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Ali Shiravand @alishiravand.bsky.social · 7d

Congrats Charley! 🎇

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Ali Shiravand @alishiravand.bsky.social · 8d

These 99 'lab hacks' will make your scientific work easier

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

These 99 'lab hacks' will make your scientific work easier

Nature asked contributors, editors and working researchers to share their best advice for scientists.

www.nature.com

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Ali Shiravand @alishiravand.bsky.social · 9d

Great initiative:
The Max Planck AI Network PhD Program
ai.mpg.de

Home

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Stefano Palminteri @stepalminteri.bsky.social · 22d

Check out @bcdavidson.bsky.social's preprint (w/ @georgiaturner.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @livia-tomova.bsky.social and co.) about the (computational) consequences of social isolation in social media use during covid!

Brandon C Davidson @bcdavidson.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 New Preprint 🚨

Prolonged Isolation is associated with an increased behavioural sensitivity to ‘Likes’ on social media.

🧵

Social media rewards are inherently social—but does posting change during social isolation, when in-person social rewards are limited?

It turns out, yes!

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Stefano Palminteri @stepalminteri.bsky.social · Sep 3

New paper our in @pnas.org, lead by @isabellehoxha.bsky.social with Léo Sperber. We use evolutionary simulation to assess and compare the adaptive value of positivity bias and gradual perseveration in reinforcement learning. Follow the thread below (and Isabelle!) for more details!

Isabelle Hoxha @isabellehoxha.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ever wondered why you keep going to that restaurant with stale fries? Is it because you went often in the past (perseveration) or because you remember past good experiences better (positivity bias)? Our study out in PNAS investigates the normative basis for these biases www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Evolving choice hysteresis in reinforcement learning: Comparing the adaptive value of positivity bias and gradual perseveration | PNAS

The tendency to repeat past choices more often than expected from the history of outcomes has been repeatedly empirically observed in reinforcement...

www.pnas.org

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Isabelle Hoxha @isabellehoxha.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ever wondered why you keep going to that restaurant with stale fries? Is it because you went often in the past (perseveration) or because you remember past good experiences better (positivity bias)? Our study out in PNAS investigates the normative basis for these biases www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Evolving choice hysteresis in reinforcement learning: Comparing the adaptive value of positivity bias and gradual perseveration | PNAS

The tendency to repeat past choices more often than expected from the history of outcomes has been repeatedly empirically observed in reinforcement...

www.pnas.org

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Ali Shiravand @alishiravand.bsky.social · Aug 12

I'm feeling very glad & grateful these days to be part of neuroeconomics summer school in Fontainebleau! 👾

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Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · Aug 9

Hi, we will have three NeuroAI postdoc openings (3 years each, fully funded) to work with Sebastian Musslick (@musslick.bsky.social), Pascal Nieters and myself on task-switching, replay, and visual information routing.

Reach out if you are interested in any of the above, I'll be at CCN next week!

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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · Aug 9

Excited about #CCN2025 and sharing our research in @cmc-lab.bsky.social!

CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social · Aug 9

We are heading to #CCN2025 in Amsterdam with 3 awesome posters! Thread below 👇

B71, Wed, 1pm-4pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=8...
B90, Wed, 1pm-4pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=o...
C169, Fri, 2pm-5pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=l...

Poster Presentation

2025.ccneuro.org

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Ali Shiravand @alishiravand.bsky.social · Aug 1

\ generalizable truths about the real world. He cautions against treating elegant models as universally predictive, emphasizing that their insights are often context-dependent and lack external validity. He treats models as stylized narratives, not truth machines.

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Ali Shiravand @alishiravand.bsky.social · Aug 1

I've recently come across Ariel Rubinstein's argument that models are stories, mathematical ones, but stories nonetheless. Economic models should be viewed like fairytales: they illustrate specific ideas within narrowly defined settings but shouldn’t be assumed to offer \

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Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Jul 10

Using a gamified punishment task, this study identifies specific learning and decision-making deficits that drive robust, consequential differences in choice within an international population sample across a 6-month interval.
@philjrdb.bsky.social @gavan.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Causal inference and cognitive-behavioral integration deficits drive stable variation in human punishment sensitivity - Communications Psychology

Using a gamified punishment task, this study identifies specific learning and decision-making deficits that drive robust, consequential differences in choice within an international, general populatio...

www.nature.com

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Ali Shiravand @alishiravand.bsky.social · Jul 8

I recently took part in an amazing experience at the “Solve for Healthcare & Life Sciences with Gemma” hackathon, organized by Google Paris!
Our team worked on triage in emergency rooms, improving communication, prioritization and decision-making in critical circumstances.

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Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social · Jun 27

🚨 New preprint 🚨

Experimental Evidence for the Propagation and Preservation of Machine Discoveries in Human Populations

arxiv.org/abs/2506.17741

with team members @levinbrinkmann.bsky.social @thomasfmueller.bsky.social Ann-Marie Nussberger, @maximederex.bsky.social, Sara Bonati, Valerii Chirkov

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Matteo Lisi @mlisi.bsky.social · Jun 19

Registration is open for the Summer School on Computational Decision Sciences, 8–12 Sept

Join us in London for a week of cutting-edge research on decision-making, AI, cognitive science and more!

(free, register by 11Aug)

center-decision-sciences.com/cds-summer-s...
#PsychSciSky 🧠 #neuroskyence🧪

CDS Summer School

Program Registration Schedule Directions 8th – 12th September, 2025 The Center for Decision Sciences will be hosting a summer school during the second week of September, 2025 and taking place…

center-decision-sciences.com

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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · Jun 18

New poster for the local pre- #cogsci2025 workshop I am organizing at @unituebingen.bsky.social with generous support from @ml4science.bsky.social Please share widely! Accepted Cogsci papers are not required to present a talk/poster! Also feel free to just come and checkout some cool research!

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · Jun 18

Distinguishing performance gains from learning when using generative AI

Comment by Lixiang Yan, Samuel Greiff, Jason M. Lodge & Dragan Gašević

go.nature.com/3FJqTq3

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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · Jun 11

🚀Join our team @tuda.bsky.social ! 🚀
I'm looking for 3 PhDs & 1 Postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu project “C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture” to study learning across individuals, teams, and cultural timescales
👉 PhD: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html
👉 Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....

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Ali Shiravand @alishiravand.bsky.social · Jun 11

Thanks Marius!

Ali Shiravand @alishiravand.bsky.social · Jun 9

Thanks to my wonderful collaborators and supervisors on these projects —
@stepalminteri.bsky.social @valentinwyart.bsky.social @georgiaturner.bsky.social, Ilaria, Martino, Vasilisa and Charles.

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Ali Shiravand @alishiravand.bsky.social · Jun 9

I'll be presenting two posters at #RLDM2025 in Dublin🇮🇪 – June 11, Poster Session 1:

🌀 Poster #19: How selective attention benefits and hinders learning in complex environments.

🏞️ Poster #18: NorMARL - a framework for sustaining shared resources through norm internalization.

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Ali Shiravand @alishiravand.bsky.social · Apr 27

Paris Magnolias
at the Jardin du Palais Royal ⛅

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Ali Shiravand @alishiravand.bsky.social · Apr 24

🌍 Excited to share that our paper has been accepted for an oral presentation at the International Conference on Complex Systems (FRCCS) 2025 in Bordeaux!

We demonstrate how norm internalization and learning rate influence sustainability, via a cognitively grounded multi-agent RL framework.

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Romane Cecchi @romanececchi.bsky.social · Apr 22

🧵 New preprint out!
📄 "Elucidating attentional mechanisms underlying value normalization in human reinforcement learning"
👁️ We show that visual attention during learning causally shapes how values are encoded
w/ @sgluth.bsky.social & @stepalminteri.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Stefano Palminteri @stepalminteri.bsky.social · Apr 14

🚨Preprint update!🚨
with @thecharleywu.bsky.social
Are Large Language Models (LLMs) conscious? 🧠💻
Most say: only if they replicate the brain's computations.
But we propose a shift: consciousness should be inferred from their behavior.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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