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

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

8 Publications
4 Provisional Patents

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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. The talk joins every retraction in the Retraction Watch database against the OpenCitations Index. Of 999,842 citations pointing at a retracted paper, 330,834 were made after the retraction date. Every number comes out of a public deposit 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.

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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.

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