I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”
www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...
Dear 🪰folks, for a project I am looking for D. buzzati, D. gaucha, D. recens and Z. sepsoides. Please get in touch if you have them in your lab and willing to share.
Nice timing for @mjcrockett.bsky.social and my article on AI Surrogates and Illusions of Generalizability to be officially published. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
This Wednesday at UCL, come by if you’re around!
📢 We’re hiring!
The University of Warwick is recruiting for a full-time, permanent academic position in Psychology, available at either:
🔹 Assistant Professor
🔹 Associate Professor
📅 Application deadline: 5th April 2026
24-Hour Final Call for BAMB! 2026 ⏳
Join us in Barcelona (July 12–23) and learn from our expert faculty:
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@khamascience.bsky.social
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What I thought was a joke is real: you can now bet on German train delays. bahn.bet
You're still in time to apply to BAMB! and learn the art of modeling behavior with us! 🧠
The deadline is this Friday, March 6th.
Run! 🏃♂️💨
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🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏
✨New Perspective out w/ Wenning Deng and @fearbrain.bsky.social in @cp-iscience.bsky.social ! We argue that social foraging gives us a unifying, and ecologically grounded way to study how decisions unfold across levels — from individuals and dyads to collectives.
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
The era of Goog caring about doing the right thing at a leadership level is done, but glad to see Googlers realize what a precipice they're on. Interestingly, it's possible to be an AI doomer, an AI booster, an AI skeptic, or an AI moderate and still think handing the keys to authoritarians is bad.
Why is touch perceived as weaker during movement?
In our new preprint 📝, we examine tactile suppression during reaching.
Using optimal control theory, we show that tactile suppression reflects dynamic, uncertainty-dependent integration of forward model predictions and sensory feedback.
New @sfb1528.bsky.social and @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social publication. We show that mothers are worthy of the pedagogical assumption: they preferentially sample information that fills their child's knowledge gaps and children learn best from maternal sampling: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
1/ Why do inferior but popular things remain popular?
Excited to share our new paper with @pantelispa.bsky.social, @glemens.bsky.social & @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social
"The marginal majority effect: When social influence produces lock-in"
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
I'm a cognitive scientist with an interest in epistemic vigilance, and this essay that's been going around gave me pause.
I don't think it's straightforward to apply the concept of epistemic vigilance to interactions with LLMs, as this essay does.
🧵/
sbgeoaiphd.github.io/rotating_the...
After several years of work, my lab is starting to put out our first papers on learning in a unicellular organism (Stentor coeruleus).
Here we show evidence for a form of associative learning in Stentor:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Come for the learning, stay for the cookies! 🍪
Applications for BAMB! 2026 are open. Join us in Barcelona!
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🚨🚨New Preprint Alert!🚨🚨
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Animal learning is painfully slow (at least initially). Yet, well trained animals can learn very fast, sometimes displaying few-shot inference. How does this transition occur?
🚨 The application deadline has been extended to 27 Feb 2026.
Apply at this link: forms.gle/wbUG5WfTRSvh...
Excited to see this Version Of Record of my work out in @elife.bsky.social!
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
We investigate the mental representation of geometric shapes in adults and children using fMRI and MEG. Each figure has a video of me explaining the figure: go and read it, or read below.
Pop quiz:
Name the American academic whose career had this trajectory of positions at US institutions:
Come work with @tsawallis.bsky.social, Frank Jäkel and myself! 3 yr Postdoc on category learning w/ structured, program-like representations. Funded by the www.theadaptivemind.de Excellence Cluster! Deadline is Mar 15th, details 👇 Please share widely 🙏
Interested in science management?
Come work with us in Tübingen as a Project Manager for the Germany-wide interdisciplinary research cluster (www.lasting-spp.org)!
3 years, PostDoc-level salary.
Please share, or reach out with questions.
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Welcome back Alan!
Four travel grants available for PhD students and postdocs to present their posters at the 13th Toulouse Economics and Biology Workshop! Apply by Feb 27th.
www.iast.fr/conferences/...
Now on @franceinter :
How do babies see the world?
Comment les bébés voient-ils le monde ?
With the participation of @jrhochmann.bsky.social
at the Baby Lab of Lyon @babylyon.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrs.fr
To listen to this episode:
www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
🚨Four postdoc positions at the #ReasonableAI excellence cluster @tuda.bsky.social!
jobs.rhein-main-universitaeten.de/rmu/job/52370
Please share widely 🙏
Publicly wondering if your product might be conscious is good hype @anthropic.com, but poor science.
Consciousness attribution should integrate prior expectations with public/shareable facts, not by computational equivalence alone or anecdotes. If that makes us "vulgar behaviorists", we are proud.
We are recruiting a Lecturer in Psychology: mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web... and a Teaching Fellow: mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web.... Come and join the Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology 🐶🐵🐴🐘🕷️🧒 www.port.ac.uk/research/res...
Applications for BAMB! 2026 are officially open!
Join us in Barcelona (July 12–23) to master the art of behavioral modeling with our incredible faculty:
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@marcelomattar.bsky.social
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@thecharleywu.bsky.social
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