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NYU has two *Open Rank* Faculty Positions in Social Psychology We will consider applicants from all career stages and all areas of Social Psychology apply.interfolio.com/154805 We are especially interested in scholarship that takes novel quantitative & methodological approaches

The New York University social psychology area is hiring two open-rank tenure or tenure track faculty to start in the fall of 2025. Please consider applying, particularly if you have quantitative and methodological expertise you use in your science. apply.interfolio.com/154805

Please note the following if you've applied for the social psych position at NYU!

🤖🧠NOW OUT IN PNAS🧠🤖 Language models show many surprising behaviors. E.g., they can count 30 items more easily than 29 In Embers of Autoregression, we explain such effects by analyzing what LMs are trained to do pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Major updates since the preprint! 1/n

📢 PhD position in human, ape, or dog cognition Johns Hopkins University - please RT! We study how animals think, & what makes the human mind unique Deadline: Dec 1 Learn more here: social-cognitive-origins.com And here: social-cognitive-origins.com/join-our-team.… And in QT'd thread

This month is the one-year anniversary of the publication of my book, "Code to Joy". I'm happy to announce it's also the month of the release of the audiobook version of the book, which I narrate. Enjoy! The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social amazon.com/dp/B0DKG4KPWY

What does it take to build AI systems that meet our expectations and complement our limitations? Our Perspective on thought partners which engage deeply with computational cognitive science is now out in Nature Human Behaviour ! nature.com/articles/s4156…

Giuseppe Riva Anna Wexler Ashley Feinsinger Nils Köbis .Katie Collins et al. advance a new Perspective of how we can build systems that complement our limitations and can be considered thought partners. Ilia Sucholutsky Umang Bhatt Kartik Chandra (also on Mastodon and Bsky) Mina Lee xuan (ɕɥɛn / sh-yen) Mark Ho Vikash Mansinghka Adrian Weller [9/13] nature.com/articles/s4156…

(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049412/…

Shout out to my incredible co-authors: Sophia Sanborn (Sophia Sanborn), Mark Ho, Fred Callaway (Fred Callaway), Nathaniel Daw, & Tom Griffiths (Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab).

Thrilled that this is now out in Cognition! Really cool (and fun!) project on hierarchical planning led by the amazing carlos g. correa 🥳

Joint work with Sophia Sanborn (Sophia Sanborn), Mark Ho, Fred Callaway (Fred Callaway), Nathaniel Daw, & Tom Griffiths (Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab). More details are available in the preprint announcement. x.com/_cgcorrea/stat…

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

🚨 Mark Ho & I are recruiting a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction & computational psychiatry 💻 Ideal candidates have experience with multi-player web-based experiments & computational cognitive modeling 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/165809

🤔 Interested in models of social interaction and computational psychiatry? 🤗 If so, Shawn Rhoads and I are seeking a highly motivated and talented postdoc to work on these topics! Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/165809

Really excited for this workshop in August!

Are you considering attending CogSci Society this year? Come to our workshop, 'Reasoning Across Minds and Machines', which features an exciting lineup of interdisciplinary research in AI and CogSci about reasoning. The workshop is W2 and visible along with the main conference.

How do people teach? 🍎🧑‍🏫 We know mentalizing is important for teaching (eg simulating a learner's mind) but that can take effort 🤔 New work led by Sev Harootonian expands this picture by examining how people also teach with *less effortful heuristics*