We're still accepting applications for a PhD candidate position in the @alignAI_DN project until 4 November! The student will work in the iSearch group, under the supervision of Prof. Azzurra Ruggeri. See details below 👇

📢 Open PhD student position in our group! Please share: The iSearch lab at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is advertising an EU-funded doctoral position in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network project "alignAI".  https://t.co/blmJV0QYG3

I'm rarely on X/twitter these days so it's a nice surprise to log in and see this being shared. :) The fruits of a collaboration with Sebastian Grueneisen in Berlin, had fun working on this!

Today we remember Oliver Sacks. A naturalist, a writer, a psychonaut, but first and foremost a physician and explorer of the human condition. In this clip from a lecture he gave at Vanderbilt University in 1999, he talks about how many different "ways of being" there are.

While our corporeal forms remain in New Haven, you may virtually converse with me, @Mika_Asaba, @MarleneBerke, and @Isaac_Davis_8c at CogSci 2023!

New paper out in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters! This work demonstrates that embedding human social cognitive preferences into collaborative robots during a handover task can increase the perceived comfort of the interaction.

Someone figured out you could use Stable Diffusion (+ControlNet) to adapt QRs into images while still having them work reliably: https://t.co/lKPJDF9gvr

Relevant again. We’re kicking DUCOG 2023 off today! 🤩 very excited for this year’s conference ☺️ #ducog #dubrovnik

“The dead” - okay 😀 is it because we miss them? envy them for having passed on? I need more details.

I invite applications for a 3-year postdoctoral position, on a project titled “The role of infants’ emerging self-perspective in memory development”, at @DEVOMINDLab @CopenhagenPsych Job ad: https://t.co/fZFTB1Gnui for more info, get in touch with me :) spread the word!

Elsevier is losing editors

The 2023 edition of my long-running anti-establishment art-science-fusion code-therapy smooth-baritone causal inference & Bayesian data analysis course is complete. 20 lectures, from the basics of causal inference & Bayesian updating to mixed models & Gaussian processes. 1/2

📣 The deadline for submitting your abstracts to DUCOG is next week, 28 Feb - Abstracts from ALL AREAS of cognitive science may be submitted, not just within the scope of the year’s topic!🙂Please RT

🦉New paper out with @hugoreasoning in RoPP, in which we review evidence for several ways expressions of intellectual humility can serve reputation management purposes: 🧵 (1/6)

“The only machine overlord I will ever bow down to” she mumbles as she tweets on the phone that has almost fused with her hand over time. HBD to the moka maker 😍 #kotyogóslife

@UniKonstanz @washingtonpost @CBehav @animaltracking I wish you were tweeting or emailing with the aim to extend solidarity and support for your Turkish, Kurdish and Syrian students and staff instead of tweeting about the science behind how animals sense earthquakes!

I'm proud to announce a project that has been nearly 22 years in the making: Josh'es [sic] Book of ANIMALS 🦭 Since the age of nine I have been writing and illustrating my own animal encyclopedia, and as of last week I can confirm that it is finished...

Submit your abstracts and let’s meet at DUCOG in 2023, too! 📊🤓🌊🌞

I asked ChatGPT to rewrite Bohemian Rhapsody to be about the life of a postdoc, and the output was flawless:

When someone has the opportunity to help or hurt you, what they end up deciding contains information about how much they value you. Here I find that people spontaneously ask to observe the decisions that contain the highest expected amount of information. https://t.co/ksRRmdX1cV