My lab at Boston University has open positions for a postdoc and PhD students. We study visual perception, attention, and decision making with a focus on temporal dynamics. Check out our recent work here sites.bu.edu/denisonlab/ and email me if you're interested in learning more

Excited about Alice's new paper, in which we find evidence that children as young as 8 years old use successor representations for multi-step planning. short 🧵 (1/4)

Excited to share that I'm joining WashU in January as an Assistant Prof in Psych & Brain Sciences! 🧠✨! I'm also recruiting grad students to start next September - come hang out with us! Details about our lab here: www.deckerlab.com Reposts are very welcome! 🙌 Please help spread the word!

The MAC lab at Drexel is looking for a new post-doc to work on NIH-funded projects investigating the intersection of prior knowledge and long-term memory consolidation. Please pass along to any interested lab members! careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Huge congrats to Dr. Lucinda Sisk on receiving the Flux Dissertation Award! 🎉 @fluxsociety.bsky.social #Flux2025

My lab at UCLA is hiring 1-2 PhD students this cycle! Join us to work at the intersection of cognitive science and AI applied to pressing societal challenges like climate change. More info about me: rachit-dubey.github.io My lab: ucla-cocopol.github.io Please help repost/spread the word!

I'll be reviewing computational/cognitive and clinical psychology applications this year for the Translational Lab at Emory 💭🔬 Please share broadly and send applicants my way! 🔄 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Very happy to see this work with Euan Prentis posted! If you’re going to CCN next week, go check out Euan’s poster on this work!

Thrilled to share our new @NatureComms paper: "Exploration is associated with socioeconomic disparities in learning and academic achievement in adolescence." www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵1/7

🌵🏜️🌵 New preprint! How do people learn from ambiguous feedback, like whether someone is laughing *with* you 😆 or *at* you 😏? A very fun collab w/ the brilliant @rbhui.bsky.social A brief thread...👇 📖 osf.io/preprints/ps...

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Just 4 weeks until the abstract deadline for Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration - ciseconf.github.io/CISE_2025/ 🗓️ 30th Sept-1st Oct 📍 Brown University 👥 Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb 👇 Speakers Please submit & share!

I'm thrilled to announce that I will start as an Assistant Professor in Psychology & Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona in Jan 2026! My lab will investigate human planning and decision making through a combination of computational models, behavior, and fMRI (1/2)

New from our lab: your brain doesn’t just remember time - it bends it. We show that the dopamine system responds to natural breakpoints in experience, and this relates to more stretched memories of time. Blinking also increases, signaling encoding of new memories. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Thrilled to share new research on teaching! Work supervised by @cocoscilab.bsky.social, @yaelniv.bsky.social, and @markkho.bsky.social. This project asks: When do people teach by mentalizing vs with heuristics? 1/3 osf.io/preprints/os...

New paper with @catehartley.bsky.social How does the reward structure of the environment influence the specificity with which children, adolescents, and adults learn and remember information? See preprint 🧵 and paper for our efforts to answer to this! #PsychSciSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Why do we remember so many details of our experiences even when it is unclear if we will actually ever need them? In a new preprint, @marcelomattar.bsky.social and I asked whether this property is adaptive, because what will be relevant in the future often (usually?!) isn’t apparent.

Excited to share this brief review where @katieinsel.bsky.social & I discuss studying adolescence to understand how brains work! We highlight avenues for future collaborative work at the intersection of cognitive, computational, & developmental neuroscience 🧠 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New preprint 📝 - another fun collaboration with @arikahn.bsky.social, @licezhang.bsky.social, @nathanieldaw.bsky.social, @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social We ask: Why do children and adults often derive different representations of their environments from the same experiences? 🧠👶🔎 osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨New pre-print out from our lab!!🚨 "Developmental differences in exploration reveal underlying differences in structure inference" by @noraharhen.bsky.social, Rheza Budiono, @catehartley.bsky.social, and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social. Read here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

So excited to announce Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration conference: 30th Sept-1st Oct @Brown University. Amazing speakers sites.google.com/view/informa... and free! Abstract submissions open until 7th July w/ Romy Frömer, Ohad Dan, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Matt Nassar. Please share!

Out today in Nature Machine Intelligence! From childhood on, people can create novel, playful, and creative goals. Models have yet to capture this ability. We propose a new way to represent goals and report a model that can generate human-like goals in a playful setting... 1/N

How do languages become learnable for young children? Our new paper in Current Biology shows how “Immature vocalizations elicit simplified adult speech across multiple languages.” 🧵 of our findings below: www.cell.com/current-biol... 1/9

hello world. we have an opening for a strong theory postdoc to work in my lab on a exciting collaboration with Josh Berke and Loren Frank labs modeling and analyzing data on rat hipp-pfc-bg-da involvement in spatial maze foraging, replay, value etc. apply here: www.princeton.edu/acad-positio...

New preprint - "Children leverage predictive representations for flexible, value-guided choice." A fun collaboration with @arikahn.bsky.social @nathanieldaw.bsky.social @catehartley.bsky.social, led by @licezhang.bsky.social 🧠🧒💻

In a dynamic reinforcement learning task, human players adaptively employ a mix of decision strategies, including model-based learning but also the successor representation. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Excited to share this perspective with @yaelniv.bsky.social about how schemas might be learned and instantiated via reinforcement learning, latent cause inference, and dimensionality reduction, and what's the medial prefrontal cortex might be doing for all of these www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My paper on hierarchical plans is out in Cognition!🎉 tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2x...

I'm hiring a full-time lab manager / research tech for my new psychology lab at Boston University, to start this summer (July 2025)! The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration. More details here: cldlab.org/join/ 🧠💻 #psychscisky

For decades, developmental psychologists have noticed that optimism declines with age. Why does this presumably good thing decrease across development? In this Nature Reviews Psych article, @jessicas.bsky.social and I draw from prior hypotheses to offer an integrated account.

Our lab is recruiting a PhD student this cycle! Apps for Emory are due in exactly 2 weeks & many of my awesome colleagues are also recruiting including @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social @vanessabrown.bsky.social @jaredmedina.bsky.social & more! More info: psychology.emory.edu/home/graduat...

I’ll be considering applications for a PhD student to start in Fall 2025! I’ve been having a blast starting up the Exploration, Learning, and Mind Lab at the University of New Hampshire this fall, and I’m excited to grow our lab community. App review begins 1/15. Learn more: liquinlab.github.io

thinking about the o.g. 'starter pack'... bluesky might be more fun if packs were truly a package deal, and you had to suffer through a few weedles to get your holographic charizard.

Lots of people seem to have flocked here, so it's probably a good time to post that I'll be recruiting Ph.D. students to join my new lab in BU's psychology department this cycle! more info about the lab and how to apply to BU here: cldlab.org/join

What semantic relationships have you been using to test how prior knowledge influences new memories? Turns out it matters! Thematic associations are more likely to boost memory but also generate false memories (relative to taxonomic ones). osf.io/preprints/ps...

My department has TWO open tenure track assistant professor positions in human cognitive neuroscience! #psychscisky #cognitivepsych #devscisky #devpsych #neurosky academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28478

I'm hiring a lab coordinator for my new lab at UCSD CogSci. This is a great position if you're interested in gaining research experience before applying to graduate school. Apply by May 2, flexible start late summer start date (~Sep 1). Details below! employment.ucsd.edu/laboratory-c...

I’m excited to share a new, long-in-the-making, theoretical perspective piece, written with Cate Hartley in @natrevpsych.bsky.social. Here, we explore how models of meta-learning may inform our understanding of the developmental process. rdcu.be/dE8nQ 🧵

I am delighted that I’ll be joining Boston University’s dept. of psychological and brain sciences as an assistant professor in July 2025! I’ll be recruiting Ph.D. students and hiring a lab manager to start alongside me — see here for more info: katenuss.com/lab 🧠👩‍🔬💻

📢🗣️The Hartley Lab at NYU (www.hartleylab.org ) is hiring a full-time lab manager to start this summer!!🧑‍💻 If you're looking for research experience before grad school & are interested in cognitive development and/or reinforcement learning, get more details & apply here: apply.interfolio.com/142391

Our fearless inaugural lab manager @bellafascendini.bsky.social is going to grad school (🥳🎉), so the CoLab is hiring a lab manager!! Please share with anyone who wants to deepen their experience in cog sci before grad school. Review starts on 3/15! research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/18575/r...

Human behavior is hierarchically structured. But what determines *which* hierarchies people use? In a preprint, we run an experiment where people create programs that correspond to hierarchies, finding that people prefer structures with more reuse. arxiv.org/abs/2311.18644 1/7

Come join us! Wei Ji Ma and I are recruiting a postdoc to study human planning in chess using a massive dataset of online chess matches. The postdoc will join both of our labs, as well as an NSF-funded collaboration with Tom Griffith's lab at Princeton. Apply at: apply.interfolio.com/139253

Our hot take on mechanisms of information seeking is published! It’s an awesome synthesis of multiple literatures by Xinxu Shen with @chelseahelion.bsky.social and @dvsmith.bsky.social. Empirical papers coming soon! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37944120/

New preprint! Here, we examine how the specificity of learning computations adapts to the reward structure of the environment and influences memory across development.   osf.io/preprints/ps... Read on for more details. 🧵⬇️

Hi Bluesky! My lab is recruiting a grad student and a postdoc (for the postdoc we’re amassing some neat fMRI data that needs an analyst 👀). Visit our website for more info on our openings and to learn more about the LUMeNaries: scholarblogs.emory.edu/lumenlab/get...

Really excited to share our new paper where we use a reinforcement learning model to demonstrate that rational adaptation to an unpredictable early life environment can produce key characteristics of anhedonia (1/10) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hi Bluesky! I’m recruiting PhD students to help launch the Exploration, Learning, and Mind Lab at U of New Hampshire Psych in Fall 2024! Check out our lab website at liquinlab.github.io for more info, and feel free to get in touch if you’re interested in applying! #CogSci #DevPsych #PsychSciSky