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Tübingen SNS 2025 @snstuebingen.bsky.social · 19h

🔵 Tübingen SNS 2025 - That’s a wrap! 🔵

Two inspiring days full of groundbreaking talks and great discussions about systems #neuroscience! 🧠

A huge thank you to all our speakers, presenters, and participants for making #SNS2025 such a success 🙌

See you next year in Tübingen! 💙

📸 Highlights below!

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 1d

Love it when a paper on arXiv includes a footnote reading "We stole this notion from Christof Koch (March 24, 2025, Mindscape podcast by Sean Carroll)."

arxiv.org/abs/2510.03311

Not Even Wrong: On the Limits of Prediction as Explanation in Cognitive Science

We offer a comment on the Centaur (Binz et al., 2025) transformer-based model of human behavior. In particular, Centaur was cast as a path towards unified theories of cognition. We offer a counter cla...

arxiv.org

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 1d

After stretching a bit last year, this year the Nobel committee was determined to give the prize to the physicsiest physics that ever physicsed.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis for their work in quantum mechanics.

Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Physics

The prize was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis.

nyti.ms

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Antonino Greco @agreco.bsky.social · 3d

Regardless of AI's impact on science, it's concerning to see academics using provocative language such as “AI is research misconduct”

I feel it's unnecessarily polarizing, importing the current political tone into science and, ultimately, harming the scientific community than any technology itself

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 5d

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 6d

Nice demo by Mark Lescroart @neuromdl.bsky.social on EPI imaging of a single #fMRI slice. Great for teaching! :)
vimeo.com/143701608?fl...

fMRI_EPI_KspaceAcquisition_short

This is a demonstration of how a single slice of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is collected. Before this makes any sense, you will need to understand…

vimeo.com

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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 6d

I've been arguing that #NeuroAI should model the brain in health *and* in disease -- very excited to share a first step from Melika Honarmand: inducing dyslexia in vision-language-models via targeted perturbations of visual-word-form units (analogous to human VWFA) 🧠🤖🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2509.24597

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Laurent Perrinet @laurentperrinet.bsky.social · 7d

Glad to share the publication of our #newpaper (aka #blueprint) :

> A Predictive Approach to Enhance Time-Series Forecasting

By Skye Gunasekaran, Assel Kembay, Hugo Ladret, Rui-Jie Zhu, myself, Omid Kavehei and Jason Eshraghian

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#neuroscience #AI #prediction #time

Just published in Nature Communications! Skye Gunasekaran has raised my expectations of UCSC undergraduate students impossibly high. You can direct all grading complaints to her. | Jason Eshraghian

Just published in Nature Communications! Skye Gunasekaran has raised my expectations of UCSC undergraduate students impossibly high. You can direct all grading complaints to her.

www.linkedin.com

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 9d

Great piece by @jonathanjarry.bsky.social on the descent of Sabine Hossenfelder, from science communicator to contrarian outrage-monger www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Sabine Hossenfelder Asks If Science Is Dying. It’s Not.

Physics is dying. It’s mathematical fiction. Science is failing. Most of academic research that your taxes pay for is almost certainly bullshit. I don’t trust scientists. Would you believe me if I tol...

www.mcgill.ca

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Antonino Greco @agreco.bsky.social · 7d

Congrats! 🥳

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 8d

My test of any new AI video model is whether it can make an otter using wifi on an airplane

Here is Sora 2 doing a nature documentary... 1980s music video... a thriller... 50s low budget SciFi film... a safety video.. a film noir... anime... 90s video game cutscene... a French arthouse film

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Charlotte Volk @charlottevolk.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 New preprint alert!

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We propose a theory of how learning curriculum affects generalization through neural population dimensionality. Learning curriculum is a determining factor of neural dimensionality - where you start from determines where you end up.
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A 🧵:

tinyurl.com/yr8tawj3

The curriculum effect in visual learning: the role of readout dimensionality

Generalization of visual perceptual learning (VPL) to unseen conditions varies across tasks. Previous work suggests that training curriculum may be integral to generalization, yet a theoretical explan...

tinyurl.com

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Antonino Greco @agreco.bsky.social · 10d

sorry for the confusion! I was trying to be sarcastic. My point wasn’t that AGI is around the corner, but that we’re getting closer to modeling human intelligence only because humans turn out to be "simpler" (or dumber 😅) in these setups than we thought.

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 10d

Yeah, finally AI cracked the hallmark of human behavior: the noisy TV problem

Antonino Greco @agreco.bsky.social · 10d

Turns out humans are not better that simple RL agents guided by surprise/novelty-driven curiosity when facing noisy TV problems! 📺

AGI is closer than we think 😉

#NeuroAI #neuroskyence #compcogsci

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Antonino Greco @agreco.bsky.social · 10d

Turns out humans are not better that simple RL agents guided by surprise/novelty-driven curiosity when facing noisy TV problems! 📺

AGI is closer than we think 😉

#NeuroAI #neuroskyence #compcogsci

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Antonino Greco @agreco.bsky.social · 12d

Are we moving toward a future where journals lose much of their importance, and most research is shared through open archives instead?
If yes, how long might it take — 10, 20, or 30 years?

Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 14d

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Tübingen SNS 2025 @snstuebingen.bsky.social · 13d

✨ Meet our speakers! ✨

Among our speakers this year at #SNS2025 we have Floris de Lange (@predictivebrain.bsky.social)

Read the abstract here 💬 👇
meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...

#neuroskyence

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Francesco Poli @francescopoli.bsky.social · 13d

Why are we still sending our work to Wiley and other publishing companies so that they can profit from it? There's so many better options now, for example: psychopen.eu/journals/

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Tübingen SNS 2025 @snstuebingen.bsky.social · 13d

✨ Meet our speakers! ✨

Among our speakers this year at #SNS2025 we have Tim Kietzmann (@timkietzmann.bsky.social)

Read the abstract here 💬 👇
meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...

#neuroskyence #compneurosky #NeuroAI

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Kris Jensen @kristorpjensen.bsky.social · 14d

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Zach Rosenthal @zachrosenthal.bsky.social · 14d

Super proud of this collaboration with rockstar Ryan Raut - born out of playing in the sandbox in our last year of grad school! Multi-scale brain activity can be predicted from a simple measure of arousal like pupil diameter. Out with linear causality, in with dynamic systems to explain neurobiology

Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics - Nature

Reframing of arousal as a latent dynamical system can reconstruct multidimensional measurements of large-scale spatiotemporal brain dynamics on the timescale of seconds in mice.

www.nature.com

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Tübingen SNS 2025 @snstuebingen.bsky.social · 21d

📢 Deadline extended! 📢

The registration deadline for #SNS2025 has been extended to Sunday, September 28th!

Register here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/reg...

PS: Students of the GTC (Graduate Training Center for Neuroscience) in Tübingen can earn 1 CP for presenting a poster! 👀

a woman in front of a white board with the words take your time written on it

ALT: a woman in front of a white board with the words take your time written on it

media.tenor.com

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Dan Yamins @dyamins.bsky.social · 23d

Here is our best thinking about how to make world models. I would apologize for it being a massive 40-page behemoth, but it's worth reading. arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09737

arxiv.org

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Kempner Institute at Harvard University @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social · 23d

How can scientists apply efficient #AI tools to cognitive science? And what does it mean for how robots learn in new environments? #KempnerInstitute fellow Wilka Carvalho (@cogscikid.bsky.social l) + collaborators outline a new framework in 3 papers.
Read more: bit.ly/47Fk9F9
#NeuroAI

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Michael W. Cole @mwcole.bsky.social · 24d

Lab’s latest is out in Imaging Neuroscience, led by Kirsten Peterson: “Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding”, where we demonstrate a major improvement to standard fMRI functional connectivity (correlation) 1/n

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · 24d

Human intelligence is overrated and not a useful yardstick for AI - a polemic. markusmeister.com/2025/09/15/w...

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