Eric Mandelbaum
@ericman.bsky.social
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CUNY Prof of Philosophy & Psychology, Director of Cognitive Science, other stuff too
Greatest city in the world breaking new records!
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Number of homeless students in NYC hits record high, new report finds
Nearly 1 in 7 NYC public school students were homeless at some point last year.
https://gothamist.com/news/number-of-homeless-students-in-nyc-hits-record-high-new-report-finds?ref=hellgatenyc.com
17 days ago
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Fantastic researcher, open-minded thinker, dedicated mentor, and one of the absolute nicest people in the field.
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about 1 month ago
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Sex dolls: the Evolutionary Psychologist’s electrode
about 1 month ago
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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...
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When You Fall on Your Face, a Philosophical Designer Succeeds
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/arts/baby-steps-bennett-foddy.html
about 1 month ago
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about 2 months ago
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...
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The Language of Thought Hypothesis
https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.79b53c0b
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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.
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2 months ago
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Bob Clark for mayor
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3 months ago
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Hard to think of a better gig. So cool for Cornell too
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3 months ago
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Excited about this in large part because Raphael is the absolute best
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4 months ago
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This work is so cool, (and Vlad rules to boot)
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4 months ago
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David Melnikoff
5 months ago
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/...
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Model-based algorithms shape automatic evaluative processing | PNAS
Computational theories of reinforcement learning suggest that two families of algorithm—model-based and model-free—tightly map onto the classic dis...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2417068122
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This is really impressive. Hard to imagine a more painful (or dangerous) rollercoaster than the Cyclone:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWi_...
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Cyclone
YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWi_9YR8Aeo&ab_channel=BradLanderforNYC
5 months ago
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Ummmm the Inside the NBA crew is at center court, watching Inside the NBA?
5 months ago
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Cuomo is coming for Eric Adams' trophy as the biggest butthead interviewee
6 months ago
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đź’”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...
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Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/business/trump-online-misinformation-grants.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HU8.xNoa.923VgoytNY-W&smid=url-share
6 months ago
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🙏🙏🙏
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6 months ago
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Griffin Pion
6 months ago
đź“„ NEW PRE-PRINT! đź“„ 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
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Griffin Pion, Elliot Schwartz & Eric Mandelbaum, Believe What We Think!: The Spinozan Theory of Mind - PhilPapers
How do we acquire beliefs? According to the Spinozan model, merely having a thought entails believing it. Only through a further, effortful process can one reject automatically-accepted beliefs. This ...
https://philpapers.org/rec/PIOBWW
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Griffin Pion
7 months ago
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! (đź§µ1/9)
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OSF
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xjgwf_v1
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Pains me to give this any boost but my lord this tidbit
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7 months ago
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Congrats Shannon! Can't wait to celebrate with you in Ithaca
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8 months ago
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Quitting my job to help unravel the "Baseball Maiming Society Industrial Complex" Foul Ball Safety Now!
www.publishersmarketplace.com/jobs/view.cg...
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Publishing Strategist Partner – The Architect of a Truth & Reconciliation Publishing Movement (#41035) | Publishers Lunch Job Board
Position: Publishing Strategist Partner – The Architect of a Truth & Reconciliation Publishing Movement (Part Time) | Offered by: Foul Ball Safety Now (Remote) | posted Mar. 10, 2025
https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/jobs/view.cgi?job_no=41035
8 months ago
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SCIENCE!
8 months ago
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CUNY Cog Sci continues to be 🔥. Thanks to Charles Yang for a super interesting talk on language learning and the Tolerance Principle.
8 months ago
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Benedek Kurdi
9 months ago
🚨🚨🚨 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...
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“My motto is never think inside the box. Never think outside the box. Think without a box”—
9 months ago
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Imagining Darwin opening his trench coat to display his finest treats
9 months ago
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If you really love somebody, let them know by never emailing them
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10 months ago
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Once again
@mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social
is doing the coolest work.
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10 months ago
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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
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11 months ago
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Benedek Kurdi
12 months ago
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 đź§µ below.
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Ben Simmons pregame shooting is top drama. Just missed 9 in a row from ~ 12 feet.
12 months ago
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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?
12 months ago
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finally some amazing news
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/b...
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The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/business/media/alex-jones-infowars-the-onion.html
12 months ago
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@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.
about 1 year ago
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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/...
about 1 year ago
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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...
about 1 year ago
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Eric Mandelbaum
Esra Nur Turan-Küçük
about 1 year ago
🎉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
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OSF
https://osf.io/rx4h9
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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
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Eric Mandelbaum, _The Border Between Seeing and Thinking_, by Ned Block - PhilPapers
https://philpapers.org/rec/MANTBB
over 1 year ago
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Nic Porot
over 1 year ago
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
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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!
over 1 year ago
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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???
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almost 2 years ago
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almost 2 years ago
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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...
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One in five young Americans think the Holocaust is a myth
Our new poll makes alarming reading
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/12/07/one-in-five-young-americans-think-the-holocaust-is-a-myth
almost 2 years ago
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Washed-in-their-prime Chicago playing “You’re the inspiration” on a Wonder Bread float is the most American thing I have ever seen
almost 2 years ago
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Osita Nwanevu
almost 2 years ago
Interesting. I think New Yorkers should try having a mayor who is good instead, but I understand that's not part of their culture.
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Felipe's always thoughtful, and even though we disagree on what exactly constitutes pseudoscience it's hard to not find this all pretty reasonable
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almost 2 years ago
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Eric Adams, comedy gold
hellgatenyc.com/mayor-adams-...
almost 2 years ago
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Hard to think of a better gig. Really incredible for whoever gets it, but just unbelievably awesome for the field that this position exists now.
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almost 2 years ago
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I don't believe in nominative determinism but I see why it was so seductive. When you stumble on a piece of positive evidence, it can stop you in your tracks
almost 2 years ago
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🔥🔥🔥
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about 2 years ago
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