Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠

I suggested to my students this morning that learning helps make them more interesting people They were genuinely surprised. As if they had never considered that intellect might have a social glaze

This is such wonderful and fascinating work. 🕷️❤️

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ugh, NIH why

Stunning cloud, sultry evening. #Brisbane

Fifty years ago, McGurk & MacDonald dubbed the sound /ba/ onto a face mouthing /ga/ & 'most' people heard /da/. For the effect’s 50th anniversary, we surveyed 37 researchers in AV speech & multisensory perception: does McGurk still deserve its iconic status? 🧵

Looking forward to the first Consciousness Club of the 2026-27 calendar! @seanfw.bsky.social will tell us about "Cortex-wide computational modelling of neural dynamics during conscious access" Wednesday 28th Oct, 11am-1230pm UK time For more info see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes... All welcome!

I've had three emails in one day from different companies asking me if I'm interested in a cool gig training AI to do better cognitive science or asking me to provide my voice There's no doubt in my mind this is all going to end very badly

How monkeys carve up the visual world

This supercut is likely to make Trump VERY upset. The difference between Trump and Obama is on full display, and the contrast is absolutely devastating. Watch until the end...

Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

Australians are the best www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/tes...

Excited to share our Comment: Maternal mental health remains a missing priority. (🧵1/3) www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🎥 Videos now available for: COMPUTATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS SCIENCE A CCN satellite meeting, hosted and sponsored by the NYU Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness. Website: computationalconsciousness.github.io YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... @cogcompneuro.bsky.social

Hell to the yes. It helps if you're never happy with what you think you understand, too. Like, there's always more to be confused about 🤣 hence the creative and curious rule the world

Pleased to announce the coordinated release of 2x preprints showing that eye movements couple to breathing! 🫁🔄👁️ With Karen Quigley at Northeastern University: zenodo.org/records/2332... From our ACE²Lab: zenodo.org/records/2333...

Surprise! Our new paper is now out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... But can you be surprised by this news over and over again? Probably not! Unlike happiness (you might feel happy every time you reread your favorite paper), surprise often signals a NEW discovery. Do infants understand this?

🚨 New preprint! 🧵 Brain regions 🧠 integrate information over different timescales ⏱️: short in sensorimotor cortex, long in association cortex. But do regions change their timescales when we engage in a task? And how does that flexibility develop? 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We still need more signatories on this petition regarding psychologist training in Australia! (International voices count too.) TL;DR - Australia is considering reforms that risk undermining professional psychologist training while hollowing out the rest of the field. See link for more info:

Reach is a legitimate goal. But social media should also be social? Social reach is more interesting to me, and has certainly been more powerful a force in my life. As a performer, I learned an engaged audience of five is better than an audience of 2000 who aren't really listening?

Likely the most important thing I've ever written — if you're an academic and the AI mania unsettles you, here's my best shot at presenting some intellectual tools that might help you articulate why. arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251

This paper is so so good. If you are interested in insula, this is a must read. 👩‍🍳💋 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

Most computational models of episodic memory start once a representation has already been formed and ask how it is stored or retrieved. But how was that representation constructed in the first place from the sequence of partial samples gathered as we look around?

I'm not sure what makes me more depressed. That scientists are on LinkedIn after leaving X? That they haven't even left X? That they may even *enjoy* being on X and LinkedIn? IMO leaving X was super easy. But why does LinkedIn have to be so icky

I'm on the other side of this one, actually. Style counts. If people can hear modelspeak in your prose, it weakens the effect in the same way overusing clichés weakens the effect. I don't care *how* you get there, but if an editor says "this doesn't sound fresh and authentic," you have a problem.

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10 days until Meta claims the right to scrape your website to develop its AI. Your consent? Apparently unnecessary. All it takes is someone sharing a link on Facebook or Instagram - or you using Meta's services. If you're a business or artist with intellectual property, watch the clock.

There hasn't been enough attention to this amazing result, and I'd love to hear ideas about how to explain it Participants are given a story about a morally bad behavior and told that it is due to genetics. Then they are asked the simplest possible question: Is it due to genetics?

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

The cerebellum isn’t just about movement; it gates social communication! Huge congrats to Dr. Cheryl Brandenburg (Sillitoe Lab), who led this work with her creativity and determination. We can’t wait to see where she takes this research in her own lab @lsu.bsky.social #neuroskyence tinyurl.com/CBSCO

I just came across this paper by Cesario et al. that has one of the greatest titles ever: " journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I feel seen

What’s the relationship between different aspects of visual time perception? To address this question, I propose a classification in four clusters of twelve classic visual time phenomena. Comments/criticisms welcome, including by email. osf.io/preprints/ps...

as someone writing their dissertation on ai and the face, i must remind everyone that tech like this is nonsense at best and highly dangerous at worst

This seems very misleading. It predicts a person's biological age via analysis of facial features, not their cancer survival. Biological age is associated with improved survival (~20%) but that's correlational not causative www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Call for submissions: Special Issue in Cortex "Conscious awareness across the senses" co-edited by @renzolanfranco.bsky.social @arvidguterstam.bsky.social @leahbanellis.bsky.social @nfaivre.bsky.social & @canalesjohnson.bsky.social #neuroskyence #psychscisky www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

happy to announce the official release of my first R package on CRAN! 🎉 building on the Hmetad toolbox by @smfleming.bsky.social, the hmetad package allows users to fit the meta-d' model of confidence ratings using a familiar brms/lme4-style formula syntax

Semantic embeddings capture what is said. Style embeddings capture how, and get far less attention. Our #EMNLP2026 survey on representing linguistic style: definitions, methods, evaluation, open problems 🧵 📄 annawegmann.github.io/pdf/Style_Su... 🧑‍💻 annawegmann.github.io/StyleSurvey/

Ooh this is fascinating.

"The scientific evidence for the health benefits of, say, becoming a potter or learning the piano is far more robust than that for knocking back testosterone or vitamin D." Make Me Well by Xand van Tulleken – an eye-opening takedown of wellness myths www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...

Why do we get the giggles? Professor Sophie Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) explains the science of laughter and what happens to our brains when we laugh. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/oc...

How do we remember an image after seeing it just once? 🧠🧪 Now out in @natcomms.nature.com: neurons in mid-level visual cortex (V4) carry signatures that predict successful one-shot recognition memory. Led by Grace DiRisio, w/ @marlenecohen.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-78369-0

you can't be serious. This reads Meta/Facebook/Insta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - if a company after Oct 30, 2026 uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5

Every tech ‘innovation’ is now designed to ensure that living your life leaves no mental or emotional trace in your physical being

Ok now I'm curious: who else is willing to share their strange citations?

Trust me: whatever you’re doing right now is less important than watching this candidate interview. No spoilers, just trust:

I took this photo today because I was shocked at how many surveillance cameras there are at my local supermarket. There are at least 12 in this frame alone!!!