andrea e. martin

Correlation is not cognition.[1] Stop with the nonsense.

Everyday we slip further into the abyss. I often regret reading emails from other academics.

[1] Guest & @andreaeyleen.bsky.social (2023). On Logical Inference over Brains, Behaviour, and Artificial Neural Networks. doi.org/10.1007/s421...

A common gotcha is "but Olivia, proofs don't capture reality" which I find honestly so beautiful because that's THE point. A formal system, a proof, maths, code, 💯 CANNOT solve reality, the frame problem, human cognition — so their gut tells them exactly the answer. Lean into it! That's exactly it.

that claims that machines can think are nonsense ALSO can formally & otherwise be shown as nonsense IF you take those fields seriously. Gödel proved it, Whitehead & Russell proved it, the frame problem captures it, and my current favourite Prigogine & Stengers show it in Order out of Chaos, and 11/n

title and abstract from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960

table 1 from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960

Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n

It's always a pleasure to read the research report from the @mpi-nl.bsky.social - but when your own work is mentioned, it does hit different. Thanks for the mention and, of course, the wonderful years of work! 🧠 💬 @andreaeyleen.bsky.social

Report: www.mpi.nl/sites/defaul...

/1 We took our sweet time (~3yrs) to put this into its final shape - but happy to say that the pre-print of an extensive review of brain rhythms in cognition - from a cognruro perspective - is now available. Please let us know what you think. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.48550/arX...

book cover of course manual

People asked me often over the years... now it's over but finally sharing it: Course manual — including readings, instructions on how to write essays and give presentations — for the course AI as a Science that I taught from 2020/21 to 2024/25 in the School of AI. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Ah yes I did want autocorrect to change ‘that’s good ghen’ to ‘that’s good Gothenburg’.

Our brains need language during early childhood for healthy development. Language deprivation has lasting effects on development, academics, workforce participation, and it is traumatic.

tl;dr language is super important for kids. (3/16)

The University of Sydney is recruiting senior and mid-career academics "within the top 5–10% of academics in their field, with a strong track record and availability to relocate to Australia within 6-months".
If you're a psychologist/neuroscientist and are interested, get in touch with me soon.

Just published! Free download at mitpress.mit.edu/978026255160... Discounts available for anyone with a US mailing address at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777572... (use code MITP30 for 30% discount today only and READMIT20 for 20% discount anytime)

A termination notice for a post-baccalaureate research program that reads “This project is terminated effective 07/31/2025. Research programs based primarily on artificial and non-scientific categories, including amorphous equity objectives, are antithetical to the scientific inquiry, do nothing to expand our knowledge of living systems, provide low returns on investment, and ultimately do not enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness. Worse, so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion ("DEI") studies are often used to support unlawful discrimination on the basis of race and other protected characteristics ICO's, which harms the health of Americans. Therefore, it is the policy of NIH not to prioritize such research programs. Therefore, no additional funding will be awarded for this project, and all future years have been removed. If appropriate, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA may request funds to support patient safety and animal welfare to support an orderly phaseout of the project.”

The 2025-2026 cohort of MINDS post-baccalaureate scholars, their near-peer graduate student mentors, faculty mentors, program directors, and mini-MINDS participants standing in front of a project screen that reads 2025 MINDS post-baccalaureate research symposium

A full seminar room of faculty, students and community members listening to the oral presentation by a second year MIND scholar.

A Ten Simple Rules perspective paper “Ten simple rules for thriving in a post-baccalaureate research program” authored by Michaelle E. DiMaggio-Potter, Angelica Velosa, John C. Brent IV, Osmar Del Rio, Eyerusalem F. Abebaw, Fernando Aguilar-Ortega, Dante Rogers, Patrick E. Rothwell, and Angeline J. Dukes.

June was a whirlwind for our post-bacc program.

The grant that funds us was terminated 😣

But we had an amazing symposium & celebrated our scholars going to grad school🎉 🎓

Now the Ten Simple Rules paper authored by our scholars is finally published 🙌🏾 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

My concern with narrative cv’s replacing CCV is that narrative cv’s seem like they are suited to PI’s that are good at spin, putting people not into self promotion at a disadvantage. And those of us at small universities with subpar research services staff will really struggle.

More postdoc opportunities in Oxford! 3-year British Academy Fellowships, for start in 2026. For work in any area of linguistics. Expressions of Interest (brief!) for internal competition due July 28. www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/06...

Scientists Use A.I. to Mimic the Mind, Warts and All

"But other scientists were less impressed. @olivia.science, a computational cognitive scientist … argued that because the scientists hadn’t used a theory about cognition in building Centaur, its prediction didn’t have much to reveal about how the mind works." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/s...

“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.”

Donate to Support Helen's Children After Her Passing, organized by Marcus Arvan Help provide Helen De Cruz's children with a better start in life after her un… Marcus Arvan needs your support for Support Helen's Children After Her Passing

www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

Our demands, see link

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss):

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Why call it “AI” when “AI” is inaccurate grift-speak while “stochastic theft” is a) accurate and b) sounds like an electronic band from the 90s

Gender imbalance in citations most pronounced in high-impact neuroscience journals In the past several years, neuroscience, like many other fields, has worked to address pervasive gender imbalances. Although tangible improvements have been made in academic publishing and conference ...

Wow! And sigh . Good for you (and us) for storming. If your colleague’s inbox could use an email, this preprint describes why it’s not good enough to just invite those who come to mind to a workshop (it’s about high profile journals, but the same idea applies).

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Interested in trying out life as a scientific #editor? Based in the UK? Background in #PlantScience? The @plosbiology.org crew is expanding (again!), so a place in our lovely team might be for you...

Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition Explaining how children build a language system is a central goal of research in language acquisition, with broad implications for language evolution, adult language processing, and artificial intelli...

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social

I am #hiring for a #postdoc in #aphasia to join me at IU! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Join me!

“Like a group of skiers descending a mountain, each [neuron] prefers a slightly different path, but all are shaped by the same slope,” says PNI's @engeltatiana.bsky.social‬ on her lab’s new ‪@nature.com‬ study revealing how the brain makes decisions.

📰: pni.princeton.edu/news/2025/al...

Out today in @nature.com: we show that individual neurons have diverse tuning to a decision variable computed by the entire population, revealing a unifying geometric principle for the encoding of sensory and dynamic cognitive variables.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Find me a cartographic feat more impressive than Inō Tadataka 1:36,000 scale map of the Japanese coastline.

17 years in the making (1800-1817), the projection consists of 214 sheets. Inō conducted the survey on foot, mixing basic pacing methods with astronomical observations. It's crazy accurate!

Fantastic collaboration with @teo121270.bsky.social L.Giambagli R.Muolo "Global Topological Dirac Synchronization": Unveiling new dynamical states of higher-order networks with the Topological Dirac operator.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... @ioppublishing.bsky.social

Deadline today! #neurojobs #psychjobs #lingjobs #langsky

deadline 23 June!! Please re-bleat(??) widely!