Excited to share I will be joining UC Davis as an assistant professor starting July 2027! Thank you dearly to all mentors and friends who have supported me over the years ❤️ and Cal Poly friends, I'll miss you!

🗣️excited to be giving a TALK TMRW at #VSS2026 🏖️ if you're interested in anything predictive learning, metacognition, successor representations & more, check it out!☀️ 🕚 tues may 19 @ 12 pm 📍talk rm 2: decision-making w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social ✨

heading to #vss2026 this week👀come chat with me about all things predictive learning, metacognition, successor representations & perception🤩! ✨eager to be giving a talk in the decision-making session on tues at noon!✨ @vssmtg.bsky.social

New paper! Multistep inference across the human lifespan can be improved with individualized memory interventions, with co-first @kwcooper.bsky.social @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social @dalezhou.bsky.social, Craig Stark, and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social (🧵): academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...

The #reflexionlab from @ucisocsci.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social is at #VSS2026 @vssmtg.bsky.social While *I personally* am not there 😭, you can still see our work!

find me on tuesday afternoon at banyan for more killer sentences at #VSS2026 @vssmtg.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mega...

I was privileged to get to interview Dr. Hanna Pickard about her new book. It's smart, punchy, and a must-read for people who work on, think about, or suffer from addiction and its consequences. Our conversation is now up at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/hann...

In a new preprint w/ @tianqizhan.bsky.social & @smfleming.bsky.social, we developed a new measure of metacognitive bias (over/under confidence in individual decisions)! doi.org/10.31234/osf...

What does it mean for cognition to be Bayesian? The view that cognition is Bayesian inference is often intended at Marr's computational level. In a new paper in Nat Rev Psych, @kaixue98.bsky.social and I formulate the "explicit-Bayes" hypothesis that lives at the algorithmic level. rdcu.be/ff1XA

From mechanical gears in the 1930s to deep learning in the 2020s, the way we study the brain has been a race between technology and analysis. How do we close the gap? Our new paper, doi.org/10.1080/2694... traces this journey, offers resources, and notes a plan for the future.

#oopsie Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

If you're a faculty, research scientist, postdoc, or senior PhD in any area of science, select your top 6 virtues at this link: shorturl.at/bV2lF You can also tell us if you think we missed any. We want broad participation, so pls RT! 🙏 In collab w/@devezer.bsky.social @statmodeling.bsky.social

Check out our lab #CDS2026! Talks on early intuitions about democracy, consequences of household inequality, and cross-cultural data on intuitive beliefs about social exclusion.

Some reports say over 500 schools, 55 libraries, & 25 universities hit. You can debate the numbers, but hitting Sharif University & Beheshti is like hitting MIT & Stanford. I keep wondering: How would the scientific community respond differently if it was those universities? What’s the difference?

🎉 We're excited to announce the SPAN Seminar Series: virtual introductions to concepts relevant to neuroscience & phil of neuroscience. Seminars are free for SPAN members & held virtually. The first 2 seminars are on MRI methods. Register today! 🧠 philandneuro.wildapricot.org/seminar-Series

New paper! Out now in Neuropsychologia: “Sparsity and memory constraints interact with training sequence to bias learning of associative maps” with @dalezhou.bsky.social*, @kwcooper.bsky.social, @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social, and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mipv6TBG9... 🧵:

Happy to share some of the work done in our lab in this mega-thread of nine (!) papers/preprints (+1 sneak peek) from the last six months. Here goes (in no particular order)! **Please repost** and let me know if you need access to any of the PDFs! #sleeppeeps #sleep #neuroscience 1/12

Exciting work by @kevingoneill.github.io to extend / rewrite the HMetad toolbox in R and STAN 🥳 We supercharge meta-d modeling within a bayesian regression framework, wrapped in a user-friendly R package with bespoke plotting tools (+ a new principled measure of metacognitive bias, meta-delta!) 🧠🧪

We're excited to announce a special SPAN at the PSA 'Meet the Author' session with @sussillodavid.bsky.social! Join us as we discuss David's new book. If you are interested in pre-reading and attending, please email us (details below).

happy to announce the official release of my first R package on CRAN! 🎉 building on the Hmetad toolbox by @smfleming.bsky.social, the hmetad package allows users to fit the meta-d' model of confidence ratings using a familiar brms/lme4-style formula syntax

Very happy that this paper from our lab is now out in @pnas.org! What happens when the *same* person experiences the *same* information with a *different* interpretation? Nearly the whole 🧠—well, at least nearly all association cortex—changes how it represents that information! tinyurl.com/p8chj2j7

Danielle Williams @okaydaniellle.bsky.social is a FORCE OF NATURE.

Really neat work by Fountas and colleagues at UCL: arxiv.org/abs/2603.04688 They propose that consolidation reflects a form of "predictive forgetting" that aids generalization.

Compositional representation of self, others, and gaze direction in *human* hippocampus - super cool. arxiv.org/abs/2603.04747

it's out! @hazimi.bsky.social and i explore how higher order representations of *one's own first-order representational uncertainty* -- not representations OF noisiness in the world -- can be studied, including how they are constructed in the first place. philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

On Loving the World: Revisiting the Scientific Image with Arendt and Haraway My upcoming talk at The Center for Philosophy of Science & the Department of Anthropology at Boston University, this coming Thursday, March 5th, 4-5.30 pm. (First Chapter of my new book project @rad-institute.bsky.social)

📢New paper out today in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social! Does the value of an unchosen option — inferred through counterfactual reasoning — spread to related items in memory, similar to how the value of a chosen option — acquired through direct experience — does? In short, yes!

Loretta wants you to know that we'll be heading to The Ohio State University soon where I'll be an Assistant Professor of Philosophy 🥹 The OSU phil department is absolutely fantastic and I can't wait to go do philosophy with them! 🐎 🐻 🚂 🌰

I'm excited to announce that I had my first (co-authored) book published today! "The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources" with Falk Lieder and Tom Griffiths (@cocoscilab.bsky.social ). You can read it for free! (see thread)

My paper, "The problem of explaining shifting targets," has been accepted for publication in European Journal for Philosophy of Science. The preprint is currently available on PhilSci-Archive (final version to follow when its online): philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28211/

We audited one of the most critical pieces of modern AI alignment: reward models. We find consistent and persistent biases and trace them back to the pretraining stage, challenging the premises of common approaches to alignment based on finetuning on human preferences. Accepted at #ICLR2026

I'm giving a talk on how to settle disagreements about how participants should respond to tasks and why it's relevant to cognitive explanation, especially in judgement and decision-making psychology. register by tomorrow to listen in on Friday 4pm CET/ 10am ET/ 8am MT philevents.org/event/show/1...

This, combined with the evidence we have that it meaningfully degrades cognitive skills, I really think it’s probably bad to allow a group of men wealthy to the point of literal derangement to force us to use a technology that makes us less competent and worse at thinking

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

In this Article, @jonathannicholas.bsky.social & @marcelomattar.bsky.social show that people use episodic memory to make decisions when it is unclear what will be needed in the future.

Who is the Big Tobacco of today? In new work, we find 50% of high profile social media papers are connected to big tech through funding, collaboration and employment. Most connections aren't disclosed. @jbakcoleman.bsky.social @jevinwest.bsky.social @carlbergstrom.com 1 arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507

How do hippocampal pathways contribute to learning regularities and exceptions? To answer this, Melisa Gumus & @drmack.bsky.social use diffusion imaging to identify the endpoints of different hippocampal pathways, and then analyze functional activity within those "footprints". Super innovative!

super excited to share my preprint with @meganakpeters.bsky.social stimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics🚀😊!! osf.io/preprints/ps...

A few days left to apply to join my lab as a PhD student! We study how people explore, how new ideas form, and how thinking develops. Learn more at liquinlab.github.io. Application review begins 1/15. #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogSci #DevPsyc

#ACNP2026 - Wednesday afternoon @biancaleonard.bsky.social will present a computational model-driven motivational conflict challenge that identifies novel, *opposing* influences of early-life unpredictability and anhedonia @mikeyassa.bsky.social @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social @malejandra.bsky.social

SPAN just dropped their new mentorship program open to undergrads and grads! Apply with or without mentors! 🥳🥳🥳

presenting TODAY at #SfN2025 🧠 if you're curious about distinct structure learning & metacognitive dynamics across multiple statistical patterns & stimuli types, come check out my poster w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social 📈 📍PSTR363.17 / UU13 🕐 Tues Nov 18 1-5 PM www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

#SfN Poster 5 of 6 TODAY! Tuesday 11/18 1-5p @rochellekaper.bsky.social PSTR363.17 / UU13 Quantifying the emergence of metacognition in structure learning www.abstractsonline....

#SfN2025 Poster 4 of 6 TODAY! Tuesday 11/18 1-5p @hazimi.bsky.social PSTR363.09 / UU5 Modeling Prior-like Higher-Order Representations in DecNef with a Generative NERD Model www.abstractsonline....

gooood morning #SfN2025! i’m presenting this poster at board CC11 *today* from 8am-noon stop by to chat learning, memory, (perceptual) decision making, and normative modeling that bridges cross-species and cross-task findings 🧠🐒 w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social

#SfN2025 Poster 3 of 6 TODAY! Tuesday 11/18 8a-12p @khoudary.bsky.social PSTR291.11 / CC11 Precision-weighted integration explains dynamic effects of expectations on perceptual decisions, with @aaronbornstein.bsky.social www.abstractsonline....#SfN2025

Good morning from San Diego. Come see my poster (UU7) on splitting and merging latent states in non-Markovian environments, at #Sfn2025 right now !

me & my Theme K poster are finally at #SfN25! stop by board WW13 anytime between now & tomorrow evening to learn more about how philosophy can help navigate meta-scientific questions about models in neuroscience 🧠 w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social

Come see the lab's work at #SfN2025! (🧵) Featuring: @khoudary.bsky.social @biancaleonard.bsky.social @malejandra.bsky.social @jungsuy.bsky.social @dalezhou.bsky.social @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social @sharonmnoh.bsky.social

Our group has SIX posters at SfN! 🧵👇 links below in thread: