Fernanda González
@fernandagonzalez.bsky.social
Studying minds and brains by the Mediterranean coast.
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Free till 8th Dec! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Hegel's Philosophy of Nature
Cambridge Core - Ancient Philosophy - Hegel's Philosophy of Nature
www.cambridge.org
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Free till 8th Dec! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Another of Charlie Gross’s passions was history of neuroscience. He wrote excellent books. This gave him a wide-angle view. He taught us that dogma exists to be challenged, we haven’t figured things out, and being a stepping stone is inevitable and perfectly fine.
direct.mit.edu/books/book/2...
direct.mit.edu/books/book/2...
Brain, Vision, Memory: Tales in the History of Neuroscience
In these engaging tales describing the growth of knowledge about the brain—from the early Egyptians and Greeks to the Dark Ages and the Renaissance to the
direct.mit.edu
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Another of Charlie Gross’s passions was history of neuroscience. He wrote excellent books. This gave him a wide-angle view. He taught us that dogma exists to be challenged, we haven’t figured things out, and being a stepping stone is inevitable and perfectly fine.
direct.mit.edu/books/book/2...
direct.mit.edu/books/book/2...
The finest strategy against overworking I've implemented thus far.
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The finest strategy against overworking I've implemented thus far.
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Join us for tomorrow’s Consciousness Club - Yair Pinto (www.uva.nl/en/profile/p...) on “No easy solutions for the Hard Problem of consciousness”. Should be fun!
Wednesday Nov 5th, 11am-1230pm UK time
For more info and how to join see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
Wednesday Nov 5th, 11am-1230pm UK time
For more info and how to join see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
November 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Join us for tomorrow’s Consciousness Club - Yair Pinto (www.uva.nl/en/profile/p...) on “No easy solutions for the Hard Problem of consciousness”. Should be fun!
Wednesday Nov 5th, 11am-1230pm UK time
For more info and how to join see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
Wednesday Nov 5th, 11am-1230pm UK time
For more info and how to join see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
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Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
October 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
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When reporting on these kinds of claims, the media should ask:
September 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
When reporting on these kinds of claims, the media should ask:
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🚨 New preprint out! 🚨
“Translating the Transcriptome: A Connectomics Approach for Gene-Network Mapping and Clinical Application”
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 
🧵 A short thread:
“Translating the Transcriptome: A Connectomics Approach for Gene-Network Mapping and Clinical Application”
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 
🧵 A short thread:
August 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
🚨 New preprint out! 🚨
“Translating the Transcriptome: A Connectomics Approach for Gene-Network Mapping and Clinical Application”
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 
🧵 A short thread:
“Translating the Transcriptome: A Connectomics Approach for Gene-Network Mapping and Clinical Application”
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 
🧵 A short thread:
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Here in the style of Burroughs:
Mock tribunal in the NIH meat locker. Fluorescents buzzing, spitting static. Half-rotted grant carcasses laid out on the table, twitching. You circle, knives of jargon sharpened, scalpels of critique. Tear the paper flesh, spill the weak hypotheses on the linoleum.
Mock tribunal in the NIH meat locker. Fluorescents buzzing, spitting static. Half-rotted grant carcasses laid out on the table, twitching. You circle, knives of jargon sharpened, scalpels of critique. Tear the paper flesh, spill the weak hypotheses on the linoleum.
August 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Here in the style of Burroughs:
Mock tribunal in the NIH meat locker. Fluorescents buzzing, spitting static. Half-rotted grant carcasses laid out on the table, twitching. You circle, knives of jargon sharpened, scalpels of critique. Tear the paper flesh, spill the weak hypotheses on the linoleum.
Mock tribunal in the NIH meat locker. Fluorescents buzzing, spitting static. Half-rotted grant carcasses laid out on the table, twitching. You circle, knives of jargon sharpened, scalpels of critique. Tear the paper flesh, spill the weak hypotheses on the linoleum.
This is live now!
This Friday NEMI 2025 is at Northeastern in Boston, 8 talks, 24 roundtables, 90 posters; 200+ attendees. Thanks to
goodfire.ai/ for sponsoring! nemiconf.github.io/summer25/
If you can't make it in person, the livestream will be here:
www.youtube.com/live/4BJBis...
goodfire.ai/ for sponsoring! nemiconf.github.io/summer25/
If you can't make it in person, the livestream will be here:
www.youtube.com/live/4BJBis...
New England Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop
About:The New England Mechanistic Interpretability (NEMI) workshop aims to bring together academic and industry researchers from the New England and surround...
www.youtube.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is live now!
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Excited to share a new preprint w/ @michael-lepori.bsky.social & Michael Franke!
A dominant approach in AI/cogsci uses *outputs* from AI models (eg logprobs) to predict human behavior.
But how does model *processing* (across layers in a forward pass) relate to human real-time processing? 👇 (1/12)
A dominant approach in AI/cogsci uses *outputs* from AI models (eg logprobs) to predict human behavior.
But how does model *processing* (across layers in a forward pass) relate to human real-time processing? 👇 (1/12)
May 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Excited to share a new preprint w/ @michael-lepori.bsky.social & Michael Franke!
A dominant approach in AI/cogsci uses *outputs* from AI models (eg logprobs) to predict human behavior.
But how does model *processing* (across layers in a forward pass) relate to human real-time processing? 👇 (1/12)
A dominant approach in AI/cogsci uses *outputs* from AI models (eg logprobs) to predict human behavior.
But how does model *processing* (across layers in a forward pass) relate to human real-time processing? 👇 (1/12)
It'd be nice if bsky was more substacky... it'd be even nicer if social media protocolization was enforced and everything became more bskyish.
August 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It'd be nice if bsky was more substacky... it'd be even nicer if social media protocolization was enforced and everything became more bskyish.
Super excited about this!!
Join us for "Philosophy of Neuromorphic AI" at @ispsm.bsky.social (ISPSM) on Oct 24th (10:30-12:30 CEST)! Discussing topics related to our special issue forthcoming in @philosophyofai.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Super excited about this!!
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What is emergence? This is one of the most central ingredients of complexity, and a challenging one to formalize. Here's a paper by @seanmcarroll.bsky.social & Achyth Parola that attempts to classify different forms of emergence. @manlius.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2410.15468
August 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
What is emergence? This is one of the most central ingredients of complexity, and a challenging one to formalize. Here's a paper by @seanmcarroll.bsky.social & Achyth Parola that attempts to classify different forms of emergence. @manlius.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2410.15468
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If you're interested in consciousness, please check this accepted chapter where I try to confront two major assumptions
1) the NCC is probably some type of pattern of spiking
2) we're close to figuring out the computations underlying consciousness
arxiv.org/abs/2506.21485
#consci #assc28
🧵👇
1) the NCC is probably some type of pattern of spiking
2) we're close to figuring out the computations underlying consciousness
arxiv.org/abs/2506.21485
#consci #assc28
🧵👇
The assumptions that restrain us from understanding consciousness
The science of consciousness has been successful over the last decades. Yet, it seems that some of the key questions remain unanswered. Perhaps, as a science of consciousness, we cannot move forward u...
arxiv.org
June 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
If you're interested in consciousness, please check this accepted chapter where I try to confront two major assumptions
1) the NCC is probably some type of pattern of spiking
2) we're close to figuring out the computations underlying consciousness
arxiv.org/abs/2506.21485
#consci #assc28
🧵👇
1) the NCC is probably some type of pattern of spiking
2) we're close to figuring out the computations underlying consciousness
arxiv.org/abs/2506.21485
#consci #assc28
🧵👇
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I do think this one from @kordinglab.bsky.social is required reading, at least to be aware of the issues and risk of over-interpreting correlation-only “representation”.
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Three aspects of representation in neuroscience
Neuroscientists often describe neural activity as a representation of something, or
claim to have found evidence for a neural representation, but there is considerable
ambiguity about what such claims...
www.cell.com
April 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I do think this one from @kordinglab.bsky.social is required reading, at least to be aware of the issues and risk of over-interpreting correlation-only “representation”.
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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You probably know Dan Dennett’s “Where Am I?” brain duplicate thought experiment.
But did you also know there’s a film adaptation of it—starring Daniel Dennett as Daniel Dennett?
youtu.be/_zM7VEhQh4w?...
But did you also know there’s a film adaptation of it—starring Daniel Dennett as Daniel Dennett?
youtu.be/_zM7VEhQh4w?...
Victim of the Brain: A Film about the Ideas of Douglas R. Hofstadter (with Daniel C. Dennett)
YouTube video by Dáithi O'Cinnsealach
youtu.be
March 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
You probably know Dan Dennett’s “Where Am I?” brain duplicate thought experiment.
But did you also know there’s a film adaptation of it—starring Daniel Dennett as Daniel Dennett?
youtu.be/_zM7VEhQh4w?...
But did you also know there’s a film adaptation of it—starring Daniel Dennett as Daniel Dennett?
youtu.be/_zM7VEhQh4w?...
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"Survey measures of metacognitive monitoring are often false" - N = 273 study examines self-reported metacognition scales vs task based measures and finds a negative correlation at best. Interoception research really needs to realise this... link.springer.com/article/10.3... #psychscisky
Survey measures of metacognitive monitoring are often false - Behavior Research Methods
Metacognitive monitoring is an extremely important ability that predicts a wide range of outcomes. However, do people have insight into their own metacognitive monitoring capacity? This study measured...
link.springer.com
February 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
"Survey measures of metacognitive monitoring are often false" - N = 273 study examines self-reported metacognition scales vs task based measures and finds a negative correlation at best. Interoception research really needs to realise this... link.springer.com/article/10.3... #psychscisky
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🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper📃🚨
Out today, @jackiegio.bsky.social discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free full text: rdcu.be/eaxEv
Out today, @jackiegio.bsky.social discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free full text: rdcu.be/eaxEv
A dual-pathway architecture for stress to disrupt agency and promote habit - Nature
Adaptive decision-making often requires an understanding of our agency in a situation; however, chronic stress can disrupt agency and promote inflexible, habitual behaviour by turning off a brain path...
www.nature.com
February 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper📃🚨
Out today, @jackiegio.bsky.social discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free full text: rdcu.be/eaxEv
Out today, @jackiegio.bsky.social discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free full text: rdcu.be/eaxEv
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𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀?
If interested in brain dynamics this one is a feast!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
If interested in brain dynamics this one is a feast!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
February 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀?
If interested in brain dynamics this one is a feast!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
If interested in brain dynamics this one is a feast!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
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Have you checked out the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science?
New(ish): Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science - Daily Nous
The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) is a free, online collection of multidisciplinary peer-reviewed articles on various topics in cognitive science. Officially launched last August by MI...
dailynous.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Have you checked out the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science?
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So much research focusses on using brain connectivity to predict an individual's cognition, IQ, disease status, etc.
BUT what about the inverse problem?
Can personal data be used to build an individual's whole connectome?
YES - with AI:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
BUT what about the inverse problem?
Can personal data be used to build an individual's whole connectome?
YES - with AI:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM
So much research focusses on using brain connectivity to predict an individual's cognition, IQ, disease status, etc.
BUT what about the inverse problem?
Can personal data be used to build an individual's whole connectome?
YES - with AI:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
BUT what about the inverse problem?
Can personal data be used to build an individual's whole connectome?
YES - with AI:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I found this to be an informative and provocative read - what happened to cognitive science? Authors argue, based on bibliometric and scientometric analysis, that cognitive science as a discipline is basically dead. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What happened to cognitive science? - Nature Human Behaviour
Núñez et al. use bibliometric and socio-institutional indicators to show that over the years, cognitive science has failed to transition to a mature, coherent, interdisciplinary field.
www.nature.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I found this to be an informative and provocative read - what happened to cognitive science? Authors argue, based on bibliometric and scientometric analysis, that cognitive science as a discipline is basically dead. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Many cognitive neuroscientists ignore the cerebellum but it's long past time to pay more attention to it (and fund more cerebellum grants).
Not just for basic science: the cerebellum is commonly affected by pediatric brain tumors, leading to lifelong motor AND cognitive deficits.
Must-read paper 👇🏼
Not just for basic science: the cerebellum is commonly affected by pediatric brain tumors, leading to lifelong motor AND cognitive deficits.
Must-read paper 👇🏼
Ignoring the cerebellum is hindering progress in neuroscience
Traditionally considered a motor structure, the cerebellum has been shown to play a key role in several cognitive functions. However, for decades, the…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Many cognitive neuroscientists ignore the cerebellum but it's long past time to pay more attention to it (and fund more cerebellum grants).
Not just for basic science: the cerebellum is commonly affected by pediatric brain tumors, leading to lifelong motor AND cognitive deficits.
Must-read paper 👇🏼
Not just for basic science: the cerebellum is commonly affected by pediatric brain tumors, leading to lifelong motor AND cognitive deficits.
Must-read paper 👇🏼
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With so many institutions being silent, I am *so proud* to see the University of California system sharing valuable resources, joining lawsuits, and reaffirming our values.
Time to be loud about the importance of education & science, and read up on our rights and responsibilities to our students 📢
Time to be loud about the importance of education & science, and read up on our rights and responsibilities to our students 📢
Federal updates
Learn how UC is closely monitoring updates from the federal government.
www.universityofcalifornia.edu
February 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
With so many institutions being silent, I am *so proud* to see the University of California system sharing valuable resources, joining lawsuits, and reaffirming our values.
Time to be loud about the importance of education & science, and read up on our rights and responsibilities to our students 📢
Time to be loud about the importance of education & science, and read up on our rights and responsibilities to our students 📢
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By analogy with autoencoders, we argue that the genome embodies a compressed representation of the organism in a space of latent variables
February 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
By analogy with autoencoders, we argue that the genome embodies a compressed representation of the organism in a space of latent variables