Are you an aspiring or practicing academic who wants to learn R and python for free? Dr. Russ Poldrack Russ Poldrack from Stanford University has a great introductory virtual book with freely accessible code. A🧵 of some of the topics included: PhD Voice - Independently Run Academic Chatter™ OpenAcademics 1/n

What do preschool learning experiences look like? We examined variability in children’s language environments in a preschool classroom using a new dataset of naturalistic egocentric videos. 🧵 OSF: osf.io/preprints/psya… 🔗: escholarship.org/uc/item/94j9m5… CogSci Society #CogSci2024

Train models on real kid data, test them on real kid data! That’s how we learn about human cognition *and* find out more about how models learn. Check out this awesome new kid data benchmark:

Introducing LEVANTE, a project for measuring children's developmental and learning variability around the world! LEVANTE provides a measurement platform with data flowing to an open repository. Call for proposals coming soon from Jacobs Foundation. levante-network.org

What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a new study, led by Florian Mahner and Lukas Muttenthaler and w/ Umut Güçlü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results. arxiv.org/abs/2406.19087 🧵

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Are you a psych grad student who wants to give a talk at Princeton, expenses paid? Nominate yourself or a colleague here! forms.gle/WN2ybYMuZiW3re… Priority given to non-ivy schools and students from diverse backgrounds.

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✨it's PhD application season again!✨ i am re-sharing my popular guide on applying for PhD programs in STEM, that has now been viewed 60k+ times over the past 6 years😍 please RT and share with anyone that might find it useful! lucylai.com/blog/gradapps

Preprint alert! After 4 years, I’m super excited to share work with Charley Wu (@thecharleywu.bsky.social) Sam Gershman Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI on the rise and fall of technological development in virtual communities in #OneHourOneLife #ohol 🧵👇 doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

do large-scale vision models represent the 3D structure of objects? excited to share our benchmark: multiview object consistency in humans and image models (MOCHI) with Stephanie Fu Yutong Bai Thomas O'Connell @_yonifriedman Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] Josh Tenenbaum and Alexei Efros 1/👀

We're excited to report that our 2024 conference schedule is now on our website! Check out the amazing line up of presenters and Big Team Science groups. bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/

Applying to Psych PhD programs? Considering applying to UCSD Psychology? For the third year in a row, we’re hosting a two-day virtual event for prospective students on October 17th & 18th. You can register and view the schedule at diversifyingpsychology.ucsd.edu. 1/4

Many of our featured faculty panelists are looking to accept students this cycle (Adena Schachner, Bria Long, PhD, and Nadia Brashier to name a few), so it’s a chance to hear from them before you apply! Come spend two days learning about our program! We can’t wait to meet you! 3/4

Excited to present our #ECCV2024 paper on “Understanding Physical Dynamics with Counterfactual World Modeling” with Honglin Chen, Kevin Feigelis, Daniel Bear and Daniel Yamins. Come by poster 260 at the exhibition area from 430-630pm today European Conference on Computer Vision #ECCV2026 TLDR: We introduce Counterfactual

In our new Nature Communications paper, we investigate the visual system's priorities for extracting meaningful information from faces and bringing it to conscious awareness. We use a new tachistoscope that enables visual presentations as short as 0.002 ms: nature.com/articles/s4146… (🧵👇)

Finally, I am pleased to announce 🪢Interpreting CLIP with Sparse Linear Concept Embeddings (SpLiCE)🪢 Joint work with Usha Bhalla, as well as Suraj Srinivas, Flavio Calmon, and 𝙷𝚒𝚖𝚊 𝙻𝚊𝚔𝚔𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚓𝚞, which was just accepted to NeurIPS 2024! Check out the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2402.10376

Want to do a PhD with me at Duke University? I'm considering applications this fall for a new graduate student! ⭐️ For more info, check out this FAQ for prospective students to learn what the lab is focusing on & what I'm looking for in a graduate student. mindandculturelab.com/faq

Very proud to share our ICLR 2026 paper: TopoNets! High-performing vision and language models with brain-like topography! Expertly led by grad student mayukh09 and Mainak Deb! A brief thread..