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Tijl Grootswagers
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Cognitive Neuroscientist 🧠 in Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
https://tijl.github.io/
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Tijl Grootswagers @tgro.bsky.social · 11d
🌏 Come spend some time with us in Sydney! 🇦🇺

@marcsinstitute.bsky.social is offering International Visiting Scholarships for PhD students + postdocs.

Spend 1–3 months collaborating, exploring ideas, and building connections.

📅 Apply by 4 Dec
📍 Sydney, Australia

Curious or keen? DM or email me
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danfeuerriegel.bsky.social
New preprint from the lab led by @violetchae.bsky.social! We debut an open EEG dataset for research into food cognition and dietary choices.

Featuring data from 117 different brains relating to 120 different food stimuli.

@tgro.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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violetchae.bsky.social
Our new preprint on the FOODEEG open dataset is out! EEG recordings and behavioural responses on food cognition tasks for 117 participants will be made publicly available 🧠 @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
FOODEEG: An open dataset of human electroencephalographic and behavioural responses to food images
Investigating the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying food choices has the potential to advance our understanding of eating behaviour and inform health-targeted interventions and policy. Large, publi...
www.biorxiv.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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marcsinstitute.bsky.social
Dr Denise Moerel and colleagues' article on how our brains make decisions in competitive settings is out now!

Read the full Conversation article here: theconversation.com/even-in-a-si...

The article published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience: academic.oup.com/scan/advance...
Even in a simple game, our brains keep score – and those scores shape every choice we make
Humans are surprisingly bad at being unpredictable.
theconversation.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 AM
tgro.bsky.social
🌏 Come spend some time with us in Sydney! 🇦🇺

@marcsinstitute.bsky.social is offering International Visiting Scholarships for PhD students + postdocs.

Spend 1–3 months collaborating, exploring ideas, and building connections.

📅 Apply by 4 Dec
📍 Sydney, Australia

Curious or keen? DM or email me
November 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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danfeuerriegel.bsky.social
New article in @theconversation.com - featuring some exciting new findings on how our brains rapidly encode a wide range of food properties when we see a food item.

Your brain is doing a lot of work when you scroll through food delivery apps!

Led by @violetchae.bsky.social w/ @tgro.bsky.social
violetchae.bsky.social Violet Chae @violetchae.bsky.social · 26d
Using EEG 🧠⚡ and representational similarity analysis, we mapped how the neural representations of food attributes (e.g., taste & health) unfold over time when viewing foods🍎🍰🥗 @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social

theconversation.com/our-brains-e...

doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
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October 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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violetchae.bsky.social
Using EEG 🧠⚡ and representational similarity analysis, we mapped how the neural representations of food attributes (e.g., taste & health) unfold over time when viewing foods🍎🍰🥗 @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social

theconversation.com/our-brains-e...

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October 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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expsyanz.bsky.social
We're looking forward to seeing you this week at the joint meeting of the 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 and the 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢-𝘗𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯!

Don't forget to tag us on your conference-related Bluesky posts, so we can help you share with our wonderful community! 😀
June 16, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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predictivebrain.bsky.social
🚨PhD position alert!🚨
Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!
PhD position in biological foundations of neural control
PhD position in biological foundations of neural control
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
June 2, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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danfeuerriegel.bsky.social
New preprint from the lab!

We used EEG⚡🧠 to map how 12 different food attributes are represented in the brain. 🍎🥦🥪🍙🍮

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Led by Violet Chae in collaboration with @tgro.bsky.social
Characterising the neural time-courses of food attribute representations
Dietary decisions involve the consideration of multiple, often conflicting, food attributes that precede the computation of an overall value for a food. The differences in the speed at which attribute...
www.biorxiv.org
May 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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sebastiaanmathot.bsky.social
Interested in pupillometry, eye movements, visual attention, visual working memory, or related topics? Apply with our group in in beautiful, livable, and friendly Groningen! Reach out to @elkanakyurek.bsky.social, @van-rijn.org, @olaf.dimigen.de, @miles2708.bsky.social or myself to explore options!
ec.europa.eu European Commission @ec.europa.eu · May 8
Choose Science. Choose Europe.

A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.

With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.

Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A graphic for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie Skłodowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – €404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchers”
May 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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masudhusain.bsky.social
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
March 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
tgro.bsky.social
Check out this preprint led by @sabomelinda.bsky.social
which presents the outcomes of her @marcsinstitute.bsky.social visiting scholarship!

We analysed EEG data from 500+ participants to investigate how the brain processes cognitive conflict. #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

doi.org/10.1101/2025...
February 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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linateichmann.bsky.social
🚨PhD opportunity Fall/Winter
2025🚨
Join me in Geneva Switzerland #unige to learn more about colour perception. Using neuroimaging & computational modelling, you'll be working with an international & interdisciplinary team to understand how we transform light into a colourful world!🧠👁️🌈 #neurojobs
January 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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drquekles.bsky.social
👀 🚨 New scholarship available! We're hiring a PhD student to work on the neural basis of face perception, part of a collaboration between @marcsinstitute.bsky.social and #UNSW. DMs open if you want more info 🧠 #neurojobs
marcsinstitute.bsky.social The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · Dec 9
#PhD #Scholarship Opportunity: Unlocking Person Identity Codes in the Human Brain 🧠 | Explore the extraordinary abilities of Super-Recognisers & contribute to the advancement of person identification technologies worldwide. #Neuroscience | Applications close 31 Jan 2025. | tinyurl.com/45c4m3kk
Unlocking person identity codes in the human brain | Western Sydney University
tinyurl.com
January 6, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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brialong.bsky.social
I’m still recruiting for this position — please get in touch if you’re interested in working together!
brialong.bsky.social Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · Nov 18
The Visual Learning Lab at UC San Diego is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our lab!

Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org
Home | The Visual Learning Lab at UCSD
Lab webpage for the Visual Learning Lab at UCSD, lead by Dr. Bria Long, Ph.D. Launching in July 2024!
www.vislearnlab.org
December 13, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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marcsinstitute.bsky.social
#PhD #Scholarship Opportunity: Unlocking Person Identity Codes in the Human Brain 🧠 | Explore the extraordinary abilities of Super-Recognisers & contribute to the advancement of person identification technologies worldwide. #Neuroscience | Applications close 31 Jan 2025. | tinyurl.com/45c4m3kk
Unlocking person identity codes in the human brain | Western Sydney University
tinyurl.com
December 9, 2024 at 5:35 AM
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felenitaribeiro.bsky.social
#MRITogether 'Transferable open MRI skills: from academia to industry' will be on in 30 minutes! You can still register for that!
felenitaribeiro.bsky.social Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · Nov 28
#MRITogether Day 2 (1/2) program is now out! There are so many amazing talks, but I'm especially looking forward to hearing more about transferable skills and career transitions from these amazing speakers!

Register here: mritogether.esmrmb.org/24m/registra...
December 4, 2024 at 8:33 AM
tgro.bsky.social
Congrats @aramirezharo3.bsky.social ! Fantastic first conference talk 🎉 at @acnsau.bsky.social
marcsinstitute.bsky.social The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · Dec 4
🎉 Congrats to PhD Candidate, Almudena, for winning the Outstanding Presentation Award at the 2024 #ACNS conference! Topic: #ObjectRecognition Under Occlusion During Rapid Serial Visual Presentations. 👏 #Neuroscience #MARCSHDR

tinyurl.com/AlmudenaRami...
December 4, 2024 at 7:53 AM
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nataliepeluso.com
Are you an Australian cognitive neuroscientist 🧠 affiliated with the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society?

This Starter Pack is a fast way to connect with your ACNS colleagues - reply here to be added! And don't forget to follow @acnsau.bsky.social Only 5 more sleeps! 🤩 #ACNS2024
November 19, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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marcsinstitute.bsky.social
Newly funded ARC Discovery Project will unlock the secrets of how children learn and provide parents & educators with insights to support #childdevelopment.

Looking forward to transforming #education in Australia, one discovery at a time!

@drquekles.bsky.social
November 27, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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indyfromspace.bsky.social
I just looked at a highly circulated starter pack for top science and science communicators and there are 58 men, 27 women, the rest orgs based in the US, and 95% white. Maybe, just maybe, do a bit of curation and check your biases and show some care with what you put out into the wild.
November 26, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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drquekles.bsky.social
Very excited to kick this project off in 2025! If you like brains, face perception, neural decoding, EEG, or some combination of the above then we want to hear from you 🧠👀📈
marcsinstitute.bsky.social The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · Nov 26
🚨Join us! We're hiring a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience with @drquekles.bsky.social
@manuelvarlet.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social & David White
to investigate decoding in super-recognisers. Applications close 14 Jan #postdoc #cogneuro #ACNS2024
tinyurl.com/SuperRecogni...
November 26, 2024 at 1:07 AM
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marcsinstitute.bsky.social
🚨Join us! We're hiring a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience with @drquekles.bsky.social
@manuelvarlet.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social & David White
to investigate decoding in super-recognisers. Applications close 14 Jan #postdoc #cogneuro #ACNS2024
tinyurl.com/SuperRecogni...
November 26, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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alexh.bsky.social
Diamond open access (free to read AND to publish in) experimental psychology-adjacent journals we have accredited at freejournals.org.
Do you know of others? Lemme know; could suggest they check they meet our standards at freejournals.org, and join our community. #openaccess #scientificPublishing
November 25, 2024 at 9:01 PM