Ivan Tomic
@ivntmc.bsky.social
Computational cognition. Vision. Working memory.
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Here’s a thought that might make you tilt your head in curiosity: With every movement of your eyes, head, or body, the visual input to your eyes shifts! Nevertheless, it doesn't feel like the world does suddenly tilts sideways whenever you tilt your head. How can this be? TWEEPRINT ALERT! 🚨🧵 1/n
a husky puppy is laying on the floor with its tongue out and wearing a blue collar .
ALT: a husky puppy is laying on the floor with its tongue out and wearing a blue collar .
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January 21, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Here’s a thought that might make you tilt your head in curiosity: With every movement of your eyes, head, or body, the visual input to your eyes shifts! Nevertheless, it doesn't feel like the world does suddenly tilts sideways whenever you tilt your head. How can this be? TWEEPRINT ALERT! 🚨🧵 1/n
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We're running a 5th edition of the always-exciting UCL Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition this year, 8th-10th July 2026 in London. Accommodation and travel expenses are covered.
For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...
For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...
Summer School - About — the MetaLab
metacoglab.org
January 20, 2026 at 5:07 PM
We're running a 5th edition of the always-exciting UCL Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition this year, 8th-10th July 2026 in London. Accommodation and travel expenses are covered.
For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...
For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...
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Perhaps the question is not whether cows can use tools,
but why it took us so long to notice.
Maybe because we continue to underestimate the minds of the animals we eat.
Veronika is here to remind us of our biases
but why it took us so long to notice.
Maybe because we continue to underestimate the minds of the animals we eat.
Veronika is here to remind us of our biases
January 19, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Perhaps the question is not whether cows can use tools,
but why it took us so long to notice.
Maybe because we continue to underestimate the minds of the animals we eat.
Veronika is here to remind us of our biases
but why it took us so long to notice.
Maybe because we continue to underestimate the minds of the animals we eat.
Veronika is here to remind us of our biases
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I am happy to share that our preprint “𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗔 𝗧𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵” is now out.
Huge thanks to @bayslab.org, Julie de Falco, Zahara, @cjungerius.bsky.social, @ivntmc.bsky.social, Adam, and Xiaolu for the lovely collaboration.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Huge thanks to @bayslab.org, Julie de Falco, Zahara, @cjungerius.bsky.social, @ivntmc.bsky.social, Adam, and Xiaolu for the lovely collaboration.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
OSF
doi.org
January 12, 2026 at 2:43 PM
I am happy to share that our preprint “𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗔 𝗧𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵” is now out.
Huge thanks to @bayslab.org, Julie de Falco, Zahara, @cjungerius.bsky.social, @ivntmc.bsky.social, Adam, and Xiaolu for the lovely collaboration.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Huge thanks to @bayslab.org, Julie de Falco, Zahara, @cjungerius.bsky.social, @ivntmc.bsky.social, Adam, and Xiaolu for the lovely collaboration.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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🔔 APPLICATIONS OPENING SOON 🔔
✨ We are thrilled to announce the next MESEC workshop, centered on mental imagery ! ✨
May 30 - June 7
Ephesus Retreat, Turkey
850€ (bursaries available)
Applications open next Wednesday (14/01)
20 spots
🏆 Pre-apply to be informed by email !
mesec.co/event/worksh...
✨ We are thrilled to announce the next MESEC workshop, centered on mental imagery ! ✨
May 30 - June 7
Ephesus Retreat, Turkey
850€ (bursaries available)
Applications open next Wednesday (14/01)
20 spots
🏆 Pre-apply to be informed by email !
mesec.co/event/worksh...
January 12, 2026 at 10:53 AM
🔔 APPLICATIONS OPENING SOON 🔔
✨ We are thrilled to announce the next MESEC workshop, centered on mental imagery ! ✨
May 30 - June 7
Ephesus Retreat, Turkey
850€ (bursaries available)
Applications open next Wednesday (14/01)
20 spots
🏆 Pre-apply to be informed by email !
mesec.co/event/worksh...
✨ We are thrilled to announce the next MESEC workshop, centered on mental imagery ! ✨
May 30 - June 7
Ephesus Retreat, Turkey
850€ (bursaries available)
Applications open next Wednesday (14/01)
20 spots
🏆 Pre-apply to be informed by email !
mesec.co/event/worksh...
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With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
January 9, 2026 at 1:27 AM
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
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The ADAM lab is hiring a Research Specialist to join us! This role involves conducting human subjects research (EEG experiments on attention + working memory) and assisting with the execution and administration of ongoing projects.
Job posting: emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Job posting: emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Research Specialist
The Attention, Distractions, and Memory (ADAM) Lab at Rice University is recruiting a full-time Research Specialist (Research Specialist I). The ADAM Lab (PI: Kirsten Adam) conducts cognitive neurosci...
emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:21 PM
The ADAM lab is hiring a Research Specialist to join us! This role involves conducting human subjects research (EEG experiments on attention + working memory) and assisting with the execution and administration of ongoing projects.
Job posting: emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Job posting: emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Including the old black cat adoptions survival analysis example as a case study in the forthcoming Bayesian Workflow book. This is presented as a whole incremental workflow with simulation, validation, and model comparison. Just now went through code and extra-commented and cleaned. Getting close!
December 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Including the old black cat adoptions survival analysis example as a case study in the forthcoming Bayesian Workflow book. This is presented as a whole incremental workflow with simulation, validation, and model comparison. Just now went through code and extra-commented and cleaned. Getting close!
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High impact, small size.
We welcome papers that address findings from a single set of experiments, or that are substantial enough to stand alone in 1,500 words or fewer.
Find out more: buff.ly/mVtikMw
We welcome papers that address findings from a single set of experiments, or that are substantial enough to stand alone in 1,500 words or fewer.
Find out more: buff.ly/mVtikMw
December 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
High impact, small size.
We welcome papers that address findings from a single set of experiments, or that are substantial enough to stand alone in 1,500 words or fewer.
Find out more: buff.ly/mVtikMw
We welcome papers that address findings from a single set of experiments, or that are substantial enough to stand alone in 1,500 words or fewer.
Find out more: buff.ly/mVtikMw
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Postdoc position available on our team, to work on the OptiCaT project - evaluating the use and impact of a community care intervention on psychiatric hospital admission and other health outcomes in people with learning disability and autistic people (1/2)
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/132727-...
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/132727-...
Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Forensic & Neurodevelopmental Sciences | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk
December 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Postdoc position available on our team, to work on the OptiCaT project - evaluating the use and impact of a community care intervention on psychiatric hospital admission and other health outcomes in people with learning disability and autistic people (1/2)
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/132727-...
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/132727-...
I haven't looked into the details of the position, but I have to reshare it because Akureyri is an absolutely gorgeous town!
We're hiring!
The University of Akureyri is seeking a specialist in psychology. Applicants from all areas of psychology are welcome to apply.
The University of Akureyri is seeking a specialist in psychology. Applicants from all areas of psychology are welcome to apply.
Open Position: Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology
The University of Akureyri is seeking a specialist in psychology. Applicants from all areas of psychology are welcome to apply, but particular emphasis is placed on the following fields: clinical psyc...
www.unak.is
November 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I haven't looked into the details of the position, but I have to reshare it because Akureyri is an absolutely gorgeous town!
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What is the representation underlying cognition? Formal models rely on multidimensional scaling of similarity judgments to derive the representation. In this preprint with @mdlbayes.bsky.social, we take an alternative approach; we build Bayesian generative models for three cognitive tasks. /1
Similarity judgments and visual working memory do not share the same cognitive representation: https://osf.io/fm9vz
November 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
What is the representation underlying cognition? Formal models rely on multidimensional scaling of similarity judgments to derive the representation. In this preprint with @mdlbayes.bsky.social, we take an alternative approach; we build Bayesian generative models for three cognitive tasks. /1
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Happy Fechner Day, to those who celebrate
October 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Happy Fechner Day, to those who celebrate
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Any early-career researchers in #workingmemory wanting to contribute to an #openscience initiative? I'm looking for help building up a data hub resource for the field. Volunteers can expect to devote a few hours, and might pick up insights into handling research data and how to use Github.
OpenWMData
A collection of publicly available<br>working memory datasets
williamngiam.github.io
October 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Any early-career researchers in #workingmemory wanting to contribute to an #openscience initiative? I'm looking for help building up a data hub resource for the field. Volunteers can expect to devote a few hours, and might pick up insights into handling research data and how to use Github.
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Join @matthiasmichel.bsky.social and me (over Zoom), won't you, for next speaker at the MIT Consciousness Club. Today at noon EDT
Rachel Denison (Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Boston University) - "Attentional Distortions of Subjective Perception"
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
Rachel Denison (Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Boston University) - "Attentional Distortions of Subjective Perception"
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
October 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Join @matthiasmichel.bsky.social and me (over Zoom), won't you, for next speaker at the MIT Consciousness Club. Today at noon EDT
Rachel Denison (Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Boston University) - "Attentional Distortions of Subjective Perception"
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
Rachel Denison (Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Boston University) - "Attentional Distortions of Subjective Perception"
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
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The final bit of work from my PhD just got published at JOV! We looked at similarity judgements made for naturalistic image patches, and whether these are predicted by simple image statistics… (spoiler: yep!)
Link to paper: doi.org/10.1167/jov....
1/11
Link to paper: doi.org/10.1167/jov....
1/11
Low-level features predict perceived similarity for naturalistic images | JOV | ARVO Journals
doi.org
October 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
The final bit of work from my PhD just got published at JOV! We looked at similarity judgements made for naturalistic image patches, and whether these are predicted by simple image statistics… (spoiler: yep!)
Link to paper: doi.org/10.1167/jov....
1/11
Link to paper: doi.org/10.1167/jov....
1/11
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I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University.
Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025
The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...
ellis.eu
October 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University.
Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
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What annotations / metadata do you wish was included with every #cogsci dataset (especially #workingmemory folks 👀)? My current list includes the experiment task, stimulus, level of data (trial-, subject-, or group-level), format, and whether analysis code is provided. Any more?
October 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM
What annotations / metadata do you wish was included with every #cogsci dataset (especially #workingmemory folks 👀)? My current list includes the experiment task, stimulus, level of data (trial-, subject-, or group-level), format, and whether analysis code is provided. Any more?
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New preprint with Sebastian Schneegans and @bayslab.org
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Here, we ask whether the key limits of working memory - load and retention interval - are independent, or do they interact? Despite years of research, this question is still much debated.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence 1/6
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Here, we ask whether the key limits of working memory - load and retention interval - are independent, or do they interact? Despite years of research, this question is still much debated.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence 1/6
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
New preprint with Sebastian Schneegans and @bayslab.org
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Here, we ask whether the key limits of working memory - load and retention interval - are independent, or do they interact? Despite years of research, this question is still much debated.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence 1/6
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Here, we ask whether the key limits of working memory - load and retention interval - are independent, or do they interact? Despite years of research, this question is still much debated.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence 1/6
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@matthiasmichel.bsky.social and I are beavering away reading and responding to all the excellent commentaries on our BBS paper outlining an evolutionary account of visual consciousness.
In the meantime, if you missed our target article, it's available here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In the meantime, if you missed our target article, it's available here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision
www.cambridge.org
October 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
@matthiasmichel.bsky.social and I are beavering away reading and responding to all the excellent commentaries on our BBS paper outlining an evolutionary account of visual consciousness.
In the meantime, if you missed our target article, it's available here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In the meantime, if you missed our target article, it's available here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Dynamics of variability and bias in working memory: https://osf.io/y2bjv
September 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Dynamics of variability and bias in working memory: https://osf.io/y2bjv
New preprint with Sebastian Schneegans and @bayslab.org
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Here, we ask whether the key limits of working memory - load and retention interval - are independent, or do they interact? Despite years of research, this question is still much debated.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence 1/6
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Here, we ask whether the key limits of working memory - load and retention interval - are independent, or do they interact? Despite years of research, this question is still much debated.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence 1/6
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
New preprint with Sebastian Schneegans and @bayslab.org
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Here, we ask whether the key limits of working memory - load and retention interval - are independent, or do they interact? Despite years of research, this question is still much debated.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence 1/6
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Here, we ask whether the key limits of working memory - load and retention interval - are independent, or do they interact? Despite years of research, this question is still much debated.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence 1/6
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Equal Pay Day for women with children falls on 1 September this year. From this date, mothers are working for free for the rest of the year compared with fathers.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UK mothers earn £302 a week less than fathers, analysis shows
ONS data shows they are working for free from 1 September, almost three months earlier than Equal Pay Day for all women
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Equal Pay Day for women with children falls on 1 September this year. From this date, mothers are working for free for the rest of the year compared with fathers.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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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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August 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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