I'm seeing more & more people use partial correlation during model comparison to identify the contribution of a model to prediction *after controlling* for other models. However, the correct approach is *not* to use partial correlation. A brief explanation. 🧵 1/n

📢Submissions for #CCN2024 are now open at ccneuro.org! 📢

We welcome submissions for 2-page papers (deadline: 12 April) and Generative Adversarial Collaborations (GACs), Keynote+Tutorials, and (new this year!) Community Events (deadline: 5 April).

Help me understand a phrase that is so common in academia: telling someone that something positive that happened is 'well deserved' . You feel that it's:

I'm soon going to be looking for a senior postdoc to join my lab who is interested in transitioning to independence and in building their own group, with a strong background in vision science, cognitive computational neuroscience or visual neuroscience. Please RT 1/3

We're looking for a brilliant postdoc to work with Roger Levy Nidhi Seethapathi and me on an exciting new project at the intersection of computational cognition, language, and motor control! Please share with anyone who might be interested. More info here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27294

Just about one year after the start of the research partnership between the MPI for Informatics and Google Deutschland, the VIA-Center Saarbücken is being expanded to add a research area “Vision and Language Models (VLMs)” under the direction of Prof. Dr. Bernt Schiele. ➡️📚sic.link/viavlm

⏰Only 10 days left to submit!⏰

The Re-Align Workshop is coming to #ICLR2024
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Come share your representational alignment work at our interdisciplinary workshop at ICLR 2024: representational-alignment.github.io

Submission deadline is Feb 2nd!

Been spending a lot of time trying to find an interesting single-track venue for the first COLM. We were really lucky to set up this amazing theater in the center of UPenn. Lots still to do but I'm pretty hyped.

This was an extraordinary session indeed!

🚨 Open #NeuroAI position for a PhD student

Jointly at MPI for Software Systems & UoT
(hosted by me & John Griffiths)

Focus: reveal key *mechanisms* of language in 🧠 by integrating ML & physiological theories

Apply by Jan 31: email CV + statement of interest to both hosts

🔥The CfP for Re-Align is up 🔥
If you are broadly interested in the alignment of two or more representation spaces, consider submitting to our workshop at #ICLR2024 and join us in beautiful Vienna!

Greta Tuckute et al. use machine learning to find sentences which optimally activate the human language processing network.

nature.com/articles/s4156…

⏳⏰Details about our #ICLR2024 workshop on Representational Alignment 🧠🤝🧠 are coming very soon!

For now, RSVP to receive updates - forms.gle/NsAsRgZu7kPj8q…

(Or frantically check the website every couple of days 😅 - representational-alignment.github.io )

I will soon be hiring 2 software engineers to work on speech decoding software for #BCI . It's a 2 year project, in 🇳🇱.

Let me know if interested!

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🚨New round of recruiting! Join our growing team to bridge ML models with interpretable domain expertise.
Learn more: neuroexplicit.org
Apply by Jan 7

Mariya Toneva and I will be at #NeurIPS2023 from Dec 9-16 New orleans!

Excited to present our work: joint processing of linguistic properties in brains and language models

Visit our poster, #417, at Great Hall & Hall B1+B2 (Level1) on Tuesday, Dec 12th, from 5:15 PM to 7:15 PM CST

Our commentary is now out in Behavioral and Brain Sciences: doi.org/10.1017/S01405…. Be sure to check out the other interesting commentaries and author responses! w/ Aran Nayebi, Sjoerd van Steenkiste, & Matt Jones

Excited to share our new #NeurIPS2023 paper, where we introduce a simple and efficient approach to investigate how class representations emerge in vision transformers trained for image classification.

📜Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2310.18969

A thread 👇

What are the generative limits of LLMs? Can LLMs, biases and all, still help us understand our society? I'm recruiting PhD students to study these questions and many more at the DILL lab USC NLP! Check out our recent work and your research alignment: dill-lab.github.io/opportunities/

Come work with us! 👇🏼