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Jess Thompson

@tsonj.bsky.social

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Postdoc in @summerfieldlab.bsky.social at Oxford studying learning in humans and machines Interested in collective intelligence, metascience, philosophy of science @oxforducu.bsky.social member You can find me on Mastodon at neuromatch.social/@jess

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Jess Thompson @tsonj.bsky.social · Aug 9

New preprint by William D'Alessandro and myself:

The promise and peril of AI surrogacy in psychological research

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divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 13d

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · Sep 5

I had an illuminating interaction with a colleague who said that they try to find time to do a few paper reviews per year. It made me realize that different researchers have widely varying expectations about reviewing, probably because there are no public norms.

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Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · Aug 26

In other news, I am now a ✨ COXI ✨ (cognitive scientist in Osnabrück, Germany)

www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li...

I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀

New at the university: Prof. Weber!

Osnabrück University welcomes Prof. Dr. Lilian Weber! Since August 15, she has held the professorship "Cognitive Modeling" at the School of Human Sciences. A warm welcome!

www.uni-osnabrueck.de

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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...

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 15

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

Expression of Interest in Serving as a PsyArXiv Moderator

As you might have heard, PsyArXiv is having some issues with an increase in low-quality submissions, ranging from AI generated manuscripts to inflate citation metrics, incoherent or nonsensical docume...

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Jess Thompson @tsonj.bsky.social · Aug 15

For no reason, I thought now might be a good moment to reshare my 2021 article arguing that the #CCN and #NeuroAI communities can avoid reinventing the wheel by building on existing philosophy of science about scientific progress and explanation.

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Forms of explanation and understanding for neuroscience and artificial intelligence | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological Society

Much of the controversy evoked by the use of deep neural networks as models of biological neural systems amount to debates over what constitutes scientific progress in neuroscience. To discuss what co...

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Jess Thompson @tsonj.bsky.social · Aug 15

Check out this great summary of our satellite event on science for social good by @georgiaturner.bsky.social! ♥️

I also wrote up a transcript of my opening remarks thompsonj.github.io/CCN_for_soci...

We are the gardeners of our scientific ecosystem. What will we grow?

Jess Thompson @tsonj.bsky.social · Aug 15

Blown away by Ellie Pavlick's talk at #CCN2025 about compositionality in transformers. More work like this at CCN please.

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Anne Urai 🟥 @anne-urai.bsky.social · Aug 14

@davidpoeppel.bsky.social points out the elephant in the conference: whichever direction of the planet we look, things are bad.

Einstein, chomsky and arendt point out to us that silence is not neutral

👏 #CCN2025

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Jess Thompson @tsonj.bsky.social · Aug 14

Inspiring quotes about the state of the world and our role in it as scientists at the beginning of David Poeppel's keynote at #CCN2025

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Jorge Mejias @jorgefmejias.bsky.social · Aug 8

If you are planning to attend #CCN2025 in Amsterdam next week and are interested in recurrent network models of decision making, please join our Satellite Workshop on Monday at 3pm. We'll have @summerfieldlab.bsky.social , @veronicachelu.bsky.social and many more! sites.google.com/view/rnnsmak...

RNNs making decisions

The goal of this CCN workshop is to host a scientific discussion on the study of decision-making using recurrent neural networks. The selected speakers will cover all aspects of decision-making, from ...

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Jess Thompson @tsonj.bsky.social · Aug 10

Waiting for the train to Amsterdam for #CCN2025. Looking forward to catching up with old friends and making new connections. Hit me up if you want to chat about (modeling) collective intelligence, philosophy of science, communication, care, reward models, or the epistemic risks of scientific AI.

Jess Thompson @tsonj.bsky.social · Aug 9

"If we want a psychological science that continues to serve our deepest interests, we must be wary of the temptation to trade the difficult quest for humanistic understanding for an expedient facsimile which merely looks close enough, on average."

Jess Thompson @tsonj.bsky.social · Aug 9

New preprint by William D'Alessandro and myself:

The promise and peril of AI surrogacy in psychological research

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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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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Denis Lan @denislan.bsky.social · Aug 7

My first PhD paper - with @lhuntneuro.bsky.social and @summerfieldlab.bsky.social - is now out in @plosbiology.org! We ask: how do humans (and deep neural networks) navigate flexibly even in unfamiliar environments, such as a new city? Link: plos.io/45uSwNm 🧵 (1/6)

Cartoon image of me looking at a map, with a stadium behind me and a hotel and ferris wheel across the river in the background. I am thinking about going to the ferris wheel

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Marco K Wittmann @mkwittmann.bsky.social · Aug 7

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢

🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method.

Please RT

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Warren Pearce @warrenpearce.bsky.social · Jul 4

After two really enjoyable days at #Metascience2025, I wrote about how one 🌶️ moment encapsulated the controversy over metascience's issues 📑, inclusivity 🤗and future public value 🔮 #STS #AcademicSky

All feedback welcome on here, or by email 😀

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What *is* metascience? Issues, inclusion and future public value - Warren's blog: Publics, politics, science and technology

This week, the biennial Metascience Conference came to London’s “Knowledge Quarter” with around 800 participants from a wide range of roles, including researchers, librarians, research funders, publis...

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · Jun 30

In this Animation, the psychologist Alison Gopnik makes a case that caring for the vulnerable puts us in touch with our deepest humanity @alisongopnik.bsky.social buff.ly/ikQ2g1E

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Ryuichi Maruyama @rmaruy.bsky.social · Jul 4

Inspired (partly) by ‪@jontreadway.bsky.social 's tweet thread, I have come up with a highly subjective and tentative map of different strands in metascience.
It is intended as a starter to begin talking about what people (want to) include in metascience.
#metascience2025

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Jess Thompson @tsonj.bsky.social · Jul 4

Organized by @anne-urai.bsky.social, Ila Ma and myself with keynote talk from @weijima.bsky.social

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Jess Thompson @tsonj.bsky.social · Jul 4

Are you worried about climate change, declining trust in science, misinformation, and the effects of AI?

Computational cognitive neuroscientists have much to contribute. Let's chart our paths to impact together.

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Jess Thompson @tsonj.bsky.social · Jul 4

Are you planning to attend #CCN2025? Do you want to reflect on how to direct your skills and aptitudes to tackle today's most pressing social problems? Make sure you come to Amsterdam a day early to attend our satellite event on Science for Social Good. Register here: forms.gle/TFRCZYX2qfwD...

CCN for social good - satellite registration

See https://anneurai.net/2025/05/05/ccn-for-social-good-2025-satellite-event/ for more information

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Jess Thompson @tsonj.bsky.social · Jul 1

Shocked by how quickly the chair @profgeraintrees.bsky.social was to completely dismiss/refuse a question about labour issues and lack of public accountability for commercially developed AI at a panel on AI in science at #metascience2025. Let the panelists decide how they want to respond.

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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · Jun 30

Sir Peter Gluckman - "No policymaker cares whether your paper got published in Nature" 👏 #Metascience2025

Peter Gluckman presents to the Metascience 2025 conference at UCL

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