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assoc prof @ucicogsci : perception+metacog+phenomenology, neuroimaging+modeling+ML. prez+co-founder @neuromatch . fellow @cifar_news . she/her 💖💜💙 views mine

Irvine, CA, USA

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megan peters 🧠

2 years

aaand…. just accepted at Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews! i can hardly believe it. i am *enormously* grateful to all the reviewers, formal & informal, who’ve helped improved this piece over the past 1.5 yrs. it's so much stronger w/ their comprehensive feedback. THANK YOU!

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megan peters 🧠

3 years

so i posted this on @PsyArXiv a week ago but was too chicken to do a tweeprint until now because, well, it is scary to try to solo-author a theory piece. but, i think it is time to share with you all:

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megan peters 🧠

1 year

SO EXCITED to have been promoted to associate prof w/ tenure at @ucicogsci !! thank you to all my colleagues, friends, staff members, members of my lab who have been working so hard on their science, collaborators... I could not have done this w/o your support. So very grateful!!

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megan peters 🧠

1 year

i have been mulling whether/how to say something this since the press releases started coming out 4 days ago, but feel i need to say something now. i am deeply disappointed in how the media has covered recent findings in consciousness science. 🧵👇

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

To our @neuromatch Academy students & TAs: it’s W1D4 & it’s getting intense! But hang in there! Nobody does a PhD in 3 weeks… absorb, explore, ask questions, save stuff for later. NMA is to build a library for your future, not memorize every book right now ❤️

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megan peters 🧠

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so i posted this on @PsyArXiv a week ago but was too chicken to do a tweeprint until now because, well, it is scary to try to solo-author a theory piece. but, i think it is time to share with you all:

Towards Characterizing the Canonical Computations Generating Phenomenal Experience

Few people tackle the neural or computational basis of qualitative experience (Frith, 2019). Why? One major reason is that science and philosophy have struggled to propose how we might even begin to...

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

what is your *favorite* “debate” or controversy in cognitive/computational neuroscience, psychology, machine learning, philosophy, etc right now? who’s “in the ring”? big or small, doesn’t matter, and doesn’t need to be famous; needs to be interesting!

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

#NeuromatchAcademy 2020 may be over, but this is just the beginning. @neuromatch academy has made history, overcome geopolitical barriers, included participants from 60+ countries & regions, made compneuro accessible to 1000s worldwide. I am truly humbled...

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

This is so amazing and unprecedented! GLOBAL SCIENCE KNOWS NO BORDERS! ❤️❤️❤️

@KordingLab

Kording Lab 🦖

4 years

Spectacularly happy @neuromatch news: we just received an emergency license from the US Government to operate in Iran. Thanks to the community that helped make this happen! ❤️ We can now push further towards the dream of global science without borders.

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To my friends and colleagues around the world: Many of you know that I have been working with an incredibly passionate and driven group of people to build and launch @neuromatch Academy. (1/10)

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megan peters 🧠

3 years

yes, this is precisely why i bought a @wacom drawing tablet: so the cat knows where he is supposed to sit while i work.

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megan peters 🧠

1 year

WE ARE HIRING! Immediately seeking a lab manager/research assistant (start ~Sept 1, 2023) for several ongoing, externally funded projects. Psychophysics, modeling, fMRI, real-time fMRI, and metacognition/consciousness! . Please share widely!!

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megan peters 🧠

1 year

missing the @neuromatch academy closing ceremonies today due to airports and travel but still showing off my #NMA pride! so proud of all the students, TAs, mentors, staff, and volunteers! here's to a successful FOURTH YEAR of computational neuroscience and beyond! 🥂✌️🥳🎊🎉🙌🤗

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

As Week 1 of @neuromatch Academy wraps up, some thoughts: - breathe, sleep, eat, code — in that order! - look back to 1 week ago: how much more do you know now?! - *I’m* learning a ton, too! - Open Science, Philosophy, & Science Visualization tomorrow/Sunday! #NeuromatchAcademy

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megan peters 🧠

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feeling grateful today for my mentors, professional friends & colleagues, & admin staff who've helped me curate my professional trajectory. tenure file submission imminent in the coming days. apprehensive, but so appreciative of your support over the past 15+ yrs. thank you all.

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megan peters 🧠

3 years

at risk of tooting my own horn, here is a soundbite of me talking about how @neuromatch Academy is going beyond passively delivered MOOCs to deliver interactive, "high touch" computational neuroscience education no matter your location. @neuromatch is science without borders ❤

@CIFAR_News

CIFAR

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A pandemic silver lining has been the global democratization of the #neuroscience community, says CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar @meganakpeters , a founder of @neuromatch Academy. 🧠 Full #CIFARVirtualTalk video:

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it's a wrap! @neuromatch academy 2022 students & TAs are now part of our global community that endures indefinitely! if you're going to @CogCompNeuro or @SfNtweets this year, i hope i'll see you there! come say hi, & add "neuromatch" to your name tag so we can find each other 😊

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megan peters 🧠

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At @neuromatch academy we encourage everybody to get involved, even if you're only 7! @jslbutler 's daughter played an integral role in helping design this concept map for our Computational Neuroscience course 😊 Thank you!

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Ella Batty

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Check out our amazing NMA concept map, beautifully designed by John and his seven year old daughter!

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megan peters 🧠

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if i ever publish (or preprint) a paper that doesn't cite your relevant work, please tell me! if i can fix it i absolutely will, or will fix in next pub. the literature is big, hard to keep up. guaranteed we'll all miss smth relevant sometime. let's normalize communication😊

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

€2,190 for the opportunity to be rejected. or: support a grad student for a month, buy ~4 hours of MRI time, send 2 students to a 4-day conference, or pay subjects for 200 hours of psychophysics data. 🤔

@timeshighered

Times Higher Education

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Academics will be able to pay almost £2,000 to have their papers peer-reviewed for Nature-branded titles under a new scheme

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#NeuromatchAcademy is 50% done! whaaaat? Flew by in a flash. So impressed by all the students' & TAs’ energy, enthusiasm — just so mindblowing. And by our generous mentors, for giving time to projects & one-on-one sessions! Are your brains full yet? Don’t give up! You got this!

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megan peters 🧠

5 years

very excited to announce that i am *officially* moving to @UCIrvine Cognitive Sciences, effective March 2020. UCR has been and is an exciting, vibrant, brilliant community & i have learned so much from being here; will miss my fantastic colleagues, but now off to a new adventure!

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megan peters 🧠

3 months

conference travel, seeing good science friends, talking into the wee hours about uber-nerdy things always re-invigorates me. this is how we should always feel as scientists, but it's so easy to settle into a routine & get bogged down in minutae. feeling energized to write, think.

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megan peters 🧠

3 years

did you just get accepted to @neuromatch academy’s computational neuroscience course, but your linear algebra or programming is feeling a bit rusty? we got you! check out the pre-course refresher and other prep materials to help you hit the ground running! 👇

@GunnarBlohm

the viking (@[email protected])

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@neuromatch Academy student who just got accepted to the Computational Neuroscience course: NMA-CN starts in <4 weeks! (refresher in <3) Now is the perfect time to review the prerequisites and brush up on the materials listed before NMA-CN starts!

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megan peters 🧠

5 months

very saddened to hear of Dan Dennett's passing. he was a transformative influence on my thinking about a great many topics, and a kind and generous man. his presence will be missed dearly by a great many people.

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megan peters 🧠

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the home office of a psychophysicist during lockdown. yes, viewing distance, chinrest/eyetracker etc is all wrong & will need to move elsewhere for light control... but wanted to make sure i nabbed all the pieces from lab by plugging everything in. still kind of love it tho.

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megan peters 🧠

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#NeuromatchAcademy students & TAs, you’re almost near the end, can you believe it? Enjoy these last few days, & remember that your projects are so great even if you “didn’t find anything”. & just like in those Reflections, look back to 2.5 weeks ago & think how far you've come!

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megan peters 🧠

3 years

🎉Attention consciousness scientists in the US! Today @BrianOdegaard2 & I launch the "Fund Consciousness Science!" project ( @FundConsc ), generously supported by @TempletonWorld !🎉 Project website 🧵

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

apparently i have had a long-standing love of CRTs... me, circa 1987:

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megan peters 🧠

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okay folks. @nytimes didn't want it (well, they ghosted me, unsurprisingly) & i'm frankly not wanting to wait for other outlets to take weeks to deliberate. so. read my letter about consciousness science communication here

Communicating and conducting modern consciousness science

In this article, I discuss recent media attention paid to consciousness research through coverage of the “25 years of consciousness” event at the 2023 Association for the Scientific Study of Consci...

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megan peters 🧠

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i have been mulling whether/how to say something this since the press releases started coming out 4 days ago, but feel i need to say something now. i am deeply disappointed in how the media has covered recent findings in consciousness science. 🧵👇

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Honored & humbled that #NeuromatchAcademy gained honorable mention in this important vision. Our mission of inclusive neuroscience education for all students worldwide has been a defining force in my life (& lives of our 200+ tireless, brilliant organizers). Couldn't be prouder❤

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@BiasWatchNeuro

4 years

But wait there’s more! Big shout-out to two other groups: the teams behind @neuromatch (especially Megan Peters!) and @isiCNI 🎊🎉 These groups are leaders in fostering more inclusive learning environments and for that kudos to everyone involved!

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the bet, as described by Dave and Christof themselves at the event, was about the neural *correlates* of consciousness. host @heather_berlin was *very careful* to clarify repeatedly with them that it was about *correlates*. not causes, not mechanisms. not explanations.

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megan peters 🧠

3 months

if i had planned to go to this i would rethink based on this panel. you couldn't find a single non-male speaker? really? bad form.

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Jesus Cortes

3 months

BREAKING news 🚨The first time in Spain! #BrainModes conference 2024 - Bilbao Nov. 18 - 21, 2024 17 years hosting a leading meeting on brain dynamics, oscillations, technology and clinic. #BrainModesBilbao Why you cannot miss it out? 🧵

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

Here we go with Week 2! Bayesian inference, time series, decision making, optimal control, reinforcement learning... everything I wanted to know in my PhD, crammed into 5 days. Big props to content creators & curriculum committee @GunnarBlohm for exciting, comprehensive coverage!

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the viking (@[email protected])

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And week 2 of @neuromatch academy just started for Asia/Australia time zone! So much exciting science this week including projects! Can't wait! #NeuromatchAcademy

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megan peters 🧠

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it’s grad interview/acceptance/rejection season. here’s mine: 2007: applied 6 places. 0 interviews. had no idea what i was doing. ⬇️ spent 2 years managing a lab & doing research. took GRE again. ⬇️ 2009: UCLA✅ <— went here USC✅ UCSD✅ U Oregon✅ Columbia - waitlist Berkeley🚫

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megan peters 🧠

5 years

extremely honored and excited to have been selected as a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar in the Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program. very grateful to @CIFAR_News and @azrielifdn for this incredible opportunity!

@CIFAR_News

CIFAR

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We are accelerating the careers of emerging research leaders worldwide. 👇 Meet the 2019 CIFAR @Azrielifdn Global Scholars👇 #CIFARNextGen

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megan peters 🧠

3 years

I am extremely pleased to share with you all that our paper led by Brian Maniscalco is now available online at @PLOSCompBiol ! 🧵 We developed a competing accumulator computational model to explain how ‘confirmation biases’ in perceptual confidence ...

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Tuned inhibition in perceptual decision-making circuits can explain seemingly suboptimal confidence...

Author summary The dominant view of perceptual confidence proposes that confidence optimally reflects the probability that a decision is correct. But recent empirical evidence suggests that percept...

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megan peters 🧠

2 years

kicking off the new academic year with smiling faces. almost the whole lab! here's to a happy, healthy, productive, & community-driven year together after 2.5 years of isolated home offices. #zotzotzot

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megan peters 🧠

3 years

I'm so honored and excited to be among so many esteemed colleagues, both within UCI and external! Really looking forward to participating in @ucicnlm events and planning. Such a fantastic group.

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Mike Yassa

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Huge congratulations to @meganakpeters on being elected a Fellow of @ucicnlm ! Looking forward to tons of fun discussions :) @ucisocsci @UCIrvine

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

it’s happening again! @neuromatch conference! now coming to you in SuperGiant format!

@crozSciTech

Christopher Rozell

4 years

It's happening again 😲. Save the dates for Super @neuromatch on Oct 26-30! This time massively expanded to all of neuroscience, not just computational neuro. Spread the word in your communities. Let us know what you want in comments and volunteer to help! Details to come soon.

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megan peters 🧠

1 year

Reminder folks: WE ARE HIRING! Postdoc, >= 2 yrs of $ available: psychophysics, modeling, fMRI. App priority deadline 8/31/23, start Jan 2024. Lab manager: behavior, real-time fMRI, modeling, & more! HARD app deadline 6/30/23, start Sept 1! Apply:

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megan peters 🧠

3 years

live footage of me after accidentally hitting ‘run’ instead of ‘run section’ on my monte carlo simulation script that begins with ‘clear all’ and takes hours to run, when i realize the "save variables" command was commented out… 😭😭😭

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

The third & final WRAP PARTY for #NeuromatchAcademy starts in just 15 minutes on zoom… bittersweet to wrap NMA2020 having gained many amazing colleagues & gotten to know so many students, TAs! But NMA isn’t over — stay tuned for NMA2021! … right after we all catch up on sleep!

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megan peters 🧠

1 year

as “AI” achieves ever-higher capacities, we have serious questions: is current AI conscious? how would we know? what if we're wrong, in either direction? attributing C to a non-conscious system has societal implications, but reverse may be morally worse.

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Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the...

Whether current or near-term AI systems could be conscious is a topic of scientific interest and increasing public concern. This report argues for, and exemplifies, a rigorous and empirically...

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megan peters 🧠

2 years

Beyond proud to announce this preprint from my trainee @mehdiorouji , “Task-relevant autoencoding” enhances machine learning for human neuroscience! (1/9)

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"Task-relevant autoencoding" enhances machine learning for...

In human neuroscience, machine learning can help reveal lower-dimensional neural representations relevant to subjects' behavior. However, state-of-the-art models typically require large datasets...

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megan peters 🧠

2 years

very glad to be part of this huge endeavor led by the indomitable @KordingLab and in collaboration with a great many others from @neuromatch and beyond! see the project website here:

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Better science every day.

Join the Community for Rigor, make science better every day!

@ucisocsci

UCI Social Sciences

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UCI researchers part of $17 million @NIH grant to reverse science's "replication crisis": @UCIrvine cognitive scientists @meganakpeters and Nia Nixon are helping develop an online educational platform for researchers

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megan peters 🧠

3 years

in grad school, i disassembled an older laptop out of final-straw frustration at its poor performance & intermittent power issues. i had zero plan or EE skills, just rage. after the spider crawled out, it worked. 100% truth. bugs & dust are real, people.

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I just blew into my computer fan like a Nintendo 64 game and the noise it was making went away. I work at NASA.

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megan peters 🧠

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it's out! here i discuss a huge social & cultural challenge of consortium science in modern, "big neuroscience": who gets credit, how much, & what kind in big collaborative science outputs? we're at a cultural crossroads. the path forward isn't clear. we can't keep ...1/n

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Modern neuroscience needs a cultural shift to adopt new authorship practices. By @meganakpeters

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

so super excited to be part of this! look out world — neuroscience coming atcha! ❤️

@neuromatch

Neuromatch

4 years

Big announcement! #NeuromatchAcademy & #NeuromatchConference are officially merging to continue building equitable & diverse neuroscience worldwide! All of @neuromatch now under one roof to better serve you, the global neuroscience community. Presser here:

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

brb switching my entire line of research to boopology

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Patrick Mineault

@patrickmineault

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The field of neuroscience knows far too little about how nose boops affect the brain. To remedy this gaping hole in the literature, I scraped the @neuralink demo video to measure the response of neurons to nose boops. 1/

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megan peters 🧠

3 years

IT'S A GO! all applications for BOTH #NeuromatchAcademy courses are now open! computational neuroscience and deep learning courses, 3 weeks each, July and August. head to to create an account and apply to be a TA, student, or mentor! SO EXCITED!! 😍🥳🎉

@neuromatch

Neuromatch

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🚀 Applications for NMA-CN and NMA-DL opens NOW! 🚀 Applications for interactive students and teaching assistants stay open until May 7th 2021. Faculty interested in being project mentors can use the same portal to apply:

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2 years

may i present to you all the best photo that has ever been taken of me. i must find these glasses and wear them to every scientific talk or presentation i ever give in the future, possibly every class i teach. giant orange stick will be used in place of laser pointer, obviously.

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megan peters 🧠

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our perceptual metacognition satellite happening NOW! launching w/ @hakwanlau 's keynote on metacognition's role in consciousness big thanks to @smfleming @LucieCharlesCog @konohung and @DobyRahnev for helping launch this--150 people registered!

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megan peters 🧠

3 years

Neuromatch Conference is back! submit now! 👇👇

@neuromatch

Neuromatch

3 years

After a few hard days of working on a new web interface we are delighted to say that NMC4 Submissions are now open! If you’d like to join our community of computational neuroscientists at our fourth conference, Dec 1-2, sign up at

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4 years

❤❤ a revolution we can all get behind

@neuroghetto

Indie Neuroblogs

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The Neuromatch Revolution

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

#neuromatchacademy Round 1 applications are here and DEADLINE IS APRIL 27! TA, student, & mentor applications are on a roll. join us at & tell the world! w/ @KordingLab @GunnarBlohm @Schrater_Lab @bradpwyble @seanescola @NeuroChooser

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

love this! neuroscience NEEDS behavior. and behavioral research alone CAN and DOES reveal fundamental insights about the brain and mind.

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Chaz Firestone

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Absolute 🔥 from @yael_niv : "Behavioral, rather than neuroscientific research, is essential for understanding the brain, contrary to the opinion of prominent funding bodies and scientific journals, who erroneously place neural data on a pedestal"

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nothing like unintentionally planning a work trip to end up exactly in the path of a total solar eclipse... at a random Ontario truck stop halfway btwn Detroit & London. shoutout to the #NSF lady at DCA for gifting me eclipse glasses since i forgot mine! truly spectacular.

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in other news, i am EXTREMELY excited about this manuscript with @BrianOdegaard2 , @jorgemlg , Siva Rajananda, Olenka Graham Castaneda, and Brian Maniscalco! (thread)

The metaperceptual function: Exploring dissociations between confidence and task performance with...

Confidence can dissociate from perceptual accuracy, suggesting distinct computational and neural processes underlie these psychological functions. Recent investigations have therefore sought to...

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megan peters 🧠

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reminder! we are seeking a postdoc to join our group. projects are investigating higher order theories of consciousness with psychophysics, fMRI, ML, and other cool stuff. priority deadline in NINE DAYS, Aug 31: please spread the word!

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4 years

great news from my dept: no GRE required! home testing does not level the playing field--unequal access to quiet environment (for 4 straight hours), unstable internet etc make home GRE an inequitable solution. plus concerns re: equity of standardized tests in general. strong win.

@ucicogsci

UCI Cognitive Sciences

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No GRE? No problem! In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UC Irvine Department of Cognitive Sciences is waiving the GRE requirement for the upcoming graduate application cycle.

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HUGE congratulations to my trainee, Sana Hussain, who today earned her PhD & became DOCTOR SANA HUSSAIN!🎉🎉🎉 I’ve had the high pleasure of co-advising Sana w/ Xiaoping Hu at UCR for 4 years; she's a fantastic scientist & engineer. WAY TO GO, DR HUSSAIN!🎉

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

First-order and higher-order theories of consciousness go head to head in our new exciting project! Who will be victorious? We’re very grateful for the generous support of @TempletonWorld via their Adversarial Collaboration mechanism, and can’t wait to get started!

@BiyuHe

Biyu Jade He

4 years

I am delighted to announce that our project to test first-order ( @VictorLamme ) & higher-order ( @hakwanlau @onemorebrown ) theories of consciousness by an adversarial collaboration is funded by @TempletonWorld . Team work with @De_dicto @meganakpeters @rndenison Chalmers & Brascamp.

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

Athena has been an integral and irreplaceable part of our #NeuromatchAcademy family, all while fighting COVID. I am in awe of her bravery and fortitude in the face of this wicked disease. She is, hands down, one of the best scientists and humans I know. Please read 👇

@AthenaAkrami

Athena Akrami

4 years

An in-depth piece by @jcouzin , @ScienceMagazine on #LongCovid ; excellent summary of various enduring symptoms, all we know and so much that we don't know. Thx for giving me a chance to reflect on my experience & our patient-led research. 1/

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

holy... wow. I can't wait to check the stats next week, next month. 😊 The content will remain free indefinitely, folks. But that doesn't mean we can't improve it! Get involved, tell us how we can do better! & tell your friends who missed this year: NMA is yours, freely, always!

@GunnarBlohm

the viking (@[email protected])

4 years

At @neuromatch academy, our main goal was to make high-quality computational neuroscience education accessible to anyone in the world. While I'm sure we'll do better next year, I think this was a good start. Here are some statistics... Youtube channel 👇

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

the world can never have enough of these beautiful, simple, easily-understood visualizations of basic stats concepts ❤ stats is hard for many. i also used to find stats hard. so here's another tools to add to our repertoire, to help build our students' intuitive understanding.

@krstoffr

Kristoffer Magnusson

4 years

🚀New interactive post: "Understanding p-values through simulations" It illustrates type I error and power through repeated sampling.

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To those students and TAs: I am so sorry. I promise to do everything in my power to make NMA – and education – available to you in the future. (9/10)

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megan peters 🧠

1 year

lots of authoritative, but incorrect, statements here: conflation of C1 and C2, agency, phenomenology vs self-awareness, and "threat" capacity with "capacity for phenomenal experience" 🧵👇

@bindureddy

Bindu Reddy

1 year

The Path to Conscious AI The single biggest question of our times is, will sustained innovation on LLMs inevitably lead to AI consciousness? While GPT-4 is clearly not self-aware or sentient, we don't know how GPT-6 or 7 will behave. If AI ever becomes conscious, it will have

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2 years

nice hotel choice, @CogCompNeuro 😍

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

it's out! what do you all think?

@RubinPsyc

Mark Rubin

4 years

“Confirmation bias…is not only not maladaptive but actually evolutionarily desirable.” New Synthese article by @MatthiasMichel_ and @meganakpeters Open Access: )

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megan peters 🧠

3 years

Neuromatch Conference! December! Flash talks in lieu of posters, fabulous keynotes & contributed talks rolling in, networking w/ neuroscientists around the globe. And fun--optional!--local meetup "watch parties" to engage w/ your local neuroscience community too! Don't miss it!

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Neuromatch

3 years

After a few hard days of working on a new web interface we are delighted to say that NMC4 Submissions are now open! If you’d like to join our community of computational neuroscientists at our fourth conference, Dec 1-2, sign up at

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megan peters 🧠

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anybody i know who follows this account should be aware of his views. 👇 if you're triggered by my putting pronouns in my bio, man, wait until you hear about my efforts to aggressively break down barriers to educational access and actively increase diversity in everything i do.

@andy_xor

Andy Xor

3 months

@TheRealTimHahn1 @meganakpeters ‘She/her’ in bio, nuff’ said

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

I am bowled over and and humbled by Tara — without her #NeuromatchAcademy would have crumbled. Join me in thanking Tara for lending her tenacity, skill, and heart to @neuromatch Academy!

@KordingLab

Kording Lab 🦖

4 years

Today’s #NMAVolunteer is Tara van Viegen ( @TaraViegen ). She studies rhythmicity in brain and behavior: . After she joined us to help with "a few small things", she ended up taking leadership of the video team.

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

... by the support of students, TAs, mentors, volunteers, & by the generosity of sponsors. What an extreme privilege to help build NMA: learned so much, am so grateful to colleagues & friends. Simply cannot wait for our exciting future plans -- look out 2021, here we come!

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megan peters 🧠

3 years

NEUROIMAGING POSTDOC JOB ALERT! i'm collabing w/ Aaron Seitz, Xiaoping Hu, @UCR_LANIlab & Weiwei Zhang at @UCRiverside , & we have a postdoc opening in computational fMRI & human behavior to study the locus coeruleus circuit in perception, memory, & metacognition in aging.

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megan peters 🧠

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And to all our students and TAs: LOOK AT WHAT YOU DID! So impressed -- and more than a little intimidated by all of you. Be proud of what YOU have accomplished! ❤😊

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

It makes me so happy to see all these smiling faces from #NeuromatchAcademy students and TAs from all over the world! Thank you all for being part of our inaugural program!

@neuromatch

Neuromatch

4 years

We're already missing all our awesome #NeuromatchAcademy students! Check out this mega-gif with screenshots from 89 pods! 🤩 (posted with pernission)

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megan peters 🧠

3 years

... from a journal where review can take *a year*. if review no longer needed, maybe just say that? enough w/ the passive aggressive "your response to my demand for unpaid labor wasn't timely enough" crap after <18 hrs. faculty are not instant-response customer service chatbots.

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megan peters 🧠

2 years

hearing from former students that they're happy, healthy, and intellectually fulfilled in their careers or academic pursuits is one of the best feelings ever ❤

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megan peters 🧠

3 years

Aug 23, 6pm: Request to review arrives in inbox. Aug 24, 11am: "As you know, timely decisions are of utmost importance to authors. Unfortunately, I must now proceed with evaluating this manuscript without your input." so 18 hours, overnight, is TOO SLOW, ...

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megan peters 🧠

2 months

🎉 We're excited to announce the launch of our **global research survey on consciousness!** 🌐✨ A short 🧵👇 please share! generously supported by @CIFAR_News !

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megan peters 🧠

1 year

i am dismayed by the way the press have portrayed IIT and GNWT as the only 2 theories of C out there. the purpose of TWCF's Accelerating Research on Consciousness grant mechanism is to *collectively* make progress on arbitrating theories of C-science, 2 or 3 theories at a time.

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megan peters 🧠

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working with hakwan as a postdoc was absolutely fantastic. i could not have asked for better. he's an amazing scientist, mentor, colleague and friend, so if you can have the opportunity to work with him too, do not hesitate! info on applying to join his new center in Korea 👇👇

@hakwanlau

hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social

6 months

i plan to move to Korea later this year, & will soon hire at all levels (students, postdocs, staff scientists, junior PIs) - my lab in Japan will run till at least 2025. RIKEN has been nothing but the dream job. but hopefully the above explains it. 1/2

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megan peters 🧠

3 years

we have 150+ countries represented this year in our student population, including many countries where median income is low or students do not receive funding support! please help if you can ❤️

@KordingLab

Kording Lab 🦖

3 years

@neuromatch is the amazing higher ed world-wide teaching event where 1000s of scientists from >100 countries learn about data and neuro. Looking to find $$$ to cover people who can not pay. Much bang for the buck. DM me/ intro me if you know ppl.

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

I get to be part of this in early September — students interested in whether we can study consciousness scientifically, add these to your calendars!

@hakwanlau

hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social

4 years

we are organizing an online meeting to showcase the work by some PIs working on the cog neuro of consciousness in the US, to help trainees / prospective grad school applicants find a good match - please RT~

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

Please find the full statement from the NMA team and organization here: (10/10)

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megan peters 🧠

4 years

Heroic effort by @TaraViegen to push this paper forward, and to all at @neuromatch academy who made this program happen. The first of many papers to come!

@TaraViegen

Tara van Viegen

4 years

@neuromatch Academy write-up is available as a preprint: I am so grateful to everyone who contributed. Leading the write-up was an amazing experience! I am so proud of this achievement. NMA has given me so much in 2020.

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megan peters 🧠

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R1: "The text is very well structured, nicely written & very comprehensive. Even after several reads, I was not able to find anything to make it even better." 🥰 R2: "The text needs to be tightened up, ideas & concepts reorganised and the exposition systematised." 🧐

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megan peters 🧠

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also compelled to share these excellent (partial+friends) lab photos from the @ASSC26nyc conference dinner!

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4 years

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megan peters 🧠

3 years

@neuromatch academy students... WE CAN DO DEEP LEARNING NOW!! @BMtHart @GunnarBlohm @schrater_paul

@ReubenRideaux

Reuben Rideaux

3 years

We trained a biologically inspired multisensory neural network “MultiNet” to estimate self- and scene-motion, and to solve causal inference, using paired visual and vestibular inputs. 4/8

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megan peters 🧠

3 years

so pleased to be working on this, together with @BrianOdegaard2 !

@TempletonWorld

Templeton World Charity Foundation

@TempletonWorld

3 years

Consciousness is a complex concept, and writing a compelling proposal to study it can be challenging. @meganakpeters 's project seeks to align consciousness science with major funding programs to help scientists accelerate their research:

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megan peters 🧠

3 years

Hey science folks! These events are open to *all*! Check out the calendars and @crowdcastHQ links here . I’m really excited about many of these. 🧵 with descriptions 👇

@neuromatch

Neuromatch

3 years

Took your rest?! Get ready for an eventful professional development week! 🚀 Sessions about open science, code structuring, grad school application, wellness, career, and many more 🔥🔥🔥

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megan peters 🧠

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congratulations to DOCTOR @shaidaabachi who has just passed her defense!! fantastic work covering modeling, neuroimaging, behavior, theory, decoding... all of the things. well done! very proud! sad to see you go but know you're on to great things!

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megan peters 🧠

3 years

so proud of #neuromatchacademy and so grateful to be among so many fantastic organizers with a passion for excellent and accessible education for all 🥰

@QueensUHealth

Queen's Health Sciences

3 years

Computational neuroscience is a highly specialized field & relies on Int'l summer programs for training. COVID19 meant that training had to go online, or not happen at all. @GunnarBlohm & his team created @neuromatch to meet the needs of a unique program ➡️

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#NeuromatchAcademy had excellent support from Iranian scientists, the Iranian American community, and our legal team to get the OFAC license to include Iranians. But despite our success this time, our experience shows the extreme overreach of the sanctions. This must change.

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megan peters 🧠

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y'all -- sky follower bridge is the sh*t. makes migration so much easier. starting to feel like 🟦 really could be a viable alternative & hopeful i won't lose the good parts of my online community. thank you thank you to the developers.

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GitHub - kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge: Instantly find and follow the same users from your...

Instantly find and follow the same users from your X(Twitter) follower on Bluesky. - kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge

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megan peters 🧠

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come join us!!

@neuromatch

Neuromatch

4 years

We are inviting ALL branches of neuroscience to Neuromatch Conference #nmc3 ! 🧠 By this we mean:

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megan peters 🧠

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geopolitical barriers are no match for @neuromatch ❤ we will continue to strive to reach every person we can, regardless of location or financial resources.

@neuromatch

Neuromatch

2 years

For the last years, @neuromatch served people worldwide, including students from #Iran . Virtually no education group can teach there due to export limits. Our exemption license just got renewed. Hurray🎉! We look forward to keeping serving scientists worldwide in the future. #NMA

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megan peters 🧠

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in the past week i've gotten 9 requests to review. 9! many w/ 2 week turnaround. like, really? we need a system that doesn't make peer review a 2nd full time job... also, how are y'all producing so many papers during covid?? these are empirical papers w/ human subjects🤔

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🎉EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT🎉 my *other* nonprofit (*not* @neuromatch ) is searching for a part-time Executive Director!! @AccesoAcademy is a small 501c3 in the Los Angeles area focused on college/grad prep for underserved communities. join us! pls rt! 🙏

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