iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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MindCORE at the University of Pennsylvania @pennmindcore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The MindCORE Fellows Application is open! We seek applications from recent PhDs in neuro, psych, ling, philo, comp sci, or other cog sci discipline for our 3-yr postdoc. MindCORE is Penn's interdisciplinary effort to understand human intelligence & behavior. mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/post-doctora...

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Had to do a double take this morning, like surely not?

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Love the new plans for the daycare center. Space for 200 kids, eh? Pretty impressive! Oh, how many parking spots should we add? Well, let’s see, we couldn’t need more than... eight, right? You’re right, you’re right, make it seven.

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey fieldworkers! Do you need documentation (health & safety protocols, codes of conduct, feedback forms)? Do you have documentation that you think could help others do better fieldwork, but don’t know where to share it? We’ve got you covered in our new Fieldwork Repo! osf.io/4h7bu/overview

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A true delight to collaborate with @talboger.bsky.social & @samiyousif.bsky.social on this project! This is also just one piece of a larger set of projects on randomization; stay tuned 🎲

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Are people bad randomizers in general, or only in some contexts? In our new paper, now in press at Cognition, we found that 'socializing' randomization — in this case by pitting people against each other in a live game of Battleship — dramatically improved randomization behavior 👇🏼

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Sami Yousif @samiyousif.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Two special things about this project: (1) This is our first project using a live, interactive game. (2) This is our first (hopefully not last!) collab. with @dorsaamir.bsky.social who was so awesome to work with. Thanks @chazfirestone.bsky.social for letting us borrow @talboger.bsky.social!

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tal boger @talboger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We often say that humans struggle to produce random sequences… but what if that's not the whole story? In a new paper, @dorsaamir.bsky.social, @samiyousif.bsky.social & I show that context matters (a lot!). When playing strategic games, humans can produce near-random behavior osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s an older reference, sir, but it checks out.

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I love that no IRB today would approve this study but if I say it’s for entertainment and film it, it’s all good 🤙

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hey folks, I'll be considering PhD applications for the 2026-27 cycle over here at Duke Psych. To learn more about the lab, check us out at www.mindandculturelab.com and/or read through this short FAQ for prospective students: www.mindandculturelab.com/faq

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Another plausible hypothesis.

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Have we considered that the baby shoes, never worn were just an impractical gift from the in-laws?

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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 PhD position in human, nonhuman primate, and/or dog cognition! I am thrilled to be reviewing applicants this year for a new PhD student to join the Social & Cognitive Origins Group in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins @jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social 1/

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There’s something quite moving about seeing people as they were — over a hundred years ago — in all their color and subtlety. People in the past are just people, in the past.

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The largest corpus of autochrome photographs (70k of them) comes from French baker Albert Kahn. Here are a couple of his photos from Morocco & Algeria, ca. 1913 & 1910. You can read more about him at the links below. publicdomainreview.org/essay/albert... mymodernmet.com/albert-kahn-...

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Here are a couple more photos from the same shoot in 1913. These were taken by English engineer Mervyn O’Gorman of his daughter, Christina, on the shores of Dorset.

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is a real photo from 1913. It hasn’t been colorized. It was made using a technique called the Autochrome Lumière which captured true color using microscopic dyed starch grains as color filters, decades before color film existed. Pretty incredible, no? More below 👇

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not my problem

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I look forward to forgetting this very soon 🫡

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

✨A fun little reminder for everyone✨: Future You is not magically less busy. Future You is actually just as busy as Current You + also hates Past You for all the extra stuff you signed them up for.

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Shoutout to @alissarivero.bsky.social for not just running a great study with dyads of 2&3 year olds, but also running them in _triads_! (Quite an undertaking, as any developmentalist could tell you.) Check out her cool results on the emergence of decision coordination here👇🏼

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Alissa Rivero @alissarivero.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My first paper (with Jared Vasil and Mike Tomasello) is officially published! 🎉 Question: When can children coordinate decisions with each other in groups? Answer: Age 3! Read it here: academic.oup.com/chidev/advan... 🧵 (1/6)

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Two- and three-year-olds coordinate decisions in dyads and triads

Abstract. Even young toddlers coordinate actions with a partner. But coordinating choices or decisions is more challenging, particularly in multi-party gro

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I think we all need to see the Lululemon shorts now? How cute are they?

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

me trying to remember what a labubu is called

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Writing this story was so unbelievably fun. And not only bc @mcxfrank.bsky.social says quotes like this: “Kids’ experience looks really radically different than we thought ... They’ve got these little short arms, so the objects are, like, right in front of them. And they live in a forest of knees.”

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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Childhood is a special time, but it doesn't always look the same from one place to the next. How do children's lives vary from culture to culture? And why? A listener favorite from our archive, featuring @dorsaamir.bsky.social and @sheinalew.bsky.social! Listen: disi.org/varieties-of...

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Benjamin Pitt @benjaminpitt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

New paper finally out in @NatureComms with E. Leib, D. O’Shaughnessy, C. Gallardo, @sferrigno.bsky.social, and @spiantado.bsky.social. 📝Children across cultures discover the latent algorithms that structure what they see, even without instruction, feedback, or formal schooling.🧵 tinyurl.com/4a238m2d

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A little example of children's peer culture in the wild: my 5-year-old son and his classmates worked together to make these (truly stunning) pieces of art. I asked to take them home & frame them. To quote Picasso: "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

New from me and Alan Leslie! We got the band back together to lay out our view on object representations in the infant mind: non-discursive indexes that operate within a language of thought, & which get development of a more complex object concept off the ground www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

underestimate me at your peril

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

when mailing lists think they can hide their little 'unsubscribe' button

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Children drive all sorts of things, including me, to distraction; but they also shape culture. Important theory piece.

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Big Janet Browne fan! Can’t wait to listen.

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I miss the original title! “The Revolution Will Not Be Fossilized”. So good.

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Those 60 seconds we were tied were pretty cool though.

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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Any model of cultural transmission that implies a sender and a receiver vastly underestimates the role of active (re)construction. Great to see more articles like this making it into print

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The full treatment (article, commentaries, and our response) can be found here 👇🏼

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

On a personal note, this was one of my favorite scientific experiences to date; the BBS format remains unrivaled in its ability to stimulate fruitful discussion, and we are immensely grateful to the commentators who took the time to read & respond to our work.

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

When we consider children in cultural evolution, we tend to cast them as recipients of adult culture. In our BBS target article, @sheinalew.bsky.social & I argued there's more: through 'peer cultures', children actively drive cultural adaptation. Our final paper + a rich set of responses is out now!

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Children as agents of cultural adaptation | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core

Children as agents of cultural adaptation - Volume 49

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

FIFA bending the rules to give the US team an edge? Ladies and gentlemen, American soccer has finally arrived.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Most of the statistical tests you learned in stats class — t-test, ANOVA, correlation — are actually special cases of a single thing: linear regression. Ch 7 of Experimentology argues that thinking in models, not tests, is more flexible and a better foundation for theory. 🧵 experimentology.io

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Fun sports fact: Canada’s won more Round of 32 games than all other countries combined 🇨🇦

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tal boger @talboger.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Complexity is ubiquitous in the world around us. But different stimuli are complex for different reasons. Does the mind nevertheless represent a ‘unified’ notion of complexity across domains? In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show the answer is: yes! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Complex and simple stimuli across a variety of domains. Even though these stimuli are complex for different reasons, we suggest the mind unifies them by their complexity. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/p9xe3_v1

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

When I will respond to your email

Histogram peaked at 3 minutes and 2 weeks since sent

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