Once again, I had a blast at #MCLS2025! First time participating in a symposium so aligned with my research interests (“Representations of ordinality”). Huge thanks to Maria Brandao for organizing it, and to all the brilliant speakers: @lillyroth.bsky.social, Francesco Sella, and Maria herself

Hello #MCLS2025 Welcome to Hong Kong!🇭🇰 The Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society Day 1 was amazing! The Education University of Hong Kong. #EdUHK See the programme and talk uploads: the-mcls.org/mcls-2025-ho... @mclstrainee.bsky.social @mcls-official.bsky.social

I guess I'll attend CogSci online, this year. Worrying times.

Great PhD opportunity in the team I recently joined here in Marseille: exciting ERC-funded project on thought without language (🐝 & 🐒), amazing people, and the Mediterranean weather isn’t bad either! 😉☀️

New preprint: “Folk Thinking, Fast and Slow: Intuitive Preference for Deliberation in Humans and Machines” Pop culture often praises intuition (“Blink”, Steve Jobs). But do we really trust it? Across 13 studies, we find a strong intuitive preference for deliberation. tinyurl.com/8r54dmyn (1/6)

We are pleased to announce that the 5th Jean Piaget Conferences will take place from 25 to 27 June 2025 at the University of Geneva. This year’s conference will be structured around three key axes: development, learning, and teaching. Submissions : Feb 28th confpiaget.sciencesconf.org

New paper alert ! 1/ 🚀 We recently discovered that Guinea baboons can recognize trends in scatterplots, using cues like the "t-value", to judge whether data is increasing or decreasing. Their performance shows surprising parallels with human statistical perception. 📊🐒

New content: Ionescu, T., Goldstone, R. L., Rogobete, D., & Taranu, M. (2024). Is Cognitive Flexibility Equivalent to Shifting? Investigating Cognitive Flexibility in Multiple Domains. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 73, pp. 1–21. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky

📣 Submissions for #CogSci2025 are now OPEN! 🌍 This year’s conference is fully hybrid — join us in San Francisco or online! 🔍 Review the submission guidelines ⬇️ Download the required templates 🗓️ Make note of key deadline dates cognitivesciencesociety.org/submissions/

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.