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JJ Aucouturier @jjtokyo.bsky.social · 2d

The two positions are funded by CNRS, with generous support from our industrial collaborator, and will be jointly supervised by Prof. Pierre-Henri Cornuault (Mechanical Engineering) and myself (neuro-team-femto.github.io). The positions are based in Besançon, France.

JJ Aucouturier @jjtokyo.bsky.social · 2d

I'm excited to announce the opening of up to 2 PhD positions in mechanical engineering and tactile psychophysics, in close industrial collaboration with a major cosmetics manufacturer.

More information: neuro-team-femto.github.io/2025/09/15/T...
Application deadline: 31st Oct. 2025

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Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social · Sep 8

smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/the-only-i...

The only interdisciplinary conversations worth having

(This is a niche post of interest to a relatively narrow community of scholars.

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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · Sep 9

Sperber wrote this 22 years ago (when I was starting my studies in CogSci) and these words still ring true www.dan.sperber.fr?p=101

Dan Sperber — Dan Sperber (2003) Why rethink interdisciplinarity? Virtual seminar Rethinking interdisciplinarity on www.interdisciplines.org

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Athina Tzovara @athinatzovara.bsky.social · Jul 21

We are hiring! We have open PhD and postdoc positions in Bern. Join us to study sleep/wake circuits, and/or auditory functions with iEEG/EEG #iEEG #Neurojobs

Postdoc: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
PhD: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...

Open positions

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · Jun 2

Out now in TiCS, something i've been thinking about a lot:

"Physics vs. graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition"

(by Balaban & me)

relevant for many people, related to imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, aphantasia, and more

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lBaC4sIRv...

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Uma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social · May 30

A new study shows a "pivot penalty" where the likelihood of being a "hit" (top 5% of citations in that field) or getting published go down the more that a scientist shifts from their main discipline.

I have a few thoughts, some on how this was framed

(🧵)

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Shifting research focus comes with the risk of reduced impact

An analysis of millions of scientific papers and patents shows that the further a researcher or inventor moves from their previous work, the less cited their latest work will be.

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JJ Aucouturier @jjtokyo.bsky.social · May 29

Agreed. It's unclear whether reading that second paper improved what understanding I got from reading the first, when you compensate for the number of extra words I had to go through.

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Camille Maumet @cmaumet.bsky.social · Feb 11

🤔 You’d like to share your research code but not sure how to…?

🔓*Very* excited to finally share this work led by @nicolasrougier.bsky.social in which we propose a practical set of guidelines for opening code.

inria.hal.science/hal-04930405...

An infographic providing an overview of the CODE roadmap for sharing research software and code: Open Document Execute Collaborate.

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JJ Aucouturier @jjtokyo.bsky.social · Apr 22

Thanks for the kind words @fourtassi.bsky.social, means a lot coming from you !!

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JJ Aucouturier @jjtokyo.bsky.social · Apr 22

A world-heritage site close to the French-Swiss mountains of Jura, within easy train access from Paris, Besançon is a vibrant, mid-size regional capital city regularly ranking best-in-France for quality of life and surface green per inhabitant (www.youtube.com/embed/wCZ5kb...)

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JJ Aucouturier @jjtokyo.bsky.social · Apr 22

The recruited person will join the FEMTO Neuro group, a research group exploring novel control and dynamical-system approaches to human neuroscience, at the Dept. of Automation & Robotics, FEMTO-ST Institute in Besançon, France (www.youtube.com/embed/3fsEKE...).

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JJ Aucouturier @jjtokyo.bsky.social · Apr 22

Our research group is advertising an exciting new PhD position at the intersection of control engineering and neuroscience, aiming to advance our understanding of how humans control the sound of their voice.

Position start: Oct. 2025
Deadline: 16 May 2025
neuro-team-femto.github.io/2025/04/22/F...

PhD position (M2/école d'ingénieur.e.s)

PhD position (M2/école d'ingénieur.e.s) posted on April 22, 2025 PhD position: Identification et commande de la boucle sensorimotrice de ...

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JJ Aucouturier @jjtokyo.bsky.social · Feb 13

Cool #neuroscience PhD opportunity on the interplay between speech production and perception, with 2 great PIs Anahita Basirat in SCALAB, @univlille.bsky.social (France) and Vitória Piai @dondersinst.bsky.social (The Netherlands)

Deadline: 28 March 2025
www.risc.cnrs.fr/echos/2903527

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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · Jan 21

Made a video showcasing resolve.pub which is like "google docs" for technical (ipynb/qmd) documents. The Video walk through how you can share any notebook on github with people who never code.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBmB...

Resolve showcase

YouTube video by Michel's Science Speedrun

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JJ Aucouturier @jjtokyo.bsky.social · Jan 20

@lnalborczyk.bsky.social is fantastic - anyone interested in voice neuroscience and cognitive modeling please keep tabs !

Ladislas Nalborczyk @lnalborczyk.bsky.social · Oct 26

Exciting news! In January 2025, I'll launch my own research team as a CNRS researcher at the LPL (Aix-en-Provence)! 🎉🎉

Our research will dive into the computational and neural bases of inner speech and mental/motor imagery.

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JJ Aucouturier @jjtokyo.bsky.social · Jan 20

In the age of AI, "if we keep rewarding more papers published per year in academia, we’re setting ourselves up for more mediocrity, if not more complete BS".
blog.mahabali.me/educational-...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jan 17

“The thing that makes me worry is how much these people are giving up the very mental tasks that make them human.”
chuckpearson.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/t...

The ethical case for resisting AI

I had my moment of reality regarding generative AI in my chemistry and physics classes this past term. I’ve always had the student frustration “I can’t Google your homework problems!” as a point of…

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JJ Aucouturier @jjtokyo.bsky.social · Jan 15

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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · Jan 9

The outer ear is a mammalian innovation but where did it come from? In our study in Nature, Mathi Thiruppathy and colleagues find that the outer ear arose from modification of an ancestral gill program first originating in marine invertebrates. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Repurposing of a gill gene regulatory program for outer ear evolution - Nature

Nature - Repurposing of a gill gene regulatory program for outer ear evolution

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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · Jan 4

“Masland & Martin (2007, R581) write that “experimental physiologists know all too well that sensory systems are only linear when the experimenter forces them to be so.” ... “forcing” linearity amounts to the selection of experimental conditions that induce more simple behavior”
The Brain Abstracted

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Dec 16

Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · Dec 4

I will buy these headphones

Allen School @uwcse.bsky.social · Dec 3

"We are at a time when hardware and algorithms are coming together to support #AI augmentation." #UWAllen prof @gshyam.bsky.social is developing headphones that enable the wearer to tune in to conversation they want to hear, cut through noise they don't. #ThisIsUW spectrum.ieee.org/noise-cancel...

AI Headphones Create Zones of Silence

Researchers turn off a noisy world to help users tune in to nearby conversations

spectrum.ieee.org

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JJ Aucouturier @jjtokyo.bsky.social · Dec 13

This is good ! I have abandonned too many papers at revision stage for this exact reason (+ never really abandonned them in my mind, whatismore - they clutter my todolist forever after)

JJ Aucouturier @jjtokyo.bsky.social · Dec 9

lol, I was totally the same after being rejected from the ERC last time. Talk about a roller coaster !

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