Cecilia Roselli presented "The Duration of Robot Gaze Affects People’s Attitudes towards Humanoid Robots", showing that longer robot gaze durations lead to more positive attitudes from participants.

@mmwozniak.bsky.social presented "We-Information Can Facilitate Performance in Joint Teleoperation Over a Humanoid Robot", demonstrating that providing information about co-actors can improve joint control and increases self-other overlap.

This! 👉 Inter-Brain Neural Dynamics in Biological and Artificial Intelligence Systems www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Social #NeuroAI #Hyperscanning

Amanda Askell (Anthropic's in-house philosopher) now has more career citations than Dan Dennett. Not bad for a 2019 PhD.

We had an inspiring time at the sense of self meeting in London, where we talked about the interpersonal self and sense of agency! Thanks to organisers @tonyjprescott.bsky.social, @awykowska.bsky.social, @sarahgarf.bsky.social, Paul Verschure, and to the @royalsociety.org for hosting

New preprint w/ @christophvoelter.bsky.social et al. Individual differences in great ape cognition across time and domains: stability, structure, and predictability 48 apes 🦍, 10 tasks 🧠, 10 sessions📊, 1.5 y📅 ✅ Stable individual traits ❌ No g-factor 🤝 Social ≠ non-social 🔗: osf.io/preprints/ps...

New layer-fMRI manuscript: V1 superficial layers create a saliency map that feeds forward to the parietal cortex for attentional guidance. doi.org/10.1101/2025... By Liu at al.

Huggingface buys Pollen Robotics and plans to sell its Reachy 2 humanoids: techcrunch.com/2025/04/14/h...

New paper alert—this is a master class on interdisciplinary collaboration updating the basic understanding and clinical outlook for neurocardiology. Led by Olu Ajijola Kalyanam Shivkumar and a cardiology dream team. #interoception physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

Rhythms and communication in the brain doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Averaging brain responses is not a great idea... #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I've written a free and accessible guide to Cephalopod Sentience with Alex Schnell, Piero Amodio and Peter Morse, stunningly illustrated by Roksolana Tkach. Please download and share! It's worth it for the illustrations alone! 🐙 thebrooksinstitute.org/sites/defaul...

The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations 🧠🤖 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join our Igor pack to discuss and share a specific topic and interest related to open science, bio/cognitive/psychopy & neuroscience - even job/ grant opportunities! go.bsky.app/7GAoP8i

Preserving and combining knowledge in robotic lifelong reinforcement learning #compneuro #MLSky www.nature.com/articles/s42...

What I should read published recently along these lines?(Bonus if it uses examples I could know something about...)

👉 "We ... consider two requirements of group-to-individual generalizability ... and suggest that most processes in cognitive neuroscience do not meet these assumptions. Consequently, interindividual findings are inappropriate for intraindividual inferences" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies. Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility.. www.nber.org/papers/w33311

'Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development' is here from the future (March 2025) authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Just ready before Christmas: a new issue of Computational Brain and Behaviour on what is a good theory: link.springer.com/journal/4211...

What does it mean for something to be Turing complete? I answer this question, and more, through a series of fully interactive Turing machine simulations! Play, pause, step forwards and backwards, and even write your own Turing machine programs in my latest blog post. samwho.dev/turing-machi...

Applied research is the path to legitimacy in psychological science Comment by Judith P. Andersen Web: go.nature.com/41qmccZ PDF: rdcu.be/d2XLq

Some learning resources on Reinforcement Learning in no particular order. - UCL Course on RL ( www.davidsilver.uk/teaching/ ) - UC Berkeley's Deep Reinforcement Learning ( rail.eecs.berkeley.edu/deeprlcourse/ ) - Lil's Reinforcement-Learning ( lilianweng.github.io/tags/reinfor... )

📝 New paper: Woensdregt, M., Fusaroli, R., Rich, P. et al. Lessons for Theory from Scientific Domains Where Evidence is Sparse or Indirect. Comput Brain Behav (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s421...

Registration now open for this fantastic event next year 👇🏼 The sense of self : one body, multiple mechanisms Thank you for the invitation and honoured to be part of this rockstar line up 😎🔥

Bluesky may provide a new way to study social media. Instead of which posts/users are popular we can now look at which *algorithms* are popular, what are their features, how popularity dynamics and distributions look like, etc. Who's in? bsky.app/feeds

Creating a 🦋 starter pack for people working in IR/RAG: go.bsky.app/88ULgwY I can’t seem to find everyone though, help definitely appreciated to fill this out (DM or comment)!

lol at last line of caption: "This figure is not intended to suggest that science is a race." The treachery of images! (source doi.org/10.1371/jour...)

Quick reminder! If you’re posting a STEM job listing, include a tag like #ScienceJobs, so your post ends up on a feed (like the one linked below) or is more easily searchable 🧪 #AcademicSky bsky.app/profile/did:...

Do we need another starter pack? I'm erring on the side of yes. go.bsky.app/GVMZMcB

Here is a starter pack with research tools for cognitive (neuro)science! This is still very preliminary, so please repost widely and let me know what else to add, so we can rebuild a helpful community over here!

Bayesian models of perception and action www.cns.nyu.edu/malab/bayesi...

Do babies pretrain? www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

New here? Interested in AI/ML? Check out these great starter packs! AI: go.bsky.app/SipA7it RL: go.bsky.app/3WPHcHg Women in AI: go.bsky.app/LaGDpqg NLP: go.bsky.app/SngwGeS AI and news: go.bsky.app/5sFqVNS You can also search all starter packs here: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

Announcing the launch of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: oecs.mit.edu! OECS is a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics in cogsci to a broad audience of students and scholars.

My paper proposing that we develop self-representation in a series of discontinuous developmental steps, based on ideas from Bayes and Susan Carey is out in Front in Hum Neurosci "How to grow a self: development of self-representation in the Bayesian brain" www.frontiersin.org/journals/hum...

Representational spaces in orbitofrontal and ventromedial prefrontal cortex: task states, values, and beyond www.cell.com/trends/neuro... #neuroscience

Brilliant work (as usual) by @davidrichter.bsky.social with @timkietzmann.bsky.social and @predictivebrain.bsky.social. Important implications for hierarchical predictive processing. #neuroskyence

I am trying to create a robotics and ai starter pack on bluesky: go.bsky.app/DfAoaJ1 Very incomplete please comment with suggestions (or just if you're missing and want to be added!)

Starter packs seem all the rage so here’s a cultural evolution one go.bsky.app/6mZJyQq

Here is the starter pack for folks in science of science, meta science, STS, philosophy of science, history of science, economics of science, science policy, AI+science, and so on. Feel free to nominate and self-nominate! #SciSci #STS #MetaScience #SciPol #AI4Science #ScAISci go.bsky.app/2R1E4TD

I think it was missing to I created a Consciousness Science Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/T8z9NP4 I can still add ~90 people so if you want to jump in, let me know! And if you don't want to be there, let me know as well of course. The boundaries of consciousness research can be hard to determine!

Announcement! The next @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social CES conference will be at UM6P in Rabat, Morocco, provisional dates 11-13th May 2026! Hosted by Mathieu Charbonneau, @sarahalami.bsky.social, @zhgarfield.com & @edseabright.bsky.social. Save the dates! culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...

Looking for a mind-growing distraction? How about my 3 part intro to Bayesian causal inference. It's like a condensed version of my book, 10 weeks of causal computation in 3 short blog posts. Take with plenty of water. #stats elevanth.org/blog/2021/06...

1/ Our new paper in which we looked at subjective and objective performance when teleoperating a semi-autonomous robot. Together with Ilkay Ari, Davide De Tommaso & Agnieszka Wykowska ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...

This was a fun paper to work on that combines two of my favorite topics: music and cultural evolution. We include a very simple model of continuous norm evolution that hopefully could be useful down the road. osf.io/preprints/ps...

New blog post! "Preregistration: More Promises than Pitfalls," some thoughts inspired by the recent meeting at the Royal Society. I don't find many pitfalls with preregistration itself, but there are plenty of problems with how we talk about it. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/preregistr...