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Eric Mandelbaum

@ericman.bsky.social
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CUNY Prof of Philosophy & Psychology, Director of Cognitive Science, other stuff too

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Published in Nature! 😂
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
May have missed a call from Doug Zongker
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Sex dolls: the Evolutionary Psychologist’s electrode
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Ummmm the Inside the NBA crew is at center court, watching Inside the NBA?
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
No one is gonna top this, but I'm glad Cuomo is trying
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Cuomo is coming for Eric Adams' trophy as the biggest butthead interviewee
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
SCIENCE!
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
CUNY Cog Sci continues to be 🔥. Thanks to Charles Yang for a super interesting talk on language learning and the Tolerance Principle.
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
“My motto is never think inside the box. Never think outside the box. Think without a box”—
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Imagining Darwin opening his trench coat to display his finest treats
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
He’s moved onto practicing this devastating move over and over
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
@levelsof.bsky.social visited NYC, brought all the milkshakes to the yard (which in this case was a fake sukkah). Her work on toddler's understanding of possibility and objects is just about the coolest thing happening in cognitive science.
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Roving militias hunting FEMA workers in disaster areas is just the state of nature, rational given that the government bakes hurricanes in its underground pizza oven www.instagram.com/postclimate/...
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
The new CUNY Cognitive Science season has begun! The first speaker in our series is the absolutely fantastic Philippe Schlenker. Room was packed—people lining the walls, and I am standing out in the hallway. Another solid 20 people on zoom. Come join us! www.gc.cuny.edu/philosophy/c...
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 25/12/2023
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Washed-in-their-prime Chicago playing “You’re the inspiration” on a Wonder Bread float is the most American thing I have ever seen
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Ummmm
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
I don't believe in nominative determinism but I see why it was so seductive. When you stumble on a piece of positive evidence, it can stop you in your tracks
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Most spooked out animal
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
My god this duck looks like it’s seen some shit
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
what the hell
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Found my new pen name
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Morning bird gang
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
FWIW @nicporot.bsky.social and I have a new paper that in part critiques the 'people don't believe fake news' and 'fake news isn't a big thing'. Sample here
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Meanwhile, in Germany
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
🏄‍♂️
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
John Zorn in the intro to his not-at-all-pretentiously named piece after an unreadable Kant work: “If I may quote myself: sometimes you just jump up a level. This is the greatest sextet yet written”.
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
See, AI just doesn't work. Someone ring the Marcussignal!
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