New preprint PsyArXiv from Beau Sievers & me! "Deep social neuroscience: The promise and peril of using artificial neural networks to study the social brain" psyarxiv.com/fr4cb

Been off Twitter for a while. Truly amazing how much bad-take-surfacing technology has developed. I'm in awe.

Looking for a good citation for the scaling hypothesis: the claim that neural nets exhibit qualitatively different abilities at scale. Interesting to see that although it seems a lot of people privately believe this, the published literature is waaaaaaaaay more circumspect

I love this, Nick's is great, this is great, eat their pizza berkeleyside.org/2023/07/18/nic…

Cumulative culture must withstand environmental change🌍How? One possibility: people have many learning strategies at their disposal🧠 Imitation is optimal in stable environments. When circumstances change, causal models can help🌟 Work with @fierycushman! escholarship.org/uc/item/78c4w1…

It is widely believed that the planarian memory transfer experiments from the 1960s were flawed and non-replicable. They're now discussed only as a scientific cautionary tale. But the critiques themselves were flawed. This is actually a meta-scientific cautionary tale.

This year I am particularly looking for prospective graduate students who are interested in studying social cognition by using deep neural networks as cognitive models to explain the computations performed by social brain circuits.

My lab is on the lookout for a new full-time RA to join our team! Please spread the word, esp to folks who might be a good fit. More info and application link: acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri…

New paper from Beau Sievers & me, now out in SCAN! "Deep social neuroscience: The promise and peril of using artificial neural networks to study the social brain" Open access link🔓: doi.org/10.1093/scan/n…

When I'm not doing science I'm in the band MILM. Here's an animated lyric video for our song Banger. youtube.com/watch?v=4R0mpB…

We talk to share how we see the world. Here, we show that natural consensus-building conversation leads to future neural synchrony. Deeply satisfying to see this in print. With Chris Welker , Hasson Lab , Adam M. Kleinbaum , and Thalia Wheatley link.springer.com/article/10.103…

When Beau Sievers first presented this work in our lab, I remember everyone gasping for air. Fantastic idea and such beautiful methods and analysis. So ambitious. Check this out!

RIP Larry Polansky - a major influence, mentor, and friend to Indexical. Huge loss for the Santa Cruz music scene and greater experimental music community.

I’ve been waiting for this paper to come out for ages. Outstanding work from an amazing team.

What happens in our brains when we come to consensus? I’m super excited to finally share the first video in a series of #neuroscience animated explainers for Consortium for Interacting Minds youtu.be/ZmgJdih0g3I

Some very exciting news... after many, many, winter beards, I'm overjoyed to be joining sunny UCSD Psychology as an Asst Prof in Jan 2025! Looking to recruit folks interested in doing some fun science, while building some cool (and useful) toys! Details: eshinjolly.com/lab/

Please enjoy a new video by MILM and Alexander Dupuis. Every year we get together and make a record in a week. This song is from our first record, MILM I. youtu.be/lKGMV2998fA?si…