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how does memory support perceptual decisions made under uncertainty? this question has scaffolded my entire PhD, and I'm so excited to share part of it in this ✨new preprint ✨ w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social! link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

1/ Our brains probably don’t store a new copy of “red” when we encounter something red. Yet we can reinstate distinct memories of red objects. How do we reuse what we already know when encoding memories? Excited to share new work led by @haoliu4391.bsky.social, with @marcelomattar.bsky.social 🧠🧵

1/10 🧠 Imagine seeing a cute dog before it runs away. A few seconds later, your friend tells you this was a Corgi. To remember this experience later, your brain has to link the dog (who is now out of sight) with the name you just heard.

Should your therapist look like you? As a Lebanese therapist, I've experienced the magic of validating another person through shared language & customs. And yet, similarity isn't always what helps us grow. My essay below explores benefits & limitations of "identity matching" in therapy!

The MindCORE Fellows Application is open! We seek applications from recent PhDs in neuro, psych, ling, philo, comp sci, or other cog sci discipline for our 3-yr postdoc. MindCORE is Penn's interdisciplinary effort to understand human intelligence & behavior. mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/post-doctora...

Bespoke: Models are highly variable and play a variety of useful roles in scientific investigation and inference

I am recruiting graduate students for UCI's PhD in Cognitive Sciences - www.cogsci.uci.edu/graduate/pro... The lab's focus is on how relational structure and combinatorial reasoning is implemented in human brains and large language models--and if they are similar.

Broke: all models are wrong but some are useful Woke: models are useful because they are wrong

Thrilled to announce that I will be joining the University of Miami as an Assistant Professor of Psychology next year! I am recruiting a PhD student to start in Fall 2027 — please reach out if you are interested in joining the lab! For more info check out my website: dan-mirea.com

New lab preprint! @khoudary.bsky.social presents a tour-de-force: a new model of how uncertain expectations should help resolve uncertain sensations, supported by re-analysis of four experiments in monkeys (behavior, ephys) and humans (behavior, fMRI, EEG, intracranial) @meganakpeters.bsky.social

Looking for a postdoc in comp neuro and human brain imaging? Interested in foraging? Join our international collaboration with Jon Rubin, @jyotikab.bsky.social, & @davidrobbe.bsky.social be.bsky.social to study the neural basis of foraging behavior! cmu.wd115.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...

For the first time in a while, a philosophy professor has been awarded one of the MacArthur genius grants...

big congrats to my mentor @felipedebrigard.bsky.social for being recognized for his incredible work on memory & forgiveness! also props to his student @gabrielafm.bsky.social who is leading this research and to lab manager @kmiceli.bsky.social

🚨Postdoc hiring alert! 🚨 Applications for the Flatiron Research Fellows 2027 cohort at the Center for Computational Neuroscience are now live: apply.interfolio.com/193800. Come work with us!

📣 NEW PREPRINT ALERT! 📣 📝Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... When choosing between options with multiple attributes, what does the brain actually compare - individual attributes or integrated option values? We combined EEG + eye-tracking to find out... and found evidence for the latter 🧠

New commentary! Are scientists and laypeople alike under persistent illusions of understanding? Shiffrin, Stigler, & Keil (2026) seem to think so. I argue this isn't the case w/ @sharonchungsl.bsky.social, Adam Harris, @davidlagnado.bsky.social & @singmann.bsky.social: rdcu.be/3swzbgH3ePva

PREPRINT UPDATE🥳👇: 🧠learning under uncertainty & metacognitive processes are not as generalizable as previously thought! both evolve differently depending on structure & stimulus set osf.io/preprints/ps...

delighted to have been able to chip in on this newly published paper by @wiktoriakozyra.bsky.social & @smfleming.bsky.social on how confidence “biases” arise from normative Bayesian models!

Hi friends & colleagues! I’m on the hunt for a tenure-track home! I’m a BRAIN Initiative K99/R00 scholar studying learning & memory at the intersection of experimental neuroscience, theory, & machine learning/AI. I’d love to connect & would appreciate help spreading the word! web.mit.edu/hsw/www/

Excited to share this new preprint from @lindseytepfer.bsky.social, @chujunlin.bsky.social, and me, in which we investigate the different ways our brains allow us to change our minds about people! "The neurocomputational mechanisms of naturalistic trait impression updating" osf.io/preprints/ps...

(belated) Congratulations to Dr. @dalezhou.bsky.social on winning a 2026 NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the @bbrfoundation.bsky.social! @mikeyassa.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social @ucisocsci.bsky.social @ucibiosci.bsky.social

What is information, really? Instead of arguing for a single valid interpretation, we propose a pluralistic view where rigorous alternatives coexist — each with affordances and limits Finally published: “Four faces of information in natural systems” 🧵

DR @khoudary.bsky.social !!! so incredibly well deserved💗 so proud of you and cannot wait to continue to watch you soar✨

We are thrilled to have @khoudary.bsky.social continue their scholarly journey with us next month and are also excited to see what they will do here @upenn.edu! But for now, celebrations are in order for Dr. Khoudary! 🎉

it has been my pleasure and privilege to get to work with you, DOCTOR @khoudary.bsky.social, for the past nearly 6 years! @aaronbornstein.bsky.social are so proud of the stellar scientist (and philosopher!) you have become. so grateful to have been along for the ride 😊

How do we make good decisions with little experience? Adults can rely on memories of past choices. In our new study in @pnas.org we show kids & teens do something similar–but what they remember turns out to be quite different! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

it's been such a delight to work with (recent UNDERGRAD) @yuzhengwu2329.bsky.social on this passion project characterizing effects of evidence volatility on choice confidence. come chat w/ us this afternoon on the 10th floor, poster D53 🧠

👇presenting POSTER TMRW @ #CCN2026: *Metacognitive sensitivity governs adaptive representational compactness in hierarchical structure learning🧠* 📍C59 🕐 wed aug 5 9:30 - 11:15 AM w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social 😊 tinyurl.com/mv2zpbch @cogcompneuro.bsky.social

So excited to be at #CCN2026 this week with our lab and our wonderful collaborators. Here’s where to find everyone. Please come say hi, we’d love to hear your thoughts!

So excited to share my work with @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @khoudary.bsky.social at CCN. My poster session will be at Wed 2:00-3:45 🤩 Come and visit!!

New Preprint Alert! With @jasonleng.bsky.social @ashenhav.bsky.social @shenhavlab.bsky.social “Characterizing the causes, dynamics, and consequences of choice deferral” osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵🧵🧵

the #ReflexionLab 's posters at @cogcompneuro.bsky.social #CCN2026!! presented by @aliekhlasi.bsky.social @yuzhengwu2329.bsky.social @rochellekaper.bsky.social and @emilwolsson.bsky.social!

heading to nyc to give a talk at the Metacognition Science Satellite at #CCN2026 this sunday🗽🤔 catch me in the metacognition in novel task domains session @ 2:30🤗 w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social

I'm heading to #CogSci2026 @cogscisociety.bsky.social this evening, looking forward to seeing lots of new & familiar faces! 🇧🇷 I'll be presenting this paper: A measure of metacognitive bias you can be confident in 📍: T.18.3 🗓️: July 24th, 2-3:30pm 👥: @tianqizhan.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social