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Adani Abutto

@adani.bsky.social

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Ph.D. candidate @ Stanford, interested in children's 💭 and 🧠 https://stanford.edu/~aabutto

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Yang Xiang @yangxiang.bsky.social · 20d

Now out in Cognition, work with the great @gershbrain.bsky.social @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social on formalizing self-handicapping as rational signaling!
📃 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lo8f2Hx2-...

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 23d

A first blogpost from the LEVANTE team, introducing our global project perspective.

A good intro if you're interested in learning more about cross-cultural developmental data collection using LEVANTE.

levante-network.org/global-colla...

Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development - Levante

Ensuring that children around the world can flourish is one of the most important goals of our time. Developmental science has made major strides in understanding how children grow, learn, and thrive ...

levante-network.org

Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · Aug 27

Check out our full paper’s preprint here: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · Aug 27

It's been lovely working on this with such an awesome team: Igor Bascandziev, @ebonawitz.bsky.social, @carenwalker.bsky.social! They took me in as a mentee when I first came to the U.S. two years ago, and they continue to shape my thinking and work in many ways :)

Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · Aug 27

...learn just as much from thought experiments as from 'real' experimental demonstrations—except you don't need any fancy equipment, the child's mind alone is enough!

Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · Aug 27

And it turns out that when, in early physics instruction, you engage children in thought experiments to help them grapple with tricky ideas like tiny things and air having weight, they can...

Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thought experiments—imagining and thinking through outcomes—aren't just the morbid-amusing trolley problems you may have seen; they've played a vital historic role in our scientific progress in domains like physics!

Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · Aug 27

So cool to see our project, spearheaded by Igor Bascandziev, featured in Harvard's 'Usable Knowledge'!

Elizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social · Aug 27

Nice write-up of work led by Igor Bascandziev, & with @carenwalker.bsky.social & @adani.bsky.social on a recent project from our Caplan grant.

Thought Experiments Can Enhance Science Learning!

Thanks to Jill Anderson at Usable Knowledge for the interview.
www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable...

www.gse.harvard.edu

Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · Aug 15

That sounds like a really exciting space to be working in! Congrats on the new role :)

Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · Aug 1

LOL so that's what you were wearing! So good

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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · Jul 25

The Causality in Cognition Lab is pumped for #cogsci2025 💪

Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · Jul 25

Congrats Yang! Hope to catch you there :)

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Jul 23

Looking forward to #cogsci2025 next week - here's a list of presentations from my lab!

Presentation list for language and cognition lab at CogSci 2025.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Jul 1

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

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Junyi Chu @junyi.bsky.social · Jun 6

Delighted to announce our CogSci '25 workshop at the interface between cognitive science and design 🧠🖌️!

We're calling it: 🏺Minds in the Making🏺
🔗 minds-making.github.io

June – July 2024, free & open to the public
(all career stages, all disciplines)

Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · Jun 4

Woo, congrats :)

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · May 30

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.

Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

OECS thematic collections.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · May 20

We're still accepting apps for our research scientist position with LEVANTE (levante-network.org). This position is ideal for folks wanting to be the interface between a cool scientific project and an awesome team of software developers. Think of it as a technical product manager, but for science!

We are seeking a Research Scientist for a large-scale project on developmental data collection with children ages 2-12 called LEVANTE (Learning Variability Network Exchange). LEVANTE is a global research network to improve our understanding of variability in learning and development through coordinated data collection. The project is funded by the Jacobs Foundation; learn more at http://levante-network.org.

This position is a mix of scientific work and work with a software development team: we are looking for someone to act as the interface between the scientific goals of the project and our team of ~6 software engineers who work to implement different aspects of our web platform including researcher management, tasks and surveys, and data processing. We expect the role to be ideal for someone with technical experience from their scientific work and an interest in building good tools for other scientists through software development.

This position is appropriate for recent PhD grads and candidates with postdoctoral experience; exact title and compensation will be relative to experience post-PhD. The RS will contribute to – and have the opportunity to lead on – research products including papers and presentations. The LEVANTE team is a large and lively group pushing the boundaries of cross-cultural developmental measurement through a combination of technical innovation and psychometrics. The RS will also be part of the Language and Cognition Lab at Stanford, a broad interdisciplinary group interested in using data to understand human development.

Requirements for the position include:
- some kind of scientific software development experience (examples include developing experiments, computational models, or complex data analyses)
- theoretical knowledge of psychology or a related discipline (e.g., cognitive science, neuroscience), ideally doing behavioral measurements of some kind
- project management experience on a technical or scientific project with multiple participants

Additional optional qualifications include:
- experience with modern database-backed web applications
- experience with measure development or psychometrics
- R data analysis experience

Applicants should submit a current CV, a short (~1 page) coverletter stating their qualifications for the position, and a link to a github account (preferred) or other code sample.

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PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · May 17

The Imposter Syndrome 🧵

1. The Attack

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Elizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social · May 1

If you're at SRCD please consider checking out these talks and posters featuring members of the CoCoDev lab and our awesome collaborators.
#SRCD2025

a list of various presentations from the Bonawitz lab at SRCD

Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · Apr 30

Going viral!!!

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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · Apr 29

This is a spectacular talk by my colleague @judithfan.bsky.social 🧠 🎨 🤖

"Cognitive tools for making the invisible visible"

🎬: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF3X...

Prof. Judy Fan: Cognitive Tools for Making the Invisible Visible

YouTube video by MIT Quest for Intelligence

www.youtube.com

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Stanford Psychology Podcast @stanfordpsypod.bsky.social · Apr 10

HELLO Bluesky! First post here to share our NEWEST episode! This week, Elizabeth @imelizabeth.bsky.social chats with Dr. Kendrick Kay on the groundbreaking Natural Scenes Dataset and discusses the behind-the-scenes considerations that went into its creation.

open.spotify.com/episode/6cGq...

150 - Kendrick Kay: Large-scale fMRI Datasets and What to Consider

Stanford Psychology Podcast · Episode

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Elizabeth Jiwon Im @imelizabeth.bsky.social · Apr 10

my first time joining @stanfordpsypod.bsky.social as a co-host! It was super cool to talk with Kendrick. Go listen to it 🤩

Stanford Psychology Podcast @stanfordpsypod.bsky.social · Apr 10

HELLO Bluesky! First post here to share our NEWEST episode! This week, Elizabeth @imelizabeth.bsky.social chats with Dr. Kendrick Kay on the groundbreaking Natural Scenes Dataset and discusses the behind-the-scenes considerations that went into its creation.

open.spotify.com/episode/6cGq...

150 - Kendrick Kay: Large-scale fMRI Datasets and What to Consider

Stanford Psychology Podcast · Episode

open.spotify.com

Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · Mar 27

(I'm also quite conflicted about posting this during a time of such turmoil… But still want to make it a habit to share & be positive about the work that gets out!)