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natvelali.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist at Princeton, personally & scientifically interested in collaboration | science sketcher | thinking in non-English 🇵🇷
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New postdoc opportunity from Sloan to study how AI impacts scientific research. We have a great community growing around AI/STS at Princeton and I would be very happy to consider supporting applications as a mentor - please email if you are interested! sloan.org/programs/dig...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Thank you kids. "Dozens of American students at a U.S. military installation in Germany walked out of their middle school on Tuesday as part of protests aimed at an official visit by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth...." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 17 days ago • 24 comments

"Imagine a DAPI-like stain, but for the extracellular matrix." That's basically how this work was pitched to me by Kayvon and Antonio a year or so ago. Now the final product really delivers. Read about their versatile label for ECM in living tissues here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

If you live in Louisiana or Maine you are in a position to stop the confirmation of RFK. Call Cassidy LA (202) 224-5824 or Collins ME (202) 224-2523. Our Lives are on the line in the next pandemic. Pass it on especially to others in LA and ME. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

submitted 32 days ago • 82 comments

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 32 days ago • 17 comments

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/

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments

Something lovely for the weekend! A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍 An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping hunting dog opens and closes its mouth, as if barking, by using a lever below its chest. 📷 by me #Archaeology

submitted 49 days ago • 33 comments

!!!!!!

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If you don’t have a local library card, it should be your New Year’s resolution to get one. It’s an easy resolution to keep and you’ll actually use it, trust me.

submitted 49 days ago • 359 comments

Can’t wait!! 🥳

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

NEW RESEARCH: Social Play fosters cooperation in wild adult chimpanzees out in Current Biology. More great work from @lirsamuni.bsky.social, @alexmielke.bsky.social on our Tai Chimpanzees kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...

submitted 103 days ago • 15 comments

Incredible!

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🧵 New meta-analysis on sources of infant looking in Nature Hum Behaviour. Led by Linette Kunin, w Sabrina Piccolo & @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (paywall) tinyurl.com/33yfwcaa (access to pdf).

submitted 135 days ago • 4 comments

Preprint alert! After 4 years, I’m super excited to share work with @thecharleywu.bsky.social @gershbrain.bsky.social and Eric Schulz on the rise and fall of technological development in virtual communities in #OneHourOneLife #ohol doi.org/10.31234/osf...

submitted 168 days ago • 1 comment

Our paper, "A hierarchical Bayesian model of adaptive teaching," is now out in Cognitive Science @cogscisociety.bsky.social. With co-authors Andrew Palacci @natvelali.bsky.social @rdhawkins.bsky.social @gershbrain.bsky.social 🔓📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 227 days ago • 1 comment

I feel personally victimized by this meme 👀

submitted 232 days ago • 0 comments

"We should all focus on the people of Gaza...But we should never forget that when college students and professors decided to strongly oppose the mass killing of civilians, so many of America’s leaders and major institutions decided the problem was the students and professors, not the killings."

submitted 297 days ago • 2 comments

I'm hiring a lab coordinator for my new lab at UCSD CogSci. This is a great position if you're interested in gaining research experience before applying to graduate school. Apply by May 2, flexible start late summer start date (~Sep 1). Details below! employment.ucsd.edu/laboratory-c...

submitted 316 days ago • 2 comments

📣 Applications are due this Friday!

submitted 355 days ago • 0 comments

Eek! I am pumped to announce that I will be staying at Princeton to start my PhD with @natvelali.bsky.social. I feel so privileged to call @velez_colab my new home. Hope to pursue projects at the intersection of Dev/Affect/Cog science, so @eriknook.bsky.social is stuck with me for a while longer :)

submitted 361 days ago • 2 comments

Our fearless inaugural lab manager @bellafascendini.bsky.social is going to grad school (🥳🎉), so the CoLab is hiring a lab manager!! Please share with anyone who wants to deepen their experience in cog sci before grad school. Review starts on 3/15! research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/18575/r...

submitted 373 days ago • 1 comment