Sander van Bree
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Postdoc @jlugiessen — how is cognition realized by the brain? Oscillations aficionado, mind sciences omnivore, hip-hop head
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This was fun! https://t.co/QoXCXKKe0B
Neuronal oscillations, exhaust fumes or causally efficacious?? Check this great discussion in the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon! With @sandervanbree @dlevenstein Matt Krause (@prokraustinator) Richard Gao (@_rdgao) Recording: https://t.co/ooTdABPXTq
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**CORRECTION of link** Neurocomputational architecture for syntax/language Neuro & Philo Salon: join our discussion with Elliot Murphy with commentaries by @wmatchin and @sandervanbree Nov 5, 10:30 am eastern US Registration: https://t.co/hETUxrMJGs
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*Neurocomputational architecture for syntax/ language* Neuroscience & Philo Salon: join our discussion with Elliot Murphy with commentaries by @wmatchin and @sandervanbree Nov 5, 10:30 am eastern US Register: https://t.co/lvkU69EPTr
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Are you interested in our work on complex physical systems and applications (to neural systems)? Wanna join us in Sydney? 🐨 🦘 We have two open positions: 1. Postdoc position: https://t.co/0b4JOEKcSZ 2. Fully-funded PhD position: https://t.co/g6RbvNlaUt
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JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! 1/
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We are super happy to announce the fourth edition of School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Come to Warsaw in September for in-depth talks, discussions and workshops that will help you to make sense of your data! The deadline for registration is July 21, 2025.
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Despite recent criticism from Quiroga to our claim that Concept Neurons emerge from Conjunctive Coding Neurons we claim: “And yet, the hippocampus codes conjunctively!”. We hope it sparks a smile (and maybe a few debates). Read here: https://t.co/8OqYlxUiPk
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How is high-level visual cortex organized? In a new preprint with @martin_hebart & @KathaDobs, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈 https://t.co/4dU8LVXC4f 🧵 1/n
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preprint alert 🚨 1/ Can we accurately detect sequential replay in humans using Temporally Delayed Linear Modelling (#TDLM)? Recently, we could not find any replay and decided to dig deeper by running a simulation with surprising results. Link to preprint & details below 👇
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Info theory offers powerful measures for capturing complexity & interaction among elements of a complex system, like the brain! 🧠 Here's our new unified reference for key info-theoretic time series measures ft. 📊 visuals, ➗equations, & 💬descriptions: https://t.co/nbBxTNHmhU
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We are #hiring for a fully funded PhD position at TU Dresden. Message me if you're interested in joining our team. I’m attending COSYNE 2025 if you would like to meet! #cosyne2025 #cosyne25
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Enjoyed this discussion with @drmichaellevin We discussed scientific explanation, its types, causation, reduction/emergence, & other topics. Great to see the strength of bringing both science and philosophy to the table for hard topics! https://t.co/YnwaRUmSKW
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New manuscript published! ✍️👀 Concept neurons evolve from index neurons through overlapping memories. Check it out here: https://t.co/QECrXb6vhj 1/15
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I find that often, it will just fund the idea. For example, it says octopus-brain predictions of the stock market warrant "most requested funding" Naturally, one can prompt the model to be more or less critical, but it ignores basic physical principles under a default expert mode
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Then, open a new LLM instance and instruct it to be an expert grant reviewer with powers to allocate funds to the project. Maybe add agency-specific review guidelines if you like.
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IMO the way to test this claim is not to give R1 a good proposal, but a really bad one. First, ask the model to write a compelling proposal for a bunk idea that no expert would fund. In my case it came up with predicting the stock market from grown octopus brains.
Testing out DeepSeek-R1's ability to do "science" in one-shot. I asked it to critique my 2017 R01 proposal which was scored Impact 26, 10% percentile, and funded by NINDS. (I wrote the proposal, I have the rights to share it with anyone or anything). I uploaded a PDF of my
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JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Plus PhD positions for April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! We had to re-start the process after our preferred candidate withdrew. Info 👇.
PLEASE SHARE: apply to my postdoc in Osaka. Comp cogneuro of learning, control, & concept representation. fMRI, cognitive models & deep nets. Initial deadline Oct 18, pls contact me if interested. The deadline will be extended once so don't worry if u need more time.
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New preprint! #bioelectricity @SantoshManicka Most recent work on bioelectric control of morphogenesis focuses on spatial patterns of cell membrane voltage (a "particle" approach). However, the godfather of the field, the amazing Harold Burr ( https://t.co/yECHRt1WLF) said
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Biological Theory - Harold Saxton Burr was a biologist working throughout the 1930s–1950s on an important set of problems related to biological organization and the origin of complex living...
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Philosophy & Theory of Neuroscience Conference 🧠 next week @ Chapman & available via zoom.Talks by @drmichaellevin @meganakpeters Newsome, Yassa, Roskies, Carolyn Parkinson, Frederick Eberhardt & many others! https://t.co/uD2TmEybtN
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We offer our gratitude to the TICS editor, the reviewers for their constructive comments, and folks listed in the Acknowledgments section. Read here: https://t.co/ZgsAAdpPkA Public discussion hosted by @PessoaBrain:
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On the whole, we view our contribution to be one of clarification. If two scientists have starkly different conceptions in mind when they discuss oscillations in their writing or conversation, this will hamper empirical progress.
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