Computational models are a key part of science but discovering new ones is hard!
DataDIVER discovers concise models from data, which surface new mechanistic ideas and clear predictions for future experiments
From Google Deepmind Neuroscience Lab + collaborators
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Kevin J Miller
Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles, writes @tonyzador.bsky.social. AI is now offering neuroscience the same deal. #neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...
Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles. Artificial intelligence is now offering neuroscience the same deal.
📣🔥 Early bird registration now open for 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference cpconf.org at Yale July 14-16.
Late-breaking abstracts now open (deadline: May 8)
Trainee pre-conference (July 13) registration open (free!)
See you in New Haven! #CPConf2026
🎉New positions!🎉
Postdoc and Research technician openings in our lab @yale for computational psychiatry research. Technician position a great stepping stone to grad school. More info: rutledgelab.org/positions
Work w/big data from our smartphone apps and large clinical samples happinessquest.app
Brilliant! In part b/c it holds up happiness as an illustration of what’s what 😉. But more seriously: IF YOUR SO CALLED THEORY DOESN‘T MAKE TESTABLE PREDICTIONS IT’S A FRAMEWORK. #TheoriesAreTheGoal
Excellent example of an influential framework-not-a-theory here:
experimentology.io/002-theories...
To accompany my textbook (Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience) and the class I taught this semester, I'm open-sourcing my lectures slides:
gershmanlab.com/lectures.html
I'll continue to update these as I improve them.
Did you know that this is the first year the Society for Neuroeconomics conference will be in California?
Seize the day, left coasters! Decide to come talk about decisions with us... and keynote speaker, the brilliant Carlos Brody!
neuroeconomics.org/2026-meeting/
New Annual Review with @nathanieldaw.bsky.social: “Planning in the Brain: It's Not What You Think It Is.” We argue that the brain's 'planning' machinery is mostly used for learning from simulated experience, and that thinking prospectively at decision time is just one special case of this process.
