RIP redundancy reduction?
Beautiful work by Liu & colleagues showing that neural redundancy increases with learning, as predicted by a Bayesian model:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Can you recommend papers in epidemiology/biomedicine that do causal inference on observational data and thoroughly and explicitly discuss their underlying causal model and assumptions ? @dingdingpeng.the100.ci #episky
Datasets for Reconstructing Visual Perception from Brain Data | Discussion
Die Europäer sind ja *leider* nicht so “dumm” wie Amerikaner und Deutsche. Bei der Windstromerzeugung per Capita liegen die beiden Letzteren ja sogar klar vorne.
As always, my last post of the year reminder...
Reducing emissions will reduce future climate warming and impacts. The time is now. Visualization made by globalcarbonbudget.org.
Thanks for being here in 2025! I appreciate all the support 🙂
This week is ideal to draft your submission for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026 so that you can let it rest over the (potential) holidays and finalise it first thing in 2026 (deadline: January 8, 2026). 😉
Looking forward to seeing you there and - in case - happy holidays! 🎄🧠🫀🫁
Congrats Erin! Was great to have briefly met again yesterday :) looking very much forward seeing the future work of your new lab
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Check her paper & poster here: openreview.net/forum?id=m4J...
Poster session on Sunday, Dec. 7 (unfortunately Deniz was not able to come either, so I happily collect your questions for her)
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And the excellent work by Deniz Kucukahmetler on a geometry-agnostic look at how neural models learn dynamics – where forecasting accuracy meets alignment, at the #NeurIPS workshop #NeurReps as well.
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Check her paper & poster here: openreview.net/forum?id=K4o...
Poster session of the workshop „New Perspectives in Advancing Graph Machine Learning“ on Sunday, Dec. 7 (unfortunately Elham was not able to come, so I happily collect your questions for her)
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First, the great work by my colleague Elham Gholamzadeh introducing a Graph Neural Network framework that leverages large-scale pairwise microbial interaction data to accurately predict both simple & complex interspecies interaction outcomes, outperforming traditional #ML approaches.
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(5/x) Check out further work from our group led my Nico Scherf at #NeurIPS:
Super proud to have co-supervised this cool work with Nico Scherf! Also big thanks to @michaelgaebler.com for his great input to the project.
There is even more to come …
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Check our paper & poster here: openreview.net/forum?id=fu0...
In case you are in San Diego, meet me on Sunday, Dec. 7, at our poster. (3/x)
Led by Nahid Torbati, we propose novel geometric approaches using Ollivier Ricci Curvature & Ricci Flow for representational analysis of human-aligned #DL models that match human behavior in a large-scale perceptual paradigm exploring face similarity judgements under 2D&3D viewing conditions. (2/x)
I’m very delighted to share the great news that we will present on this year’s #NeurIPS 2025 workshop on Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations (NeurReps).
openreview.net/forum?id=fu0...
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When #AI “thinks” like us - New research out now in @nature.com from @lukasmut.bsky.social & @lampinen.bsky.social & @tuberlin.bsky.social & @mpib-berlin.bsky.social forms a bridge between #human and #machine representation. tinyurl.com/nhd4ycsh
Starter Pack: Max Planck scientists on Bluesky
Many Max Planck scientists have started sharing their #research findings on #BlueSky. Follow their posts and join the conversation! 👋 go.bsky.app/BYcBy6R #StarterPack
Trying to build an experiment in Unity and slowly losing your patience?
Spoiler: that’s completely normal!
Meet EDIA - a modular framework for building studies in Unity.
🧩 Reusable modules
📊 Data sync
🕶️ Multi-headset support
And yes, a “Find Waldo” demo is included - because science should be fun!
TU Berlin For Future - Die Ringvorlesung zum Klimaschutz Teil 1 - im WiSe 25/26, ab dem 20.10.25 immer montags um 16:15, online via Zoom
Es ist Montag und wieder Zeit für die #Klimaschutz #Ringvorlesung an der @tuberlin.bsky.social. Heute geht es um Finanzielle Bildung und Bildung für nachhaltigen Konsum. Es referiert Prof. Ulf Schrader, Fachg. Arbeitslehre, Ökonomie und nachhaltiger Konsum. Mehr Infos: www.tu.berlin/aloenk/studi...
How does subthalamic activity relate to Parkinson’s disease symptoms?
In a truly collaborative effort across #DBS centers, we aggregated a diverse dataset of invasive recordings from 119 patients.
Full article: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Main findings 🧵⬇️
Nick (@willenjoy.bsky.social) is obsessed with signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). And for good reason! It could explain many results. Our simulation toolbox meegsim enables setting up SNR of individual sources as well as SNR of all signal sources with respect to all noise sources.
meegsim.readthedocs.io
Logo of the MindBrainBody Symposium
Nice things for the
**13th #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026**
happening under the hood 😊
Save the date: 📆 March 9-11, 2026 (Berlin and virtual)
Stay tuned for the call and announcement!
(For info about the last 12 MBBSymposia: mindbrainbody.de)
#interoception #neuroskyence
We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
🔍 Have we solved the replication crisis?
Join us for an IGOR panel discussion on the state of Open Science in biological psychology more than a decade after the crisis first hit.
📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET
💻 Online (contact us for the link)
#OpenScience #neuroskyence #academicsky
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In some way, it's trivial:
The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled.
Yet, we spelled it out
w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below)
w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...
📢Our peer-reviewed article about the AffectTracker is finally out! 😲🕹️📈
Traditional methods for rating emotion often miss the dynamic, moment-to-moment nature of feelings. We designed a tool to capture this continuous affective experience in real-time during dynamic emotional stimulation.
I am excited to share our latest research published in the EJEP! We used GAMMs to apply Rose’s theoretical work to prevention strategies targeting social isolation. Our results indicate that population strategies are more promising than individualized interventions.
We want to hear *your voice* on taboos in women's and gender diverse health! 💬🧠Your perspective will directly inform priorities in research and a women's health resource platform. Find survey link at our website: www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs/en/resea...
