Eric Schulz

🚀🎓We have exciting opportunities at the PhD and Postdoc level, including in the new Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience, a 10-year initiative spanning a powerful international network of labs working across species and disciplines - please reach out if interested
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We are hiring a new Ph. D. student on neuroimaging and/or computational modeling on motivation and emotion. Tübingen is a great place to pursue work on these topics!!

uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

⚠️ Warning: Joining our team as a postdoc has a known side effect of receiving multiple job offers shortly after. We currently have 3 such cases.
​If you are willing to take that risk, applications close in 1 week. The upside is you'll be in a supportive and stimulating environment in munich.

Two weeks left to apply. Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.

Join us for an insightful discussion with @elifakata.bsky.social, a PhD researcher at @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social. She will discuss her recent paper, “Playing Repeated Games with Large Language Models.”

📅 17 November
⏲️ 2-3 PM CET
📍 @hertieschool.bsky.social

👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/datascien...

Join us in beautiful Munich! If you have any questions about the city, the group or your application, feel free to reach out! ✨

🚀 We are hiring! 🚀

🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.

Looking for a #postdoc position? 🧠🔬🤖
Join our amazing lab in Munich! 🇩🇪👩‍🔬
We have a friendly, collaborative, and inclusive environment, where scientific rigour and curiosity are truly valued and celebrated. 🎉

#Jobs #ScienceJobs #cogsci #neuroskyence

join us!

A great opportunity to work at the cutting edge of AI and cognitive science!

🔎 About the Position:
✅ PhD in cogsci, ML, compsci, or related fields
✅ Strong publication record
✅ Experience in supervision
✅ Fun and collaborative
Please don't hesitate to reach out, if you have any questions.

🔬 Possible Research Topics:
✨ Foundation models of cognition
✨ Cognitively inspired ML
✨ Automated/open-ended cognitive science
✨ Computational psychiatry

📅 Starting Date: March 1st, 2026 (negotiable)
💼 Position: Postdoc (E13 or E14 TVöD, 100%)
🌐 Location: Munich, Germany
🔐Deadline: November 30th, 2025
🔗 Link: hcai-munich.com/Postdoc_Job_...

🚀 We are hiring! 🚀

🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.

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Concept-Guided Interpretability via Neural Chunking
Shuchen Wu , Stephan Alaniz, @shyamgopal.bsky.social , Peter Dayan, @ericschulz.bsky.social , @zeynepakata.bsky.social
[Paper]: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.11576
[Code]: github.com/swu32/Chunk-...

Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations, and success influence enjoyment in video games Scientific Reports - Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations, and success influence enjoyment in video games

What influences whether people have fun with a task?

Our paper “Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations and success influence enjoyment in video games” with @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social now in Scientific Reports!

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Paper summary below 1/4

I am hiring PhD students and/or Postdocs, to work on the theory of explainable machine learning. Please apply through Ellis or IMPRS, deadlines end october/mid november. In particular: Women, where are you? Our community needs you!!!

imprs.is.mpg.de/application
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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! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

🤖 AI that thinks like us

Researchers at @www.helmholtz-munich.de have developed Centaur, an artificial intelligence model that can simulate human decision-making with remarkable accuracy.

@bethgelab.bsky.social @modirshanechi.bsky.social

Read the whole story 👉 bit.ly/4kCi280

Yes and yes.

An AI model (Llama 3.1 70B) fine-tuned on the results of 60,000 people in psychology experiments shows some real promise in using LLMs for studying and predicting human behavior.

It predicts actual human behavior in held-out data & it generalizes to out-of-distribution tasks and experiments.

What an exciting day for cognitive science with a double feature @nature.com including tiny models (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and less tiny ones (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).

Thanks, Tobi.

What a day. Our foundation model of cognitive science is out in Nature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@marcelbinz.bsky.social's thread:
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Centaur is featured by the NYT:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/s...

We got featured in a Nature views:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Check out our new work on testing the limits of finetuning in improving vlms intuitive physics abilities.

Check out our new preprint in which we propose to use LLMs to generate new cognitive models that minimize scientific regret. This could be a viable approach to query foundation models to advance science more generally.

Generating Computational Cognitive Models using Large Language Models Computational cognitive models, which formalize theories of cognition, enable researchers to quantify cognitive processes and arbitrate between competing theories by fitting models to behavioral data....

Preprint update, co-led with @akjagadish.bsky.social, with @marvinmathony.bsky.social, Tobias Ludwig and @ericschulz.bsky.social!

What a sad day for academia all over the world. I was a postdoc at Harvard on a J1 visa. One of my students was going to start his postdoc there in a week. I can only imagine how awful the current situation and uncertainties around it must feel.

🔬 Foundation Models at #HelmholtzMunich drive advances in diagnostics, personalized medicine & cancer research.

👉 Read the full Highlight Story: t1p.de/d209f
✨ Discover more on our Foundation Models page: t1p.de/sx49u

#FoundationModels #AI

Our review with @ericschulz.bsky.social about generalization in humans and machines is out now in Current Directions in Psychological Science: doi.org/10.1177/0963...
Check it out!