maria ruz

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.

We are hiring a postdoc and a predoc to do research (EEG, fMRI, MVPA, RSA) on expectation and attention at the wpd.ugr.es/~humneuro/ in beautiful Granada @cimcyc.bsky.social ! People with interest + relevant experience please reach us at mruz@ugr.es #NeuroJobs #AcademicJobs #CogNeuro #GranadaSpain

Great news! Some of us have been waiting a long time for major funders to not just shovel $ into the maws of the big publishers, and instead support the long tail of scholar-controlled journals that are run on a shoestring

How does the brain continually adapt? Fresh in @natureportfolio.nature.com our super exciting collaboration with @mark-j-wagner.bsky.social showing that the cerebellum contextualises cortical dynamics enable multi-task learning: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Confused about all this talk of compositionality in neuroscience? Read our new perspective www.nature.com/articles/s41... with authors Reidar Riveland and Alex Pouget.

Come and join our replication initiative in visual neuroscience! Low bar for entry, ideal for anyone from a Master’s student looking for a thesis to faculty who want to get back to the bench. 🤓 re-vision-initiative.org

📢 PhD opening in comp. cog. neuro. in Toulouse: thalamo-frontal model of cognitive control. Modelling/EEG experience is welcome but not required. Application deadline: 8 Sept. 2026 Details: sdrive.cnrs.fr/s/eDrkeXfjdW... #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #EEG #neuroskyence #compneurosky

🚨 new lab preprint! Research from @gordonfeld.bsky.social during his DFG personal fellowship to my lab many moons ago: Global structure of new relational knowledge networks is represented in retrosplenial complex, and node-distance in hippocampus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The hippocampus sits at the interface of perception & memory, allowing us to link past, present, & future through its role in generating predictions. Excited to share this theme issue in @royalsociety.org's Philosophical Transactions B, co-edited with @barense.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.social

I have always believed that ideas from basic systems neuroscience could eventually help people. But for years that felt more like hope than reality. But look! This is one of the most personally satisfying papers my lab has produced because we’re getting there. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪🧵 1/

The global neuronal workspace (GNW) is currently the best documented neuroscience mechanism by which conscious processing arises in the human brain — and now Anthropic researchers have discovered a similar workspace inside their large language model ! www.anthropic.com/research/glo...

Dimensionality reduction is how the brain acquires knowledge. Cool new paper from the late, great, Mark Stokes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

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Can neural representations from different people be translated into a shared space without paired data? In our preprint, "Platonic Representations in the Human Brain: Unsupervised Recovery of Universal Geometry", with Rishi Jha and @fuentemilla.bsky.social, we test this using fMRI 🧵👇

Very pleased to share a new policy brief by CAISA: Governing AI-generated content: Labelling for transparency when AI is the norm. This was a genuine privilege to be part of the team of 9 leading European scholars caisa.dk/forskning/t... 🧵 1/10

Though not without their flaws, Universities they have *already* done more to drive economic development and innovation than pretty much any other human institution, and that's in addition to creating informed citizens and otherwise enriching the human experience. The evidence for this is...

Spend your July doing research in Granada! The CIMCYC is calling for talented undergraduate students (non-UGR) to join our Summer Research Stays 2026. 📍 9 Placements available 💶 €1,600 scholarship 🔬 8 specialized Research Groups (see next post!) 🏡 Housing support included Apply by May 11

i know several people who consistently argue that the issue of misinformation is overblown. But this paper reveals the devastating harm to society in terms of health, mortality and economic costs linked to widespread misinformation:

I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics. It turns out I was wrong. Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

***4-year Career Development Research Fellowship in Psychology now available at Oxford!*** Open to all areas of Psychology, including Cognitive/Behavioural Neuroscience. PhD in last three years, or be about to submit (some exceptions apply). Deadline: 21st May. www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...

🚨Anuncio importante: ¿Quieres investigar sobre la desinformación? En @cimcyc.bsky.social estamos montando un curso de verano para estudiantes de doctorado/postdocs y no es porque lo diga yo, pero pinta estupendo. 😬 📍 Granada 🗓️ 15-18 Septiembre 2026 ℹ️ Información: sites.google.com/view/misinfo...

📢 We are thrilled to announce the CIMCYC International Doctoral Summer School: "Psychological Approaches to Misinformation in Minds and Society," taking place in Granada from September 15–18, 2026. 💡Full program and applications: sites.google.com/view/misinfo...

#BIDS has been extended to #EyeTracking data! There is now a standard for organizing and sharing eye tracking, covering gaze position, pupil size, meta data, messages, and more. Great news for #OpenScience! 🎉 Martin Szinte et al: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

You have 10 minutes of task fMRI to map functional brain regions in an individual. Three decisions matter: How do you localize regions? Which tasks do you include? How do you arrange tasks in your experiment? Here, we tackle all three! Preprint👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Are you a female or gender-diverse #psychology student interested in learning #coding? 🤔 ✨ Join the workshop "SheCodesPsy 2026 Reprogramming stereotypes!" 📅 13–15 May | 💰 Free 📍CIMCYC - UGR 📝 Application deadline: 16 March

Europe’s future is built on knowledge. For 30 years, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) has supported over 150,000 researchers, including 23 Nobel Prize winners. This programme is built on curiosity, openness and excellence. Happy birthday MSCA!

Neural replay is connected to latent cause inference and supports fast generalization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.12.693963v1

@cimcyc.bsky.social is hiring! SIX postdoc positions are coming up to dive into collaborative projects bridging together psychological science. Amazing opportunity to boost a postdoc career in a cutting-edge research center with outstanding human teams! 👇🏽 cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...

Interdisciplinary collaboration is essential for addressing complex scientific challenges, resulting in novel approaches, innovative methodologies and a more holistic understanding of complex phenomena. 🔹To encourage this, the CIMCYC has launched six novel multidisciplinary collaborative projects.

**How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited for cognition?** That goes to the top of the list! #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1038/s415...

High-level visual surprise is rapidly integrated during perceptual inference! 🚨 New paper 🚨 out now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Summary 🧵 below 👇

@dotproduct.bsky.social's first first author paper is finally out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! Her findings show that content-specific predictions fluctuate with alpha frequencies, suggesting a more specific role for alpha oscillations than we may have thought. With @jhaarsma.bsky.social. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖

new paper in TICS officially out today. great learning from and writing with Anastasia, and super cool cover art from Prof. Pinar Yoldas. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

I see this same pattern in psychology—there is a huge desire among early career scholars to do applied work This is very important, but including basic science perspectives still improves the research quality

"Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration" royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... (i) Academia should resume control of publishing using non-profit publishing models (e.g. diamond open-access). 1/

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

How well do classifiers trained on visual activity actually transfer to non-visual reactivation? #Decoding studies often rely on training in one (visual) condition and applying it to another (e.g. rest-reactivation). However: How well does this work? Show us what makes it work and win up to 1000$!

Understanding the flexibility of working memory: Compositionality, generative processing, anchors and holistic representations www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroscience

"This integration supports the conclusion that time may be the fundamental dimension along which the brain organizes its sensorium..." Fantastic review by Pawan Sinha and colleagues (@lukasvogelsang.bsky.social @marinv.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1146/annu...

The CIMCYC is recruiting a #postdoctoral researcher with experience in the field of the psychology of disinformation! Job description, responsibilities, and desired experience and training at the link 👇 cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...

Neural Subspaces Encode Sequential Working Memory, but Neural Sequences Do Not https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.05.674385v1

🚀Excited to share our project: Canonical Representational Mapping for Cognitive Neuroscience. @schottdorflab.bsky.social and I propose a novel multivariate method to isolate neural representations aligned with specific cognitive hypotheses 🧵https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.673485v1

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date. We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400. Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

The best piece I’ve read this year on Trump’s increasingly blatant lurch towards total power. To quote Sinclair Lewis, if you think “it can’t happen here” you are just not paying attention. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...