Konstantina Sokratous
@lazyneuron.bsky.social
I often inspire envy, as I get paid to stare at hot models run all day long | Postdoc @Mizzou |
| #Ψ #AI #modeling #decisions #cogsci |🧠👩🏼💻|
| Bucket hat enthusiast |
| #Ψ #AI #modeling #decisions #cogsci |🧠👩🏼💻|
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World models are a highly speculative topic in AI as well as in cognitive science. I’m excited to share my manuscript on investigating internal world models using imagination networks in humans and LLMs! 🧵1/n
arxiv.org/abs/2510.04391
arxiv.org/abs/2510.04391
Internal World Models as Imagination Networks in Cognitive Agents
What is the computational objective of imagination? While classical interpretations suggest imagination is useful for maximizing rewards, recent findings challenge this view. In this study, we propose...
arxiv.org
October 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
World models are a highly speculative topic in AI as well as in cognitive science. I’m excited to share my manuscript on investigating internal world models using imagination networks in humans and LLMs! 🧵1/n
arxiv.org/abs/2510.04391
arxiv.org/abs/2510.04391
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We know that a consensus of opinions is persuasive, but how reliable is this effect across people and types of consensus, and are there any kinds of claims where people care less about what other people think? This is what we tested in our new(ish) paper in @psychscience.bsky.social
August 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
We know that a consensus of opinions is persuasive, but how reliable is this effect across people and types of consensus, and are there any kinds of claims where people care less about what other people think? This is what we tested in our new(ish) paper in @psychscience.bsky.social
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Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?
August 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?
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Josh Tenenbaum's inspiring keynote at #cogsci2025 on growing vs scaling AI, the big questions of cognitive science, and the many open questions for the field.
August 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Josh Tenenbaum's inspiring keynote at #cogsci2025 on growing vs scaling AI, the big questions of cognitive science, and the many open questions for the field.
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Xiaomin Li, Xupeng Chen, Jingxuan Fan, Eric Hanchen Jiang, Mingye Gao
Multi-head Reward Aggregation Guided by Entropy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20995
Multi-head Reward Aggregation Guided by Entropy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20995
March 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Xiaomin Li, Xupeng Chen, Jingxuan Fan, Eric Hanchen Jiang, Mingye Gao
Multi-head Reward Aggregation Guided by Entropy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20995
Multi-head Reward Aggregation Guided by Entropy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20995
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Inspired by my reading this week, I wrote a list of the resources I think every cognitive science researcher should read/listen to about theory development. It's in this google.doc (feel free to add your own suggestions) and in the thread below. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Theory: Whtat to read
The role of theory in cognitive science Or: my guide to what to read if you really want to understand how to do good, robust , theory-driven cognitive science. (disclaimer: this is an aspirational gu...
docs.google.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Inspired by my reading this week, I wrote a list of the resources I think every cognitive science researcher should read/listen to about theory development. It's in this google.doc (feel free to add your own suggestions) and in the thread below. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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How does exercise and fitness promote healthy brain aging?
An outstanding, comprehensive review @thelancet.bsky.social
reduced neuroinflammmation, preserves blood-brain-barrier, neurogenesis, role of exerkines, and much more
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
An outstanding, comprehensive review @thelancet.bsky.social
reduced neuroinflammmation, preserves blood-brain-barrier, neurogenesis, role of exerkines, and much more
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
March 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
How does exercise and fitness promote healthy brain aging?
An outstanding, comprehensive review @thelancet.bsky.social
reduced neuroinflammmation, preserves blood-brain-barrier, neurogenesis, role of exerkines, and much more
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
An outstanding, comprehensive review @thelancet.bsky.social
reduced neuroinflammmation, preserves blood-brain-barrier, neurogenesis, role of exerkines, and much more
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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I'm excited about this new analysis approach because we can now estimate when changes in strategy, goal choice, conflict etc. occur in open state spaces. Providing metrics for studies with patients & sec-sec metrics for upcoming fMRI data and existing iEEG data with Sea Hero Quest
#neuroskyence
#neuroskyence
⚠️ New preprint !
"Separable cognitive & motor decline tracked across adult
life-span for goal-directed navigation"
Giovanni Pezzulo's lab modelled the trajectories in Sea Hero Quest to reveal dynamic patterns of goal-directed control and their decline with age:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"Separable cognitive & motor decline tracked across adult
life-span for goal-directed navigation"
Giovanni Pezzulo's lab modelled the trajectories in Sea Hero Quest to reveal dynamic patterns of goal-directed control and their decline with age:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 12, 2024 at 11:37 PM
I'm excited about this new analysis approach because we can now estimate when changes in strategy, goal choice, conflict etc. occur in open state spaces. Providing metrics for studies with patients & sec-sec metrics for upcoming fMRI data and existing iEEG data with Sea Hero Quest
#neuroskyence
#neuroskyence
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Nothing helps beat the pseudoscience label like humbly comparing your theory with no empirical support to the theory of general relativity 😂
Recent pseudoscience accusation echoes historic pushback against general relativity: http://osf.io/awys2/
December 11, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Nothing helps beat the pseudoscience label like humbly comparing your theory with no empirical support to the theory of general relativity 😂
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We had a wonderful time at this workshop w/ @blackinneuro.bsky.social!
If you missed seeing me & @shahana-ansari.bsky.social talk about how to give constructive & kind feedback on manuscripts, check out the recording – coming soon!
Huge thanks to the @blackinneuro.bsky.social team for having us! ❤️
If you missed seeing me & @shahana-ansari.bsky.social talk about how to give constructive & kind feedback on manuscripts, check out the recording – coming soon!
Huge thanks to the @blackinneuro.bsky.social team for having us! ❤️
"Critique and meanness are orthogonal and separate." @mariamaly.bsky.social (@reviewerzero.bsky.social) speaking on constructively critiquing the work without attacking the individual.
The workshop will be available on the @blackinneuro.bsky.social YouTube!
#AcademicSky #BlackInNeuro #PsychSky
The workshop will be available on the @blackinneuro.bsky.social YouTube!
#AcademicSky #BlackInNeuro #PsychSky
December 4, 2024 at 8:56 PM
We had a wonderful time at this workshop w/ @blackinneuro.bsky.social!
If you missed seeing me & @shahana-ansari.bsky.social talk about how to give constructive & kind feedback on manuscripts, check out the recording – coming soon!
Huge thanks to the @blackinneuro.bsky.social team for having us! ❤️
If you missed seeing me & @shahana-ansari.bsky.social talk about how to give constructive & kind feedback on manuscripts, check out the recording – coming soon!
Huge thanks to the @blackinneuro.bsky.social team for having us! ❤️
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Funded PhD opportunity for AI-driven early detection of dementia using multimodal data supervised by my colleague and friend Qiang Liu. Cannot recommend him more highly, I co-supervise a PhD student with him and this is an absolute bomb of an opportunity www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
AI-driven early detection of dementia using multimodal data at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - AI-driven early detection of dementia using multimodal data at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 4, 2024 at 9:28 AM
Funded PhD opportunity for AI-driven early detection of dementia using multimodal data supervised by my colleague and friend Qiang Liu. Cannot recommend him more highly, I co-supervise a PhD student with him and this is an absolute bomb of an opportunity www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Grant agency: "In the end, despite some initial enthusiasm, the panel was not convinced [...], and expected that the impact in the field is likely to be low."
Despite evidence to the contrary, funding bodies remain confident they can predict the success of a project.
elifesciences.org/articles/13323
Despite evidence to the contrary, funding bodies remain confident they can predict the success of a project.
elifesciences.org/articles/13323
November 24, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Grant agency: "In the end, despite some initial enthusiasm, the panel was not convinced [...], and expected that the impact in the field is likely to be low."
Despite evidence to the contrary, funding bodies remain confident they can predict the success of a project.
elifesciences.org/articles/13323
Despite evidence to the contrary, funding bodies remain confident they can predict the success of a project.
elifesciences.org/articles/13323
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I wish that I was able to convince the students in my class that the ultimate goal of science isn't accumulation of facts but the compression of facts into theories. Mel summarizes it well here:
www.nature.com/articles/nn1...
Unfortunately, I think this is a minority viewpoint within neuroscience.
www.nature.com/articles/nn1...
Unfortunately, I think this is a minority viewpoint within neuroscience.
www.nature.com
November 12, 2024 at 12:07 PM
I wish that I was able to convince the students in my class that the ultimate goal of science isn't accumulation of facts but the compression of facts into theories. Mel summarizes it well here:
www.nature.com/articles/nn1...
Unfortunately, I think this is a minority viewpoint within neuroscience.
www.nature.com/articles/nn1...
Unfortunately, I think this is a minority viewpoint within neuroscience.
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Announcing the launch of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: oecs.mit.edu! OECS is a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics in cogsci to a broad audience of students and scholars.
Open Encylopedia of Cognitive Science
oecs.mit.edu
July 24, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Announcing the launch of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: oecs.mit.edu! OECS is a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics in cogsci to a broad audience of students and scholars.
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How do we make choices when our options change over time? In a new paper with @lazyneuron.bsky.social
& Andy Fitch, just accepted at Psych Review, we explore "alternative-general" representations of evidence that allow us to make good decisions even when our options shift.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
& Andy Fitch, just accepted at Psych Review, we explore "alternative-general" representations of evidence that allow us to make good decisions even when our options shift.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
June 12, 2024 at 7:57 PM
How do we make choices when our options change over time? In a new paper with @lazyneuron.bsky.social
& Andy Fitch, just accepted at Psych Review, we explore "alternative-general" representations of evidence that allow us to make good decisions even when our options shift.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
& Andy Fitch, just accepted at Psych Review, we explore "alternative-general" representations of evidence that allow us to make good decisions even when our options shift.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Hey, let’s become colleagues!
Dr. Siobhan Schabrun is looking for 2 postdocs. Join our lab where we study the neural & biological underpinnings of pain. TMS, EEG, fMRI, multiomics, you name it!
Dr. Siobhan Schabrun is looking for 2 postdocs. Join our lab where we study the neural & biological underpinnings of pain. TMS, EEG, fMRI, multiomics, you name it!
April 18, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Hey, let’s become colleagues!
Dr. Siobhan Schabrun is looking for 2 postdocs. Join our lab where we study the neural & biological underpinnings of pain. TMS, EEG, fMRI, multiomics, you name it!
Dr. Siobhan Schabrun is looking for 2 postdocs. Join our lab where we study the neural & biological underpinnings of pain. TMS, EEG, fMRI, multiomics, you name it!
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I am delighted that I’ll be joining Boston University’s dept. of psychological and brain sciences as an assistant professor in July 2025!
I’ll be recruiting Ph.D. students and hiring a lab manager to start alongside me — see here for more info: katenuss.com/lab
🧠👩🔬💻
I’ll be recruiting Ph.D. students and hiring a lab manager to start alongside me — see here for more info: katenuss.com/lab
🧠👩🔬💻
April 17, 2024 at 5:07 PM
I am delighted that I’ll be joining Boston University’s dept. of psychological and brain sciences as an assistant professor in July 2025!
I’ll be recruiting Ph.D. students and hiring a lab manager to start alongside me — see here for more info: katenuss.com/lab
🧠👩🔬💻
I’ll be recruiting Ph.D. students and hiring a lab manager to start alongside me — see here for more info: katenuss.com/lab
🧠👩🔬💻
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When "tech" meant faster computers and smaller phones, it was exciting, you wanted to know what they were going to come up with next. Now it's a bunch of assholes trying to figure out new ways to charge you a subscription to look at the shittiest ads you can imagine
April 13, 2024 at 4:38 AM
When "tech" meant faster computers and smaller phones, it was exciting, you wanted to know what they were going to come up with next. Now it's a bunch of assholes trying to figure out new ways to charge you a subscription to look at the shittiest ads you can imagine
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Biggest ever survey of trans Americans finds 94% happier after transition
Biggest ever survey of trans Americans finds 94% happier after transition
The 2022 US Trans Survey of 92,000 transgender adults, finds continued discrimination, harassment and even violence at work
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Biggest ever survey of trans Americans finds 94% happier after transition
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modern society is so divorced from our food sources that most people who eat pop tarts have never actually killed one themselves
December 29, 2023 at 6:02 PM
modern society is so divorced from our food sources that most people who eat pop tarts have never actually killed one themselves
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See: Canada has failed to act on this momentum (best I can tell). Grad student stipends in 🇨🇦 haven't changed for 20 years. Like... literally zero inflation-adjustment.
As a 🇨🇦 expat, I can't even dream of returning to run a competitive lab... #AcademicSky #CanadaPoli
www.nature.com/articles/d41....
As a 🇨🇦 expat, I can't even dream of returning to run a competitive lab... #AcademicSky #CanadaPoli
www.nature.com/articles/d41....
December 18, 2023 at 7:39 AM
See: Canada has failed to act on this momentum (best I can tell). Grad student stipends in 🇨🇦 haven't changed for 20 years. Like... literally zero inflation-adjustment.
As a 🇨🇦 expat, I can't even dream of returning to run a competitive lab... #AcademicSky #CanadaPoli
www.nature.com/articles/d41....
As a 🇨🇦 expat, I can't even dream of returning to run a competitive lab... #AcademicSky #CanadaPoli
www.nature.com/articles/d41....
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@saurabhr.bsky.social's first paper from my lab is now in press! Using behavior, machine learning, and computational modeling, he found that during a reality monitoring task, subjects have an "externalization bias" to report imagined memories as perceived. tinyurl.com/bdzjwzhn
December 6, 2023 at 7:21 PM
@saurabhr.bsky.social's first paper from my lab is now in press! Using behavior, machine learning, and computational modeling, he found that during a reality monitoring task, subjects have an "externalization bias" to report imagined memories as perceived. tinyurl.com/bdzjwzhn
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Hello! Do you like *free* things that are *boring* for most people, but *interesting* for a few? Then maybe you'd like a copy of my book *Modeling Scientific Communities* - downloadable from Cambridge for the next two weeks- www.cambridge.org/core/element...
December 5, 2023 at 12:12 AM
Hello! Do you like *free* things that are *boring* for most people, but *interesting* for a few? Then maybe you'd like a copy of my book *Modeling Scientific Communities* - downloadable from Cambridge for the next two weeks- www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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quick q for universities that require you to sign up to a website to submit your letter of rec: (1) how dare you
November 28, 2023 at 6:37 PM
quick q for universities that require you to sign up to a website to submit your letter of rec: (1) how dare you