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📣 Interested in applying computational methods to advance understanding of mental health? Join us for the New York Computational Psychiatry Workshop (Nov 10-12)!

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More info: bit.ly/nycpw2025

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Introducing CellTransformer, a new AI tool developed with UCSF that makes it easier to explore massive neuroscience datasets and identify important subregions of the brain. 🧵

#Cosyne2026 deadline is just around the corner:

🧠📜 **16 October 2025! 📜🧠

See below for more on key dates and abstract submission:
www.cosyne.org/abstracts-su...

10 MORE DAYS! I would love to see some #DISI #CogDev #SciComm submissions come through!

Community-Aligned AI Benchmarks Reimagining the technical machine learning benchmarks that drive model development to reflect and encode public values.

AGI is a bad goal.
We don’t need more intelligent systems; we need more helpful, beneficial, humanitarian systems. We should measure how “advanced” technology is, not by how well it mimics human capability, but by how it expands it.
www.aspendigital.org/project/ai-b...

OECS thematic collections.

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.

Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

NEUROCOG 2025 is taking place in Brussels Nov 17–18!

The theme: AI and the Human Brain 🤖 🧠

We’re thrilled to welcome 6 amazing invited speakers:
@evfedorenko.bsky.social, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, @jeffreybowers.bsky.social, @irisgroen.bsky.social & @mtoneva.bsky.social

@evfedorenko.bsky.social at Berkley LLM workshop gave insightful talk today:

-Broca / Wernicke s are speech areas, not language areas per se
-language networks similar across 50 languages
-most language voxel are INsensitive to semantics
-lesion studies suggest thought intact but speech impaired

2/4 And I thought- this is so deeply true: elections are not about politicians, about what they promise, what they want to do, what they *think* people want.

A copy of "What is Life: Evolution as Computation" by Blaise Aguera y Arcas on a white background.

Google’s Blaise Agüera y Arcas says humans’ development of technology—most recently, AI—is part of a long history of symbiotic relationships that have pushed our evolution forward. @kuow.org interviewed Agüera y Arcas on his new book, "What is Life?": www.kuow.org/stories/can-...

Here in Boston AND virtually online!

TeχnēCON unites leading minds at the intersection of #ethics and AI for a critical examination of technology’s future.

computing.mit.edu/cross-cuttin...
#techethics #dataethics #aiethics

What do people think about spirituality in metamodern times?

Non linear work
Can we normalise this

Is anyone else working in “bursts” of energy and creativity?

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see

1. The data it was trained & evaluated on

2. The code

3. Model architecture

4. Model weights.

DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

Humans have been training LLMs to respond with warmth and competence, but humans themselves often times lack these basic communication skills.

So why aren’t we working more on ourselves (through coaching, reading, therapy) but we are working on software instead? 😅

🕹️ Simulate diverse scenarios to uncover potential exploits before deploying the system. 🕹️

Maybe we should look more into tech to learn how to be better as humans