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Mark Ho @markkho.bsky.social · 3d

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! 🙏

codec lab

codec-lab.github.io

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wasita @wasita.bsky.social · 3d

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wasita @wasita.bsky.social · 4d

Ahhh congrats Haoxue!!! 👏

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wasita @wasita.bsky.social · 7d

Best summer school ever!! Thanks so much to @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social for being amazing organizers and for cultivating such a lovely community 💗

Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 8d

Mentorship sessions are one of my favorite parts of #COSMOS2025 Discussing science and academic careers, while exploring what Tokyo has to offer! With @liang-lee.bsky.social @mohsen-raoufi.bsky.social @wasita.bsky.social @shannonyasuda.bsky.social @kefang.bsky.social @davidschultner.bsky.social

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 17d

📢 My lab at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is considering graduate student applications this fall

We welcome applicants interested in using computational modeling & fMRI to study social connection

🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
🔗 Learn more: sinclaboratory.com/apply

#comppsychiatry #socialneuro

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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'm happy to now be able to share a talk I gave at TEDx New England last Fall!

The talk is about our lab's work on what makes decisions costly, and how to make them less so.

I discuss lessons for all kinds of decisions, including getting people to vote.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeHg...

How to make a choice when the options suck | Amitai Shenhav | TEDxNewEngland

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

www.youtube.com

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Heejung Jung @jungheejung.bsky.social · Sep 4

New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!

N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!

🧵below

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Pete Hitchcock @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social · Aug 29

I'll be reviewing computational/cognitive and clinical psychology applications this year for the Translational Lab at Emory 💭🔬

Please share broadly and send applicants my way! 🔄

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Information for prospective graduate students

The Translational Lab will be reviewing applications this cycle! Prospective students can apply through Clinical Science or Cognitive and Computational Sciences in the Emory Psychology Department to ...

docs.google.com

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wasita @wasita.bsky.social · Aug 20

I emailed them yesterday and they said they're updating it to "reflect new guidelines." Also mentioned that the deadline would likely be pushed back for this cycle

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Matthijs van der Meer @mvandermeer.bsky.social · May 30

We are looking for a research assistant/lab manager to join the lab! A supportive, collaborative environment where you can learn neural recording with Neuropixels, optogenetics, fiber photometry, and neural data analysis.

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Sev Harootonian @harootonian.bsky.social · May 19

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨

Thrilled to share new research on teaching!
Work supervised by
@cocoscilab.bsky.social, @yaelniv.bsky.social, and @markkho.bsky.social.

This project asks:
When do people teach by mentalizing vs with heuristics? 1/3

osf.io/preprints/os...

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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · May 9

Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑‍🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.

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Tommy Botch @tommybotch.bsky.social · May 5

New preprint! Thrilled to share my latest work with @esfinn.bsky.social -- "Sensory context as a universal principle of language in humans and LLMs"

osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

osf.io

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investNscience @investnscience.bsky.social · Apr 20

Want to share your research and build support for science, but don’t know where to start?

Register for our science communication workshop: tinyurl.com/scicomins

📝Practice your sci comm
🤝Meet scientists on social media
🤳Make a video (could be featured on our page)

DM us with any questions!

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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · Mar 5

Congratulations to Rich Sutton and Andrew Barto on receiving the Turing Award in recognition of their significant contributions to ML. I also stand with them: Releasing models to the public without the right technical and societal safeguards is irresponsible.
www.ft.com/content/d8f8...

Turing Award winners warn over unsafe deployment of AI models

Two pioneers of reinforcement learning have won the $1mn prize from the Association for Computing Machinery

www.ft.com

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wasita @wasita.bsky.social · Jan 28

ugh, yeah, i see that now :(

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wasita @wasita.bsky.social · Jan 26

The page seems to be back up?!

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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · Nov 20

Men will literally prefer going Bayesian instead of going to therapy.

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Robert Hawkins @rdhawkins.bsky.social · Nov 18

new paper out with @ashleycleung.bsky.social and dan yurovsky in child development!

📄🔓: doi.org/10.1111/cdev...

brief 🧵 below on our findings!

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wasita @wasita.bsky.social · Nov 15

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xuan (ɕɥɛn / sh-yen) @xuanalogue.bsky.social · Nov 11

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

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Pete Hitchcock @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social · May 13

We are looking for a postdoc at the Translational Lab (translational-lab.com) at Emory! Pls 🔄

We focus on:
* when & why decision-making goes awry in depression and anxiety
* developing potent and scalable interventions

A range of projects are possible w/in this scope. Informal inquiries welcome

Home

The Translational Lab focuses on when and why decision-making goes awry in depression and anxiety disorders and on developing potent and scalable interventions to improve it. Some topics of particula...

www.translational-lab.com

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · Mar 15

New research from SFI’s Simon DeDeo and Claire Bergey using LLMs delves into the dynamics of conversation. 🧠 Discoveries from the CANDOR corpus reveal insights into information density, cognitive load, and the role of backchannels.

Read more here 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2403.08890

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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · Mar 6

Our lab is hiring a lab manager/RA to start in summer 2024! Learn cutting-edge behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging tools applied to big Qs in cog&social psych. Send qs my way, and apply through the official posting here: searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/727...

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Luke Chang @lukejchang.bsky.social · Jan 9

New paper demonstrating the hidden cost of receiving favors led by Xiaoxue Gao with @eshjolly.bsky.social, Hongbo Yu, Huiying Liu, & Xiaolin Zhou. We demonstrate that brain patterns of emotional states can be integrated with economic utility models to predict reciprocity behavior bit.ly/41Pm7O2.

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