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bryanhong.bsky.social
Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto studying what, how, and why we remember https://bryan-hong.netlify.app/
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Grateful for the chance to share my thoughts on responsible use of LLMs in psychology research @spspnews.bsky.social #spsp2025. Here's a summary of my presentation for those who missed it. Thanks to @ashwinia.bsky.social for organizing this panel! How should LLMs be used in psychology research? 🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

“I am in here!” It's a sentiment I've seen expressed time and time again from non-speaking autistic individuals who were thought to be unable to express their thoughts - but ultimately gained access to communication. Hearing this call, my research is expanding in some new directions.

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

Excited to share this perspective with @yaelniv.bsky.social about how schemas might be learned and instantiated via reinforcement learning, latent cause inference, and dimensionality reduction, and what's the medial prefrontal cortex might be doing for all of these www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 52 days ago • 7 comments

A exhibition at Waterloo architecture collects memories and mementos of Toronto's Chinatown, along with scale models of restaurants, to reimagine community heritage through storytelling. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Thrilled to share our latest work on the importance of considering social identities in brain imaging research, now out in @natureneuro.bsky.social. rdcu.be/d4XWM

submitted 63 days ago • 3 comments

We have a new paper explaining all the ways you can use natural language processing to analyze text data in @natrevpsych.bsky.social We provide user friendly recommendations for using NLP to ensure rigour and reproducibility Here is a free link: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

submitted 57 days ago • 4 comments

Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love. Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...

submitted 70 days ago • 49 comments

Our JSS article is out! And now I get to focus on {marginaleffects} 1.0.0. Stay tuned. www.jstatsoft.org/article/view...

submitted 88 days ago • 13 comments

It takes a LONG time to manually score autobiographical memory narratives for internal and external details (in Autobiographical Interview terms). Here, we report a new model that automates this process, matching manual scorers, but much faster (5s instead of 10m per memory). osf.io/preprints/ps...

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

I want to draw attention to a special issue that Lila Davachi and I put together to memorialize our friend and colleague Sarah DuBrow. It’s full of papers inspired by her work and her being from a group of collaborators, friends, and fans! Thanks @bradpostle.bsky.social for helping make this happen.

submitted 98 days ago • 6 comments

How can we motivate action to address climate change? We tested 17 psych interventions at once in a tournament! @falklab.bsky.social If you’re attending #psynom24, come to my talk from 11:40-12 TOMORROW (11/22) to find out the winning strategies! Marquis B-C! @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

OK folks, I've started an episodic memory starter pack. By no means a full list so reply below if you're an episodic memory nerd! go.bsky.app/2mtNK43

submitted 108 days ago • 73 comments

New starter pack: people doing science with narratives, naturalistic memory, natural conversations, and using language models for psych/cog sci 📖💻📚 (Reply with 🙋 if you'd like to be added!) go.bsky.app/LGRYMvQ

submitted 105 days ago • 42 comments