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Tyler Marghetis @tylermarghetis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Thanks David! Here's a more recent follow-up: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Everybody overestimates small percentages (and underestimates large ones). It's a rational response to uncertainty.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Rachel Ryskin @ryskin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

@salonisameernaik.bsky.social did a fantastic job leading this—impressive since she isn't even in grad school yet (applying this fall!). Super fun to collab w/ @tylermarghetis.bsky.social on the role of perceptual processes in seemingly abstract math reasoning. See thread & preprint for details!👇

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Saloni Sameer Naik @salonisameernaik.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Excited to share this preprint with my amazing co-authors @ryskin.bsky.social & @tylermarghetis.bsky.social ! 🎉 "Eye-tracking reveals the perceptual basis of algebraic expertise" How does becoming good at algebra change the way you look at equations? + × 👁️ Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Surveys like this always alarm people Fortunately, recent research from cognitive psychology shows that the reason people are so wildly wrong when estimating the size of minority groups is largely NOT because of prejudice — but rather how humans think about unknown proportions of any kind

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Tyler Marghetis @tylermarghetis.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

This paper is awesome! Thanks for writing it. One initial thought: constructing a timeline of major figures will always involve some personal judgments about who makes the cut. But, fwiw, if figure-making were a democracy... I'd vote for including Jeff Elman and Liz Bates, alongside Tomasello.

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Stephen Chrisomalis @schrisomalis.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

OK, it finally happened! My new article, "Gradience as a cognitive principle for evaluating numerical notations", is now out today in @pnas.org. By focusing on numerals' use for communication instead of arithmetic, we have a new tool to assess their efficiency. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Gradience as a cognitive principle for evaluating numerical notations | PNAS

More than 100 historically, archaeologically and ethnographically attested numerical notations have been used over the past 5,000 y; however, becau...

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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

1/ If you read this NY Times piece but ACTUALLY want to do something to reduce screen time, there's really only one way to do this w/ an iPhone (and it's not switching to greyscale). www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...

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Opinion | I Killed Color on My Phone. The Result Shocked Me.

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Tyler Marghetis @tylermarghetis.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Something similar to what @simondedeo.bsky.social did with Darwin's notebooks: doi.org/10.1016/j.co... Will it work? Gosh, who knows. Is it fun as heck to try? Yes!

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Tyler Marghetis @tylermarghetis.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I love "Chalk"! And I'd love to connect our work on the shorter timescales of mathematical creativity to the longer sweep of history... We recently started analyzing Erdös's entire oeuvre using similar methods. No results so far — the analyses are a bit of a mess, tbh — but hope springs eternal.

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Tyler Marghetis @tylermarghetis.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Nice write-up in Scientific American of some of the latest research from my group, led by my first PhD student Dr. Shadi Tabatabaeian (now a postdoc at Georgetown). I grew up reading Scientific American... Childhood dream fulfilled! @david-landy.bsky.social

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Benjamin Pitt @benjaminpitt.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I’ll be considering graduate school applications for Fall 2026 – positions are fully funded, typically for 5 years. Deadline to apply to the Cognition program is December 1. Come do science with me in beautiful Amherst, Massachusetts! www.umass.edu/natural-scie...

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PhD in Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience : College of Natural Sciences : UMass Amherst

Engage in research centered on fundamental theoretical questions about cognitive function using multiple experimental methods and data analysis.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 17/09/2025

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “An information-theoretic foreshadowing of mathematicians’ sudden insights.” Explore the article here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.

Studying mathematicians’ sudden insights in their natural habitat.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 03/09/2025

Can the “eureka” moments that advance mathematics be predicted? Close study of mathematicians working at blackboards to solve tough problems found a spike of unpredictable movements and attentional shifts one minute before breakthroughs. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Mathematician works on whiteboard. Stock photo.

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Mastering a skill can take decades, but learning unfolds across timescales from moments to days. A new paper by three former SFI postdocs presents a theoretical model of nested timescales of learning, offering a unified, multi-scale account of skill acquisition. www.santafe.edu/news-center/...

Ceramicist at work in Takayama, Japan. (image: Katherine Mast)

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Brian Guay @brianguay.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

New paper on misperceptions out in PNAS @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Why do people overestimate the size of politically relevant groups (immigrant, LGBTQ, Jewish) and quantities (% of budget spent on foreign aid, % of refugees that are criminals)?🧵👇

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Ellis Cain @ellscain.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

I'll be presenting some work with @tylermarghetis.bsky.social and Elizabeth Geballe at #CES2024 on translation as transmission. Stop by if you'd like to chat about digital humanities and cross-cultural transmission! Link: ellisc.dev/pdf/ces_2024...

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Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

I've been awarded an early-career research grant in Australia (an ARC DECRA)! Feeling very fortunate 😌 Excited to continue my work on the interactions between music, minds, and culture using a online citizen science approach. science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

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ANU early career researchers awarded $8m in ARC funding

Researchers from ANU received a total funding of $8 million across 17 projects in the latest round of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme.

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Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

We’re hosting a conference! In June we’ll host the Visual Language Conference 2024 (VisLang2024) at Tilburg University for research on graphic and multimodal communication. Submissions are now open. Please submit, join us, and circulate the CFP widely! www.visuallanguagelab.com/vislang2024

Call for papers for the Visual Language Conference 2024

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Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Hi Bluesky! I'm recruiting graduate students and postdocs to launch the Visual Learning Lab with me at UC San Diego in Summer/Fall 2024! The lab will focus on how we learn to derive visual meaning, integrating methods from developmental psychology, machine learning, & vision science.

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Home | The Visual Learning Lab at UCSD

Lab webpage for the Visual Learning Lab at UCSD, lead by Dr. Bria Long, Ph.D. Launching in July 2024!

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Gregg D Caruso @greggdcaruso.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

Read broadly and outside your discipline/area of research. It will allow you to make new and original connections that you would not otherwise make.

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Gregg D Caruso @greggdcaruso.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

My Strategies for Dealing With Radical Psychotic Doubt: A Schizo-Something Philosopher’s Tale | A beautifully written first-person account by the amazing Sofia Jeppsson academic.oup.com/schizophreni... | via @lisabortolotti.bsky.social

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My Strategies for Dealing With Radical Psychotic Doubt: A Schizo-Something Philosopher’s Tale

I am a 45-year-old Swedish philosopher with “schizo-something”: I have never been given a precise diagnostic label, but a psychiatrist once said that although I

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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

During grad school, I worked with an RA who I suspected of fraud. We were running experiments with a pre and post session in the lab. Labor intensive, time suck! I never witnessed anything but I knew something was off bc the descriptive stats were unbelievable compared to our other similar studies.

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

I just wrote "As well, I'm Canadian" and realized it's an example where the words and the construction convey the same information.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Coming soon: the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, an open access reference work devoted to the study of the mind. @asifa_majid and I are co-editors in chief – articles will be posted starting in 2024. oecs.mit.edu

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