Rosanne Rademaker
@rademaker.bsky.social
Max Planck group leader at MPI:ESI in Frankfurt | human cognition, fMRI, MEG, computation | not an AI | she/her
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Rosanne Rademaker
@rademaker.bsky.social
· May 19
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Do you think in concepts? In pictures? A little bit of both? Thinking in pictures draws on parts of your brain also involved in seeing pictures: Early Visual Cortex (EVC). To learn how thinking in pictures may work, the amazing @noa tested 2 accounts in a neural network model. 🚨TWEEPRINT ALERT! 1/n
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2023: 8,039 proposals
2024: 10,360 proposals
2025: 17,066 proposals
2026: 21,627 proposals
Something's gotta give
2024: 10,360 proposals
2025: 17,066 proposals
2026: 21,627 proposals
Something's gotta give
This ridiculous number of applications is, in my view, the result of 2 nightmare developments happening concurrently 1.the precariousness of the job market for young PhD graduates which then fuels further: 2.the AI tools enabling overproduction of proposals. #Research #ERC #ResearchFunding #Academia
September 21, 2026 at 2:07 PM
2023: 8,039 proposals
2024: 10,360 proposals
2025: 17,066 proposals
2026: 21,627 proposals
Something's gotta give
2024: 10,360 proposals
2025: 17,066 proposals
2026: 21,627 proposals
Something's gotta give
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Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
apol-recruit.ucsd.edu
September 21, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Recently I asked PIs to share lab documentation for a meta-science project on lab culture! with @weijima.bsky.social and Chris Pfund. Thanks for sharing these great resources, quite some are now linked from our preprint below! Check it out to read about lab culture, the PI’s role, and documentation
September 18, 2026 at 6:25 AM
Recently I asked PIs to share lab documentation for a meta-science project on lab culture! with @weijima.bsky.social and Chris Pfund. Thanks for sharing these great resources, quite some are now linked from our preprint below! Check it out to read about lab culture, the PI’s role, and documentation
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NEW PREPRINT ON LAB CULTURE: What is it, how is it related to mentorship, and how to document it? With @rademaker.bsky.social and Chris Pfund. osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
September 17, 2026 at 9:20 PM
NEW PREPRINT ON LAB CULTURE: What is it, how is it related to mentorship, and how to document it? With @rademaker.bsky.social and Chris Pfund. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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New paper from the Neurosurgery Research Team at BCM! “Neural geometry in the human hippocampus enables generalization across spatial position and gaze” led by @assiachericoni.bsky.social! 🧵
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
Neural geometry in the human hippocampus enables generalization across spatial position and gaze
Chericoni et al. show that neurons in the human hippocampus track the positions of
multiple agents in a simple pursuit-based video game. They identified place codes
for each agent and for gaze. The co...
www.cell.com
September 9, 2026 at 3:34 PM
New paper from the Neurosurgery Research Team at BCM! “Neural geometry in the human hippocampus enables generalization across spatial position and gaze” led by @assiachericoni.bsky.social! 🧵
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
Still sorely missing San Diego, this would be a great job!
UCSD Psychology is hiring!! We’re seeking a new assistant professor colleague who studies high-level human cognition, broadly construed. Please share and/or apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04646
Assistant Professor in High-level Human Cognition
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
apol-recruit.ucsd.edu
September 9, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Still sorely missing San Diego, this would be a great job!
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“Lost media” no longer! I finally got permission to upload “AL’S BRAIN,” an 11-minute educational 3-D film attraction which ran at the Orange County and Western Washington fairs, and hasn’t been seen publicly since 2009. You can watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/2xujU87ZHt4
August 31, 2026 at 4:19 PM
“Lost media” no longer! I finally got permission to upload “AL’S BRAIN,” an 11-minute educational 3-D film attraction which ran at the Orange County and Western Washington fairs, and hasn’t been seen publicly since 2009. You can watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/2xujU87ZHt4
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Are brains and artificial neural networks converging onto universal representations?
There is a seductive idea making the rounds in NeuroAI / machine learning: train systems well enough, and they all converge on the same representation of reality (i.e. a unique world model).
We have thoughts™
1/n
There is a seductive idea making the rounds in NeuroAI / machine learning: train systems well enough, and they all converge on the same representation of reality (i.e. a unique world model).
We have thoughts™
1/n
The Umwelt Representation Hypothesis: rethinking Universality
Recent studies reveal striking representational alignment between artificial neural
networks (ANNs) and biological brains, leading to proposals that all sufficiently
capable systems converge on univer...
www.cell.com
August 28, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Are brains and artificial neural networks converging onto universal representations?
There is a seductive idea making the rounds in NeuroAI / machine learning: train systems well enough, and they all converge on the same representation of reality (i.e. a unique world model).
We have thoughts™
1/n
There is a seductive idea making the rounds in NeuroAI / machine learning: train systems well enough, and they all converge on the same representation of reality (i.e. a unique world model).
We have thoughts™
1/n
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Our paper "Redundant prefrontal hemispheres adapt storage strategy to working memory demands" is finally out in Nature Communications! We combined bilateral PFC recordings, modeling and human data to ask: How do the hemispheres work together to store information?1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Redundant prefrontal hemispheres adapt storage strategy to working memory demands - Nature Communications
Neural mechanisms underlying spatial working memory are not fully understood. In this manuscript, simultaneous bilateral monkey recordings and attractor networks show how weakly coupled, redundant pre...
www.nature.com
August 24, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Our paper "Redundant prefrontal hemispheres adapt storage strategy to working memory demands" is finally out in Nature Communications! We combined bilateral PFC recordings, modeling and human data to ask: How do the hemispheres work together to store information?1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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So happy to be back :) Please note the doctoral student opportunity! Reposts very welcome. #visionscience #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cogsci
Hello #ecvp! We are so happy to be with you yet again. Here is our #ecvp2026 schedule, please come see us. 🚨We are looking for a doctoral student🚨 -- let's chat! #visionscience #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cogsci
August 24, 2026 at 11:50 AM
So happy to be back :) Please note the doctoral student opportunity! Reposts very welcome. #visionscience #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cogsci
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Open post-doc position in the study of perceptual fluctuations
Position: post-doctoral (2 years)
Locations: Paris, France (Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS) and Lausanne, Switzerland (University of Lausanne / CHUV)
Deadline: September 4th, 2026
Start Date: Fall 2026 (with some flexibility)
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Position: post-doctoral (2 years)
Locations: Paris, France (Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS) and Lausanne, Switzerland (University of Lausanne / CHUV)
Deadline: September 4th, 2026
Start Date: Fall 2026 (with some flexibility)
(1/8)
June 17, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Open post-doc position in the study of perceptual fluctuations
Position: post-doctoral (2 years)
Locations: Paris, France (Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS) and Lausanne, Switzerland (University of Lausanne / CHUV)
Deadline: September 4th, 2026
Start Date: Fall 2026 (with some flexibility)
(1/8)
Position: post-doctoral (2 years)
Locations: Paris, France (Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS) and Lausanne, Switzerland (University of Lausanne / CHUV)
Deadline: September 4th, 2026
Start Date: Fall 2026 (with some flexibility)
(1/8)
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Please share widely! 🚀 I am recruiting a PhD student for an exciting cross-species collaborative project using layer fMRI to investigate how interoception shapes cognitive control - Application deadline is: 1.10.2026 - Start: Jan 2027
www.mpg.de/26934670/phd...
www.mpg.de/26934670/phd...
PhD Position (m/f/d) | Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and Interoception
PhD Position in Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and Interoception
www.mpg.de
August 21, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Please share widely! 🚀 I am recruiting a PhD student for an exciting cross-species collaborative project using layer fMRI to investigate how interoception shapes cognitive control - Application deadline is: 1.10.2026 - Start: Jan 2027
www.mpg.de/26934670/phd...
www.mpg.de/26934670/phd...
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The Department of Neuroscience at Yale is hiring faculty members. We have 2 searches: one general (deadline Oct 15), one focused on computational neuroscience (deadline Nov 30). Apply! apply.interfolio.com/190736 & apply.interfolio.com/190740
August 18, 2026 at 4:02 PM
The Department of Neuroscience at Yale is hiring faculty members. We have 2 searches: one general (deadline Oct 15), one focused on computational neuroscience (deadline Nov 30). Apply! apply.interfolio.com/190736 & apply.interfolio.com/190740
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Killer Kabir went at it again!
We asked a simple question, when you shift attention to a task-relevant location, does attention TRAVEL or TELEPORT (i.e., does it enhance visual processing along its path, or only at the intended endpoint)?
See the thread & preprint below:
#RIFT #EEG #Attention
We asked a simple question, when you shift attention to a task-relevant location, does attention TRAVEL or TELEPORT (i.e., does it enhance visual processing along its path, or only at the intended endpoint)?
See the thread & preprint below:
#RIFT #EEG #Attention
When we shift covert attention from point A to point B; do we also attend everything in between, or does attention jump the gap? In a new preprint, our RIFT-EEG task suggests the latter (with S.V.d.Stigchel, @suryagayet.bsky.social, @schota.bsky.social, ...)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Visual Attention doesn’t Travel, it Teleports
Attention forms a key, yet elusive component of visual processing. We shift attention constantly across the visual field to enhance processing of relevant locations or stimuli in service of goal-direc...
www.biorxiv.org
August 19, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Killer Kabir went at it again!
We asked a simple question, when you shift attention to a task-relevant location, does attention TRAVEL or TELEPORT (i.e., does it enhance visual processing along its path, or only at the intended endpoint)?
See the thread & preprint below:
#RIFT #EEG #Attention
We asked a simple question, when you shift attention to a task-relevant location, does attention TRAVEL or TELEPORT (i.e., does it enhance visual processing along its path, or only at the intended endpoint)?
See the thread & preprint below:
#RIFT #EEG #Attention
Heleen is a fantastic supervisor, so if you’re looking for a postdoc position this is the place to be!
PhD position (4 years, paid) on an NWO-funded project on the Role of Foveal Processing in Spatial Attention at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, supervised by Dr. Mieke Donk (main PI) and me! For more information:
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...
Vacancy — PhD position (4 years) on the Role of Foveal Processing in Spatial Attention
Are you interested in understanding how attention shapes what we see? Would you like to combine behavioural experiments, psychophysics, and eye tracking to uncover how the brain selects and prioritise...
workingat.vu.nl
August 19, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Heleen is a fantastic supervisor, so if you’re looking for a postdoc position this is the place to be!
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PhD position (4 years, paid) on an NWO-funded project on the Role of Foveal Processing in Spatial Attention at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, supervised by Dr. Mieke Donk (main PI) and me! For more information:
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...
Vacancy — PhD position (4 years) on the Role of Foveal Processing in Spatial Attention
Are you interested in understanding how attention shapes what we see? Would you like to combine behavioural experiments, psychophysics, and eye tracking to uncover how the brain selects and prioritise...
workingat.vu.nl
August 19, 2026 at 7:46 AM
PhD position (4 years, paid) on an NWO-funded project on the Role of Foveal Processing in Spatial Attention at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, supervised by Dr. Mieke Donk (main PI) and me! For more information:
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...
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📢 We are hiring a full professor in "Intelligence in Biological and Artificial Systems".
Come join us at Germany's first and largest cognitive science program.
Please share far and wide, and get in touch with any questions.
www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/universit...
Come join us at Germany's first and largest cognitive science program.
Please share far and wide, and get in touch with any questions.
www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/universit...
129 FB 8 W3 Professorship Intelligence in Biological and Artificial Systems, Institute of Cognitive Science: Uni Osnabrück
www.uni-osnabrueck.de
August 19, 2026 at 4:52 PM
📢 We are hiring a full professor in "Intelligence in Biological and Artificial Systems".
Come join us at Germany's first and largest cognitive science program.
Please share far and wide, and get in touch with any questions.
www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/universit...
Come join us at Germany's first and largest cognitive science program.
Please share far and wide, and get in touch with any questions.
www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/universit...
If you’re a PI who’s written documentation about values, expectations, or practicalities of your lab AND you don’t mind this being referenced in an upcoming article (with Christine Pfund and @weijima.bsky.social), I would ❤️ it if you shared your 📄 with us. Thanks!
August 18, 2026 at 10:26 AM
If you’re a PI who’s written documentation about values, expectations, or practicalities of your lab AND you don’t mind this being referenced in an upcoming article (with Christine Pfund and @weijima.bsky.social), I would ❤️ it if you shared your 📄 with us. Thanks!
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Come work with me at Google! We have an open 6-month temp role on my team - it’s a great opportunity for someone with a cog neuro or psych background interested in exploring big tech. Looking for comp modeling experience (e.g. RL, DDMs) and Python/JS. Reach out to learn more or pass along any names!
August 17, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Come work with me at Google! We have an open 6-month temp role on my team - it’s a great opportunity for someone with a cog neuro or psych background interested in exploring big tech. Looking for comp modeling experience (e.g. RL, DDMs) and Python/JS. Reach out to learn more or pass along any names!
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Episodic memory forms through action: gaze shifts sequentially sample experience as it unfolds 👀🏞️ 🧠
But actions may also help organize how the brain reactivates episodic memories! 👀🧠💭 🏞️
Check out our new preprint 👇
doi.org/10.64898/202...
🎉
@tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social & Aditya Chowdhury
👇🧵
But actions may also help organize how the brain reactivates episodic memories! 👀🧠💭 🏞️
Check out our new preprint 👇
doi.org/10.64898/202...
🎉
@tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social & Aditya Chowdhury
👇🧵
doi.org
August 17, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Episodic memory forms through action: gaze shifts sequentially sample experience as it unfolds 👀🏞️ 🧠
But actions may also help organize how the brain reactivates episodic memories! 👀🧠💭 🏞️
Check out our new preprint 👇
doi.org/10.64898/202...
🎉
@tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social & Aditya Chowdhury
👇🧵
But actions may also help organize how the brain reactivates episodic memories! 👀🧠💭 🏞️
Check out our new preprint 👇
doi.org/10.64898/202...
🎉
@tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social & Aditya Chowdhury
👇🧵
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SUPER excited to share the first-ever preprint out of my PhD! AND it comes with a CAT story. I know there are quite some people here who love seeing cat pictures!! 🐈1/🧵
July 22, 2026 at 2:07 PM
SUPER excited to share the first-ever preprint out of my PhD! AND it comes with a CAT story. I know there are quite some people here who love seeing cat pictures!! 🐈1/🧵
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📅 The detailed schedule for the #BernsteinConference 2026 is now available!
Explore the conference programme and start planning your visit to Frankfurt. We look forward to welcoming you this September!
👉 bit.ly/4z0knle
#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro #Neuroskyence
Explore the conference programme and start planning your visit to Frankfurt. We look forward to welcoming you this September!
👉 bit.ly/4z0knle
#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro #Neuroskyence
August 11, 2026 at 9:04 AM
📅 The detailed schedule for the #BernsteinConference 2026 is now available!
Explore the conference programme and start planning your visit to Frankfurt. We look forward to welcoming you this September!
👉 bit.ly/4z0knle
#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro #Neuroskyence
Explore the conference programme and start planning your visit to Frankfurt. We look forward to welcoming you this September!
👉 bit.ly/4z0knle
#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro #Neuroskyence
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I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
www.carlsonlab.bio
August 10, 2026 at 4:43 PM
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
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together with @AnyaDietrich and a great team, we're organizing the Frankfurt hub of this year's 🌱CuttingGardens🌱, a distributed conference on cutting-edge methods for M/EEG data analysis, hosted by CoBIC!
Sept 21–25, 2026🧵
Sept 21–25, 2026🧵
August 10, 2026 at 1:51 PM
together with @AnyaDietrich and a great team, we're organizing the Frankfurt hub of this year's 🌱CuttingGardens🌱, a distributed conference on cutting-edge methods for M/EEG data analysis, hosted by CoBIC!
Sept 21–25, 2026🧵
Sept 21–25, 2026🧵
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(1/8) Our approach for untangling brain-wide interactions is out today in @cp-neuron.bsky.social!
Current-Based Decomposition (CURBD) uses RNNs constrained by real neural data to reveal the input driving neurons, uncovering how brain regions talk to each other.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Current-Based Decomposition (CURBD) uses RNNs constrained by real neural data to reveal the input driving neurons, uncovering how brain regions talk to each other.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
🧵👇
August 7, 2026 at 3:38 PM
(1/8) Our approach for untangling brain-wide interactions is out today in @cp-neuron.bsky.social!
Current-Based Decomposition (CURBD) uses RNNs constrained by real neural data to reveal the input driving neurons, uncovering how brain regions talk to each other.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
🧵👇
Current-Based Decomposition (CURBD) uses RNNs constrained by real neural data to reveal the input driving neurons, uncovering how brain regions talk to each other.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
🧵👇