Who is a cognitive scientist? There's been fascinating discussion about cognition, but I'm as interested in who we think of as cognitive scientists. New essay includes a visual presentation of cog-sci's historical diversity--or lack thereof. buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/who-is-a-c... - ThreadSky

benjaminjriley.bsky.social • 85 days ago

Who is a cognitive scientist? There's been fascinating discussion about cognition, but I'm as interested in who we think of as cognitive scientists. New essay includes a visual presentation of cog-sci's historical diversity--or lack thereof. https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/who-is-a-cognitive-scientist

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benjaminjriley.bsky.social•85 days ago

And @audreywatters.bsky.social and Chomba Bupe who we all need to convince to come over to BlueSky

vcarchidi.bsky.social•85 days ago

Bupe spends so much time explaining the same things over and over again to guys who have profile pictures of super mario Dario and upside down Gary Marcus, I don't know how he does it. He really does need to come over here.

benjaminjriley.bsky.social•85 days ago

Special thanks to @micahgallen.com who sent me down the cog-sci historical wormhole

benjaminjriley.bsky.social•85 days ago

shout outs to @wiringthebrain.bsky.social @pessoabrain.bsky.social @cabernet.bsky.social @antoniahamilton.bsky.social @wamsleylab.bsky.social @mokriegleder.bsky.social @emp1.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social @kerblooee.bsky.social @jamie.squad51.us
@ishmajl.bsky.social @sbmost.bsky.social

jhamrick.bsky.social•85 days ago

Nice post! I had a similar frustration when I helped run a workshop a few years back—the big names you find easily from cogsci are all white men. My co-organizers and I put some effort into making at least a slightly more gender diverse list...

benjaminjriley.bsky.social•84 days ago

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benjaminjriley.bsky.social•84 days ago

Ooooooh THANK YOU. As I was writing this essay, I was like, what would the 2025 version of this concentric-circle chart look like? You may have just provided the source material!

jhamrick.bsky.social•84 days ago

I think the 2025 version would look even bigger! Mine is probably mostly people who had already established careers by 2000-2010. Definitely lots to add since then 🙂

benjaminjriley.bsky.social•84 days ago

Yeah it's a terrifying thing to create a set of "leading thinkers" in whatever realm, because choices must be made and feelings will get hurt. That said my post on the AI Skeptic community is the most read of all my essays, so maybe I'll give this a go too. Wanna help?

jhamrick.bsky.social•84 days ago

Sure, if you start a list happy to have a look and add additional suggestions I'm aware of!

benjaminjriley.bsky.social•84 days ago

This thread is now our list! I'm "thumbtacking it" and if you find people/sources for this, file 'em here!

Things like this:

https://substack.com/home/post/p-145178743?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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