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Bob Wilson

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Bob Wilson @doctor-bob.bsky.social · 20h

Love these rules - especially rule #2. It's all too easy when reviewing to fall into the trap of feeling like we need to criticize *something* even when the paper is good.

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Chris Rozell @crozell.bsky.social · 21h

Please share widely! If you work in any area related to the brain and policy, please consider applying to be our colleague here at Georgia Tech. This could include (but is not limited to) neuroethics or brain/mental health policy.

Aaron Levine @aarondlevine.bsky.social · 21h

The Carter School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech invites applications for multiple open-rank tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions with a focus on science, technology and innovation policy.

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Bob Wilson @doctor-bob.bsky.social · 20h

Great department - great city! And Georgia Tech is nearby too!

Pete Hitchcock @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social · 21h

We are hiring at Emory Psychology in Developmental!

Come join a wonderful department in a great city ☀️

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Tech AI at Georgia Tech @georgiatechai.bsky.social · 5d

Twelfth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems held at Georgia Tech from Oct. 13–15, 2025. Learn more: ai.gatech.edu/event/twelft...

Bob Wilson @doctor-bob.bsky.social · 5d

Hanbo and Huadong's superb work on Think Aloud for risky decision making. Think Aloud data from JUST ONE TRIAL allows us to predict choices on other trials about 5% above chance.

Hanbo Xie @psychboyh.bsky.social · 6d

Can Think-Aloud be really useful in understanding human minds? Building on our previous work, we formally propose reopening this old debate, with one of the largest Think-Aloud datasets, "RiskyThought44K," and LLM analysis, showing Think-Aloud can complement to comp cogsci.

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Hanbo Xie @psychboyh.bsky.social · 6d

Can Think-Aloud be really useful in understanding human minds? Building on our previous work, we formally propose reopening this old debate, with one of the largest Think-Aloud datasets, "RiskyThought44K," and LLM analysis, showing Think-Aloud can complement to comp cogsci.

Bob Wilson @doctor-bob.bsky.social · Aug 27

This is my favorite thing about analytic solutions for models - perfect correspondence between theory and simulation!

Bob Wilson @doctor-bob.bsky.social · Aug 12

Great turnout for the CoCo #CCN2025 watch party at Georgia Tech. Thanks to @neuranna.bsky.social for leading the charge!

coco.psych.gatech.edu/ccn-2025-loc...

Bob Wilson @doctor-bob.bsky.social · Aug 6

I also love that you have the guy you won the bidding war against piping up in the comments. Thanks for sharing - this totally made my day!

Bob Wilson @doctor-bob.bsky.social · Aug 6

Not quite. Some students will have only taken one coding class before mine so a bit rough to have them switch languages!

Bob Wilson @doctor-bob.bsky.social · Aug 6

What a great story! I adapted the code for the gif from a different blog post maybe 10 years ago - that I can't find for the life of me now. That uses bitshift to reveal the images, but leads the 1 bit images appearing superimposed. I also stopped the loop too early and missed you off - sorry!

Bob Wilson @doctor-bob.bsky.social · Aug 6

From your blogs it looks like there's even more history to it than I realized!

Bob Wilson @doctor-bob.bsky.social · Aug 6

It's driven by the students - their intro classes are all in Python.

Bob Wilson @doctor-bob.bsky.social · Aug 6

One of the saddest things about switching my classes from Matlab to Python is that I no longer get to teach about the Matlab ghost. Rest in peace little buddy ... along with your dogs, your random numbers and all of your creepy hidden friends

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Mark Laubach @marklaubach.bsky.social · Aug 5

The Neuroscience Dept at American University is hiring for a tenure-track position at the Assistant level with expertise in Computational Neuroscience. Apply by Sep 15:
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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience

American University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani...

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Debbie Yee @debyee.bsky.social · Jun 11

Excited for our @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social workshop at the intersection of #NeuroAI and Aging. Tomorrow from 9 AM -1 PM in LTEE 3 in Hamilton Building, hope to see you there!

Representational Alignment and Aging at RLDM2025. Bridging the gap between socioemotional function in human and artificial intellgence

Bob Wilson @doctor-bob.bsky.social · Jun 5

Yay for RLDM! If you signed up to be a mentor in the mentoring program, be on the lookout for an email from me with your mentee assignments.

RLDM @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social · Jun 4

Only ONE WEEK until #RLDM2025 ☘️ We can’t wait to welcome brilliant minds from AI, neuroscience, psychology & beyond for cutting-edge talks on reinforcement learning & decision making. Spaces are disappearing quickly so grab your spot before it’s gone! Register now 👉 rldm.org

RLDM | The Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making

Bob Wilson @doctor-bob.bsky.social · May 23

Proud to play a small role in this null result - from the excellent and thorough @carolinephelps.bsky.social. No effect of chronic or acute pain on working memory in the Sternberg task.

Caroline Phelps @carolinephelps.bsky.social · May 22

Is the pain of null data taking up slots in your working memory? Or shifting you over optimum arousal on the Yerkes Dodson curve?

Not for me! I've externalized it to this lovely preprint!

Plus, read on for why it might not be the pain that causes deficits in your working memory... 🧵

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · May 15

No Effect of Chronic or Acute Pain on Working Memory in the Sternberg Task https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.13.653893v1

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Caroline Phelps @carolinephelps.bsky.social · May 22

Is the pain of null data taking up slots in your working memory? Or shifting you over optimum arousal on the Yerkes Dodson curve?

Not for me! I've externalized it to this lovely preprint!

Plus, read on for why it might not be the pain that causes deficits in your working memory... 🧵

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · May 15

No Effect of Chronic or Acute Pain on Working Memory in the Sternberg Task https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.13.653893v1

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Debbie Yee @debyee.bsky.social · May 20

Are you planning to attend @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social #RLDM2025 and interested in human and artificial intelligence across the adult lifespan? Come check out our Representational Alignment and Aging Workshop!👇
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · May 16

I am crying while grading my students' final essays for a course that taught them how to critically evaluate psychological science.

They understood the assignment. 🧵

M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · Apr 2

On today of all days, with Princeton now in the Trump administration's crosshairs, I taught my undergraduates about standpoint epistemology, strong objectivity, and communities of knowledge.

On how our unique perspectives as individuals don't threaten the scientific project. They strengthen it.

Bob Wilson @doctor-bob.bsky.social · May 17

I love this thread so much! What a fantastic final assignment to have folks critically reflect on being a participant in an experiment. And what a reminder to us all - especially those of us on the computational side - that people aren't machines! Thank you!

Bob Wilson @doctor-bob.bsky.social · May 11

AI startup idea 1: an AI that delivers oral exams
AI startup idea 2: an AI that cheats on oral exams
Update 1 to outwit 2
Update 2 to outwit 1

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Laurence Hunt @lhuntneuro.bsky.social · May 9

Attending CCN in Amsterdam this August? Come and join our workshop! Details/sign-up info below.

Jascha Achterberg @achterbrain.bsky.social · May 9

We are hosting a workshop on using Naturalistic Games within #NeuroAI at CCN2025 in August @cogcompneuro.bsky.social ! Below you can let us know if you would like to join / have relevant work to share / have any ideas for the workshop in general!

#compneuro #neuroscience

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CCN2025 Community Event: Naturalistic Games in Neuro, CogSci, and AI

Overview There is a growing realisation that to understand the richness of human behaviour and its neural underpinnings, we need to embrace more naturalistic paradigms. Naturalistic neuroimaging has p...

Bob Wilson @doctor-bob.bsky.social · May 9

This looks so cool! Why are all the best conferences in Europe this year?!