Chaz Firestone

Out today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

my kid did more than this at age 4, surely i could manage that much in return

i teach this result in intro psych for this very reason! great thread by @kosakowski.bsky.social

When and how do newborns see a face? @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social and colleagues identify a serious problem in how a foundational newborn study has been interpreted. But the Bluesky victory lap is leaving out a rather important detail: neonates track FACE drawings! bsky.app/profile/nmwi...

Could someone figure out who you are based only on how you produce random sequences? Yes, say @talboger.bsky.social & @samiyousif.bsky.social in a new paper exploring idiosyncratic random behavior. Very creative work taking advantage of a massive (50,000+ subject) sample from an online game. 👇

​​Flip 8 imaginary coins. Now roll 8 imaginary dice. Now pick 8 random spots on a screen. These tasks are all different, yet you might have a unique 'random fingerprint' that applies across them. See more in a new paper with @samiyousif.bsky.social, now in press @ Open Mind. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Zekun Sun is on fire, "heroic" and "creative" are exactly right!! Great new work out of the @actlab.bsky.social 🤩

Proud to have this paper out today at Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com ! Heroic, creative work by Zekun Sun (w/ Zhiran Xie and me).

claude, when asked if there are any reddit reviews of a product I’m interested in. thanks for not fabricating URLs! (…were you considering it though? 🤔)

Join this lab now!!

Incredible to see all the new directions researchers are taking visual anagrams! Such fascinating and useful stimuli, including in this new work by @moonliyp.bsky.social (see rest of 🧵)

Can you see a monkey face in the middle image? Normally, when you turn a face upside down, it’s still a face. But rotating a visual anagram like this can change what it appears to depict. We asked how 🐒🧠 represents these transformation-dependent changes. (1/n)

pouring one out for mturk today

We often say that humans struggle to produce random sequences… but what if that's not the whole story? In a new paper, @dorsaamir.bsky.social, @samiyousif.bsky.social & I show that context matters (a lot!). When playing strategic games, humans can produce near-random behavior osf.io/preprints/ps...

for the 2nd time in 3 years, we @jhu.edu are spending the semester in a reading group on foundational issues in cognitive science, centered on the origin & format of concepts. 8 faculty from 4 depts, + many of their students & postdocs. can’t say enough about this wonderful intellectual community! 🤩

AI is so amazing look at this perfectly coherent solar system rug at my 5yo’s play place

Hiring philosophers at Johns Hopkins! philjobs.org/job/show/32109?

Complexity is a unified cognitive kind

here at @jhu.edu we believe so strongly in collaboration that @talboger.bsky.social gave his latest internal department talk about work he did outside of my lab, our department, and our university! (lucky you @samiyousif.bsky.social @dorsaamir.bsky.social)

Out today! elifesciences.org/articles/111... @elife.bsky.social

just discovered a really fun way to participate in the trade war

wartime cherries

Papers so good that it can't be touched

Learned a lot from the recent BBS target article by @mdubova.bsky.social and @sabinasloman.bsky.social, and also from this new commentary by @talboger.bsky.social! Take a look at Tal's explainer thread below 👇

BBS recently published a great piece by @mdubova.bsky.social & @sabinasloman.bsky.social on “Excess capacity learning”. I argue D&S’s framework overlooks a special kind of representation that encodes information both minimally and perfectly: lossless compression. philpapers.org/archive/BOGC...

WOW, just one week from new paper to new feature! Thanks @jspsych.org team 🙏🤩

out today! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

met up with this guy (we’re neighbors) for champagne! congrats @noamchompers.bsky.social

well, i suppose i can now share a spot of good news. i've accepted a permanent position at australian catholic university. i'll be moving to sydney in january. i'm just delighted

people making some wild claims on the bird website

When we consider children in cultural evolution, we tend to cast them as recipients of adult culture. In our BBS target article, @sheinalew.bsky.social & I argued there's more: through 'peer cultures', children actively drive cultural adaptation. Our final paper + a rich set of responses is out now!

Noam and Noam-in-training watching the tall Lord of the Rings guy score goals

no longer true 😢

still true

this is still true btw