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Razia Sahi @raziasahi.bsky.social · 17h

Managing emotions is not easy - we often get by with a little help. In the NEW Social Interaction and Emotion Lab at Rutgers-Newark, we’ll study how social interactions regulate emotion using experiments, naturalistic data, and multi-modal approaches. ✨ Now recruiting! ✨🙌 Learn more: raziasahi.com

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Arielle Belluck @relbelluck.bsky.social · 2d

Wooo! Yay Emma!

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Bella Fascendini @bellafascendini.bsky.social · Aug 1

Excited to present at @CogSci2025 tomorrow at 1pm in Salon 6! Looking forward to presenting alongside incredible cognitive scientists @cvales.bsky.social, @elainewang.bsky.social, and @junyi.bsky.social ✨

CoLab at Princeton University @velezcolab.bsky.social · Jul 29

The CoLab is headed to #CogSci2025!! 🥳 Here's where to find us!

A lineup showing upcoming talks and posters for the CoLab at CogSci 2025.

Wednesday
Natalia Vélez: Understanding structural diversity in human collaboration
Metareasoning Workshop, Pacific H, 10:30-11:10am

Thursday
Huang Ham: Collaborative encoding of visual working memory
P1-H-244

Friday
Bonan Zhao (new PI!): Discovering hidden laws in innovation by recombination
P2-Z-231

Elizabeth Mieczkowski: A normative account of specialization: How task and environment shape role differentiation in collaboration
P2-M-133

Bella Fascendini: Are two-year-olds intrinsically motivated to explore their own competence?
Learning & Development 2, Salon 6, 1-2:30pm

Saturday
Renée Creppy (first-timer!): Children’s expectations of dominant and prestigious leaders
P3-C-40

Natalia Vélez: Thinking in teams
Invited Symposium: New Theoretical Directions in Cognitive Science
Salon 7, 2:15-3:45pm

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Arielle Belluck @relbelluck.bsky.social · Jul 30

Come see my poster at cogsci! My grandma says it’s great

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Ismar Volić @ismarvolic.bsky.social · Jul 27

My latest opinion piece.

www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

Ranked choice voting in NYC showed us what elections could look like

The real story from the New York City mayoral primary isn't Zohran Mamdani's victory, but voters' response to a different way of voting, writes Ismar Volić, director of the Institute for Mathematics a...

www.wbur.org

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Arielle Belluck @relbelluck.bsky.social · Jun 2

Congrats!!!

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 22

🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation.

This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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NextGen Psych Scholars Program @nextgenpsych.bsky.social · Apr 30

Please share widely! #NPSP supports people applying to Psychology PhD programs in the US, including students from underrepresented groups. We're accepting applications til May 23 for mentees (undergrads/postbacs) & mentors (grad students/postdocs)! z.umn.edu/NPSP25-26

NextGen Psych Scholars Program (2025-2026 mentor/mentee sign up) Year 6

The goal of NPSP is to cultivate long-term support structures between current underrepresented (e.g., BIPOC, first-gen, low-income, LGBTQIA+) graduate students and diverse undergrad or post-baccalaure...

z.umn.edu

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · Apr 14

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

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Arielle Belluck @relbelluck.bsky.social · Apr 10

Woo!! So excited to be cohort-mates!

Clara E. Haeffner @cehaeffner.bsky.social · Apr 10

I’m beyond excited to share that I’ll be starting my PhD in Cognitive Psychology at Yale this fall with support from the NSF GRFP! I feel deeply grateful to be joining this community and to work with @robbrutledge.bsky.social and the Rutledge lab!

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Kristina Olson @olsonista.bsky.social · Apr 8

Anyone looking to take an amazing clinical psych student who would come to grad school with an NSF GRFP in hand? Interests in stigma, adversity, but flexible! (Side note that it is awful that nsf doesn’t let you defer, apply next yr w/grant in hand, and just count that as 1 of 2 deferral yrs)

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Apr 2

Glad to see Princeton's president stand up for universities even after the administration suspended their grants.

"we have to be willing to speak up, and we have to be willing to say no to funding if it's going to constrain our ability to pursue the truth.”
www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

In Bloomberg interview, Eisgruber signals that Princeton will not make concessions

University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 signaled that Princeton would not make concessions to the federal government after news broke that the Trump administration had suspended dozens of the U...

www.dailyprincetonian.com

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · Apr 1

Wesleyan President Michael Roth gets it and — more importantly — says it out loud.

time.com/7272520/appe...

Appeasing President Donald Trump Won’t Work

From Columbia University to Paul Weiss, leaders have gone beyond de-escalation into outright collaboration with Trump.

time.com

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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · Mar 28

“Without the support of my community, I would have never pursued a career in science”, writes Chantal Valdivia-Moreno from Chula Vista, CA 🥑. Now research cuts threaten that community: its health, economy & children’s futures. 🧪🏠
@talvaldivia.bsky.social

www.thestarnews.com/we-owe-it-to...

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Chantal Valdivia-Moreno @talvaldivia.bsky.social · Mar 28

As part of @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social ng.bsky.social, I wrote an op-ed in my local paper about how cuts to federal funding put the present and future health of our communities at enormous risk.
www.thestarnews.com/we-owe-it-to...

@cantlonlab.bsky.social
@spiantado.bsky.social

www.expressnews.com

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Anna Schapiro @annaschapiro.bsky.social · Mar 20

"College administrators across the nation are closely watching whether Columbia acts with deference or defiance."

Columbia: please, please, pretty please, choose defiance.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

Why Trump’s Ultimatum to Columbia Could Upend Higher Education

A demand for the university’s administration to place the Middle Eastern studies department under receivership could signal a broader crackdown across the United States.

www.nytimes.com

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Arielle Belluck @relbelluck.bsky.social · Mar 20

“Framing these actions as a defense of Jewish students not only distorts reality but also puts Jews at greater risk.”

www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

'This doesn't protect us': Hundreds of Jewish scholars condemn Trump Columbia funding cut

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www.haaretz.com

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Mar 19

Excellent excellent excellent from Princeton president and constitutional/ political theorist Chris Eisgruber. There's been far too little of this kind of thing; here's hoping others follow his good example.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia

American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.

www.theatlantic.com

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Steven Mesquiti @smesquiti.bsky.social · Mar 17

As part of @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social, I wrote an opinion piece for San Antonio Express News on the dangers of cuts to federal science funding for today and tomorrow's scientists: www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...

@cantlonlab.bsky.social
@spiantado.bsky.social

Cuts to federal research funding will hurt future Texas science students

Cutting funding from anything perceived as “DEI-adjacent” harms us all. It freezes life-changing research, and shuts the door on talented, hardworking students.

www.expressnews.com

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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · Mar 14

Over 200 academics across the country, and across fields, have signed on so far. The full letter and current list of signatories (updated periodically) can now be found here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · Mar 14

📣 From Kerem Oktar & Tania Lombrozo:

How aggregated opinions shape beliefs

How aggregated opinions shape beliefs - Nature Reviews Psychology

Aggregated opinions, such as election results and product ratings, are prevalent in the modern world. In this Review, Oktar and Lombrozo describe the properties of aggregated opinion and the mechanism...

www.nature.com

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · Mar 13

woooooo!

Out in Child Development:

"Learning Loopholes: The Development of Intentional
Misunderstandings in Children"

paper: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

preprint-pdf: www.tomerullman.org/papers/kids_...

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Jeremy Manning @jeremyrmanning.bsky.social · Mar 11

If, like me, you (a) oppose research funding cuts to US institutions and (b) are Jewish, please consider signing this open letter: forms.gle/prnRbq69a6YN...

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Arielle Belluck @relbelluck.bsky.social · Mar 11

So so excited to be starting my PhD at Yale this fall with @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social!! If you know me you know this is the dream! Huge thanks to @adelegoldberg.bsky.social, @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social, @reutshachnai.bsky.social, Tracy Gleason, and @wellesley.edu for helping me get here

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