Nico Schuck

I am gonna take the option where I get more time to read, understand and write. maybe that AI can go to committee meetings for me?

Great PhD opportunity with a dream team!

Ondrej is a great scientist and mentor - I highly recommend working with him!

Truly proud that Ondrej is the first faculty to come from our lab.

wow, great, thank you!

gave it a quick run and got it up in no time. really amazing!

a few fixes are needed but not much. one issue: some of your publications were mixed into my list, I think from a csv file in the docker. having them on my CV looks fancy but I think I should take them out :)

thanks for sharing!

looks super interesting!

Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896

I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.

New application cycle for graduate students open at the Max Planck School of Cognition, offering fully funded positions, a well structured training programme and lab rotations.

Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in ‪@Nature.com‬:
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +

🥳 🥳🥳 Congrats Mona!!

happy to share slides / material after we did it

that's useful and even funny. thanks!

I want to do a session on principles of designing scientific figures with my lab. Any recommendation for good online material? #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging

Evolving choice hysteresis in reinforcement learning: Comparing the adaptive value of positivity bias and gradual perseveration | PNAS The tendency to repeat past choices more often than expected from the history of outcomes has been repeatedly empirically observed in reinforcement...

Ever wondered why you keep going to that restaurant with stale fries? Is it because you went often in the past (perseveration) or because you remember past good experiences better (positivity bias)? Our study out in PNAS investigates the normative basis for these biases www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Go Nir! Excited to see where your journey takes you next.

Congrats Lilian! Exciting to have you around so close by Hamburg -- looking forward to our paths crossing soon!

👇 #SleepPeeps Please repost to help me spread the word on this study. This is a very big commitment compared to most "online" studies... but I know there are some good participants out there on the interweb who what to help! 🙂👇

🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.

Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.

So nice to read some positive news about science funding here for a change. Congrats!

Replay in the human visual cortex during brief task pauses is linked to implicit learning of successor representations | PNAS Humans can implicitly learn about multistep sequential relationships between events in the environment from their statistical co-occurrence. Theore...

Delighted to share our work on replay and successor representations! We find replay during very short task pauses in human visual cortex that is linked to learning SRs & happens when learning is implicit. Study led by @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social

#compneuro #neuroskyence

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I’m recruiting committee members for the Technical Program Committee at #CCN2026.

Please apply if you want to help make submission, review & selection of contributed work (Extended Abstracts & Proceedings) more useful for everyone! 🌐

Helps to have: programming/communications/editorial experience.

Not Yet AlphaFold for the Mind: Evaluating Centaur as a Synthetic Participant Simulators have revolutionized scientific practice across the natural sciences. By generating data that reliably approximate real-world phenomena, they enable scientists to accelerate hypothesis testi...

Not Yet AlphaFold for the Mind: Evaluating Centaur as a Synthetic Participant arxiv.org/abs/2508.078...

Sad to miss #CCN2025! If you want to hear about we have been up to come check out lab posters

generalisation replay @fabianrenz.bsky.social

deep credit assignment through gradient descent @ShanyGrossman

rewards morphing space @nirmoneta.bsky.social

RL gone rouge @elbersgerd.bsky.social

Hi, we will have three NeuroAI postdoc openings (3 years each, fully funded) to work with Sebastian Musslick (@musslick.bsky.social), Pascal Nieters and myself on task-switching, replay, and visual information routing.

Reach out if you are interested in any of the above, I'll be at CCN next week!

Our new paper is out! When navigating through an environment, how do we combine our general sense of direction with known landmark states? To explore this, @denislan.bsky.social used a task that allowed subjects (or neural networks) to choose either their next action or next state at each step.

thanks to the amazing team who helped make this happen, including @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social @luiantaverra.bsky.social @noahedrich.bsky.social Peter Dayan and Kazuki Irie!

p.s.:

Some similarities matter, others don’t—a great Labatut book with a yellow cover means books by Labatut are good, not yellow books are good. Factorized representations support such selective generalization. Check out our study on select. gen. by Sam HallMcMaster in collab with @gershbrain.bsky.social

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

People keep citing “move 37” as proof of deep learning creativity. Are there other examples? Or is this just one compelling anecdote that distorts perception? Honest question, although I’ve yet to personally experience LLMs do anything that is even remotely similar.