Brown’s Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working in the area of AI and the Mind (start July 1, 2026). Apply by Nov 8, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173939 #AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity

I’ve been training my whole life for this moment

This great piece by @addyosmani.bsky.social resonates strongly with my recent experience using AI coding agents

Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896 I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.

Well yes! Sharing Thoughts is now published!! @oupphilosophy.bsky.social With amazing fresh pieces from C Peacocke, I Dickie, G Longworth, F Recanati, J Pollock, M García-Carpintero, S Sawyer, S Prosser, L and F Schroeter, A Onofri, JL Bermúdez, R Goodman, A Gray. academic.oup.com/book/60759

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

I used to love computers. Computers reify math/logic into reality. Silicon Valley exists to chase money but at least it offered a living working on math/logic. Now not even that. Hard logic is old-fashioned. Silicon Valley is for vibe coding with $$$s in your eyes and little else.

Ever wondered why you keep going to that restaurant with stale fries? Is it because you went often in the past (perseveration) or because you remember past good experiences better (positivity bias)? Our study out in PNAS investigates the normative basis for these biases www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

me too!

I'll be reviewing computational/cognitive and clinical psychology applications this year for the Translational Lab at Emory 💭🔬 Please share broadly and send applicants my way! 🔄 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

My lab at UCLA is hiring 1-2 PhD students this cycle! Join us to work at the intersection of cognitive science and AI applied to pressing societal challenges like climate change. More info about me: rachit-dubey.github.io My lab: ucla-cocopol.github.io Please help repost/spread the word!

The TiCS issue featuring our paper on "A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making" is now available online 😄 Honored to have been a part of this awesome interdisciplinary mega-collab led by Christin Schulze (UNSW Sydney) www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

We’re hiring an assistant or associate professor to join our psychology department at the University of Illinois Chicago! We’re a vibrant research-active department in a great city, a diverse institution with a purpose-driven mission, and a fun place to work! #psychjobs uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Review of applications begins Sept 15 for this quantitative Psych position. Please share; TYIA!

Where do some of Reinforcement Learning's great thinkers stand today? Find out! Keynotes of the RL Conference are online: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Wanting vs liking, Agent factories, Theoretical limit of LLMs, Pluralist value, RL teachers, Knowledge flywheels (guess who talked about which!)

When an animals' groupmates go out of sight, do they also go out of mind? In a new paper in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org, Luz Carvajal and I show that a bonobo (Kanzi) can keep mental tabs on the whereabouts of multiple hidden social partners royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/4GI7G...

Interesting work that uses automatically generated “visual anagrams”!

🤖 🧠 NEW PAPER ON COGSCI & AI 🧠 🤖 Recent neural networks capture properties long thought to require symbols: compositionality, productivity, rapid learning So what role should symbols play in theories of the mind? For our answer...read on! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.05776 1/n

The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!

“So we beat on, boats moving directly forward with the current, making excellent time to our clearly stated destinations, no longer crushed by the weight of our own protective shells or the insistence on moving sideways when forward was always an option.” 😂

If you missed us at #cogsci2025, my lab presented 3 new studies showing how efficient (lossy) compression shapes individual learners, bilinguals, and action abstractions in language, further demonstrating the extraordinary applicability of this principle to human cognition! 🧵 1/n

These job ads have now been posted! 🎉 Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020 Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054 Please spread the word!

Job announcement 📢 @shawnrhoadsphd.bsky.social and I are looking for a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction! Interested? If you’ll be at #rlc2025 (or I missed you at #cogsci2025) feel free to reach out with any questions! apply.interfolio.com/165809

Congrats to Doug Medin on becoming the next Rumelhart prize winner! 🏆 My “academic grandpa” through multiple pathways! #cogsci2025

📢 @markkho.bsky.social & I are recruiting a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction & mental health 💻 Ideal candidates have experience w/ multi-player web-based experiments & computational modeling 📅 Apps are reviewed on a rolling basis 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/165809

New work with @mariannazhang.bsky.social, Sarah-Jane Leslie, and @marjorierhodes.bsky.social on learning about inductive potential from generics 🗣️ 🤔💭 If you're at #CogSci2025 come see @mariannazhang.bsky.social's talk Fri at 4pm (Language and Computation)!!

📣 new paper! people use some categories to generalize (e.g., we generalize something we learn about one tiger 🐯 to other tigers 🐅), but not others (e.g., we don't generalize from one pedestrian 🚶 to other pedestrians 🚶‍♂️). how do people learn what categories allow for generalization? 🧵

Since @markkho.bsky.social's seminal work, I've been wondering how we build task construals under uncertainty, given I think it bears on explaining chronic worry (www.cell.com/trends/cogni.... Here, @davidnagy.bsky.social @thecharleywu.bsky.social et al tackle how we do so arxiv.org/abs/2507.16511

Just sent this as an email to my department but figured I'd share more broadly in case it is useful. This describes the procedure happening now for science funding in Congress (@davidimiller.bsky.social can correct me if I got this wrong). Importantly, there are still actions that can be taken.

I went to high school with this guy!! First bxsci mayor?! ⚛️⚛️⚛️

We are bringing together neuroscience, reinforcement learning, and decision making at @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social #RLDM2025 #NeuroAI #DecisionMaking

Very excited about this work that examines the interaction between lateralization and value-guided construal!

🚨Excited to share my first preprint from my postdoc with @smfleming.bsky.social! 🚨 We explore how attention shapes simplified mental representations for planning. We show that inductive biases characteristic of attentional selection shape how we plan. Check it out: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧠🔦🤖

Are you planning to attend @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social #RLDM2025 and interested in human and artificial intelligence across the adult lifespan? Come check out our Representational Alignment and Aging Workshop!👇 sites.google.com/brown.edu/raa/

How do people teach? 🍎🧑‍🏫 We know theory of mind is important for teaching (eg simulating a learner's mind) but that can take effort 🤔 New work led by @harootonian.bsky.social expands this picture by examining how people also teach with *less effortful heuristics*

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Thrilled to share new research on teaching! Work supervised by @cocoscilab.bsky.social, @yaelniv.bsky.social, and @markkho.bsky.social. This project asks: When do people teach by mentalizing vs with heuristics? 1/3 osf.io/preprints/os...

Boston is such an academic city that Stroop tasks are part of the public transportation system

yesterday, my postdoc funding (salary and research funds) was cancelled by the National Science Foundation, effective immediately. I received the same generic, vaguely threatening, typo-ridden email as many of my colleagues who have had their awards terminated recently. (1/n)

🙌 Hot off the presses @natcomms.nature.com! We created a custom #Minecraft environment to study a long-standing puzzle in cognitive science: How do humans flexibly adapt their individual and social learning strategies in dynamic, realistic situations? Check it out 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

NYU Social Psychology is looking for people passing through NYC next year who want to give a research TALK in our Speaker Series. We welcome self-nominations and scholars from all career stages (you can apply multiple times). Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🤔 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

🚨 @markkho.bsky.social & I are hiring a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction & computational psychiatry 💻 Ideal candidates have experience w/ multi-player web-based experiments & computational modeling 📅 Review begins April 18, 2025 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/165809

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

🚨 Now accepting commentary proposals!! 🚨Thrilled to share that our paper --- "Resource-rational contractualism: A triple theory of moral cognition" --- was accepted for publication at Behavioral and Brain Sciences and is open for commentary!

Contacting your congressperson is fine. But contacting your local TV station is better. One interview on local TV saying your congressperson should act is worth 1,000 office calls.

If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

Daniel Dennett’s call to ban “counterfeit people” is still one of the keenest arguments I’ve read about how to regulate AI itself (rather than some externality of AI, like its energy use). www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Friends and frenemies! I'll be at #NeurIPS2024 all week and would love to catch up! Let's grab coffee/food and talk about goal generation and representation, how to think about goals with/in/for LLMs, cognitive science in 2025+, or give me advice for getting into (mech.) interpretability research!

Thrilled that this is now out in Cognition! Really cool (and fun!) project on hierarchical planning led by the amazing @cgcorrea.bsky.social 🎉

(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...