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Johannes Fahrenfort @fahrenfort.bsky.social · 20d

Not much you can do in Europe, but if you happen to have a Disney+ subscription: now is the time to cancel it (ABC that pulled Jimmy Kimmel owns the Walt Disney company). Trump's words, after Kimmel and Stephen Colbert were pulled: "That leaves Jimmy [Fallon] and Seth [Meyers]". Free speech no more.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 20d

Nation Grateful To GOP For Protecting It From TV

WASHINGTON—Thanking the government for defending the public from the terrifying screen in their homes, the American people confirmed Thursday that they were grateful to Republicans for protecting them...

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Gabriel Weindel @gweindel.bsky.social · 23d

Will you be at #ICON2025 in Porto?
Then drop at our symposium on "Decision Signal(s) In The Electro-encephalogram" (SY23, Thursday at 13.45) with @redmondoconnell.bsky.social @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social @hcp4715.bsky.social organized by Leendert van Maanen and Jelmer Borst

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Michael D. Nunez @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social · Aug 18

Also with @claires012345.bsky.social, @doramatzke.bsky.social, Sonia Acuna Vargas, and @thatmariia.bsky.social

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Michael D. Nunez @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social · Aug 18

In this preprint, @chris-pinier.bsky.social shows that open-source LLMs can perform abstract reasoning tasks, that LLMs have representations of pattern type in intermediate layers, and that LLM activations correspond to Fixation Related Potentials from participants' EEG.

arxiv.org/abs/2508.10057

Large Language Models Show Signs of Alignment with Human Neurocognition During Abstract Reasoning

This study investigates whether large language models (LLMs) mirror human neurocognition during abstract reasoning. We compared the performance and neural representations of human participants with th...

arxiv.org

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Michael D. Nunez @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social · Jul 31

No worries! Thanks for making the method better!

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Jie Sun @jie-sun.bsky.social · Jul 25

🧠 New preprint alert!

In this study, using a joint modelling method with the Diffusion Decision Model, we offer a mechanistic reinterpretation of the Late Positive event-related potential Component (LPC) as a neural signature of mnemonic strength during evidence accumulation in recognition memory.

bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · Jul 24

A Parietal Memory Strength Signal Linked to Evidence Accumulation in Recognition Decisions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.20.665783v1

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Ellie@TheConciseQuill @ellieb65.bsky.social · Jul 12

I don't agree with everything in this article, but I do agree with this:
"The act of writing the thing is the same thing as the thinking of it. If you can’t write it, you haven’t actually thought it." And AI allows us to 'not' think.
engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-war...

#academicsky #ai #teaching

A warning to the young: just say no to AI

The substitution of Large Language Models for genuine thinking is a generational threat. At stake is no less than the life of the mind.

engelsbergideas.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jul 10

The NIH has terminated hundreds of diversity grants awarded to young researchers, many of whom come from the very places that supported Trump. “People on the right, they don’t realize they’re limiting the opportunity of their own kids by supporting this.” nyti.ms/4lMDXtN

A grid of portraits of four scientists. A headline reads: "The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump's DEI Cuts"

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Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social · Jul 3

Totally agree: What we stand to lose when foreign students are seen as a threat (although I am biased, because I was one of those...) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What we stand to lose when foreign students are seen as a threat

International students enrich university communities and strengthen civic life. We must defend their place in global education.

www.nature.com

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Gabriel Weindel @gweindel.bsky.social · Jul 2

Good time to announce that there will be a symposium on "Decision Signal(s) In The Electro-encephalogram" at #ICON

Chaired by Leendert van Maanen and Jelmer Borst. With @redmondoconnell.bsky.social, @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social, @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social, @hcp4715.bsky.social and myself as speakers

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Andrew Perfors @andyperfors.bsky.social · Jun 14

Save the date! The 2026 *gasp* Australasian MathPsych conference will be in Singapore -- looks to be a great one :)
@ozmathpsych.bsky.social

Save the date: Australiasian Mathematical Psychology Conference. 23-25 Feburary 2026. Singapore. "Applying mathematical and quantitative psychology to real-world complex problems"

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · Jun 11

Donald Trump commandeered 2,000 of our state’s National Guard members to deploy on our streets.

Illegally, and for no reason.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jun 5

The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.

US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war

Facing an extreme budget, the National Academies hosted an event that ignored it.

arstechnica.com

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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · May 28

When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The history and future of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging - Nature

This Review provides an overview of the history of resting-state functional MRI research, which has helped to reveal the spatiotemporal organization of the brain, and discusses how it can contribute f...

www.nature.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · May 27

The Republican administration has halted all student (and postdoc etc) VISA interviews.

I've written a lot about soft power here. The attacks on foreign students in the US not only undercuts the funding stream for US universities; they hemorrhage US soft power.

Trump team pauses new student visa interviews as it weighs expanding social media vetting

It’s the latest salvo against universities, many of whom rely heavily on foreign students for funds.

www.politico.com

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · May 26

“Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears”

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

Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears

Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.

www.nature.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · May 24

Like I said a few times before, it was NEVER about campus protests or anti-semitism. It was always about seizing control of higher education through govt blackmail and coercion.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 22

🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation.

This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · May 22

The Republican administration is also ordering all current international students (and postdocs, I believe) at Harvard to transfer or leave the country.

www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05...

WASHINGTON – Today, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered DHS to terminate the Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification.

This means Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status.

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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · May 19

Just a few months until Cognitive Computational Neuroscience comes to Amsterdam! Check out our now-complete schedule for #CCN2025, with descriptions of each of the Generative Adversarial Collaborations (GACs), Keynotes-and-Tutorials (K&Ts), Community Events, Keynote Speakers, and social activities!

CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · May 19

A detailed schedule for CCN2025 is available on our website now, including the specific keynotes / GACs / community events taking place:
2025.ccneuro.org/schedule-of-...

The early bird registration deadline is coming up this Friday (23rd May)!