We really need to make Meng's Big Data Paradox central to teaching, don't we? Researchers don't know this stuff bc they have never been exposed to it. But it is fundamental. (Link to paper PDF statistics.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/file...)

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1/2 🎇 Good news! 🎇 The kind people at Behavioral and Brain Science have made the new collection on "Conscious AI and biological naturalism" #OpenAccess for a limited time: target article, all 50 commentaries, & my response. Go to the link and click 'save pdf': doi.org/10.1017/S014.... Do share!

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- Is there a doctor on the plane? - Yes, me - Can you heal? - No, but I can talk about the brain for hours.. I’ve finished my PhD! Huge thanks to @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social & jury members @neurosteven.bsky.social @jbrendanritchie.bsky.social & @Rufin Vogels

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New preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...: brain alignment in DNNs is almost fully complete at 3% of training. Features involved in classification are largely independent of those that predict the brain. With @niklasmuller.bsky.social , @irisgroen.bsky.social. @marcelvangerven.bsky.social

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Without my lab or @neurosteven.bsky.social (my #CCN2025 co-chair, who sadly cannot come), I'll be wandering solo, so I'm extra looking forward to catch up with all my @cogcompneuro.bsky.social friends! Come chat with me about scene and video perception, EEG, video-AI, life in Amsterdam...

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