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"If we don’t know what we’re looking for, we’ll never find it, no matter how sophisticated our analysis tools." Beautiful piece by Sam Gershman on how far we still are from true progress in neuroscience

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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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This 3-post thread is based on a series of AOC Instagram stories she posted tonight, explaining the importance and value of calling your House Representative and Senators, EVEN/ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE REPUBLICANS. Please watch and share.

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i just share this with my whole department and other communities i belong to. spread the word.

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You study vocabulary? You need a short high quality measure? You love the CDI but your kids are too old (>3)? Meet PREVIC - our adaptive (IRT-based) parent report measure of expressive vocabulary! 💯 open source and ready to use paper: rdcu.be/eahE7 measure (🇩🇪): ccp-odc.eva.mpg.de/previc-demo/

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Please remember that your stress system is not meant to be “on” all the time. I bet you’ve been stressed. What are you doing this weekend to relax? Me: Following a run (no tigers involved), I’m putting away my phone for multiple hours & sitting on the couch with a good fiction book.

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Over the past few weeks, science funding in the U.S. has become shrouded in uncertainty. Ten trainees with diversity-based funding share how the changes are affecting their research and career plans. By @avaskham.bsky.social @claudia-lopez.bsky.social @callimcflurry.bsky.social bit.ly/42Wifxr

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The NIH’s new imposed standard indirect cost rate threatens life-saving brain & behavior research that benefits millions of Americans. SfN, with other scientific organizations,urge reversal of this policy & implore Congress to protect critical research infrastructure. Full statement: bit.ly/4jVJnCL

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I am one of the impacted NSF postdoc research fellows. My funds remain frozen. I rely on these funds as my salary and payment to aid in my research efforts. I am currently without the funds I use to pay my bills, health insurance, etc. and to move my research forward. #NSF #postdoc

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Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

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Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

submitted 28 days ago • 17 comments

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

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Why does Western paleolithic cave art strongly prefer animal side views and often abbreviations? Our new #eSymb preprint (osf.io/preprints/ps... w Pagnotta, Psujek, Mendoza Straffon and Tylén ) challenges long-held assumptions about these artistic choices based on cogsci experiments. 1/

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I’m still recruiting for this position — please get in touch if you’re interested in working together!

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Imagine a snail. Imagine 5 snails. Imagine a snail on a sail. Imagine something that isn’t a snail. now read a new pre-print: "Relations, Negations, & Numbers: Looking for Logic in Generative Text-to-Image Models" (by Conwell, Tawiah-Quashie, & me) arxiv.org/pdf/2411.17066

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I am recruiting a 2 year postdoc! See elc-lab-ucsd.com/prospective-.... This is an NSF-funded collaboration between UCSD, Harvard, and Rutgers-Newark (co-PIs: @ebonawitz.bsky.social, @patrickshafto.bsky.social, Igor Bascandziev) examining cognitive mechanisms underlying children’s conceptual change.

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The Visual Learning Lab at UC San Diego is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our lab! Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org

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Do you like building great tools for behavioral measurement? We are seeking a Research Scientist to act as the tasks lead and engineering manager for a large-scale project on developmental data collection with children ages 2-12 called LEVANTE: levante-network.org.

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Developmental Psychology Starter Pack go.bsky.app/9kHQS7i

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a while back I looked at negation in image-generation, but for 'negation as absence' (e.g., asking for an image that does not have a frog in it). but it didn't occur to me to check 'negation as reverse of value". anyway here are some people who are definitely not mad

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After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro

submitted 104 days ago • 3 comments

Okay the people requested one so here is an attempt at a Computational Cognitive Science starter pack -- with apologies to everyone I've missed! LMK if there's anyone I should add! go.bsky.app/KDTg6pv

submitted 105 days ago • 71 comments

📣 I'm hiring a lab coordinator! This position is ideal for someone looking for research experience before applying to graduate school. Deadline is April 1st—flexible summer start date. Details and instructions below! employment.ucsd.edu/laboratory-c...

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Excited to share that our paper, “Parallel developmental changes in children’s production and recognition of line drawings of visual concepts” has been published in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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famous moments in psychology / cog-sci as lego sets, a thread. 1. Pavlov's dogs.

submitted 462 days ago • 17 comments

Apply to work with Martin, he's fantastic! Our labs will very likely have some joint meetings and projects!

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Openly accessible LLMs can help us to understand human cognition - new piece in which I argue for the possibility of using LLMs as cognitive models www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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How do adults understand children’s early, highly variable speech? Our new paper in Nature Human Behavior (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) provides evidence that adults’ interpretations depend quite strongly on language expectations—what they think children are likely to say. 1/

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👋Hi #bsky! Just wanted to let everyone know I'll be arriving at #Stanford in fall of 2024 and I'm looking for awesome people to help me figure out language. I'm new here my network is small, so RTs would be great! 🧵👇

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⚠️ Please repost to spread the word! We have a page on our Resources for Researchers site now ALL about applying to psychology (clinical and non-clinical)/neuro graduate PhD programs! Tips from start-to-finish, example statements! www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...

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#devpsych research, of course, means productive arts & crafts time with your lab - 2 hours of fun and 13 infant head-cams (BabyViews) ready to be used by families for data collection!🐞

submitted 507 days ago • 2 comments

🚀 We've officially landed on Bluesky! Excited to join this vibrant new platform and (re)connect with all of you! 🗣️💬 Help us spread the word by retweeting and following.

submitted 506 days ago • 4 comments

Hi Bluesky! I'm recruiting graduate students and postdocs to launch the Visual Learning Lab with me at UC San Diego in Summer/Fall 2024! The lab will focus on how we learn to derive visual meaning, integrating methods from developmental psychology, machine learning, & vision science.

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#HiSciSky I study the cognitive science of causality: How we identify cause-and-effect in the world and how we think and reason about it. I'm the PI of the CEU Causal Cognition Lab in Vienna, Austria. (ccl.ceu.edu) #CogSci #PsySci #DevSci

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Yes I know them, we went to Twitter together.

submitted 522 days ago • 19 comments

Question for PIs who manage labs: what project manager software do you prefer. The post-it system is just not gonna keep working ;) Trello? Basecamp? Something else? I'd like all the lab to have access to it, the option to add outside collaborators, calendar integration + reminders, ...

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