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Looking to the brain to improve energy efficiency of AI when we started 3 years ago, i thought if we didn't pull it off in a couple of months, the topic would be soon out of fashion of coz, long distance collab -> we stalled ... but strangely, it isn't totally irrelevant yet. what does this mean?

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

New results from a study led by the brilliant @benjyb.bsky.social examining differences between numerical (e.g. zero) and perceptual absences using MEG - now revised in eLife elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

how about we impose a ban on people talking about consciousness, unless they have a Nobel prize? we will still have enough contrasting viewpoints (Penrose, Hinton, etc). the other people are just not famous enough for their arguments to look valid, are they?

"Evidence that the substrate of the brain matters for its function is evidence against computational functionalism" i see. so computational functionalism is obviously wrong then. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

for those in Beijing, i will talk about Conscious Perception & the Prefrontal Cortex there next Sunday (Oct 18) hub.baai.ac.cn/view/58276

The first rule of avoiding consciousness BS is: you do not talk about consciousness. (BS = Bogus Science) unfortunately i'm not very good at this.

i have decided to stop working on neurofeedback and to start a new line of research that is BCI

Good to see that our opinion piece on grand theories of consciousness is out. #consciousness #neuroskyence #philsci #philsky🧠 #neuroscience #brain 🧪

I had a feeling recently that seems to be corroborated by chats with colleagues, so I decided to share it here. A lot of systems neuroscientists driven by algorithmic-level questions are going through what looks and feels like a research depression. 🧵 (1/n) 🧠📈 #NeuroAI

do AIs have souls? i find that to be a 'better' question than asking if they are conscious. likewise, do insects have souls? how about an oyster? how about bacteria?

I also want to share an update from our topographic ANN work led by Haider Al Tahan (not on bsky!). What does adding topography actually do to a model’s internal representations? Does it make is more brain like? Let me tell you about TopoAudio! #neuroskyence #neuroscience #brain #neuroai

I am recruiting graduate students for UCI's PhD in Cognitive Sciences - www.cogsci.uci.edu/graduate/pro... The lab's focus is on how relational structure and combinatorial reasoning is implemented in human brains and large language models--and if they are similar.

they're my favorite of the AI cults. yhey didn't sign up to make productivity software, they signed up to make the machine god!!

What is this ‘attention economy’? Is there really a market where people buy and sell human attention? If so, what’s wrong with that? New paper by Katharine Browne and me that argues: yes, there is an attention market and yes, there is something wrong with it. 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Mix. selectivity is everywhere in cortex: from vis. to PFC This paper relates to Cover's theorem but the typical explainer kind of sucks I'll try to explain how the theory relates to the paper, and the importance of "weird" neurons A🧵with my toy model and notes: #neuroskyence #compneuro #NeuroAI

In this episode of #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast, Mihai Petrovici talks with @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social about neuromorphic computing and how it can speed up and reduce energy consumption in artificial intelligence and brain simulations. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

do you know anyone who makes AI generated movies in Korean (i.e. having some familiarity with the Korean audience)? like a pro / freelancer?

Get ready! *MindBrainBody Symposium* 2027 Keynotes are confirmed 🥳 @hakwan.bsky.social (online) @maramather.bsky.social @camillanord.bsky.social Hyeongdong Park Asya Rolls 📆 March 17-19, 2027 📍Berlin & online 📬 Submit by Dec 10, 2026 (!) 🔗 mindbrainbody.de (official announcement soon)

we started out just wanting to point out that, despite its popularity, comparing hits vs misses in detection tasks is actually not a very good way to study subjective experience / consciousness. but we ended up expanding it to make it relevant for clinical stuff too led by @tomnakamura.bsky.social

UArk is hiring for Tenure Track Professors! Assistant Professor-Clinical Psychology: uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UAF_Ex... Assistant Professor-Social Psychology: uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UAF_Ex... Assistant Professor-Cognitive Psychology: uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UAF_Ex...

Happy to see @genetang.bsky.social's review article on Charles Bonnet Syndrom now available as early-online in Brain! #VisionScience #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky doi.org/10.1093/brai...

Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition — a Review by Stephen M. Fleming #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

UCSD Cognitive Science Department is hiring an Assistant Professor incorporating novel computational approaches in the study of biological and/or artificial intelligence. I have had the privilege of working in this department for 10 years and the intellectual environment really is unique. 1/3

This is our summary of where we think the field of Aphantasia research stands. Congenital aphantasia: what we (think we) know, what we thought we knew but were mistaken about, and what we don't know. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper "DecNefSimulator: A Modular, Interpretable Framework for Decoded Neurofeedback Simulation Using Generative Models" @hakwan.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @neuroaure.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

i am beginning to feel that my research has recovered from the pandemic, a bit...

Making models disagree to learn how brains compute — a Review by Tal Golan, Heiko H. Schütt & Nikolaus Kriegeskorte @talgolanneuro.bsky.social @heikoschuett.bsky.social @kriegeskorte.bsky.social #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please talk to me or @arnig.bsky.social at #ecvp2026 if you know of an interested potential Ph.D. student -- or are that interested student ;) #ECVP #visionscience #neuroskyence #psychscisky #psychology #imagery #visualimagery #phd #cogsci

The Wild Theory That Alzheimer’s Is a Plumbing Issue: We should be skeptical of a new surgery treating Alzheimer’s dementia as if the brain’s sewage system is backed up. www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/... #Alzheimers #dementia #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence

🎉 New paper (and data) on editorial & peer review at Science and Science Advances, two elite general science journals. With a wonderful team! @samzhang.bsky.social, @nicklaberge.bsky.social, Quinten and @aaronclauset.bsky.social. 1/ www.science.org/doi/full/10....

We keep asking LLMs whether they're conscious. I got more interested in WHO and WHEN taught them how to answer. I traced such self-report through 66 training checkpoints, 3 post-training stages, ~90k continuations. Paper: philarchive.org/archive/EKRWPT #philosophy #llm #ai #science #consci #cogsci

osf.io/preprints/ps... Centaur (Nature paper from last year) May Have Learned a Shortcut that Explains Away Psychological Tasks apparently, the said shortcut is mainly just the history of responses over trials

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36863319/ from 2023. so reasonable & measured. & yet, hasn't made so much impact; i only saw this just now i guess that's ever the dilemma in pushing back against overselling/misinformation: do we fight fire w/ fire, or do we compose polite footnotes like gentlemen should?

Excited to share our new preprint introducing Precision Confidence Mapping (PCM), a framework for estimating how confident we should be in individualized functional network assignments from resting-state fMRI. Why does this matter for precision neuromodulation? 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint just dropped! With the unstoppable @norabradford.bsky.social at the helm and support from Tomàs Ortega and Brian Maniscalco: osf.io/preprints/ps...