Nathan M. Thornhill - Researcher in complexity science, information theory, and neuroscience

Speaking

Conference appearances and talks by Nathan M. Thornhill, researcher in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

8 Publications
4 Provisional Patents

Speaking

Where I’m speaking, and the talks on offer.

Upcoming

AIMOS 2026 · lightning talk

Retracted, but still cited: at least 44,046 times in 2024 alone

Five minutes, pre-recorded, at AIMOS 2026, the annual conference of the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science (AIMOS), at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, November 30 to December 2, 2026. Retraction is supposed to end a paper's influence. It often doesn't. The talk joins the Retraction Watch database to the full OpenCitations Index and walks through the five choices that decide how big a post-retraction count comes out. The joined data and the scripts are deposited at Harvard Dataverse, CC BY 4.0. Retraction Watch data is used with credit under their stated terms; Retraction Watch does not endorse or comment on work built on it, and no affiliation is implied.

Past

TSC 2026 · poster

The Internal Dynamics of Decisions: From rats and primates to AI

A poster at The Science of Consciousness 2026, Paradise Point Resort, San Diego, California, October 11 to 16, 2026. I was at the board for Poster Session 1 on Tuesday, October 13. It’s the same study behind the Brain, or AI model? talk below: rat cortex, primate cortex, and AI models, and whether they commit to a decision the same way. The full write-up is the preprint, so cite that, not the poster.

Nathan M. Thornhill pointing at his poster, Poster #530, at The Science of Consciousness 2026 in San Diego

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The research as talks, in plain language. Both run on live demonstrations, not slides.

Research talk · live demos

Brain, or AI model? The Internal Dynamics of Decisions: From rats and primates to AI

One analysis, run live on rat cortex, primate cortex, and AI models: do they commit to a decision the same way? Built on the preprint The Internal Dynamics of Decisions: From Rats and Primates to AI.

Interactive session · audience game

Trust me, it's cited: catching AI's invented sources live

Your AI writes a confident bibliography. Some of it doesn't exist. The audience tries to spot the fakes; then we check them live.

Abstracts and booking are on Sessionize. Or email me.