Looking for nice, enthusiastic academics for an ERC-funded project on inter-area brain communication during perception. I have a 3-year postdoc and a PhD position available. See link below for info Feel free to share #neuroscience #jobs #hiring sannetenoever.github.io/main/research/…

1/n Excited to share our work on Naive Information Aggregation in Human Social Learning (just out in Cognition)! Work with: Simon Valentin, Chris Lucas and Neil Bramley

Delighted to share that my book: "Accelerating India's Development" will release on 28 March 2024. Pre-order at: amazon.in/dp/067009594X It has been a labour of love over nearly 5 years, and synthesizes over 20 years of work. I hope you enjoy it!

Wow. From Leif Wenar wired.com/story/deaths-o…

New episode!! 📣📣 A conversation w/ Wolvie about her work on urban wildlife. What talents and traits have helped certain species (and individuals) adapt to the urban niche? And what can they teach us about the evolution of cognition in general? disi.org/cosmopolitan-c…

A Suitable Agency is delighted to announce that it is representing ‘Rama, Bhima, Soma’ by Srikar Raghavan (@srikarrrrrr), an original and audacious exploration of socio-cultural movements in modern Karnataka. Hemali Sodhi Ranjana Sengupta

Cognitive science proposes plausible explanations of behavior. But did you know that some behavioral patterns logically imply that certain neural representations *must* exist? New paper w/ Randy Gallistel. Implications for neuroscience and machine learning onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ej…

**🚨NEW PAPER🚨** Our paper assessing the validity of crowdsourced wine ratings has just been accepted for publication in the Journal of Wine Economics!!

Exciting new work Nature Communications led by Josh Rule on how to model human learning symbolically. The new model out-performs key alternatives, including a code generation LLM and previous symbolic models. nature.com/articles/s4146…

I will be presenting this work tomorrow (Thursday) at #INTERSPEECH2024, 10.00-10.40 in the Acesso room! Looking forward to discuss how we can learn from human speech science to interpret end-to-end neural speech models 💡 The paper is here: isca-archive.org/interspeech_20…

🎙️Mainstream media has given up on core strengths of production, Josy Joseph on the ways in which journalism is changing. Catch this week’s episode of What’s Your Ism with Sudipto Mondal on our YouTube channel! youtu.be/zMlDMopCMCQ

We should have more academic conferences in places like Morocco, and fewer in the US and Europe. 1. Huge benefits to local academics and students. 2. Easier visas for non-EU/US/CANZUK. 3. Benefits local economy. 4. Lodging cheaper. Can we stop meeting in Oxford all the time?

(1/3) Pleased to share that this paper with Anne Collins is now published in Cognition! We highlight two novel algorithmic insights on human transfer learning and compositionality in hierarchical reinforcement learning. Collins Lab UC Berkeley UCBerkeley Psychology Berkeley Neuroscience

65 doctors, nurses, and paramedics told the New York Times what they saw in Gaza. What they saw was a pattern of children being shot in the head.

I'd like one more time to recommend the new documentary "Investigating War Crimes in Gaza." Even if you love Israel, go watch what you're supporting. Much is based on IDF's own videos, including their bizarre obsession with psycho-sexual humiliations and using lingerie.

Our #50WordEdit on Goa Govt and eggs for schoolchildren

Thanks Dhara Yu for sharing your fascinating work with us on "Interactive discovery of program-like social norms". Dhara builds and tests computational models of how people generate structured joint action plans that balance reward, fairness, and implementation complexity.

We also have a postdoc position available in my lab, start date as early as January but flexible: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04639

In this week's The New Yorker: My profile of Ganesh Devy, who assembled the first Indian survey of languages in a century, and who now lives in Dharwad as a protest against forces who will kill writers and impose religions and languages [1] newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Sarah Oh and I have a new preprint! Developing a new experimental protocol to reveal habit formation separately from cognitive control, in a 1h lab experiment. Naturally disengaging control to reveal habits osf.io/preprints/psya… via Center for Open Science