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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 2d

Me and @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social want to thank everyone who attended, presented at, and helped organize #COSMOS2025! If you weren't able to make it, all teaching materials are already online and we'll be uploading videos of all talks soon cosmossummerschool.github.io/materials/

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Ben Kawam @benkawam.bsky.social · 8d

Are you studying animal sociality?

My (now published) first PhD chapter proposes a Bayesian + causal framework to infer the factors shaping the social relationships that animals form with one another.

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

A causal framework for the drivers of animal social network structure

Author summary Behavioural ecologists ask mechanistic questions about behaviour—causal questions. When studying animal societies, these questions often concern the drivers of social network structure....

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Ari Strandburg-Peshkin @arispeshkin.bsky.social · 5d

⭐PhD position available!⭐
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

Analysis of communication and collective behavior in animal groups

imprs-qbee.mpg.de

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 4d

We're a month further into the job market - how are things looking? The good news is that the market does seem to have been delayed: ~150 new listings have appeared since my last post. The bad news is that the total is still substantially lower than what it was during the covid dip.

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Franziska Brändle @frabraendle.bsky.social · 6d

What influences whether people have fun with a task?

Our paper “Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations and success influence enjoyment in video games” with @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social now in Scientific Reports!

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Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations, and success influence enjoyment in video games

Scientific Reports - Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations, and success influence enjoyment in video games

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ESLR @eslr.bsky.social · 6d

📢🚀 Are you an early-career researcher working on anything related to culture, behaviour or learning? 🧠🌍 Join ESLR, an interdisciplinary research community! We have a NEW website and our membership is now FREE. 👉 Sign up here to get updates and become a member: www.eslrsociety.com/membership

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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 6d

Tutorial 3 of #cosmos2025 given by @thecharleywu.bsky.social, walking through good practices and tips in model fitting and recovering with giving a hands-on tutorial with R. As always all codes available here: cosmossummerschool.github.io/notebooks/tu...

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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks to @koumurayama.bsky.social for sharing his knowledge of some hidden gems in Tokyo

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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 6d

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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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 6d

As our last invited speaker of #COSMOS2025, @lazytenuredprof.bsky.social uses sequential photos of Andrey Markov as an introduction to how MCMC with people can be used to understand (cultural) knowledge

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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 7d

Officially a professor today! Thank you to everyone who has helped me along the way! I certainly wouldn't be here without the support of my fantastic network of friends and peers. Here's to paying it forward in my new home at @tuda.bsky.social

TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social · 7d

👋 Herzlich willkommen an der TU, Prof. Charley Wu!
Der Kognitionswissenschaftler verstärkt die Humanwissenschaften und im Bereich Computational Cognitive Science. Zum Start haben wir ihm ein paar Fragen gestellt 👉 www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet... @thecharleywu.bsky.social @hessianai.bsky.social

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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 7d

Using social reinforcement learning to figure out which japanese konbini (convenience store) is superior. Where are you getting your strong zero, onigiri, or egg sandwich?
Last #COSMOS2025 talk of the day by Shinsuke Suzuki sites.google.com/view/szklab/...

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henrivdd.bsky.social @henrivdd.bsky.social · 7d

Afternoon session #COSMOS2025 is about trying to cooperate with lying gossips… 😵 but only in prisoner’s dilemma 😌 by Mayuko Nakamaru (sites.google.com/view/mayukon...)

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Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 7d

I just had a lovely morning teaching memo with Lio Wong at #COSMOS2025 in Tokyo! Charley and Wataru have put together an absolutely *fantastic* summer school. Fascinating talks, delightful people… and excellent location. I feel so lucky to be here. If you ever get a chance to attend COSMOS, take it!

Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 7d

Now up at #COSMOS2025: @kartikchandra.bsky.social & Lio Wong giving a tutorial on recursive social reasoning using MEMO github.com/kach/memo
Fun fact: those flowers between them and 🗻 are called "cosmos".
Collab notebook here to follow along 👉 cosmossummerschool.github.io/materials/#g...

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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 7d

A small selection of #COSMOS2025 participants hard at work on their group projects @lazytenuredprof.bsky.social @damienfarine.bsky.social @lucymaplin.bsky.social Thanks to all of the instructors for providing code/data for hands-on experience with modeling cosmossummerschool.github.io/projects/

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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 7d

Now up at #COSMOS2025: @kartikchandra.bsky.social & Lio Wong giving a tutorial on recursive social reasoning using MEMO github.com/kach/memo
Fun fact: those flowers between them and 🗻 are called "cosmos".
Collab notebook here to follow along 👉 cosmossummerschool.github.io/materials/#g...

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henrivdd.bsky.social @henrivdd.bsky.social · 7d

The first lecture of the day at #COSMOSTokyo is on various social and strategic learning scenarios and their underlying neurocomputational mechanisms, by Lusha Zhu (www.lushazhu.com)

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

Shifting the spotlight from dominance towards shared decision-making in collective groups @damienfarine.bsky.social #COSMOS2025

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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 8d

@thecharleywu.bsky.social is giving our second tutorial explaining how we can study complex social behaviour through computational models. As always, code and demo are available in the website! cosmossummerschool.github.io/notebooks/tu...

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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 8d

The first lecture of #COSMOSTokyo given by @lucymaplin.bsky.social showing a variety of innovations in birds reported in the citizen science app! www.spotteron.net/apps/regiona...

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

Up now at #COSMOS2025 @lucymaplin.bsky.social presenting work on social learning and cultural inheritance in wild great tits 🐦

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

Key dimensions of social learning problems. @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social giving the first tutorial of #COSMOS2025 As always, course materials are opening available on our website cosmossummerschool.github.io/materials/

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

Tatsuya Kameda giving the opening keynote at #COSMOS2025 (photo care of @henrivdd.bsky.social)

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Simon Ciranka @simyciri.bsky.social · 9d

😍 Our latest is out now in @commspsychol.nature.com. 🤩 We show with Bayesian modelling and experimental manipulation of uncertainty that developmental differences in social influence depend on differences in the internal uncertainty people have about their choice
doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Internal uncertainty impacts social information use in risky choice across adolescence - Communications Psychology

Adolescents’ choices are influenced by others. A social risky choice experiment and Bayesian modelling reveal that age differences in internal uncertainty, being unsure how to choose, relate to differences in susceptibility to social influence.

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 8d

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

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