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@adani.bsky.social
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Ph.D. candidate @ Stanford, interested in children's 💭 and 🧠
https://stanford.edu/~aabutto
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Mike Frank
16 days ago
Very excited to share the first empirical paper from LEVANTE: we describe the LEVANTE core tasks, a set of nine open source tasks for measuring learning and development in kids ages 5-12 years.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Tomer Ullman
19 days ago
oh what fun it is to have this paper out :)
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Melissa Kline Struhl
26 days ago
This is a fundraising post! An anonymous donor is matching contributions to Children Helping Science up to 100K through the end of the year - if it's in your giving budget, please consider supporting open science infrastructure!
giving.mit.edu/search/node/...
Details below...
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Fund Search Results | Giving to MIT
https://giving.mit.edu/search/node/3882820
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Judy Fan
27 days ago
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
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AI and the future of human learning | School's In Podcast
YouTube video by Stanford Graduate School of Education
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lL07J7nVUUA
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Cameron Ellis
about 1 month ago
We are recruiting a lab manager/research assistant to start in early 2026! The successful candidate will conduct awake infant fMRI, meet cute babies, and join a fun team! More details (e.g. responsibilities):
soc.stanford.edu/people/#join...
Apply here:
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...
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People – Scaffolding of Cognition Team
https://soc.stanford.edu/people/#join-the-team
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Stanford Psychology Podcast
about 1 month ago
NEW EPISODE OUT! In this episode, Adani
@adani.bsky.social
chats with Dr. Susan Engel from Williams College about curiosity, invention, her journey into developmental psychology, and her latest book, The Intellectual Lives of Children! 🎧LISTEN NOW:
open.spotify.com/episode/06WD...
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164 - Susan Engel: Do We Become Less Curious As We Grow Older?
https://open.spotify.com/episode/06WDrPuW2TTWakDeza1Hqf?si=c3bda3bc77034007
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So excited that this latest podcast episode with Adam Benforado is now out:
open.spotify.com/episode/6v4J...
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162 - Adam Benforado: How prioritizing kids benefits us all
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6v4JA8rbKfEjD6J9PfGo62?si=154e2fac0f644af4
about 2 months ago
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Yang Xiang
4 months ago
Now out in Cognition, work with the great
@gershbrain.bsky.social
@tobigerstenberg.bsky.social
on formalizing self-handicapping as rational signaling! 📃
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lo8f2Hx2-...
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Mike Frank
4 months ago
A first blogpost from the LEVANTE team, introducing our global project perspective. A good intro if you're interested in learning more about cross-cultural developmental data collection using LEVANTE.
levante-network.org/global-colla...
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Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development - Levante
Ensuring that children around the world can flourish is one of the most important goals of our time. Developmental science has made major strides in understanding how children grow, learn, and thrive ...
https://levante-network.org/global-collaboration-to-capture-variability-in-child-development-blog-post-1/
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So cool to see our project, spearheaded by Igor Bascandziev, featured in Harvard's 'Usable Knowledge'!
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4 months ago
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Tobias Gerstenberg
5 months ago
The Causality in Cognition Lab is pumped for
#cogsci2025
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Mike Frank
5 months ago
Looking forward to
#cogsci2025
next week - here's a list of presentations from my lab!
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Mike Frank
6 months ago
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.
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Junyi Chu
7 months ago
Delighted to announce our CogSci '25 workshop at the interface between cognitive science and design 🧠🖌️! We're calling it: 🏺Minds in the Making🏺 🔗 minds-making.github.io June – July 2024, free & open to the public (all career stages, all disciplines)
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Mike Frank
7 months ago
If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (
oecs.mit.edu
), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
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Mike Frank
8 months ago
We're still accepting apps for our research scientist position with LEVANTE (
levante-network.org
). This position is ideal for folks wanting to be the interface between a cool scientific project and an awesome team of software developers. Think of it as a technical product manager, but for science!
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PHD Comics
8 months ago
The Imposter Syndrome 🧵 1. The Attack
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Elizabeth Bonawitz
8 months ago
If you're at SRCD please consider checking out these talks and posters featuring members of the CoCoDev lab and our awesome collaborators.
#SRCD2025
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Tobias Gerstenberg
8 months ago
This is a spectacular talk by my colleague
@judithfan.bsky.social
🧠 🎨 🤖 "Cognitive tools for making the invisible visible" 🎬:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF3X...
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Prof. Judy Fan: Cognitive Tools for Making the Invisible Visible
YouTube video by MIT Quest for Intelligence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF3XJT9YKpM
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Stanford Psychology Podcast
9 months ago
HELLO Bluesky! First post here to share our NEWEST episode! This week, Elizabeth
@imelizabeth.bsky.social
chats with Dr. Kendrick Kay on the groundbreaking Natural Scenes Dataset and discusses the behind-the-scenes considerations that went into its creation.
open.spotify.com/episode/6cGq...
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150 - Kendrick Kay: Large-scale fMRI Datasets and What to Consider
Stanford Psychology Podcast · Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6cGqLcArC80n3eRwfUxXJZ?si=FckWi9igRQaLE8lTfc7FPQ
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Elizabeth Jiwon Im
9 months ago
my first time joining
@stanfordpsypod.bsky.social
as a co-host! It was super cool to talk with Kendrick. Go listen to it 🤩
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Excited that this is finally out!! So glad I got to tag along on this project when I first came to the US just about two years ago :)
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9 months ago
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Society for Philosophy and Psychology
9 months ago
Mind over Matter: Consistency Monitoring and Domain-Specific Learning 📣 From Igor Bascandziev, Adani Abutto, Caren Walker & Elizabeth Bonawitz
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Frontiers | Mind over matter: consistency monitoring and domain-specific learning
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/developmental-psychology/articles/10.3389/fdpys.2025.1496651/full
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Mike Frank
10 months ago
AI models are fascinating, impressive, and sometimes problematic. But what can they tell us about the human mind? In a new review paper,
@noahdgoodman.bsky.social
and I discuss how modern AI can be used for cognitive modeling:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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MIT Kids Brains
10 months ago
The Saxe Lab @ MIT is hiring! We seek one lab manager to start in summer 2025. Research in our lab focuses on social cognition (learn more on
saxelab.mit.edu
). Please apply at:
tinyurl.com/saxe2025
(Job ID 31993). Review of applications starts on March 24, 2025. Sharing appreciated. Thank you!
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Saxelab Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at MIT |
https://saxelab.mit.edu/
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Tomer Ullman
11 months ago
Hello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall. It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested. More details on the position & how to apply:
bit.ly/cocodev_post...
Official posting here:
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723
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Mike Frank
11 months ago
Now hiring for two lab manager positions at Stanford! Hyo Gweon and I are coordinating joint searches since our labs collaborate frequently. Please join us!
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
and
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/lab-coo...
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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs
12 months ago
📢 I will be joining
@tuda.bsky.social
&
@hessianai.bsky.social
as a W3 Professor of Comp.Cog.Sci. I'll bring my
#ERC
project "C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture” & will receive funding from a LOEWE professorship. Hiring soon at all levels! 👀
www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet...
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Human thinking as a model for Artificial Intelligence
The cognitive scientist Dr Charley Wu has been awarded a LOEWE start professorship at TU Darmstadt. His work focuses on the question of how artificial intelligence (AI) can use human learning strategi...
https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet/aktuelles_meldungen/einzelansicht_489920.en.jsp
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Bria Long
about 1 year ago
I’m still recruiting for this position — please get in touch if you’re interested in working together!
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Noah Emery, PhD
about 1 year ago
Since this is back… Unfortunately, academic inflation and toxic productivity culture has all but done away with this. The effects of this on science advancement will be seen for generations. Slowing down and thinking deeply is essential to solve complex problems and it’s undervalued at every level
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Elizabeth Bonawitz
about 1 year ago
Sincere thanks to Carolina Ruggero and the Harvard Graduate School of Education Media team for inviting me to talk with them about curiosity. They took a casual conversation and with some media magic turned it into a great little clip!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3eL...
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How to Foster Curiosity in Children
YouTube video by Harvard Graduate School of Education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3eLHNBXdyQ
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Laura Gwilliams
about 1 year ago
✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form:
forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz...
looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠
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https://forms.gle/GLyAbuD779RzAnQG6
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Sam Gershman
about 1 year ago
@yangxiang.bsky.social
,
@tobigerstenberg.bsky.social
, and I have a fun new paper on self-handicapping:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
We analyze this phenomenon in terms of rational signaling, showing how it depends on assumptions about whether observers are naive or sophisticated.
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/84tvm
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Caren Walker
about 1 year ago
I am recruiting a 2 year postdoc! See
elc-lab-ucsd.com/prospective-...
. This is an NSF-funded collaboration between UCSD, Harvard, and Rutgers-Newark (co-PIs:
@ebonawitz.bsky.social
,
@patrickshafto.bsky.social
, Igor Bascandziev) examining cognitive mechanisms underlying children’s conceptual change.
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https://elclab.ucsd.edu
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Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab
about 1 year ago
(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...
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Kate Nussenbaum
about 1 year ago
Lots of people seem to have flocked here, so it's probably a good time to post that I'll be recruiting Ph.D. students to join my new lab in BU's psychology department this cycle! more info about the lab and how to apply to BU here:
cldlab.org/join
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Mike Frank
about 1 year ago
Another open position with LEVANTE - this time a postdoc on our psychometrics team, with Nilam Ram:
postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...
Come join us in creating a field-leading framework for developmental data collection!
levante-framework.org
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Open Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Nilam Ram | Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
https://postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/opportunities/open-postdoctoral-position-faculty-mentor-nilam-ram-1
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Society for Philosophy and Psychology
about 1 year ago
🚨 From Julian Jara-Ettinger and Adena Schachner: Traces of our past: The social representation of the physical world
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Traces of Our Past: The Social Representation of the Physical World - Julian Jara-Ettinger, Adena Schachner, 2024
How do humans build and navigate their complex social world? Standard theoretical frameworks often attribute this success to a foundational capacity to analyze ...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09637214241268145
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Emily Liquin
about 1 year ago
I’ll be considering applications for a PhD student to start in Fall 2025! I’ve been having a blast starting up the Exploration, Learning, and Mind Lab at the University of New Hampshire this fall, and I’m excited to grow our lab community. App review begins 1/15. Learn more:
liquinlab.github.io
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Tomer Ullman
about 1 year ago
yey, the "Bayesian Models of Cognition" book is out, for all your Bayesian models of cognition needs :) (I contributed to 3 chapters in the book -- development, intuitive physics, theory of mind -- that can be read on the ol' website:
bit.ly/bbb_dev
bit.ly/bbb_phys
bit.ly/bbb_tom
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Mike Frank
about 1 year ago
If you try to replicate a finding so you can build on it, but your study fails, what should you do? Should you follow up and try to "rescue" the failed rep, or should you move on? Boyce et al. tried to answer this question; in our sample, 5 of 17 rescue projects succeeded.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/an3yb
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Cameron Ellis
about 1 year ago
The Scaffolding of Cognition team is hiring! We're looking for a passionate graduate student and a dedicated lab manager. Learn more about these opportunities by reading below or visit our website:
soc.stanford.edu/people/#join...
. Please pass on the information to your friends and mentees too! 1/5
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Nature Reviews Psychology
over 1 year ago
🚨Calling psych PhD students and postdocs! 🚨Want to highlight a paper that had a big impact, doesn't get enough attention, or drew you to the field? Apply to write a Journal Club article with us!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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#psychscisky
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A platform for early-career voices - Nature Reviews Psychology
In Journal Club articles, early-career researchers share papers that influenced them.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-022-00028-0
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Natalia Vélez
over 1 year ago
Preprint alert! After 4 years, I’m super excited to share work with
@thecharleywu.bsky.social
@gershbrain.bsky.social
and Eric Schulz on the rise and fall of technological development in virtual communities in
#OneHourOneLife
#ohol
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Tomer Ullman
over 1 year ago
I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Fall if possible. It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested! More details on the position & how to apply:
bit.ly/cocodev_post...
Official posting:
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/13532
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Post-Doc CoCoDev Harvard 2024
Dear colleagues, I plan to hire a postdoctoral fellow to join my lab at Harvard University, starting Summer or Fall of 2024. The position is for one year, with a possibility for renewal for up to 2...
http://bit.ly/cocodev_postdoc24
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Russ Poldrack
over 1 year ago
The Psychology Department at Stanford is searching for an assistant professor whose work focuses on affective science. Please apply and/or forward to your networks!
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
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Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Psychology
https://facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/494755/assistant-professor-psychology
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Mark Ho | Hiring postdocs + PhD students
over 1 year ago
I'm looking for a postdoc interested in computational cognitive modeling and deep reinforcement learning! Submit a CV and references here:
apply.interfolio.com/150309
Intended starting date is early Fall 2024 Please share with anyone who might be interested!
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http://apply.interfolio.com/150309
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Mike Frank
over 1 year ago
Announcing the launch of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science:
oecs.mit.edu
! OECS is a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics in cogsci to a broad audience of students and scholars.
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Open Encylopedia of Cognitive Science
http://oecs.mit.edu
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Courtney Hilton
over 1 year ago
lovely piece on the poetry of PhD thesis acknowledgements
science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
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The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements
After reading hundreds and hundreds of PhD theses, we accidentally discovered how to write the perfect PhD acknowledgement: it's a kind of poetry.
https://science.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/unexpected-poetry-phd-acknowledgements
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