See the speakers for 2025-26 #KempnerInstitute Seminar Series! bit.ly/46xphKq @moiradillon.bsky.social @lisik.bsky.social @profsanjeevarora.bsky.social @kyunghyuncho.bsky.social @scychan.bsky.social @stellaathena.bsky.social @judithfan.bsky.social @engeltatiana.bsky.social @zdeborova.bsky.social

Excited to share our (Flo Martinez Addiego @yuqiliu1179.bsky.social @culhamari-lab.bsky.social) paper, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (or an easier read on medicine.georgetown.edu/news-release... )

What fun to hang out in Amsterdam with former lab members, dear friends, and scientific rock stars @evfedorenko.bsky.social‬ @lisik.bsky.social‬ @apurvaratan.bsky.social‬ @carolinerobertson.bsky.social‬

Excited to be in Amsterdam for #CCN2025! If you're here, check out the presentations from our lab 👇@qinwenshuo.bsky.social @ziruichen.bsky.social @manasimalik.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social

If you're heading to @cogscisociety.bsky.social, come to our symposium “Perception as a Foundation for Common‑Sense Theories of the World” 📅 August 1 • 9 AM 📍 Salon 2 With @thiskevinsmith.bsky.social @shariliu.bsky.social @judithfan.bsky.social @ardeeb.bsky.social — See you there! #CogSci2025

If you're heading to @cogscisociety.bsky.social check out the presentations from our lab And congratulations again to @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social on her Glushko dissertation prize 🥳

New paper! Here (in Nature Communications) we (Ale Geraci, Luca Surian, Lucia Gabriella Tina, & I; work led/run by Ale) show that 5-day-old newborns selectively attend to two distinct forms of prosocial over antisocial action: approaching versus avoiding and helping versus hindering. rdcu.be/evorW

New paper from Laura Lewis and Jan Engelmann et al. (including me) with a clever new method. Chimps and kids will forgo reward to get a chance to look at social interactions royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

This framing is all wrong Our international students are not a “crucial funding source” They are our STUDENTS They are the reason we EXIST We teach STUDENTS

I’m happy to be at #VSS2025 and share what our lab has been up to this year! I’m also honored to receive this year’s young investigator award and will give a short talk at the awards ceremony Monday

SO excited about this new paper by @talboger.bsky.social! How does your mind separate the *content* of an image from the *manner* in which it is depicted? And how can we study this using tools from perception research? Find out in Tal's new @nathumbehav.nature.com paper 👇

Humans are sensitive to many different types of social interactions, but it has been difficult to isolate these differences in the human brain In this new preprint @yuanfangzhao.bsky.social w/ @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social applied data-driven methods to two fMRI video datasets to address this 1/n

Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑‍🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.

We just announced the PIVOT and BRIDGE award funds, as well as enhanced university services to help researchers at Hopkins in these difficult times. On and forward! Read about these here: research.jhu.edu/jhu-research...

Anytime you want an AI system to interact with humans, you want to be able to know what those humans are doing and what groups of humans are doing with each other,” says @lisik.bsky.social. “This really highlights how a lot of these models fall short on those tasks.” www.popsci.com/technology/a...

📢 Excited to announce our paper at #ICLR2025: “Modeling dynamic social vision highlights gaps between deep learning and humans”! w/ @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social, Colin Conwell, Mick Bonner, @lisik.bsky.social ‬ ‪📆 Thur, Apr, 24: 3:00-5:30 - Poster session 2 (#64) ‬ ‪📄 bit.ly/4jISKES%E2%8... [1/6]

I am excited to share our recent preprint and the last paper of my PhD! Here, @imelizabeth.bsky.social, @lisik.bsky.social, Mick Bonner, and I investigate the spatiotemporal hierarchy of social interactions in the lateral visual stream using EEG-fMRI. osf.io/preprints/ps... #CogSci #EEG

Congratulations to @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social and all the Glushko Prize winners on this amazing and well-deserved honor!

It is truly an honor to be recognized as a Glushko prize winner among all these incredible scientists. Thank you to the prize committee and to my PhD advisors @lisik.bsky.social and Mick Bonner.

Universities "may have to choose between losing their federal grants and losing their souls, and the choice, painful as it may be, is clear." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o...

"Homegrown criminals", ie US citizens. That's you, if you ever utter any verboten words or ideas.

Register for the Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute Spring 2025 Symposium: Human Alignment of AI, featuring speakers including Dr. Ivor Braden Horn, who serves on the boards of Boston Children's Hospital, Care Academy, and Acclinate. Details: ai.jhu.edu/event/spring...

Join #HopkinsDSAI for the Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute Spring 2025 Symposium: Human Alignment of AI, featuring speakers including Dr. Thomas Icard, Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy at @stanforduniversity.bsky.social. Details: ai.jhu.edu/event/spring...

Please join #HopkinsDSAI on April 22 for the Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute Spring 2025 Symposium: Human Alignment of AI, featuring speakers including Dr. Tom Griffiths from Princeton University.

If you are a faculty member at a US university, please consider signing this excellent petition asking our presidents, chancellors, etc to work together to defend our institutions from the direct attacks by Trump administration: sites.google.com/view/we-must...

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

I’m hiring a full-time lab tech for two years starting May/June. Strong coding skills required, ML a plus. Our research on the human brain uses fMRI, ANNs, intracranial recording, and behavior. A great stepping stone to grad school. Apply here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl... ......

New preprint “Monkey See, Model Knew: LLMs accurately predict visual responses in humans AND NHPs” Led by Colin Conwell with @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social Akshay Jagadeesh, Kasper Vinken @amrahs-inolas.bsky.social @jacob-prince.bsky.social George Alvarez @taliakonkle.bsky.social & Marge Livingstone 1/n

“Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable…IT’S NOT WORKING... We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots. If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🧪🧠🧬🔬🥼👩🏼‍🔬🧑‍🔬

This is amazing 😍😍 @500womensci.bsky.social has made cards for each state on funding for NSF and NIH avail for download bit.ly/NSF_bystate & bit.ly/NIH_bystate if they are helpful for folks

The block to capping IDC remains in place for now www.statnews.com/2025/02/21/t... Though this is all becomes moot soon if no grants can be reviewed...

Very important to get this word out!

Hello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall. It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested. More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post... Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723

If you live in AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC, your reps are on the Senate HELP Committee which has jurisdiction over NIH. Write to them pointing out the jobs and money coming to your state from NIH: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-... describe impact of NIH cuts on....

Join us for the CAJAL NeuroAI summer course in Lisbon July 14-Aug 1. We have a great line-up of speakers from a diverse range of topics across NeuroAI. Check out our website for more details and help us spread the word: cajal-training.org/on-site/neur... Applications are due March 7!

I have recently launched the relational cognition lab at UC Irvine: relcoglab.org! We study learning and memory in mind, brains and machines. I am open to collaborations and hiring a lab technician (lab manager/junior specialist). Job ad & application here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09400.

The #CCN2025 conference 2025.ccneuro.org is looking for area and senior area chairs for the new 8-page track. You can sign up for area chair and form this list we will also invite senior area chairs. We might also nominate you ourselves :-) forms.gle/MTBgZZxQaDY8...

Out today: we discovered a new class of social hallucination - perception of chasing with high confidence. It is elevated in people who are paranoid and people who perceive meaning in the universe www.nature.com/articles/s44...

For #CCN2025 in Amsterdam, we will, for the first time, have conference proceedings that include both full length peer-reviewed papers and the traditional 2-page track! Deadlines for submissions: 17th February for full papers ( abstract only; full paper on 20th FEB) & 10th April for 2 pagers.

At #NeurIPS2024? Check out Hannah Small's @hsmall.bsky.social and Colin Conwell's presentations at the UniReps workshop Saturday @unireps.bsky.social

Dev cog neuro folks! FITNG 2024 (@fitngin.bsky.social) is Sep. 25 & 26 in Baltimore, and submissions are due May 15th! We've got a great list of invited speakers, including Lauren Emberson, Kathryn Humphreys, & Mark Blumberg. Send us your work & come to the conference! It's gonna be a blast :)

Join us in Boston! Submission deadline for Papers: April 12 GACs/K&Ts/Community events: April 5

🚨Submissions for #CCN2024 are now open at ccneuro.org 🚨 We welcome submissions for 2-page papers (deadline: 12 April) and Generative Adversarial Collaborations (GACs), Keynote+Tutorials, and (new this year!) Community Events (deadline: 5 April). Stay tuned: registration will open in early April!

Brain and mind researchers of all types: I hope you'll join this conversation at Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (August 6-9, Boston). I'm envisioning a community-centered conversation unlike any I've seen before; because it's unusual, I unpack it here: www.nicolerust.com/grandplan

Very happy to share this new paper in Neuropsychologia led by @hleemasson.bsky.social with Janice Chen: A shared neural code for perceiving and remembering social interactions in the human STS It is part of an exciting special issue on Cognitive Neuroscience Using Naturalistic Paradigms!

Hey all, I've been here for a while but am finally trying to make the transition from that other place. My lab has some exciting results coming up, first announcement is going out today. Please follow & RT to help me get established here!

New preprint alert! This work examined socioeconomic biases in dCNNs pretrained to perform scene classification. We first used the DollarStreet dataset, an international set of user-submitted photos of home life. We found that dCNN performance scaled linearly with income and HDI index. 1/n

Stanford started a pre-doc program and several faculty in psych (incl. myself) are recruiting: iriss.stanford.edu/predoc Great opportunity to get more research experience before starting a PhD! App deadline is Feb 29. Info about my lab's research: cicl.stanford.edu Please share 🙏