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Huge congratulations to Senior Lecturer Daniel Yon, who has been announced as this year’s winner of the Experimental Psychology Society Prize! The annual award recognises distinguished, independent & original contributions to experimental psychology: bit.ly/3QMiNhN

Many thanks to Philip Gerrans for a generous and penetrating review of Cognitive Gadgets in the British J Philosophy of Science

Learning to imitate for cultural inheritance with a lean starter kit - from some very smart people at Google DeepMind nature.com/articles/s4146… ESLR Society

Quick thread on inheritance tax: Something that is massively under-discussed in this debate is how the “it’s unfair” argument is completely flipped on its head when you consider it from the perspective of the next generation instead of the person passing on the inheritance.

Saying goodbye to 2023 with Dr Salter’s Daydream lookup.london/dr-salter-scul… Happy new year.

An Open Address to the Jewish Mainstream - by Brian Klug contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-current…

We're looking for a new PhD student to come and work with us on the topics of cognitive control and reinforcement learning! Deadline April 26th. For more information, please see users.ugent.be/~sbraem/. Ghent Center for Cognitive Neuroscience

In this episode, Greg talks with Michael Strevens from New York University, exploring the balance between empirical data and the broader intellectual landscape in scientific inquiry. Check the full episode at buff.ly/43yFrju

Dan Dennett was a great philosopher, a kind and gentle man, and a dear friend to me and many others. We shall all be poorer without his wisdom, and I shall miss him immeasurably.

Cecilia Heyes' 2018 book Cognitive Gadgets has revolutionized how I think about human nature. overcomingbias.com/p/hail-cecilia…

"The cognitive processes that make cognitive inheritance of facts & skills possible, they are themselves culturally inherited. Now in a way that idea is deeply scary. It suggest that within very few generations a society could, for example, completely change the kinds of models

Robin Hanson Cecilia Heyes is a great experimentalist & theorist. Her work on the development of imitation - basically disproving "mirror neurons" - was both fantastic (and against the crowd at the time). Deeply influenced me in grad school for the better...

Interview with Cecilia Heyes about her book Cognitive Gadgets. Discusses various "cognitive gadgets" such as literacy and imitation, which Heyes argues are not biologically programmed, but culturally evolved feats of cognition. The Nature & Nurture Podcast Cecilia Heyes thepodcastbrowser.com/cecilia-heyes-…

Calling academics thinking of doing a sabbatical in 2025–2026... All Souls College Visiting Fellowships now open for applications. Deadline 2 Sept. Come visit us University of Oxford! For more information see: asc.ox.ac.uk/visiting-fello…

Joe Henrich Hmm, don't recognise this quote from Cecilia Heyes The closest match I can see in the book is from page 2 where she says something more measured: "they are products of cultural rather than genetic evolution". That's not the same as saying they are "untouched by genetic evolution"

“Social learning in models and minds” Now out in Synthese (open access) w/ Cecilia Heyes link.springer.com/article/10.100… Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences Oxford ExpPsychology

We are recruiting two postdocs for an interdisciplinary NSF-funded project in collective behavior. Joint project with Seth Frey, now on 🦋🦋🦋(UC Davis), Dalton Conley (Princeton University), Ofer Tchernichovski(The City University of New York) and Nori Jacoby (Cornell University). Please forward this thread to relevant people! 1/n

A new book on “the everyday wonder of human conceptual thought” by the brilliant Nick Shea. Come for the seamless fusion of philosophy and cognitive science; stay for “the playground of thought”. Free pdf. philpapers.org/rec/SHECAT-11

All Souls College, University of Oxford, is advertising a senior academic position in philosophy. Closing date - 19 September 2025. #PhilosophyJob #PhilJobs #PhilosophyTwitter asc.ox.ac.uk/senior-researc…