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Roman Feiman @romanfeiman.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The complete destruction of American cognitive science is happening right now

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The Academic Resistance @academicresistance.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

The Trump admin has gutted the NSF’s independence, cutting fellowships, slashing grants, blocking DEI & climate research, and politicizing science funding like never before. This is a full-on crisis for U.S. innovation and academic freedom. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Under Trump, NSF faces worst crisis in its 75-year history

Political directives have undermined agency's independence and record of supporting the best basic research

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Daphna Buchsbaum @daphnab.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

AI and the Mind job at Brown. Come work with us!

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Computational Cognitive Development Lab @cocodevlab.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

CoCoDev Lab’s Rebekah Gelpí presented a talk, entitled "Resource-rational belief revision can mitigate as well as amplify polarization", at this year’s CogSci conference. This work is part of a project funded by the @templetonworld.bsky.social's Listening and Learning in a Polarized World program.

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ManyDogs Project @manydogsproject.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2! 🔍🐕‍🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them? Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!

A white and gray dog touches a yellow dot hanging on the wall with his nose. Text says ManyDogs 2 - Join the Team!

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 30/04/2025

UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days. We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.

Screenshot of table showing number of grants and total value terminated by NSF directorate. STEM Education directorate is highlighted, with 417 terminations totaling 322 million dollars.

CSV of table:
Directorate,No. Terminated,Total Value
Biological Sciences,46,"$27,960,075"
Computer and Information Science and Engineering,85,"$44,630,113"
Engineering,94,"$33,472,485"
Geosciences,52,"$36,454,740"
Mathematical and Physical Sciences,30,"$6,418,312"
Office of the Director,7,"$4,859,738"
STEM Education,417,"$322,680,063"
"Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences",266,"$77,635,904"
"Technology, Innovation and Partnerships",46,"$62,231,309"

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Daphna Buchsbaum @daphnab.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

My child just referred to talking as mouth texting I am dying

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Mark Ho @markkho.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

I'm looking for a postdoc interested in computational cognitive modeling and deep reinforcement learning! Submit a CV and references here: apply.interfolio.com/150309 Intended starting date is early Fall 2024 Please share with anyone who might be interested!

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Daphna Buchsbaum @daphnab.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

Hello friends! My lab is looking for a full time lab manager to start any time between now and the fall semester. If you or someone you know might be interested please get in touch! sites.brown.edu/cocodevlab/

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Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · 09/04/2024

🚨 New article 🚨 I'm super excited that our systematic review of impulsivity as a behavioral trait in dogs is out! 🐶 The article is freely available (for now) at doi.org/10.46867/ijc... Learn more about it on my blog: jeffreyrstevens.github.io/posts/impuls... #dogs #impulsivity #meta-analysis

Brown dogs laying down staring a treat nearby

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Daphna Buchsbaum @daphnab.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

Looking forward to my first Cognitive Development Society conference since 2019 (I caught COVID for the last one in 2022). Come see some posters from my lab!

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The Mind & Morality Lab @ Brown University @mindandmoralitylab.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

We are recruiting a full-time lab manager to start in July 2024. If you're interested, please consider applying here: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-... Do not hesitate to reach out via email (to julia_marshall1@brown.edu) if you have questions about the position!!

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 29/02/2024

...Not just hard, but with low enough funding rate + high enough uncertainty about timelines /scale, I think it's actually *impossible* to robustly end up with just the right amount of work you've obligated yourself to do. I kinda want to make this model and prove that there's no good strategy here.

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Daphna Buchsbaum @daphnab.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

My 12 year old has taken to telling me that for someone who studies cognitive development I sure don’t know how kids’ minds work, and it’s as charming as it sounds

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Reminder that moralization is the process of converting a directed PGM to an undirected PGM by forcing all parent nodes to marry.

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Every field has at least a few terms that sound absolutely ridiculous to anyone who hasn't heard them before and I want to hear yours

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Daphna Buchsbaum @daphnab.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

I’m so excited about this work on abstract reasoning across primate species just coming out with Elisa!!!

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Dr. Gita Gnanadesikan @ggnanadesikan.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

We're excited to report that Neurophysin I (oxytocin's carrier protein) is an analytically robust surrogate biomarker for oxytocin in humans & it's easier to measure (no extraction + short EIA)! Work already underway to extend to other species. authors.elsevier.com/a/1iOVg15hUd...

Screenshot of paper title and authors in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology. Neurophysin I is an analytically robust surrogate biomarker for oxytocin. Evan L. MacLean, Elizabeth Carranza, Gitanjali E. Gnanadesikan, Katherine M. King, Alicia M. Allen, Linnea B. Linde-Krieger, Ruth Feldman, Rosemary C. White-Traut, Elizabeth A.D. Hammock, C. Sue Carter, Gareth Leng, Stacey R. Tecot, Aleeca F. Bell

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Dr. Gita Gnanadesikan @ggnanadesikan.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

My first dissertation paper is finally out in Behavior Genetics! “Transposons in the Williams–Beuren Syndrome Critical Region are Associated with Social Behavior in Assistance Dogs” Link: rdcu.be/dtyyt 🐕‍🦺🧬1/8

"Transposons in the Williams–Beuren Syndrome Critical Region are Associated with Social Behavior in Assistance Dogs", timeline of dog's life and data collection (described below), figure with beta estimates (described below), photo of working service dog and text "Insertions in GTF2I strongly associated with decreased behavioral issues and moderately associated with increased training success (odds-ratio = 1.25)."/ "Gnanadesikan et al. 2023"

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Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

As if you needed more reasons to attend #CDS2024: I'm excited to be speaking at the Early Career Symposium as one of the Early Career speakers. I'm even more excited to be doing it alongside my dear friend Dr. Miller-Cotto (@damcotto.bsky.social) cogdevsoc.org/invited-spea...

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Daphna Buchsbaum @daphnab.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

What are people’s thoughts on semester long vs. year long sabbaticals? Is a year worth it, or is a semester + summer already good enough? In this specific case, a pay cut is involved for a year, but it would not delay the next sabbatical. Inquiring minds who are me want to know!

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Daphna Buchsbaum @daphnab.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Continuing my series, "Cool things my lab published during the pandemic that I'm belatedly publicizing" (acronym?), children use pragmatics to evaluate the strength of disagreement in conflicting testimony, and follow majority info more often in more normative domains sites.brown.edu/cocodevlab/p...

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Pham, T., & Buchsbaum, D. (2020). Children’s use of majority information is influenced by pragmati...

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

My op-ed is out today in the NY Times! I wrote about the surprising evidence that school-based mental health programs make teens feel worse, the proliferation of social media mental health content, & the value of comprehensive solutions to promote youth mental health. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/o...

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Opinion | This Is Not the Way to Help Depressed Teenagers

Large-scale, “light touch” interventions have backfired.

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Daphna Buchsbaum @daphnab.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Please enjoy the first installment in my new, intermittently updating series, "Cool things my lab published during the pandemic and then didn't publicize, so here I am doing it belatedly". First up, dogs follow human pointing gestures selectively, by Maddie Pelgrim: doi.org/10.1007/s100...

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What’s the point? Domestic dogs’ sensitivity to the accuracy of human informants - Animal Cognit...

Dogs excel at understanding human social-communicative gestures like points and can distinguish between human informants who vary in characteristics such as knowledge or familiarity. This study explor...

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Dan Mirman @danmirman.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Come join the awesome cognitive science community in Edinburgh! School of Informatics is hiring a Lecturer/Reader (Assistant/Associate Prof) in Computational Cognitive Science www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDN044/l...

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 14/11/2023

Hi all! We have TWO tenure track open positions in psychology available at the University of Melbourne (equivalent to assistant and associate professor). Come join us and please share widely. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/mob/en/job/9...

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Daphna Buchsbaum @daphnab.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

I often think fondly of The Future is Wild, a 2002 wildlife “documentary” set 5-200 million years in the future, featuring David Attenborough-style narration of the future wildlife, including squibbon (monkey-like squids), flish (literal flying fish) and a variant of the termite called the terabyte

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Daphna Buchsbaum @daphnab.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Hello friends! I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students At Brown University for fall 2024. This year, I'm especially (but not exclusively!) looking for students interested in comparative approaches and canine cognition, and students with strong computational backgrounds sites.brown.edu/cocodevlab/r...

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Daphna Buchsbaum @daphnab.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Hello, world. Where Have I arrived?

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