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Jonathan F. Kominsky

@jfkominsky.bsky.social
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(he/him) Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Central European University in Vienna, PI of the CEU Causal Cognition Lab (ccl.ceu.edu) #CogSci #PsychSciSky #SciSky Personal site: www.jfkominsky.com

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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Yeah but the 30 days is a problem, in both directions. I usually preregister a week before data collection at most, and if I want to update a registration it's either undetectable or impossible. I see Zenodo as a data repo when you're done, less fond of it as a registration platform
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William Ngiam | 严祥全 @williamngiam.github.io · 11/08/2026
On 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.
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I 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
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Christoph Strauch @cstrauch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Now 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...
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Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
1/ New paper with Stephanie Alderete, Fei Xu and Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social!! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Stand Up for Science Washington @sufswa.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Holy 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.net
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 20/06/2026
Open 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!
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Signs 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.
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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I’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. 👇
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Sure, anytime you are dealing with more than minimal risk that's a major concern, but it's always balanced against necessary to draw meaningful conclusions. I'm even fine with case studies when they make sense, I just think the logic has been somewhat over-applied in psychophysics specifically
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
That variability has consequences for, e.g., intuitive physics and event categorization. If I'd gone by the tiny expert samples in what little literature there was, I would have been totally off-base in my studies of what we use those perceptual processes *for*.
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Meaningful individual variability and/or external validity. For example I had a project that involved detecting differences in object velocities. Turns out 1) very different from global motion thresholds and 2) *immense* individual variability, thresholds from 1:1.4 to 1:4.
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
It does depend on the exact question you're asking, certainly. There are some questions where you really do need the small n and thousands of trials, I just think the number of questions like that is smaller than the number of questions to which this approach has been applied.
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I 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.
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Babies monthly for first five months, now every two to three months (one today, next at a year), and then I think it defaults to every six months once they hit age 3-4 but I'm not sure.
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Markey is one of the small handful of US politicians I actually like. He is unapologetic about fighting the good fights.
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Vienna (which is actually its own state) has one, the WWTF www.wwtf.at It is definitely nice to have another layer of public funding available, and certainly helps attract talent.
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Home - Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds
Home - WWTF
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It 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.
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Just two, MB4 and a registered replication. It is nice when you hit stage two and can just say "the results are what they are" and that's that.
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The benefit (to me) is just that the paper gets accepted regardless of the output of the analyses, because they have been approved by reviewers before being conducted. I never saw it as impacting anything about the integrity of the authors or the paper so much as the review process.
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Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
This thread is a trip.
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Congrats Alex!
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Dan Sperber @dansperber.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Nothing 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
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I 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.
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I'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! 🐟
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From Postoc to PI Session | German Fish Meeting
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
For when you really get fed up with committee meetings? (The title in the post is backwards)
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 07/05/2026
I 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
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I did notice there is this odd mix of practical science-based practice and (mostly harmless) new age stuff. We made sure to find a Hebamme who was explicitly science oriented. Even then there were offers of e.g. aromatherapy during labor that elicited A Look from my partner (trained in chemistry)
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
And it's worth noting if we hadn't already had that checkup, the midwife (Hebamme, which is just slightly different) would have administered the vitamin K at her home visit the next day. This is just a thing in other developed countries, it's not even a big deal.
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The US administers Vitamin K as a shot because the goal is to free up the bed as fast as possible, and there is no guaranteed follow up care at all. So I think the resistance comes in part from "it's a shot", and it's a shot because of the systemic failures of America's public health system. (3/3)
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
If you administer Vitamin K as an oral solution, babies need three doses in the first month, whereas the shot is a one and done. My kid got two doses by mouth before leaving the hospital (one night stay) and his third at the *mandatory and FREE one week checkup* at his pediatrician (2/3)
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
One, 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)
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 02/05/2026
I'm not crying, you're crying - wife asked me if I had a cable. Yes, yes I did!
Cartoon

The Best Day of My Fathers's life

"Did you say you needed a six-pin-to-eight-pin FireWired for a 2006 MacBook?

Man holding up a cable out of a box of tangled cables.
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
S'aright, Fluffy likes a challenge.
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Recipe pls
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Brian Scholl once told me one of the happiest days of his career was when his last technical skill for experiment building became obsolete
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Could be worse, there was a study gone very wrong where someone fed two athletes 30 grams of caffeine instead of 30mg. It updated the LD50 of caffeine! (because they both somehow lived) www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Feeling very personally attacked by this one.
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Mariel Goddu @marielgoddu.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The 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! ⬇️
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Steve Most @sbmost.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I’m a cognitive psychologist. Don’t tell me this isn’t a stroopwafel.
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Congratulations!
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Absolutely. My main problemzc is that my home office is now in the living room where the baby naps, and I can't really use it when he's asleep...
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Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · 13/04/2026
Our 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
quote from SURFiN Alum Michael House: "SURFiN provided me enough room to explore the wide world of neuroscience and get a taste of so much of it. It gave me a chance to see the many places I could fit."
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The 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!
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
That is super neat. Where do you get the comparison against previous years? I found the turnout tracking on the site you linked, but not the comparison.
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Okay CTA. This is a good sign.
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Sorry 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)
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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I 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
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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The 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 🙏
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