AndrejBicanski
@AndrejBicanski
Research group leader @MPI_CBS. Physicist turned neuroscientist (memory&more), sporadically on X, alter ego writes fiction. Tweets do not represent my employer.
awards.acm.org/about/2024-tur… Machines that learn from experience were explored by Alan Turing almost eighty years ago, which makes it particularly gratifying and humbling to receive an award in his name for reviving this essential but still nascent idea.
In my latest (and last!) column for Science’s Expert Voices series, I write about the reasons behind AI chatbots’ “deceptive” behaviors (and why Claude threatened a fictional CEO with blackmail). science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
3 years Postdoc in Cognitive neuroscience. Memory, cognitive maps, attention & eye movements. fMRI/MEG/iEEG -- Two more weeks to apply! Description: drive.google.com/file/d/1Z6IuuX…
I am not an expert on EEG or CLT, but this seems to be the most expected result ever, and yet very important to show. arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
New preprint by Volker Reisner (reisnerv.bsky.social). Learned movement patterns affect our sense of traveled distance + neurocomputational model. Collab with Doellerlab, modeling by Viktor Studenyak (@VStudenyak) via the Neural Computation Group. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
#Human capacity to develop a diverse and highly complex repertoire of #action plans is truly remarkable 🏌️♀️⛹️♀️Irina Barnaveli & team @doellerlab explore in their study @NatureComms how the #brain organizes action plans, using #virtualreality: tinyurl.com/55ne858s
Muhaha "Despite Reviewer #2 feels that you did not answer carefully to his/her comments, we are pleased to inform you that your manuscript has been accepted for publication" Nimm das, Reviewer#2!
My colleague Dan Bush (not on X) at UCL is looking for a post-doc. Focus on intracranial EEG and single cell recordings from epilepsy patients + MEG recordings from healthy volunteers during spatial and episodic memory tasks. Apply here tinyurl.com/n6nkty8e
RT appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in @CompNeuro_lab (at TU Dresden). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kvQ1… to send your application and find more information. The deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have Qs.
Richtig. Zur Religionsfreiheit gehört, dass der Staat dem Bürger nicht im Zeichen einer Religion gegenübertritt — egal welcher. Sollte eigentlich gerade von der politischen Linken verstanden werden.
Die Grünen fordern, dass Polizistinnen in Berlin künftig im Dienst ein Kopftuch tragen dürfen. Frauen mit Kopftuch seien bislang von einem „faktischen Berufsverbot“ betroffen. Typisch grün: progressiv im Klang, rückwärtsgewandt in der Wirkung. Das staatliche Gewaltmonopol sollte…
The Bottini Lab invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher position focused on neural decoding of visual imagery (and possibly dreams) using non-invasive neuroimaging (fMRI/MEG), as well as machine learning based eye-tracking technology. DM or email me if interested!
It was reported yesterday that OpenAI will be doing 12.7B revenue/year. It's CEO is advertising his product by infringing the copyright of an artist who at best will do less than 1% of that on his lifetime (Hayao Miyazaki) I love to play with these tools too, but actively…
Über mich hat sich wegen meiner Postings auf X scheinbar die Studentenvertretung beschwert. Kann Alles was ich auf X poste wissenschaftlich rechtfertigen und ich sehe es als meine Aufgabe an , mich als Naturwissenschaftler, evolutionärer Anthropologe und Biologe mich deutlich…
Excited to share our latest paper: “Phase Precession Relative to Turning Angle in Theta-Modulated Head Direction Cells” together with @LomiEleonora (co-first author), Kate Jeffery, @annamitch28 @NeilBurgess10 doi.org/10.1002/hipo.7…
Parrots officially have better computer skills than my parents -_-
Parrots are intelligent enough to understand touch screen interfaces and they prefer watching videos of other parrots. [📹 insta.beakk]
"Virtue is what you do when nobody is looking" - then posts on X (and all social media) are expressions of anything but virtue. Everyone knows/hopes that everyone is looking.
In an office environment, you can easily spot the difference between those doing something out of a sense of duty, and those just seeking credit. As I keep saying, virtue is what you do when nobody is looking.
Klarna was the company that went all-on replacing customer support with an AI bot and went on to brag about the cost savings. Now they are reversing course. Easy to see more companies blindly replacing quality customer support with a worse AI implementation will follow...
Man muss sich das mal reinziehen: Da sitzen drei deutsche Staatsanwälte und begründen selbst, ohne es zu merken, warum Hausdurchsuchungen und Handy-Beschlagnahmen wegen solcher Delikte offenkundig unverhältnismäßig sind: „It‘s a kind of punishment even worse than the fine you…
Posting or reposting false information in Germany can be a crime, and the punishment for repeat offenders can include jail time.