Hannes Mehrer
Computational neuroscientist, NeuroAI lab @EPFL
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerLooking forward to presenting at the #AAAI #NeuroAI workshop; including 3 projects that were just accepted to ICLR! arxiv.org/abs/2509.24597, arxiv.org/abs/2510.03684, arxiv.org/abs/2506.13331 🧪🧠🤖
- Going to #AAAI2026? Join us at the “Neuro for AI & AI for Neuro: Towards Multi-Modal Natural Intelligence” workshop! Co-organized by our own Anton Arkhipov and @shixnya.bsky.social 🔗 neuroai-multimodal-workshop.github.io @aaai.org
- Reposted by Hannes Mehrer🎉 Re-Align is back for its 4th edition at ICLR 2026! 📣 We invite submissions on representational alignment, spanning ML, Neuroscience, CogSci, and related fields. 📝 Tracks: Short (≤5p), Long (≤10p), Challenge (blog) ⏰ Deadline: Feb 5, 2026 for papers 🔗 representational-alignment.github.io/2026/
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerSpread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p... #MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerHopkins Cog Sci is hiring! We have two open faculty positions: one in vision, and one language. Please repost!
- We are seeking candidates for two tenured/tenure-track faculty positions: One in high-level vision, written language and/or conceptual representation apply.interfolio.com/178825 One in language apply.interfolio.com/178813 Please help us spread the word!
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerJoin us for Fall 2026. In our group, you can run studies from human behavior and neuroimaging, to large-scale NHP ephys, and join them up with a robust computational foundation. Bonus: you can help build the reading list.
- The Sensorimotor Superlab with @gribblelab.org and @andpru.bsky.social is a unique place to work and learn. We are now accepting MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026. Join our awesome team at Western University... For application instructions see diedrichsenlab.org and gribblelab.org/join.html!
- Reposted by Hannes Mehrer🚨Job Alert plz RT! Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition! We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals Open-rank apply.interfolio.com/178146
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerWe're excited to welcome 28 new AI2050 Fellows! This 4th cohort of researchers are pursuing projects that include building AI scientists, designing trustworthy models, and improving biological and medical research, among other areas.
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerIntroducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language. tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬 1/n
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerArguably this is 2 pages too many, given that grant decisions are mostly based on CV + abstract: "We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not detectibly impact their proposal rankings." link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Hannes Mehrer🚀 Excited to share a major update to our “Mixture of Cognitive Reasoners” (MiCRo) paper! We ask: What benefits can we unlock by designing language models whose inner structure mirrors the brain’s functional specialization? More below 🧠👇 cognitive-reasoners.epfl.ch
- 🧠 New preprint: we show that model-guided microstimulation can steer monkey visual behavior. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.03684 🧵
- Stimulate high-level vs early visual cortex Visual prosthetics in early visual areas can evoke simple percepts (letters), but they are limited by 1. electrode count and 2. low-level features. We target high-level cortex to elicit percepts of more complex objects.
- How it works 1. Map the in-silico cortical sheet of a topographic model to the monkey cortex. 2. Optimize stimulation parameters by prototyping experiments in the model. 3. Only test those parameters in-vivo that are predicted to yield the largest behavioral effects.
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- Take-home-message Proof-of-principle that topographic models can guide stimulation of high-level cortex to bias object-level behavioral choices. A step toward next-generation visual prosthetics allowing ore complex visual experience.
- Very happy to be part of this project: Melika Honarmand has done a great job of using vision-language-models to predict the behavior of people with dyslexia. A first step toward modeling various disease states using artificial neural networks.
- I've been arguing that #NeuroAI should model the brain in health *and* in disease -- very excited to share a first step from Melika Honarmand: inducing dyslexia in vision-language-models via targeted perturbations of visual-word-form units (analogous to human VWFA) 🧠🤖🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2509.24597
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerMy department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist! Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply! apply.interfolio.com/174371
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerAre you a graduate student in #Ukraine interested in machine learning and neuroscience? My research lab at #UofT is now accepting applications for remote thesis supervision. (1/3) #neuroAI #compneuro @vectorinstitute.ai @uoft.bsky.social @uoftcompsci.bsky.social @uhn.ca
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerHere is our best thinking about how to make world models. I would apologize for it being a massive 40-page behemoth, but it's worth reading. arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09737
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerCome join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience. #neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerGreat explainer on variance partitioning
- Variance partitioning is used to quantify the overlap of two models. Over the years, I have found that this can be a very confusing and misleading concept. So we finally we decided to write a short blog to explain why. @martinhebart.bsky.social @gallantlab.org diedrichsenlab.org/BrainDataSci...
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerCome work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896 I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerOur neuroscience department is hiring an Assistant Professor of Computational Neuroscience who works in "areas such as artificial intelligence, convolutional neural networks, reinforcement learning, decision making, memory, computational modeling, cognitive and neural processing".
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerOur department is seeking applicants for an Assistant Professor position with a focus on affective science. Please apply and/or pass this along to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
- Reposted by Hannes Mehrer
I’m recruiting committee members for the Technical Program Committee at #CCN2026. Please apply if you want to help make submission, review & selection of contributed work (Extended Abstracts & Proceedings) more useful for everyone! 🌐 Helps to have: programming/communications/editorial experience.- Fill out the form here to be involved in #CCN2026 tinyurl.com/ccn26committee And definitely fill out the #CCN2025 feedback form! tinyurl.com/ccn25partici...
- Reposted by Hannes Mehrer🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research 🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available 📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site 🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerCome work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerAssociate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience job opening in our own @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social department. Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerThe Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference is in Amsterdam this year, but you don't have to go that far to attend. Local meetups/watch parties are being organized all over, including the one I'm hosting in New York! Check them out and register (free!) here 👇 #neuroskyence #compneurosky
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerThese job ads have now been posted! 🎉 Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020 Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054 Please spread the word!
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerAs part of #CCN2025 our satellite event on Monday will explore how we can model the brain as a physical system, from topography to biophysical detail -- and how such models can potentially lead to impactful applications neuroailab.github.io/modeling-the-physical-brain. Join us! 🧪🧠 🤖
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerHaverford is hiring a Neuroscientist! Please spread the word and share with anyone interested in a faculty position at a research-intensive liberal arts college. Motivated students, competitive start ups, hard money, great location, wonderful colleagues! www.haverford.edu/provost/news...
- Reposted by Hannes Mehrer🧠 NEW PREPRINT Many-Two-One: Diverse Representations Across Visual Pathways Emerge from A Single Objective www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerJoin us for the 3rd edition of the UniReps Workshop at #NeurIPS2025! 🧠🤖 We're bringing together researchers from #AI, #Neuroscience, and #CogSci to explore why different neural models learn similar representations. 📝 Call for Papers is OPEN on OpenReview! 🌐 Website: unireps.org/2025/
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerWe are seeking two independent Max Planck Research Groups working in scientific disciplines relevant to our institute. Applications should be sent in PDF format no later than 15th August 2025. Visit our call for applications on our institute website for detailed information!
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerThrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
- Reposted by Hannes Mehrer🧠🤖 We’re hiring a Postdoc in NeuroAI! Join CRC1233 "Robust Vision" (Uni Tübingen) to build benchmarks & evaluation methods for vision models, bridging brain & AI. Work with top faculty & shape vision research. Apply: tinyurl.com/3jtb4an6 #NeuroAI #Jobs
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerMy colleagues and I have tackled the scientific publishing business. It's one of my favorite episodes, now available on YouTube (in German only, sorry) with a bunch of additional information we had lying around. Be sure to check it out! On the way you'll learn whether you should tan your testicles.
- Reposted by Hannes Mehrer🚨 New Preprint!! Thrilled to share with you our latest work: “Mixture of Cognitive Reasoners”, a modular transformer architecture inspired by the brain’s functional networks: language, logic, social reasoning, and world knowledge. 1/ 🧵👇
- Announcement: Workshop at #CCN2025 🧠 Modeling the Physical Brain: Spatial Organization & Biophysical Constraints 🗓️ Monday, Aug 11 | 🕦 11:30–18:00 CET | 📍 Room A2.07 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/CCN-physical... #NeuroAI @cogcompneuro.bsky.social
- Join us for talks on what role biophysical constraints can and should play in creating better models of brain and behavior. Speakers include: Pouya @bashivan.bsky.social, @timkietzmann.bsky.social, @taliakonkle.bsky.social, @meenakshikhosla.bsky.social, Andrew Miri, and Pieter Roelfsema
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerI helped @nature.com put together a guide to the initiatives drawing U.S. scientists abroad as the Trump administration cuts research budgets and science agencies. The trend has sparked debate: Is luring talent away the best way to support global science? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Hannes Mehrer🧠 #CCN2025 (August 12-15, Amsterdam) Update: Early registration deadline approaching! ⏰ Register by May 23 for early pricing ($375 student/$495 regular) ➡️ 2025.ccneuro.org/meeting-regi... Full schedule now available: 2025.ccneuro.org/schedule-of-...
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerPhew decisions are out..!! Congratulations to the authors of the 26 papers selected for the first edition of the CCN Proceedings 📜 @eringrant.bsky.social @neurosteven.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social 1/2
- Reposted by Hannes Mehrer30 days to the launch of Elusive Cures! I learned so much writing it, and I want to share it. For the next 30 days, I'll post brain & mind research breakthroughs on odd days, and highlight unmet needs on even ones. #ElusiveCures30 First breakthrough: /1 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerInria is opening a Junior Professor Position (tenure track) at Saclay on the topic of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. This junior professorship is part of the development of computational cognitive neuroscience within @univparissaclay.bsky.social #Neurospin @neuropsi.bsky.social and #inria
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerBrain/behaviour people - come to beautiful Scotland - we are recruiting in psychology and neuroscience across all grades! Closes May 12. Details below, and please re-post 🙏 www.nature.com/naturecareer... More about us here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/psyc... #neuroskyence #neurojobs
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerGreat work. We see that if you model Dale's law and Local inhibition, predictions of opto perturbations are improved without including them as training data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... These hybrid mechanistic + data constrained model, seem promising to predict the effect of perturbations
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerVery lucky to have some posts to fill @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social. Come join the team.
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerCome join us at @westernuresearch.bsky.social as a Canada Excellence Research Chair! DM me with questions/interest about theme 2! Be a part of a strong and well-equipped (e.g., imaging, behaviour) neuroscience community! uwo.ca/research/cer... @westernuwin.bsky.social @westernubrainscan.bsky.social
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerIt depends on how extensive you think "*training* on interventional data" will have to be. Eg, topographic models with a simple "perturbation module" to describe the change in neural activity from interventions were quite powerful in predicting behavioral effects www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Hannes Mehrer@kordinglab.bsky.social has convinced me on this point. I am a strong believer in the potential for foundation models to have a big impact in neuroscience. But, if we want to use them as "digital twins" to predict the impact of treatments, we'll need to train them on interventional data. 🧠📈 🧪
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerWant to get started with Computational Modelling, but don't know how? Go no further, we got you covered! Very excited to announce the release of @lenarddome.bsky.social 's Computational Psychiatry Modelling toolbox - an easy to use library that does modelling for you: cpm-toolbox.net Sign up now 👇
- We are excited to announce our hands-on workshop aimed at lowering barriers to entry into the world of computational modeling using our user-friendly python toolbox, cpm (cpm-toolbox.net)! 📢 Limited seats – don't miss out! 📅 17.07.2025 9.00 – 13.00 📍 Tübingen Apply 👉 forms.office.com/e/xtqb6sv604
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerAttention Vision Scientists. The Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA has a faculty position open at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. I'll be at #ARVO2025 so feel free to reach out via DM or email if I can answer any questions. recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10092
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerScience is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow: elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106...
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerNature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Hannes Mehrer“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” Read, share, respond. Call your representatives. The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake. www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Hannes MehrerExcited to be at #NAACL2025 in Albuquerque! I’ll be presenting our paper “The LLM Language Network” as an Oral tomorrow at 2:00 PM in Ballroom C, hope to see you there! Looking forward to all the discussions! 🎤 🧠
