Álvaro Cabana
@almadana.bsky.social
Cognition, Language, Data Science
cibpsi.psico.edu.uy
cicada.uy
cibpsi.psico.edu.uy
cicada.uy
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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The value of knowledge is in having done the work. The value of research is in having done the research. The value of a summary is in having summarized the information. The value of writing is in having done the writing.
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search theconversation.com/learning-wit...
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The value of knowledge is in having done the work. The value of research is in having done the research. The value of a summary is in having summarized the information. The value of writing is in having done the writing.
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if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
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Save the date! The 2026 *gasp* Australasian MathPsych conference will be in Singapore -- looks to be a great one :)
@ozmathpsych.bsky.social
@ozmathpsych.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Save the date! The 2026 *gasp* Australasian MathPsych conference will be in Singapore -- looks to be a great one :)
@ozmathpsych.bsky.social
@ozmathpsych.bsky.social
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sociedadneurociencias.uy/2025/05/15/m...
Organizan:
Álvaro Cabana. Facultad de Psicología, UdelaR
@almadana.bsky.social
Juan Carlos Valle Lisboa. Facultad de Ciencias, UdelaR
@lentobio.bsky.social
Sociedad de Neurociencias de Uruguay
@socneurouy.bsky.social
Apoya:
@ibroorg.bsky.social
Organizan:
Álvaro Cabana. Facultad de Psicología, UdelaR
@almadana.bsky.social
Juan Carlos Valle Lisboa. Facultad de Ciencias, UdelaR
@lentobio.bsky.social
Sociedad de Neurociencias de Uruguay
@socneurouy.bsky.social
Apoya:
@ibroorg.bsky.social
Mesa abierta: Neurociencias e Inteligencia Artificial – Sociedad de Neurociencias del Uruguay
sociedadneurociencias.uy
May 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
sociedadneurociencias.uy/2025/05/15/m...
Organizan:
Álvaro Cabana. Facultad de Psicología, UdelaR
@almadana.bsky.social
Juan Carlos Valle Lisboa. Facultad de Ciencias, UdelaR
@lentobio.bsky.social
Sociedad de Neurociencias de Uruguay
@socneurouy.bsky.social
Apoya:
@ibroorg.bsky.social
Organizan:
Álvaro Cabana. Facultad de Psicología, UdelaR
@almadana.bsky.social
Juan Carlos Valle Lisboa. Facultad de Ciencias, UdelaR
@lentobio.bsky.social
Sociedad de Neurociencias de Uruguay
@socneurouy.bsky.social
Apoya:
@ibroorg.bsky.social
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sociedadneurociencias.uy/2025/05/15/m...
Organizan:
Álvaro Cabana. Facultad de Psicología, UdelaR @almadana.bsky.social
Juan Carlos Valle Lisboa. Facultad de Ciencias, UdelaR @lentobio.bsky.social
Sociedad de Neurociencias de Uruguay @socneurouy.bsky.social
Organizan:
Álvaro Cabana. Facultad de Psicología, UdelaR @almadana.bsky.social
Juan Carlos Valle Lisboa. Facultad de Ciencias, UdelaR @lentobio.bsky.social
Sociedad de Neurociencias de Uruguay @socneurouy.bsky.social
Mesa abierta: Neurociencias e Inteligencia Artificial – Sociedad de Neurociencias del Uruguay
sociedadneurociencias.uy
May 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
sociedadneurociencias.uy/2025/05/15/m...
Organizan:
Álvaro Cabana. Facultad de Psicología, UdelaR @almadana.bsky.social
Juan Carlos Valle Lisboa. Facultad de Ciencias, UdelaR @lentobio.bsky.social
Sociedad de Neurociencias de Uruguay @socneurouy.bsky.social
Organizan:
Álvaro Cabana. Facultad de Psicología, UdelaR @almadana.bsky.social
Juan Carlos Valle Lisboa. Facultad de Ciencias, UdelaR @lentobio.bsky.social
Sociedad de Neurociencias de Uruguay @socneurouy.bsky.social
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Desde IMAGINA abrimos la convocatoria 📢 a becas IMAGINA+CZI 2025 para realizar pasantías en laboratorios 🦠🧪🫁💻🧮🔬🧬🧫 de bioimágenes en Latinoamérica.
🏁Cierra el 21Abr/2025
+info y registro: iie.fing.edu.uy/investigacio...
@cziscience.bsky.social @iibceuy.bsky.social @latambioimaging.bsky.social
🏁Cierra el 21Abr/2025
+info y registro: iie.fing.edu.uy/investigacio...
@cziscience.bsky.social @iibceuy.bsky.social @latambioimaging.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Desde IMAGINA abrimos la convocatoria 📢 a becas IMAGINA+CZI 2025 para realizar pasantías en laboratorios 🦠🧪🫁💻🧮🔬🧬🧫 de bioimágenes en Latinoamérica.
🏁Cierra el 21Abr/2025
+info y registro: iie.fing.edu.uy/investigacio...
@cziscience.bsky.social @iibceuy.bsky.social @latambioimaging.bsky.social
🏁Cierra el 21Abr/2025
+info y registro: iie.fing.edu.uy/investigacio...
@cziscience.bsky.social @iibceuy.bsky.social @latambioimaging.bsky.social
-You see, I'm microdosing.
-Oh.. LSD, psilocybin, MDMA?
-Nutella.
-Oh.. LSD, psilocybin, MDMA?
-Nutella.
March 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
-You see, I'm microdosing.
-Oh.. LSD, psilocybin, MDMA?
-Nutella.
-Oh.. LSD, psilocybin, MDMA?
-Nutella.
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🚨 New Paper!
Can neuroscience localizers uncover brain-like functional specializations in LLMs? 🧠🤖
Yes! We analyzed 18 LLMs and found units mirroring the brain's language, theory of mind, and multiple demand networks!
w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, @abosselut.bsky.social, @mschrimpf.bsky.social
🧵👇
Can neuroscience localizers uncover brain-like functional specializations in LLMs? 🧠🤖
Yes! We analyzed 18 LLMs and found units mirroring the brain's language, theory of mind, and multiple demand networks!
w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, @abosselut.bsky.social, @mschrimpf.bsky.social
🧵👇
December 19, 2024 at 3:06 PM
🚨 New Paper!
Can neuroscience localizers uncover brain-like functional specializations in LLMs? 🧠🤖
Yes! We analyzed 18 LLMs and found units mirroring the brain's language, theory of mind, and multiple demand networks!
w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, @abosselut.bsky.social, @mschrimpf.bsky.social
🧵👇
Can neuroscience localizers uncover brain-like functional specializations in LLMs? 🧠🤖
Yes! We analyzed 18 LLMs and found units mirroring the brain's language, theory of mind, and multiple demand networks!
w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, @abosselut.bsky.social, @mschrimpf.bsky.social
🧵👇
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Definición de ironía:
January 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Definición de ironía:
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🚨Job alert (Please RT)
What: masters internship and/or PhD positions
Where: Rothschild Foundation Hospital (Paris, France)
Topic: AI and Neuroscience
Supervised by: Pierre Bourdillon and myself
Apply here: forms.gle/KKnea2QAjhAe...
Deadline: Feb 5th
What: masters internship and/or PhD positions
Where: Rothschild Foundation Hospital (Paris, France)
Topic: AI and Neuroscience
Supervised by: Pierre Bourdillon and myself
Apply here: forms.gle/KKnea2QAjhAe...
Deadline: Feb 5th
forms.gle
January 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
🚨Job alert (Please RT)
What: masters internship and/or PhD positions
Where: Rothschild Foundation Hospital (Paris, France)
Topic: AI and Neuroscience
Supervised by: Pierre Bourdillon and myself
Apply here: forms.gle/KKnea2QAjhAe...
Deadline: Feb 5th
What: masters internship and/or PhD positions
Where: Rothschild Foundation Hospital (Paris, France)
Topic: AI and Neuroscience
Supervised by: Pierre Bourdillon and myself
Apply here: forms.gle/KKnea2QAjhAe...
Deadline: Feb 5th
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Happy New Year everyone! Jim and I just put up our January 2025 release of Speech and Language Processing! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...
Speech and Language Processing
Speech and Language Processing
web.stanford.edu
January 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Happy New Year everyone! Jim and I just put up our January 2025 release of Speech and Language Processing! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...
Reposted by Álvaro Cabana
El gobierno nazifascista de Milei y macri censuró esta canción, distribuyan y pasenla todo el día...que suene en todas partes!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPN4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPN4...
Hay secretos - CANTICUÉNTICOS
YouTube video by CANTICUENTICOS MUSICA PARA CHICOS
www.youtube.com
January 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
El gobierno nazifascista de Milei y macri censuró esta canción, distribuyan y pasenla todo el día...que suene en todas partes!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPN4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPN4...
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Please, spread!
🧠 Competitive PhD funding is available for neuroscience projects in the Parisian region. Consider your options 👇
dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...
@c-brains.bsky.social
🧠 Competitive PhD funding is available for neuroscience projects in the Parisian region. Consider your options 👇
dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...
@c-brains.bsky.social
DIM C-BRAINS
Cognition and Brain Revolutions: Artificial Intelligence, Neurogenomics, Society
dim-cbrains.fr
January 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Please, spread!
🧠 Competitive PhD funding is available for neuroscience projects in the Parisian region. Consider your options 👇
dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...
@c-brains.bsky.social
🧠 Competitive PhD funding is available for neuroscience projects in the Parisian region. Consider your options 👇
dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...
@c-brains.bsky.social
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Beware: My impersonating bot (jeanremikingg.bsky.social) is apparently reaching out through direct messages to convince you into some crypto scam.
Please report if you have a chance
Please report if you have a chance
January 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Beware: My impersonating bot (jeanremikingg.bsky.social) is apparently reaching out through direct messages to convince you into some crypto scam.
Please report if you have a chance
Please report if you have a chance
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📢 The survey 👇 on "intelligence" & ChatGPT is open until Jan 14. All fields are welcome, but a special invitation goes to folks in Philosophy, Psychology, HCI, Cognitive Science, CSS, and AI ethics. Please repost.
What do YOU mean by "intelligence", and does ChatGPT fit your definition?
We collected the major criteria used in CogSci and other fields, and designed a survey to find out!
Access link: www.survey-xact.dk/collect
Code: 4S7V-SN4M-S536
Time: 5-10 mins
We collected the major criteria used in CogSci and other fields, and designed a survey to find out!
Access link: www.survey-xact.dk/collect
Code: 4S7V-SN4M-S536
Time: 5-10 mins
Perspectives on Intelligence: Community Survey
Research survey exploring how NLP/ML/CogSci researchers define and use the concept of intelligence.
bertramhojer.github.io
January 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
📢 The survey 👇 on "intelligence" & ChatGPT is open until Jan 14. All fields are welcome, but a special invitation goes to folks in Philosophy, Psychology, HCI, Cognitive Science, CSS, and AI ethics. Please repost.
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Hey #StatsSky, what are you favorite papers to cite when you need to justify something that is obvious (I once had a reviewer ask we justify the use of logistic regression on a binary outcome)
or when you need to push-back on silly reviewer requests (e.g., asking for p-values in table 1)?
or when you need to push-back on silly reviewer requests (e.g., asking for p-values in table 1)?
January 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Hey #StatsSky, what are you favorite papers to cite when you need to justify something that is obvious (I once had a reviewer ask we justify the use of logistic regression on a binary outcome)
or when you need to push-back on silly reviewer requests (e.g., asking for p-values in table 1)?
or when you need to push-back on silly reviewer requests (e.g., asking for p-values in table 1)?
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I want to thank Elon Musk for attacking Wikipedia for being a part of the internet he can't currently control. It reminded me to donate to support Wikipedia, the best remaining thing about the internet. You can donate here: donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
December 26, 2024 at 5:22 PM
I want to thank Elon Musk for attacking Wikipedia for being a part of the internet he can't currently control. It reminded me to donate to support Wikipedia, the best remaining thing about the internet. You can donate here: donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
Reposted by Álvaro Cabana
A lovely response to our NRN review (nature.com/articles/s41...) from Yannick Becker
@ybecker.bsky.social and Angela Friederici, providing a nice link to the evolution of language-relevant brain machinery. And our echo response here: tinyurl.com/5n9x53au 1/n
@ybecker.bsky.social and Angela Friederici, providing a nice link to the evolution of language-relevant brain machinery. And our echo response here: tinyurl.com/5n9x53au 1/n
December 19, 2024 at 7:39 PM
A lovely response to our NRN review (nature.com/articles/s41...) from Yannick Becker
@ybecker.bsky.social and Angela Friederici, providing a nice link to the evolution of language-relevant brain machinery. And our echo response here: tinyurl.com/5n9x53au 1/n
@ybecker.bsky.social and Angela Friederici, providing a nice link to the evolution of language-relevant brain machinery. And our echo response here: tinyurl.com/5n9x53au 1/n
Reposted by Álvaro Cabana
Breaking news: A 2020 paper that sparked widespread enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine as a #COVID19 treatment has been retracted, following campaigning by scientists who alleged the research contained major scientific flaws and may have breached ethics regulations. scim.ag/4iR9bQ6
Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted
Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds
scim.ag
December 17, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Breaking news: A 2020 paper that sparked widespread enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine as a #COVID19 treatment has been retracted, following campaigning by scientists who alleged the research contained major scientific flaws and may have breached ethics regulations. scim.ag/4iR9bQ6
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I am happy to return to Bluesky to promote Dragana's work. Her work is a tour-de-force that demonstrates the importance of multimodal assessment of patients with disorders of consciousness. Thanks to all the EraBrain consortium partners behind this project.
@ERANET_PerMed
@ERANET_PerMed
1/ Excited to share a part of my PhD in our new preprint:
Integrative Electrophysiology and Neuroimaging Approach in Assessing Disorders of Consciousness: A Multimodal Multicentric Machine Learning Study
#DoC #MachineLearning #Multimodal
medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...
A 🧵...
Integrative Electrophysiology and Neuroimaging Approach in Assessing Disorders of Consciousness: A Multimodal Multicentric Machine Learning Study
#DoC #MachineLearning #Multimodal
medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...
A 🧵...
Integrative Electrophysiology and Neuroimaging Approach in Assessing Disorders of Consciousness: A Multimodal Multicentric Machine Learning Study
Severely brain-injured patients may enter a spectrum of conditions collectively known as disorders of consciousness (DoC). This spectrum includes clinical categories such as unresponsive wakefulness s...
medrxiv.org
November 26, 2024 at 10:48 AM
I am happy to return to Bluesky to promote Dragana's work. Her work is a tour-de-force that demonstrates the importance of multimodal assessment of patients with disorders of consciousness. Thanks to all the EraBrain consortium partners behind this project.
@ERANET_PerMed
@ERANET_PerMed
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1/ 🎉 Thrilled to share part of my PhD work published in @PNAS_Nexus! 🌍 This collaboration spanned France, Italy, and Uruguay. We explored how brain-heart interactions reveal attentional focus—insights relevant to patients with #DisordersOfConsciousness (DoC).
🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Predicting attentional focus: Heartbeat-evoked responses and brain dynamics during interoceptive and exteroceptive processing
Abstract. Attention shapes our consciousness content and perception by increasing the probability of becoming aware and/or better encoding a selection of t
academic.oup.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:18 PM
1/ 🎉 Thrilled to share part of my PhD work published in @PNAS_Nexus! 🌍 This collaboration spanned France, Italy, and Uruguay. We explored how brain-heart interactions reveal attentional focus—insights relevant to patients with #DisordersOfConsciousness (DoC).
🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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Great work from Emilia exploring attentional focus. This could be an interesting avenue to explore DoC patients. The rest of the amazing work that Emilia did during her PhD will soon go out. Stay attentive!
1/ 🎉 Thrilled to share part of my PhD work published in @PNAS_Nexus! 🌍 This collaboration spanned France, Italy, and Uruguay. We explored how brain-heart interactions reveal attentional focus—insights relevant to patients with #DisordersOfConsciousness (DoC).
🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Predicting attentional focus: Heartbeat-evoked responses and brain dynamics during interoceptive and exteroceptive processing
Abstract. Attention shapes our consciousness content and perception by increasing the probability of becoming aware and/or better encoding a selection of t
academic.oup.com
December 10, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Great work from Emilia exploring attentional focus. This could be an interesting avenue to explore DoC patients. The rest of the amazing work that Emilia did during her PhD will soon go out. Stay attentive!