A photo of wind turbines on a hill and details of a live event
Both "A" words; 1 conference. RSVP now to join us on April 3 for a symposium all about merging affordability and climate policy. We just announced the speakers and the panels. It's free to attend but you must register and we do expect the event to fill up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
wow, congrats on the leap! Excited to see what you do next!
New paper! The Linear Representation Hypothesis is a powerful intuition for how language models work, but lacks formalization. We give a mathematical framework in which we can ask and answer a basic question: how many features can be stored under the hypothesis? 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2602.11246
Witcher 3 is the greatest game I have ever played.. extremely immersive and beautiful graphics.. I can't play many games following that because the bar has been set too high by Witcher
Also strongly recommend Hades & hollow knight (silksong was way too difficult for me though..)
Psychophysics is a human-facing science with interventions arguably more robust than medicine.
Wrote a summary of a great keynote by @zey.bsky.social at NeurIPS, arguing that we’re having the wrong nightmares about AI: not AGI or superhuman benchmarks, but good-enough genAI at scale threatens "load bearing frictions" society relies on to signal effort, authenticity, sincerity, credibility.
Excited to announce a new book telling the story of mathematical approaches to studying the mind, from the origins of cognitive science to modern AI! The Laws of Thought will be published in February and is available for pre-order now.
Princeton's AI Lab is advertising positions for AI Postdoctoral Fellows in two areas: studying natural and artificial minds, and designing, understanding or engineering large AI models. We are also searching for a Lead Research Software Engineer! ai.princeton.edu/ai-lab/emplo...
Want to be an intern at Microsoft Research in the Computational Social Science group in NYC (Jake Hofman, David Rothschild, Dan Goldstein)
Follow this link and do your thing! Deadline approaching soonish!
apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...
Thanks for sharing. Depressing results.. reminds me of this piece: www.vox.com/energy-and-e....
My group also has done some (perhaps) relevant work on the psychology of "normalization" of climate change: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Well this is exciting!
The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank!
Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146
Top: A syntax tree for the sentence "the doctor by the lawyer saw the artist". Bottom: A continuous vector.
🤖🧠I'll be considering applications for PhD students & postdocs to start at Yale in Fall 2026!
If you are interested in the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, & AI, I encourage you to apply!
PhD link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_...
Postdoc link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_...
Great analysis, reminds me a bit of Moore et al.'s rather bleak results: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
You might also be interested in my group's recent research on understanding and countering the "normalization" of climate change: rdcu.be/ePe20 and www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Rachit Dubey
Jiacheng Miao
🎉 Congratulations to Rachit Dubey and Jiacheng Miao, winners of the 2025 NOMIS & Science Young Explorer Award for their innovative work that asks fundamental questions at the intersection of life and social sciences.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4hIfANa; https://scim.ag/47ve0Lm
Cldn't have been possible without my awesome labmates like you!!
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tagging @dwallacewells.bsky.social because your writings have been very inspirational for this research!
Really grateful to the NOMISFoundation and the editors of Science for this recognition.
This pattern extends beyond climate change from how we normalize inequality, public health, and gun violence. Anywhere slow change should compel us but doesn't.
Together, this research suggests that whether people stop noticing worsening conditions or appreciating improvements, the root problem is the same—a mind that recalibrates too quickly, misaligning emotion, attention, and action.
In another study, we examined hedonic adaptation and showed that the drive to always want “more” is computationally optimal, even at emotional cost. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
In one study, we examined the “boiling frog effect” and found that people perceive climate change as more impactful when shown binary data rather than continuous data, because binary data creates an illusion of sudden change. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I suggest that society’s failure to act on crises such as climate change reflects a deeper cognitive misalignment in how our minds perceive change over time. My research addresses this gap by combining perspectives from psychology, machine learning, neuroscience, and public policy.
In this article, I describe my lab's research on understanding how our minds get used to anything and why even crises start feeling normal.
Honored and excited to share that I am the winner of Nomis & Science Young Explorer Award!!
Also thrilled to share that my article describing my research is out now in @science.org today!
The normalization of (almost) everything www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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💫 I am recruiting exceptional PhD students & postdocs for my lab @tticconnect.bsky.social this year!
Application details: www.ttic.edu/studentappli...
Super happy to see this review out! We ask why people are so reluctant to abandon goals and how this commitment could be understood computationally. Work with Jill O'Reilly & @yaelniv.bsky.social
We are looking for PhD students via the @ellis.eu and @munichcenterml.bsky.social PhD programs!
Jobs! First, we hope to be hiring in Computer Science for the @cornelltech.bsky.social campus:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30804
Focus on security, SysML, and NLP.
Please share!
Probably the best paper title of my career. To read with the Indiana jones soundtrack. And yes we solved and differentiated quite well 80 millions (small) Fused Gromov Wasserstein problems per epoch using a neural network on GPU.
In honor of some new people coming from AI twitter, I finally updated my post to recommend For You over Discover.
