Nico Schuck
Algorithms of the Mind. Cognitive Neuroscience Prof at Uni Hamburg.
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- Check out the latest from Sam HallMcMaster on the role of entorhinal cortex in factorizing representations and generalization
- CCN is wonderful, highly recommended!
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- How do we achieve few-shot generalization? New work led by @fabianrenz.bsky.social dives into the role of replay in learning and using structure to generalize reward. Dream team effort with Shany Grossman @nathanieldaw.bsky.social Peter Dayan & @doellerlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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- 👏 Congratulations to @uni-hamburg.de for being rated Germanys most sustainable university. Glad to see that UHH has been committed to lead by example in this important area over the past years. www.uni-hamburg.de/en/newsroom/...
- One week left to apply to the Max Planck School of Cognition! I have worked with several grad students from the programme and it's an impressive group of people. Deadline Dec 1st.
- The new application cycle for our fully funded international graduate program has just started. You can now apply via our website, sign up for a Q&A, or participate in the Applicant Support Program cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en ! 👍🏻🧠👏🏾#passionforscience, #maxplanckschools
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- Reposted by Nico SchuckPlease repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
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- great job by @luiantaverra.bsky.social and @fabianrenz.bsky.social writing up this overview of methods and issues in measuring brain plasticity non-invasively in humans!
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- great idea! hope this will spawn some insights and analysis innovations and wish I had the time to take part. but a big bottleneck for the lack of generalizability is still that we are using the wrong localizer tasks. hard to know in MEG whether any signal is non-sensory with such localizers.
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- Here is a chance for international undergraduates to come to Hamburg and work with the amazing @elbersgerd.bsky.social
- Check out Hashim’s intriguing studies that fail to find correlations between internalizing symptoms and adaptive learning rates when learning under uncertainty.
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- 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.
- 🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫 I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏
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- 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.
- The new application cycle for our fully funded international graduate program has just started. You can now apply via our website, sign up for a Q&A, or participate in the Applicant Support Program cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en ! 👍🏻🧠👏🏾#passionforscience, #maxplanckschools
- Reposted by Nico SchuckTwo 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 +
- I want to do a session on principles of designing scientific figures with my lab. Any recommendation for good online material? #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging
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- 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/...
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
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- This is great! I just taught a course for psych students in which we covered transformers and it was difficult to find accessible material about transformers. Bonus points for not focussing on key / query / value vectors, which confuse most people w/o tech background. Thanks for writing it!
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- 🥳 Welcome Neele and may the force be with you !
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- Also note that Anika's been on a media spree sharing our research. Catch her for instance on BBC4 live tonight at 6:10pm, or listen in on this NPR podcast: www.npr.org/2025/06/27/1...
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- Excited to share our latest work spearheaded by @anikaloewe.bsky.social & @maritpetzka.bsky.social. 20 min naps increased the chance to solve an insight task if sleep reached N2 stage; but the EEG spectral slope was the best predictor of insight dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... #compneuro #psychscisky
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- I made this wonderful map of the brain with Sora that I think also solves the issue that the cerebellum is overlooked @actlab.bsky.social #RLDM2025
- On my way to #RLDM2025 @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social and looking forward to amazing science and meeting friends and colleagues! Lab presentations start tonight with @noahedrich.bsky.social presenting a poster (68). I'll give a talk tmrw morning (rm. B102) followed by posters (85 & 90) on Friday.
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- One way to tackle a new task is to reuse solutions from the past. Check out Sam Hall-McMaster's latest finding that strategy reuse is accompanied by neural reactivation of prior solutions @plosbiology.org Collab w/ M Tomov & @gershbrain.bsky.social #neuroskyence journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- Looking forward to NEUROCOG in Brussels!
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- Looking forward to our workshop at RLDM!
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- Very important work by @hashimsat.bsky.social showing a lack of effects of trait anxiety/internalizing on learning rates in change point tasks.
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- Reposted by Nico SchuckChoose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
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- Surprised that it has been 2 hours and no one has suggested ChatGPT yet
- I am teaching a seminar on neural networks for psych students this semester. Does anyone know good *accessible* overviews of the original milestone papers that help students with minimal tech. training to follow? Readings are welcome! #compneurosky #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
- I am teaching a seminar on neural networks for psych students this semester. Does anyone know good *accessible* overviews of the original milestone papers that help students with minimal tech. training to follow? Readings are welcome! #compneurosky #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
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- Reposted by Nico SchuckDisappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
