Dominik Straub
@dominikstrb.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Computational and Biological Learning Lab, @eng.cam.ac.uk. Previously PhD at @tuda.bsky.social
Working on probabilistic models and inverse optimal control to understand perception, action, and learning.
https://dominikstrb.github.io
Working on probabilistic models and inverse optimal control to understand perception, action, and learning.
https://dominikstrb.github.io
If you're looking for a PhD position, check out this opportunity!
I had a great time doing my PhD in Darmstadt. Exciting research with lots of opportunities for collaboration across AI and cognitive science in a very livable city.
I had a great time doing my PhD in Darmstadt. Exciting research with lots of opportunities for collaboration across AI and cognitive science in a very livable city.
Join our world-class #ClusterOfExcellence on Reasonable AI as a PhD student in one of the four labs. More info, particularly on the Challenging AI with Cognitive Science Lab (CAI) & application 👉 hessian.ai/call-for-app...
Call for Applications: Fully Funded PhD Positions in the Cluster of Excellence “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence (RAI) | hessian.AI
The Cluster of Excellence Reasonable Artificial Intelligence (RAI) invites applications for several fully funded PhD positions starting in early 2026. RAI conducts cutting-edge research on AI systems ...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
If you're looking for a PhD position, check out this opportunity!
I had a great time doing my PhD in Darmstadt. Exciting research with lots of opportunities for collaboration across AI and cognitive science in a very livable city.
I had a great time doing my PhD in Darmstadt. Exciting research with lots of opportunities for collaboration across AI and cognitive science in a very livable city.
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Q: Why did the LLM cross the road?
A: We're not sure, but it achieved 94.7% on CHIKENBench-Large
A: We're not sure, but it achieved 94.7% on CHIKENBench-Large
September 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Q: Why did the LLM cross the road?
A: We're not sure, but it achieved 94.7% on CHIKENBench-Large
A: We're not sure, but it achieved 94.7% on CHIKENBench-Large
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The vision of human-out-of-the-loop science fundamentally mistakes what knowledge production is. It aims at the production of, wait for it, knowledge: a thing that definitionally involves an epistemic agent or agents, unless you are theistic about it.
September 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The vision of human-out-of-the-loop science fundamentally mistakes what knowledge production is. It aims at the production of, wait for it, knowledge: a thing that definitionally involves an epistemic agent or agents, unless you are theistic about it.
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Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.
Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI
Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI
Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI
www.irishtimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.
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In other news, I am now a ✨ COXI ✨ (cognitive scientist in Osnabrück, Germany)
www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li...
I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀
www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li...
I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀
New at the university: Prof. Weber!
Osnabrück University welcomes Prof. Dr. Lilian Weber! Since August 15, she has held the professorship "Cognitive Modeling" at the School of Human Sciences. A warm welcome!
www.uni-osnabrueck.de
August 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
In other news, I am now a ✨ COXI ✨ (cognitive scientist in Osnabrück, Germany)
www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li...
I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀
www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li...
I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀
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G'day #ECVP!
Today, three more colleagues present their posters.
38: @celinehonekamp.bsky.social will introduce you to dual adaptation in the temporal domain.
48: Tarek will present a relative depth experiment conducted on the multifocal display he built.
Today, three more colleagues present their posters.
38: @celinehonekamp.bsky.social will introduce you to dual adaptation in the temporal domain.
48: Tarek will present a relative depth experiment conducted on the multifocal display he built.
August 28, 2025 at 6:37 AM
G'day #ECVP!
Today, three more colleagues present their posters.
38: @celinehonekamp.bsky.social will introduce you to dual adaptation in the temporal domain.
48: Tarek will present a relative depth experiment conducted on the multifocal display he built.
Today, three more colleagues present their posters.
38: @celinehonekamp.bsky.social will introduce you to dual adaptation in the temporal domain.
48: Tarek will present a relative depth experiment conducted on the multifocal display he built.
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I won't get to join you all at #ecvp2025 @ecvp.bsky.social this year because I'm on holiday in Australia... but my lab is there in force! Please do go say hi, and check out my students' and postdocs' amazing work!
@ben.graphics @lschmittwilken.bsky.social @lreining.bsky.social
@ben.graphics @lschmittwilken.bsky.social @lreining.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I won't get to join you all at #ecvp2025 @ecvp.bsky.social this year because I'm on holiday in Australia... but my lab is there in force! Please do go say hi, and check out my students' and postdocs' amazing work!
@ben.graphics @lschmittwilken.bsky.social @lreining.bsky.social
@ben.graphics @lschmittwilken.bsky.social @lreining.bsky.social
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I'd be glad to see a lot of people at our poster on Tuesday, August 26th, 10-11.30am at #ECVP2025 and tell you more about which cost functions shape your behavior in sensorimotor decision-making!
Looking forward to meeting you #ECVP2025 Mainz this week, including collaborative work with @tobnie.bsky.social @dominikstrb.bsky.social @ookenfooken.bsky.social @fatatai.bsky.social @tsawallis.bsky.social @mamassian.bsky.social @guidomaiello.bsky.social @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and many others
August 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I'd be glad to see a lot of people at our poster on Tuesday, August 26th, 10-11.30am at #ECVP2025 and tell you more about which cost functions shape your behavior in sensorimotor decision-making!
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Looking forward to meeting you #ECVP2025 Mainz this week, including collaborative work with @tobnie.bsky.social @dominikstrb.bsky.social @ookenfooken.bsky.social @fatatai.bsky.social @tsawallis.bsky.social @mamassian.bsky.social @guidomaiello.bsky.social @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and many others
August 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Looking forward to meeting you #ECVP2025 Mainz this week, including collaborative work with @tobnie.bsky.social @dominikstrb.bsky.social @ookenfooken.bsky.social @fatatai.bsky.social @tsawallis.bsky.social @mamassian.bsky.social @guidomaiello.bsky.social @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and many others
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my friend/colleague Frank Jäkel wrote a book on AI. I sadly don't know German but I happily know Frank, and I've heard him talking about this for a while now, and just on that basis I'd recommend the German speakers in the audience check it out
August 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
my friend/colleague Frank Jäkel wrote a book on AI. I sadly don't know German but I happily know Frank, and I've heard him talking about this for a while now, and just on that basis I'd recommend the German speakers in the audience check it out
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post 1 disappointed Weizenbaum for every thinkpiece u read like this
August 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
post 1 disappointed Weizenbaum for every thinkpiece u read like this
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I'm presenting our work "Revisiting Cost Functions in Sensorimotor Decision-Making" at #CCN2025!
Stop by our poster (@dominikstrb.bsky.social, @c-rothkopf.bsky.social) and learn more about how to rethink common modeling assumptions.
📅 When: Friday, August 15, 2pm–5pm
📍 Where: De Brug, Poster C1
Stop by our poster (@dominikstrb.bsky.social, @c-rothkopf.bsky.social) and learn more about how to rethink common modeling assumptions.
📅 When: Friday, August 15, 2pm–5pm
📍 Where: De Brug, Poster C1
August 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I'm presenting our work "Revisiting Cost Functions in Sensorimotor Decision-Making" at #CCN2025!
Stop by our poster (@dominikstrb.bsky.social, @c-rothkopf.bsky.social) and learn more about how to rethink common modeling assumptions.
📅 When: Friday, August 15, 2pm–5pm
📍 Where: De Brug, Poster C1
Stop by our poster (@dominikstrb.bsky.social, @c-rothkopf.bsky.social) and learn more about how to rethink common modeling assumptions.
📅 When: Friday, August 15, 2pm–5pm
📍 Where: De Brug, Poster C1
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I have never understood the insane hostility that LLM fanboys have towards academics who disagree with them (see also: Gary Marcus). (Also how does “we fed an AI every available unit of human language and it’s pretty good” refute “10k words a day isn’t enough for babies to learn as well as they do”)
i am very sorry you wasted your entire career on a promising but ultimately false theory, but, sorry, poverty of the stimulus is as wrong as phlogiston, and even though we absolutely should not have released it when we did, you just can't deny that it replicates competent language production.
August 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I have never understood the insane hostility that LLM fanboys have towards academics who disagree with them (see also: Gary Marcus). (Also how does “we fed an AI every available unit of human language and it’s pretty good” refute “10k words a day isn’t enough for babies to learn as well as they do”)
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⬅️➡️ "Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control" by van Dam et al
Delay adaptation occurs for stylus (graphics tablet) and arrow buttons (keyboard) but doesn't transfer between response styles
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Delay adaptation occurs for stylus (graphics tablet) and arrow buttons (keyboard) but doesn't transfer between response styles
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control - Loes CJ van Dam, Svenja Kernig, Karina Lazarova, Melisa Ünal, Nicole Gappa, Benjamin Straube, Thomas S...
When interacting with technology, humans often deal with delays between an action and the desired action outcome. Through delay adaptation these delays will bec...
journals.sagepub.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
⬅️➡️ "Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control" by van Dam et al
Delay adaptation occurs for stylus (graphics tablet) and arrow buttons (keyboard) but doesn't transfer between response styles
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Delay adaptation occurs for stylus (graphics tablet) and arrow buttons (keyboard) but doesn't transfer between response styles
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
After her party halted the election of Brosius-Gersdorf as a constitutional judge using fake news, the federal minister of science (and space!) expects candidates to have "a little resilience" and "being able to take criticism". Is this how to protect academic freedom?
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
Wahl der Verfassungsrichter: Brosius-Gersdorf berichtet von Drohungen nach gescheiterter Wahl
Aufgrund von Drohungen hat Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf ihre Mitarbeiter gebeten, nicht am Lehrstuhl zu arbeiten. Einen Verzicht auf ihre Kandidatur schließt sie nicht aus.
www.zeit.de
July 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
After her party halted the election of Brosius-Gersdorf as a constitutional judge using fake news, the federal minister of science (and space!) expects candidates to have "a little resilience" and "being able to take criticism". Is this how to protect academic freedom?
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
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Eigentlich sollte eine Wissenschaftsministerin Stimme der Wissenschaft im politischen System sein.
Bär will hingegen was anderes sein und fordert von Wissenschaftlerinnen "Kritikfähigkeit" ein, wenn sie diffamiert werden.
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
Bär will hingegen was anderes sein und fordert von Wissenschaftlerinnen "Kritikfähigkeit" ein, wenn sie diffamiert werden.
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
Wahl der Verfassungsrichter: Brosius-Gersdorf berichtet von Drohungen nach gescheiterter Wahl
Aufgrund von Drohungen hat Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf ihre Mitarbeiter gebeten, nicht am Lehrstuhl zu arbeiten. Einen Verzicht auf ihre Kandidatur schließt sie nicht aus.
www.zeit.de
July 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Eigentlich sollte eine Wissenschaftsministerin Stimme der Wissenschaft im politischen System sein.
Bär will hingegen was anderes sein und fordert von Wissenschaftlerinnen "Kritikfähigkeit" ein, wenn sie diffamiert werden.
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
Bär will hingegen was anderes sein und fordert von Wissenschaftlerinnen "Kritikfähigkeit" ein, wenn sie diffamiert werden.
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
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So much alignment talk ignores the more traditional and pressing question about who should own the means of production in the first place since that ultimately determines who gets to make these decisions
July 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
So much alignment talk ignores the more traditional and pressing question about who should own the means of production in the first place since that ultimately determines who gets to make these decisions
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@meredithmeredith.bsky.social is such a fantastic public face of the countermovement to tech company overreach and creeping fascism.
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social is such a fantastic public face of the countermovement to tech company overreach and creeping fascism.
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Excited to share that our paper got accepted at #ICML2025!! 🎉
We challenge Vision-Language Models like OpenAI’s o1 with Bongard problems, classic visual reasoning challenges and uncover surprising shortcomings.
Check out the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.19546
& read more below 👇
We challenge Vision-Language Models like OpenAI’s o1 with Bongard problems, classic visual reasoning challenges and uncover surprising shortcomings.
Check out the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.19546
& read more below 👇
May 2, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Excited to share that our paper got accepted at #ICML2025!! 🎉
We challenge Vision-Language Models like OpenAI’s o1 with Bongard problems, classic visual reasoning challenges and uncover surprising shortcomings.
Check out the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.19546
& read more below 👇
We challenge Vision-Language Models like OpenAI’s o1 with Bongard problems, classic visual reasoning challenges and uncover surprising shortcomings.
Check out the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.19546
& read more below 👇
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I’m excited to announce that I’m recruiting for a fully-funded 3.5-year PhD position in my lab in Southampton (UK). For details and to apply, see here: www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Next Generation Ophthalmic Testing: “Continuous Psychophysics” for Rapid and User-Friendly Assessment of Visual, Movement, and Cognitive Disorders
Discover more about our research project: Next Generation Ophthalmic Testing: “Continuous Psychophysics” for Rapid and User-Friendly Assessment of Visual, Movement, and Cognitive Disorders at the U...
www.southampton.ac.uk
May 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I’m excited to announce that I’m recruiting for a fully-funded 3.5-year PhD position in my lab in Southampton (UK). For details and to apply, see here: www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Welcome #VSS2025! For those attending the sunny, beaches, and science at this years Florida conference, make sure not to miss the awesome talks and posters from our lab!
May 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Welcome #VSS2025! For those attending the sunny, beaches, and science at this years Florida conference, make sure not to miss the awesome talks and posters from our lab!
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Registration for IICCSSS 2025 in Darmstadt is open! 🥳 Sign up now for a week of exciting talks, hands-on projects and inspiring discussions! www.iiccsss.org/registration/
As always, IICCSSS is free, and open to all students who are excited about computational cognitive science 💡🧠
As always, IICCSSS is free, and open to all students who are excited about computational cognitive science 💡🧠
registration | IICCSSS
International Interdisciplinary Computational Cognitive Science Summer School
www.iiccsss.org
May 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Registration for IICCSSS 2025 in Darmstadt is open! 🥳 Sign up now for a week of exciting talks, hands-on projects and inspiring discussions! www.iiccsss.org/registration/
As always, IICCSSS is free, and open to all students who are excited about computational cognitive science 💡🧠
As always, IICCSSS is free, and open to all students who are excited about computational cognitive science 💡🧠
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Very excited to be part of the Simons collaboration on ecological neuroscience @simonsfoundation.org together with this fantastic team! Theory-driven investigation of where representations for perception, cognition, and action in ecological tasks come from. POMDPs FTW. Stay tuned for job openings...
We are excited to announce our new Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE)! This program will unite experts in experimental and computational #neuroscience approaches to investigate how the brain represents sensorimotor interactions. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s... #science
Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience
Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience on Simons Foundation
www.simonsfoundation.org
April 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Very excited to be part of the Simons collaboration on ecological neuroscience @simonsfoundation.org together with this fantastic team! Theory-driven investigation of where representations for perception, cognition, and action in ecological tasks come from. POMDPs FTW. Stay tuned for job openings...