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Mariya Toneva @mtoneva.bsky.social · Sep 4

So excited and honored to receive an ERC Starting Grant for the project BrainAlign!! BrainAlign will bring LLMs closer to human understanding by directly aligning them with the human brain.

Stay tuned for our findings, and multiple postdoc and PhD openings in the coming years!

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Erin Grant @eringrant.me · Aug 19

I’m recruiting committee members for the Technical Program Committee at #CCN2026.

Please apply if you want to help make submission, review & selection of contributed work (Extended Abstracts & Proceedings) more useful for everyone! 🌐

Helps to have: programming/communications/editorial experience.

Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Aug 15

Fill out the form here to be involved in #CCN2026
tinyurl.com/ccn26committee

And definitely fill out the #CCN2025 feedback form!
tinyurl.com/ccn25partici...

CCN 2025 Participant Survey

❗ This is the general CCN post-conference survey. For the application form for positions on the committees at CCN 2026, please see the CCN 2026 Committee Application. Thank you for participating in C...

tinyurl.com

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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · Aug 18

Nice write-up on the top-performing models of Algonauts 2025 competition by @humanscotti.bsky.social

paulscotti.substack.com/p/insights-f...

None of the teams trained the models from scratch, mainly relied on pre-trained foundation models, and ensembling seemed to be the key ingredient.

🧠🤖

Insights from the Algonauts 2025 Winners

What did we learn from a contest to predict fMRI brain activity to movie viewing?

paulscotti.substack.com

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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · Aug 15

Somewhat exhausted but very happily and proudly looking back at #CCN2025 & ready to pass the torch to NEW Amsterdam for #CCN2026 🥳Please fill out the survey 👇 to give input to the organizing team led by @neurograce.bsky.social and @toddgureckis.bsky.social @NYU!

Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Aug 15

The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!

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Dota Tianai Dong @dotadotadota.bsky.social · Aug 14

Join us now for a collaborative hackathon 🤗

Lukas Muttenthaler @lukasmut.bsky.social · Aug 14

Join us for the Re-Align^{3} community event & hackathon at #CCN2025 in room A2.11! There will be lots of 🌶️ discussions on 🧠🤖

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Erin Grant @eringrant.me · Aug 13

Our #CCN2025 GAC debate w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, Gemma Roig (www.cvai.cs.uni-frankfurt.de), Jacqueline Gottlieb (gottlieblab.com), Klaus Oberauer, @mschrimpf.bsky.social &‬ @brittawestner.bsky.social asks:

📊 What benchmarks are useful for cognitive science? 💭
2025.ccneuro.org/gac

Speakers and organizers of the GAC debate. Time and location of the GAC debate: 5 PM in Room C1.03.

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Dota Tianai Dong @dotadotadota.bsky.social · Jun 6

Congrats 🥳🥰

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Greta Tuckute @gretatuckute.bsky.social · May 23

What are the organizing dimensions of language processing?

We show that voxel responses during comprehension are organized along 2 main axes: processing difficulty & meaning abstractness—revealing an interpretable, topographic representational basis for language processing shared across individuals

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micha heilbron @mheilbron.bsky.social · May 23

New preprint, w/ @predictivebrain.bsky.social !

we've found that visual cortex, even when just viewing natural scenes, predicts *higher-level* visual features

The aligns with developments in ML, but challenges some assumptions about early sensory cortex

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

Higher-level spatial prediction in natural vision across mouse visual cortex

Theories of predictive processing propose that sensory systems constantly predict incoming signals, based on spatial and temporal context. However, evidence for prediction in sensory cortex largely co...

www.biorxiv.org

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Dota Tianai Dong @dotadotadota.bsky.social · May 9

This year, we're organizing travel and caregiver awards to help make CCN 2025 more accessible for those who might otherwise find it difficult to attend. If this kind of support would make a difference for you—or someone you know—we’d love for you to apply or pass the word along 🙌

CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · May 9

Joining us for CCN2025 in Amsterdam? Early registration discount is still available until the 23rd May!
2025.ccneuro.org/meeting-regi...

Need financial support? We got travel awards & caregiver grants available:
2025.ccneuro.org/travel-awards/
2025.ccneuro.org/caregiver-aw...

Meeting Registration

2025.ccneuro.org

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Limor Raviv 🐘🤗🦒🍄🦄 @limorraviv.bsky.social · Apr 30

Interested in the evolution of human language and in understanding the pressures that shape languages today? Come do a PhD with me! Fully funded PhD position available in my group @mpi-nl.bsky.social, application deadline June 2nd:
www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Fully funded 4-year PhD position in Language Evolution | Max Planck InstituteMax Planck Institute for psycholinguistics

www.mpi.nl

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Dota Tianai Dong @dotadotadota.bsky.social · Apr 28

That’s a wrap for Re²-Align 🤖 🧠👤 at #ICLR2025 🦁🥳— thanks for being part of it! We’re probably just getting started… see you all at Re³-Align🌷😉

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Siddharth Suresh @siddsuresh97.bsky.social · Apr 28

✨ Come join us at the Second edition of the Re-Align workshop
@iclr_conf
! 🚀🧠 The workshop explores the fascinating question of how artificial and biological systems align in their representations of the world. #ReAlign #ICLR2025

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Dota Tianai Dong @dotadotadota.bsky.social · Apr 11

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Lukas Muttenthaler @lukasmut.bsky.social · Apr 11

Here’s an extended version of my PhD defense talk about our work on *representational alignment between humans 🧠 and machines 🤖 for computer vision* that I gave two weeks ago at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs-coconut/...

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Lukas Muttenthaler (Google DeepMind, TU Berlin)

www.cbs.mpg.de

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Dota Tianai Dong @dotadotadota.bsky.social · Apr 6

What an incredible Doktorhut haha! Huge congratulations to our Dr. Lukas 🎓— excited to see what your next chapter holds! So happy for you 😍🤩🥳

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Mariya Toneva @mtoneva.bsky.social · Feb 28

One week left to apply!

We'll have so much exciting data for projects: for example, neuropixel data from humans while they listen to sentences courtesy of @shaileejain.bsky.social, Eddie Chang, and his group.

Mariya Toneva @mtoneva.bsky.social · Feb 3

Really excited for this 3 week NeuroAI summer school in Lisbon!

We have course faculty from a range of neuro domains (language, vision, decision making, memory), and neuro levels (low level to cognitive). There will also be a project advised by our exciting lineup of course faculty!

Come join us!

CAJAL Training @cajal-training.bsky.social · Feb 3

🚀 Applications are OPEN for the CAJAL NeuroAI course!

Learn how AI & deep learning help us model brain activity & behavior. Work with experts, get hands-on training & join a global network!

📅 Apply by March 7
🔗 loom.ly/xg_uRKE

#NeuroAI #DeepLearning #Neuroscience

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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · Feb 20

Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.

forms.gle

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Stefano Sarao Mannelli @stefsm.bsky.social · Feb 5

Happy to announce that the Analytical Connectionism summer school is back!

This year we'll dive into "bias" across ML, Neuroscience, and Psychology.

📆 Aug 25-Sep 5
🗺️ London, UK
🌐 www.analytical-connectionism.net/school/2025/

Applications are open!

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Dota Tianai Dong @dotadotadota.bsky.social · Feb 4

Final Call for Submissions! ⏳ Don't miss your chance to present at the Re-Align Workshop @iclr-conf.bsky.social ! We welcome submissions from ICML, CogSci, and beyond.

Erin Grant @eringrant.me · Feb 3

Deadline extended till Feb. 5th!

Erin Grant @eringrant.me · Jan 16

Our representational alignment workshop returns to #ICLR2025! Submit your work on how ML/cogsci/neuro systems represent the world & what shapes these representations 💭🧠🤖

w/ @thisismyhat.bsky.social @dotadotadota.bsky.social, @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social @siddsuresh97.bsky.social

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Erin Grant @eringrant.me · Jan 21

Last year, we funded 250 authors and other contributors to attend #ICLR2024 in Vienna as part of this program. If you or your organization want to directly support contributors this year, please get in touch! Hope to see you in Singapore at #ICLR2025!

ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · Jan 21

Financial Assistance applications are now open! If you face financial barriers to attending ICLR 2025, we encourage you to apply. The program offers prepay and reimbursement options. Applications are due March 2nd with decisions announced March 9th. iclr.cc/Conferences/...

ICLR 2024 Financial Assistance

iclr.cc

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Brian Cheung @thisismyhat.bsky.social · Jan 16

Learn about aligning minds and machines.

Call for papers is live now—join us at
@iclr_conf
#ICLR2025.

representational-alignment.github.io/2025/

https://representational-alignment.github.io/2025/

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Dota Tianai Dong @dotadotadota.bsky.social · Jan 16

🚨Call for Papers🚨
The Re-Align Workshop is coming back to #ICLR2025

Our CfP is up! Come share your representational alignment work at our interdisciplinary workshop at
@iclr-conf.bsky.social

Deadline is 11:59 pm AOE on Feb 3rd

representational-alignment.github.io

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Michael Hanna @michaelwhanna.bsky.social · Dec 19

Sentences are partially understood before they're fully read. How do LMs incrementally interpret their inputs?

In a new paper, @amuuueller.bsky.social and I use mech interp tools to study how LMs process structurally ambiguous sentences. We show LMs rely on both syntactic & spurious features! 1/10

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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · Dec 20

For #CCN2025 in Amsterdam, we will, for the first time, have conference proceedings that include both full length peer-reviewed papers and the traditional 2-page track!

Deadlines for submissions: 17th February for full papers ( abstract only; full paper on 20th FEB) & 10th April for 2 pagers.

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Mariya Toneva @mtoneva.bsky.social · Dec 20

🚨 Open postdoc position on effective human-AI collaboration, joint with the groups of @svenapel.bsky.social and Adish Singla 🚨

Join our exciting collaboration involving ML, cogsci, and software engineering! More info here: mtoneva.com/Postdoc_ad_2...

Apply by Jan 31, 2025.

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