why is it that the RNN folks in comp neuro make especially accessible tutorials that guide entry into research-level material? are there similar examples in any other subfields of comp neuro / ML? youtube.com/watch?v=k5bQnP…

Super excited to finally release this handbook on writing good research code. Based on my experiences going from research to industry and research again. goodresearch.dev

Did an in-person presentation for the first time in 2.5 years! I was internally panicking from the start and my brain went blank in the last 20 minutes but I survived. Probably because of the engaging crowd with such nice ideas:) Its so nice to be in-person with colleagues!

New preprint led by Ariel Goldstein provides evidence that IFG (Broca’s area) encodes language using a continuous vectorial representation ("brain embeddings") with strikingly similar geometry to contextual embeddings derived from deep language models: doi.org/10.1101/2022.0…

I'm beyond excited to share that I'll be joining the Psychology Department and Health Equity Research Center at WSU Pullman as an Assistant Professor starting in Jan 2023! It's been a journey, y'all and I feel so grateful to everyone who helped me get here!😃

🚨NEW PREPRINT w/ David Broockman. We conducted a real-world experiment to study the effects of partisan media. In Sept 2020, we paid people who normally watch Fox News to instead watch CNN. Median person was paid $15/hour for 7 hrs/week for 4 wks to watch CNN. Thread on results 1/

People like to say Twitter isn't real life--it's too partisan and politicized. Our new preprint w/ K0k!l J and Yphtach Lelkes ("The Political Landscape of the U.S. Twitterverse") suggests that, actually, maybe it is: Politics is a sideshow on here. OSF: osf.io/w98ms/🧵 1/n

This repo contains all my notes for the "Introduction to Deep Learning" course from MIT. The notes are great for studying fundamentals and new topics in ML. I put them in Notion so you can easily extend them. More exciting ML content is on its way! github.com/dair-ai/ML-Cou…

I am beyond delighted to share that Shige Oishi is joining The University of Chicago Psychology faculty this July! Shige is an inspirational social psychologist focusing on culture, well-being, and social ecology. Also he is an amazing colleague and mentor. I can’t wait to learn from him.

The MCN Lab at UChicago Psychology is recruiting PhD students! We study how goals, motivation and emotions affect perception, decision-making and social cognition w/ fMRI, computational models, and NLP methods. Applications due 12/1 - join us! More info at: mcnlab.uchicago.edu

Excited to announce that my first first-authored paper is out now in Science Advances doi.org/10.1126/sciadv… We collected 1 million+ memory ratings to show that semantic properties best explain what we remember. Major thanks to Wilma Bainbridge Martin Hebart Chris Baker

The SCENE lab at WSU labs.wsu.edu/scene-lab/ is recruiting a #PhD student in experimental psychology this year WSU Pullman! We study #environmentalpsychology from an interdisciplinary lens - looking broadly at how exposure to different environments affects us. Please share!

In my preprint with Wilma Bainbridge, we tried to train participants to learn image memorability. Though they improved slightly, participants never reached the level of the DNN ResMem, suggesting that we are unable to access memorability’s full variance: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I'm hiring (several) postdocs Knowledge Lab this year and over the next 5 years at the University of Chicago in AI, Data and Computer Science, Computational Social Science, Tech Policy, Science of Science and Innovation, and more! Check out ads (and please forward to your favorite

In this new preprint we use data from millions of online chess games to show that mechanisms of reinforcement learning and social learning that are normally studied in the lab influence complex decisions that are learned over months, such as how to start a game of chess.

Joey beat me to posting again, but I am beyond excited to share my first paper in the Awh Vogel lab! The highlights are in the title - we looked at neural signatures of spatial attention and WM load simultaneously and found that they are independently manipulable!

Excited to share my first first-authored paper, just published in Emotion Review! 🎉 We explore the interaction between gestures and emotions, discussing key challenges and future directions. Big thanks to my coauthors; my lifelong mentor Tilbe Göksun and amazing Demet Özer

Preprint alert! After 4 years, I’m super excited to share work with Charley Wu (@thecharleywu.bsky.social) Sam Gershman Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI on the rise and fall of technological development in virtual communities in #OneHourOneLife #ohol 🧵👇 doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

"Drawings reveal changes in object memory, but not spatial memory, across time" 📢New paper from: Emma Megla, Samuel Rosenthal, & Wilma Bainbridge sciencedirect.com/science/articl…