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When did the taste of the scientific community changed from liking simple elegant experiments to preferring complicated and expensive experiments?

My research group is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to study the principles of coadaptation between human-human and human-adaptive agent pairs. Ad below. Please retweet!

Ev's body of work is singularly awe-inspiring. Congratulations Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 !!

I've noticed that journals hold theory papers to experiment-centric standards, stifling idea generation. Journal of Experimental Biology has launched an article type for theory+modeling that will address this. A sign of thoughtful leadership -- will other journals follow? journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

I recently graduated from MIT with a PhD focused on understanding and building computational models of sound synthesis and auditory perception advised by Prof. Josh McDermott. I would like to thank him for his constant support and scientific mentorship throughout this process.

Do current LLMs perform simple tasks (e.g., grade school math) reliably? We know they don't (is 9.9 larger than 9.11?), but why? Turns out that, for one reason, benchmarks are too noisy to pinpoint such lingering failures. w/ Josh Vendrow Eddie Vendrow Sara Beery 1/5

*Every single* cure for a disease ultimately flowed from basic exploratory research. Stopping basic research is like stopping the mountain rains and expecting rivers of cures to still flow. Examples: 1) studying saliva of Gila monster -> GLP1's 2) studying funghi -> first

🧠New paper at #ICLR2025! The functional role of the primate ventral stream is usually thought to be object recognition. But might the ventral stream be optimized for spatial tasks estimating object position and pose? The answer seems to be Yes. 1/N Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=emMMa…

Two posters from our lab on deep auditory models, presented today at ARO: T107 - “Modeling Normal and Impaired Hearing With Deep Neural Networks Optimized for Ecological Tasks” by Mark Saddler et al.

I am very excited to share our new publication in eLife - the journal with David Franklin, suggesting the Re-Dyn model for dynamics representation. elifesciences.org/articles/84349 #tweeprint👇

Meet Ajani Stewart, a graduate student in the lab of Josh McDermott studying how people hear and interpret sound. They use a speaker array (you can see it behind him - he helped build this!) to explore our brain's remarkable ability to localize and recognize sounds in the

A striking example of how the relationship between motor cortical discharge and EMG can depend on the task (even for CM cells). Might be interesting to test how the identification of output-potent / null subspaces with current methods generalizes across tasks. (Muir & Lemon, '83)

✨Keynote Speaker Announcement✨ We are thrilled to welcome Prof. Friedl De Groote (KU Leuven) as our keynote speaker at ISB2025! 📅Deadline for Early bird registration – April 10th isb2025.com/registration/

✨Keynote Speaker Announcement✨We are delighted to announce that Dr. Steven H. Collins (Stanford University, USA) will be a keynote speaker at ISB2025! #ISB2025 🗓️Deadline for Early bird registration – April 10th isb2025.com/registration/

Good news folks. Dynamic walking 2025 is confirmed for July 14th - 17th! To keep up-to-date with all our news and to get the submission details, please follow us: bsky.app/profile/dynami…. We hope to see you all soon!

I am thrilled to be hiring a post-doc for my lab at UC Irvine, for projects at the intersection of cognitive science and AI interpretability with a focus on conceptual, relational and moral cognition. Flexible start--summer or fall 2025. Details here: relcoglab.org/join

Podcast - Locomotor Transitions over Potential Energy Landscapes in Complex 3-D Terrain: li.me.jhu.edu/wp-content/upl… Learn more at: li.me.jhu.edu/podcast/

Nice paper, by Jeremy Wong. Energy and time trade-offs explain everyday human reaching movements: biorxiv.org/content/biorxi…

📢 I'm looking for a postdoc to join my lab at NYU! Come work with me on a principled, theory-driven approach to studying language, learning, and reasoning, in humans and AI agents. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/170656 And come chat with me at #CogSci2025 if interested!

Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD apps this year (for start in Fall '26)! Come for fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US. Please reach out w/ any questions!