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The cost of AI Over-Gloss todd.gureckislab.org/2026/01/08/a...

teach students `git` early todd.gureckislab.org/2025/12/19/g...

some of the most vocal advocates for high quality advising will upload the wrong person's letter for phd admissions.

Several people have mentioned online that they get terrible responses from online services such as Prolific, e.g., bots, LLM responses. I'm curious if anyone who has experienced that in a memorable way would mind sharing the details of their project (code, etc.).

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is anyone using marimo? it has some selling points over jupyter, esp. for better ai integration marimo.io

we may not have agi yet, but claude code and i coded a dashboard so i can understand the geographic and demographic recruitment patterns in our Smile experiments and i'm excited how it turned out! 🤖+😎=✨ (a public version of this likely in a future Smile release, internal for now)

If you start someone on an online experiment and the subject reloads the page or browser quits -- what happens? Usually we are resigned that they just start over 😢 With the magic of Smile you can determine trials at run time and it picks up where it left off! smile.gureckislab.org/coding/steps...

"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition". Intuitive cell types are found in random artificial networks using the same selection criteria neuroscientists use with actual data. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 1/2

1963 JExp. PSych -- if you can't see a significant between-subject effect with 28 subjects then might as well just accept your nulls. 🫠 (Worth nothing the effect they are referring to is a manipulation applied to only the first 5 out of ~140 total learning trials.)

CDS is hiring Faculty Fellows for 2026! This two-year role offers time and support to pursue independent research with a minimal teaching load. Learn more and apply by Nov 24: nyudatascience.medium.com/cds-is-hirin...

I'm recruiting a grad student! My lab at NYU (psych dept) studies the computational basis of moral cognition and aims to build AI systems that are aligned with human values. Now admitting a PhD student for Fall 2026. Apps due 12/1. sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...

super awesome, including the presentation of the project!

Are you looking to do independent research related to machine learning and/or data science? Want to get some teaching experience too? Apply to be a faculty fellow at the Center for Data Science at New York University! Positions are for two years. apply.interfolio.com/174686

exciting collaboration on what people people forget when recalling stories! cool results and a great example of how big data + ai can help address difficult to study psychological questions in more naturalistic ways.

I'm recruiting grad students!! 🎓 The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠 Applications through Psych (tinyurl.com/nyucp) are due Dec 1. Reach out with Qs & please repost! 🙏

one of the reason older academics become less productive is that they eventually have worked with so many people, it takes up all their time just updating their website about what all the former lab people are currently doing.

anyone have a good technique for tracking project progress (app? whiteboard? a piece of paper?). i know someone that list all lab projects on a white board and have magnets that track through status like “coding” “in review” “in revision” etc…i’m wondering if someone dialed in a process for that

* my lab's new interest intake form was inspired by @brendenlake.bsky.social's process (lake-lab.github.io/apply/) which has served him well, and i welcome people to copy these questions --- it'd be fine if applicants adopt broadly similar text across labs! intake.gureckislab.org/interest/

🚨 New preprint: "Decision rule inference limits social escape from learning traps" (with Rheza Budiono and Cate Hartley of the @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social ✨). Read here: osf.io/preprints/ps.... This is more work on a very curious phenomena!

Interested in research in my lab? intake.gureckislab.org/interest/

weird - i studied categorization, concepts, analogy, similarity, & reasoning while being told it was a "dead area," people called my advisors "dinosaurs." in 2025 i'm listening to podcasts where like the gov. and tech giants are talking about how analogy is basically the key to the global economy. 🤷

... and belated congratulations to @guydav.bsky.social on an awesome dissertation!! Tour de force.

me too!

just in time for teaching, release 0.4.0 of slidev-theme-neversink, adds custom classes to stickynote and admonitions, a few bug fixes, updated to work with latest slidev 52.1.0 github.com/gureckis/sli...

ATTN🚨: I will be looking for PhD students through NYU's Center for Data Science PhD program this year. Applicants should have an interest in either NeuroAI (specifically biological attention or AI interpretability) or ML for Remote Sensing. Visit my lab website for more info: lindsay-lab.github.io

Final reminder: Capstone proposal deadline is this Sunday, August 17! Partner with our master's students to solve real-world data challenges. Submit your proposal: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More info: cds.nyu.edu/masters-in-d...

we're hosting a science party in nyc next summer 👇

fun write up about our recent work on the limits of mental simulation: news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... (original paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

tryin' to be in the band, not the band manager. todd.gureckislab.org/2024/09/25/l...

Job announcement 📢 @shawnrhoadsphd.bsky.social and I are looking for a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction! Interested? If you’ll be at #rlc2025 (or I missed you at #cogsci2025) feel free to reach out with any questions! apply.interfolio.com/165809

New on YouTube: (Informally) Introducing Smile v0.1.0. Video walkthrough which might be helpful for people who are smile-curious. youtu.be/m0nDalDrLMI?...

The mental simulation adversarial collaboration continues... #cogsci2025

Congrats to Doug Medin on becoming the next Rumelhart prize winner! 🏆 My “academic grandpa” through multiple pathways! #cogsci2025

packed, but 25% were creepy non-human plaster dolls

This was such a fun collaboration! I am thrilled to see this out today!! Amazing work by Cody Dong comparing memory-augmented LLMs to human episodic memory.

sad to hear about passing of margaret boden: www.theargus.co.uk/memorials/de... real cogsci pioneer and amazing writer. one of my favs by her: ojs.aaai.org/aimagazine/i...

My slides from a internal workshop giving overview of Smile. Might be a helpful shortcut to getting an overview: talks.gureckislab.org/public/2025/...

📣 I'm looking for a postdoc to join my lab at NYU! Come work with me on a principled, theory-driven approach to studying language, learning, and reasoning, in humans and AI agents. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/170656 And come chat with me at #CogSci2025 if interested!

more or less every time i try to explain to a working physicist that the way our mind represent physics might differ from the actual laws of physics, they look at me like i'm proposing the most zany post-modern humanities theory they have ever heard and slowly inch away from the conversation.

Today we open-sourced a new project for developing behavioral experiments online. It is called Smile. Announcement of v0.1.0: todd.gureckislab.org/2025/07/22/s... Smile has been used internally in my lab for several years and has substantially increased our productivity.

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...

Are people more likely to make discoveries when you give them incentives? My latest for Psychology Today with shout-outs to Todd Gureckis, Ben Newell, and Dan Bartels. @psychologytoday.com @toddgureckis.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ulte...

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New preprint alert! We often prompt ICL tasks using either demonstrations or instructions. How much does the form of the prompt matter to the task representation formed by a language model? Stick around to find out 1/N

A few of us organized a workshop at the Choice Symposium a few years ago that resulted in this interesting paper taking an interdisciplinary view on cognitive costs, now out in Trends in Cognitive Science! authors.elsevier.com/a/1l7Lz_V1r-...

Students often ask me for advice on what projects to prioritize. Today I recommended putting every project you are working on in a different folder named 'untitled folder 1', 'untitled folder 2', etc... and to slowly move the mouse over each one waiting for it to speak to you from the future.

weird how people are talking about research grants. i get paid to teach. sometimes the government says "we want to do some research but we can't do it ourselves. if you can out-compete everyone else, we'll pay you to do it for us." it's not a subsidy, it's a competitive work-for-hire.