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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

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Lindsey Powell @lindseypowell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

UCSD Psychology is hiring!! We’re seeking a new assistant professor colleague who studies high-level human cognition, broadly construed. Please share and/or apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04646

apol-recruit.ucsd.edu

Assistant Professor in High-level Human Cognition

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

**Please repost** If you're enjoying Paper Skygest -- our personalized feed of academic content on Bluesky -- we'd appreciate you reposting this! We’ve found that the most effective way for us to reach new users and communities is through users sharing it with their network

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Rodney Tompkins @rtompkins.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

New review paper on the development of friendship psychology/ cognition (w/ @zoeliberman.bsky.social): By age 6, children appear to recognize friendship as a ranking-based relationship with outstanding social expectations and obligations. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Young children's friendship expectations align with evolutionary frameworks

Across the lifespan, friends are critical social partners. Prominent evolutionary theories—such as the Banker's Paradox (Tooby & Cosmides, 1996)—propo…

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Adena Schachner @adenaschachner.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

New paper in Child Development! When we enter others' homes, we learn about them from the placement of their belongings. This requires integrating multiple social factors (social context, pref). We find 6+yo succeed at integration & 'read the room' in this way! academic.oup.com/chidev/artic...

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Reading the room: Children integrate multiple social factors to predict and interpret objects' locations

Abstract. Adults infer social information from objects' locations by integrating multiple causal factors, which is often challenging for children. To test

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Adena Schachner @adenaschachner.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I’m on-route to #CDS2026! Rodney Tompkins is presenting several streams of work across both my and Lindsey’s labs. In our poster, we find kids+adults make rich, nuanced social inferences about people from the presence of protective architecture in towns (fences, gates, walls) - P3-155, 1:15 Sat!

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Rodney Tompkins @rtompkins.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Attending CDS 2026? Consider joining us at the morning pre-conference workshop on intuitive theories of care and protection in development @cogdevsoc.bsky.social

Schedule of speakers for a morning pre-conference workshop at the 2026 meeting of the Cognitive Development Society in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

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Martin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I'm hiring a new lab manager for my lab @ UCSD! For more info on the lab, check out our website: lillab.ucsd.edu Target start date is June 1 (flexible) and application deadline is March 26. Please share with anyone you think might be a good fit! Apply here: employment.ucsd.edu/laboratory-c...

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Laboratory Coordinator - 138788

Laboratory Coordinator - 138788 | Careers at UC San Diego

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Adena Schachner @adenaschachner.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I and my lab are happy to be at #cogsci2025! Here's a shortcut to find work from the fabulous folks in my lab (and me) 😄

On Wednesday:
Adena Schachner, talk: "Intuitive Archeology: Social reasoning from the physical world”, W ~10 am, Fourth Level (Pacific) Room A.
Chaolan Lin & Adena Schachner, poster: "How children explore and detect augmented reality filters", W 10-11 am, Fourth level (Pacific) Room E.
On Thursday:
Amy Nguyễn, Rodney Tompkins & Adena Schachner, poster, "When walls talk: People make social inferences from towns’ protective features", Th 1:00-2:15, P1-T-194
On Saturday:
Chaolan Lin & Adena Schachner, poster, "Perceived musicality in an android increases positive social attributions", Sat 1:00-2:15, P3-L-113
Shirley Liu, Craig McKenzie & Adena Schachner, poster, "When Default Options Explain Away Preferences: A Causal Reasoning Account of Mental State Reasoning from Default Options ", Sat 1:00-2:15, P3-L-11

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Adena Schachner @adenaschachner.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

⭐ Out now in Developmental Science ⭐ "Sounds of Hidden Agents: The development of causal reasoning about musical sounds" (by Minju Kim and me) causal reasoning, music/auditory cognition, event reconstruction, kids' integration of information... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Brandon Woo @brandonwoo.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Come check out our symposium at #SRCD2025: "Navigating social groups and relationships"! There'll be talks by Sarah Ramsey, Rongzhi Liu, @rtompkins.bsky.social, and me. Thursday at 10 am.

The symposium title (Navigating social groups and relationships: Children’s developing sense of belonging and social connection) and the titles and author lists of each of the talks

1. Minimal group and racial/ethnic attitudes among US minority and majority race/ethnic children
Sarah Ramsey, Brenda Straka, Ashley Jordan, Alisha Osornio, Mayling Halim, Kristin Pauker, Kristina Olson, Yarrow Dunham, and Sarah Gaither

2. How social relationships guide girls’ interests in brilliance-associated activities
Rongzhi Liu, Vanessa Lazaro, and Lin Bian

3. The origins of social evaluations of sleep arrangements
Rodney Tompkins and Adena Schachner

4. Developing intuitions that close others know the content of each other’s minds
Brandon Woo, Emma Yu, Megan Richardson, and Ashley Thomas

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Adena Schachner @adenaschachner.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

#SRCD25, I and my lab are here! Come see @rtompkins.bsky.social on social reasoning from sleep arrangements-Th 10-11:20am talk 3, room 200B; R Santiago on how children use objects’ placements to learn about people-Fri 10:50 Poster 90; & K Han on the origins of dance in infancy-Sat 10:30, Poster 52!

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Eshin Jolly @eshjolly.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Interested in working with me and/or any of my awesome colleagues at @UCSDPsychology for grad-school? Come check out this virtual event that @asmithflores.bsky.social organized for next week! Registration deadline this Friday (Oct 11)! diversifyingpsychology.ucsd.edu

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Diversifying Psychology Event

Thursday, October 17, 2024 & Friday, October 18, 2024

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Alexis Smith-Flores @asmithflores.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Many of our faculty panelists are looking to accept students this cycle (@brialong.bsky.social @adenaschachner.bsky.social @nadiabrashier.bsky.social to name a few), so it’s a chance to hear from them before you apply! Come spend two days learning about our program! We can’t wait to meet you! 3/4

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Adena Schachner @adenaschachner.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

For years, I’ve been saying it was interesting that I would probably hear back about whether I would get tenure (or not) just around my 40th birthday. Well — the best version of this just happened.

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Adena Schachner @adenaschachner.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

Correction: our talk on hearing water temperature is now a bit earlier, at 3:20 today!!

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Adena Schachner @adenaschachner.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

Looking forward to CDS 2024! Come hear about: Kids’ perspective-taking over video chat (Chaolan Lin); hearing water temperature (Tanushree Agrawal); expectations about shared sleep arrangements (Rodney Tompkins); and social reasoning about placement of possessions (Rob Santiago)!

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Lindsey Powell @lindseypowell.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

It's CDS week!! The SoCal Lab will be there, looking forward to lots of science & fun. Here are some places you'll be able to find us:

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Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

New Substack! smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/how-to-giv...

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Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Hi Bluesky! I'm recruiting graduate students and postdocs to launch the Visual Learning Lab with me at UC San Diego in Summer/Fall 2024! The lab will focus on how we learn to derive visual meaning, integrating methods from developmental psychology, machine learning, & vision science.

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Home | The Visual Learning Lab at UCSD

Lab webpage for the Visual Learning Lab at UCSD, lead by Dr. Bria Long, Ph.D. Launching in July 2024!

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Adena Schachner @adenaschachner.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

New job alert - UC San Diego Psych is looking to hire an Assistant Prof using computational approaches to understand behavior and/or its neural mechanisms. (I can vouch for our dept. & city as a great place to live, work, & do science!) Apps due Nov 7: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03684

apol-recruit.ucsd.edu

Assistant Professor - Computational Basis of Behavior (Department of Psychology)

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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Adena Schachner @adenaschachner.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

NEW job alert, social psychologists - the UC San Diego Psych Dept is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in social psychology! (I can vouch for our dept. & city as a great place to live, work, & do science!) Applications are due November 7: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03683

apol-recruit.ucsd.edu

Assistant Professor - Social Psychology

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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Lindsey Powell @lindseypowell.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

🚨Job Alert x2! UCSD Psych has two assistant professor openings this year: 1. Computational approaches to understanding behavior and/or its neural mechanisms. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03684 2. Social psych, broadly defined. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03683 Apply for either (or both?) by November 7th!

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Adena Schachner @adenaschachner.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

I’ll be joining this virtual event too — and I’m also looking to recruit a grad student this cycle!

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