Umesh Singla

PhD student @UCBerkeley

[Michael C. Frank @mcxfrank]

What is a psychological theory? Here's our take on this tricky and controversial question in this week's Experimentology chapter summary.

Many things called "theories" in psychology aren't actually theories — they're frameworks.

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[CAMP @camp_course]

Applications for 𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐏 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 are now open! Apply at https://t.co/EFH8dU1aUL. Application Deadline: 30th April, 2026 #CAMP2026 #NeuroscienceMeetings .

[SP Arun @sparuniisc]

Please circulate widely!

Open positions at the Vision Lab, Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Deadline: March 31 2026
(Link in thread below)

[Earth Species Project (ESP) @earthspecies]

We’re less than 2 weeks away from the AI for Non-Human Animal Communication Workshop at @NeurIPSConf!

Meet the full lineup of Lightning Talk speakers spanning research across the tree of life: from cetaceans, primates & frogs, to fruit bats, fruit flies & pollinators 🐋🐸🦇🐝

[Marcelo Mattar @marcelomattar]

So happy to see this manuscript on biorxiv after so many years in the making! Thank you @matthieulc for all your hard work, and @sreejan_kumar for all of the novel contributions and for pushing it through the finish line! And looking forward to comments from the community!

[Marcelo Mattar @marcelomattar]

Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. https://t.co/rgGoEcL26Y

[Umesh Singla @UmeshKSingla]

Check out our work on female fruit fly behavior at COSYNE 2025 in Montreal tonight! Excited to chat and exchange ideas on modeling social interactions and more. #cosyne2025 #cosyne25

[Princeton University @Princeton]

A team led by @PrincetonNeuro's Mala Murthy (@MurthyLab) and @sebastianseung has mapped a fly's entire brain — a new step in understanding brain diseases in humans. https://t.co/sm2FVov2uh

[Umesh Singla @UmeshKSingla]

@cor2yz 😭

[Umesh Singla @UmeshKSingla]

Link to abstract: https://t.co/InkERayFbJ

[Umesh Singla @UmeshKSingla]

Super excited to present work from my master's thesis as a poster @CogCompNeuro "Temporal Abstraction explains Mice Exploration in a Labyrinth". Stop by my poster C112 on Fri to chat about sequences, timescales, abstractions, hierarchies, meta-learning, or just say hi. #CCN2024

[Umesh Singla @UmeshKSingla]

Our study aims to separate any innate mechanical aspects of the exploration that might interfere with the learning process, and it does so in a principled way. #CCN2024 #CogSci2024

[Cole Burton @cole_burton]

#NewPaper: Working with a huge team of 220 co-authors representing 102 projects in 21 countries, we analyzed data from 5400 #cameratraps to ask how #wildlife behaviours changed during the COVID-19 “anthropause” https://t.co/1VW9b7CI6i ..1/

[Princeton University @Princeton]

A team of researchers including #PrincetonU's @mdahardy and Tom Griffiths found that showing AI-generated visuals of car-free streets can result in increased support for green infrastructure projects: https://t.co/ZNNfeC4y2G (via @nature)

[Liam O'Shaughnessy @Shaughness95562]

1/ I am excited to introduce my PhD work with @twit_tats2, @greg_stephens, and @shaevitz, on the 3D tracking and analysis of pairwise zebrafish fights! How do zebrafish interact socially to establish dominance?

Check out the preprint!
https://t.co/v9DjrCCFvf

Thread below!

[Marcelo Mattar @marcelomattar]

Come join us! @weijima01 and I are recruiting a postdoc to study human planning in chess using a massive dataset of online chess matches. The postdoc will join both of our labs, as well as an NSF-funded collaboration with the @cocosci_lab at Princeton.

https://t.co/Af8VRjx0k5