Charley Wu

thecharleywu.bsky.social

25 September 2026 16:43

🚨New preprint with Fei Dai, @hanqizhou.bsky.social and @alisongopnik.bsky.social We extend empowerment (control over external states) by turning it inward. *Representational empowerment* asks which representations a learner should acquire and curate to solve future problems arxiv.org/abs/2609.02322

Mariya Toneva

mtoneva.bsky.social

25 September 2026 15:40

🚨 Two open postdoc positions in the ERC-funded project BrainAlign at the Max Planck Institute in Saarbruecken, Germany: position #1 on NeuroAI: postdocprogram.mpg.de/node/58480 position #2 on human-centered LLM evaluations: postdocprogram.mpg.de/node/58481 Application deadline: Oct 13, 2026

Nuno Busch

nunobusch.bsky.social

21 September 2026 11:35

🎁 Best birthday present this week was finally finishing and preprinting this big project: Together with @thorstenpachur.bsky.social, we investigated how loss aversion in risky choice is affected by how we learn about our options. 📖 Full-text here: lnkd.in/eKu2AEwB

Brenden Lake

brendenlake.bsky.social

27 August 2026 09:14

Excited about new work from my CCN keynote (38m): youtu.be/v3J-vJfxhOE?... We often choose between Bayesian and neural net models of behavior. But what if there's a spectrum, and combining both makes better predictions? Introducing BBT w @akjagadish.bsky.social & Guangyuan arxiv.org/abs/2608.22154

Alireza Modirshanechi

modirshanechi.bsky.social

15 August 2026 16:33

Excited to share that I'll be starting as a junior professor and Emmy Noether awardee at the University of Göttingen this October! 🥳 🚀 I'll be hiring #phd students and #postdoc across #machinelearning, #neuroscience and #cogsci: modirlab.github.io/open-positio... Please spread the word! 🙏