“Nearly 100% of published studies… confirm the initial hypothesis. This is an amazing accomplishment given the complexity of the human mind and human behaviour. Somehow, as psychological scientists, we always find the expected result; we always win!” royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Media has become increasingly negative since 2000, with more and more headlines expressing fear, anger, sadness, and disgust. Neutral headlines are getting rarer. doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Prediction, explanation, and control are usually treated separately. A new paper with Roman Tikhonov and Sarah Marzen, combines basic ideas from cognitive science, philosophy, and machine learning to look at them together. openreview.net/pdf?id=xk41NgC…

We present an improved method (with code) to infer "Cultural Landscapes". We validate the method with simulations, and present a case study on the DRH (DRH). My first paper out in Entropy MDPI with Simon DeDeo (Laboratory for Social Minds): mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/2…

🔥🔥🔥 Published last week in Nature Human Behaviour: Quality research needs good working conditions. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Beautiful example to reveal the nature of an LLM (a sophisticated statistical model trained on a large corpus of text).

🧵Human-#AI Collaboration Mark Steyvers (UC Irvine) Today's SFI Seminar, streaming now: youtube.com/watch?v=7FtSyg…

Lovely coverage of work with Victor Møller, on how we built explainable machine learning tools that could handle the biased, ambiguous, and fragmented cross-cultural history of religions. First paper at doi.org/10.3390/e25020… ; new work to debut at CogSci 2023!

Check out this recent 30-min demo of ChatGPT Plugins by OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman Greg Brockman. I think it's a nice and balanced perspective on our near future with #AI and #LLM youtu.be/C_78DM8fG6E

Predoctoral Fellowship opportunity🚨 at the Laboratory for Social Minds. We do work in cognitive science, cultural evolution, statistics and machine learning, and and (well) beyond. Inquire by May 31st for start dates in Fall 2023. Please circulate! simondedeo.com/?p=1050

Sunday read. This is hilarious. Engineers are competing who creates the worst UI on Reddit. I think the winners are: 1/ Enter your phone number

Elsevier is losing editors

Carving joints into nature: reengineering scientific concepts in light of concept-laden evidence Review by Marina Dubova & Robert Goldstone Marina Dubova Robert Goldstone Free access until June 29th: bit.ly/3MuIGS4

New postdoc job in AI / CogSci available at the Santa Fe Institute. Are you a grad student or postdoc interested in working with me on AI systems for abstraction and analogy? See santafe.edu/about/jobs/pos… for more info. Apply by June 9. Pls RT! (View from our campus)

It's the most hilarious example what is called "low processing fluency" in cognitive psychology, or "sludge" in behavioral economics (check out Cass Sunstein's book)

Should we communicate visual categories through words, visual examples, or both? The answer depends on category structure and available communication volume 📢New from Arseny Moskvichev (Arseny Moskvichev), Roman Tikhonov (Roman Tikhonov), and Mark Steyvers sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Control is all you need? Prediction, explanation, and control are distinct capacities, but Roman Tikhonov and I did a series of cross-training to test exactly how they fit together. Now out in The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social's Open Mind! direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/d…

📣I'm hiring a lab coordinator for my new lab at UCSD CogSci. This is a great position if you're interested in gaining research experience before applying to graduate school. Apply by May 2, flexible start late summer start date (~Sep 1). Details below! employment.ucsd.edu/laboratory-coo…

Princeton is hiring postdocs interested in projects focused on comparing AI systems to human cognition or using ideas from cognitive science to better understand those systems as part of a new initiative studying Natural and Artificial Minds. Apply at puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/posit…

As a psych undergrad in St. Petersburg 6 years ago, I never imagined I’d be starting my own cognitive science lab at one of the world’s best research environments, to pursue the questions I find most important and meaningful. I’m beyond excited to share that I’ll be starting a