Tenure-track position in Denmark "with a particular focus on visual perception, including visual attention, working memory, and visual neuroscience" #neurojobs #neuroskyence #visionscience
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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
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.
My lab is going to print these words and staple them to my forehead.
Peak retired academic moment.
1. One of those emails: Are you the R Watt who wrote xxxxxx?
2. Nope, but it sounds vaguely interesting. Wonder what they found.
3. Google - read it and discover that I did write it.
"Much of OA policy is grounded in an ideology that treats everything as a market problem to be fixed through market instruments....neoliberal logic that gave rise to APCs"
Whether or not you agree with the main thrust of this article, the above is accurate. 1/2 www.samuelmoore.org/2026/04/14/w...
Definitely the most exciting microtonal art punk muppet band for some years.
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. 🧵
I think we finally made really significant progress on the biggest unsolved "developmental AI" problem: learning from human-scale data. Key idea: zero-shot world models that support concept extraction via approximate causal inference. amazing collab w/ @mcxfrank.bsky.social @khaiaw.bsky.social
AI seems to be the topic of the year — nearly every conversation I have in my role as academic lead for good research practice touches on it in some way. I’d like to lay out my developing thoughts for conversation and critique. (1/7)
A scaled collection of brains from common neuroscience model organisms arranged side by side. From left to right: a large human brain and a smaller macaque brain on the top row; below them progressively smaller brains from a marmoset, rat, mouse, zebrafish, and a tiny Drosophila (fruit fly). A coin provides size reference. An inset shows a small, irregularly shaped brain organoid.
I created this collection of common brain models in neuroscience, all to scale
Across species, brains share fundamental principles and many homologous regions
But as size increases, complexity and connectivity change. We need the full spectrum, from flies to rodents, non-human primates, and humans
🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning..
We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance.
And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use!
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(Leaving aside that Danielle's original complaint was about making decisions that involve extrapolation outside the data, in which case, yeah a linear probability model is going to get you into all kinds of trouble).
The Gomila argument is basically "sometimes there's no difference between a linear model and a logistic, so just use the simpler one!". As I replied to our reviewer, our paper clearly shows an example where this choice *does* make a difference. I'd prefer the principled generative model every time.
I wrote up something that's been in my head for a while: psychometric methods alone can't tell us what cognitive tasks and their indicators measure.
Correlating indicators across tasks is circular when constructs are defined by those same correlations.
osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵1/3
Really happy we, @koberauer.bsky.social & Ricardo Rebmann & I, could finally put all the pieces together with the right framing.
The take home message: better #Psychometrics methods and models won't fix this. We need explicit theories of how cognition produces behavior. 3/3
Holy shit. This is like if a foreign country bombed MIT. Sharif University is the top science and engineering institution in Iran, and one of the top in the world. Absolutely unconscionable www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
A reviewer raised this recently in regard to a short paper of ours showing that using t-tests on proportion data near the bounds may induce an interaction effect, where logistic regression does not. scipost.org/JRobustRep.1...
I was surprised to learn recently that there is a literature arguing for “the linear probability model” in some circumstances (eg psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-...).
Are we all Agents of Chaos in AI? (Hope not!)
In recent weeks using OpenClaw has taught us a lot about this wooly new kind of autonomous software agent.
Its valuable to see what @NatalieShapira, @wendlerch et al. have seen:
agentsofchaos.baulab.info/
guardrails are a scam
🧵 3 papers by me & my team Ullrich Ecker Fabio Carrella Emily Spearing Almog Simchon ask an urgent question: if you tell people they're being manipulated by AI — deepfakes, AI-written articles, microtargeted ads — is the manipulation defanged?
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Across all three papers, the same pattern: transparency — simply telling people they're being manipulated — reduces AI-driven influence at best partially, and often not at all.
This is a critical problem, because the EU AI Act relies heavily on transparency as its main tool.
Today's my first day of the second year of my doctoral degree and I want to share some things I struggle with and things I learned throughout the first year. Just a brain dump and no particular order. Feel free to add yours :)
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Behold this most serious paper, in submission to Acta Prima Aprilia. A three-way collaboration with @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, myself & Laura Revell 🛰️🐄🤠🔭
As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.
“The reason, according to the study, is that women have almost five times the amount of childcare responsibilities that men have.”
Visual #workingmemory peeps, you're going to love this. This is super challenging - might give you pause on how we are measuring color memory...
My color memory is a 40.4/50. Please do worse so I feel better.
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Super excited to see the first paper from my PhD out! 🐭 Very satisfying to get to build an interpretable model of how the brain does a thing. A nice palette cleanser in the current sea of LLMs and deep ML.
Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities