Dirk Gütlin

One donor accounts for 65% of Reform UK's 2025 donation income.

The party's average reported donation is £112k.

Not exactly a people's revolution.

Neural Tuning for Ordinal Processing: Convergent Patterns in Human Brains and Artificial Networks Processing ordinality, i.e., the rank of an item in a series such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc., is a fundamental skill shared by humans and animals. While humans often use symbolic sequences like numbers or...

Neural Tuning for Ordinal Processing: Convergent Patterns in Human Brains and Artificial Networks

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Information theoretic measures of neural and behavioural coupling predict representational drift Author summary Activity in the brain represents information about the outside world and how we interact with it. Recent evidence shows that these representations slowly change day to day, while memori...

Out now in @plos.org CB: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Neural representations of tasks change over time, even in the absence of changes in task performance. But neurons change tuning at different rates. How does a neuron's stability relate to its interactions with the population?
#compneuro #neuroskyence

High-fidelity neural speech reconstruction through an efficient acoustic-linguistic dual-pathway framework Concurrent decoding of acoustic detail and linguistic structure enables natural, intelligible speech synthesis from limited human cortical recordings, resolving a fundamental constraint in neural spee...

High-fidelity neural speech reconstruction through an efficient acoustic-linguistic dual-pathway framework

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Multimodality as a safeguard of honesty in communication and language: from Animals to Humans

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📢 PhD position in the NeuroAI of Language

Why can LLMs predict brain activity so well? We're hiring a PhD student to find out -- AI interpretability meets neuroimaging
Deadline March 20
Please RT 🙏
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mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/fully-funded-4-year-phd-position-neuroai-language

I am totally pumped about this new work . "Task-trained RNNs" are a powerful and influential framework in neuroscience, but have lacked a firm theoretical footing. This work provides one, and makes direct contact with the classical theory of random RNNs:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Dissociable dynamic effects of expectation during statistical learning Neural responses during statistical learning reveal dissociable dynamic effects of expectation, supporting the opposing process theory within trials while demonstrating contrasting effects across tria...

🚨New paper alert 🚨

Using EEG and decoding analyses we find dynamic effects of expectation during statistical learning, both within and across trials 🧠

@auksz.bsky.social @fedemar.bsky.social
Caspar Schwiedrzik

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AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

Wikipedia editors investigated how OKA was operating and found that it was mostly relying on cheap labor from contractors in the Global South, and that these contractors were instructed to copy/paste articles to popular LLMs to produce translations.

Framework for hierarchical deep reinforcement learning with conceptual embedding Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) faces challenges when the combinatorial state-action space becomes excessively large. Hierarchical DRL (HDRL) provid…

Framework for hierarchical deep reinforcement learning with conceptual embedding

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Recurrent cortical networks encode natural sensory statistics via sequence filtering The visual cortex receives a stream of high-dimensional sensory input. The role of dense local, recurrent cortical connections in shaping responses to these inputs has been unclear. Here, we show that...

Recurrent cortical networks encode natural sensory statistics via sequence filtering

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The generalized Hierarchical Gaussian Filter

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Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses - Nature Neuroscience Top-down projections from the orbitofrontal cortex carry predictive signals that grow with sound experience and suppress the auditory cortex via inhibitory circuits, revealing a predictive mechanism f...

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses

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The effects of political advertising on Facebook and Instagram before the 2020 US election - Nature Human Behaviour Allcott et al. conducted an experiment in 2020, removing political ads from the feeds of randomly selected Facebook and Instagram users. There were no statistically significant effects on political ou...

The effects of political advertising on Facebook and Instagram before the 2020 US election

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔑 Our key finding: TUS over the frontal eye fields (FEF) excited saccadic behavior, effectively biasing eye movements towards the contralateral side within a fraction of a second. 👀 This confirms that TUS can modulate behavioral in humans in real time.

Delayed, Reduced and Redundant: Information Processing of Prediction Errors during Human Sleep During sleep, the human brain transitions to a ‘sentinel processing mode’, enabling the continued processing of environmental stimuli despite the absence of consciousness. We employed advanced informa...

Delayed, Reduced and Redundant: Information Processing of Prediction Errors during Human Sleep

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Ten simple rules for building a collaborative coding culture

Ten simple rules for building a collaborative coding culture

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A generalized Bayesian framework for maximizing information gain and model selection Author summary In this work, we present a generalized Bayesian framework for designing informative experiments and selecting suitable models in biological systems. In simple terms, our method identifi...

A generalized Bayesian framework for maximizing information gain and model selection

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The Rise of Eyes Began With Just One

Vision Science makes the front page of NYT!!
featuring work from @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social with comments from Berkeley's own @karthikshekhar.bsky.social
#visionscience

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/s...

New blog post:

"Higher orders need higher standards"

skewed.de/lab/posts/hi...

I discuss our current work disentangling misconceptions around "higher-order" networks: arxiv.org/abs/2602.16937

Explainer thread for the paper here: bsky.app/profile/tiag...

Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests - Nature Machine Intelligence Tangtartharakul and Storrs use standardized neuropsychological tests to compare human visual abilities with those of visual language models (VLMs). They report that while VLMs excel in high-level obje...

Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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This is what RESISTANCE
looks like! 🙌🏼
#fightthepower
#pinks

State House votes to rename Florida airport to Donald J. Trump international The Republican-controlled Florida House voted 81-30 in support of the name change to President Donald J. Trump International Airport

Last week Donald Trump registered the trademark "Donald J. Trump International Airport." This week Florida Republicans voted to rename Palm Beach International Airport Donald J. Trump International Airport," putting taxpayers on the hook for licensing fees that go straight to him

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.

*one voice altered to disguise identity

More complex optimization research!

Always love to see new papers on this.

I've found messages likes this scattered throughout innumerable books of the library.

I think this is serious.

Sooo, I've been browsing through the eternal library for a bit and found this...

Should I call the cops?

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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Haha. Well the correct inverse Turing test logically would be:

You chat with an LLM and if one or multiple LLMs rate your text as produced by another LLM, you're not conscious (sorry, bud).

Works 100% of the time 60% of the time 👍