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Sam Schwarzkopf @sampendu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you can spare ~20 min on an online study on perception & #mentalimagery please consider participating: #visionscience #psychscisky #neuroskyence tstbl.co/131-782

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Mikołaj Hernik @mikolajhernik.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

My colleague Monika Abels (not on bsky) is recruiting a PhD student to work on her cross-cultural project. Details and contacts in the add. Please share widely with candidates interested in living in the Norwegian arctic & doing research with small-scale societies. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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PhD fellow in Child Development (294946) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Job title: PhD fellow in Child Development (294946), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Friday, March 13, 2026

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Mikołaj Hernik @mikolajhernik.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Some weeks ago Ragnhild Hemsing was performing Peer Gynt on Hardanger fiddle in Tromsø with Arktisk Filharmoni and I just can't get enough of this sound since then. youtu.be/M_st6_6Xvhk?...

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Peer Gynt, Op. 23: Morning Mood (Arr. for Hardanger Fiddle & String Orchestra by Tormod Tvete Vik)

YouTube video by Ragnhild Hemsing - Topic

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Mikołaj Hernik @mikolajhernik.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Don't be mislead by the title: 🎞️How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies is actually a very touching and rather good (if a bit predictable) movie. On Netflix.

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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

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Mikołaj Hernik @mikolajhernik.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

My colleagues & I have only now learned that our go-to handbook: Frank Keil's "Developmental Psychology: The Growth of Mind and Behavior" is out of print with no reprints planned. We are urgently looking for a new handbook at BA level, ideally with similar balance of topics. Suggestions are welcome

Book cover of the handbook Frank Keil "Developmental Psychology: The Growth of Mind and Behavior"

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Mikołaj Hernik @mikolajhernik.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Ostehøvel - cheese slicer also works great for that. And it happens to be abundant in Norway, where - I am told by Norwegians - it was invented. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Bj...

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Thor Bjørklund - Wikipedia

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Mikołaj Hernik @mikolajhernik.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

But I complained only AFTER publication. We just could not risk further unfair delays for an ECR co-author. So the paper includes unnecessary references forced upon us. Cited in a way that makes it clear that we consider them beyond the scope and that they were brought up by the reviewer.

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Mikołaj Hernik @mikolajhernik.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Happened to me: anonymous reviewer requested (the only comment!) some not-directly-relevant refs co-authored by ... the editor. The same was visible in several *publicly available* anonymous reviews under the same editor. After raising this with the publisher's ethics team the editor lost the gig.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today. Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Victoria Southgate @vhsouthgate.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Sharing our new paper published today in Nature Communications. In my view, this is our clearest demonstration to date that something profoundly changes in how infants encode the world around them before and after the emergence of self-representation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The self-reference memory bias is preceded by an other-reference bias in infancy - Nature Communications

A classic feature of human memory is that we remember information better when it refers to ourselves. Here, the authors show that before the emergence of self-concept, infants instead remember informa...

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Kiley Hamlin @jkileyhamlin.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

New paper! Here (in Nature Communications) we (Ale Geraci, Luca Surian, Lucia Gabriella Tina, & I; work led/run by Ale) show that 5-day-old newborns selectively attend to two distinct forms of prosocial over antisocial action: approaching versus avoiding and helping versus hindering. rdcu.be/evorW

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Human newborns spontaneously attend to prosocial interactions

Nature Communications - Abilities to distinguish between prosocial and antisocial actions are crucial for sustaining cooperative systems. Here, the authors show that human newborns with just 5 days...

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Mikołaj Hernik @mikolajhernik.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Common cuckoo. Heard them a thousand times, saw only twice. And first time I got to take a pic. Good day #birding at Håkøya, Tromsø yesterday.

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Mikołaj Hernik @mikolajhernik.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Thank you for sharing this personal account, Thom. -With best wishes.

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Thom Scott-Phillips @thomscottphillips.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

New Substack post It's very personal: my story of a 20-year academic career, and the many challenges of theoretical and cross-disciplinary work As I put it in the subtitle: There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending thomscottphillips.substack.com/p/happy-in-t...

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Happy In Theory

This is the short story of my long, 20 year search for a stable academic home. There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending.

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Mikołaj Hernik @mikolajhernik.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Psyched to see today this snow goose (a north-american species) in Tromsø, Northern Norway. #birding

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Mikołaj Hernik @mikolajhernik.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I've just discovered that Proceedings B stopped hosting the movie stimuli from supplementary materials of my paper published in 2014. There is no sign that they were ever there, except for references to them in text. Did anyone else experience this?

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Mikołaj Hernik @mikolajhernik.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Bar-tailed godwit resting today evening in Tromsø, Norway, on the way further north-east. #birding

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Mikołaj Hernik @mikolajhernik.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Easter Sunday #birding: adult white-tailed eagle, Rakkfjord, Kvaløya. Not uncommon in Troms, but always a highlight.

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Mikołaj Hernik @mikolajhernik.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Today I learned how I am going to loose my hearing. It will be by playing with feedback on E560 Deflector shield

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Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology. We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions. 4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply! tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4

leuphana.de

Research Associate (m/f/d) Applying Machine Learning to Developmental Psychology

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Mikołaj Hernik @mikolajhernik.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

It's been 6 years today since I moved to the Arctic. On Sunday I finally saw Steller's eider - a rare bird in Tromsø. If I saw that, will I see the end of data collection(s), I wonder.

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Mikołaj Hernik @mikolajhernik.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

According to the director, it was relatively easy to get the money because the backers could assume that if things go wrong he is able to finish it all by himself. In Blender, BTW - a freeware!

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Thom Scott-Phillips @thomscottphillips.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Re-upping this summer school: Cognitive & evolutionary foundations of politics, with a great faculty list! Deadline is at the end of next week: 14th February Any questions, feel free to get in touch!

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Aleksandra Lazić, PhD @alelazic.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Directory of free, open psychological datasets docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Psychological stimulus sets and datasets

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Denis Tatone @denistatone.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Very proud of Laura and collabs for this one! There's nothing as stimulating in dev science than being confronted with selective patterns of "failures", and this paper is no exception. The question of HOW infants set up a representation of helping as a second-order goal is far from being answered.

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Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz @laurasn.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

New paper in Open Mind! What does it mean to help? What is the goal of a helping action? We wanted to probe infants' & preschoolers' helping concept - specifically, whether they think helpers reduce others' action costs. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

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Marcin Miłkowski @mmilkowski.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP) 2025, September 2–5, 2025 Submit abstracts by March 3, 2025 Venue: Staszic Palace, Polish Academy of Sciences Keynote Speakers: Emma Borg @cameronbuckner.bsky.social @noranewcombe.bsky.social Petra Schumacher 1/2

espp2025.ifispan.edu.pl

Home | ESPP 2025 Conference Warsaw

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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Attn #CogSci #PsychSci colleagues: What textbook would you recommend for an introduction to cognitive science course for students who will not have taken any related intro courses (psychology, linguistics, compsci) beforehand?

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Mikołaj Hernik @mikolajhernik.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Interested in applying for an MSCA-PF grant to come for a postdoc with me to Tromsø, Norway? Get in touch by 16 Feb to participate in a program offered by UiT to support applications. Candidates within Europe can visit Tromsø in June (online event for the rest). euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/309681

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Call for postdoc candidates interested in applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in infant social cognition

UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowsk

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Dan Sperber @dansperber.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

The archives of the International Cognition and Culture Institute (active 2008-2021) are now freely online with past blogs, webinars, and discussions from anthropologists, biologists, cognitive scientists, historians, linguists, and philosophers: cognitionandculture.net/index.html

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International Cognition and Culture Institute

This website is not active any more. We are in the process of transforming it into a permanent open archive and of optimising it for that function.

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Mikołaj Hernik @mikolajhernik.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I lOvE No earthly man. Will be checking this one! Thanks for the tip.

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Mikołaj Hernik @mikolajhernik.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Always exciting to see a kingfisher. This one: today at the entrance to Port Praski, essentially downtown Warsaw. #birds

Kingfisher perched on a twig. Gray waters of Vistula river in the background.

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Richard Irvine @robotforaday.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Report on recent research on the Upper Palaeolithic "Panel of the Enigmatic Signs" at Las Monedas Cave, led by Izzy Wisher. Important dialogue between archaeology & developmental psych, and great to see archaeological recognition of children's independent creativity! www.science.org/content/arti...

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‘Enigmatic’ cave art was made by ice age children

Charcoal doodling appears 14,000 years ago, as adults drew more proficiently nearby

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Eike Struck @eikstrike.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

🧵A prominent professor, John-Bjarne Hansen, at one of Norway's leading research institutions created a culture of harassment that devastated careers and lives. After years of silence, here’s what happened at UiT and why it was allowed to continue: www.nordlys.no/varslingssak... #UiT #AcademicAbuse