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Adam Sanborn @asanborn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We had a great audience for our #CogSci2026 tutorial on Autocorrelated Sampling in Cognition. Led by @lcastillo.bsky.social, with talks by @neilbramley.bsky.social, Bob Rehder, Stella Qian, and me. If you were not in Rio, the tutorial materials are here: lucas-castillo.github.io/mcmc-workshop/

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Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

"Random generation is what comes to mind in naturalistic settings" 📢New paper from: Lucas Castillo (lcastillo.bsky.social), Pablo León-Villagrá (pleonv.bsky.social), Johanna Falbén, Nick Chater, & Adam Sanborn (asanborn.bsky.social) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Random generation is what comes to mind in naturalistic settings

Being unpredictable is useful for creativity, exploration, and good decision-making. Decades of research asking people to generate random sequences of…

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Matthew Mak @matthewmakpsy.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Recruiting a #PhD student interested in cognitive psychology (language, memory) and AI. Come join me at @warwickpsych.bsky.social. Overseas students are welcome. Feel free to reach out to me to enquire. #PhD #Fellowship #academia #apply. Deadline in mid-March warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psyc...

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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Welcome back to Dr Lucas Castillo, who is starting an ESRC-funded postdoc with Prof. Adam Sanborn using statistical sampling algorithms as standard models of human perceptual and cognitive behaviour. Lucas recently gained his PhD in the department exploring why people are not able to act randomly.

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Barbara Oberbauer @barbaraoberbauer.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Excited to share joint work with Ulf Hahnel and @sgluth.bsky.social on investigating how attribute translations - a widely implemented behavior intervention - lead to more ecological consumer choices. Main results are below, but check out our preprint 👇 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

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Computational Mechanisms of Attribute Translations

Attribute translations, a choice architecture intervention technique aiming to promote behavior change by translating decision-relevant information into more comprehensible and meaningful units for la...

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Lucas Castillo @lcastillo.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Thank you! And thanks @pleonv.bsky.social, Nick Chater, and @asanborn.bsky.social who were an essential part of this paper

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Lucas Castillo @lcastillo.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

🚀🚀 Very excited about this new preprint with @yunxiao-li.bsky.social and @asanborn.bsky.social! Months ago we released the samplr package on CRAN (helps you use sampling algorithms + cogn. models for human data). Here we explain the theoretical background and show how to use the pkg osf.io/ax8hm

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Adam Sanborn @asanborn.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Our lab has a list of papers that use statistical sampling algorithms like MCMC to explain human behaviour. Thanks to @lcastillo.bsky.social, you can select by behaviour or algorithm. If we've missed any, please let us know! sampling.warwick.ac....

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Maryam Tohidi @maryamtohidi.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Thrilled to share my first post here with something I’m truly proud of; My PhD paper is finally out in @commspsychol.bsky.social. Thanks to amazing @ktsetsos.bsky.social for his wise insights and our reviewers for their constructive comments. You can read the full paper here: rdcu.be/eguDX 1/10

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Jennifer March @jennamarch.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

🚀 Revised Reviewed Preprint out in eLife 🚀 Excited to announce that my paper on the cognitive mechanisms underlying hunger-driven dietary choice is now available on @elife.bsky.social elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

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The Hungry Lens: Hunger Shifts Attention and Attribute Weighting in Dietary Choice

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Adam Sanborn @asanborn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

"Noise in Cognition: Bug or Feature?" is now available in Perspectives on Psychological Science doi.org/10.1177/1745... (1/4)

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Rasmus Bruckner @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

🚀 New paper out in Psychological Review! How does learning change across the lifespan? We propose that resource rationality—adapting belief updating to cognitive limitations—can explain age-related differences in learning. 📖 doi.org/10.1037/rev0... 👇 A short thread:

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Yun-Xiao Li / 李云箫 @yunxiao-li.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

🚨 A new preprint is out! How does utility influence mental simulations of risky events? 🤔🎲 We tested this across 4 experiments & found that most people simulate probabilities accurately, but biases emerge in key conditions! If you want to learn more, keep reading! doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Lucas Castillo @lcastillo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

New Preprint Out! 🚀🚀 Can people generate a random sequence if given enough time? Keep reading if - You make cognitive models with randomness in them - You like to explore the world, be creative, choose well - You want protection from clever agents exploiting patterns in your behavior. osf.io/awg9j

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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

🎉 Congratulations to @michaelapawley.bsky.social, a PhD student of the Warwick Sleep and Pain Lab @nkytang.bsky.social, on being awarded a UK Data Impact Fellowship from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social! This competitive programme supports 5 early career researchers using UK Data Service resources.

Michaela Pawley is awarded a UK Data Impact Fellowship 2025-26. Congratulations!

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Aidan Tee @aidan-sj-tee.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

In our new preprint, my co-authors and I explore how people’s probability judgments sometimes don’t add up the way they should, and how these violations can help us compare different models of how people make these judgments! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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