Would love to get some colleagues at the intersection of NLP and CogSci. Reach out if you have any questions! Deadline: 31-Jul-2026

postdoc and PhD positions in visual cognitive computational neuroscience in my lab at the University of Cambridge kamilajozwik.com/join_lab.html

My lab at U Göttingen is looking for a PostDoc or PhD student to work on an ERC-funded project at the intersection of computer vision, graphics & neuroscience.

New paper! 🚨 ~1.8K Mooney images from THINGS + ~1K participants to study visual ambiguity resolution.

Results suggest the visual system shifts from a top-down guess to bottom-up matching after disambiguation, and a U-shaped link between info gain and identification.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels:

www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a...

Deadline: May 4th, 2026

📢 PhD position in Developmental Language Modelling
(PLZ RT)

What can human language acquisition teach us about training language models? Join us as a PhD!
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/fully-funded-4-year-phd-position-developmental-language @carorowland.bsky.social
@mpi-nl.bsky.social

📢 PhD position in the NeuroAI of Language

Why can LLMs predict brain activity so well? We're hiring a PhD student to find out -- AI interpretability meets neuroimaging
Deadline March 20
Please RT 🙏
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mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/fully-funded-4-year-phd-position-neuroai-language

Can electrical microstimulation be used to steer cortical population activity on- and off-manifold? Our new preprint says yes — using data-driven control in macaque PFC. Joint work with @gbarzon.bsky.social, Anandita De, Isaac Moran, Conner Carnahan, and Luca Mazzucato.

NSF officials break silence on how AI and quantum now drive agency grantmaking Leaders acknowledge White House role in controversial moves

NSF leaders have just acknowledged what many scientists have long suspected: Presidential directives to boost AI and quantum have upended its traditional way of doing business. www.science.org/content/arti...

📣📣📣Job alert Multimodal Language Department Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics MAX PLANCK RESEARCH GROUP LEADER POSITION (W2 BBESG) lnkd.in/eaq5MW9a

🚨 New preprint on individual differences in artificial neural networks and human behavior.

We show that individual differences among ANN instances trained with different random initializations capture the individual differences in human behavior.

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Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests - Nature Machine Intelligence Tangtartharakul and Storrs use standardized neuropsychological tests to compare human visual abilities with those of visual language models (VLMs). They report that while VLMs excel in high-level obje...

Our latest paper, “Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests”, is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Non-paywalled version:
arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786

Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...

Looking forward to presenting at the #AAAI #NeuroAI workshop; including 3 projects that were just accepted to ICLR! arxiv.org/abs/2509.24597, arxiv.org/abs/2510.03684, arxiv.org/abs/2506.13331 🧪🧠🤖

🎉 Re-Align is back for its 4th edition at ICLR 2026!

📣 We invite submissions on representational alignment, spanning ML, Neuroscience, CogSci, and related fields.

📝 Tracks: Short (≤5p), Long (≤10p), Challenge (blog)

⏰ Deadline: Feb 5, 2026 for papers

🔗 representational-alignment.github.io/2026/

Lindsay Lab - Postdoc Position Artificial neural networks applied to psychology, neuroscience, and climate change

Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p...
#MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro

Hopkins Cog Sci is hiring! We have two open faculty positions: one in vision, and one language. Please repost!

Join us for Fall 2026. In our group, you can run studies from human behavior and neuroimaging, to large-scale NHP ephys, and join them up with a robust computational foundation. Bonus: you can help build the reading list.

🚨Job Alert plz RT!

Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition!

We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals

Open-rank

apply.interfolio.com/178146

Schmidt Sciences awards $18M to researchers working to ensure AI benefits society - Schmidt Sciences Media Contact: Carlie Wiener; cwiener@schmidtsciences.org                   NEW YORK—Schmidt Sciences announced today that 28 scholars studying how to fulfill AI’s potential to dramatically benefit…

We're excited to welcome 28 new AI2050 Fellows! This 4th cohort of researchers are pursuing projects that include building AI scientists, designing trustworthy models, and improving biological and medical research, among other areas.

Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language.

tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬

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Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment - Scientometrics Scientists and funding agencies invest considerable resources in writing and evaluating grant proposals. But do grant proposal texts noticeably change panel decisions in single blind review? We report...

Arguably this is 2 pages too many, given that grant decisions are mostly based on CV + abstract:

"We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not
detectibly impact their proposal rankings."

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚀 Excited to share a major update to our “Mixture of Cognitive Reasoners” (MiCRo) paper!

We ask: What benefits can we unlock by designing language models whose inner structure mirrors the brain’s functional specialization?

More below 🧠👇
cognitive-reasoners.epfl.ch

But to come back to focal neural effects of stimulation: without topography in the model I find it hard to see how to explicitly model the interaction of stimulation at multiple sites that might allow to obtain stronger behavioral effects than we observed using single-site stimulation.

Defining face-selective units in a non-topo model, increasing their activation level, and projecting that to the latents of a GAN used for image generation probably also results in face-related changes in model percepts. Is that more what you are asking?

This allows eg our visualizations, where we stimulate face-selective regions - defined using a standard face-localizer - which then lead to face-related changes to model percepts (Figs 5, 9-15).

Thanks, Adrian! The main purpose of using topo models is to allow the implementation of neural activation changes and their propagation across the cortical sheet using the topo model's in-silico equivalent of the cortex.

Absolutely agree that neural responses to the perturbations would have been very useful. While that type of data was not recorded in our experiments, the groups of Michael Beyeler @mbeyeler.bsky.social and Eduardo Fernandez just presented some great work in this direction: bsky.app/profile/mbey...

Thanks for the question, Konrad! Do you mean what percentage of variance of the neural effects of perturbations our topo models can explain? Would be great if we could investigate that, but we haven't recorded neural data during perturbation trials. Or what did you mean by observational data?

@neuroxepfl.bsky.social @icepfl.bsky.social @epfl-ai-center.bsky.social

Special thanks go out to Paolo Papale and Anna Mitola who initiated this collaboration and performed the in-vivo experiments. And to the rest of a great team: Ben Lonnqvist @benlonnqvist.bsky.social, Abdulkadir Gokce @akgokce.bsky.social, Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social