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Dominik Straub @dominikstrb.bsky.social · 5d

When will decisions be released to the reviewers? As a reviewer, I would be curious to see what happened to my batch of papers.

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 9d

Q: Why did the LLM cross the road?

A: We're not sure, but it achieved 94.7% on CHIKENBench-Large

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 24d

The vision of human-out-of-the-loop science fundamentally mistakes what knowledge production is. It aims at the production of, wait for it, knowledge: a thing that definitionally involves an epistemic agent or agents, unless you are theistic about it.

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Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 28d

Cognition rears its ugly head during a meeting of psychophysicists

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Dominik Straub @dominikstrb.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's a bit of a prisoner's dilemma situation.

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · Sep 4

Something exciting just left the gym -- meet Arnold the first generalist musculoskeletal control policy!

The human body has 600+ muscles, yet we seamlessly coordinate them for everything from whispering a syllable to felling a forrest. How? www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.18066

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Clare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · Sep 4

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Sep 4

Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI

Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI

www.irishtimes.com

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Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · Aug 26

In other news, I am now a ✨ COXI ✨ (cognitive scientist in Osnabrück, Germany)

www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li...

I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀

New at the university: Prof. Weber!

Osnabrück University welcomes Prof. Dr. Lilian Weber! Since August 15, she has held the professorship "Cognitive Modeling" at the School of Human Sciences. A warm welcome!

www.uni-osnabrueck.de

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Ben Beilharz @ben.graphics · Aug 28

G'day #ECVP!
Today, three more colleagues present their posters.

38: @celinehonekamp.bsky.social will introduce you to dual adaptation in the temporal domain.

48: Tarek will present a relative depth experiment conducted on the multifocal display he built.

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Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social · Aug 25

I won't get to join you all at #ecvp2025 @ecvp.bsky.social this year because I'm on holiday in Australia... but my lab is there in force! Please do go say hi, and check out my students' and postdocs' amazing work!

@ben.graphics @lschmittwilken.bsky.social @lreining.bsky.social

An image showing the presentation times and places of the members of the Perception Lab at TU Darmstadt.

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Celine Honekamp @celinehonekamp.bsky.social · Aug 25

#ECVP2025 be ready: my poster on repeated exposure to delay in two different tasks is up on Thursday 15:30-17:00 (No 38)

Come and say hi

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Tobias Niehues @tobnie.bsky.social · Aug 25

I'd be glad to see a lot of people at our poster on Tuesday, August 26th, 10-11.30am at #ECVP2025 and tell you more about which cost functions shape your behavior in sensorimotor decision-making!

Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · Aug 25

Looking forward to meeting you #ECVP2025 Mainz this week, including collaborative work with @tobnie.bsky.social @dominikstrb.bsky.social @ookenfooken.bsky.social @fatatai.bsky.social @tsawallis.bsky.social @mamassian.bsky.social @guidomaiello.bsky.social @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and many others

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · Aug 25

Looking forward to meeting you #ECVP2025 Mainz this week, including collaborative work with @tobnie.bsky.social @dominikstrb.bsky.social @ookenfooken.bsky.social @fatatai.bsky.social @tsawallis.bsky.social @mamassian.bsky.social @guidomaiello.bsky.social @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and many others

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · Aug 24

my friend/colleague Frank Jäkel wrote a book on AI. I sadly don't know German but I happily know Frank, and I've heard him talking about this for a while now, and just on that basis I'd recommend the German speakers in the audience check it out

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AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · Aug 17

post 1 disappointed Weizenbaum for every thinkpiece u read like this

Black and white photo of Joseph Weizenbaum at chalk board with chalk on hand looking into camera with a flat expression

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Tobias Niehues @tobnie.bsky.social · Aug 13

I'm presenting our work "Revisiting Cost Functions in Sensorimotor Decision-Making" at #CCN2025!

Stop by our poster (@dominikstrb.bsky.social‬, @c-rothkopf.bsky.social‬) and learn more about how to rethink common modeling assumptions.

📅 When: Friday, August 15, 2pm–5pm
📍 Where: De Brug, Poster C1

Upper left sketch shows the problem description the paper tackles, which is the decision-making problem that the subject needs to solve versus the inverse problem about the behavioral parameters that the researcher wants to infer. Bottom left sketch shows probabilistic graphical model of the behavior as formalized in our framework. Right panel shows the results of the paper. From top to bottom it shows example data, results of the model comparison, inferred cost functions and inferred prior beliefs of the subject. Five tasks are organized in columns by which cost function described subjects' behavior in the respective task best. We found three different cost functions, None of which are quadratic.

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Vlad Chituc @vladchituc.bsky.social · Aug 9

I have never understood the insane hostility that LLM fanboys have towards academics who disagree with them (see also: Gary Marcus). (Also how does “we fed an AI every available unit of human language and it’s pretty good” refute “10k words a day isn’t enough for babies to learn as well as they do”)

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · Aug 8

i am very sorry you wasted your entire career on a promising but ultimately false theory, but, sorry, poverty of the stimulus is as wrong as phlogiston, and even though we absolutely should not have released it when we did, you just can't deny that it replicates competent language production.

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Perception / i-Perception @pec-ipe.bsky.social · Jul 24

⬅️➡️ "Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control" by van Dam et al

Delay adaptation occurs for stylus (graphics tablet) and arrow buttons (keyboard) but doesn't transfer between response styles

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control - Loes CJ van Dam, Svenja Kernig, Karina Lazarova, Melisa Ünal, Nicole Gappa, Benjamin Straube, Thomas S...

When interacting with technology, humans often deal with delays between an action and the desired action outcome. Through delay adaptation these delays will bec...

journals.sagepub.com

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Dominik Straub @dominikstrb.bsky.social · Jul 16

After her party halted the election of Brosius-Gersdorf as a constitutional judge using fake news, the federal minister of science (and space!) expects candidates to have "a little resilience" and "being able to take criticism". Is this how to protect academic freedom?

www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Wahl der Verfassungsrichter: Brosius-Gersdorf berichtet von Drohungen nach gescheiterter Wahl

Aufgrund von Drohungen hat Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf ihre Mitarbeiter gebeten, nicht am Lehrstuhl zu arbeiten. Einen Verzicht auf ihre Kandidatur schließt sie nicht aus.

www.zeit.de

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Carsten v. Wissel @cvwissel.bsky.social · Jul 16

Eigentlich sollte eine Wissenschaftsministerin Stimme der Wissenschaft im politischen System sein.
Bär will hingegen was anderes sein und fordert von Wissenschaftlerinnen "Kritikfähigkeit" ein, wenn sie diffamiert werden.

www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Wahl der Verfassungsrichter: Brosius-Gersdorf berichtet von Drohungen nach gescheiterter Wahl

Aufgrund von Drohungen hat Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf ihre Mitarbeiter gebeten, nicht am Lehrstuhl zu arbeiten. Einen Verzicht auf ihre Kandidatur schließt sie nicht aus.

www.zeit.de

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · Jul 12

So much alignment talk ignores the more traditional and pressing question about who should own the means of production in the first place since that ultimately determines who gets to make these decisions

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Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social · Jun 27

@meredithmeredith.bsky.social is such a fantastic public face of the countermovement to tech company overreach and creeping fascism.

Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · Jun 26

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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Dominik Straub @dominikstrb.bsky.social · Jun 23

github.com/jluttine/tik...

GitHub - jluttine/tikz-bayesnet: TikZ library for drawing Bayesian networks, graphical models and (directed) factor graphs in LaTeX.

TikZ library for drawing Bayesian networks, graphical models and (directed) factor graphs in LaTeX. - jluttine/tikz-bayesnet

github.com

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Antonia Wüst @toniwuest.bsky.social · May 2

Excited to share that our paper got accepted at #ICML2025!! 🎉

We challenge Vision-Language Models like OpenAI’s o1 with Bongard problems, classic visual reasoning challenges and uncover surprising shortcomings.

Check out the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.19546
& read more below 👇

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Guido Maiello @guidomaiello.bsky.social · May 15

I’m excited to announce that I’m recruiting for a fully-funded 3.5-year PhD position in my lab in Southampton (UK). For details and to apply, see here: www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Next Generation Ophthalmic Testing: “Continuous Psychophysics” for Rapid and User-Friendly Assessment of Visual, Movement, and Cognitive Disorders

Discover more about our research project: Next Generation Ophthalmic Testing: “Continuous Psychophysics” for Rapid and User-Friendly Assessment of Visual, Movement, and Cognitive Disorders at the U...

www.southampton.ac.uk

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