Some fun news: We're hiring! Lectureship (analogous to Assistant Prof.) in Statistical Science and AI, in the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol. Closing date 13 October 2025; link below! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Interested in consciousness? Join the club. And join us tomorrow (noon on Zoom) for the first seminar of the MIT Consciousness Club. sites.google.com/view/mit-con...

We need to make No Kings 2.0 on October 18 huge. Find a protest near you here: www.nokings.org#map And tell everyone you know to be there. I'll be at this one: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

The US DHS is receiving comments on their proposed rule to eliminate Duration of Stay status for F1 international students, prohibiting them from staying in the U.S. for more than 4 years. The median length of a PhD is 5.8 years. You can leave a comment here: www.regulations.gov/document/ICE...

Want to do a PhD with me and the Emotions in Context Lab? We’re looking for new grad students to join us next fall! Check out the lab website to learn what we’re working on now and in the near future: www.emotionsincontextlab.com/join/

I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share: phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDWcqUYo

It’s so surreal seeing prominent right-wing figures—an influential presidential advisor, the last campaign’s biggest donor, etc.—call for violence, the GOP president lie and stoke violence, every Dem officeholder condemn it, and mainstream media treat those as the same, or the Dem reaction as worse.

Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.

I hope we'll see such orders signed by every official with the power to sign them. This isn't radical or even liberal; it's 101, it's like saying the king can't house his soldiers in people's homes.

@hankgreen.bsky.social I just watched your gerrymandering video. I'm surprised you're advocating for redistricting regulation to be implemented via ballot at the state level. That seems like a sure-fire way to entrench GOP control nationally.

Reposting this starterpack, cause we're about 1 month away from the Society for Neuroecon annual meeting in Cambridge MA Oct3-5! Early reg rates available until Sun: neuroeconomics.org/2025-meeting/ Lmk if you want to be added or browse the list to find fantastic people doing fantastic work

ATTN🚨: I will be looking for PhD students through NYU's Center for Data Science PhD program this year. Applicants should have an interest in either NeuroAI (specifically biological attention or AI interpretability) or ML for Remote Sensing. Visit my lab website for more info: lindsay-lab.github.io

I'm reviewing PhD applications this cycle to join my lab at @uwpsych.bsky.social in Fall ‘26. Ideal for those interested in dev, decision-making, emotion regulation, fMRI, and quant/comp methods. We have cool stuff in the works and want more brilliant ppl in the fold! psych.wisc.edu/joao-guassi-...

Social Cognitive Neuroscience by Rebecca Saxe: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.0276fa5e

🚨Out in PNAS🚨 with @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social & @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social Punishment, even when intended to teach norms and change minds for the good, may backfire. Our computational cognitive model explains why! Paper: tinyurl.com/yc7fs4x7 News: tinyurl.com/3h3446wu 🧵

#Workshop at #CogSci2025 Building computational models of social cognition in memo 🗓️ Wednesday, July 30 📍 Pacifica I - 8:30-10:00 🗣️ Kartik Chandra, Sean Dae Houlihan, and Max Kleiman-Weiner 🧑‍💻 underline.io/events/489/s...

Only a few weeks left to register for my remote Bayesian modeling courses this year, www.eventzilla.net/e/advanced-b.... Where else are you going to learn about survival models without a weird construction based on awkward limits?

Our new paper is out in PNAS: "Evolving general cooperation with a Bayesian theory of mind"! Humans are the ultimate cooperators. We coordinate on a scale and scope no other species (nor AI) can match. What makes this possible? 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

As always, CogSci has a fantastic lineup of workshops this year. An embarrassment of riches! Still deciding which to pick? If you are interested in building computational models of social cognition, I hope you consider joining @maxkw.bsky.social, @dae.bsky.social, and me for a crash course on memo!

THIS WEEK the @cogscisociety.bsky.social Minds in the Making workshop brings you Vanessa Bermudez and @togelius.bsky.social in conversation about LEARNING 🧠💪 x DESIGN 🛠️! And what makes GAMES awesome for learning. Wednesday July 16th, 12pm-1pm PT. Register here: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Join me in launching a new lab at the University of Virginia! Our team is growing, and I am thrilled to share that we are hiring a full-time Project Coordinator to start this fall! 🎉 Learn more & apply - jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0.... Please share widely! 🌟

LLMs learn beliefs and values from human data, influence our opinions, and then reabsorb those influenced beliefs, feeding them back to users again and again. We call this the "Lock-In Hypothesis" and develop theory, simulations, and empirics to test it in our latest ICML paper!

the NSF uses less money than the NYPD wild shit

My @imperial-ix.bsky.social talk earlier this week was plagued by some technical issues that make the remote viewing experience unpleasant. In an effort to compensate I'm going to give the talk again when I get home, and this time anyone can join. For details see www.patreon.com/posts/genera....

🚨🚨 Alarming NSF policy update By accepting an NSF award, an institution now must say it's: 1. Not engaging in boycotts of Israel (yes really) 2. Not advancing or promoting DEI in violation of anti-discrimination laws Announced via a footnote today: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/gc1-ma...

the DOJ is literally **arresting Democratic members of Congress** and Senate Democrats are voting to pass Republican legislation

Despite some ups and downs at NIH, we do have an open position for a postbac and are considering candidates. Our work is at the intersection of neuroscience and AI, and we aim to understand how the brain's densely connected recurrent networks operate. 🧪

The Cognitive Science Society is accepting nominations for Governing Board! 🪑3 seats for regular board members (2025-2030) 🪑1 seat for the Graduate Student Representative (2025-2027) Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/gb-nominees/ to learn all the details and (self) nominate until May 12 🗓️

Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑‍🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.

Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...

Hello world! We are building *personalized* feeds to help you make sense of research discussions on BlueSky! Pin our first feed below, which shows posts about papers from accounts you follow! Follow this account for more updates! bsky.app/profile/pape...

Friendly reminder for those in the greater Sweden area that I'll be hosting a free, day long workshop on Bayesian inference and modeling with interactive epidemiology exercises on Wednesday May 14, learnbayes.se/events/gener.... Additional info at learnbayes.se/information/....

🤔 Interested in models of social interaction and computational psychiatry? 🤗 If so, @shawnrhoadsphd.bsky.social and I are seeking a highly motivated and talented postdoc to work on these topics! Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/165809

Feels like they really missed an opportunity to induce "emerald-green of unprecedented saturation."

We hang together or we hang separately. Could not be clearer what is happening and how universities must respond.

If only there were a group of prestigious universities that could coordinate. A "league" of sorts. Given the classic ivy draping buildings on college campuses maybe we could use that type of symbol to unite them.

Breaking News: The IRS agreed to share information with ICE to help locate people for deportation, court records show. This is a fundamental change in the IRS, which had gained the trust of migrants and encouraged them to file their taxes.

And: I'm hiring a post-doc! I'm looking for someone with a strong computational background who can start in the summer (or sooner). Details here: apply.interfolio.com/165122 Feel free to reach out with questions (email is best: [email protected]) and please share widely!

If you are a faculty member at a US university, please consider signing this excellent petition asking our presidents, chancellors, etc to work together to defend our institutions from the direct attacks by Trump administration: sites.google.com/view/we-must...

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

Imagine being in charge of a university and believing it was clever and strategic to sacrifice all your values, only to be tricked by the dumbest and most dishonest president in history.

Glioblastoma cancer tore up the brain of someone I loved dearly. We are approaching highly effective treatment for glioblastoma with mRNA-based vaccines! —> doi.org/10.3389/fonc... And this conspiracy-soaked cabal wants to throw it away. Forcing more families to endure what mine did. Stop them.

Well, this took my breath away a bit... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...

Unbelievable, unforgivable cowardice www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...

5 stars is better than 4 stars, but can we even define how much better it might be? Modeling ordinal outcomes like ratings is a subtle topic; fortunately I have a new chapter that dives directly into that nuance. HTML: betanalpha.github.io/assets/chapt... PDF: betanalpha.github.io/assets/chapt...

This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.

Public protests are important for solidarity & signaling. But the real work having impact right now is in the courts. So if you've attended protests and are thinking 'what's next?' here are some legal funds to donate to: statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/ democracyforward.org ldad.org/letters-briefs