy these questions --- it'd be fine if applicants adopt broadly similar text across labs! intake.gureckislab.org/interest/

🚨 New preprint: "Decision rule inference limits social escape from learning traps" (with Rheza Budiono and Cate Hartley of the @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social ✨). Read here: osf.io/preprints/ps.... This is more work on a very curious phenomena!

Interested in research in my lab? intake.gureckislab.org/interest/

weird - i studied categorization, concepts, analogy, similarity, & reasoning while being told it was a "dead area," people called my advisors "dinosaurs." in 2025 i'm listening to podcasts where like the gov. and tech giants are talking about how analogy is basically the key to the global economy. 🤷

... and belated congratulations to @guydav.bsky.social on an awesome dissertation!! Tour de force.

me too!

just in time for teaching, release 0.4.0 of slidev-theme-neversink, adds custom classes to stickynote and admonitions, a few bug fixes, updated to work with latest slidev 52.1.0 github.com/gureckis/sli...

ATTN🚨: I will be looking for PhD students through NYU's Center for Data Science PhD program this year. Applicants should have an interest in either NeuroAI (specifically biological attention or AI interpretability) or ML for Remote Sensing. Visit my lab website for more info: lindsay-lab.github.io

Final reminder: Capstone proposal deadline is this Sunday, August 17! Partner with our master's students to solve real-world data challenges. Submit your proposal: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More info: cds.nyu.edu/masters-in-d...

we're hosting a science party in nyc next summer 👇

fun write up about our recent work on the limits of mental simulation: news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... (original paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

tryin' to be in the band, not the band manager. todd.gureckislab.org/2024/09/25/l...