Eric DeWItt
neurochooser.bsky.social
Eric DeWItt
@neurochooser.bsky.social
I am an independent researcher with Champalimaud Research. My work focuses using interdisciplinary approaches to understand how humans and animals learn about the world and make decisions.
Young Europeans losing faith in democracy, poll finds
July 4, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Trump administration raises possibility of stripping Mamdani of US citizenship
July 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM
How Lisbon became the least affordable city in Europe
June 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Reposted by Eric DeWItt
This provocative op-ed misses some important points.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...

(1) Many public universities (the primary engines of social mobility) already have out-of-state enrollment caps.
Opinion | Are International Students Good for American Universities?
www.nytimes.com
June 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Huge power outage brings parts of Spain and Portugal to standstill - www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Large parts of Spain and Portugal hit by power outage
Spanish power grid operator Red Electrica said it was working with energy companies to restore power after large parts of Spain and Portugal were hit by a power outage on Monday.
www.reuters.com
April 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The State Department is changing its mind about human rights

www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...
The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights
The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.
www.npr.org
April 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Reposted by Eric DeWItt
I suggested something like this to the Kempner Institute at Harvard when it was created, but they liked their GPUs too much!

[footnote from this paper: gershmanlab.com/pubs/NeuroAI...
January 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Reposted by Eric DeWItt
"Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony"

Open Access: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

#PhilSci #AcademicSky 🧪
Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony | PNAS
The preference for simple explanations, known as the parsimony principle, has long guided the development of scientific theories, hypotheses, and m...
doi.org
January 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Reposted by Eric DeWItt
@noehamou.bsky.social and @gautamreddy.bsky.social (with a little bit of help from me) have written a really interesting theoretical paper on associative learning (in particular Pavlovian conditioning):
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reconciling time and prediction error theories of associative learning
Learning involves forming associations between sensory events that have a consistent temporal relationship. Influential theories based on prediction errors explain numerous behavioral and neurobiologi...
www.biorxiv.org
January 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM