Katharina Dobs
@kathadobs.bsky.social
Professor at JLU | cognitive computational neuroscientist | mom of 3 | she/her
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Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
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Find me at the poster session tomorrow! I’ll be standing in for Saskia who unfortunately couldn’t make it. Will presenting joint work with @kathadobs.bsky.social on MEG decoding during object permanence #CCN2025
Tuesday (1:30–4:30 pm)
- Elah (A60): holistic face processing in humans & DNNs
- @levandyck.bsky.social (A64): face–body integration in DNNs & brains
- Sule (A63): top-down effects on neural face representations
- Saskia & @apurvaratan.bsky.social: neural decoding during object permanence
- Elah (A60): holistic face processing in humans & DNNs
- @levandyck.bsky.social (A64): face–body integration in DNNs & brains
- Sule (A63): top-down effects on neural face representations
- Saskia & @apurvaratan.bsky.social: neural decoding during object permanence
August 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Find me at the poster session tomorrow! I’ll be standing in for Saskia who unfortunately couldn’t make it. Will presenting joint work with @kathadobs.bsky.social on MEG decoding during object permanence #CCN2025
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Really looking forward to #CCN2025!
On Tuesday, I'm presenting new work with @kathadobs.bsky.social on segregated vs. integrated face & body processing in visual cortex 😊🧍🧠
Using DNNs & fMRI, we test competing hypotheses, finding both distinct & shared selectivity.
Come by Poster A64 for more.
On Tuesday, I'm presenting new work with @kathadobs.bsky.social on segregated vs. integrated face & body processing in visual cortex 😊🧍🧠
Using DNNs & fMRI, we test competing hypotheses, finding both distinct & shared selectivity.
Come by Poster A64 for more.
August 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Really looking forward to #CCN2025!
On Tuesday, I'm presenting new work with @kathadobs.bsky.social on segregated vs. integrated face & body processing in visual cortex 😊🧍🧠
Using DNNs & fMRI, we test competing hypotheses, finding both distinct & shared selectivity.
Come by Poster A64 for more.
On Tuesday, I'm presenting new work with @kathadobs.bsky.social on segregated vs. integrated face & body processing in visual cortex 😊🧍🧠
Using DNNs & fMRI, we test competing hypotheses, finding both distinct & shared selectivity.
Come by Poster A64 for more.
So sad (and definitely feeling the FOMO) that I can’t attend #CCN2025 this year 😢, but very proud that our lab will present 6 projects! 🥳 Here's a quick rundown:
August 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
So sad (and definitely feeling the FOMO) that I can’t attend #CCN2025 this year 😢, but very proud that our lab will present 6 projects! 🥳 Here's a quick rundown:
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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...
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...
August 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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...
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...
Ever wondered whether it's categorical specialization or distributed representation in the human visual cortex?
Check out how the brilliant @levandyck.bsky.social tackles this long-standing question in his first PhD project. Spoiler alert: no need to choose anymore! 🤝🔄🧠
Check out how the brilliant @levandyck.bsky.social tackles this long-standing question in his first PhD project. Spoiler alert: no need to choose anymore! 🤝🔄🧠
How is high-level visual cortex organized?
In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence
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In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence
🧵 1/n
www.biorxiv.org
June 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Ever wondered whether it's categorical specialization or distributed representation in the human visual cortex?
Check out how the brilliant @levandyck.bsky.social tackles this long-standing question in his first PhD project. Spoiler alert: no need to choose anymore! 🤝🔄🧠
Check out how the brilliant @levandyck.bsky.social tackles this long-standing question in his first PhD project. Spoiler alert: no need to choose anymore! 🤝🔄🧠
Sounds like a fantastic PhD opportunity at the intersection of visual neuroscience, AI and developmental psychology! 🧠👁️🤖👶
'lees meer' here 👇
'lees meer' here 👇
There are 2 PhD positions in my lab in Amsterdam (collaboration with Sander Bohte, @tessamdekker.bsky.social and Ingmar Visser) on NeuroAI of developmental vision.
academicpositions.nl/ad/centrum-w...
academicpositions.nl/ad/centrum-w...
2 PHD-STUDENTS IN NEUROAI OF DEVELOPMENTAL VISION (M/F/X) - Academic Positions
Join an interdisciplinary team to research developmental vision in NeuroAI. Requires a strong computational background, deep learning skills, and a Master's ...
academicpositions.nl
May 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Sounds like a fantastic PhD opportunity at the intersection of visual neuroscience, AI and developmental psychology! 🧠👁️🤖👶
'lees meer' here 👇
'lees meer' here 👇
Looks like a super cool summer school and a great way to enhance your coding skills! 👩💻🐍😎
Are you a scientist who codes? 🐍
Fearing that your public repo might implode the moment someone looks at it?
Then ASPP 2025 this is *the* summer school for you!
Hands-on tutorials on collaborative code dev, code orga & sharing, testing, debugging, computer architecture..
aspp.school
Fearing that your public repo might implode the moment someone looks at it?
Then ASPP 2025 this is *the* summer school for you!
Hands-on tutorials on collaborative code dev, code orga & sharing, testing, debugging, computer architecture..
aspp.school
May 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Looks like a super cool summer school and a great way to enhance your coding skills! 👩💻🐍😎
So excited that our excellence cluster 'The Adaptive Mind' got funded! 🥳 Looking forward to lots of great science and projects! #TheAdaptiveMind #ExcellenceInitiative 👁️🧠🤖
Herausragender Erfolg in der #Exzellenzstrategie: Gleich drei #Exzellenzcluster für die #JLUGiessen – #Herz-#Lungen-, #Batterie- und #Wahrnehmungsforschung konnten im Wettbewerb überzeugen @cpi-exstra.bsky.social @heroldlab.bsky.social @dfg.de @wissrat.bsky.social www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
May 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
So excited that our excellence cluster 'The Adaptive Mind' got funded! 🥳 Looking forward to lots of great science and projects! #TheAdaptiveMind #ExcellenceInitiative 👁️🧠🤖
Good morning, Bsky'ers! Some people have asked for a life update, here it is: I finished my last chemotherapy yesterday! 🥳 It’s been a long ride, but I’m feeling happy, relieved, and incredibly grateful. I sort of always knew, but now more than ever: #cancersucks #sciencematters #sciencesaveslives
May 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Good morning, Bsky'ers! Some people have asked for a life update, here it is: I finished my last chemotherapy yesterday! 🥳 It’s been a long ride, but I’m feeling happy, relieved, and incredibly grateful. I sort of always knew, but now more than ever: #cancersucks #sciencematters #sciencesaveslives
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Courage is contagious! ✊
Harvard’s defiance of Trump's ‘authoritarian incursion' supported by 60 past and present college and university presidents
Harvard president Alan Garber refused demands made by the Trump admin, which said it will freeze more than $2 billion in grants in response.
fortune.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Courage is contagious! ✊
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Top-down feedback is ubiquitous in the brain and computationally distinct, but rarely modeled in deep neural networks. What happens when a DNN has biologically-inspired top-down feedback? 🧠📈
Our new paper explores this: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Our new paper explores this: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Top-down feedback matters: Functional impact of brainlike connectivity motifs on audiovisual integration
elifesciences.org
April 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Top-down feedback is ubiquitous in the brain and computationally distinct, but rarely modeled in deep neural networks. What happens when a DNN has biologically-inspired top-down feedback? 🧠📈
Our new paper explores this: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Our new paper explores this: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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I am so happy—this is the first 1st author paper I have written, since the cancer diagnosis of my late wife seven years ago.
📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I am so happy—this is the first 1st author paper I have written, since the cancer diagnosis of my late wife seven years ago.
📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This post made my day! 🥲
INCREDIBLE TURNOUT with hundreds of thousands of people attending #HandsOff rallies around the US to protest illegal cuts and government corruption ✊
#nyc #newyork #boston #ma #chicago #il #stpaul #minneapolis #mn #saltlakecity #ut #washington #dc
#nyc #newyork #boston #ma #chicago #il #stpaul #minneapolis #mn #saltlakecity #ut #washington #dc
April 6, 2025 at 8:21 AM
This post made my day! 🥲
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I'm organizing a "Data for Good Rapid Response Team", i.e. a set of people who can be mobilized to work on short data science projects to help various groups and organizations. Sign up here if this is of interest to you, and please share with others with data science skills.
Data-for-good rapid response team
I'm collecting people with data science skills who may want to hear about sporadic opportunities to use their skills for good on short projects. Project themes will center on topics I am connected wit...
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March 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I'm organizing a "Data for Good Rapid Response Team", i.e. a set of people who can be mobilized to work on short data science projects to help various groups and organizations. Sign up here if this is of interest to you, and please share with others with data science skills.
Reposted by Katharina Dobs
Jetzt sind wir schon über 6700, aber Luft nach oben ist ja noch ☀️. Unterschriften werden bis 10:00 heute gesammelt.
Liebe Pressevertreter,
nachdem unser Appell innerhalb weniger Tage über 5000 Unterschriften gesammelt hat, machen wir morgen Donnerstag 13.03. um 11.00 Uhr eine virtuelle Pressekonferenz.
Wenn Sie daran teilnehmen wollen melden Sie sich gerne bei uns.
www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o...
nachdem unser Appell innerhalb weniger Tage über 5000 Unterschriften gesammelt hat, machen wir morgen Donnerstag 13.03. um 11.00 Uhr eine virtuelle Pressekonferenz.
Wenn Sie daran teilnehmen wollen melden Sie sich gerne bei uns.
www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o...
March 13, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Jetzt sind wir schon über 6700, aber Luft nach oben ist ja noch ☀️. Unterschriften werden bis 10:00 heute gesammelt.
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Powerful message from #teap2025 key organizer @melissavo.bsky.social solidarity for science!
March 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Powerful message from #teap2025 key organizer @melissavo.bsky.social solidarity for science!
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Proud to speak at the StandUpForScience rally in Boston today!
March 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Proud to speak at the StandUpForScience rally in Boston today!
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Kanwisher Lab is preparing for this Friday's #Standupforscience Rally!
March 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Kanwisher Lab is preparing for this Friday's #Standupforscience Rally!
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Wenn der Morgenkaffee freundlich lächelt: JLU-Forschende um @kathadobs.bsky.social ergründen mithilfe künstlicher Intelligenz mögliche Ursachen für bekannte Sinnestäuschung. 👀 #gesichtspareidolie #ki #wahrnehmungsforschung www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
February 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Wenn der Morgenkaffee freundlich lächelt: JLU-Forschende um @kathadobs.bsky.social ergründen mithilfe künstlicher Intelligenz mögliche Ursachen für bekannte Sinnestäuschung. 👀 #gesichtspareidolie #ki #wahrnehmungsforschung www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
Schon erledigt! ☑️
Keiner von euch Mäusen vergisst heute zu wählen ok?
February 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Schon erledigt! ☑️
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I know this site only reaches a subset of neuro/ cog professors. If you know a young professor in the area who would benefit from a week of targeted learning about doing good science, good mentoring, networking etc, it would be great if you could forward them: compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...
Neuro4Pros summer school
NeUroscience Computational
LEAdership Retreat (NUCLEAR): happiness and success
compneurosci.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I know this site only reaches a subset of neuro/ cog professors. If you know a young professor in the area who would benefit from a week of targeted learning about doing good science, good mentoring, networking etc, it would be great if you could forward them: compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...
Thanks for the shout-out! 😊 For more insights into our study, check out our detailed 🧵 here: bsky.app/profile/kath...
This is so cool! ANNs are just like us ;) journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Human-like face pareidolia emerges in deep neural networks optimized for face and object recognition
Author summary Have you ever seen a face in an inanimate object, like the foam in your coffee? This phenomenon, known as face pareidolia, demonstrates our brain’s remarkable ability to detect faces ev...
journals.plos.org
February 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Thanks for the shout-out! 😊 For more insights into our study, check out our detailed 🧵 here: bsky.app/profile/kath...
🧵 A bit late, but excited to share insights from our new publication in PLOS Comp Biol by Pranjul Gupta (journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...). Here, we explored the phenomenon of face pareidolia—like seeing faces in our morning coffee! What might explain this effect?
February 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🧵 A bit late, but excited to share insights from our new publication in PLOS Comp Biol by Pranjul Gupta (journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...). Here, we explored the phenomenon of face pareidolia—like seeing faces in our morning coffee! What might explain this effect?