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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026

The Danish government wants to reduce the n of international students. To comply Aarhus uni has decided to convert our Cognitive Science BSc into a Danish only education. Our wonderful students are pushing back: omnibus.au.dk/en/archive/s... 1/

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OPINION: AU wants international talent – but is closing the door on them at Cognitive Science

Students and alumni at Cognitive Science urge the Senior Management Team to reopen the decision to convert the Bachelor’s programme in Cognitive Science to Danish. Why should Arts be left without an E...

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Sylvain Estebe @sylvainestebe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Just back from neuroMONSTER 2026 in Rome 🧠 4 days of neuroscience, cognitive science, maths & AI. New people, good ideas, lots of inspiration and I got to present my City2 work. Thanks to the Center for Humanities Computing & Aarhus University. Already looking forward to next year!

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026

some Bayesian cognitive modeling students are having trouble seeing the industry-relevance of the methods (my worked out examples are research based, since it's what I do). Tips for good industry examples? @ajordannafa.com @natehaines.bsky.social @rmcelreath.bsky.social @avehtari.bsky.social

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Nicolas Legrand @nicolaslegrand.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐲𝐇𝐆𝐅 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 (𝐯0.2.10), featuring an early draft of local-only deep predictive coding networks. Get prospective configuration-like behaviours for a fraction of the compute cost. Work in progress... 📦Code: github.com/Computationa... 📓Tutorial: computationalpsychiatry.github.io/pyhgf/notebo...

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Sylvain Estebe @sylvainestebe.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

(The last image isn't from Leiden — it's a photograph of mine from Prague. On a post about romantic love, it felt like it belonged.)

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Sylvain Estebe @sylvainestebe.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Special thanks to the wider project team at IJN (@edgardubourg.bsky.social, Arman Prangere, Charles Planque, Zoé Zhong Ying, Valentin Thouzeau), and to Kristoffer Nielbo & Nicolas Legrand at CHC Aarhus for the support that made both this work and this trip possible.

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Sylvain Estebe @sylvainestebe.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I presented preliminary results from an ongoing project on the variation of romantic love through history in France using the tools of computational humanities within a behavioral ecology framework. Joint work w/ Nicolas Baumard & collaborators at Institut Jean Nicod (ENS, PSL).

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Sylvain Estebe @sylvainestebe.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

First time in Leiden, and my first academic talk at @ehbea2026.bsky.social. Grateful to @ehbea.bsky.social for the Student Travel Grant and for a conference and community that was genuinely welcoming 🧵

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals 🐦‍⬛ This workshop brings together experts from animal cognition, developmental psychology, computational modelling, and philosophy to investigate 24-25 April 2026 Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP bit.ly/4by8cCM

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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Great talk by @jingyux.bsky.social bringing the collective behaviour vibe to #ehbea2026 ! Stay tuned to her beky account for the upcoming preprints on her talk on social learning + social networks

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Christophe Benavent @christopheb.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Le jeudi, j'anime un workshop NLP pour les sciences sociales. Des travaux en cours, du code, des manières de faire. Ambiance garage. C'est en visio. Voilà le programme et il y a un lien pour s'abonner à la mailing list. acss-dig.psl.eu/fr/seminaire...

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Institut PSL-ACSS : NLP working group

L’Institut constitue une plateforme pour les chercheurs de PSL dont l’objectif fondamental est de permettre une mutualisation ciblée de ressources.

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Andy Moore @aaandmoore.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.

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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · 17/12/2025

New preprint: "The Cultural Ecology of Social Media" osf.io/preprints/so... Thread ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Most research on social media considers them as supports for transmission of information, explaining online success (and pathologies) by focusing on consumers’ biases and interests. This article takes a different perspective, applying ideas from an ecological approach to culture to social media informational dynamics. It argues that success online depends both on the intrinsic appeal of content to receivers and on how well content serves producers’ strategic goals within the constraints and affordances of specific platforms. These goals include reputation management, coalition building and identity management, and coordination or participation in shared activities. Transmission is often a by-product of these motivations, and replication fidelity plays a limited role compared with transformations that adapt content to local incentives. Finally, the article suggests that platforms and communities can be understood as distinct ecological niches, each characterised by different audience structures, affordances, metrics, and algorithmic pressures. This perspective offers novel insight to persistent debates on social media dynamics, such as misinformation, radicalisation and polarisation, and the reasons behind online success.

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 26/11/2025

CogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof). We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice! international.au.dk/about/profil...

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Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Full Professor of Cognitive Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University

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Sylvain Estebe @sylvainestebe.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Are there ways to fit agent-based models (ABMs) to empirical data and compare models, as we do in computational (cognitive) neuroscience?

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Sylvain Estebe @sylvainestebe.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I highly recommend this summer school to anyone looking to deepen their knowledge at the intersection of machine learning and probabilistic modeling — and to meet wonderful, kind people. Huge thanks to the organizers and to everyone I had the pleasure of meeting!

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Sylvain Estebe @sylvainestebe.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I had the chance to explore the work of fellow participants and to dive deeper into inference algorithms I’ve been using over the past few years.

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Sylvain Estebe @sylvainestebe.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Last week, I was in #Trondheim at Norwegian University of Science and Technology for the #Probabilistic AI School (ProbAI) summer school. It was a fantastic experience

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Sylvain Estebe @sylvainestebe.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Some photo from the trip ☀️🔵

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Sylvain Estebe @sylvainestebe.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I will be in Trondheim until June 20th for the probAI summer school. If you are interested in computational/cognitive science, free to reach out.

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Sylvain Estebe @sylvainestebe.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Very proud to have run my first 5km 🏃‍♂️ 😊

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Sylvain Estebe @sylvainestebe.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Having previously attended the workshop, I can warmly recommend it :)

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/

Cover of the textbook used in the workshop

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Sylvain Estebe @sylvainestebe.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I’ll be in Paris next week and would love to connect with people in cognitive science, AI, or photography :)

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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

What are some equations or modeling approaches that are from different communities and are applied to different phenomena but you find them similar, the same, or very similar? Example: a paper showed how replicator dynamics in evolutionary models are somewhat isomorphic with Bayes equations.

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 20/11/2024

We're hiring an assistant professor at the intersection btw cognitive modeling of language / social interaction, computational ling / lang technologies. Exciting environment / great work-life balance / amazing students. international.au.dk/about/profil... Get in touch if interested!

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Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at the School of Communication and Culture - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University

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Sylvain Estebe @sylvainestebe.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

If you could recommend a book or article from your discipline/specialty in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, or evolutionary anthropology for 2024 trends, what would it be? Looking forward to your suggestions!

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Sylvain Estebe @sylvainestebe.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

My internships at RITMO, associated with the University of Oslo, gave me hands-on experience in various research methods, including mobile and stationary eye-tracking and motion capture. Before my academic journey, I dabbled in music production and collaborated with artists.

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