CAIC has been hard at work creating an interdisciplinary hub for pursuing big questions in cognitive science. This spring we are excited to officially launch the Cognition, Agency, Intelligence Conference featuring talks by an amazing lineup of interdisciplinary researchers. See you on April 2-3! 🥳

🎉 Re-Align is back for its 4th edition at ICLR 2026! 📣 We invite submissions on representational alignment, spanning ML, Neuroscience, CogSci, and related fields. 📝 Tracks: Short (≤5p), Long (≤10p), Challenge (blog) ⏰ Deadline: Feb 5, 2026 for papers 🔗 representational-alignment.github.io/2026/

What a pleasure speaking with Chris Piech, Denise Pope, and Dan Schwartz about AI & Education on "School's In," (youtube.com/watch?v=lL07...) recorded live at Stanford Open Minds in LA (openminds.stanford.edu/los-angeles)!

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

If you're heading to @cogscisociety.bsky.social, come to our symposium “Perception as a Foundation for Common‑Sense Theories of the World” 📅 August 1 • 9 AM 📍 Salon 2 With @thiskevinsmith.bsky.social @shariliu.bsky.social @judithfan.bsky.social @ardeeb.bsky.social — See you there! #CogSci2025

Linking student psychological orientation, engagement & learning in intro college-level data science New work ‪‪at @cogscisociety.bsky.social w/ @erikbrockbank.bsky.social @shawnschwartz.bsky.social, C.Bryan, D.Yeager, C.Dweck & @judithfan.bsky.social poster 8/1 @ 10:30 tinyurl.com/solds-cogsci25

"36 Questions That Lead To Love" was the most viewed article in NYT Modern Love. Excited to share new results investigating these and other “deep questions” with @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social @judithfan.bsky.social & @rdhawkins.bsky.social Preprint: tinyurl.com/bdfx5smk Code: tinyurl.com/3v6pws4s

The National Institutes of Health is responsible for more than 80% of the world’s grant investment in biomedical research and Trump is destroying it projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

Day of Action planned for July 21 to protect science protectscienceandinnovation.org

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....

Next up is the CREATIVITY session in our @cogscisociety.bsky.social Minds in the Making workshop ft. @aaronhertzmann.com @manishsaggar.bsky.social & Aaron Kozbelt! Thursday June 19th, 11am-12pm PT. Register here: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...!

Super stoked for our Minds in the Making workshop at @cogscisociety.bsky.social 2025! If you are at all interested in the intersection between cognitive science and design, you won’t want to miss it!! 🧠🛠️

Super stoked for our Minds in the Making workshop at @cogscisociety.bsky.social 2025! If you are at all interested in the intersection between cognitive science and design, you won’t want to miss it!! 🧠🛠️

Out today, the Academic Council of the University of California issues the following statement: “Higher education is under direct and sustained attack. 1/ senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/repor...

NEW: Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.)& Trump's former NatSec Advisor Matt Pottinger make the case that funding for scientific R&D isn't a gift to academia. It's vital to U.S. national security, as China, the United States' primary strategic adversary, is already investing heavily in R&D. shorturl.at/PgUK0

Every one of you involved in higher education – student, faculty, alumni, staff – needs to get in touch with your leadership (president and trustees) and local media to make it clear what’s at stake and get them to band together. Example message: www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

The platform I run, Children Helping Science, is supported almost entirely by US government science funding, both directly and in collaboration with CHS researchers. Here's the note we sent to users today - we need help gathering your stories and citations! Submit here: forms.gle/zFnzrVURntdZ...

Hello bluesky world :) excited to share a new paper on data visualization literacy 📈 🧠 w/ @judithfan.bsky.social, @arnavverma.bsky.social, Holly Huey, Hannah Lloyd, @lacepadilla.bsky.social! 📝 preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... 💻 code: github.com/cogtoolslab/...

SO proud of this work on data visualization literacy getting out into the world — especially when our tools for figuring out what is true are as vital as they have ever been!!! #StandUpForScience today and always!

Do children understand all types of visual media in the same way? "Cross-contextual diversity in children’s early understanding of visual media" - a new review paper led by Rebecca Zhu: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Happy New Year everyone! Jim and I just put up our January 2025 release of Speech and Language Processing! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

I have recently launched the relational cognition lab at UC Irvine: relcoglab.org! We study learning and memory in mind, brains and machines. I am open to collaborations and hiring a lab technician (lab manager/junior specialist). Job ad & application here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09400.

The most creative technology I’ve ever used is a pencil. Sketching, brainstorming, communicating, writing, art… this thing can do it all.

What an honor & joy to be with you last week to celebrate the eSYMb team and Kristian Tylén's vision/spirit. Thank you so much, @izzywisher.bsky.social, @fusaroli.bsky.social, @jcskewes.bsky.social & all Aarhus colleagues who made this impactful workshop possible (despite the many obstacles).

3rd day of "Celebrating eSYMb: The Evolution of Symbolic Behaviour - A Workshop in Memory of Kristian Tylén" workshop. Murillo Pagnotta on the makapangsat cobble: this face-like pebble is a controversial archeological finding, but can we test the idea that it's attention grabbing because of 1/

2nd day of "Celebrating eSYMb: The Evolution of Symbolic Behaviour - A Workshop in Memory of Kristian Tylén" workshop masterfully arranged by @izzywisher.bsky.social. Larissa Mendoza Straffon presents Honing the tools of the mind (paper here: osf.io/b8fz2) 1/

At the "Celebrating eSYMb: The Evolution of Symbolic Behaviour - A Workshop in Memory of Kristian Tylén" workshop (masterfully arranged by @izzywisher.bsky.social). Thread of thoughts: 1/

I’m still recruiting for this position — please get in touch if you’re interested in working together!

We have extended the deadline for this position to January 31st. Also, the start date is pretty flexible; if you're graduating next spring/summer and interested in the role, apply!

Graphics has long studied how to make: (1) realistic images 📷 (2) non-photorealistic images ✍️ (3) realistic sounds 🎤 What about (4) "non-phono-realistic" sounds? What could that even mean? Next week at SIGGRAPH Asia, MIT undergrad Matt Caren will present our proposal… 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2409.13507

Cool job at Princeton open to Computational Social Scientists: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro

Finally, if you find this kind of work interesting, I’m currently hiring! I'm recruiting both a postdoc and a lab manager (more at vislearnlab.org) to launch the Visual Learning Lab at @UCSDPsychology —please feel free to reach out (or come say hi at CDS)!

Excited to share that our paper, “Parallel developmental changes in children’s production and recognition of line drawings of visual concepts” has been published in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm so proud to be involved in this work and so grateful to get to work with these amazing scientists!! @kushinm.bsky.social & al. Do check it out at #NeurIPS2023 next week if you are interested in *visual abstraction*!!