María Alejandra Martínez
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Born and raised in 🇨🇴 | developmental cognitive neuroscience phd student at stanford |
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Cientifico Latino, Inc.
14 days ago
Happy to introduce our 25 2025 Alumni Scholarship Recipients!! This year we have launched our 2025 Alumni Scholarship Fund to support 1st year grad students, graduates of our GSMI program, to cover educational expenses in their 1st year of graduate school.
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Cameron Ellis
about 1 month ago
We are recruiting a lab manager/research assistant to start in early 2026! The successful candidate will conduct awake infant fMRI, meet cute babies, and join a fun team! More details (e.g. responsibilities):
soc.stanford.edu/people/#join...
Apply here:
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...
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People – Scaffolding of Cognition Team
https://soc.stanford.edu/people/#join-the-team
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Better Things Are Possible
3 months ago
The Milgram experiment but the guy in the white coat is a chef and he's assuring me that it's ok to add more butter
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Grace Lindsay
4 months ago
The rumors are true!
#CCN2026
will be held at NYU.
@toddgureckis.bsky.social
and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!
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Brynn Sherman
3 months ago
Last month, I launched my lab at Ohio State. Our lab website is now live, and we're recruiting graduate students this cycle! If you're interested in the cognitive (neuro)science of learning & memory, please reach out!
www.momentslab.org
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Moments Lab
https://www.momentslab.org/
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Monica Ellwood-Lowe
3 months ago
I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share:
phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDWcqUYo
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Research Coordinator, Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab in Graduate School of Education, Stanford, California, United States
The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) seeks a full-time Research Coordinator (acting lab manager) to help launch and coordinate the Minds,.....
https://phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDWcqUYo
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Julia Leonard
4 months ago
I’ve been talking with the phenomenal NYTimes reporter
@susandominus.bsky.social
about my research since 2018, and her new book *The Family Dynamic* is finally out!
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Ignacio Saez, PhD
5 months ago
How is prefrontal neural activity refined as we age? Out today in
@nathumbehav.nature.com
! This study, from Elizabeth Johnson, uncovers how subtle changes in neural 'noise' impact our attention, memory, and cognition through development. Proud to have contributed!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Chaz Firestone
5 months ago
these are forks
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Ralph Emilio Peterson
5 months ago
New preprint! tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵 w/ Dima Batenkov,
@zamakany.bsky.social
, Emily Mackevicius
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Computational Urban Ecology of New York City Rats
Urban rats are highly adaptable, thriving in the dynamic and often inhospitable conditions of modern cities. Despite substantial mitigation efforts, they remain an enduring presence in urban environme...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.21.665423v1
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Many Minds podcast
5 months ago
Children are often cast as passive vessels into which we pour culture. But children create cultures of their own—vibrant ones with special properties. Just one of the topics discussed in our recent episode with
@dorsaamir.bsky.social
&
@sheinalew.bsky.social
! Listen:
disi.org/varieties-of...
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Marcelo Mattar
6 months ago
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...
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Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks - Nature
Modelling biological decision-making with tiny recurrent neural networks enables more accurate predictions of animal choices than classical cognitive models and offers insights into the underlying cog...
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09142-4
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Tomer Ullman
6 months ago
🎈 Out now: 🎈 "The capacity limits of moving objects in the imagination" (by Balaban & me) of interest to people thinking about the imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, capacity limits, and more
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Vlad Ayzenberg
6 months ago
My paper with
@stellalourenco.bsky.social
is now out in Science Advances! We found that children have robust object recognition abilities that surpass many ANNs. Models only outperformed kids when their training far exceeded what a child could experience in their lifetime
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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Fast and robust visual object recognition in young children
The visual recognition abilities of preschool children rival those of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models.
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads6821
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Brynn Sherman
6 months ago
Incredibly excited and grateful to share that I’ll be starting a lab at The Ohio State University this(!) fall! My lab will study human learning and memory, with related interests in sleep, stress, and time perception. More info soon, but do get in touch if you’re interested in joining!
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD
6 months ago
How to cultivate collective intellectual humility Being smart is knowing what you don’t know. From work meetings to book clubs, use these tips to boost your group’s thinking
psyche.co/guides/how-t...
via Liz Krumrei-Mancuso &
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Sofie Valk
7 months ago
What about the social cerebellum during development we wondered? Here you find some cool insights on this awesome part of the brain! BIG thanks for the great work Katerina Manoli, and support from Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann and Frank van Overwalle 🧠🦋
rdcu.be/epKmZ
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Functional recruitment and connectivity of the cerebellum is associated with the emergence of Theory of Mind in early childhood
Nature Communications - The cerebellum is heavily implicated in adult social cognition, but its role in Theory of Mind development remains unclear. Here, the authors show that children’s...
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Felipe De Brigard
7 months ago
The first of many papers from the Memory and Forgiveness project is now out at the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Led by the indefatigable Gabriela Fernández Miranda, and with Matt Stanley, Sam Murray, and Leonard Faul, we systematically explored differences (1/n)
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Science Magazine
7 months ago
The clearest ever images of the Sun’s corona reveal “raindrops” of dancing plasma. Learn more:
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Jamie Reilly 🦜
10 months ago
It’s out! Our article in Nature Human Behavior led by Yin Wang on the conceptual structure of human relationships across cultures and time. This work is breathtaking
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The conceptual structure of human relationships across modern and historical cultures - Nature Human Behaviour
Cheng et al. explore the universality and cultural variability in how people understand human relationships, revealing a five-dimensional framework for relationship concepts across both modern and anc...
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Science Magazine
7 months ago
Researchers in
#ScienceAdvances
have uncovered a previously unknown genetic branch of ancient hunter-gatherers local to the Colombian land bridge. Learn more:
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A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia
The hunter-gatherer gene pool of the Bogotá Altiplano was replaced by Central American ancestry at least 2000 years ago.
https://scim.ag/4mEsGNL
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Collabra: Psychology
7 months ago
New in Developmental Psychology, from Naoya Tani,
@ingridsbrain.bsky.social
, and
@noranewcombe.bsky.social
: The Limits of Agency: Young Children’s Memory May Not Benefit From Choice
doi.org/10.1525/coll...
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The Limits of Agency: Young Children’s Memory May Not Benefit From Choice
It is commonly claimed that curiosity, agency, and choice enhance learning and memory in children. However, the few studies that have investigated this in young children reveal mixed effects on memory...
https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.137316
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Susan Benear
7 months ago
Check out my interview in the CNS newsletter about my graduate research on free recall in children 😊
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Stefano Palminteri
7 months ago
New in Nature MentalHealth! with Vrizzi, Najar, Lemogne, and
@mael-lebreton.bsky.social
We tested whether behavioural and RL-based model parameters are test-retest reliable and predict mental health traits. The result? Not really. A cautionary tale for comp. psychiatry
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
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Behavioral, computational and self-reported measures of reward and punishment sensitivity as predictors of mental health characteristics - Nature Mental Health
Reinforcement learning task-based behavioral and computational measures displayed low test–retest reliability at the individual level. Also in contrast to self-assessed personality measures, behaviora...
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-025-00427-1
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Lillian Behm
7 months ago
So excited to share my *first* first-author paper, out now in
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
!! In this review, we argue that even if you don’t remember being a baby, evidence that infants form episodic-like memories is actually all around us:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1l82g4sIRv...
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Ruth Zakarin
7 months ago
In one 24 hour period of time, I learned that a brain dead woman is being kept alive to incubate a fetus and there may a reality show for immigrants to compete for a path to citizenship. It’s hard to overstate how much trauma this country is inflicting on people.
#MomSky
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Russ Poldrack
7 months ago
I've decided to start my own Substack, called Neural Strategies:
russpoldrack.substack.com/p/introducin...
- I will soon start releasing content from a new open-source book I'm developing, tentatively titled "Better Code, Better Science". Subscribe to receive each new section as soon as I post it!
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Introducing the Neural Strategies Substack
Allow me to (re)introduce myself
https://russpoldrack.substack.com/p/introducing-the-neural-strategies
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Quanta Magazine
8 months ago
Why are coffee stains darker at the edges? And why do they look like the salt stains from your winter boot tracks? Where others see banality, the physicist Sidney Nagel finds thrilling mystery.
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Finding Beauty and Truth in Mundane Occurrences | Quanta Magazine
The physicist Sidney Nagel delights in solving mysteries of the universe that are hiding in plain sight.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/finding-beauty-and-truth-in-mundane-occurrences-20250509/
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Hakeem Jefferson
8 months ago
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
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What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
https://stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/what-dei-threatens-isnt-merit-its-monopoly/
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M.J. Crockett
8 months ago
Today I gave my first-ever political speech at a walk-out organized by
@aaup.bsky.social
(I spoke after the magnificent
@ruha9.bsky.social
, which, it can only get easier from here 😂) Here is what I said 🧵
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Nature Portfolio
9 months ago
First-generation students have unique needs, which can be amplified when they enter graduate programmes. A Comment article in Nature Reviews Psychology argues that faculty members need to be aware of the needs of this population and how to support them.
https://go.nature.com/3FkQDs1
#Academicsky
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Mike Feigin 🥯
9 months ago
This will never stop blowing my mind.
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Jess Calarco
9 months ago
In case you need a break from the awfulness, here's an embroidered jellyfish I finished last night--my latest project to avoid doomscrolling before bed.
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Kaia Mattioli
10 months ago
born too late to get a two Western blot Nature paper, born too early to be a science TikTokker, born just in time to start a postdoc during a global pandemic and look for faculty positions during a historic hiring freeze
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Science Magazine
10 months ago
"The academic structure … makes planning for a family feel like an impossible luxury." In this
#ScienceWorkingLife
, two postdocs share how, as women in academia, having children can feel impossible—and how talking about it makes them feel less alone.
scim.ag/3F60VMt
#InternationalWomensDay
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As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone
The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write
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Neuromatch
10 months ago
🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨 Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses! Applications are due Sunday, March 23. Apply & learn more:
neuromatch.io/courses/
#mlsky
#compneurosky
#ai
#climatesolutions
#ScienceEdu
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Stand Up for Science!
10 months ago
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone
#standupforscience2025
on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall
#sciencenotsilence
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Ashley Thomas
11 months ago
I am hiring a lab manager to start ~ July 1st.
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Job Search Welcome | Harvard University
Visit Harvard Careers to explore job opportunities, create a profile, and apply for open positions.
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Katie Hinde
10 months ago
I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:
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