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🚨ERC Job Alert 🚨Are you looking for a PhD position? Are you into AI and/or computational/cognitive neuroscience? Then consider...

🚨ERC Job Alert 🚨

Are you looking for a PhD position? Are you into AI and/or computational/cognitive neuroscience? Then consider becoming an ERC funded graduate student with us:

https://www.ikw.uni-osnabrueck.de/fileadmin/user_upload/jobs/68_IKW_Research_Assistant_E_13_65_.pdf

I am biased, but I think this is a great opportunity.

First, the lab. I could not wish for a better team. People collaborate a ton, are helpful, constructive, and fun. The hallway is filled with chatter about new ideas, directions, and excitement. Feel free to contact current members to find out more.

Second, the context of the ERC project. TIME bridges the fields of deep learning and cognitive computational neuroscience to establish when, where and how visual semantic understanding emerges in the brain, as it actively samples and integrates information. Exciting questions.

Third, the institute and country. Germany is a great place to live and do science. The institute was among the first to establish a distinct cognitive science program, and you will find yourselves among highly motivated colleagues who strive to do excellent science together.

Did I mention 30 days of paid vacation, great health insurance, and free daycare? This is a very family friendly lab and city.

Importantly, we are striving to create a better gender balance in the lab, so please share this opportunity far and wide.

Please see our lab webpage and publications for further information on the work we do and get in touch with me if you have any questions.

Ensuring that experimental stimuli were not part of model training gets harder with closed/larger/industry models.Point in case: CLIP and...

Ensuring that experimental stimuli were not part of model training gets harder with closed/larger/industry models.

Point in case: CLIP and NSD. CLIP is trained on part of MS COCO, making it impossible to cleanly estimate it's predictive performance on NSD neuroimaging data, which was also collected while participants watched coco images as stimuli.

Our incoming H100 node is heavy compute. Literally. It's 108kg...

Our incoming H100 node is heavy compute.

Literally.

It's 108kg...

Please advise: Which female PIs or senior researchers in AI or neuro-AI are located in the EU? Looking for inspiration for a keynote speaker...

Please advise: Which female PIs or senior researchers in AI or neuro-AI are located in the EU? Looking for inspiration for a keynote speaker outside my regular bubble. Please boost for visibility. Thx!

The newest addition to the lab will make it even harder to work from home 😊

The newest addition to the lab will make it even harder to work from home 😊

In tonight's episode of "professor posting student memes for internet points", I present to you one of my very favourite...

In tonight's episode of "professor posting student memes for internet points", I present to you one of my very favourite student submissions:

Apologies for a link to the bird site, but here is a long thread on the topics covered in my course "Machine Learning for Cognitive...

Apologies for a link to the bird site, but here is a long thread on the topics covered in my course "Machine Learning for Cognitive Computational Neuroscience". I included most papers covered and thought this resource may be of interest to some of you: https://twitter.com/TimKietzmann/status/1623657691976458242

Our 7 year old is learning to slackline. While keeping track of her progress, she made it into a neat #DataVisualization project....

Our 7 year old is learning to slackline. While keeping track of her progress, she made it into a neat #DataVisualization project. #dataisbeautiful

👋 Hi everyone, time for an #introduction as I have recently moved Mastodon instances (and finally feel at home on here).My name is Tim, I...

👋 Hi everyone, time for an #introduction as I have recently moved Mastodon instances (and finally feel at home on here).

My name is Tim, I am a Professor at the Institute of Cognitive Science (University of Osnabrück, Germany), where I run an interdisciplinary ML/cognitive computational neuroscience lab.

My team and I focus on understanding visual processing, and information processing more generally, in both brains and machines.

We love to tinker with deep (recurrent) neural networks, and analyse neuroimaging data (mainly M/EEG, and fMRI). I firmly believe that the interdisciplinary space between ML and Neuroscience can teach us lots about how brains operate.

If you are curious about the work we do, this could be a good starting point: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03718

Looking forward to exchanging ideas with you all.

#computationalneuroscience #neuroscience #cognitivescience #deeplearning #academia

Clarification: @Neurograce is online, but the event is in person only I'm afraid.

Clarification: @Neurograce is online, but the event is in person only I'm afraid.

Symposium announcement: "Deep neural network models to study visual cognition". January 18th, organised by Lynn Sörensen and...

Symposium announcement: "Deep neural network models to study visual cognition". January 18th, organised by Lynn Sörensen and Steven Scholte at UvA Amsterdam (in person and online).

Registration open: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfHJdP-kzzqkNrRWwrA302gDfa7zyHSHLBni0t3QVKeQE9qew/viewform