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Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🚨New paper led by the brilliant @emiecz.bsky.social! Everyone's talking about downsizing in government & industry, but is "lean" always better? Drawing on distributed computing and cognitive science, we show that efforts to improve short-term efficiency by reducing redundancy come at a cost! 👇

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

UVA School of Data Science has two open rank faculty positions open this year. Join us! - NLP: apply.interfolio.com/191213 - Data and Society: apply.interfolio.com/191214

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Tania Lombrozo @tanialombrozo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Excited to be in this great lineup of recommended reads from Nautilus! WHY WE ASK WHY "takes on the mother of all questions. With scientific and philosophical insight aplenty, this one seems like quite the read to wrap our questioning minds around." 😊 nautil.us/the-sleep-cy...

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The Sleep Cycle of Ideas, Seeded Dream Poems, and the Queen of Dinosaurs: 8 Books We’re Excited to Read This October - Nautilus

The Nautilus monthly reading list

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Phillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Students sometimes ask me if it still makes sense, in this accelerating age, to pursue a PhD in AI. Perhaps counterintuitively, I think it's a great time to do so. I wrote up some thoughts on this here: web.mit.edu/phillipi/www...

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On the Value of Doing a PhD in the Age of AI

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Hanna Wallach @hannawallach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm super excited that this fun paper with @madesai.bsky.social, @angelinawang.bsky.social, and other fantastic collaborators will be presented as a spotlight oral at COLM next week!!! 🎉 Please come check it out if you'll be there!

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Tania Lombrozo @tanialombrozo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

WHY WE ASK WHY will be released in October and I'll be on the road! Please join me if you're in or near my stops - Warwick's in La Jolla (Oct 1), Labyrinth in Princeton (Oct 7), Porter Square Books in Cambridge (Oct 15), Brown in Providence (Oct 16), and Manny's in SF (Oct 20).

Image with book tour dates and locations for Tania Lombrozo's book Why We Ask Why

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Kou Murayama @koumurayama.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sorry I am no longer an active user but just post this job alert: With Peter Dayan and Michiko Sakaki, we are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who could work on cognitive computational modeling wth digital education data. Come to Tübingen!!: uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Modeling of Digital Education Data

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Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I recently had the privilege to give a talk at the National Academy of Sciences! This was a general audience talk and some folks were rather skeptical of climate change, but I think I was able to do a decent job speaking to them. Comments welcome! Talk link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VIX...

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Federico Rossano @federicorossano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

UCSD Cognitive Science Department is hiring an Assistant Professor incorporating novel computational approaches in the study of biological and/or artificial intelligence. I have had the privilege of working in this department for 10 years and the intellectual environment really is unique. 1/3

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The right way to pace the frontier is to commit to a robust, open-source AI ecosystem, thereby diluting the power of these badly behaving frontier labs.

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...

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Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks

What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

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Lindsey Powell @lindseypowell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

UCSD Psychology is hiring!! We’re seeking a new assistant professor colleague who studies high-level human cognition, broadly construed. Please share and/or apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04646

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Assistant Professor in High-level Human Cognition

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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Princeton Neuroscience Institute @princetonneuro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We're hiring! PNI is recruiting an assistant professor of neuroscience working with non-human primates in any area. Review begins Oct 19: apply.interfolio.com/192521 #NeuroJobs #Neuroskyence

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Cory Inman @brainscout.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Psychology Department at the University of Utah is currently seeking applicants for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in Human Neuroscience. Please share the advertisement below with anyone in your professional network who is on the market! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/206...

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Samantha Butler @samanthabutler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Please spread the news - the Department of Neurobiology at UCLA is hiring. This is an open rank search for all and any amazing neuroscientists! Please apply here by Nov 15th, first review end of October : recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11296

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Open-rank tenure-track faculty position

University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is hiring! Focus on social cognition, broadly construed. Come be my colleague :) I am not on the search committee but happy to talk about the campus, environment, careers, etc any time. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10411

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Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 03/09/2026

We are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. Please apply or forward to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor, Psychology - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Psychology at Stanford University is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. In addition ...

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Marc Coutanche @marccoutanche.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We are recruiting an Assistant Professor in Cog Neuro/Cog Psych to join us at Rice! Please spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/192080

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's publication day for The Carbon Wave! Thank you to everyone who has already bought a copy. Until Friday you can buy signed copies at Brookline Booksmith: brooklinebooksmith.com/book/9780262... Book tour: thecarbonwave.com/tour Book club: electricnotes.news/p/climate-bo...

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Selmaan Chettih @selmaan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Check these three faculty searches at Yale and join me in New Haven! 1. Experimental neuroscience apply.interfolio.com/190736 2. Computational/Theoretical neuroscience apply.interfolio.com/190740 3. The (new!) Center for Neuroethology and Physiological Plasticity apply.interfolio.com/191722

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Alireza Modirshanechi @modirshanechi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Excited to share that I'll be starting as a junior professor and Emmy Noether awardee at the University of Göttingen this October! 🥳 🚀 I'll be hiring #phd students and #postdoc across #machinelearning, #neuroscience and #cogsci: modirlab.github.io/open-positio... Please spread the word! 🙏

Information about Göttingen and equal opportunities

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Context Lab @contextlab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Super excited to announce our next big project: an NSF-funded collaboration with the @exploratorium.bsky.social to build museum exhibits that adapt on-the-fly to visitor interests, goals, and background knowledge! 🧑‍🔬🩻🔬🥼🧪🧬🤓🤖🚀 www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

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Award Details - NSF Award Search

Find award details and explore award abstracts and publications.

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hombrecerebro.bsky.social @hombrecerebro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Harvard Neurobiology + Kempner are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in computational neuroscience. The search is broad; researchers combining computational and experimental work (including nonhuman-primate research) should apply! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16615

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Assistant Professor of Neurobiology

The Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University invite applications for a tenure tra...

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Tom Silver @tomssilver.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This week's #PaperILike is "People construct simplified mental representations to plan" (Ho et al., Nature 2022). People generate ("construe") simplified task representations on-the-fly. (Robots should too!) Also: awesome first paragraph. PDF: arxiv.org/abs/2105.06948

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People construct simplified mental representations to plan

One of the most striking features of human cognition is the capacity to plan. Two aspects of human planning stand out: its efficiency and flexibility. Efficiency is especially impressive because plans...

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Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Spent a good amount of this summer digging through a 20+ person team of teachers' free-text annotations, learning what "scaffolding" and "push for rigor" means, and iterating on this pipeline. We find that AI tutors, by default, frequently over-scaffold and rarely push for rigor.

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Eleanor Holton @eleanor-holton.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

So thrilled to be joining the Psychology Department at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social as an assistant prof next summer! I'll be recruiting for PhD/postdoc to start in Autumn 2027, so if you're interested in using computational approaches to studying human cognition please get in touch!

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Are you on academic job market for #Postdoc or #TT Assistant/Assoc. Prof/Lecturer/ #AP /Research Scholar/ #fellowship jobs for 2026-2027 in #CS/ #SocSci/ #InfoSci/ Management Science/ #Psych & similar? Like last year, I am maintaining a list (so far ~200 positions) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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2026-2027 Postdoc/TT/Research Scientist Positions in Information/CS/Social Science + Related Fields

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Dan Feldman @danfeldman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Neuroscience Department at UC Berkeley is hiring an Asst Professor in Computational Neuro. All areas of computational/theoretical neuro are welcome. Deadline Oct 30. Join our neuroscience community! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446 #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs

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Assistant Professor - Computational Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Tania Lombrozo @tanialombrozo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

1st book review! “Lombrozo unpacks the psychology of explanations in rich detail and sharply analyzes how explaining can help and hinder…The result is a fresh, engrossing take on an important aspect of human behavior.” 😀 www.publishersweekly.com/9780063395008

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Why We Ask Why: The Science of Explanation and the Human Drive to Understand by Tania Lombrozo

People explain what they experience, feel, and encounter in order to understand the present and anticipate the future, according...

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Tania Lombrozo @tanialombrozo.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

What do rubber ducks have to do with learning and AI? You can find out in my TEDx talk, released today as an Editor’s Pick at the YouTube TED Channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbiy...

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How you can learn in a world of information overload | Tania Lombrozo | TEDxNewEngland

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Taylor Webb @taylorwwebb.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I'm recruiting two postdocs (or potentially PhD students) to work on projects at the intersection of cognition, neuroscience, and AI (with a particular emphasis on mechanistic interpretability). Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... and please share!

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Serena Booth @reniebird.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

At Brown, I'm privileged to organize an AI policy summer school where we bring grad students from across the nation together to learn about policymaking. We travel down to DC as a group and learn about policy implementation and careers, and the students conduct meetings with Congressional offices.

A group of 20 people standing together in front of a building

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ICML Conference @icmlconf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We appreciate the love ❤️ But limited engagement and few followers on Bsky makes some (not us!) question whether it's worth it Be sure to follow (and share with your ML friends!) if you want to see more updates from ICML!

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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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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

More evidence, from a large-scale study in China, that using AI hurts learning if it undermines mental effort. When homework time drops due to AI use, so do test scores. Across studies, there is a clear theme: AI tutoring in support of classes is good, using AI to "help" with homework is bad.

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Taylor Webb @taylorwwebb.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Very excited to share that my lab will be moving to Princeton (Neuroscience & Psychology) this fall. I'll be recruiting at all levels (more info to come soon), please share / get in touch if you're interested in joining!

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Marcel Binz @marcelbinz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Excited to announce that I'll be starting my own lab in Tübingen this October! Hiring at all levels: Postdoc, PhD & RA. Want to work on computational cognitive science at scale? Apply: core-cognition.github.io Reposts and shares much appreciated 🙏

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David Levari @davidlevari.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Pointing out that “everyone else is already doing it!” is a classic way to motivate prosocial behavior. But how can we encourage actions which aren't popular yet? In a new paper in @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social, Mike Norton and I had a lot of fun testing a method using "collective streaks." (1/5)

Screenshot of the title and abstract of the article "Levari, D. E., & Norton, M. I. (2026). Collective streaks motivate prosocial behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 126, 104941."

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Tania Lombrozo @tanialombrozo.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Do LLMs *understand* language? Do educational AI agents *understand* the material they teach (or their students)? Claims about what AI systems do or don't understand are pervasive, but assessing them requires an account of MACHINE UNDERSTANDING

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James Antony @jameswardantony.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Excited to share I will be joining UC Davis as an assistant professor starting July 2027! Thank you dearly to all mentors and friends who have supported me over the years ❤️ and Cal Poly friends, I'll miss you!

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Luc Rocher @rocher.lc · 29/04/2026

💬 Getting the ick with chatbots? Our research in Nature shows that models trained to adopt a warm and friendly tone are more likely to make mistakes when answering your questions. Small changes in tone can undermine accuracy across architectures, particularly when users express vulnerability.

Banner image with screenshot of paper on the left and first figure on the right, showing two conversations: one with a neutral model, one with a warm model.

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Paul Röttger @paul-rottger.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

New paper w/ UK AISI: Millions of people now use AI to help them write and communicate. In three experiments (14k participants, 3m+ human ratings) we show that AI writing assistance systematically distorts writer personas – their perceived beliefs, personality, and identity. 🧵

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Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

A computational theory of Aha! moments! New paper explaining why Aha! moments occur & why they feel so good. TLDR: They are a form of meta-cognitive prediction errors i.e. they occur when we surprise ourselves about our own abilities! @rachitdubey.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

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Kai Sandbrink @ackaisa.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Excited that my paper on metacontrol in humans and neural networks with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social and @lhuntneuro.bsky.social is out in PNAS! We examine the way that predictive representations of control enable behavioral adaptation across settings, and pathologies: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Honored to be in such esteemed company! Many thanks and super grateful to my great mentors and collaborators over the years.

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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

DeepMind's RL team is hiring a research scientist: if you're passionate about RL, come work with us! And if you know people who might be interested, please share: job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...

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Research Scientist, Reinforcement Learning

London, UK

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