„Der meiste Schaden, den der Computer potenziell zur Folge haben könnte, hängt weniger davon ab, was der Computer tatsächlich kann oder nicht kann, als vielmehr von den Eigenschaften, die das Publikum dem Computer zuschreibt.“ - Weizenbaum, "Albtraum Computer"
For those attending @ncmsociety.bsky.social this week, come check out posters and talks from the Physical Intelligence Lab! #NCM #MotorLearning #CognitiveNeuroscience
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
Happy to share my first PhD preprint! We show that magnitude estimation measures the perceptual noise distribution (it's Poisson-like!), resolving the sources of Weber's law & the pedestal effect.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Thanks to @linaresdani.bsky.social @jlmoliner.bsky.social !
We are hiring a tenure track (!) senior researcher in political economy!
This is obviously a great job (permanent without teaching obligation) and I hope you all apply.
However, I would like to take a moment to share just how significant this is in the German academic context ⬇️
“In our culture, preferring an algorithm to a trainee feels like a betrayal of the academic mission.”
That’s because it is.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Great presentation! Looking forward to reading the preprint
I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.
Screenshot of job ad: How do Bayesian brains acquire priors? APPLICATIONS CLOSE 20/4/2026 11:55 PM Summary of the Project This project explores how the brain constructs perceptual experience from visual input, focusing on the role of Bayesian models in perception. A key challenge in vision science is understanding how humans interpret complex scenes from the limited information available in retinal images. Modern theories suggest that perception involves probabilistic inference, where the brain integrates sensory signals with prior expectations to make sense of the world. However, the origins and nature of these expectations remain poorly understood. This research aims to advance our understanding of perceptual experience by examining how structured patterns in visual input can inform models of perception. The work spans computational modelling and experimental approaches to uncover principles that explain how visual systems interpret properties such as shape, material, and lighting from images. By addressing fundamental questions about perception, this project will contribute to psychology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, offering insights into how biological and artificial systems can learn to interpret complex environments.
I'm looking for a skilled PhD student who doesn't want to work too hard but still do great science:
unisc-cp.enquire.cloud/round/RND-00...
I will be at #cosyne2026 next week presenting some new work on "Simultaneous sensorimotor and contextual inference"
www.cosyne.org/poster-sessi...
Looking forward to seeing many familiar and new faces in Lisbon!
I'm not gonna touch most of this but two things:
1. The apprenticeship model of science was never supposed to be about the PI's workflow. The point isn't to have research assistants to help to publish stuff faster. Training the next generation researcher *is* the point. Because we care. Allegedly.
I think it's because they usually assume that you're also rational...
Why is touch perceived as weaker during movement?
In our new preprint 📝, we examine tactile suppression during reaching.
Using optimal control theory, we show that tactile suppression reflects dynamic, uncertainty-dependent integration of forward model predictions and sensory feedback.
Yes, please see Fabian's reply to your original post: bsky.app/profile/fata...
Sam Altman tweet: Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.
My goodness.
It’s time to turn towards the motor control side of interoception!
Why are tactile sensations suppressed during movements? In our new preprint, we explain this as optimal integration of sensory signals with an internal model.
Work led by @fatatai.bsky.social with Dimitris Voudouris, Katja Fiehler and @c-rothkopf.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
In light of the current funding situation (worldwide), a modest proposal: instead of pouring billions of dollars into GenAI claiming "it *could* accelerate science and research," consider putting 1% of that amount in what *will* accelerate science and research. Namely, funding science and research.
Even if bots may not have been a problem in online behavioural datasets 2-3 years ago, we should still be careful about generalizing between online studies and lab studies. See our study on dataset bias: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
**Postdoc position in human category learning**
@thecharleywu.bsky.social, Frank Jäkel and I are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to lead a joint project on human category learning at the Centre for Cognitive Science @tuda.bsky.social.
www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...
Flyer for 2026 edition of the European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany.
The European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany, is coming back in 2026!
Deadline: 8 March 2026
www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch/
🚨Four postdoc positions at the #ReasonableAI excellence cluster @tuda.bsky.social!
jobs.rhein-main-universitaeten.de/rmu/job/52370
Please share widely 🙏
Useful reminder!
Secretly, everything is running on symbolic logic and probabilistic inference and that is why they're mostly publishing on neural networks?
Vibe coding kills open source.
Our most direct title yet. @koren.mk @julianhi.nz @aaron-lohmann.bsky.social
Theory paper with numbers and policy recs. First at arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494
Comments welcome.
@ceu-economics.bsky.social @kiel.institute
Final paper of my PhD 🤗
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
There is growing interest in how cognitive control may improve value-based decision making.
However, we find that a recent paper overestimated the role of control in their task, leading to erroneous interpretations of dACC recordings.
Nice article but the social dynamics of science mean that peer review is de facto a "throughout problem". LLM usage in PR will increase because it reduces pressures on overstretched researchers. We can't stop LLM PR without addressing those pressures.
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ai-n...
+++ Teilt und unterschreibt unseren offenen Brief an die Hessische Landesregierung! +++ Wir werden die bevorstehende katastrophale Verschlechterung unseres Hochschulsystems nicht hinnehmen und fordern eine Neuverhandlung des Hochschulpakts! #nocuts #nocutsinhessen cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/...
Heute, 28.01.2026 Beratungsablauf Heute, 28.01.2026 Uhrzeit Beratungsablauf 10.25 bis 12 Uhr Stellenprofile und Department-Strukturen an Hochschulen Ausschuss für Forschung, Technologie und Technikfolgenabschätzung - live -
#IchBinHanna ist heute Thema im Forschungsausschuss des Bundestags -- & Ihr könnt live dabei sein! Fachgespräch wird via Livestream übertragen (endlich wieder Parlamentsfernsehen): www.bundestag.de/mediathek/live Sachverständige u.a. @frauforschung.bsky.social & @rosefeldt.bsky.social. #WissZeitVG
Important talk by @meredithmeredith.bsky.social and @udbhav-tiwari.bsky.social at #39c3 on the risks of AI agents in operating systems
youtu.be/0ANECpNdt-4?...