The complete destruction of American cognitive science is happening right now

Brown University president declines invitation for Brown to join federal Compact In a letter to the White House, President Christina H. Paxson wrote that Compact provisions restricting academic freedom and undermining autonomy would impede the University’s ability to fulfill its m...

Congratulations to Brown University. An institution dedicated to timeless principles must not yield to temporary improper pressures.

Brown University president declines invitation for Brown to join federal Compact In a letter to the White House, President Christina H. Paxson wrote that Compact provisions restricting academic freedom and undermining autonomy would impede the University’s ability to fulfill its m...

Both proud and relieved to see this news. Brown rejects the government compact!

www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

Under Trump, NSF faces worst crisis in its 75-year history Political directives have undermined agency's independence and record of supporting the best basic research

The Trump admin has gutted the NSF’s independence, cutting fellowships, slashing grants, blocking DEI & climate research, and politicizing science funding like never before. This is a full-on crisis for U.S. innovation and academic freedom. www.science.org/content/arti...

AI and the Mind job at Brown. Come work with us!

Finally got a lab account going! Check out @cocodevlab.bsky.social

CoCoDev Lab’s Rebekah Gelpí presented a talk, entitled "Resource-rational belief revision can mitigate as well as amplify polarization", at this year’s CogSci conference. This work is part of a project funded by the
@templetonworld.bsky.social's Listening and Learning in a Polarized World program.

I believe
2 - ד
5 - ג
16 - ח
are wrong, and the letter is ו not י in the puzzle, which is alphabetical

Computational Cognitive Development Lab COG SCI 2025 SCHEDULE AUG 1 & 2 VIRTUAL POSTER SESSIONS: 3 & 5 IN-PERSON ORAL TALK: COMP. MODELING 5 Examining Individual Differences in Within-Category Variability Reasoning Olympia N. Mathiaparanam; Pablo Leon Villagra; Daphna Buchsbaum; Karl Rosengren Virtual Poster Session 3 (V3-M-31) Friday, August 1@ 12:00-1:00 PDT Preschool Children's Learning and Generalization of Continuous Causal Functions Caiqin Zhou; Rebekah Gelpi; Maria lorini; Christopher Guy Lucas; Daphna Buchsbaum Virtual Poster Session 5 (V5-Z-76) Saturday, August 2 @ 12:00 - 1:00 PDT Resource-rational belief revision can mitigate as well as amplify polarization Rebekah Gelpi; Pablo Leon Villagra; William Cunningham; Christopher Guy Lucas; Daphna Buchsbaum Oral Talk: Computational Modeling 5 - Salon 3 (T.46.1) Saturday, August 2 @ 2:15 - 3:45 PDT

See you at #Cogsci2025!!

A white and gray dog touches a yellow dot hanging on the wall with his nose. Text says ManyDogs 2 - Join the Team!

🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2!

🔍🐕‍🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them?

Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!

Also, if you’ve ever watched Mapif it covered basically the same plot points a lot more elegantly

I don’t know, after season 1 I felt like it got really repetitive

Screenshot of table showing number of grants and total value terminated by NSF directorate. STEM Education directorate is highlighted, with 417 terminations totaling 322 million dollars. CSV of table: Directorate,No. Terminated,Total Value Biological Sciences,46,"$27,960,075" Computer and Information Science and Engineering,85,"$44,630,113" Engineering,94,"$33,472,485" Geosciences,52,"$36,454,740" Mathematical and Physical Sciences,30,"$6,418,312" Office of the Director,7,"$4,859,738" STEM Education,417,"$322,680,063" "Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences",266,"$77,635,904" "Technology, Innovation and Partnerships",46,"$62,231,309"

UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days.

We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.

My child just referred to talking as mouth texting I am dying

I'm looking for a postdoc interested in computational cognitive modeling and deep reinforcement learning!

Submit a CV and references here: apply.interfolio.com/150309

Intended starting date is early Fall 2024

Please share with anyone who might be interested!

Now with more information and official application link!
sites.brown.edu/cocodevlab/f...

Hello friends! My lab is looking for a full time lab manager to start any time between now and the fall semester. If you or someone you know might be interested please get in touch!
sites.brown.edu/cocodevlab/

Brown dogs laying down staring a treat nearby

🚨 New article 🚨

I'm super excited that our systematic review of impulsivity as a behavioral trait in dogs is out! 🐶

The article is freely available (for now) at doi.org/10.46867/ijc...
Learn more about it on my blog: jeffreyrstevens.github.io/posts/impuls...

#dogs #impulsivity #meta-analysis

Forgot to add #CDS2024 !

Looking forward to my first Cognitive Development Society conference since 2019 (I caught COVID for the last one in 2022). Come see some posters from my lab!

We are recruiting a full-time lab manager to start in July 2024. If you're interested, please consider applying here: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

Do not hesitate to reach out via email (to julia_marshall1@brown.edu) if you have questions about the position!!

FAQ: The “Snake Fight” Portion of Your Thesis Defense Q: Do I have to kill the snake? A: University guidelines state that you have to “defeat” the snake. There are many ways to accomplish this. Lots o...

This remains my favorite McSweeney’s article. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...

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...Not just hard, but with low enough funding rate + high enough uncertainty about timelines /scale, I think it's actually *impossible* to robustly end up with just the right amount of work you've obligated yourself to do. I kinda want to make this model and prove that there's no good strategy here.

My 12 year old has taken to telling me that for someone who studies cognitive development I sure don’t know how kids’ minds work, and it’s as charming as it sounds

Tweet screenshot: Dr. Anna Hughes @AnnaGHughes Every field has at least a few terms that sound absolutely ridiculous to anyone who hasn't heard them before and I want to hear yours

Reminder that moralization is the process of converting a directed PGM to an undirected PGM by forcing all parent nodes to marry.

The distinction may be more between data that can be collected directly, and data that requires a human observation or judgment call, e.g., online surveys of adults, vs an RA watching a child in an experiment (live or videoed) and coding their choices and answers, regardless of format

Lights, Camera, Christmas! - This American Life People going to great lengths to throw a special Christmas for their families.

Have you heard this story (Christmas in 3D) about a family that takes Santa way, way farther than is typical, and how the adult children feel about it, from This American Life? It’s always stuck with me

www.thisamericanlife.org/728/lights-c...

I’m so excited about this work on abstract reasoning across primate species just coming out with Elisa!!!

I implemented this same hack starting a year or two ago, and it’s great!