I am shocked to see this language from the NSF.
“The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”
Attending #Cosyne2026?
Come by our poster in the afternoon (#021) to talk about the sense of control, empowerment, and agency. 🧠🤖
We propose a unifying formulation of the sense of control and empirically characterize the human subjective sense of control.
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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📢📢 Announcing this year's conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience & AI (Rome, 9-12th June). We’ve got a stellar line-up and venue, and invite everyone to join:
www.neuromonster.org
One week left to apply!
🚨 Hiring in Munich 🇩🇪: 2 open-topic PhD positions in human & machine learning (TVöD E13 80%).
Start ~June 2026 (flexible). Deadline: March 2, 2026.
Apply/info: hcai-munich.com/PhD_Job_Ad.pdf
Reposts appreciated 🙏
Deadline reminder: March 2, 2026.
If you know a great MSc student looking for a PhD at the human↔ML interface, please share this thread.
What you get: interdisciplinary team + lots of compute via Helmholtz HPC, collaborative lab culture, and supportive mentorship.
If you’re unsure about fit, err on the side of applying.
We’re looking for strong quantitative backgrounds (cog sci / CS / ML / stats / neuroscience).
Solid Python + evidence of independent work (thesis/projects/papers/open-source).
LLM experience is a plus, not required.
Possible directions (not limited to):
• foundation models of human learning/decision-making
• cognitively inspired ML
• automated/open-ended discovery of cognitive models
• continual learning in humans & machines
🚨 Hiring in Munich 🇩🇪: 2 open-topic PhD positions in human & machine learning (TVöD E13 80%).
Start ~June 2026 (flexible). Deadline: March 2, 2026.
Apply/info: hcai-munich.com/PhD_Job_Ad.pdf
Reposts appreciated 🙏
Our model jointly learns object embeddings and idiosyncratic weightings of psychological dimensions.
The results show improved accuracy on hold-out data as well as reliably measurable dimensional weights (up to ~8 dimensions) and summary stats thereof
Do people's internal representations of natural objects differ? We (@ericschulz.bsky.social) show so by incorporating idiosyncrasies into neural nets to create better models of human behavior. We also reliably extract idiosyncrasies and map them to demographics. More: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/pxt9a
Very happy to see this pre-print out. Our first step towards incorporating individual differences when aligning neural network representations to diverse crowds.
Thanks for including Centaur. It's not only predictive though, but also, at least in parts, generative. I think that will make a difference.
Honored to have been interviewed about Claude's "soul document" as part of an article for this week's @spiegel.de.
www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
🔬 We're hiring a Junior Group Leader for Data-Driven Digital Twins/System Models in medicine/life sciences at @uni_goettingen! Perfect opportunity for early-career researchers who want to:
- Lead their own research group
- Work at the intersection of AI, simulation, and biomedicine
📆 updated for 2026!
list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
🚨 New preprint 🚨
We present the decisions-from-experience database (DfE-DB), including data from 168 studies.
The data are currently shared with the original authors and made public upon publication.
🔗 Database: github.com/dwulff/dfe-db
🔗 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social.
If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here:
tinyurl.com/coxijobs
Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️
🧵 If you're looking for a fully funded PhD or Postdoc in Computational Psychiatry, please reach out!
We are expanding the lab and tackling some big questions. Here is a thread on what we are currently up to: 👇
🚀🎓We have exciting opportunities at the PhD and Postdoc level, including in the new Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience, a 10-year initiative spanning a powerful international network of labs working across species and disciplines - please reach out if interested
bsky.app/profile/simo...
We are hiring a new Ph. D. student on neuroimaging and/or computational modeling on motivation and emotion. Tübingen is a great place to pursue work on these topics!!
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
⚠️ Warning: Joining our team as a postdoc has a known side effect of receiving multiple job offers shortly after. We currently have 3 such cases.
If you are willing to take that risk, applications close in 1 week. The upside is you'll be in a supportive and stimulating environment in munich.
Two weeks left to apply. Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
Join us for an insightful discussion with @elifakata.bsky.social, a PhD researcher at @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social. She will discuss her recent paper, “Playing Repeated Games with Large Language Models.”
📅 17 November
⏲️ 2-3 PM CET
📍 @hertieschool.bsky.social
👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/datascien...
Join us in beautiful Munich! If you have any questions about the city, the group or your application, feel free to reach out! ✨
🚀 We are hiring! 🚀
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
Looking for a #postdoc position? 🧠🔬🤖
Join our amazing lab in Munich! 🇩🇪👩🔬
We have a friendly, collaborative, and inclusive environment, where scientific rigour and curiosity are truly valued and celebrated. 🎉
#Jobs #ScienceJobs #cogsci #neuroskyence
join us!
A great opportunity to work at the cutting edge of AI and cognitive science!
🔎 About the Position:
✅ PhD in cogsci, ML, compsci, or related fields
✅ Strong publication record
✅ Experience in supervision
✅ Fun and collaborative
Please don't hesitate to reach out, if you have any questions.