Jess Thompson

Postdoc with @SummerfieldLab. Junior Research Fellow @SomervilleOx. Membership & Recruitment Secretary @OxfordUCU she/her @[email protected]

[Jess Thompson @tsonj]

Pleased to share my latest research "Zero-shot counting with a dual-stream neural network model" about a glimpsing neural network model that learns visual structure (here, number) in a way that generalises to new visual contents.

[summerfieldlab @summerfieldlab.bsky.social @summerfieldlab]

sufficiently excited about this preprint to arise from twitter slumber: https://t.co/tCeg64Pb9I
looks like it's about numerical cognition, but it's actually about abstraction - how to build a neural network that actually learns structure. @tsonj @hannahsheahan. enjoy!

[Ellie Holton @EleanorHolton1]

When does new learning interfere with existing knowledge in people and ANNs? Great to see this out in @NatureHumBehav! with @summerfieldlab @tsonj @ScienceLukas @jangrohn

[Jess Thompson @tsonj]

Humans and neural networks show similar patterns of transfer and interference during continual learning

[Ellie Holton @EleanorHolton1]

New preprint! With
@summerfieldlab @tsonj @ScienceLukas @jangrohn
When does new learning interfere with existing knowledge? We compare continual learning in humans and ANNs, revealing similar patterns of transfer & catastrophic interference https://t.co/kTf0BLhkVh

[Jess Thompson @tsonj]

P.S. I am still on mastodon at https://t.co/H5RkHMojpp !!

[Jess Thompson @tsonj]

I finally made a Bluesky account: https://t.co/5SHH10RoKF

Please follow me there where you can read about @EleanorHolton1 's newest preprint!

Humans and neural networks show similar patterns of transfer and interference during continual learning https://t.co/hU7ExqR2aS

[Jess Thompson @tsonj]

@arna_ghosh @tyrell_turing @AaronCourville @adri_romsor @somnirons @apeyrache @davlanade Bravo Arna!!! Congrats on your achievement. Celebrate and enjoy the relief as much as possible 🥳😌🎉

[Jess Thompson @tsonj]

Se-Bum Paik wrote a great Preview about our recent Neuron paper. It contains this figure, made by Jeonghwan Cheon, which is sooo much better than any of the figures I ever made! 😍🙏

Split-second insights from the brain’s dual-stream visual system
https://t.co/75ojrFYKM4

[Anna Fazackerley @AnnaFazack1]

My exclusive for Observer today: For 1st time FOI data from Oxford colleges shows majority of tutorials taught by early career academics struggling to manage on low pay & ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts. FT profs only taught a third of tutorials last year. https://t.co/keg6CvIMnn

[Jess Thompson @tsonj]

Proud of my fellow @OxfordUCU members for bringing this to light.
"The union says that pay is based mainly on contact hours with students, but once preparation, marking and supporting students are taken into account, this often falls below the minimum wage in real terms."

[UCU @ucu]

Oxford University named & shamed in the Observer.

Disgraceful that colleges with endowments stretching back to the Middle Ages are forcing staff to work Deliveroo-style contracts.

Amazing work by our @OxfordUCU @OxfordAntiCas members 👏

https://t.co/YzQbVPKxJB

[Shahab Bakhtiari @ShahabBakht]

This is a great opportunity to secure funding for postdoc.

My lab has a few research directions that align with the IVADO initiative: "Shifting Paradigms for a Robust, Reasoning, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence and its Adoption".

Reach out if you’re interested!

[summerfieldlab @summerfieldlab.bsky.social @summerfieldlab]

Neural networks need a dorsal stream to learn structure in natural scenes! really proud of this work led by @tsonj

[Jess Thompson @tsonj]

Thank you to co-authors @hannahsheahan, @atomsrivet, Julian Sandbrink, Manuela Piazza, and @summerfieldlab!

[Jess Thompson @tsonj]

How does the brain represent the structure of visual scenes independent of their contents? In “Zero-shot counting with a dual-stream neural network model” (@NeuroCellPress), we propose a model based on the parallel pathways of the primate visual system. https://t.co/A3HZuOJd53

[Jess Thompson @tsonj]

The theory that was formalised and tested in this work was initially described in "Structure learning and the posterior parietal cortex" by @summerfieldlab, Fabrice Luyckx, and @hannahsheahan https://t.co/44EJwfYisP

[Josh McDermott @JoshHMcDermott]

Multiple job openings in brain and cognitive science at MIT! One is for experimentalists studying neural circuits for cognition, a second targets computational neuroscientists, and a third is aimed at computational cognitive scientists. Deadline is Nov 15. Links in next tweet...

[David Rolnick @david_rolnick]

We are looking for new PhD / MSc students! Machine learning innovations for tackling climate change - e.g. remote sensing, climate informatics, materials discovery, & biodiversity monitoring. Apply by submitting applications to *both* @Mila_Quebec (by Dec 1) & @mcgillu (Dec 15).