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Marieke van Vugt
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computational cognitive neuroscientist (assoc prof
@unigroningen.bsky.socialc) studying mind-wandering using cogsci and AI techniques, also amateur ballet dancer and Tibetan buddhist
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
Big protests going in Iran, and the state is trying to put them down with force, already killing 3.

I don't know where this is going, and the Iranian government has survived big protests before. But whatever happens, it's admirably brave when people take on violently repressive regimes.
At least 3 reported killed during widening protests in Iran sparked by ailing economy
Protests over Iran's struggling economy have spread into rural areas, with at least three people killed.
apnews.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
Uh… check out what ChatGPT allegedly told a man before he killed his mother and then himself.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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lilweb.bsky.social
🚀 Deadline for this is this Sunday! 🏃‍♀️
lilweb.bsky.social Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · 16d
🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social.

If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here:
tinyurl.com/coxijobs

Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️
January 2, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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roosvonk.bsky.social
“laten we die compensatie voor de vuurwerkbranche verrekenen met wat de verkoop van vuurwerk onze maatschappij heeft gekost aan materiële en immateriële schade.”
January 2, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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j2bryson.bsky.social
Me explaining how Musk broke Grok that one time #2025
theinternetiscrack.bsky.social The Internet is Crack Podcast @theinternetiscrack.bsky.social · 2d
Generative AI works best where data is dense.

@j2bryson.bsky.social explains why AI “hallucinations” are often weak predictions in data-sparse regions. From our conversation on what AI is and how regulation can guide better outcomes.

Full episode → youtu.be/fJSrpfwFXRo

#AIethics
January 2, 2026 at 10:26 AM
mvugt.bsky.social
"remember the bridge I had to cross to get where I am today. For me, helping others cross that bridge is the true reward of scientific life." www.science.org/content/arti...
I almost quit my Ph.D. A lab mate gave me the confidence to continue
Now, helping students find their way in science is the most rewarding part of the job, this professor writes
www.science.org
January 2, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy
Here's my enormous round-up of everything we learned about LLMs in 2025 - the third in my annual series of reviews of the past twelve months
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/
This year it's divided into 26 sections! This is the table of contents
The year of “reasoning” The year of agents The year of coding agents and Claude Code The year of LLMs on the command-line The year of YOLO and the Normalization of Deviance The year of $200/month subscriptions The year of top-ranked Chinese open weight models The year of long tasks The year of prompt-driven image editing The year models won gold in academic competitions The year that Llama lost its way The year that OpenAI lost their lead The year of Gemini The year of pelicans riding bicycles The year I built 110 tools The year of the snitch! The year of vibe coding The (only?) year of MCP The year of alarmingly AI-enabled browsers The year of the lethal trifecta The year of programming on my phone The year of conformance suites The year local models got good, but cloud models got even better The year of slop The year that data centers got extremely unpopular My own words of the year That’s a wrap for 2025
December 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
The term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) means many things to many people (see Table 1). (...) One meaning of ‘AI’ that seems often forgotten these days is one that played a crucial role in the birth of cognitive science as an interdiscipline in the 1970s and ’80s." 2/n
Table 1 A non-comprehensive list of different (not mutually exclusive) meanings of the word Al, including Al as idea, Al as a type of system, Al as a field of study, and Al as institution(al unit).
August 16, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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zutphen1954.bsky.social
January 1, 2026 at 5:54 AM
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wzuidema.bsky.social
"When a single company can implement a rights-respecting, consent-based access regime at scale, it’s worth asking why public institutions have failed to do the same."
techpolicypress.bsky.social Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · Jul 9
In one move, Cloudflare gave publishers back something they’ve been desperately trying to reclaim in the age of AI: control, consent, and compensation. But it also reminds us that consent isn’t enough: the stewards of that consent need accountability, writes Courtney C. Radsch.
Cloudflare Wades into the Battle Over AI Consent and Compensation | TechPolicy.Press
In the landscape of generative AI, infrastructure providers aren't passive conduits—they are hosts, regulators, and gatekeepers, writes Courtney C. Radsch.
www.techpolicy.press
December 31, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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wetenschapwoensdag.bsky.social
🧠 De hersenen van een menselijke foetus halverwege de zwangerschap lijken op die van een pasgeboren rat.

🎨 GyuMin Lee
December 31, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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trackingactions.bsky.social
Interested in the latest advances in neuroscience (neural dynamics and internal models) and how they can be leveraged to build smarter, adaptive AI?

➡️ My first real solo piece 🖤🫶 @natneuro.nature.com

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Leveraging insights from neuroscience to build adaptive artificial intelligence
Nature Neuroscience - Adaptive intelligence envisions AI that, like animals, learns online, generalizes and adapts quickly. This Perspective reviews biological foundations, progress in AI and...
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December 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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koenfucius.bsky.social
Hoe komt dat sommigen zeer beheerst hun sinterklaaschocolade met mate over weken of zelfs maanden consumeren, en anderen ze op een dag naar binnen zouden spelen als dat mocht?

Mijn laatste @apache.be stukje van 2025 over twee tegenstrijdige tendensen:

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December 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
mvugt.bsky.social
"autistic children have longer sleep-onset latencies than their siblings and longer latencies are associated with behavioral difficulties in all participants, regardless of diagnosis." rdcu.be/eW4DP
An open science resource for accelerating scalable digital health research in autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions
Nature Neuroscience - This paper describes the Simons Sleep Project, an open resource designed to accelerate research into the sleep and daily behaviors of autistic children using synchronized...
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December 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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olivia.science
Really don't give a flying fuck about Catholicism, but like any academic I kind of care about what really happened.

Women in European academia before 1800—religion, marriage, and human capital, by David de la Croix and Mara Vitale
doi.org/10.1093/ereh...
We document the participation of women in European academia from the first universities to the eve of the Industrial Revolution. A total of 108 women taught at universities or were members of academies of arts and sciences. Most of them were active in Catholic southern Europe—an unexpected result. We conjecture that Protestantism left less room for women at the top of the distribution of human capital to exercise their talent. The percentage of ever-married female scholars is 79%, but a large fraction of them remained childless. Comparing them with 58,995 male scholars, we find that they were on average better.
November 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
mvugt.bsky.social
Just out: first paper of my PhD student Henrik Röhr!
December 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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contemplativeneuro.bsky.social
Human Brain Mapping | Neuroimaging Journal #contemplativeneuroscience #self #meditation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Decoding the Self: Single‐Trial Prediction of Self‐Boundary Meditation States From Magnetoencephalography Recordings
Meditation-induced self-boundary dissolution can be predicted from magnetoencephalography recordings using Lempel-Ziv complexity and oscillatory power as neural markers. We demonstrate significantly ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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gailfdavies.bsky.social
New paper outlining a spatial account of #FND and proposing an approach to the co-production of functional symptoms. It draws on my longstanding work on geographies of health knowledges, my recent health experiences, and emerging interdisciplinary conversations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Screenshot of the front page of an article published in the journal Social and Cultural Geography called Remapping the body: an autoethnography of pain, paraesthesia, and the co-production of functional neurological symptoms
December 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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thomasandrillon.bsky.social
Infra-slow brain rhythms found in sleep in lizards, humans, rats and pigeons!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats @antbergel.bsky.social!
Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals - Nature Neuroscience
Bergel et al. show that an infraslow rhythm connecting the brain and body during sleep is shared by lizards, mammals and birds, revealing an ancestral process and reshaping our understanding of the ev...
www.nature.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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dariia.bsky.social
My university, Kyiv School of Economics, is hiring postdocs & professors of all levels! Join the best economics department in Ukraine, with excellent colleagues, modern campus and make an impact teaching the new generation of Ukrainians!
Link: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
#EconSky #econjobmarket
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026
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December 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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thetransmitter.bsky.social
Amid the rise of billion-parameter models, I argue that toy models, with just a few neurons, remain essential—and may be all neuroscience needs, writes @marcusghosh.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...
Not playing around: Why neuroscience needs toy models
Amid the rise of billion-parameter models, I argue that toy models, with just a few neurons, remain essential—and may be all neuroscience needs.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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j2bryson.bsky.social
Does anyone know if this @vivaldi.com page on its business model is up to date? vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi... I'm investing precious time resetting my tech bsky.app/profile/j2br...
December 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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i-dont-like-ai.bsky.social
To win a software war, be human enough to protect your people from it. USA's government, pls note:

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www.cnbc.com/2025/12/29/c...
China to crack down on AI chatbots around suicide, gambling
The proposed rules come as Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot startups Minimax and Z.ai have this month filed for Hong Kong IPOs.
www.cnbc.com
December 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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auke233.bsky.social
Siegfried Woldhek weet de wereldpolitiek weer treffend te illustreren.
December 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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pessoabrain.bsky.social
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻
Annual reminder that the book is open access.
How do we think of the brain as a deeply interconnected system with highly distributed, non hierarchical processing.
Want to learn about the brain from a fresh perspective?
#neuroskyence
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460...
The Entangled Brain
Popular neuroscience accounts often focus on specific mind-brain aspects like addiction, cognition, or memory, but The Entangled Brain tackles a much bigger ...
mitpress.mit.edu
December 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM