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Adam Sanborn

@asanborn.bsky.social
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Professor in Psychology at Warwick in the UK. Interested in computational models of human behaviour/behavior.

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Adam Sanborn @asanborn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We had a great audience for our #CogSci2026 tutorial on Autocorrelated Sampling in Cognition. Led by @lcastillo.bsky.social, with talks by @neilbramley.bsky.social, Bob Rehder, Stella Qian, and me. If you were not in Rio, the tutorial materials are here: lucas-castillo.github.io/mcmc-workshop/
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Adam Sanborn @asanborn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Generated examples from described risky choices have "flatter" probabilities
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Thanks Dr Deborah Talmi @dtalmi.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social for such an interesting talk on Bayesian modelling of subjective pain experiences. Nice to see the integration of basic and clinical science. 🧪
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Adam Sanborn @asanborn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The ability to generate random sequences is useful (e.g., making passwords, playing paper-rock-scissors, escaping predators), but people are not very good at it. @lcastillo.bsky.social led work showing this may reflect the general process of how things come to mind.
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Nicole Tang @nkytang.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
My department is moving to a new building. Last day in my soon-to-be -old office, taking a good look at the long windowless corridor, defunct letter boxes, 60s spiral stairwell and the Japanese garden.
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Next up, from the behavioural science group, @asanborn.bsky.social presenting his ESRC-funded project investigating the use of Bayesian sequential sampling for modelling human decision making.
Professor Adam Sanborn presenting
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
📢 We’re hiring! The University of Warwick is recruiting for a full-time, permanent academic position in Psychology, available at either: 🔹 Assistant Professor 🔹 Associate Professor 📅 Application deadline: 5th April 2026
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Assistant or Associate Professor (111338-0226) at University of Warwick
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
📢 We’re hiring! The University of Warwick is recruiting for a full-time, permanent academic position in Psychology, available at either: 🔹 Assistant Professor 🔹 Associate Professor 📅 Application deadline: 5th April 2026
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Assistant or Associate Professor (111338-0226) at University of Warwick
An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant or Associate Professor (111338-0226) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
📢 We’re hiring! The University of Warwick is recruiting for a full-time, permanent academic position in Psychology, available at either: 🔹 Assistant Professor 🔹 Associate Professor 📅 Application deadline: 5th April 2026
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Associate Professor (111338-0226) at University of Warwick
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Welcome back to Dr Lucas Castillo, who is starting an ESRC-funded postdoc with Prof. Adam Sanborn using statistical sampling algorithms as standard models of human perceptual and cognitive behaviour. Lucas recently gained his PhD in the department exploring why people are not able to act randomly.
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
🎓 Warwick China Scholarship Council scholarships – up to 30 for Autumn 2026 Entry Explore funding opportunities now! 🔗 warwick.ac.uk/servic... 📅 Deadlines: Course Apps – 8 Dec 2025 Scholarship Apps – 11 Dec 2025 #PhD #Scholarships #WarwickUni #PsychologyResearch #PostgradFunding
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
🎓 Warwick Pathway Scholarships – Autumn 2026 Entry Interested in research in Psychology? Explore funding opportunities now! 🔗 warwick.ac.uk/servic... 📅 Deadlines: Course Apps – 8 Dec 2025 Scholarship Apps – 11 Dec 2025 #PhD #Scholarships #WarwickUni #PsychologyResearch #PostgradFunding
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
🎓 Warwick China Scholarship Council scholarships – up to 30 for Autumn 2026 Entry Explore funding opportunities now! 🔗 warwick.ac.uk/servic... 📅 Deadlines: Course Apps – 8 Dec 2025 Scholarship Apps – 11 Dec 2025 #PhD #Scholarships #WarwickUni #PsychologyResearch #PostgradFunding
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
🎓 Warwick Chancellors Scholarships (international)– Autumn 2026 Entry Interested in research in Psychology? Explore funding opportunities now! 🔗 warwick.ac.uk/servic... 📅 Deadlines: Course Apps – 8 Dec 2025 Scholarship Apps – 11 Dec 2025 #PhD #Scholarships #PsychologyResearch #PostgradFunding
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🎓 Warwick Postgrad Scholarships – Autumn 2026 Entry Interested in research in Psychology? Explore funding opportunities now! 🔗 warwick.ac.uk/servic... 📅 Deadlines: Course Apps – 8 Dec 2025 Scholarship Apps – 11 Dec 2025 #PhD #Scholarships #WarwickUni #PsychologyResearch #PostgradFunding
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Excited about starting a PhD in Psychology? 🎓 Don't miss out on the opportunity to apply for the ESRC Midlands Graduate School DTP Open competition! The deadline is on 13th January 2026. Apply now to fund your academic journey:
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ESRC PhD Studentships in the Social Sciences in the Midlands Graduate School at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
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Antti Oulasvirta @oulasvirta.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Prof. Adam Sanborn giving a talk on Bayesian Brain without Probabilities at Aalto
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Antti Oulasvirta @oulasvirta.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
On Friday, @ainiputkonen.bsky.social defended her dissertation on modeling decision-making in naturalistic settings with Prof. Adam Sanborn as the opponent. It has been a joy to watch her grow and emerge as a rigorous and original researcher. Congrats Aini! aaltodoc.aalto.fi/items/cf8487...
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Adam Sanborn @asanborn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
We've received funding from the ESRC to investigate if sampling models can explain perceptual and cognitive tasks in the same way. One of the postdoc positions is advertised: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/D... 1/2
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Research Fellow (110542-0525) at University of Warwick
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
OECS thematic collections.
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Adam Sanborn @asanborn.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Lucas Castillo @lcastillo.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🚀🚀 Very excited about this new preprint with @yunxiao-li.bsky.social and @asanborn.bsky.social! Months ago we released the samplr package on CRAN (helps you use sampling algorithms + cogn. models for human data). Here we explain the theoretical background and show how to use the pkg osf.io/ax8hm
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Adam Sanborn @asanborn.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Our lab has a list of papers that use statistical sampling algorithms like MCMC to explain human behaviour. Thanks to @lcastillo.bsky.social, you can select by behaviour or algorithm. If we've missed any, please let us know! sampling.warwick.ac....
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
A new approach to intertemporal choice.
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Delay preference in intertemporal choice: Sooner or later OR faster or slower?
Intertemporal choices are conventionally conceived as decisions about whether to be better off sooner or later. As a reflection of this, most experime…
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Welcome back to Dr. Jake Spicer, who returns to Warwick Psychology to begin his ESRC New Investigator project, "Investigating Sampling Approaches to Decision Making"
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We are recruiting for two 1-year teaching-focussed positions. We welcome applicants in a wide range of areas, with a particular focus on social psychology for one of the posts. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML866/a...
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Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed) or Teaching Fellow (110378-0325) - (Two Posts) at University of Warwick
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Henrik Singmann @singmann.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
New paper with Tong Liu and Arndt Broeder, just accepted in Cognition. We test novel qualitative predictions from sampling-based models of probability estimation in an event ranking task. Results provide evidence for the idea that mental sampling underlies probability judgements.
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Thomas Hills @thomhills.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Here's a network lesson on #creativity @yoedkenett.bsky.social and I came up: How to be more creative? Get noisy! Try lots of things. It's the old exploration-exploitation trade-off, and good practice when you don't know what to do. DM for a copy of the paper. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
⏳Last chance to apply! Don’t miss out.
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Joakim Sundh @joakimsundh.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Very pleased that the special section I've edited with some colleagues (none of them on Bluesky, unfortunately) on Enriching Psychological Research by Exploring the Source and Nature of Noise is now published in PPS! Links to all of the articles in the section below. doi.org/10.1177/1745...
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Enriching Psychological Research by Exploring the Source and Nature of Noise - Joakim Sundh, Philip Millroth, August Collsiöö, Peter Juslin, 2025
In psychological research, noise is often considered a nuisance that obscures rather than contributes information. This simplification overlooks that noise can ...
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Adam Sanborn @asanborn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
"Noise in Cognition: Bug or Feature?" is now available in Perspectives on Psychological Science doi.org/10.1177/1745... (1/4)
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Rasmus Bruckner @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
🚀 New paper out in Psychological Review! How does learning change across the lifespan? We propose that resource rationality—adapting belief updating to cognitive limitations—can explain age-related differences in learning. 📖 doi.org/10.1037/rev0... 👇 A short thread:
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Yun-Xiao Li / 李云箫 @yunxiao-li.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
🚨 A new preprint is out! How does utility influence mental simulations of risky events? 🤔🎲 We tested this across 4 experiments & found that most people simulate probabilities accurately, but biases emerge in key conditions! If you want to learn more, keep reading! doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Lucas Castillo @lcastillo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New Preprint Out! 🚀🚀 Can people generate a random sequence if given enough time? Keep reading if - You make cognitive models with randomness in them - You like to explore the world, be creative, choose well - You want protection from clever agents exploiting patterns in your behavior. osf.io/awg9j
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Adam Sanborn @asanborn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
A short intro to MCMC in Cognitive Science in the excellent OECS
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Aidan Tee @aidan-sj-tee.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
In our new preprint, my co-authors and I explore how people’s probability judgments sometimes don’t add up the way they should, and how these violations can help us compare different models of how people make these judgments! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Nicole Tang @nkytang.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
🎓 4 PhD Fellowships at Warwick Psychology for 25/26 entry www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI727/p... -3 for exciting projects led by Drs Alex Clarke, @gambichiara.bsky.social & @mmrobinson93.bsky.social -1 open to applicants with their own choice of supervisor/ proposal. Closing date: 16 March 2025 at 23:59
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