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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 13/09/2026

are my fellow elder emos in a headspace to receive information that will hurt them welcome to the black parade released 20yr ago today

Welcome to the Black Parade
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Not to be confused with The Black Parade or Black Parade (song).
"Welcome to the Black Parade" is a song by the American rock band My Chemical Romance from their third studio alt
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was released as the album's lead single on September 12, 2006.
A mainly emo and pop-punk
song, it opens up with a piano introduction that evolves into a fusion of several other rock-esque genres throughout its run time. The lyrics are based around the album's central character, the Patient, as he recalls a childhood memory before his death.
According to band frontman Gerard Way, the broader theme of the song is the "triumph of the human spirit".
"Welcome to the Black Parade"
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Very excited to share this preprint from me, @emmatempleton.bsky.social, @lindseytepfer.bsky.social & @thaliawheatley.bsky.social! "Friends and strangers engage in distinct regimes of body motion synchrony during conversation" osf.io/preprints/ps...

Forms of body motion synchrony. A) Motion quantity synchrony – synchrony in the amount of motion (orange) people engage in over time. This form of synchrony is agnostic to the direction of this movement, may be positive or negative, occurs at varying time lags, and is not specific to matched body parts across members of the dyad. B) Pseudo-synchrony – motion quantity synchrony between people who are not actually interacting. That is, members of different conversations engaging in similar amounts of motion at similar points in the conversation relative to its initiation. And C) directional synchrony – people moving the same body parts in the same direction (or along the same axis in the opposite direction) at the same time (or at some specific time lag).

Mechanisms of synchrony. A) Turn-taking, which causes increases in motion around the time of speaker role exchanges, as participants gesture to hand over or take over the floor. B) Conservation of motion in which one participant moves less when the other moves more, holding the total motion quantity relatively constant over time (note that the total amount of motion across the dyad is similar in the two panels, because one person reduces their motion to balance out the increase in the other’s motion). C) Entrainment, in which mutual following of the same conversational script leads to synchronized movement among people who are not directly interacting (i.e. pseudo-synchrony). Greeting gestures such as the handshakes depicted are one acute manifestation of this entrainment. D) Station-keeping, which maintains proxemic distance and eye level between members of the dyad. This mechanism accounts for directional synchrony, particularly between strangers who feel uncomfortable within each other’s personal space.

Motion quantity synchrony among friends and strangers. A) Friends displayed significant positive synchrony in total motion quantity at short time lags (< 2.5 s) and B) this effect generalized across the majority of body part pairs (each line represents one pair). For example, one series of points might represent the synchrony between the amount of motion in one participant’s left hand and the other’s right foot. C) Strangers displayed significant positive synchrony in total motion quantity at short time lags (< 1 s) and significant negative total motion quantity synchrony at longer time lags (2.5 – 16.6 s). D) Again, this effect generalized to most body part pairs.

Directional synchrony among friends and strangers. A) Among friends, we observed statistically significant directional synchrony in only two body parts (nose and eye) and only in the vertical axis. B) Among strangers, we observed statistically significant directional synchrony in a large number of body parts in the horizontal, vertical, and depth axes.

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Erik Brockbank @erikbrockbank.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

When you meet someone new, what kind of questions do you ask? It’s tempting to think that *really* getting to know people is just a matter of asking the right questions. Excited to share the next chapter in ongoing work on what makes a *deep question* with amazing collaborators...

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Mark Ho @markkho.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

How do human minds make sense of big, messy problems? 😵‍💫🌀 How do we distill complexity into something simple enough to solve? 🤔💡 We’ll be tackling these questions (and more!) at two workshops on task representations, abstractions, and construals #CogSci2026 #CCN2026 🧵 framing-the-problem.github.io

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Framing the Problem — Workshop Series

A workshop series on representation construction in cognitive science and AI. CogSci 2026 (Rio) and CCN 2026 (NYU).

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Erica Busch @elbusch.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Our new paper is out this week in Nature Neuroscience! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We built a BCI that works with the brain's natural geometry — and we found that people could learn to play a video game with their brains in <1 hr of training. This efficiency is groundbreaking & here's why:

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Human learning of noninvasive brain–computer interfaces via manifold geometry - Nature Neuroscience

Busch et al. use nonlinear neural manifolds to help humans gain rapid control over a noninvasive brain–computer interface, allowing them to learn how to play a video game with real-time fMRI neurofeed...

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Karandeep(Singh) @kdpsingh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Statistics aka Likelihoodmaxxing

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Lyndsay J @eljay2.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Fantasy is bouba and sci-fi is kiki? @gretchenmcculloch.com

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Mark Ho @markkho.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Excited that this work with @rachitdubey.bsky.social and @cocoscilab.bsky.social is finally officially out!

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 22/04/2026

📢 New preprint out now! In three samples (N=594), including a U.S.-representative cohort and a test-retest cohort, we formalize social motivation, learning, and homeostatic control within a single computational framework and identify a phenotype linked to chronic loneliness doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

In the first #SANS2026 session on social learning @csavasegal.bsky.social shows that self-generated interpretations anchor how we remember ambiguous social info, even when others offer a different take, and how neural shifts help us make the shift

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Judy Fan @judithfan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The Cognitive Tools Lab at Stanford (cogtoolslab.github.io) is recruiting two new research staff members to join in AY 26-27. Full-Time Lab Manager: forms.gle/UVwfx5wbY9Km.... IRiSS Predoc Researcher: iriss.stanford.edu/predoc/2026-.... Please share widely in your networks, thank you!!

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about the lab – cognitive tools lab

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Paige Amormino @amormino.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I wrote this article to explain in plain English what is happening with the proposed 2027 NSF budget & why so many social psychologists are alarmed. THE GOOD NEWS: Congress has not finalized this yet. We have time to change Republican politicians’ minds. www.linkedin.com/pulse/saving...

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Saving SBE Starts Before the Bill Is Written

The FY2027 NSF budget request is alarming, but Congress has not made it law. That means there is still time for researchers and universities to act.

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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Very happy that this paper from our lab is now out in @pnas.org! What happens when the *same* person experiences the *same* information with a *different* interpretation? Nearly the whole 🧠—well, at least nearly all association cortex—changes how it represents that information! tinyurl.com/p8chj2j7

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PNAS

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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Maya Rossignac-Milon @mrossignacmilon.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Thrilled to release this year’s program for the Shared Reality Virtual Conference (Mar 24-25)!! Register here to receive the Zoom link (free!): universityofhouston.iad1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Organized with: @emmamiller.bsky.social @abdoe.bsky.social @changlu-cl.bsky.social

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Manasi Malik @manasimalik.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Excited to share new work on how the brain makes social inferences from visual input! 🧠👯‍♂️ (With @lisik.bsky.social , @shariliu.bsky.social, @tianminshu.bsky.social , and Minjae Kim!) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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wasita @wasita.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I highly recommend working with Emma, she is amazing! So kind and so brilliant. If you're interested in studying conversation, there is no one better. Apply apply apply!!!

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

New preprint from Lindsey Tepfer (@ltjaql.bsky.social) and me! We silenced portions of internal monologues in two films to manipulate participants' access to characters' thoughts. Using ISC and RSA, we found that this aligned later neural processing of the narrative & encoding of trait impressions.

Figure 1. Experimental stimuli and paradigm. 1A. Manipulation timeline. Each video features a total of 12 IM moments, half of which were silenced in version 1, and the other half silenced in version 2. This produces two versions of each video where only half of the IMs are audible to the participant. 1B. Voice removal. Background sounds were preserved in both versions, regardless of IM presence. 1C. fMRI paradigm. Participants were randomly assigned a version and watched both videos in a counter-balanced order. 1D. Afterwards, they made trait ratings on each video’s main character in random order before rating them on subsequent traits.

Figure 2. Scanner and online participant trait rating results. A. Scanner participants arrive at similar conclusions about characters across versions by the end of each video. B. Trait ratings at the end of the videos are correlated between online and scanner participants. C. The IM manipulation had a significant effect on the trait ratings across the duration of the videos, such that different versions led to different trait impressions. D. Participants who saw different versions changed their ratings for both clip types but changed to a greater degree after seeing the IM segments relative to the NIM.

Figure 3. ISC results. Gaining access to the same mental state knowledge in earlier IM clips led to significantly (p < .05, corrected) more aligned neural activity in subsequent NIM clips across a wide swath of the temporal lobe, as well as the frontal pole and SPL.

Figure 4. Representational similarity analysis results. 4A. RSA pipeline. Clip-specific patterns of brain activity were correlated across movies within segment type (NIM or IM) to create a correlation distance matrix for each participant. Corresponding trait ratings were partitioned into components specific to each of the two versions of each film or shared across both versions. RDMs based on those traits were used to predict the neural RDMs. The resulting coefficients were sorted into matched (version), unmatched (version), and shared across version, and inference was performed via t-tests across participants. See methods section for further details of this analysis. 4B. Prior trait rating results. 1. While watching IM clips of the same version, the prior trait ratings predict activity in the bilateral A1, STS, STG, and right VLPFC. 2. Prior trait rating predicts activity in these regions again in the same-version NIM clips. 3. Across the two versions, while watching the NIM clips, the prior trait ratings predicted activity in the right occipitotemporal cortex. 4C. Trait updating results. 1. While watching NIM clips, the right STS & MTG predict version-matched trait updating. 2. In the unmatched NIM clips, STS & MTG again predict trait updating. 3. Across the two versions, the precuneus and LOC show pattern similarity for trait updating in participants.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Just a human here 🙏 Writing this with my actual hands—no AI involved ✨ Key takeaways: - Authenticity matters - Connection is key - I have real emotions At the end of the day, genuine expression is what sets us apart 🫶 Thoughts? 👇

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 25/12/2025

Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth. www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery

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Birth Lottery

If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?

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projomike.bsky.social @projomike.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Frog & Toad is out with this shirt in the wake of this weekend’s tragedy at Brown, an homage to the Mad Peck & the spirit of Providence.

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Jane Acierno @janeacierno.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🧠 New paper alert! Can people infer others’ values not from what they choose, but simply from what comes to mind? Across four studies, we show they can—drawing on an intuitive theory of how options are generated. doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106238 👇

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Redirecting

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

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Nina Rouhani @ninarouhani.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com

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Interactive Cognition Lab | USC

Interactive Cognition Lab at USC, led by principal investigator, Dr. Nina Rouhani.

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Jonathan Phillips @jsphillips.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

We're excited to announce that Cognitive Science at Dartmouth is recruiting PhD students to work collaboratively with me, Steven Frankland, and Fred Callaway. Come study the principles and mechanisms that enable us to understand, plan, and act in the world! Info: sites.dartmouth.edu/cogscigrad/

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Cognitive Science Graduate Admissions – Information about graduate admissions from the cognitive science faculty

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 22/10/2025

📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly 🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ

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Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others

Nature Communications - When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial,...

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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... Apply by Nov 12! Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏

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ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution

ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution posted on October 16, 2025 We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual for a ful...

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 13/10/2025

1/6 Excited to see our NMH paper featured here for #WorldMentalHealthDay! rdcu.be/dYl7T Many psychiatric symptoms are inherently social. @xiaosigu.bsky.social, @joebarnby.com, & I call for cognitive models that reflect processes most relevant to our questions, esp. for those about social symptoms🧵

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Mark Ho @markkho.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I'm recruiting grad students!! 🎓 The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠 Applications through Psych (tinyurl.com/nyucp) are due Dec 1. Reach out with Qs & please repost! 🙏

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codec lab

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wasita @wasita.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Best summer school ever!! Thanks so much to @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social for being amazing organizers and for cultivating such a lovely community 💗

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 22/09/2025

📢 My lab at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is considering graduate student applications this fall We welcome applicants interested in using computational modeling & fMRI to study social connection 🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025 🔗 Learn more: sinclaboratory.com/apply #comppsychiatry #socialneuro

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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I'm happy to now be able to share a talk I gave at TEDx New England last Fall! The talk is about our lab's work on what makes decisions costly, and how to make them less so. I discuss lessons for all kinds of decisions, including getting people to vote. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeHg...

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How to make a choice when the options suck | Amitai Shenhav | TEDxNewEngland

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Heejung Jung @jungheejung.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

New Open dataset alert: 🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience! N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks! 🧵below

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Pete Hitchcock @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I'll be reviewing computational/cognitive and clinical psychology applications this year for the Translational Lab at Emory 💭🔬 Please share broadly and send applicants my way! 🔄 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Information for prospective graduate students

The Translational Lab will be reviewing applications this cycle! Prospective students can apply through Clinical Science or Cognitive and Computational Sciences in the Emory Psychology Department to ...

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Matthijs van der Meer @mvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

We are looking for a research assistant/lab manager to join the lab! A supportive, collaborative environment where you can learn neural recording with Neuropixels, optogenetics, fiber photometry, and neural data analysis.

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Sev Harootonian @harootonian.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Thrilled to share new research on teaching! Work supervised by @cocoscilab.bsky.social, @yaelniv.bsky.social, and @markkho.bsky.social. This project asks: When do people teach by mentalizing vs with heuristics? 1/3 osf.io/preprints/os...

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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑‍🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.

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Tommy Botch @tommybotch.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

New preprint! Thrilled to share my latest work with @esfinn.bsky.social -- "Sensory context as a universal principle of language in humans and LLMs" osf.io/preprints/ps...

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OSF

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investNscience @investnscience.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Want to share your research and build support for science, but don’t know where to start? Register for our science communication workshop: tinyurl.com/scicomins 📝Practice your sci comm 🤝Meet scientists on social media 🤳Make a video (could be featured on our page) DM us with any questions!

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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Congratulations to Rich Sutton and Andrew Barto on receiving the Turing Award in recognition of their significant contributions to ML. I also stand with them: Releasing models to the public without the right technical and societal safeguards is irresponsible. www.ft.com/content/d8f8...

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Turing Award winners warn over unsafe deployment of AI models

Two pioneers of reinforcement learning have won the $1mn prize from the Association for Computing Machinery

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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Men will literally prefer going Bayesian instead of going to therapy.

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Robert Hawkins @rdhawkins.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

new paper out with @ashleycleung.bsky.social and dan yurovsky in child development! 📄🔓: doi.org/10.1111/cdev... brief 🧵 below on our findings!

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xuan (ɕɥɛn / sh-yen) @xuanalogue.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Okay the people requested one so here is an attempt at a Computational Cognitive Science starter pack -- with apologies to everyone I've missed! LMK if there's anyone I should add! go.bsky.app/KDTg6pv

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Pete Hitchcock @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social · 13/05/2024

We are looking for a postdoc at the Translational Lab (translational-lab.com) at Emory! Pls 🔄 We focus on: * when & why decision-making goes awry in depression and anxiety * developing potent and scalable interventions A range of projects are possible w/in this scope. Informal inquiries welcome

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The Translational Lab focuses on when and why decision-making goes awry in depression and anxiety disorders and on developing potent and scalable interventions to improve it. Some topics of particula...

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

New research from SFI’s Simon DeDeo and Claire Bergey using LLMs delves into the dynamics of conversation. 🧠 Discoveries from the CANDOR corpus reveal insights into information density, cognitive load, and the role of backchannels. Read more here 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2403.08890

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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Our lab is hiring a lab manager/RA to start in summer 2024! Learn cutting-edge behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging tools applied to big Qs in cog&social psych. Send qs my way, and apply through the official posting here: searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/727...

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Luke Chang @lukejchang.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

New paper demonstrating the hidden cost of receiving favors led by Xiaoxue Gao with @eshjolly.bsky.social, Hongbo Yu, Huiying Liu, & Xiaolin Zhou. We demonstrate that brain patterns of emotional states can be integrated with economic utility models to predict reciprocity behavior bit.ly/41Pm7O2.

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