Nice write-up in Scientific American of some of the latest research from my group, led by my first PhD student Dr. Shadi Tabatabaeian (now a postdoc at Georgetown). I grew up reading Scientific American... Childhood dream fulfilled! @david-landy.bsky.social

I’ll be considering graduate school applications for Fall 2026 – positions are fully funded, typically for 5 years. Deadline to apply to the Cognition program is December 1. Come do science with me in beautiful Amherst, Massachusetts! www.umass.edu/natural-scie...

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “An information-theoretic foreshadowing of mathematicians’ sudden insights.” Explore the article here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.

Can the “eureka” moments that advance mathematics be predicted? Close study of mathematicians working at blackboards to solve tough problems found a spike of unpredictable movements and attentional shifts one minute before breakthroughs. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Mastering a skill can take decades, but learning unfolds across timescales from moments to days. A new paper by three former SFI postdocs presents a theoretical model of nested timescales of learning, offering a unified, multi-scale account of skill acquisition. www.santafe.edu/news-center/...

New paper on misperceptions out in PNAS @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Why do people overestimate the size of politically relevant groups (immigrant, LGBTQ, Jewish) and quantities (% of budget spent on foreign aid, % of refugees that are criminals)?🧵👇

Cool paper about why we overestimate the size of minority groups! From @brianguay.bsky.social, @tylermarghetis.bsky.social, Cara Wong, and @david-landy.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I'll be presenting some work with @tylermarghetis.bsky.social and Elizabeth Geballe at #CES2024 on translation as transmission. Stop by if you'd like to chat about digital humanities and cross-cultural transmission! Link: ellisc.dev/pdf/ces_2024...

I've been awarded an early-career research grant in Australia (an ARC DECRA)! Feeling very fortunate 😌 Excited to continue my work on the interactions between music, minds, and culture using a online citizen science approach. science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

We’re hosting a conference! In June we’ll host the Visual Language Conference 2024 (VisLang2024) at Tilburg University for research on graphic and multimodal communication. Submissions are now open. Please submit, join us, and circulate the CFP widely! www.visuallanguagelab.com/vislang2024

Hi Bluesky! I'm recruiting graduate students and postdocs to launch the Visual Learning Lab with me at UC San Diego in Summer/Fall 2024! The lab will focus on how we learn to derive visual meaning, integrating methods from developmental psychology, machine learning, & vision science.

Read broadly and outside your discipline/area of research. It will allow you to make new and original connections that you would not otherwise make.

My Strategies for Dealing With Radical Psychotic Doubt: A Schizo-Something Philosopher’s Tale | A beautifully written first-person account by the amazing Sofia Jeppsson academic.oup.com/schizophreni... | via @lisabortolotti.bsky.social

During grad school, I worked with an RA who I suspected of fraud. We were running experiments with a pre and post session in the lab. Labor intensive, time suck! I never witnessed anything but I knew something was off bc the descriptive stats were unbelievable compared to our other similar studies.

I just wrote "As well, I'm Canadian" and realized it's an example where the words and the construction convey the same information.

Coming soon: the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, an open access reference work devoted to the study of the mind. @asifa_majid and I are co-editors in chief – articles will be posted starting in 2024. oecs.mit.edu