We're hiring! Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences is searching for a new full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor studying social interaction. We're open to a wide variety of methods and perspectives. Review of applications starts Oct 15. Details here: apply.interfolio.com/151749

New study out in PNASNews (lead: Lucy Owen)! Our brains comprise billions of tiny components interact via trillions of connections, changing at sub-ms timescales. How is it so robust to injury and noise? Paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… Code/data: github.com/ContextLab/pca…

Our colleagues in the Dartmouth 🌲 Cognitive Science Program are searching for a tenure-track assistant professor who does research at the intersection of natural and artificial intelligence. Details here: apply.interfolio.com/152809

Dartmouth Cognitive Science continues to grow and we are now hiring an assistant professor in artificial and natural intelligence: apply.interfolio.com/152809! DMs are open if have questions about the position--review starts Oct 1. Please share with anyone who would be interested!!

This past week, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Robert Roberson's appeal and motion for stay of execution, despite new evidence showing his daughter died from natural causes, not homicide. We must stop Texas from carrying out #RobertRoberson’s execution on Oct. 17— add

“In our polarized America, where what people will accept as fact is based as much on tribal affiliation as on evidence, universities have an opportunity—indeed, a duty—to be an illuminating objective force,” Dartmouth President Sian Beilock writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

We are hiring at UT Austin’s Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences! Seeking a tenure track faculty candidate at the Assistant or Associate level with expertise in child language development and/or disorders. Please share with your networks! apply.interfolio.com/153313

Fun writeup of one of our group's recent papers (pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…)-- thanks PsyPost.org!

Now out in Nature Communications (lead: Xinming Xu)! How do conversations shape how (and what) people guess about the unknown past and future (e.g., in other people's lives)? Paper/code/data: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Our retrodicting vs predicting movie events paper is finally out! We didn't think about "conversation" at first, but it turns out that conversation references play a major role in how we "infer" unobserved events in other people's lives.

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

The 2024 #NobelPrize laureates in chemistry Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have successfully utilised artificial intelligence to predict the structure of almost all known proteins. In 2020, Hassabis and Jumper presented an AI model called AlphaFold2. With its help, they have

Excited to share a new project! 🎉🎉 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… How do we navigate between brain states when we switch tasks? Are dynamics driven by control, or passive decay of the prev task? To answer, we compare high-dim linear dynamical systems fit to EEG and RNNs🌀 ⏬

Thrilled to see our paper on conversation & “the self” out in PNASNews. The brilliant Chris Welker & @thaliawheatley were a joy to work with on this! Check out first-author Chris Welker’s thread below! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

When we anticipate the future, the brain shows graded representations of the future & past. The scale of these representations increases systematically from lower- to higher-order regions. Proud of this work by Hannah Tarder-Stoll, a collab w/ Chris Baldassano! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Spotted in the Holocaust Museum: Early Warning Signs of Fascism. Anything on this list sound like Trump to you?

A Penn team worked with Wikimedia Foundation to analyze the browsing habits and curiosity styles of over 480,000 people across 50 countries. The study was led by led by Dani S. Bassett & Dale Zhou with contributions from Shubhankar Patankar. #PennBioengineering Read more: bit.ly/3YoclBs

Made some great family memories this year for halloween 🥰-- we spent about a gazillion hours making paper maché and felt costumes of his favorite characters from "my singing monsters" (my son, wife, and I are rare, epic, and common grumpyres 🦇🎃👻). #MSMSpooktacle2024

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