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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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Adena Schachner @adenaschachner.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

However, yes, the rise of AI slop animal behavior videos is qualitatively different. The meaning of video is changing, and provenance/ source verification becoming central to any trust…

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Adena Schachner @adenaschachner.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I didn’t realize at the time how much YouTube was at a very particular moment in time that allowed for this. It was before monetization of online video content, before professional content creators. Even without AI, online videos had changed to be less authentic by even a few years later!

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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

This project was a joy to work on with a spectacular team: First author Rob Santiago, now a PhD student at Cornell; @asmithflores.bsky.social, now a prof at Lehigh; and Madison Pesowski, now a prof at UFV.

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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

Hmm, line of text at the bottom is not visible - Shirley Liu's poster on causal reasoning about defaults is at Sat 1:00-2:15, P3-L-115!

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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

thanks!! and yes... I'm very happy to have this paper out in its final form, after talking about these ideas at several conferences over the years!

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

Overall - we think these findings are exciting, as they provide a new mechanism by which music is linked to social cognition, show that people rationally infer social causes (“hidden agents”) for sounds they hear, and raise questions about developmental change in children's reasoning about sound!

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

Again, younger children failed: 4 year old children did not systematically pick any answer. Altogether, our data shows developmental change. 4 year old children may fail to integrate auditory & visual information in causal reasoning, and develop this ability by age 6 years.

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

If people are using Bayesian causal reasoning, then their reasoning should be flexible, allowing for other inferences too. In a second experiment, we found evidence of this: 6yo children and adults also used musical sounds' timing to infer the structure of the visual environment.

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

By 6 years, kids' causal reasoning about music was adult-like: They integrated auditory and visual information to judge when a hidden agent was present. Younger kids differed: 4yo's judged that an agent was present when they heard orderly sounds, and ignored relevant visual information entirely.

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

We find: Adults and 6yo children rationally infer the cause of musical sounds they hear. Exp1: They inferred the presence of a “hidden agent” from musical sounds’ timing. (When the timing required self-propelled movement to produce, they inferred the presence of a hidden agent, causing the sounds.)

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

We explore the development of this reasoning, motivated by findings that children below 6 years have failed to rationally integrate auditory-visual information in causal reasoning, in other tasks.

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

From early in life, and across cultures, music listening is linked with movement and the social world. Why? We test a new hypothesis. People may engage in causal reasoning about how musical sounds were generated, which intuitively links musical sounds with the agents and events that caused them.

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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

(With co-authors extraordinaire @asmithflores.bsky.social, Madison Pesowski (poster 90) and Minju Kim (Poster 52)!

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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

diversifyingpsychology.ucsd.edu

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

...and my wonderful students and trainees who make everything we do possible, and make doing science so much more meaningful and fun. @rtompkins.bsky.social @asmithflores.bsky.social @chaolanlin.bsky.social (+Minju Kim, Tanushree Agrawal, Madison Pesowski!) I'm looking forward to this new decade!

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

I am feeling so fortunate, and so grateful. Thank you to all of my family (particularly @timbrady.bsky.social, and my parents); my colleagues and mentors who have supported me (and contributed letters to the tenure process)...

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

Yesterday, on my birthday, I got the call from our department chair that I have officially received tenure, and an additional acceleration/ promotion as well (which I had not at all anticipated). The best timing — and the best 40th birthday present ever!

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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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Adena Schachner @adenaschachner.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

behaviorism considers the relation between behavior and the environment (rather than the mediating cognitive thoughts/feelings), is the contrast I’m thinking of

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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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Adena Schachner @adenaschachner.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Some guesses: negativity likely relates to work on how extrinsic reward can undermine intrinsic motivation, and also can be seen echoed in arguments against use of ABA therapy. Also lots of current parenting advice centers on recognizing/ taking seriously the thoughts and feelings of the child

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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.

vislearnlab.org

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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