Forthcoming in October, at MIT press!

mitpress.mit.edu/978026205590...

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.

New work w/ Zach Kelso and @madeleinecsnyder.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Our negative results on classical conditioning in planarian flatworms. This was surprising, given the long history of work (including sensational findings of memory transfer and retention through decapitation).

You've never seen human anatomy like this before.

Using a particle accelerator, the Human Organ Atlas is producing 3D scans of our organs in unprecedented detail! You can look through different layers of tissue and even zoom in on the cells for the heart, lungs, eyes, kidneys, and more.

New preprint!

Prefrontal brain-to-brain synchrony during human group hunting: Evidence from fNIRS hyperscanning

Heroic work from @emre-yavuz-21.bsky.social and team

fNIRS & minecraft combined to reveal PFC synchrony during human group hunting

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

when a researcher doctors data for personal gain, it is obv very bad. when people design new studies based on those findings, that's wasteful. but when someone *uploads* questionable data to "go-to" repos for big data in benchmarking, hackathons, & more, now we have an exponentially worse problem.

Double act with @actlab.bsky.social at Cinet in Osaka. Cerebellum and Cognition. Doing paired talks is certainly good for a lively discussion…

Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020.

She missed these trials by a few months.

One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here.

I feel such a hole inside.

In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.

I asked ChatGPT who I am. It said I'm Chris Chambers.

I am not Prof. Chris Chambers, and I didn't reveal myself as Chris Chambers (or anyone else) in 2015...

I can see the logic in thinking that we're the same person, since we agree on a lot of things, but it's not true! And it gets worse...

I’m a cognitive psychologist. Don’t tell me this isn’t a stroopwafel.

Daily Unsupervised Learning in progress. #neuroskyence #ml #AI

Idea for grant proposal formative assessment. Very short proposal (1 page say) and reviewers are each allowed 3 questions which you get a very limited character count to respond to. Overall effort hugely reduced and lets the proposal evolve within a round rather than needing resubmission. Thoughts?

1 page is a bit too short. I think each *section* should be short, but in total can be several pages
HFSP letter of intent is pretty good, but I think should be a little longer (low character count per section, but the idea of a few paragraphs) and more sections.

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Applying for an ERC grant in the 2027 competitions: what you need to know The ERC plans to launch the grant competitions under its 2027 Work Programme between July 2026 and June 2027, with the calls for proposals introducing several changes to the eligibility rules for appl...

The #ERC just announced new rules!
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

If you got a B score before, you’re blocked for 2 years (instead of 1). A C score means 3-year exclusion.

This applies to the 2027 call for now, but I’d expect this to stick. Important for anyone planning to apply this round!

A “fun” experience with BMC Neurology @bmc.springernature.com who sat on our submission for over 10 months without ever sending for review, despite repeated reminders… we have now retracted to submit elsewhere…

Professor of Neuroscience at University of Reading Apply for the Professor of Neuroscience role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

📣 Job alert: We are recruiting a Prof in Neuroscience with MRI expertise to join us at @unirdg-cinn.bsky.social and @unirdg-psych.bsky.social. See tinyurl.com/2kdjph8v for details. Contact me for info/chat. Please spread the word

#neuroskyence #neurojobs

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. 🧵

Sharing a more personal side of this project, here's a short thread on some thoughts on the fantastic culture of research collaboration, life and work when moving across the other side of the world (UK->Japan), and generosity.

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #mlsky #academicsky #science /1

And of course, I got the tags wrong. I'll take the opportunity to add more!

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #mlsky #academicsky #science

If you got so far, thanks for reading! We were certainly appreciate a repost of the original thread :). /7 /fin

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Thanks to the internet & collaborations, I could keep doing Science!

Not to mention the huge deal that Luke let me be co-senior author on this project. I appreciate being a scientist in a time when more senior academics are so generous & supportive. /6

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I prioritized life and family at the time (the kid is doing great now!) but if I did no work I probably would've felt less satisfied.

I would've been fine w/out being productive, but thanks to this project, not only did I learn so much but it ended up being a part of an important time in my life!/5

But our weekly meetings made me feel productive, even though I was barely doing anything at the time (all thanks to Binxia's efficiency and hard work!) /4

This was during my family's move to Osaka, Japan, with our first young child (6-month old at the time).

Settling in, dealing with our first child and a new job (Japanese bureaucracy all inclusive), I could barely get any work done. /3

This project originated when Luke and Binxia told me about their work on Misclassification Agreement, and I said they should look deeper into the behavioral alignment angle - and kindly welcomed me onto this project. /2

Sharing a more personal side of this project, here's a short thread on some thoughts on the fantastic culture of research collaboration, life and work when moving across the other side of the world (UK->Japan), and generosity.

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #mlsky #academicsky #science /1

Do Machines Fail Like Humans? A Human-Centred Out-of-Distribution Spectrum for Mapping Error Alignment Determining whether AI systems process information similarly to humans is central to cognitive science and trustworthy AI. While modern AI models can match human accuracy on standard tasks, such parit...

Excited to share our new preprint: "Do Machines Fail Like Humans? A Human-Centered Out-of-Distribution Spectrum for Mapping Error Alignment" led by
@binxia.bsky.social w @ken-lxl.bsky.social & co-senior author Luke Dickens (UCL)
🤖🧵👇
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2603.07462
🧠📈#PsychSciSky #compneuro #mlsky /1

Medial temporal lobe encodes cognitive maps of real-world social networks | PNAS Humans routinely solve social problems by navigating densely interconnected networks—gossiping strategically, brokering across cliques, and coordin...

Now out in PNAS with @jaeyoungson.bsky.social, Alice Xia, @apaxon.bsky.social & @orielf.bsky.social. Medial temporal lobe encodes predictive representations of people's real-world social networks which afford them key advantages in social navigation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵

Good thread on an interesting project - nice to see more of these nuanced benchmarks of human-model visual alignment.