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Ke "Kay" Fang

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PhD student Stanford Psych w/ @rdhawkins.bsky.social | Prev NYU MA 24' 🧐How do distributed individual minds support emergent collective-level behaviors and patterns? kefangpsych.github.io

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
How do social networks become adaptive? From self-organisation and phase transitions to cultural learning, social networks are shaped by feedback between individual interactions and collective dynamics. Check my new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Bella Fascendini @bellafascendini.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
New paper! w/ @cocoscilab.bsky.social🧵Can large language models reason flexibly, or have they learned what reasoning looks like? We introduce a new paradigm to test this question—the riddle riddle—and find that humans and LLMs show opposite patterns of performance. 📜
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xuan (ɕɥɛn / sh-yen) @xuanalogue.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Finished teaching my first seminar course today! Had tons of fun introducing my students to the rational foundations of human-like cooperation. Now that the course is over, I'm sharing the syllabus more widely!
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Linas Nasvytis @linasnasvytis.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
10/ This work was co-first-authored with Jerome Han, together with @benpry.bsky.social , @satchelgrant.bsky.social , @noahdgoodman.bsky.social , and @judithfan.bsky.social . arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2605.28742 Code: github.com/LinasNas/cor... Website: linasnas.github.io/core-reasoni...
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CORE: Contrastive Reflection Enables Rapid Improvements in Reasoning
Language models can use verifiable rewards to improve at a wide variety of reasoning tasks. However, both parametric (e.g. RLVR) and non-parametric (e.g. prompt optimization) approaches to doing so ty...
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Linas Nasvytis @linasnasvytis.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
1/ New preprint! Reasoning models often require hundreds of task examples and thousands of rollouts to improve on a task. How can they learn more from much less? Introducing CORE: contrastive self-reflection for rapid, sample-efficient, and interpretable self-improvement 🧵
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Léo Fitouchi @lfitouchi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Why do humans punish? Our new paper, with @manvir.bsky.social, is out in Psychological Science! With experiments in a small-scale society (Mentawai) & the US, we test whether punitive cognition evolved to deter wrongdoing or restore fairness. link: tinyurl.com/msrmu7cc pdf: tinyurl.com/mvprz8fb
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Justin Yang @justintheyang.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Thrilled to be sharing my latest work at #CogSci2026! Many of the spaces we move through, from kitchens to airports, were designed with specific uses in mind. How do people create such environments, and how do users figure out what they were designed for? 📃 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Ashwini Ashokkumar @ashwinia.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Pre-doc Researcher/Lab Manager! 🚨🚨 Full-time pre-doc research opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026). Review begins April 10 Apply: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUnive... Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇
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Research Assistant II
Company Description: By working at Harvard University, you join a vibrant community that advances Harvard's world-changing mission in meaningful ways, inspires innovation and collaboration, and builds...
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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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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
How do humans keep inventing tools and technologies that no single person could create alone? Our new preprint, led by @anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837
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Ke "Kay" Fang @kefang.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
COSMOS🧑‍🚀 + TOKYO⛩️🏯 = ✨THE BEST WORKSHOP EVER!!!✨ Thanks @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social for organizing everything 💙
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Linas Nasvytis @linasnasvytis.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🚨New paper out w/ @gershbrain.bsky.social & @fierycushman.bsky.social from my time @Harvard! Humans are capable of sophisticated theory of mind, but when do we use it? We formalize & document a new cognitive shortcut: belief neglect — inferring others' preferences, as if their beliefs are correct🧵
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
*Sharing for our department’s trainees* 🧠 Looking for insight on applying to PhD programs in psychology? ✨ Apply by Sep 25th to Stanford Psychology's 9th annual Paths to a Psychology PhD info-session/workshop to have all of your questions answered! 📝 Application: tinyurl.com/pathstophd2025
Flyer for the event!
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Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
So pleased and proud to share this work. I started trying to think clearly about authority punishment in 2018. This new paper with Setayesh Radkani is the first fruit of that labour. Why so much struggle? See thread. 1/17
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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
looking forward to seeing everyone at #CCN2025! here's a snapshot of the work from my lab that we'll be presenting on speech neuroscience 🧠 ✨
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Justin Yang @justintheyang.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Excited to be sharing my latest work with @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social at #CogSci2025! Learning usually occurs when we encounter new data. But we also have the capacity to reflect on our past experiences. What can we learn from simulating past experience? 📃 cicl.stanford.edu/papers/yang2... 1/
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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Proud of the work from hmc-lab.com & collaborators @ #CogSci2025 this year, but sad I cant be there myself @hanqizhou.bsky.social @davidnagy.bsky.social @alexthewitty.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @brendenlake.bsky.social @kefang.bsky.social @rdhawkins.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
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Hyunwoo Gu @hyunwoogu.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Excited to share that our paper is now out in Neuron @cp-neuron.bsky.social (dlvr.it/TM9zJ8). Our perception isn't a perfect mirror of the world. It's often biased by our expectations and beliefs. How do these biases unfold over time, and what shapes their trajectory? A summary thread. (1/13)
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Attractor dynamics of working memory explain a concurrent evolution of stimulus-specific and decision-consistent biases in visual estimation
People exhibit biases when perceiving features of the world, shaped by both external stimuli and prior decisions. By tracking behavioral, neural, and mechanistic markers of stimulus- and decision-rela...
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Verona Teo @veronateo.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Excited to share our new work at #CogSci2025! We explore how people plan deceptive actions, and how detectives try to see through the ruse and infer what really happened based on the traces left behind. 🕵️‍♀️ Paper: osf.io/preprints/osf/vqgz5_v1 Code: github.com/cicl-stanford/recursive_deception 1/
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Looking forward to #cogsci2025 next week - here's a list of presentations from my lab!
Presentation list for language and cognition lab at CogSci 2025.
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Yuka Machino @ymacci.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
🎤 "Your #CogSci presentation was quite good this year." How flattered or offended will you be? The answer may depend on whether you speak British or American English 🇺🇸🇬🇧. Our new #CogSci2025 paper reveals systematic differences in how different cultures interpret the same words.
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Daniel Wurgaft @danielwurgaft.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
🚨New paper! We know models learn distinct in-context learning strategies, but *why*? Why generalize instead of memorize to lower loss? And why is generalization transient? Our work explains this & *predicts Transformer behavior throughout training* without its weights! 🧵 1/
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Lauren Aulet @laurenaulet.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
So excited to see this paper with @ckaicher.bsky.social and @cantlonlab.bsky.social finally out!
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Intersection of spatial and numerical cognition in the developing brain
Abstract. Early mathematical development is thought to depend on visuospatial processing, yet neural evidence for this relationship in young children has b
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Sydney Levine @sydneylevine.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
🔆 I'm hiring! 🔆 There are two open positions: 1. Summer research position (best for master's or graduate student); focus on computational social cognition. 2. Postdoc (currently interviewing!); focus on computational social cognition and AI safety. sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...
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Sydney Levine - Open Positions
Summer Research Position I am seeking a part-time or full-time researcher for the summer (starting asap) to bring a project to completion. The project asks the question: do people around the world u...
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Shawn Schwartz @shawnschwartz.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I’m pleased to share our new review article, “Attending to Remember: Recent Advances in Methods and Theory”, written with Haopei Yang (HY), Alice Xue, and Anthony Wagner, now out in Current Directions in Psychological Science. 🚀🧠 A brief thread 🧵 doi.org/10.1177/09637214251339452
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Attending to Remember: Recent Advances in Methods and Theory - Shawn T. Schwartz, Haopei Yang, Alice M. Xue, Anthony D. Wagner, 2025
The ability to learn from and remember experiences (episodic memory) depends on multiple neurocognitive systems. In this article, we highlight recent advances i...
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Will Turner @renrutmailliw.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
New paper out in @plosbiology.org w/ Charlie, @phil-johnson.bsky.social, Ella, and Hinze 🎉 We track moving stimuli via EEG, find evidence that motion is extrapolated across distinct stages of processing + show how this effect may emerge from a simple synaptic learning rule! tinyurl.com/2szh6w5c
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 20/05/2025
Essential tools for writing better code: Version control - Chapter 2, Part 1 of Better Code, Better Science
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Essential tools for writing better code: Version control
Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 2, Part 1
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 13/05/2025
I've decided to start my own Substack, called Neural Strategies: russpoldrack.substack.com/p/introducin... - I will soon start releasing content from a new open-source book I'm developing, tentatively titled "Better Code, Better Science". Subscribe to receive each new section as soon as I post it!
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Introducing the Neural Strategies Substack
Allow me to (re)introduce myself
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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Reserve your free tickets to SFI's upcoming Community Lecture! lensic.org/events/blais... Blaise Agüera y Arcas’ presents 'Computing, Life, and Intelligence' at the Lensic on 🗓️ May 20, 7:30pm MT in-person or online.
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Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🚨 New @psychinquiry Issue 36:1 just dropped! Target article: Understanding Belief-Behavior Correspondence by @jgranadossamayoa.bsky.social & @dalbarra.bsky.social. Why don’t beliefs always drive actions? 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/hpli20/3...
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I am hiring a new Lab Manager to help run the NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation. We start reviewing apps on MAY 1st and it pays over $58,000. Please share with anyone who might be interested! Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166620 See more details below:
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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Now out in JPSP ‼️ "Inference from social evaluation" with Zach Davis, Kelsey Allen, @maxkw.bsky.social, and @julianje.bsky.social 📃 (paper): psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... 📜 (preprint): osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Now officially out in Psychological Review 🥳 "Causation, Meaning, and Communication" by Ari Beller and me. 📃 (paper): psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... 📜 (preprint): osf.io/preprints/ps...
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ajua duker @ajuaduker.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨 If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way. 🗓 Application review begins April 15 ⏰ Final deadline is April 25 📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP
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Elizabeth Mieczkowski @emiecz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We often assume that specialized roles improve performance in multi-agent systems, but when does specialization emerge based on a given task and environment? 🧵👇 ⭐️ New preprint w/ Ruaridh Mon-Williams, @neilbramley.bsky.social, Chris Lucas, @natvelali.bsky.social & @cocoscilab.bsky.social
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 25/03/2025
Advances in neuroscience have yielded massive, rich datasets from various analysis techniques and modalities. 🧠📈 In a @natureneuro.bsky.social perspective, researchers underscore the importance of an integrative approach to render a more complete picture of the brain.
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Integrating multimodal data to understand cortical circuit architecture and function - Nature Neuroscience
This paper discusses how experimental and computational studies integrating multimodal data, such as RNA expression, connectivity and neural activity, are advancing our understanding of the architectu...
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Steven Mesquiti @smesquiti.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
As part of @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social, I wrote an opinion piece for San Antonio Express News on the dangers of cuts to federal science funding for today and tomorrow's scientists: www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm... @cantlonlab.bsky.social @spiantado.bsky.social
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Cuts to federal research funding will hurt future Texas science students
Cutting funding from anything perceived as “DEI-adjacent” harms us all. It freezes life-changing research, and shuts the door on talented, hardworking students.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Grateful for the chance to share my thoughts on responsible use of LLMs in psychology research @spspnews.bsky.social #spsp2025. Here's a summary of my presentation for those who missed it. Thanks to @ashwinia.bsky.social for organizing this panel! How should LLMs be used in psychology research? 🧵
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Guy Davidson ✈️ NeurIPS 2025 @guydav.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Out today in Nature Machine Intelligence! From childhood on, people can create novel, playful, and creative goals. Models have yet to capture this ability. We propose a new way to represent goals and report a model that can generate human-like goals in a playful setting... 1/N
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Ke "Kay" Fang @kefang.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
How to computationaly🔢 identify persuasion and misinformation? And how can humam and AI🤖 resisit persuasions? Please come to my poster today 2:30-3:45 at #SPSP2025 belief and misinformation preconference. Joint work with @rdhawkins.bsky.social and @thecharleywu.bsky.social and Michael Franke
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Jonathan Nicholas @jonathannicholas.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Excited to share a new paper with Daphna Shohamy & @nathanieldaw.bsky.social! Using fmri reactivation, we measured *when* people build preferences from memory. We found that people tend to do so before a choice, but that they also wait until choice time when options are linked to multiple memories
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Proactive and reactive construction of memory-based preferences - Nature Communications
Making new decisions requires retrieving memories, but when this occurs is unclear. The authors show that people typically access memories before a choice unless there are many related memories to con...
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Sydney Levine @sydneylevine.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
🚨 Now accepting commentary proposals!! 🚨Thrilled to share that our paper --- "Resource-rational contractualism: A triple theory of moral cognition" --- was accepted for publication at Behavioral and Brain Sciences and is open for commentary!
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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · 13/02/2025
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X under Musk’s leadership: Substantial hate and no reduction in inauthentic activity
Numerous studies have reported an increase in hate speech on X (formerly Twitter) in the months immediately following Elon Musk’s acquisition of the platform on October 27th, 2022; relatedly, despite ...
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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
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Arianna Zuanazzi @ariannazuanazzi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
🎶 Can movie soundtrack #music evoke mental images in the listener's mind? 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Acoustic features of instrumental movie soundtracks elicit distinct and mostly non-overlapping extra-musical meanings in the mind of the listener - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Acoustic features of instrumental movie soundtracks elicit distinct and mostly non-overlapping extra-musical meanings in the mind of the listener
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Jiin Jung, PhD @jiinjung.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I am looking for a potential master’s student for my Group Dynamics and Social Change Lab! If you are interested, please reach out to me and/or apply for the Lehigh Psychology Graduate Program by March 15! psychology.cas.lehigh.edu/graduate
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Graduate Program in Psychology | Psychology
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
We're hiring a lab manager to start this summer in the @logicemotionlab.bsky.social! Submit CV, cover letter, and reference contact info by Feb 17th for priority review. Description of the lab's research focus, mission, and values are on our website! research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/20420/r...
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Ke "Kay" Fang @kefang.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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