Mariya Toneva
Faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, working at the intersection of ML, language models, and cognitive neuroscience. Yogurt snob. mtoneva.com
- Reposted by Mariya Toneva🏆 Saarbrücken now houses 11 ACM Fellows — about 1/3 of all ACM Fellows in Germany — highest of any location nationwide. This year, only 3 new Fellows in Germany were named, and Saarland University software engineering professor Sven Apel was one! Congrats, Prof. Apel! 👏 🔗 Read more: sic.link/apel
- Reposted by Mariya Toneva🔬 We're hiring a Junior Group Leader for Data-Driven Digital Twins/System Models in medicine/life sciences at @uni_goettingen! Perfect opportunity for early-career researchers who want to: - Lead their own research group - Work at the intersection of AI, simulation, and biomedicine
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- Reposted by Mariya TonevaWe're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025. mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
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- So excited and honored to receive an ERC Starting Grant for the project BrainAlign!! BrainAlign will bring LLMs closer to human understanding by directly aligning them with the human brain. Stay tuned for our findings, and multiple postdoc and PhD openings in the coming years!
- Reposted by Mariya TonevaExcited to announce the first workshop on CogInterp: Interpreting Cognition in Deep Learning Models @ NeurIPS 2025! 📣 How can we interpret the algorithms and representations underlying complex behavior in deep learning models? 🌐 coginterp.github.io/neurips2025/ 1/4
- Reposted by Mariya TonevaMusic is an incredibly powerful retrieval cue. What is the neural basis of music-evoked memory reactivation? And how does this reactivation relate to later memory for the retrieved events? In our new study, we used Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to find out. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Had a great time discussing aligning LLMs to the human brain with the UniReps community. Thank you for inviting me! This is a new speaker series and there are already some very interesting speakers lined up -- excited for future discussions! Subscribing to stay up to date ✅
- Reposted by Mariya TonevaI'm hiring at least one post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and interpretability-style steering. Express interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Reposted by Mariya Toneva🚀Join our team @tuda.bsky.social ! 🚀 I'm looking for 3 PhDs & 1 Postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu project “C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture” to study learning across individuals, teams, and cultural timescales 👉 PhD: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html 👉 Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....
- Looking forward to discussing aligning LLMs to the human brain!
- Reposted by Mariya TonevaNEUROCOG 2025 is taking place in Brussels Nov 17–18! The theme: AI and the Human Brain 🤖 🧠 We’re thrilled to welcome 6 amazing invited speakers: @evfedorenko.bsky.social, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, @jeffreybowers.bsky.social, @irisgroen.bsky.social & @mtoneva.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Mariya TonevaI am so happy—this is the first 1st author paper I have written, since the cancer diagnosis of my late wife seven years ago. 📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Together with @autreche.bsky.social, Adish Singla, Krishna Gummadi, Goran Radanovic and Nina Grgić-Hlača, we have multiple open positions postdocs in AI, Computing, and Society at the MPI for Software Systems! Apply by May 13 via the new Max Planck Postdoc Program! www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...
- Reposted by Mariya TonevaJoin us in London! The Language and Cognition Lab (with @fourtassi.bsky.social, Yan Gu) is looking for a Research Fellow for 4-years to work on how children and adults from different cultures learn in social interaction. Ad is here (www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN891/r...). DM if you have any question!
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- One week left to apply! We'll have so much exciting data for projects: for example, neuropixel data from humans while they listen to sentences courtesy of @shaileejain.bsky.social, Eddie Chang, and his group.
- Reposted by Mariya TonevaInaugural post on bsky: The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus, providing audiovisual recordings and annotations of multimodal communicative behaviours by English-speaking adults in dyadic interaction with a child or another adult is now available rdcu.be/eblMF
- Reposted by Mariya TonevaI'm hiring a full-time research assistant to start this Summer! The lab studies perception and cognition from infancy to adulthood using neuroimaging, behavioral, and computational approaches For more details about the lab and the position, see: vlad-lab.com/join #psychjobs #neurojobs
- Reposted by Mariya TonevaOur paper on how neural codes track prior events in a narrative and predict subsequent memory for details, led by @collinsilvy.bsky.social, is now out in Communications Psychology! rdcu.be/d93Vc #neuroskyence #psychscisky
- Reposted by Mariya Toneva🚨Job alert!🚨 Are you curious about curiosity, and looking for a post-doc position? Then please consider applying: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Feel free to e-mail/DM me if you have questions. Thanks very much for sharing/re-posting!
- Reposted by Mariya TonevaWould you like to work at Max Planck Society tenured? A new round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for #tenuretrack group leaders opened today - pls consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. mpg.de/lise-meitner-e… #LiseMeitnerGroups
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- Reposted by Mariya TonevaOur language neuroscience lab (evlab.mit.edu) is looking for a new lab manager/FT RA to start in the summer. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3r346k66 We'll start reviewing apps in early Mar. (Unfortunately, MIT does not sponsor visas for these positions, but OPT works.)
- Reposted by Mariya TonevaFinal Call for Submissions! ⏳ Don't miss your chance to present at the Re-Align Workshop @iclr-conf.bsky.social ! We welcome submissions from ICML, CogSci, and beyond.
- Really excited for this 3 week NeuroAI summer school in Lisbon! We have course faculty from a range of neuro domains (language, vision, decision making, memory), and neuro levels (low level to cognitive). There will also be a project advised by our exciting lineup of course faculty! Come join us!
- 🚀 Applications are OPEN for the CAJAL NeuroAI course! Learn how AI & deep learning help us model brain activity & behavior. Work with experts, get hands-on training & join a global network! 📅 Apply by March 7 🔗 loom.ly/xg_uRKE #NeuroAI #DeepLearning #Neuroscience
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- Reposted by Mariya Toneva(1/4) The Algonauts Project 2025 challenge is now live! Participate and build computational models that best predict how the human brain responds to multimodal movies! Submission deadline: 13th of July. #algonauts2025 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro #neuroscience #AI algonautsproject.com
- Great to see this exciting work by Sebastian published! So much potential for LLMs, if used appropriately, to scale up and speed up our understanding of human cognition.
- 🚨 Open postdoc position on effective human-AI collaboration, joint with the groups of @svenapel.bsky.social and Adish Singla 🚨 Join our exciting collaboration involving ML, cogsci, and software engineering! More info here: mtoneva.com/Postdoc_ad_2... Apply by Jan 31, 2025.
- Had the pleasure to discuss AI at the Max Planck Institutes. One question was: how is MPI doing in terms of impact in fundamental AI research? Wanted some numbers so went through the accpeted papers from the top ML conferences in the last 3 years. The results were quite surprising:
