🚨Out now in Trends in Cognitive Sciences 🚨 We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health. We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach. W/ Yael Niv @yaelniv.bsky.social and Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 Thread ⬇️

"Evaluating an AI co-scientist is difficult — their failures are not always obvious, and how ‘good’ a hypothesis is can be subjective." nature.com/articles/d4158…

"This anti-ageing effect was strongest in expert tango dancers, whose brains were, on average, seven years younger than their chronological age." nature.com/articles/d4158…

New Imaging Neuroscience from Brandon Taraku: Modulation of functional network co-activation pattern dynamics following ketamine treatment in major depression direct.mit.edu/imag/article/d…

13 PhD positions available in the framework of the HUM.AI.N-ACCENT MSCA Doctoral Network escop.eu/news/news/othe…

Why do some ideas spread widely, while others fail to catch on? Our new review paper on the PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRALITY is now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (it was led by Steve Rathje ) Read the full paper here: cell.com/trends/cogniti…

wisdom about the PhD trajectory nature.com/articles/d4158…

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"Preventing tipping points from being breached, she says, requires emphasizing immediate emissions reductions and scaling up technologies for removing carbon from the atmosphere." nature.com/articles/d4158…

"The authors say that when they adjusted their analysis for education level, some parts of men’s brains no longer showed a steeper decline than occurred in women." nature.com/articles/d4158…

Good suggestions for how to check LLM coding output (I would personally still be wary...) nature.com/articles/d4158…

"human deep sleep has a unique way of facilitating CSF dynamics that are distinctive from arousal mechanisms." pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Is science getting too competitive? Grant applications are skyrocketing and funding rates are decreasing. Yet the article in Nature fails to mention the potential role that AI/LLMs in driving up grant applications. These low funding rates are a serious problem--they turn the

"the fact that chatbots can imitate speech credibly does not mean that they can understand, said several researchers at the event. " They still regularly fail nature.com/articles/d4158…

What’s the cap on human energy expenditure? Elite athletes reveal ‘metabolic ceiling’ nature.com/articles/d4158…

PhilJobs is operated by the PhilPapers Foundation, directed by David Bourget and Dave Chalmers. Dear David Bourget and David Chalmers , when will your organization start enforcing its nondiscrimination policy?

"Siemens says that “the university sector has an unbelievably heavy responsibility to society to be a counter voice that shapes the way that AI is deployed in social and learning-related processes.”" nature.com/articles/d4158…

"Along with subject knowledge, good supervision requires curiosity, empathy and reliability — being there for a student when needed. ...Time spent with the next generation of scientists is an investment." nature.com/articles/d4158…

"Religious chatbots might be trained on scripture and dutifully quote verses, but they share the same bizarre hallucinations and shortcomings of other AIs" bbc.com/future/article…

"Artificial intelligence (AI) models are 50% more sycophantic than humans, an analysis published this month has found." nature.com/articles/d4158…