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Franziska Brändle @frabraendle.bsky.social · 6d

What influences whether people have fun with a task?

Our paper “Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations and success influence enjoyment in video games” with @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social now in Scientific Reports!

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Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations, and success influence enjoyment in video games

Scientific Reports - Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations, and success influence enjoyment in video games

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Ulrike Luxburg @ulrikeluxburg.bsky.social · 21d

I am hiring PhD students and/or Postdocs, to work on the theory of explainable machine learning. Please apply through Ellis or IMPRS, deadlines end october/mid november. In particular: Women, where are you? Our community needs you!!!

imprs.is.mpg.de/application
ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

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Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · Jul 18

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

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Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social · Jul 11

🤖 AI that thinks like us

Researchers at @www.helmholtz-munich.de have developed Centaur, an artificial intelligence model that can simulate human decision-making with remarkable accuracy.

@bethgelab.bsky.social @modirshanechi.bsky.social

Read the whole story 👉 bit.ly/4kCi280

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · Jul 10

Yes and yes.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · Jul 5

An AI model (Llama 3.1 70B) fine-tuned on the results of 60,000 people in psychology experiments shows some real promise in using LLMs for studying and predicting human behavior.

It predicts actual human behavior in held-out data & it generalizes to out-of-distribution tasks and experiments.

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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · Jul 2

What an exciting day for cognitive science with a double feature @nature.com including tiny models (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and less tiny ones (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thanks, Tobi.

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · Jul 2

What a day. Our foundation model of cognitive science is out in Nature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@marcelbinz.bsky.social's thread:
bsky.app/profile/marc...

Centaur is featured by the NYT:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/s...

We got featured in a Nature views:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · Jun 2

Check out our new work on testing the limits of finetuning in improving vlms intuitive physics abilities.

lucaschubu.bsky.social @lucaschubu.bsky.social · Jun 2

Excited to say our paper got accepted to ICML! We added new findings including this: models fine-tuned on a visual counterfactual reasoning task do not generalize to the underlying factual physical reasoning task, even with test images matched to the fine-tuning data set.

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · Jun 1

Check out our new preprint in which we propose to use LLMs to generate new cognitive models that minimize scientific regret. This could be a viable approach to query foundation models to advance science more generally.

Marcel Binz @marcelbinz.bsky.social · Jun 1

New short-form preprint in which we use Centaur to identify gaps in interpretable cognitive models and revise them accordingly using Qwen3 -- fully automated and without a human-in-the-loop.

arxiv.org/abs/2505.17661

Automated scientific minimization of regret

We introduce automated scientific minimization of regret (ASMR) -- a framework for automated computational cognitive science. Building on the principles of scientific regret minimization, ASMR leverag...

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Milena Rmus @milenamr7.bsky.social · May 26

Preprint update, co-led with @akjagadish.bsky.social, with @marvinmathony.bsky.social, Tobias Ludwig and @ericschulz.bsky.social!

Generating Computational Cognitive Models using Large Language Models

Computational cognitive models, which formalize theories of cognition, enable researchers to quantify cognitive processes and arbitrate between competing theories by fitting models to behavioral data....

arxiv.org

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · May 23

What a sad day for academia all over the world. I was a postdoc at Harvard on a J1 visa. One of my students was going to start his postdoc there in a week. I can only imagine how awful the current situation and uncertainties around it must feel.

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Helmholtz Munich @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social · May 20

🔬 Foundation Models at #HelmholtzMunich drive advances in diagnostics, personalized medicine & cancer research.

👉 Read the full Highlight Story: t1p.de/d209f
✨ Discover more on our Foundation Models page: t1p.de/sx49u

#FoundationModels #AI

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Mirko Thalmann @mirkothm.bsky.social · May 19

Our review with @ericschulz.bsky.social about generalization in humans and machines is out now in Current Directions in Psychological Science: doi.org/10.1177/0963...
Check it out!

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · May 9

One week left to apply, so please do... 😀

Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · Apr 11

🚨 We're hiring! If you're excited about 🤖 ML/LLMs, 🧠 cognitive science, or 💭 computational psychiatry, come join us in Munich. Two fully funded PhDs @www.helmholtz-munich.de: tailored mentorship, international vibe, lots of room to grow.
📅 May 16th
🔗 hcai-munich.com/PhDHCAI.pdf

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · May 8

Our paper "Playing repeated games with large language models" just got published in Nature Human Behaviour! We explore how LLMs cooperate, coordinate, and adapt in social dilemmas. Check it out! Work led by @elifakata.bsky.social

Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · May 8

What happens when Large Language models play repeated economic games? This new study from @elifakata.bsky.social et al investigates across a range of models and games.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Playing repeated games with large language models - Nature Human Behaviour

Large language models perform well in self-interested games such as the iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma but struggle in games that require coordination. Social reasoning strategies can improve cooperative...

www.nature.com

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Marianna Zhang @mariannazhang.bsky.social · Apr 26

yesterday, my postdoc funding (salary and research funds) was cancelled by the National Science Foundation, effective immediately. I received the same generic, vaguely threatening, typo-ridden email as many of my colleagues who have had their awards terminated recently. (1/n)

email starting, "The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has undertaken a review of its award portfolio. Each award was carefully and individually reviewed, and the agency has determined that termination of certain awards is necessary because they are not in alignment with current NSF priorites."

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Helmholtz Munich @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social · Apr 24

#AIinScience: Ethical & Practical Challenges

🎤Interview with Dr. Marcel Binz, #HelmholtzMunich, on how Large Language Models are transforming scientific methods & the need of reshaping the scientific mindset:

👉 t1p.de/p82vj

@marcelbinz.bsky.social @ericschulz.bsky.social ‬@zeynepakata.bsky.social

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Helmholtz Munich @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social · Apr 24

At #ICLR2025, #HelmholtzMunich researchers are sharing advancements in #MachineLearning.

👉 t1p.de/8jfgn

@fabiantheis.bsky.social @carstenmarr.bsky.social @stes.io @zeynepakata.bsky.social @ericschulz.bsky.social @vincefort.bsky.social @iclr-conf.bsky.social

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Franziska Brändle @frabraendle.bsky.social · Apr 17

I had so much fun being a guest on the @behindthescreens.bsky.social podcast!
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If you're curious about how we use games in research (and you understand German), check out their latest episode!

Behind the Screens @behindthescreens.bsky.social · Apr 17

Was ist #Spaß? Wie kann man ihn mit Tools wie Super Mario Maker untersuchen und was kann man daraus fürs #GameDesign ableiten?

Mit Kognitionswissenschaftlerin Dr. @frabraendle.bsky.social diskutieren wir darüber in unserer neuen Folge – viel Spaß beim Hören!

behind-the-screens.de/2025/04/17/w...

Was ist Spaß? – Podcast E109 - Behind the Screens

Was ist Spaß, wie erforscht man ihn mithilfe von Games und was kann man aus den Erkenntnissen fürs Game Design ableiten?

behind-the-screens.de

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · Apr 11

🚨 We're hiring! If you're excited about 🤖 ML/LLMs, 🧠 cognitive science, or 💭 computational psychiatry, come join us in Munich. Two fully funded PhDs @www.helmholtz-munich.de: tailored mentorship, international vibe, lots of room to grow.
📅 May 16th
🔗 hcai-munich.com/PhDHCAI.pdf

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Lukas Thede @lukasthede.bsky.social · Apr 8

🧠 Keeping LLMs factually up to date is a common motivation for knowledge editing.

But what would it actually take to support this in practice at the scale and speed the real world demands?

We explore this question and really push the limits of lifelong knowledge editing in the wild.
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Marvin Mathony @marvinmathony.bsky.social · Mar 23

very happy to be presenting this at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social

Milena Rmus @milenamr7.bsky.social · Feb 26

About a month late posting this, but here's a new project with @ericschulz.bsky.social, @akjagadish.bsky.social, @marvinmathony.bsky.social and Tobias Ludwig

We are using LLMs to propose cognitive models in learning and decision making data. Presenting this work at RLDM!

arxiv.org/abs/2502.00879

Towards Automation of Cognitive Modeling using Large Language Models

Computational cognitive models, which formalize theories of cognition, enable researchers to quantify cognitive processes and arbitrate between competing theories by fitting models to behavioral data....

arxiv.org

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · Mar 21

Very grateful to be part of this.

UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · Mar 21

We're delighted to announce that Prof. Tali Sharot @uclpals.bsky.social has been awarded £3.5m as part of @wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award scheme to investigate the 'joy of thinking’.

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Professor Tali Sharot awarded £3.5m to better understand the ‘joy of thinking’

Professor Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences has been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Discovery Award.

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