The Giant Epistemologist is back!
Two postdocs are needed for the research project “the Epistemic Significance of Concepts.” Both positions are 4 years!
More info here:
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
#PhilJobs #philsky #philosophy #epistemology #psychology #CogSci #linguistics #postdoc
Two postdocs are needed for the research project “the Epistemic Significance of Concepts.” Both positions are 4 years!
More info here:
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
#PhilJobs #philsky #philosophy #epistemology #psychology #CogSci #linguistics #postdoc
Two Postdoctoral Researchers in Theoretical Philosophy
Two Postdoctoral Researchers in Theoretical Philosophy
jobs.helsinki.fi
October 27, 2026 at 2:37 PM
The Giant Epistemologist is back!
Two postdocs are needed for the research project “the Epistemic Significance of Concepts.” Both positions are 4 years!
More info here:
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
#PhilJobs #philsky #philosophy #epistemology #psychology #CogSci #linguistics #postdoc
Two postdocs are needed for the research project “the Epistemic Significance of Concepts.” Both positions are 4 years!
More info here:
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
#PhilJobs #philsky #philosophy #epistemology #psychology #CogSci #linguistics #postdoc
Seems like a turf cudgel. My first really big paper had cogsci, CS, linguistics, polisci, music theory people and some people were mad it wasn't interdisciplinary *enough* 🙃
October 26, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Seems like a turf cudgel. My first really big paper had cogsci, CS, linguistics, polisci, music theory people and some people were mad it wasn't interdisciplinary *enough* 🙃
Meet Elisabeth Lex, Prof at @tugraz.bsky.social 🇦🇹 and ELLIS Scholar in ELLIS Unit Graz. She researches human-centric AI, focusing on cognition-informed recommender systems that integrate insights from #CogSci to align algorithmic decision-making with human needs, values, & behavior.
#WomenInELLIS
#WomenInELLIS
October 28, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Meet Elisabeth Lex, Prof at @tugraz.bsky.social 🇦🇹 and ELLIS Scholar in ELLIS Unit Graz. She researches human-centric AI, focusing on cognition-informed recommender systems that integrate insights from #CogSci to align algorithmic decision-making with human needs, values, & behavior.
#WomenInELLIS
#WomenInELLIS
cogsci ::keyboard freezes up before
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October 26, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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I'm actually working on a paper right now in which we address this issue to some extent (that cogsci needs to have an actual theory of what it means for something to be innate & can't just handwave about it)- it's not the whole point of the paper, but it's in there and happy to share once it's out
October 25, 2026 at 1:25 PM
I'm actually working on a paper right now in which we address this issue to some extent (that cogsci needs to have an actual theory of what it means for something to be innate & can't just handwave about it)- it's not the whole point of the paper, but it's in there and happy to share once it's out
Casually dropping a hot single from a band featuring Rees, Schneider, Webb, Davies, Shostak, Cleland and many others, directed by Steven Dick and Mark Lupisella from NASA. I'm basically an astronaut now. 😁 Coming in 2028 by Cambridge University Press!
#astrobiology #ai #philosophy #consci #cogsci
#astrobiology #ai #philosophy #consci #cogsci
October 28, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Casually dropping a hot single from a band featuring Rees, Schneider, Webb, Davies, Shostak, Cleland and many others, directed by Steven Dick and Mark Lupisella from NASA. I'm basically an astronaut now. 😁 Coming in 2028 by Cambridge University Press!
#astrobiology #ai #philosophy #consci #cogsci
#astrobiology #ai #philosophy #consci #cogsci
Every time frontier AI researchers announce they've discovered some new philosophical phenomenon, I get another month's worth of material for saying "no".
Our new preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2610.32691
#philosophy #ai #llm #consciousness #cogsci
Our new preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2610.32691
#philosophy #ai #llm #consciousness #cogsci
Natural Language Autoencoders Identify Without Explaining
Natural Language Autoencoders (NLAs) express a model's internal activations in the form of readable text. The verbalizer turns an activation into an English explanation; the reconstructor then convert...
arxiv.org
October 26, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Every time frontier AI researchers announce they've discovered some new philosophical phenomenon, I get another month's worth of material for saying "no".
Our new preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2610.32691
#philosophy #ai #llm #consciousness #cogsci
Our new preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2610.32691
#philosophy #ai #llm #consciousness #cogsci
Delighted to join the launch of #Music and the #Cognitive Humanities: Interdisciplinary Insights this morning, edited by Schiavio, Vuoskoski and Kim.
It was an honour to co-author a chapter with Marissa Silverman. #Neuroscience #MusicScience #CogSci #EduSky #DevPsy #care #ethics
It was an honour to co-author a chapter with Marissa Silverman. #Neuroscience #MusicScience #CogSci #EduSky #DevPsy #care #ethics
October 22, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Delighted to join the launch of #Music and the #Cognitive Humanities: Interdisciplinary Insights this morning, edited by Schiavio, Vuoskoski and Kim.
It was an honour to co-author a chapter with Marissa Silverman. #Neuroscience #MusicScience #CogSci #EduSky #DevPsy #care #ethics
It was an honour to co-author a chapter with Marissa Silverman. #Neuroscience #MusicScience #CogSci #EduSky #DevPsy #care #ethics
2/ In our preprint, we propose a computational framework in which episodic memory encoding and retrieval leverage a single, shared generative process that represents new memories by recombining existing knowledge:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence #memory #CompNeuro #CogSci
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence #memory #CompNeuro #CogSci
Learning distributed representations with complementary components - A generative approximation framework for episodic memory encoding
Episodic memory must preserve detail while storing memories efficiently. We propose a framework of memory encoding in which generative neural network models approximate input through their frozen weig...
www.biorxiv.org
October 25, 2026 at 3:40 PM
2/ In our preprint, we propose a computational framework in which episodic memory encoding and retrieval leverage a single, shared generative process that represents new memories by recombining existing knowledge:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence #memory #CompNeuro #CogSci
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence #memory #CompNeuro #CogSci
Is it personal, or is it just a sort of cultish belief in CogSci itself?
October 25, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Is it personal, or is it just a sort of cultish belief in CogSci itself?
Yeah, I'd a CogSci lecturer who used to refer to it as the Stanford Prison Performance Art Project.
Unreal that Zimbardo was publishing nonpeer-reviewed work (e.g. computer games, porn, GWOT 'heroes') for policy discussions 50+ years after doing this bullshit
Unreal that Zimbardo was publishing nonpeer-reviewed work (e.g. computer games, porn, GWOT 'heroes') for policy discussions 50+ years after doing this bullshit
October 22, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Yeah, I'd a CogSci lecturer who used to refer to it as the Stanford Prison Performance Art Project.
Unreal that Zimbardo was publishing nonpeer-reviewed work (e.g. computer games, porn, GWOT 'heroes') for policy discussions 50+ years after doing this bullshit
Unreal that Zimbardo was publishing nonpeer-reviewed work (e.g. computer games, porn, GWOT 'heroes') for policy discussions 50+ years after doing this bullshit
Yeah that does seem like an stronger claim to make than the view that many people in cogsci endorse. I have in mind nativists who compare the development of some psychological traits to the onset of puberty or tadpoles becoming frogs
Your critique seems to be about a different kind of theory right?
Your critique seems to be about a different kind of theory right?
October 25, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Yeah that does seem like an stronger claim to make than the view that many people in cogsci endorse. I have in mind nativists who compare the development of some psychological traits to the onset of puberty or tadpoles becoming frogs
Your critique seems to be about a different kind of theory right?
Your critique seems to be about a different kind of theory right?
🎉 New paper at Behavior Research Methods!!!
We present the samplr package for R, which helps use sampling algorithms and cognitive models for human data - show theoretical background + examples.
Thanks to @yunxiao-li.bsky.social and @asanborn.bsky.social.
Paper link.springer.com/article/10.3...
We present the samplr package for R, which helps use sampling algorithms and cognitive models for human data - show theoretical background + examples.
Thanks to @yunxiao-li.bsky.social and @asanborn.bsky.social.
Paper link.springer.com/article/10.3...
The samplr package: A tool for modeling human cognition with sampling algorithms - Behavior Research Methods
Many models of cognition have sampling as a central component. Researchers have used them to explain human performance across a wide range of tasks involving perception, probability reasoning, and cho...
link.springer.com
October 19, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Models of #Consciousness 8 will feature some really cool people and one crazy cat lady.
#philosophy #consci #cogsci
#philosophy #consci #cogsci
October 19, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Models of #Consciousness 8 will feature some really cool people and one crazy cat lady.
#philosophy #consci #cogsci
#philosophy #consci #cogsci
Alternatively, if the idea is not that biology enables specific functions, how are we supposed to detect consciousness using cogsci approaches? See here for a longer form of this argument: www.cell.com/trends-open/...
Curious what you think :)
Curious what you think :)
What biology can and cannot tell us about conscious AI
Progress in artificial intelligence is turning machine consciousness from a philosophical
curiosity into a societal issue, and has led to criticism of the widespread computational
functionalist framew...
www.cell.com
October 22, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Alternatively, if the idea is not that biology enables specific functions, how are we supposed to detect consciousness using cogsci approaches? See here for a longer form of this argument: www.cell.com/trends-open/...
Curious what you think :)
Curious what you think :)
Welp, that was a totally random 2-day study. I wish I had other examples to work with. The only substantial thing that comes to mind is the artifact analogy, which would be
l : p_1 :: r : e :: c : p_2
#cogsci
l : p_1 :: r : e :: c : p_2
#cogsci
Let g, p_1, t, p_2, p_3 be ordered pairs of domains such that
g::p_1::t::p_2
g::p_3
Seeing that g::p_3, we can apply p_3 to p_1, t, and p_2.
g::p_1::t::p_2
g::p_3
p_1::p_3
t::p_3
p_2::p_3
In this manner, we fill out the conceptual structure among domains or ordered pairs thereof.
g::p_1::t::p_2
g::p_3
Seeing that g::p_3, we can apply p_3 to p_1, t, and p_2.
g::p_1::t::p_2
g::p_3
p_1::p_3
t::p_3
p_2::p_3
In this manner, we fill out the conceptual structure among domains or ordered pairs thereof.
October 24, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Welp, that was a totally random 2-day study. I wish I had other examples to work with. The only substantial thing that comes to mind is the artifact analogy, which would be
l : p_1 :: r : e :: c : p_2
#cogsci
l : p_1 :: r : e :: c : p_2
#cogsci
‼️ Last chance to apply! ‼️
Applications for the CogSci Student Committee close Sunday, October 25!
We especially encourage applications from students and communities currently underrepresented on the committee.
Apply today!
🔗 cognitivesciencesociety.org/get-involved/
Applications for the CogSci Student Committee close Sunday, October 25!
We especially encourage applications from students and communities currently underrepresented on the committee.
Apply today!
🔗 cognitivesciencesociety.org/get-involved/
Less than two weeks left to apply!
Join the CSS Student Committee and help represent student interests, shape initiatives, and strengthen our student community.
Apply by October 25 🗓️
Join the CSS Student Committee and help represent student interests, shape initiatives, and strengthen our student community.
Apply by October 25 🗓️
We're looking for up to four new members to join the CogSci Society Student Committee.
You can apply from anywhere in the world 🌎🌍🌏
You just need to be:
• A CSS member;
• Enrolled in a PhD program (or a Master’s program with the expectation of continuing to a PhD).
Check out the details 👇🧵
You can apply from anywhere in the world 🌎🌍🌏
You just need to be:
• A CSS member;
• Enrolled in a PhD program (or a Master’s program with the expectation of continuing to a PhD).
Check out the details 👇🧵
October 21, 2026 at 1:25 PM
‼️ Last chance to apply! ‼️
Applications for the CogSci Student Committee close Sunday, October 25!
We especially encourage applications from students and communities currently underrepresented on the committee.
Apply today!
🔗 cognitivesciencesociety.org/get-involved/
Applications for the CogSci Student Committee close Sunday, October 25!
We especially encourage applications from students and communities currently underrepresented on the committee.
Apply today!
🔗 cognitivesciencesociety.org/get-involved/
I'm back home, which means I'll continue!!
"Man I wish I was able to write better fourth wall breaks" Get into modeling in cogsci twin 😌✌️
"Man I wish I was able to write better fourth wall breaks" Get into modeling in cogsci twin 😌✌️
October 22, 2026 at 8:28 PM
I'm back home, which means I'll continue!!
"Man I wish I was able to write better fourth wall breaks" Get into modeling in cogsci twin 😌✌️
"Man I wish I was able to write better fourth wall breaks" Get into modeling in cogsci twin 😌✌️
The short version is this:
1. Monotropism is very much the best account of autism @oolong.co.uk
2. It is a phenomenological account of autism, not a mechanistic account and that is critically important.
3. When you ask cogsci type questions about attention, interesting answers drop out.
1. Monotropism is very much the best account of autism @oolong.co.uk
2. It is a phenomenological account of autism, not a mechanistic account and that is critically important.
3. When you ask cogsci type questions about attention, interesting answers drop out.
October 20, 2026 at 8:27 AM
The short version is this:
1. Monotropism is very much the best account of autism @oolong.co.uk
2. It is a phenomenological account of autism, not a mechanistic account and that is critically important.
3. When you ask cogsci type questions about attention, interesting answers drop out.
1. Monotropism is very much the best account of autism @oolong.co.uk
2. It is a phenomenological account of autism, not a mechanistic account and that is critically important.
3. When you ask cogsci type questions about attention, interesting answers drop out.
The UT comp ling faculty (@jessyjli.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social @kmahowald.bsky.social & myself) are looking for PhD students to join us! sites.utexas.edu/compling/ 🤘
We are an interdisciplinary group with interests across linguistics, cogsci and NLP. Apply by 12/1:
We are an interdisciplinary group with interests across linguistics, cogsci and NLP. Apply by 12/1:
UT Austin Computational Linguistics Research Group – Humans processing computers processing humans processing language
sites.utexas.edu
October 19, 2026 at 10:11 PM
The UT comp ling faculty (@jessyjli.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social @kmahowald.bsky.social & myself) are looking for PhD students to join us! sites.utexas.edu/compling/ 🤘
We are an interdisciplinary group with interests across linguistics, cogsci and NLP. Apply by 12/1:
We are an interdisciplinary group with interests across linguistics, cogsci and NLP. Apply by 12/1:
Studies about cognition and problem-solving can feel intimidating, but we rarely get much guidance or help understanding methods. I notice that even accomplished researchers in other fields, outside of psych and cogsci, can be very reluctant to weigh in on methods. But methods shape EVERYTHING
October 20, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Studies about cognition and problem-solving can feel intimidating, but we rarely get much guidance or help understanding methods. I notice that even accomplished researchers in other fields, outside of psych and cogsci, can be very reluctant to weigh in on methods. But methods shape EVERYTHING
bmm is developed by @venpopov.bsky.social and me. Bug reports and model requests are welcome on GitHub.
Changelog: venpopov.com/bmm/news/
Code: github.com/popov-lab/bmm
#rstats #Stan #CogSci
Changelog: venpopov.com/bmm/news/
Code: github.com/popov-lab/bmm
#rstats #Stan #CogSci
Changelog
venpopov.com
October 19, 2026 at 2:16 PM
bmm is developed by @venpopov.bsky.social and me. Bug reports and model requests are welcome on GitHub.
Changelog: venpopov.com/bmm/news/
Code: github.com/popov-lab/bmm
#rstats #Stan #CogSci
Changelog: venpopov.com/bmm/news/
Code: github.com/popov-lab/bmm
#rstats #Stan #CogSci
Relearning the basics of the cogsci of polysemy for the ~30th time, I was struck by how closely mental content is associated with lexical items.
Is there discussion on whether this is an artifact of experiments using words to elicit content or instead a deep feature of human cognition?
Is there discussion on whether this is an artifact of experiments using words to elicit content or instead a deep feature of human cognition?
October 19, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Relearning the basics of the cogsci of polysemy for the ~30th time, I was struck by how closely mental content is associated with lexical items.
Is there discussion on whether this is an artifact of experiments using words to elicit content or instead a deep feature of human cognition?
Is there discussion on whether this is an artifact of experiments using words to elicit content or instead a deep feature of human cognition?