Mariya Toneva

Photo of Prof. Dr. Sven Apel wearing glasses and a maroon polo shirt, standing with arms crossed against a light wall with sunlight casting striped shadows. Saarland Informatics Campus logo rests at the top left, while the Saarland University logo rests on the top right. A banner at the bottom reads: “Sven Apel becomes the 11th ACM Fellow of Saarbrücken.”

🏆 Saarbrücken now houses 11 ACM Fellows — about 1/3 of all ACM Fellows in Germany — highest of any location nationwide. This year, only 3 new Fellows in Germany were named, and Saarland University software engineering professor Sven Apel was one!

Congrats, Prof. Apel! 👏

🔗 Read more: sic.link/apel

🔬 We're hiring a Junior Group Leader for Data-Driven Digital Twins/System Models in medicine/life sciences at @uni_goettingen! Perfect opportunity for early-career researchers who want to:
- Lead their own research group
- Work at the intersection of AI, simulation, and biomedicine

Top: A syntax tree for the sentence "the doctor by the lawyer saw the artist". Bottom: A continuous vector.

🤖🧠I'll be considering applications for PhD students & postdocs to start at Yale in Fall 2026!

If you are interested in the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, & AI, I encourage you to apply!

PhD link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_...
Postdoc link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_...

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

ELLIS Partners with New Max Planck AI Network to Expand Doctoral Opportunities The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

🚀 ELLIS partners with the newly launched 𝗠𝗮𝘅 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗸 𝗔𝗜 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 to expand doctoral opportunities across Europe.

Fully funded PhDs with dual supervision: one advisor in ML/AI, one in an application domain, with optional ELLIS co-advisors.

📅 Oct 1-31
🔗 ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

@maxplanck.de

Happy and proud to see @rjantonello.bsky.social’s work awarded by SNL!

So excited and honored to receive an ERC Starting Grant for the project BrainAlign!! BrainAlign will bring LLMs closer to human understanding by directly aligning them with the human brain.

Stay tuned for our findings, and multiple postdoc and PhD openings in the coming years!

Excited to announce the first workshop on CogInterp: Interpreting Cognition in Deep Learning Models @ NeurIPS 2025! 📣

How can we interpret the algorithms and representations underlying complex behavior in deep learning models?

🌐 coginterp.github.io/neurips2025/

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Music is an incredibly powerful retrieval cue. What is the neural basis of music-evoked memory reactivation? And how does this reactivation relate to later memory for the retrieved events? In our new study, we used Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to find out. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Had a great time discussing aligning LLMs to the human brain with the UniReps community. Thank you for inviting me!

This is a new speaker series and there are already some very interesting speakers lined up -- excited for future discussions! Subscribing to stay up to date ✅

NYU LLM + cognitive science post-doc interest form Tal Linzen's group at NYU is hiring a post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and int...

I'm hiring at least one post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and interpretability-style steering. Express interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚀Join our team @tuda.bsky.social ! 🚀
I'm looking for 3 PhDs & 1 Postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu project “C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture” to study learning across individuals, teams, and cultural timescales
👉 PhD: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html
👉 Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....

Looking forward to discussing aligning LLMs to the human brain!

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

Our ICLR poster is Saturday Morning (Hall 3 + Hall 2B #63)! We (myself with Cory Efird, Alex Murphy and Joel Zylberberg) are excited to share our work searching for Shared Decodable Concepts in the human brain. We used the Natural Scenes Dataset to find the concepts that most drive brain activity…

There is still time until tomorrow to apply for a 4-year Research Fellow post in the Language and Cognition Lab @ UCL!

I am so happy—this is the first 1st author paper I have written, since the cancer diagnosis of my late wife seven years ago.
📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Max Planck Postdoc Program Launching in April 2025, the Max Planck Postdoc Program features structured application calls and a comprehensive support system for researchers.

Together with @autreche.bsky.social, Adish Singla, Krishna Gummadi, Goran Radanovic and Nina Grgić-Hlača, we have multiple open positions postdocs in AI, Computing, and Society at the MPI for Software Systems!

Apply by May 13 via the new Max Planck Postdoc Program!
www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

Research Fellow in Social Learning at UCL Discover Research Fellow in Social Learning jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

Join us in London! The Language and Cognition Lab (with @fourtassi.bsky.social, Yan Gu) is looking for a Research Fellow for 4-years to work on how children and adults from different cultures learn in social interaction.
Ad is here (www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN891/r...). DM if you have any question!

Stay tuned for #ARENA Symposium
Abstract Representations in Neural Architectures:
From Human Cognition to Artificial Intelligence

at #teap2025 on 12 March @goetheuni.bsky.social

#CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #AI #DNNs #KnowledgeRepresentation #Psychology #ComputationalNeuroscience

One week left to apply!

We'll have so much exciting data for projects: for example, neuropixel data from humans while they listen to sentences courtesy of @shaileejain.bsky.social, Eddie Chang, and his group.

The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language Scientific Data - The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language

Inaugural post on bsky: The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus, providing audiovisual recordings and annotations of multimodal communicative behaviours by English-speaking adults in dyadic interaction with a child or another adult is now available rdcu.be/eblMF

I'm hiring a full-time research assistant to start this Summer!

The lab studies perception and cognition from infancy to adulthood using neuroimaging, behavioral, and computational approaches

For more details about the lab and the position, see: vlad-lab.com/join

#psychjobs #neurojobs

Neural codes track prior events in a narrative and predict subsequent memory for details Communications Psychology - Context-dependent temporal structures are represented in multiple ways in parallel in the human brain during processing of temporally extended events. The neural...

Our paper on how neural codes track prior events in a narrative and predict subsequent memory for details, led by @collinsilvy.bsky.social, is now out in Communications Psychology! rdcu.be/d93Vc #neuroskyence #psychscisky

🚨Job alert!🚨 Are you curious about curiosity, and looking for a post-doc position? Then please consider applying: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Feel free to e-mail/DM me if you have questions.

Thanks very much for sharing/re-posting!

Would you like to work at Max Planck Society tenured? A new round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for #tenuretrack group leaders opened today - pls consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. mpg.de/lise-meitner-e… #LiseMeitnerGroups

Fast-timescale hippocampal processes bridge between slowly unfurling neocortical states during memory search Prior behavioral work showed that event structure plays a key role in our ability to mentally search through memories of continuous naturalistic experience. We hypothesized that, neurally, this memory...

Excited to share our preprint "Fast-timescale hippocampal processes bridge between slowly unfurling neocortical states during memory search" 🧠✨ We leverage iEEG to elucidate the fast neural mechanisms by which long multimodal narratives are unfurled in continuous memory-search tinyurl.com/wjkr3dvf

EvLab Our research aims to understand how the language system works and how it fits into the broader landscape of the human mind and brain.

Our language neuroscience lab (evlab.mit.edu) is looking for a new lab manager/FT RA to start in the summer. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3r346k66 We'll start reviewing apps in early Mar. (Unfortunately, MIT does not sponsor visas for these positions, but OPT works.)

Final Call for Submissions! ⏳ Don't miss your chance to present at the Re-Align Workshop @iclr-conf.bsky.social ! We welcome submissions from ICML, CogSci, and beyond.

NeuroAI - Neuroscience and AI NeuroAI - Neuroscience and AI machine learningOn Site artificial intelligence On Site machine learning - data analysis - computational neuroscience

More info about the course here: cajal-training.org/on-site/neur...