This thread is a trip.

Nothing undermine the never-ending fight against antisemitism in a worse way than the repression of pro-Palestinian activism as inherently antisemitic, which has become routine in many European countries and in the US

I have determined that babies are a fourth-dimensional liquid. Liquids spread to fill the spatial volume in which they are placed, and then overflow. Babies expand to take up all the time you have available, and then more. Thank you for coming to my TED talk, sorry it started a little late.

I'm very happy to announce that the "From Postdoc to PI Session" will be sponsored by the @biologists.bsky.social and we will be offering a $$ Prize to the best talk, so now a twofer reason to apply! www.germanfishmeeting.org/from-postoc-... Let me know if you have any question/s! 🐟

I love this genre of expat tweet "we had a baby and it's crazy how other countries are normal and not weird about pediatrics" mine was when our midwife came to our house to teach us how to bathe a newborn, which at the time was standard care in new zealand. iirc I made tea and cake for the occasion

One, this is horrifying. Two, I was somewhat perplexed about them calling it an injection because in Austria, Vitamin K is not a shot, it's drops given orally. I was curious why the US uses a shot, which probably drives part of the resistance, and my erstwhile spouse quickly figured it out (1/3)

I'm not crying, you're crying - wife asked me if I had a cable. Yes, yes I did!

Feeling very personally attacked by this one.

The Unfolding World: Causal & Physical Cognition in Humans and Other Animals (April 24-25) We're bringing together comparative, computational, developmental, vision science & philosophy for a workshop on causal reasoning + intuitive physics! If you're in the Cambridge (UK) area, check it out! ⬇️

I’m a cognitive psychologist. Don’t tell me this isn’t a stroopwafel.

Our Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN) program is an exceptional opportunity for undergrad students looking for their first hands-on #neuroscience research job. Learn more and apply: https://bit.ly/3RprAH0

The OECS is invaluable every time I prepare a class. It's clear enough for undergraduates to understand, and comprehensive enough that I can use it for most big-picture ideas in the field. I really appreciate all the work that went into it!

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

Sorry to miss #cds2026, but two of my students made the trip from Vienna! Be sure to ask Beyza (P3-6) and Leslie (P3-39) about how babies and dogs 🐕 understand causal events! (I'm also on a project with @ebonawitz.bsky.social and her student Michelle on counterfactuals at P3-47)

I wanted a way to explore Unicode by visual similarity, not just by name or codepoint, so I built Charcutrie. It lets you browse characters that look alike, search across scripts and symbols, and even sketch a shape to find matching glyphs. (pretty badly for now :D) charcuterie.elastiq.ch#U+221E

The Causality in Cognition Lab -- a supportive, bluesky-colored team -- is looking for a predoc to join us! Here are infos about the lab (cicl.stanford.edu) and the position (careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...). The application deadline is May 1st. Please share, thank you 🙏

I think of this one every time I put sheets in the dryer

Is mental imagery a single process? Our meta-analysis of 46 fMRI studies suggests not. We find a key divide between object imagery (visualizing an object in rich detail) and spatial imagery (mentally transforming objects). This split mirrors the ventral and dorsal streams of vision

New paper in Memory and Language in collaboration with the Language Comprehension Lab (lcl.ceu.edu) "Remembering times ahead: The effect of linguistic framing on representational momentum in state-change events" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (I'm 3rd author, but the only one on bsky) 1/5

I'm hiring a new lab manager for my lab @ UCSD! For more info on the lab, check out our website: lillab.ucsd.edu Target start date is June 1 (flexible) and application deadline is March 26. Please share with anyone you think might be a good fit! Apply here: employment.ucsd.edu/laboratory-c...

On one hand I'm very sad that this was necessary. On the other, I might get to go see the igNobel prize ceremony live again, which is frankly something I thought I wouldn't have the chance to do again.

I look for little spots of amusement on grim days, and this is pretty damn amusing. It doesn't actually use real money, it's more of a form of protest art, which is even better.

My grocery store had Kosher salt on an end cap that I think might have been a Jewish food collection for Passover? (Who knows cause it also had honey (Rosh Hashanah) and chocolate syrup (I have no idea)) and anyway I stopped and gave it the traditional Jewish holiday “at least you tried” nod.

@niallw.bsky.social pointed out an error in a preprint of ours that contained a fabricated citation. The cause: we used Claude to fix an arxiv upload / compile error. It decided the best way to do that was to remove an actual citation and replace it with a fabricated one. bsky.app/profile/ben....

I beat the rush, as it were, by moving in 2022, but the headline quote pretty much captures my feelings on the subject. Austria has done a good job of making me feel welcome, and my science has flourished here. It was a good move on a variety of levels. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Commentary with 1000-word limit. Two hours of editing down. This will be funny in retrospect.

DeLauro was my rep for the seven years I spent in New Haven and she was normally good. Strong on issues that directly affected her constituents lives. This is a surprising and deeply disappointing failure of moral insight and political will.

The Visual Learning Lab is hiring TWO lab coordinators! Both positions are ideal for someone looking for research experience before applying to graduate school. Application deadline is Feb 10th (approaching fast!)—with flexible summer start dates.

If anybody out there is like, “kids so young would never do this without adult prompting!“ 1) you really don’t know kids 2) when Reagan met with Gorbachev, I was in 5th grade & still managed to get my class to sign an anti-nuke petition Don’t underestimate how much the kids are paying attention

ICE should not exist in the Overton window. The debate should be, at most, about how many former agents should face prosecution after its abolition.

Our lab is back from #BCCCD26 in Budapest 🧠👶 We really enjoyed the conference (and party!) and had a great time sharing our work, meeting old friends and making new ones! 🌟

Excellent analysis! Including e.g. Trump's own crude take, "You got to win the midterms, because if we don’t win the midterms… they’ll find a reason to impeach me."

An incredible saga

In Budapest for #BCCCD26 and in a new hotel (to accommodate bringing a baby along) with a spectacular view of downtown Budapest

Applications still open until February 4! Important note for US applicants: We do consider applicants with only a bachelor's degree and some research experience! You don't need a masters. #CogSci #PsychSciSky

once again being driven insane by ML conference submissions

Another pointless forever war for oil company profits. My baby just made a spectacularly messy sound in his diaper that I think fully expresses my opinion on the topic. And gives me something to do, so that's nice.

Happy New year. In 2025 I became a dad and it has been an amazing experience. Also why I am posting this at 4:45 instead of midnight or, you know, an hour when people without small infants would normally be awake.

It is testament to how good the academic environment in the US was that it could do well on that market while at best tolerating foreign talent. I moved from the US to Austria and they practically rolled out the red(-white-red🇦🇹) carpet for me immigration-wise. Feeling valued is a draw, it turns out!

If A Christmas Carol were Jewish, how would it be different? Would it even be possible to adapt?

Tis the season

No. Oh no...

Hanukkah is a festival of defiant survival, but two mass shooting in a matter of hours, one that affects my friends and colleagues at Brown, and one targeting the Jewish community of Sydney, does not make for a festive mood. My heart is with everyone affected.

🚨Super excited that Dartmouth's Society of Fellows is hiring a postdoc with the Program in Cognitive Science 🚨 Specialization in computational and empirical approaches to artificial and natural intelligence, including perception, representation, and complex planning: apply.interfolio.com/176946

Finally someone actually asked the right question to the right people.

Looking for a funded Ph.D. in #CogSci in an interdisciplinary, research-first program? Apply to CEU! cognitivescience.ceu.edu/admission Deadline February 4, 2026. Please share with any interested students! #PsychSciSky #DevPsych #CogPsych

Now that Word has an un-removable copilot button I am contemplating using scrivener for more of my professional writing. Only problem is I'd need to get all my co-authors to use it too...

Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures. All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit... Please share / apply!🙏

I got a request in a recent review to insert a large number of wholly irrelevant citations. I complained to the editor immediately, and that review was simply removed. Blocking this kind of nonsense is an editor's responsibility, make them do it. (And I'm saying that as an editor myself!)

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