i took on my first ug research student today. said i wasn't going to take any my first year but this guy (1) consistently showed up to office hours (2) read my papers and asked me about them (3) had some interesting ideas and (4) showed such genuine enthusiasm. how could i say no?! 🤩

🚨📊ɴᴇᴡ ᴘᴀᴘᴇʀ!! When we learn a new skill—like tying shoelaces or making pasta—we often start with a series of deliberate steps. But eventually, those steps blend into a smooth, single unit: an action chunk. But why and when do we chunk? 👇 📰https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1lMMD2Hx2-9B8

I decided at age 5 that I wanted to be a teacher, and at 15 that I wanted to become a professor, so it feels surreal that this childhood dream is now a reality 🥹 I wrote a short reflection about how I got here, would love if you gave it a read! 📖: sabbatical.lucylai.com/p/becoming-p...

📢🚨I’m elated to share that I’ll be starting as a tenure-track 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 👩🏻‍🏫 in the Department of Cognitive Science at UC San Diego this July! ☀️ @ucsandiego.bsky.social 1/ #ucsd #newprofessor #womeninSTEM

ok so i know that journals will probably never pay reviewers but can't they at least introduce some incentive structure where you get publication costs waived for every 3 reviews you do or something? maybe not feasible if everyone wants to submit to CNS but you can centralize the incentive system 🤔

great new work by @liushuze.bsky.social looking at how time and memory costs interact in policy compression :)

🚨📢 so excited to be hosting this Global Summit on Open Problems in AI this April in Tokyo! 🇯🇵 we have an exciting line up of speakers from academia and industry. please share broadly! www.algopreneurship.ai #AI #research #entrepreneurship #conference #japan #summit

New WP! The illusory truth effect (repetition -> belief) is core to psych of beliefs, & thought to be a deep bias impacting misinfo, persuasion & advertising Why would cognition include such a flaw? We argue it is a rational adaptation to high-quality info environments 🧵1/

this is the travel grant that changed my life and career!!! i applied as a sophomore in college and it’s what introduced me to the field of computational neuroscience 😍 i highly recommend you share with your undergrads / apply yourself if you are one! happy to answer any questions about it

congrats @bdanubius.bsky.social !!! well deserved 🥹🥳

soooo r ppl here?

This is really cool work!

apply to the FREE Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Summer School where you can hang out with cool people (incl. me!) at the beach 🏖️☀️ while learning computational neuroscience through lectures, tutorials, and independent projects!!! Deadline: Jan 31 groups.oist.jp/ocnc

Very cool article on the neuro of number perception (h/t @earlkmiller.bsky.social ) www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-huma...

Excited to see this work out! Work on automatic shaping of animal behavior (and artificial agents), led by the amazing @gautamreddy.bsky.social #neuroscience #psychscisky 🧪

should I cite chatGPT if it truly helped me start and finish my most recent project in three months? 🤔

looks like the place to be 👀

🧵 1/8 🚨 New #preprint alert! 🚨 This new study by @gershbrain.bsky.social and I is the first to directly test the predictions of our policy compression model, which describes how capacity-limited agents trade reward for simpler policies to reduce cognitive cost psyarxiv.com/rnz72

Apply by Dec 1 to the UCSD Cognitive Science PhD program: cogsci.ucsd.edu/graduates/ph.... We have an incredible community working on language + cognition + development here - if that's up your alley, check us out! I'll also be considering applications to join my new lab opening in Fall 2024 (!!)

I'm an advisor for Applied Math undergrads with an application area in Psychology. It turns out that they are interested in math and psych, but often don't realize that there is any overlap between the two! So I put together a short reading list: gershmanlab.com/docs/Mathema...

@gershbrain.bsky.social nice to find u here in the open skies! everyone has migrated!

Please encourage any psych, cog, and/or neuroscience undergrads wanting an intensive, immersive, supportive, and *paid* summer research experience to apply! WashU’s ENDURE program is world class, and my lab would be delighted to support a mentored research project 🙂 endure.wustl.edu/apply/

The Kempner Institute at Harvard just launched a post-bac program for students interested in the study of intelligence: www.harvard.edu/kempner-inst...

entering a glorious era of my phd where chatGPT writes my code for me

me three!!