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Rosanne Rademaker

@rademaker.bsky.social

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Max Planck group leader at ESI Frankfurt | human cognition, fMRI, MEG, computation | sciences with the coolest (phd) students et al. | she/her | looking for postdocs for 2026

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · Jul 2

Who doesn't like a good model of the brain? Yet, from simple regression to neural nets, some limitations keep popping up (e.g., overfitting) @mjwolff.bsky.social & I saw some cool but puzzling data, ran a quick analysis & found one such limitation: model mimicry. Now in #naturecommunications &🧵below

Model mimicry limits conclusions about neural tuning and can mistakenly imply unlikely priors

Nature Communications - Model mimicry limits conclusions about neural tuning and can mistakenly imply unlikely priors

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 6d

Check out this new Max Planck graduate school, for talented students interested in applying ML/AI tools to one of a wide variety of scientific fields. Deadline this October 31st!

Home

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 9d

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

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Matthieu Chidharom @matthieu-mx.bsky.social · 10d

1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 13d

Incredible study by Raut et al.: by tracking a single measure (pupil size), you can model slow, large-scale dynamics in neuronal calcium, metabolism, and brain blood oxygen through a shared latent space! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 13d

A method for capturing neuronal activity using fMRI excited the neuroimaging field but couldn’t be replicated. Today, the authors of the original paper retracted their work.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...

Authors retract Science paper on controversial fMRI method

Several MRI artifacts contribute to the neuronal activity signal picked up by the method, according to a preprint the authors posted this month.

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 13d

It was so nice to have you, very cool work!

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Tiffany Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social · 16d

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Assistant Professor

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 21d

Open Call for Expressions of Interest: become a Max Planck Director & redefine what’s possible in science! We offer scientific independence, long-term stable funding & exceptional infrastructure. Lead your own department & open new frontiers of research. Apply by 31 Oct 2025 → www.mpg.de/directors

Directors

The Max Planck Society offers Directors a unique platform for groundbreaking research and leadership in diverse scientific fields.

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Maria Wimber @marwimber.bsky.social · 28d

Traveling on from beautiful Switzerland to beautiful Edinburgh for #BACN25. Hope to see many of you tomorrow morning, for our symposium on neural re-use of resources for external & internal processing! With @rademaker.bsky.social @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social @larsmuckli.bsky.social & Ed Silson

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 29d

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI).

Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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TeaP 2026 @teap2026.bsky.social · 29d

📢 SAVE THE DATE for #TeaP2026 in Tübingen 😍 Symposium submissions open on October 1! 🎉 For details, check out our website: coms.app/teap26/ 👍🏼

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Yuko Munakata @yukomunakata.bsky.social · Sep 8

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Mehrdad Kashefi @mkashefi.bsky.social · Sep 6

Excited to share my latest work with @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social & @andpru.bsky.social!
We asked: How does the motor cortex account for arm posture when generating movement?
Paper 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Compositional neural dynamics during reaching

The complex mechanics of the arm make the neural control of reaching inherently posture dependent. Because previous reaching studies confound reach direction with final posture, it remains unknown how...

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Brokoslaw Laschowski @drlaschowski.bsky.social · Sep 5

Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience.

#neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · Sep 4

I’ve done a lecture on this twice at my institute, happy to share the slides!

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · Sep 1

does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈

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Karolis Degutis @karolisdegutis.bsky.social · Aug 30

Happy to see this out: our new preprint shows that laminar GE-BOLD fMRI decoding isn’t immune to vascular draining biases. Simulations reveal false positives due to multivariate signal spread across layers, but oversampling + deconvolution can (sometimes) improve specificity.

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Aug 30

Vascular draining confounds laminar decoding in fMRI https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672278v1

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · Aug 27

Last day of #ECVP tomorrow (Thursday). And at 8.30 I’ll be introducing what promises to be a coherent and lively symposium on how visual representations are held in mind. In the Audimax, with Maria Servetnik, @tbchristophel.bsky.social, Clay Curtis, and @bradpostle.bsky.social

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · Aug 25

How we move our eyes is subject to certain temporal and spatial regularities. These statistics may be different for me that they are for you. Are people sensitive to their own unique eye movement patterns? Tomorrow at #ECVP @amit-rawal.bsky.social will talk about this at 11.30 in lecture hall P1!

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · Aug 24

Hi all #ECVP goers! Want to know how sub-threshold feedback signals might be implemented in early visual cortex? Want to know how “stochastic resonance” might relate to this question? Tomorrow at 14.30 Noa Krause will explain it all during her talk in the Left Aula, come join!

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · Aug 23

And while you’re at #ECVP checking out all the cool talks by these students, and if you think you’d like to work on related topics as a postdoc starting around summer 2026, come find me for a chat!

Thomas Christophel (He/Him) @tbchristophel.bsky.social · Aug 23

And while you are doing all that you can find Rosanne's and my students allover ECVP doing all the cool stuff ...

Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · Aug 22

And while you’re at #ECVP seeking out @bradpostle.bsky.social, you may as well stay for the rest of the symposium with the amazing @tbchristophel.bsky.social, Maria Servetnik, and Clay Curtis (and me).

Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · Aug 22

Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · Aug 22

Attending #ECVP next week? Please seek me out if you're potentially interested in a postdoc:
Thursday – 08-28-2025 - 08:30 am
Out of sight, but not out of mind: How the human brain represents images that are not directly seen
Chair, Rosanne Rademaker

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Andrey Chetverikov @achetverikov.bsky.social · Aug 20

this is actually very cool!

tal boger @talboger.bsky.social · Aug 19

This challenge may seem insurmountable. But maybe it isn’t! To overcome it, we used a new technique from Geng et al. called “visual anagrams”, which allows you to generate images whose interpretations vary as a function of orientation.

depiction of the "visual anagrams" model by Geng et al.

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Alexander Huth @alexanderhuth.bsky.social · Aug 18

New paper with @rjantonello.bsky.social @csinva.bsky.social, Suna Guo, Gavin Mischler, Jianfeng Gao, & Nima Mesgarani: We use LLMs to generate VERY interpretable embeddings where each dimension corresponds to a scientific theory, & then use these embeddings to predict fMRI and ECoG. It WORKS!

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Aug 13

Evaluating scientific theories as predictive models in language neuroscience https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.12.669958v1

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RJ Antonello @rjantonello.bsky.social · Aug 18

In our new paper, we explore how we can build encoding models that are both powerful and understandable. Our model uses an LLM to answer 35 questions about a sentence's content. The answers linearly contribute to our prediction of how the brain will respond to that sentence. 1/6

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