Cancel your meetings and gaze upon the soul of my sweet Jersey www.nj.com/news/2025/12...

Woman next to me on the subway is reading a newspaper and every page she’s done with she’s just throwing on the floor in front of us like a pile of inky banana peels #printmediaisnotdead

Published in Nature! 😂

there was some discussion on here recently about the scientific legitimacy of cognitive dissonance research. as someone who has spent years investigating this literature, i wanted to make a thread to explain why pessimism is not justified by careful inspection of the evidence 1/

Greatest city in the world breaking new records! gothamist.com/news/number-...

Fantastic researcher, open-minded thinker, dedicated mentor, and one of the absolute nicest people in the field.

Sex dolls: the Evolutionary Psychologist’s electrode

My friends @foddy.net and @gcuzzillo.bsky.social's game @babystepsgame.bsky.social came out today and it looks amazing. @foddy.net is an artist and philosopher in the truest sense of the words, who just happens to be using video games as his medium at the moment: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a...

Our entry (with @ericman.bsky.social ) for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, “The Language of Thought Hypothesis”, is now out. doi.org/10.21428/e27...

It was so great! Really lucky to have been able to listen and learn from Barbara, Liuba, & Benedek. Some of the most insightful research happening today, from just the absolutely nicest, coolest people.

Bob Clark for mayor

Hard to think of a better gig. So cool for Cornell too

Excited about this in large part because Raphael is the absolute best

This work is so cool, (and Vlad rules to boot)

A key takeaway from 20+ years of computational RL is: model-free=automatic, model-based=deliberate. My new paper w/ @benedek.bsky.social challenges this view, suggesting that MB algos are more ubiquitous, & automatic processing more sophisticated, than currently thought: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This is really impressive. Hard to imagine a more painful (or dangerous) rollercoaster than the Cyclone: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWi_...

Ummmm the Inside the NBA crew is at center court, watching Inside the NBA?

Cuomo is coming for Eric Adams' trophy as the biggest butthead interviewee

💔 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...

🙏🙏🙏

📄 NEW PRE-PRINT! 📄 How do we acquire beliefs? According to one intuitive view, we can entertain thoughts, and then choose to accept them as beliefs or reject them. philpapers.org/rec/PIOBWW (🧵1/10)

Excited to share a new paper accepted to @cogscisociety.bsky.social 2025 on the cognitive representation polysemy and their use in reasoning! Pre-print here: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Thread below! (🧵1/9)

Pains me to give this any boost but my lord this tidbit

Congrats Shannon! Can't wait to celebrate with you in Ithaca

Quitting my job to help unravel the "Baseball Maiming Society Industrial Complex" Foul Ball Safety Now! www.publishersmarketplace.com/jobs/view.cg...

SCIENCE!

CUNY Cog Sci continues to be 🔥. Thanks to Charles Yang for a super interesting talk on language learning and the Tolerance Principle.

🚨🚨🚨 Preprint with Zephyr Weinreich, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @ericman.bsky.social in which we show that implicit attitudes are not only sensitive to negation; they even reflect the distinction between easy-to-negate bipolar and difficult-to-negate unipolar adjectives: osf.io/preprints/ps...

“My motto is never think inside the box. Never think outside the box. Think without a box”—

Imagining Darwin opening his trench coat to display his finest treats

If you really love somebody, let them know by never emailing them

Once again @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social is doing the coolest work.

This is a great idea in cognitive science and philosophy too. I would stop being a zealot for signing referee reports if they were just published alongside the paper

Very excited to share this preprint with @thatadammorris.bsky.social and (newly minted ISCON Early Career Award winner) David Melnikoff in which we reexamine the question of whether people are aware of their implicit attitudes. TLDR: most likely not. psyarxiv.com/gak52/ For details, see 🧵 below.

Ben Simmons pregame shooting is top drama. Just missed 9 in a row from ~ 12 feet.

Tfw you step on a subway and it’s totally empty but smells so incredibly bad that you know something unspeakable has recently occurred. Did Garfield cover this in his Monday omens?

finally some amazing news www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/b...

@levelsof.bsky.social visited NYC, brought all the milkshakes to the yard (which in this case was a fake sukkah). Her work on toddler's understanding of possibility and objects is just about the coolest thing happening in cognitive science.

Roving militias hunting FEMA workers in disaster areas is just the state of nature, rational given that the government bakes hurricanes in its underground pizza oven www.instagram.com/postclimate/...

The new CUNY Cognitive Science season has begun! The first speaker in our series is the absolutely fantastic Philippe Schlenker. Room was packed—people lining the walls, and I am standing out in the hallway. Another solid 20 people on zoom. Come join us! www.gc.cuny.edu/philosophy/c...

🎉Our paper "Three- and Four-Year-Old Children Represent Mutually Exclusive Possible Identities" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology! You can read the preprint here: osf.io/rx4h9 (1/5)

I wrote a review of @De_dicto's seminal book on the perception/cognition border for Mind. Tl;dr: you should read the book. But also consider reading the review. Hard to imagine I'll ever have a harder or more meaningful review to write philpapers.org/rec/MANTBB

How gullible are people? If you’ve been following Twitter recently (or um…The New Yorker?) you might have seen that lots of people think: not so much! In a forthcoming paper (philarchive.org/rec/PORBDC), @ericman.bsky.social and I argue for the opposite view: people are (with some nuance) (1/15)

I'm delighted to announce the 2024 winner of the Stanton prize is @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social! The @socphilpsych.bsky.social Stanton Prize is awarded to a young scholar who has made significant contributions to interdisciplinary research & been active in the SPP. Congrats Tobi!

Christmas, walked out of MSG, saw two guys get into a fight (that one did not seem to want) in front of a midtown police kiosk. Cops did nothing ofc but hey at least we are treating migrants right, right???

If you think social media misinformation isn't a big deal (eg @dgrand.bsky.social & @hugoreasoning.bsky.social) I wonder what you make of polls like this Economist/Yougov where 20% of under 30 Americans think the holocaust is fake and 30% aren't sure www.economist.com/united-state...

Washed-in-their-prime Chicago playing “You’re the inspiration” on a Wonder Bread float is the most American thing I have ever seen

Interesting. I think New Yorkers should try having a mayor who is good instead, but I understand that's not part of their culture.