Rui Mata
@rui__mata
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Professor for Cognitive and Decision Sciences @UniBasel
Basel, Switzerland
Joined November 2017
Job announcement: Junior Professorship in Computational Social Science at the University of Konstanz. Join us at the Center for Data and Methods! Feel free to reach out if you have questions. https://t.co/O8yxogBbGq
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🚨 New preprint 🚨 Excited to share this preprint led by @ZakASHussain (with @rui__mata and Ben Newell), comparing the semantic contents of embedding models from text, brain, and behavior data. We find that behavior captures key psychological dimensions better than text,
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Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results @NatureHumBehav • This study introduces BrainBench, a forward-looking benchmark designed to evaluate large language models (LLMs) on their ability to predict neuroscience research outcomes. Results
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Preprint: Individual-level semantic networks are a critical ingredient for building realistic cognitive models. In our simulation, @rui__mata, @dirkuwulff, and I show when measurements of individual semantic networks are accurate and when they are not. https://t.co/MrWWmuR7vc
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Wie sieht dein mentales Lexikon aus? Mit unserem Wortassoziationsspiel @SWOW_DE möchten wir herausfinden, wie Wörter im #Gedächtnis angeordnet sind. Nimm teil! https://t.co/RMs2Sg3JSO
#CitizenScience #Sprache
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🚨 Job alert 🚨 I am looking for a PhD and Postdoc to join @arc_mpib at @mpib_berlin and work with me, @rui__mata, @marcel_binz, and @susafiedler on using LLMs to improve the generalizability in the behavioral and social sciences and other topics related to LLMs. The positions
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Such an honour to host Linda Steg tonight for a Bernoulli Lecture / 10th anniversary of our PhD program! We have a full room in the beautiful Klingental Museum for Linda's talk on Encouraging Climate Action 🌏
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🚨 New preprint 🚨 I am excited to share a piece with @rui__mata and @ZakASHussain in which we advocate for a greater reliance on open LLMs in the behavioral and social sciences. Despite the availability of powerful, more reproducible open alternatives (e.g., via @huggingface),
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Exciting 4-yr PhD position pushing the boundaries of LLMs for engineering at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon / TU Hamburg, supervised by the amazing Roland Aydin & co-supervised by me. Applications due on 1 Sep! https://t.co/8uQGn537B3
#PhDPosition #ML #Engineering #LLM #Hamburg
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I am thrilled to share that the @dfg_public is financing my proposal, "Addressing the generalizability crisis with large language models," as part of the @meta_rep priority program. I will soon announce openings for a PhD and a Postdoc position at @mpib_berlin (three years,
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🚨 New article 🚨 Open LLMs are powerful and reproducible alternatives to closed models like GPT or Gemini. In this tutorial, we (@ZakASHussain, @marcel_binz, @rui__mata) explain how LLMs work and show how to apply open LLMs to behavioral science questions using the
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🚨Call for help🚨 For our piece 'Are LLMs "just" next-token predictors?" ( https://t.co/cT0mRPNI50), we (@ZakASHussain, @rui__mata) are looking for quotes of unsubstantiated deflationary claims about LLM cognition in science or media. See https://t.co/KuqfU7UXud. 🙏Thank you!!
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Contribute to Zak-Hussain/againstJustaism development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Excited to present @rui__mata's and my work on using LLMs 🤖 to detect and reduce jingle-jangle fallacies in personality psychology 🎭 and meet others interested in LLM applications to personality at #ECP21 in Berlin this Friday at 09:30 am. Preprint: https://t.co/WsHGHgWE5r
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📢 Erneuter Aufruf zur Teilnahme an unserer Wortassoziationsstudie! Helft uns, wertvolle Daten zu sammeln, die bspw. der Verbesserung von KI-Tools und Sprachlernhilfen dienen. 🧠📚 #Sprachforschung
https://t.co/I4s7F9jmI0
tagesspiegel.de
Schon seit Langem versuchen Forscher herauszufinden, wie Sprache verarbeitet und gespeichert wird. Jetzt ruft eine Gruppe in Deutschland zu einem kurzen Online-Mitmachspiel auf.
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The study in which we report on this was just published in the Sustainability Science journal! We validated and improved on methods to monitor #SDGs from text🌍 https://t.co/Z9XOFoXI2e Try it yourself:
link.springer.com
Sustainability Science - A number of labeling systems based on text have been proposed to help monitor work on the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Here, we present a...
How #AI improves the understanding of contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (#SDGs): Check it out in our open-source #R package 👉 https://t.co/hvxGjAMfSc More on our AI-based research 👉 https://t.co/yenQoLLBDe
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🚨 New article 🚨 Excited that this article with @Dominikmeie_r and @rui__mata is finally out. We critically discuss key challenges for monitoring #SDGs from text and present a novel, accurate ensemble model available via https://t.co/5BP9QRN0Pa.
https://t.co/fbQiARehSS
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Die Wortassoziationsstudie sucht weiterhin Teilnehmende! 🙋♀️🙋 Samuel Aeschbach @arc_mpib stellt im Interview mit @dlfkultur "Small World of Words"@SWOW_DE vor. #citizenscience #Sprache #Forschung
https://t.co/t8jDA1qfYm
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Woran denkst du, wenn du das Wort „Eis“ liest? An Sommertage, die nächste Eisdiele oder zugefrorene Straßen? Nimm an unserem Wortassoziationsspiel @SWOW_DE teil und hilf uns herauszufinden, wie Wörter im Gedächtnis angeordnet sind: https://t.co/pinPmx8m9s
#CitizenScience #Sprache
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🚨 New preprint 🚨 Are LLMs "just" next-token predictors? In this opinion piece, @ZakASHussain, @rui__mata, and I argue for more nuanced discussions of LLM cognition. Please share your feedback. Preprint: https://t.co/cT0mRPNI50
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Open position in my lab 📯 Postdoctoral researcher in Youth Mental Health (80-100%) at Faculty of Psychology @UniBasel_en
https://t.co/j1jlCynkjy
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