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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 5d

A little late to the party, but huge congrats, Mona! 🥳

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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · Sep 4

Fantastic news! Congratulations, Mariya 🥳

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Apurva Ratan Murty @apurvaratan.bsky.social · Aug 11

Find me at the poster session tomorrow! I’ll be standing in for Saskia who unfortunately couldn’t make it. Will presenting joint work with @kathadobs.bsky.social on MEG decoding during object permanence #CCN2025

Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · Aug 11

Tuesday (1:30–4:30 pm)
- Elah (A60): holistic face processing in humans & DNNs
- @levandyck.bsky.social (A64): face–body integration in DNNs & brains
- Sule (A63): top-down effects on neural face representations
- Saskia & @apurvaratan.bsky.social: neural decoding during object permanence

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Lenny van Dyck @levandyck.bsky.social · Aug 11

Really looking forward to #CCN2025!

On Tuesday, I'm presenting new work with @kathadobs.bsky.social on segregated vs. integrated face & body processing in visual cortex 😊🧍🧠

Using DNNs & fMRI, we test competing hypotheses, finding both distinct & shared selectivity.

Come by Poster A64 for more.

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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · Aug 11

Find them at their posters and chat about these or any other #NeuroAI topics. They’re all excited to hear your feedback! 🧠🤖

Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · Aug 11

Wednesday (1:00–4:00 pm)
• Anastasia (B50): selectivity metrics in DNNs

Friday (2:00–5:00 pm)
• Zhengqing "John” (C149): resilience of functional specialization in DNNs

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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · Aug 11

Tuesday (1:30–4:30 pm)
- Elah (A60): holistic face processing in humans & DNNs
- @levandyck.bsky.social (A64): face–body integration in DNNs & brains
- Sule (A63): top-down effects on neural face representations
- Saskia & @apurvaratan.bsky.social: neural decoding during object permanence

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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · Aug 11

So sad (and definitely feeling the FOMO) that I can’t attend #CCN2025 this year 😢, but very proud that our lab will present 6 projects! 🥳 Here's a quick rundown:

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Anne Urai 🟥 @anne-urai.bsky.social · Aug 8

In this world on fire, with misinformation, science and democracy under threat, how can scientists be a force for social good?

This Monday in Amsterdam, join @weijima.bsky.social @tsonj.bsky.social Ili Ma + me for an interactive workshop as part of #CCN2025

anneurai.net/2025/05/05/c...

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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · Jun 26

Congrats, Lu! 🥳

Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · Jun 18

Ever wondered whether it's categorical specialization or distributed representation in the human visual cortex?
Check out how the brilliant @levandyck.bsky.social tackles this long-standing question in his first PhD project. Spoiler alert: no need to choose anymore! 🤝🔄🧠

Lenny van Dyck @levandyck.bsky.social · Jun 18

How is high-level visual cortex organized?

In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence

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www.biorxiv.org

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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · Jun 5

Thanks for the shout-out! 😊 I loved this result too, especially since we didn’t expect such strong differences. That the object-only trained network didn’t show this at all was quite striking!

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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · May 28

Sounds like a fantastic PhD opportunity at the intersection of visual neuroscience, AI and developmental psychology! 🧠👁️🤖👶
'lees meer' here 👇

Steven Scholte @neurosteven.bsky.social · May 28

There are 2 PhD positions in my lab in Amsterdam (collaboration with Sander Bohte, @tessamdekker.bsky.social and Ingmar Visser) on NeuroAI of developmental vision.

academicpositions.nl/ad/centrum-w...

2 PHD-STUDENTS IN NEUROAI OF DEVELOPMENTAL VISION (M/F/X) - Academic Positions

Join an interdisciplinary team to research developmental vision in NeuroAI. Requires a strong computational background, deep learning skills, and a Master's ...

academicpositions.nl

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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · May 26

Looks like a super cool summer school and a great way to enhance your coding skills! 👩‍💻🐍😎

Anna-Lena Eckert @eckertal.bsky.social · May 26

Are you a scientist who codes? 🐍

Fearing that your public repo might implode the moment someone looks at it?

Then ASPP 2025 this is *the* summer school for you!

Hands-on tutorials on collaborative code dev, code orga & sharing, testing, debugging, computer architecture..

aspp.school

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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · May 22

So excited that our excellence cluster 'The Adaptive Mind' got funded! 🥳 Looking forward to lots of great science and projects! #TheAdaptiveMind #ExcellenceInitiative 👁️🧠🤖

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU) @jlugiessen.bsky.social · May 22

Herausragender Erfolg in der #Exzellenzstrategie: Gleich drei #Exzellenzcluster für die #JLUGiessen – #Herz-#Lungen-, #Batterie- und #Wahrnehmungsforschung konnten im Wettbewerb überzeugen @cpi-exstra.bsky.social @heroldlab.bsky.social @dfg.de @wissrat.bsky.social www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

Hauptgebäude der Universität Gießen im Konfettiregen

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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · May 22

Congrats, Ko! 🥳 And so well deserved!

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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · May 7

Thank you so much, Haemy! There are no right or wrong words, just hearing from you means a lot. 💛 I really appreciate the support. I'm also trying to raise awareness of how much we owe to science, a message that seems to be forgotten by some these days. 🧠✨

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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · May 7

Good morning, Bsky'ers! Some people have asked for a life update, here it is: I finished my last chemotherapy yesterday! 🥳 It’s been a long ride, but I’m feeling happy, relieved, and incredibly grateful. I sort of always knew, but now more than ever: #cancersucks #sciencematters #sciencesaveslives

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · Apr 16

Courage is contagious! ✊

Harvard’s defiance of Trump's ‘authoritarian incursion' supported by 60 past and present college and university presidents

Harvard president Alan Garber refused demands made by the Trump admin, which said it will freeze more than $2 billion in grants in response.

fortune.com

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Mashbayar Tugsbayar @tmshbr.bsky.social · Apr 15

Top-down feedback is ubiquitous in the brain and computationally distinct, but rarely modeled in deep neural networks. What happens when a DNN has biologically-inspired top-down feedback? 🧠📈

Our new paper explores this: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Top-down feedback matters: Functional impact of brainlike connectivity motifs on audiovisual integration

elifesciences.org

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Steven Scholte @neurosteven.bsky.social · Apr 14

I am so happy—this is the first 1st author paper I have written, since the cancer diagnosis of my late wife seven years ago.
📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · Apr 6

This post made my day! 🥲

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Apr 5

INCREDIBLE TURNOUT with hundreds of thousands of people attending #HandsOff rallies around the US to protest illegal cuts and government corruption ✊

#nyc #newyork #boston #ma #chicago #il #stpaul #minneapolis #mn #saltlakecity #ut #washington #dc

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Mar 23

I'm organizing a "Data for Good Rapid Response Team", i.e. a set of people who can be mobilized to work on short data science projects to help various groups and organizations. Sign up here if this is of interest to you, and please share with others with data science skills.

Data-for-good rapid response team

I'm collecting people with data science skills who may want to hear about sporadic opportunities to use their skills for good on short projects. Project themes will center on topics I am connected wit...

docs.google.com

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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · Mar 14

📢 We have a new #NeuroAI postdoctoral position in the lab!

If you have a strong background in #NeuroAI or computational neuroscience, I’d love to hear from you.

(Repost please)

🧠📈🤖

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Paula Kuokkanen @paulakuokkanen.bsky.social · Mar 13

Jetzt sind wir schon über 6700, aber Luft nach oben ist ja noch ☀️. Unterschriften werden bis 10:00 heute gesammelt.

Stefan Holzheu @holzheustefan.bsky.social · Mar 12

Liebe Pressevertreter,
nachdem unser Appell innerhalb weniger Tage über 5000 Unterschriften gesammelt hat, machen wir morgen Donnerstag 13.03. um 11.00 Uhr eine virtuelle Pressekonferenz.

Wenn Sie daran teilnehmen wollen melden Sie sich gerne bei uns.

www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o...

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