Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskyWilliam Ngiam | 严祥全 @williamngiam.github.io · 11/08/2026On a quick skim, the core function that OSF will fulfil is registration of studies (plus protocols and analysis plans) and hosting preprints. This means we will need to find data repositories for new projects following mid-November; perhaps Github, Zenodo, or university-operated commons. 2116
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I am very unhappy about this. There are alternative repositories but they all have limitations of one kind or another (ease of use, what data are "qualified", etc.) and in any case we will lose the ability to put one link in a paper and have the prereg, materials, & data all in one place 2110
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskyChristoph Strauch @cstrauch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Now final in @elife.bsky.social: #Synesthetes really do 'see' when reporting colors while reading (typeface gray) numbers: pupils change according to the perceived colors' brightness - if a synesthete sees a bright yellow, the pupils become smaller. elifesciences.org/articles/110... 36924
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskyEsra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · 07/07/20261/ New paper with Stephanie Alderete, Fei Xu and Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social!! osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 12212
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskyStand Up for Science Washington @sufswa.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Holy Cow! We're at over 70,000 COMMENTS!! These OMB proposed rules will destroy science in the US. Make your voice heard! We have until July 13!! Otherwise, our science will be controlled by partisan politics, not peer review! fight2win.standupforscience.netfight2win.standupforscience.netStand up for ScienceStand up for Science 055
Reposted by Jonathan F. Kominskysamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 20/06/2026Open Mind, the free OA competitor to Cognition (El$evier) founded by Richard Aslin, has nearly caught up to it impact-factor-wise Submit your best work! It's a great journal with fast and constructive review, a great ed board, and lots of cool work Open Mind is the future of cogsci journals! 212043
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Signs that summer has started: I have a pile of five articles to review. I have gotten four additional review requests *today*. Everybody slamming in those papers as soon as their done grading. 171
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskyMichael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇 5435871430
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I usually come down on the "if it really works it should work with a larger n of untrained observers too" side of this. You get meaningful individual variation, which can be interesting in its own right. 221
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Markey is one of the small handful of US politicians I actually like. He is unapologetic about fighting the good fights. 020
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 28/05/2026It is a great privilege and a sign of hope that even in the urban environs of Vienna I can wake up to the sound of songbirds chirping in the trees. If only the little assholes didn't start yelling at 4:15am. 030
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskyDan Sperber @dansperber.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Nothing undermine the never-ending fight against antisemitism in a worse way than the repression of pro-Palestinian activism as inherently antisemitic, which has become routine in many European countries and in the US 0131
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I have determined that babies are a fourth-dimensional liquid. Liquids spread to fill the spatial volume in which they are placed, and then overflow. Babies expand to take up all the time you have available, and then more. Thank you for coming to my TED talk, sorry it started a little late. 0110
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskyMwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I'm very happy to announce that the "From Postdoc to PI Session" will be sponsored by the @biologists.bsky.social and we will be offering a $$ Prize to the best talk, so now a twofer reason to apply! www.germanfishmeeting.org/from-postoc-... Let me know if you have any question/s! 🐟germanfishmeeting.orgFrom Postoc to PI Session | German Fish Meeting 03316
Reposted by Jonathan F. Kominskysamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 07/05/2026I love this genre of expat tweet "we had a baby and it's crazy how other countries are normal and not weird about pediatrics" mine was when our midwife came to our house to teach us how to bathe a newborn, which at the time was standard care in new zealand. iirc I made tea and cake for the occasion 3231
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 07/05/2026One, this is horrifying. Two, I was somewhat perplexed about them calling it an injection because in Austria, Vitamin K is not a shot, it's drops given orally. I was curious why the US uses a shot, which probably drives part of the resistance, and my erstwhile spouse quickly figured it out (1/3) 160
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskyPaul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 02/05/2026I'm not crying, you're crying - wife asked me if I had a cable. Yes, yes I did! 22593481014
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Feeling very personally attacked by this one. 0100
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskyMariel Goddu @marielgoddu.bsky.social · 17/04/2026The Unfolding World: Causal & Physical Cognition in Humans and Other Animals (April 24-25) We're bringing together comparative, computational, developmental, vision science & philosophy for a workshop on causal reasoning + intuitive physics! If you're in the Cambridge (UK) area, check it out! ⬇️ 1195
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskySteve Most @sbmost.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I’m a cognitive psychologist. Don’t tell me this isn’t a stroopwafel. 88918
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskySimons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · 13/04/2026Our Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN) program is an exceptional opportunity for undergrad students looking for their first hands-on #neuroscience research job. Learn more and apply: bit.ly/3RprAH0 021
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 13/04/2026The OECS is invaluable every time I prepare a class. It's clear enough for undergraduates to understand, and comprehensive enough that I can use it for most big-picture ideas in the field. I really appreciate all the work that went into it! 0141
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskyMatt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Okay CTA. This is a good sign. 90243134521
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Sorry to miss #cds2026, but two of my students made the trip from Vienna! Be sure to ask Beyza (P3-6) and Leslie (P3-39) about how babies and dogs 🐕 understand causal events! (I'm also on a project with @ebonawitz.bsky.social and her student Michelle on counterfactuals at P3-47) 080
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskyDavid Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I wanted a way to explore Unicode by visual similarity, not just by name or codepoint, so I built Charcutrie. It lets you browse characters that look alike, search across scripts and symbols, and even sketch a shape to find matching glyphs. (pretty badly for now :D) charcuterie.elastiq.ch#U+221E 17540106
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskyTobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2026The Causality in Cognition Lab -- a supportive, bluesky-colored team -- is looking for a predoc to join us! Here are infos about the lab (cicl.stanford.edu) and the position (careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...). The application deadline is May 1st. Please share, thank you 🙏 26536
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskySage Anastasi @sageanastasi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I think of this one every time I put sheets in the dryer 04510
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskyZack Hawes @zackhawes.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Is mental imagery a single process? Our meta-analysis of 46 fMRI studies suggests not. We find a key divide between object imagery (visualizing an object in rich detail) and spatial imagery (mentally transforming objects). This split mirrors the ventral and dorsal streams of vision 37019
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 21/03/2026New paper in Memory and Language in collaboration with the Language Comprehension Lab (lcl.ceu.edu) "Remembering times ahead: The effect of linguistic framing on representational momentum in state-change events" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (I'm 3rd author, but the only one on bsky) 1/5sciencedirect.comRemembering times ahead: The effect of linguistic framing on representational momentum in state-change eventsWhen people remember scenes, they can draw from different sources to reconstruct their memory, such as what they saw, and linguistic descriptions of w… 1153
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskyMartin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I'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...employment.ucsd.eduLaboratory Coordinator - 138788Laboratory Coordinator - 138788 | Careers at UC San Diego 03732
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 10/03/2026On one hand I'm very sad that this was necessary. On the other, I might get to go see the igNobel prize ceremony live again, which is frankly something I thought I wouldn't have the chance to do again. 020
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 04/03/2026I look for little spots of amusement on grim days, and this is pretty damn amusing. It doesn't actually use real money, it's more of a form of protest art, which is even better. 040
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskyErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 28/02/2026My grocery store had Kosher salt on an end cap that I think might have been a Jewish food collection for Passover? (Who knows cause it also had honey (Rosh Hashanah) and chocolate syrup (I have no idea)) and anyway I stopped and gave it the traditional Jewish holiday “at least you tried” nod. 101834
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskyTom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026@niallw.bsky.social pointed out an error in a preprint of ours that contained a fabricated citation. The cause: we used Claude to fix an arxiv upload / compile error. It decided the best way to do that was to remove an actual citation and replace it with a fabricated one. bsky.app/profile/ben.... 2125
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 10/02/2026I beat the rush, as it were, by moving in 2022, but the headline quote pretty much captures my feelings on the subject. Austria has done a good job of making me feel welcome, and my science has flourished here. It was a good move on a variety of levels. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.com‘I saw the writing on the wall’: Austria offers safe haven for US academics as Trump wages war on universitiesOther countries benefit from the Trump brain drain as administration wages war on academia and research 0110
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Commentary with 1000-word limit. Two hours of editing down. This will be funny in retrospect. 010
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 07/02/2026DeLauro was my rep for the seven years I spent in New Haven and she was normally good. Strong on issues that directly affected her constituents lives. This is a surprising and deeply disappointing failure of moral insight and political will. 020
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskyBria Long @brialong.bsky.social · 30/01/2026The Visual Learning Lab is hiring TWO lab coordinators! Both positions are ideal for someone looking for research experience before applying to graduate school. Application deadline is Feb 10th (approaching fast!)—with flexible summer start dates. 15041
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskyM. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 31/01/2026If anybody out there is like, “kids so young would never do this without adult prompting!“ 1) you really don’t know kids 2) when Reagan met with Gorbachev, I was in 5th grade & still managed to get my class to sign an anti-nuke petition Don’t underestimate how much the kids are paying attention 481924320
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 27/01/2026ICE should not exist in the Overton window. The debate should be, at most, about how many former agents should face prosecution after its abolition. 030
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskyBabyLab CIMeC @cimecbabylab.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Our lab is back from #BCCCD26 in Budapest 🧠👶 We really enjoyed the conference (and party!) and had a great time sharing our work, meeting old friends and making new ones! 🌟 073
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskyKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 20/01/2026An incredible saga 2149697
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 15/01/2026In Budapest for #BCCCD26 and in a new hotel (to accommodate bringing a baby along) with a spectacular view of downtown Budapest 0100
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Applications still open until February 4! Important note for US applicants: We do consider applicants with only a bachelor's degree and some research experience! You don't need a masters. #CogSci #PsychSciSky 067
Reposted by Jonathan F. KominskyTomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026once again being driven insane by ML conference submissions 311118
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Another pointless forever war for oil company profits. My baby just made a spectacularly messy sound in his diaper that I think fully expresses my opinion on the topic. And gives me something to do, so that's nice. 150
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Happy New year. In 2025 I became a dad and it has been an amazing experience. Also why I am posting this at 4:45 instead of midnight or, you know, an hour when people without small infants would normally be awake. 0160
Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 27/12/2025It is testament to how good the academic environment in the US was that it could do well on that market while at best tolerating foreign talent. I moved from the US to Austria and they practically rolled out the red(-white-red🇦🇹) carpet for me immigration-wise. Feeling valued is a draw, it turns out! 010