🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Graduating PhDs and postdocs in AI, ML, Cogsci, or related areas: apply to work with me and others on AI models of visual and multimodal reasoning. Two years of funding with possible extension to a third year. Application deadline November 22. santafe.edu/about/jobs/pos…

Yes exactly!

Join us in celebrating David Rumelhart, James McClelland, and Geoffrey Hinton — winners of the 2024 Golden Goose Award 👏👏👏 Learn more about their groundbreaking work and its lasting impact on science and society at cognitivesciencesociety.org/golden-goose-a… #GoldenGooseAward #CogSci

My colleague Idan Blank (not on X these days) asked me to spread the word about the ***2025 LSA Summer Institute*** :) He's teaching "Language and Thought" and "Language in Intelligent Machines". Reg opens later but you can check out the courses now center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/

“I'd also like to acknowledge my students (…) they've gone on to do many great things. I'm particularly proud of the fact that one of my students fired Sam Altman.“ 😳🫡

Friends! I am looking for PhD and Masters students to join my group for Fall 2025, Please share with students you may know who are interested in the intersection of language, CogSci, and AI! first deadline is Dec 1st, see my page for more info: evaportelance.github.io/prosstudents.h…

Always great to chat to Melanie Mitchell ! ❤️ to Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 and steven t. piantadosi despite (and because!) of our complicated (and productive!) pattern of (dis)agreements!

Can people truly reason? On this definition, no. They can’t even tell you if a number is even or odd reliably - sapir.psych.wisc.edu/papers/lupyan_… pattern matching all around 🤷‍♂️ (Andrew Lampinen )

It’s never too late to discover the wonderful field of cognitive science. At cognitive science, researchers have been intently studying cognition from a number of complementary perspectives for decades. Come on inside and take a look; we guarantee you’ll be as puzzled as we are.

So happy to see our paper finally out in Current Biology ! 🥳 Link: cell.com/current-biolog…

A vision science classic from Li Zhaoping that I somehow overlooked till now: feeding the top images into your left/right eyes gives the bottom percept, but most people still saccade first to the isolated right-eye bar even though there’s nothing consciously different about it.

Oof. Brutal!

This was a fun collaboration w/Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab exploring the conditions under which explicit verbal thinking (or CoT / thinking step by step) *impairs* LLM performance. We drew on work in cognitive psychology to generate new predictions, with exciting results!

🚨🚨🚨UT Austin Linguistics is hiring more computational linguists! One at the assistant prof level, one at the associate level. Happy to chat more about this! See ad here: apply.interfolio.com/158280

Philly being Philly. "F around and find out"

"For years to come, there are many people on the right... that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump." -Marco Rubio (2016), who was just named Trump's Secretary of State

UW-Madison Psychology is hiring a new assistant professor in the area of computational approaches to language (broadly construed). Please share with interested parties! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant…

Our dept's summer PREP program-an NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates-is an immersive mentored research experience and prof. development for undergrads w an interest in a career in research in Psych. Send your students our way! psych.wisc.edu/nsf-reu-site-p…