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Shaoming

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Computational cognitive science of learning, reasoning and creativity, in both social and non-social contexts 🧠🎾🌈🥘

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Come see the lab's work at #SfN2025! (🧵) Featuring: @khoudary.bsky.social @biancaleonard.bsky.social @malejandra.bsky.social @jungsuy.bsky.social @dalezhou.bsky.social @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social @sharonmnoh.bsky.social
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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Wonderful end-of-semester party yesterday. I love being a part of this community.
Group photo from our end-of-semester party, with about 20 attendees standing and seated in two rows.
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Nathaniel Daw @nathanieldaw.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
announcing this year's neuroeconomics summer school, this time outside paris. too many great lecturers to list, even too many great organizers (plassmann,glimcher,tymula,kable,me). & you wouldnt believe all the past students and where they are now. sign up: www.insead.edu/events/neuro...
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Neuroeconomics Summer School
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Ashley Thomas @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I am hiring a lab manager to start ~ July 1st. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
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Job Search Welcome | Harvard University
Visit Harvard Careers to explore job opportunities, create a profile, and apply for open positions.
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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Interested in how anxiety impacts learning about aversive events? Excited to share @luiantaverra.bsky.social cool project on whether overgeneralisation arises bc ppl think they saw a threatening stimulus, or bc they really assigned value to similar stimuli #neuroskyence #PsychSkySci #compneurosky
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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
How is the memorability of an image influenced by how it makes us feel? @hartwakeland.bsky.social created an image set (VAMOS) of over 900 scene images, along with their valence, arousal, and memorability ratings. They then showed that *moderately* negative images are more memorable! (1/2)
Sample images sorted by evoked valence/arousal and memorability. Scene images were selected to span a wide range of average valence and arousal scores. The figure above shows examples of memorable and forgettable images from across the spectra of valence and arousal. Examples include a tornado (negative and memorable), pollution from a factory (negative and forgettable), a field of sunflowers (positive and memorable), a frosty field in early morning (positive and forgettable), a car crash (high arousal and memorable), and a mountain scene (high arousal and forgettable).
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Ali Cohen @aliocohen.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
We are seeking a full-time Research Specialist to join our team & become a LUMeNary @EmoryPsychology in Summer 2025! ✨ Applications accepted here: staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/141227/... And feel free to reach out to me!
The Learning, Understanding, Memory, & Neurodevelopment Lab (LUMeN Lab, PI: Dr. Alexandra Cohen) in the Department of Psychology at Emory University (Atlanta, GA) is seeking a full-time Research Assistant (RA) to work on studies examining how motivation and emotion influence learning, memory, and brain function across development.

The RA will gain experience with all components of the research process, providing excellent preparation for graduate studies. 

The preferred start date for the position is Summer 2025. A two-year commitment is requested. Application review will take place on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
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Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
🎉My lab (webbslab.com) is hiring 2 full-time research assistants to work on NIMH-funded projects focused on the causes and treatment of depression in teens. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️ tinyurl.com/naexvxdc
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Clinical Research Asst I - MRA
Site: The McLean Hospital Corporation At Mass General Brigham, we know it takes a surprising range of talented professionals to advance our mission—from doctors, nurses, business people and tech exper...
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liladavachi.bsky.social @liladavachi.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
🎈New paper🎈 Led by the inimitable @asieh.bsky.social Hippocampal dysfunction in medication naive patients with schizophrenia during a memory task resolves with drug treatment. Incredible team effort! urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...
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Impaired hippocampal circuitry and memory dysfunction in schizophrenia
Nature Mental Health - Dysfunction in the hippocampal circuitry in individuals with first-episode schizophrenia and delusions is linked to deficits in behavioral pattern separation and recognition...
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Aidan Campbell @aidanvcampbell.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Does effort make life more meaningful? Was Sisyphus living the dream? In our new paper (now accepted in Cognition!), across 6 studies with nearly 3,000 participants, we found that more effortful tasks feel more meaningful 🧵
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Dr Anna Leshinskaya @annaleshinskaya.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I have recently launched the relational cognition lab at UC Irvine: relcoglab.org! We study learning and memory in mind, brains and machines. I am open to collaborations and hiring a lab technician (lab manager/junior specialist). Job ad & application here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09400.
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Relational Cognition Lab
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Alright it's here! Where we push back against the exploratory-confirmatory distinction that's become canonized in metascience and talk about what we think exploratory research (including exploratory experimentation and modeling) means and why our view is incompatible with 'unplanned data analyses'.
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Uma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Thanks for the call to action! I find video intimidating, particularly with popular media. So pretty proud to have done a live TV segment on how neuroscience could help you understand consumption (inset vid comes up when page loads) fox5sandiego.com/news/local-n...
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The science of shopping: How your brain decides what to buy
With the holiday season at its peak, millions of Americans have been hitting the stores — both in person and online — to take advantage of deals, while securing gifts for family and friends.
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
In the era of Trump 2.0, we're calling on all scientists+ to unpack science for the public. This is much bigger than anyone of us. But if we all do one thing, imagine the cumulative impact! It need not be a burden. More here, in @thetransmitter.bsky.social. www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
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In your New Year’s resolutions for 2025, consider public outreach
If every person in the neuroscience community committed to doing one thing, imagine the cumulative difference it would make.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Even though "academics from poorer backgrounds introduce more novel scientific concepts, [they] are less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards" The humanities have the least social mobility, quants have the most papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Want to find happiness? People are happiest having sex, dancing, at a museum, playing sports, gardening, or socializing. People are less happy at work than any of the other 39 activities they reported engaging in (except for being sick in bed) academic.oup.com/ej/article-a...
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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love. Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...
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Grief Makes Us Time Travelers (Gift Article)
A neuroscientist studying memory, I used to believe time was linear. Then my mother had a stroke.
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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Hello mother? Hello father? In the first hour after an earthquake, who you call reveals something important about your social network ties. An earthquake is a natural experiment in stressing one's network. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... #HNL work from 2023 in @pnasnexus.org
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Emergency communications after earthquake reveal social network backbone of important ties
Abstract. Social networks provide a basis for collective resilience to disasters. Combining the quasi-experimental context of a major earthquake in Ya’an,
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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS
Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...
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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
A few years ago I realised that only a few men were applying for RA jobs in my lab. I removed "experience working with children" from the criteria and that changed overnight. Teenage boys don't get to do work experience with kids, so they can "seem" less qualified. But some of my best RAs are men.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
“Few people realize that cognitive science is crucial for evaluating claims about AI capabilities. We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University
Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes ...
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
“We should embrace a plurality of OS [open science] practices reflecting the value schemes of different scientific communities, rather than promoting acontextual ‘best practices’.”
Open science is good for both epistemic and social reasons, but in nonobvious ways, it can have detrimental epistemic side effects. Drawing on case studies and the social epistemology of science, I show how practices intended to increase transparency, communication, and information sharing in science can backfire. We should not reject Open Science, just implement it carefully. I argue that we can do so by treating openness as a governing value in science, and thus, that our pursuit of openness needs to be balanced against our pursuit of the whole scheme of values that govern science.
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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to - not publish - have outstanding publication records - introduce more novel scientific concepts - less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards. www.nber.org/papers/w33289
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Science Magazine @science.org · 23/12/2024
Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.
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Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty
Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.
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Ian Ballard @iancballard.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Get your abstract submissions ready for RLDM 2025, at Trinity College in Dublin (abstracts due 1/15). Tutorial submissions close on 12/20. RLDM is a terrific interdisciplinary conference at the intersection of computational theory (AI, ML, robotics), cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience.
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Luigi Acerbi @lacerbi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
1/ Hi all, I am at #NeurIPS2024 and I will be hiring a postdoc in probabilistic machine learning starting asap. Research interests: amortized, approximate & simulator-based inference, Bayesian optimization, and AI4science. Get in touch for a chat or come to our posters today 11AM or Friday 11AM!
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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Very heavily updated preprint with Tessa Charlesworth and Patrick Mair on international trends in explicit and implicit social group attitudes (2009–2019) using 1.4 million+ participants from 33 countries in the @projectimplicit.bsky.social International Dataset: psyarxiv.com/jmg7c/.
Plot of international trends in explicit and implicit age, race, sexuality, skin tone, and body weight attitudes (2009–2019).
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Anna Schapiro @annaschapiro.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Check out our latest, led by @marlietandoc.bsky.social!! We find that memory for individual features of objects is rapidly distorted by the objects' category structure. Plus simulations that provide an account of how the hippocampus may contribute to this effect.
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Kate Nussenbaum @katenuss.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I'm hiring a full-time lab manager / research tech for my new psychology lab at Boston University, to start this summer (July 2025)! The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration. More details here: cldlab.org/join/ 🧠💻 #psychscisky
Detailed job description, which can also be found here: https://cldlab.org/join/
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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
I will be reading applications for our PhD program this year. Our lab studies social cognition, attitude formation and change, and social learning and memory. For more information, please read this document: benedekkurdi.com/files/Kurdi_.... The deadline is December 1.
The Illinois Social Cognition lab in fall 2024: Shaoming Wang, Joyan Cyrus, Babak Hemmatian, Benedek Kurdi, and Arlyssia Kelly
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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
Glad to have played a small role in this paper by Kirsten Morehouse on participant privacy and open science, with algorithms to quantify and mitigate risk. My totally unbiased view is that it's worth reading if you ever share data: psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-... (preprint: osf.io/preprints/me...)
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