Caesar Ekya

Photos of the seven-strong committee for the Brisbane Experimental Psychology Student Initiative

Introducing @brisepsi.bsky.social - we're an experimental psychology initiative run by grad students in Brisbane (Meanjin) across UQ & QUT 🧠

We host a monthly dose of freshly baked research (students, ECRs, & bigwigs) followed by social goodness. Help us grow with a follow! 🤗 #neuroskyence

when doing neuroscience projects I often advocate for computational modelling, followed by data analysis to test model's predictions.

however a few times now I have had pushback from collaborators/reivewers suggesting it would be better to do the data analysis first, then the modelling.

thoughts?

tysm frfr

**Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization**
New paper I anticipate will become a classic in neuroscience and a must-read for students at all levels.
Understanding brain function beyond brain areas.
#neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Overheard at work:

Student 1: Of course Socrates isn’t real, do you think anyone would talk to Plato?

Student 2: Low-key, I feel that way about Saint Augustine. He HAD to be close with God because he was like, a weird homeschool kid.

Representational Momentum Transcends Motion Dillon Plunkett & Jorge Morales (2025) Psychological Science

When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵

Lindsay Lab - Postdoc Position Artificial neural networks applied to psychology, neuroscience, and climate change

Spread 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

How AI has made my life better And why is my experience so different to everyone else?

How AI has made my life better (FREE TO READ!)

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/how-ai-has...

Neural dynamics outside task-coding dimensions drive decision trajectories through transient amplification Most behaviors involve neural dynamics in high-dimensional activity spaces. A common approach is to extract dimensions that capture task-related variability, such as those separating stimuli or choice...

“Our findings challenge the conventional focus on low-dimensional coding subspaces as a sufficient framework for understanding neural computations, demonstrating that dimensions previously considered task-irrelevant and accounting for little variance can have a critical role in driving behavior.”

The Evolution of Consciousness Faces New Biological Challenges - Daily Neuron The evolution of consciousness remains a mystery as scientists grapple with defining traits, overcoming bias, and measuring subjective experience in animals.

The evolution of consciousness remains a mystery as scientists grapple with defining traits, overcoming bias, and measuring subjective experience in animals. #consciousness #cogsci

dailyneuron.com/evolution-of...

Join us for the first symposium of the OPM-MEG Action Scotland (OMEGAS) initiative - www.dundee.ac.uk/omegas, to take place at the University of Dundee, *9-10 Dec*, and funded by the Quantum ARC quantum-tech-alliance.co.uk #neuroskyence #meg #opm /1

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms.

‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms.

But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

I'm so envious of the Western student, most exciting thing that ever happened in my college was when the Sanskrit Lit prof's wife left him and ran away with his friend and he locked himself in the staff room for a whole day with 3 bottles of whisky and cried at everyone who asked him to come out

Inattentional noise leads to subjective color uniformity across the visual field Humans perceive a vividly colored world coherently across the visual field, even though our peripheral vision has limited color sensitivity compared t…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"... observers perceive scene images achromatized in the peripheral region (chimera images) as full-color images... inattentional noise increases the occurrence of strong color signals that exceed the internal color detection criterion..."

Nishida lab

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Worms help untangle brain structure/function mystery The synaptic connectome of most animals bears little resemblance to functional brain maps, but it can still predict neuronal activity, according to two preprints that tackle the puzzle in C. elegans.

New findings help to explain why it has been so challenging to predict brain signaling from the connectome alone.

By Holly Barker

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/w...

I’m moving from York to take up a Professorship at the CUNY Grad Center this fall! Graduate student training has been a focus these past years and I’m excited to help mentor next gen philosophy of animal minds in NYC!

Awesome! You're coming to my campus - looking forward to meeting you in person.

The brain’s map of the body is surprisingly stable — even after a limb is lost Study challenges the textbook idea that the brain region that processes body sensations reorganizes itself after limb amputation.

The Brain’s Map of the Body Is Surprisingly Stable—Even after a Limb Is Lost www.nature.com/articles/d41...

That's a wrap for CCN2025 -- and so planning for CCN2026 in New York is starting today! Save travels to all participants and remember to fill out the feedback survey sent via email!

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The 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 👇
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I made this Computational Psychiatry Starter Pack a while ago and was wondering if I may be missing anyone who has joined bluesky since?

I will add anyone who uses computational models to adress questions in psychiatry research. :)
go.bsky.app/5PTy9Zj

Many-Two-One: Diverse Representations Across Visual Pathways Emerge from A Single Objective How the human brain supports diverse behaviours has been debated for decades. The canonical view divides visual processing into distinct "what" and "where/how" streams – however, their origin and inde...

🧠 NEW PREPRINT
Many-Two-One: Diverse Representations Across Visual Pathways Emerge from A Single Objective
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A few years ago, with @tyrellturing.bsky.social @patrickmineault.bsky.social and others, we showed one single objective (prediction) was sufficient for explaining specialized pathways of mouse visual cortex: tinyurl.com/2vsjbve7

Super cool to see the same observation now for human visual cortex.

Breaking the jar: Why NeuroAI needs embodiment Brain function is inexorably shaped by the body. Embracing this will benefit computational models of real brain function and the design of ANNs.

If #NeuroAI efforts are to provide any insight into biology, they must carefully consider each animal’s body, not just tracked key points and other aggregate measures of behavior, write @bingbrunton.bsky.social and @tuthill.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/brea...

Jennifer Prendki describes how AI needs to emulate life Prendki explains how her work on large AI models shaped her views that current AI needs inspiration from living organisms.

Paul Middlebrooks @braininspired.bsky.social talks with particle physicist turned artificial-intelligence expert Jennifer Prendki about how AI needs to emulate biological life. Listen now: www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

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Brain rhythms in cognition -- controversies and future directions Brain rhythms seem central to understanding the neurophysiological basis of human cognition. Yet, despite significant advances, key questions remain unresolved. In this comprehensive position paper, w...

Here it is: arxiv.org/abs/2507.15639

This summer my lab's journal club somewhat unintentionally ended up reading papers on a theme of "more naturalistic computational neuroscience". I figured I'd share the list of papers here 🧵:

Been really enjoying the Complexity Science Discussion Group hosted by Paul Middlebrooks, where we're working our way through the Santa Fe Institute's "Classic Papers in Complexity Science". The group is open for anyone interested:

braininspired.co/complexity-g...

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/