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No question, this is the most original paper I have ever written It says that something that seems plain and obvious - humans have an intuitive sense of what is and is not grammatical - and describes how this apparent common sense is actually misleading Thread coming soon!

Happy World Linguistics Day from Budapest, capital of a peculiar linguistic phenomenon--the Hungarian language!

Thrilled to teach again this year, on the evolution of social cognition, at the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences! Apply before December 15th 👇 Brochure: lnkd.in/e_R7cQTP Application: lnkd.in/eey-fEJ

Brazil, Australia and Italy have the highest satisfaction scores in Nature’s global 2025 PhD survey. A Nature Careers article examines what makes earning a doctorate in these countries different. #Academicsky 🧪

This week, Language and Communication (and the Lindy Hop) with @thomscottphillips.bsky.social! youtu.be/Gex5b6Nbq7I?... www.podbean.com/ew/pb-dur6p-... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Who owns new creations? with @jfkominsky.bsky.social & @heintz-c.bsky.social is out in #cogsci2025 proceedings! escholarship.org/content/qt4m...

Happy to see my paper on mind-reading & ownership with @heintz-c.bsky.social out in Cognitive Science! 🧵

Is mind-reading involved in ownership judgments? By @rekablazsek.bsky.social & @heintz-c.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Brilliant keynote by @laurennross.bsky.social at #cogsci2025 on cognitive science and its philosophy. Lauren pointed out the myriad ways in which cogsci and philosophy support and benefit one another, using explanation and causal reasoning as case studies. Thank you for a great talk!! 🙏

How do social inequalities shape epidemic outcomes? Our PhD alum Adriana Manna shares insights from her award-winning dissertation on contact patterns, vaccination gaps & a novel modeling framework. 📖 Interview: bit.ly/44uT6KF #NetworkScience #EpidemicModeling

New episode (1120), my second interview with Dr. Pascal Boyer. We talk about ritualized behavior, ownership #Psychology, and victim-devaluation. #Anthropology #Science YouTube: youtu.be/ZcvVxnyFQoo Podcast: bit.ly/46v51JL

Ethics of AI researchers violate fundamental ethics norms in academia. Incredible story. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

my revised article arriving at manuscript central

What navigating the academic job market seems like youtube.com/shorts/S2aQ2...

With @sheinalew.bsky.social: Teaching is associated with the transmission of opaque culture and leadership across 23 egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies, in @naturecomms.bsky.social #evolution #culture 🧪 #LeadSciSky #CultEvo www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Game theory is endlessly fascinating, and @lionelpage.bsky.social can bring its insights to life like none other. His latest (very timely!) post explains why having more power is not necessarily a good thing—The paradox of power: https://buff.ly/4hXE0kB

📣 Deadline to apply this great summer school is in a week (14 Feb)! 🧠 ⚖️ The Human Mind and the Open Society: Political Intuitions July 7–11, 2025, @weareceu.bsky.social Budapest campus

Back to curating playlists after a short break. I picked songs for Yael van der Wouden’s terrific debut novel, The Safekeep: open.substack.com/pub/headphon...

Research by @moralsmyers.bsky.social and @jimaceverett.bsky.social finds people… •trust AI moral advisors less than human moral advisors, even for the same advice •particularly distrust utilitarian advisors •expect artificial moral advisors to make more utilitarian decisions https://buff.ly/41zlt9i

📣 Call for PhD applications! The Dept of Cognitive Science at CEU has 4-year funding available for multiple incoming students. 📣 Application deadline: 4 Feb 2025 📣 Join us for a Virtual Open House on Monday to learn more! cognitivescience.ceu.edu/article/2024... @weareceu.bsky.social

Highly recommend this new essay by @lionelpage.bsky.social! I like the framing that psychology is an exercise in reverse engineering. www.optimallyirrational.com/p/why-we-sho...

Have this playlist on repeat and shuffle throughout the festive season 🌟🥂 headphoneson.substack.com/p/a-happy-oc...

Very important article by @engber.bsky.social. Many things to be disappointed about sadly: Eg "Her RAs on the project may have caused the problem; Schroeder wonders if they got confused". Disgraceful to try to shift blame on underpaid RAs. It's the PIs responsibility to train & supervise them!!!

But their audit appears to have done just the opposite. (3/3) My story for The Atlantic on this unspooling crisis: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

I had the great pleasure to be on The Dissenter podcast! We talked about some of my research on ownership, cognition and society, and the mental health issues many PhD students deal with. Check it out here👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QJt...

Getting back to my Substack! "How jazz embodies the state" Drums, bass & piano as the tripartite division of power open.substack.com/pub/thomscot...

Cooperation Colloquium this week: Léo Fitouchi @lfitouchi.bsky.social Just desert: Compensatory computations explain moralistic punishment October 4, 15:00 UTC+2 / 9 am ET Sign-up here: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Taylorism is a management philosophy based on using scientific optimization to maximize labor productivity and economic efficiency. Here's the result of making the false Taylorist assumption that the output of scientific research is scientific papers—the more, faster, and cheaper, the better.

A bit over 7 years ago, lexCEU was passed, making it difficult for CEU to legally operate in Hungary. CEU relocated to Vienna in late 2019. What remains today of CEU in Budapest is a mostly empty campus building.

Highly recommend this tribute post by @lionelpage.bsky.social 🙏 Reading Kahneman & Tversky as an econ undergrad shaped my thinking a lot. At the time behavioural econ was on the fringes. I probably wouldn't be where I am today had I not been exposed to their work.

I've started a Substack for music curation! I've long felt that music writing often gets overly focused on the technical details and less so on listener experience. With weekly curated playlists I will target precisely that. headphoneson.substack.com

"What the argumentative theory of reason has taught me is that the best explanation of other people’s stupidity is just that they’re sincerely wrong and they’re offering up the best they have. Which is good to know because it’s doesn’t make me angry. Now I can just ignore them."

Really happy to announce: We are launching a two-week 2024 Summer School, 'The Human Mind & The Open Society' Our focus is how our understanding and advocacy of open society can be better informed by understanding the deeply social nature of the human mind summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses/2024...

Is anyone here going to Utrecht this week for CBEN? 👀

How does one live in a world with such unspeakable evil brought so close by the misfortune of proximity or the vast reach of information technology? I don't know; I can only suggest: + be gentle with yourself and don't expect to be OK + limit your media consumption + reach out to those around you

Trying my luck here too: I'm looking for cross-cultural linguistic, or other type of evidence that signals the high value of the last piece of food. 🧆🍰 E.g. das Anstandsstück, la de la vergüenza, zadnje parče hleba, trivselbit, Ele se acha a última bolacha do pacote. Anything else??