Postdoc at @MetaTool_EU & @adapt_berlin | Prev.: PhD @metamotorlab, SCAN MSc at FU Berlin/Charité & Neuroscience BSc at St Andrews.
Berlin, Germany
Joined November 2011
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1000 days of horrible war in Ukraine🇺🇦 Yesterday I learned that one of my Russian cousins, who joined the army voluntarily last year, was badly injured. Shortly before that he went home for his baby daughter’s baptism. I still can't wrap my head around all this information...
One whole year of russian war of aggression in Ukraine 🇺🇦 Please donate if you're in a position to do do! ❤️🩹
ALT People with Ukrainian yellow-blue flags demonstrating in front of russian embassy in Berlin. A seized russian tank and Brandenburg gates lit with yellow-blue light are seen on the background. "1 year" is written on top of the photo. Yellow and blue tilted lines go through the photo because of a strong diffraction effect of stray light.
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Please consider donating for Ukrainians if you're in a position to do so. For example here: sunflower-care.org/en (a Berlin-based NGO helping disabled, neurodivergent and chronically-ill people from Ukraine and in Ukraine)
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I also believe it's important to support independent Russian media in exile. For example: support.meduza.io/en (It's a fairly big media which exiled to Riga already 10 years ago, and I know for sure they need crowdfunding support more than ever).
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Yesterday @bccn_berlin celebrated its 20th anniversary 🥳🎉🧠🧮 To many more productive years to come! 🥂
10 years ago, as a green BSc student, I came to Berlin for a 2-months summer internship at the @bccn_berlin with @rolfslab, and it changed the course of my life (or at least 10 years of it!)
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Polina Arbuzova 🇺🇦 retweeted
New publication AND robot video!
youtube.com/watch?v=I4dYeo98…
Paper doi.org/10.1145/3610978.3640… Effects of Transparency in Humanoid Robots - A Pilot Study
by H. Mellmann who's presenting @ #HRI2024, P. Arbuzova D. Kontogiogos, M. Yordanova J.X. Haensel & V. Hafner funder: @AXAResearchFund
Podcast + articles about sexualised violence in a youth organisation back home. I took part in its events in 2007-11 as a participant & 2012-16 as an organiser. I'm crushed it happened, but I'm glad it came out now 💔❤️🩹 It's in Latvian (transcripts can be machine-translated)
.@LatvijasRadio un @DelfiLV publicē žurnālistu pētījumu “Līdera apskāviens”, kas atklāj jaunu sieviešu seksuālu izmantošanu jauniešu organizācijā K.I.D. Tobrīd daļa no sievietēm vēl nebija pilngadīgas. Kā tas varēja notikt, un kāpēc neviens nav saukts pie atbildības?
Klausies: ej.uz/Dokumentarijs
LSM.lv: lsm.lv/lidera-apskaviens/
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P.S. There's also a paywalled Russian-language version: rus.delfi.lv/56152754/obnima… I wish it wasn't paywalled, though (I think this kind of stuff shouldn't be). Let me know if you would like to read & have troubles accessing articles.
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Polina Arbuzova 🇺🇦 retweeted
Do you know anyone working for @kaggle and could introduce me? The fate of human genetics depends upon it
"not all nuclear wars were bad" - my jaw quite literally dropped at this point 😮🤯(not an easy move for someone with a TMD). I think it's enough academic Twitter for me today... 🫣
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Polina Arbuzova 🇺🇦 retweeted
Thrilled to share our paper with @meaperei @n_faivre and @elifilevich now out in @NatureComms! In 3 experiments, we show that priors have a stronger influence on confidence judgements than they do on the decisions themselves. An (updated) 🧵👇 (1/8) nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
I'm finally no longer a jet-lagged zombie, so it's time to reflect on this year's @ASSC26nyc. So grateful I had a chance to attend! Thanks to the organisers & speakers - it was a truly memorable event (The Bet event! 🤩🤯). So much food for thought - especially on metacognition!
ALT A "Phrenology Man Digs Sol y Luna" etching/print by Betye Saar, at MoMA. A human profile looks at a moon and sun symbols, and it's head is kind of transparent, with abstract inner structures drawn inside.
And of course meeting old friends and making new ones - I wish I had at least x5 more time to talk to everyone. A special shout-out to the CIFAR Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School people - it was really great to see many of you again! 🤍😻
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It was also my first time in the US & NYC. At first, a strange sense of familiarity (thanks to movies!), & then gradually more and more episodic memories adding to the semantic ones made this trip beautifully surreal. Thanks to @LenzoniSabrina for doing the touristy part with me!
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It's a good moment to share some news: I submitted my PhD thesis end of March (still to be defended, so don't jinx me!), and in May I started a new job at the Adaptive Systems Group @adapt_berlin with @vvh and many others at the @MetaTool_EU project. (1/3)
Excited to continue working on metacognition with a whole new level of interdisciplinarity (robotics, neuroscience, ARCHEOLOGY!) and team work.
On the photo: me knapping some flint stones in the MetaTool project meeting in Delft. (2/3)
ALT Me kneeling on one knee and holding a hitting rock in one hand and a flint stone in the other, assessing where best to hit the flint stone to get a good flake.
Right now I'm in NYC for the @theASSC conference (super lucky to be able to attend this year!). Happy to meet old and new friends and chat about my old and new stuff in the upcoming week! (3/3) 🧠🛠️🤖
At some point I had hopes that German academic system will change for better. The new draft of the #WissZeitVG threw it all out the window. Let's protest this nonsensical half-assed law 😤✊ See you on Friday at the Kapelle-Ufer!
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One whole year of russian war of aggression in Ukraine 🇺🇦 Please donate if you're in a position to do do! ❤️🩹
ALT People with Ukrainian yellow-blue flags demonstrating in front of russian embassy in Berlin. A seized russian tank and Brandenburg gates lit with yellow-blue light are seen on the background. "1 year" is written on top of the photo. Yellow and blue tilted lines go through the photo because of a strong diffraction effect of stray light.