Chris Krupenye
@chriskrupenye.bsky.social
Origins of the Social Mind • Apes • Dogs • Evolutionary Cognitive Scientist, Assistant Professor @JohnsHopkins • he/him
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Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
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NIH institute directors have always been non-political. They are science administrators who have always been top-tier scientists themselves.
This has been true during Dem and GOP administrations. Smart presidents understand: don't fuck with success.
And now we have Donald Trump.
This has been true during Dem and GOP administrations. Smart presidents understand: don't fuck with success.
And now we have Donald Trump.
A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
November 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
NIH institute directors have always been non-political. They are science administrators who have always been top-tier scientists themselves.
This has been true during Dem and GOP administrations. Smart presidents understand: don't fuck with success.
And now we have Donald Trump.
This has been true during Dem and GOP administrations. Smart presidents understand: don't fuck with success.
And now we have Donald Trump.
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I'm recruiting a grad student! My lab at NYU (psych dept) studies the computational basis of moral cognition and aims to build AI systems that are aligned with human values. Now admitting a PhD student for Fall 2026. Apps due 12/1. sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...
Sydney Levine - Open Positions
Graduate Students (PhD program)
I will be accepting PhD students through the NYU psychology department for the current application cycle (for admission in Fall 2026). My lab is joint between the Co...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I'm recruiting a grad student! My lab at NYU (psych dept) studies the computational basis of moral cognition and aims to build AI systems that are aligned with human values. Now admitting a PhD student for Fall 2026. Apps due 12/1. sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...
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Many have heard of the “Trimates:” Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas.
But before any of them was Rosalie Osborn. But sadly, she, and her colleague Jill Donisthorpe, have been written out of the narrative. (1/16)
🧪#Primates
But before any of them was Rosalie Osborn. But sadly, she, and her colleague Jill Donisthorpe, have been written out of the narrative. (1/16)
🧪#Primates
November 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Many have heard of the “Trimates:” Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas.
But before any of them was Rosalie Osborn. But sadly, she, and her colleague Jill Donisthorpe, have been written out of the narrative. (1/16)
🧪#Primates
But before any of them was Rosalie Osborn. But sadly, she, and her colleague Jill Donisthorpe, have been written out of the narrative. (1/16)
🧪#Primates
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Last call for papers for the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology! Don't miss a fabulous program in sunny Atlanta this February. Submissions due Nov 20. See you there! #philosophy #psychology #CFP southernsociety.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Last call for papers for the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology! Don't miss a fabulous program in sunny Atlanta this February. Submissions due Nov 20. See you there! #philosophy #psychology #CFP southernsociety.org
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Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
www.eva.mpg.de
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
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tfw the ceremony is scheduled at peak bedtime
(thank you apa!! and everyone!!)
(thank you apa!! and everyone!!)
November 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
tfw the ceremony is scheduled at peak bedtime
(thank you apa!! and everyone!!)
(thank you apa!! and everyone!!)
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Ready to tell powerful environmental stories? 🌊🌿
Mongabay is hiring:
• Contributing Editor (Oceans): buff.ly/B10xOhV
• Engagement Editor: buff.ly/WZY7a9c
• Wire Reporter (Asia): buff.ly/cmYajQ4
Join our remote global newsroom 🌎
Apply now!
Mongabay is hiring:
• Contributing Editor (Oceans): buff.ly/B10xOhV
• Engagement Editor: buff.ly/WZY7a9c
• Wire Reporter (Asia): buff.ly/cmYajQ4
Join our remote global newsroom 🌎
Apply now!
October 31, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Ready to tell powerful environmental stories? 🌊🌿
Mongabay is hiring:
• Contributing Editor (Oceans): buff.ly/B10xOhV
• Engagement Editor: buff.ly/WZY7a9c
• Wire Reporter (Asia): buff.ly/cmYajQ4
Join our remote global newsroom 🌎
Apply now!
Mongabay is hiring:
• Contributing Editor (Oceans): buff.ly/B10xOhV
• Engagement Editor: buff.ly/WZY7a9c
• Wire Reporter (Asia): buff.ly/cmYajQ4
Join our remote global newsroom 🌎
Apply now!
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“.. the Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion .. The sobering reality is that the United States has regressed, to different degrees, on all 12.”
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“.. the Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion .. The sobering reality is that the United States has regressed, to different degrees, on all 12.”
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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This week’s cover of New York Magazine is absolutely brutal.
October 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This week’s cover of New York Magazine is absolutely brutal.
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#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE
October 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE
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We're excited to announce that Cognitive Science at Dartmouth is recruiting PhD students to work collaboratively with me, Steven Frankland, and Fred Callaway. Come study the principles and mechanisms that enable us to understand, plan, and act in the world! Info: sites.dartmouth.edu/cogscigrad/
Cognitive Science Graduate Admissions – Information about graduate admissions from the cognitive science faculty
sites.dartmouth.edu
October 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We're excited to announce that Cognitive Science at Dartmouth is recruiting PhD students to work collaboratively with me, Steven Frankland, and Fred Callaway. Come study the principles and mechanisms that enable us to understand, plan, and act in the world! Info: sites.dartmouth.edu/cogscigrad/
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How do our brains learn when choices affect both ourselves and others?
New work by @shawnrhoadsphd.com, @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @drjocutler.bsky.social, et al. in @natcomms.nature.com reveals shared neural computations for prosocial & antisocial learning
rdcu.be/eL8mZ
New work by @shawnrhoadsphd.com, @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @drjocutler.bsky.social, et al. in @natcomms.nature.com reveals shared neural computations for prosocial & antisocial learning
rdcu.be/eL8mZ
October 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
How do our brains learn when choices affect both ourselves and others?
New work by @shawnrhoadsphd.com, @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @drjocutler.bsky.social, et al. in @natcomms.nature.com reveals shared neural computations for prosocial & antisocial learning
rdcu.be/eL8mZ
New work by @shawnrhoadsphd.com, @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @drjocutler.bsky.social, et al. in @natcomms.nature.com reveals shared neural computations for prosocial & antisocial learning
rdcu.be/eL8mZ
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Fewer grad students means less science, but many STEM PhD programs in the US are cutting back on admissions this year due to federal funding uncertainties. Words by me for @nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@emsque.bsky.social @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social @julieposselt.bsky.social 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@emsque.bsky.social @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social @julieposselt.bsky.social 🧪
US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold
Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding.
www.nature.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Fewer grad students means less science, but many STEM PhD programs in the US are cutting back on admissions this year due to federal funding uncertainties. Words by me for @nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@emsque.bsky.social @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social @julieposselt.bsky.social 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@emsque.bsky.social @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social @julieposselt.bsky.social 🧪
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Social relationships are powerful predictors of fitness across social animals. But *why*?
In our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper, we outline testable predictions for why relationship quality and quantity adaptively vary across socio-ecological contexts.
tinyurl.com/55dnkeh7
In our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper, we outline testable predictions for why relationship quality and quantity adaptively vary across socio-ecological contexts.
tinyurl.com/55dnkeh7
October 16, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Social relationships are powerful predictors of fitness across social animals. But *why*?
In our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper, we outline testable predictions for why relationship quality and quantity adaptively vary across socio-ecological contexts.
tinyurl.com/55dnkeh7
In our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper, we outline testable predictions for why relationship quality and quantity adaptively vary across socio-ecological contexts.
tinyurl.com/55dnkeh7
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Here's the newest piece in the @nytimes.com "Lost Science" series. @emilyanthes.bsky.social talks to a scientist who was learning about the minds of elephants--and how to use those insights to help the animals coexist with farmers. Gift link: nyti.ms/3KXVSAG
nyti.ms
October 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Here's the newest piece in the @nytimes.com "Lost Science" series. @emilyanthes.bsky.social talks to a scientist who was learning about the minds of elephants--and how to use those insights to help the animals coexist with farmers. Gift link: nyti.ms/3KXVSAG
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Abstract submission for #CO32026 is now open, join us next April in Montreal 🎉🍁🦫 Submit for a symposium by November 14th, or for an individual talk or poster by December 12th.
Information on the conference and a link to the member portal where you can submit: comparativecognition.org/conference.php
Information on the conference and a link to the member portal where you can submit: comparativecognition.org/conference.php
Comparative Cognition Society - Conference (CO3)
comparativecognition.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Abstract submission for #CO32026 is now open, join us next April in Montreal 🎉🍁🦫 Submit for a symposium by November 14th, or for an individual talk or poster by December 12th.
Information on the conference and a link to the member portal where you can submit: comparativecognition.org/conference.php
Information on the conference and a link to the member portal where you can submit: comparativecognition.org/conference.php
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$40 billion dollars is the size of the entire NIH budget.
Trump says his $40B bailout for Argentina's failing libertarian economy is "not gonna make a big difference for our country."
Really?
Imagine if we invested those billions on healthcare and housing for Americans, instead of bailing out Trump's pals abroad.
Really?
Imagine if we invested those billions on healthcare and housing for Americans, instead of bailing out Trump's pals abroad.
October 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
$40 billion dollars is the size of the entire NIH budget.
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Notice how the adultification of Black children (especially young Black men) is the inverse of the infantilization of White adults (especially fully grown White men). It holds Black children as always blameworthy and White adults as blameless.
October 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Notice how the adultification of Black children (especially young Black men) is the inverse of the infantilization of White adults (especially fully grown White men). It holds Black children as always blameworthy and White adults as blameless.
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For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’
Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
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Exciting news: My lab has published our first paper! Here, we review the literature on early social evaluation, and we make recommendations about how to best study social evaluation in infants and toddlers.
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
The Study of Early Social Evaluation: Contextualizing Failures to Replicate and Looking Forward
Abstract. In classic research, Hamlin et al. (2007) found that infants preferentially reach to agents who help others over agents who hinder others. These early findings provided evidence that infants...
direct.mit.edu
October 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Exciting news: My lab has published our first paper! Here, we review the literature on early social evaluation, and we make recommendations about how to best study social evaluation in infants and toddlers.
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
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🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology:
“A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.”
Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
@themanybirds.bsky.social
“A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.”
Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
@themanybirds.bsky.social
A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia
Neophobia (the aversive response to novelty) varies considerably across species and individuals, and can impact adaptability and survival. This study assesses neophobia in 1400 subjects from 136 bird ...
journals.plos.org
October 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology:
“A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.”
Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
@themanybirds.bsky.social
“A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.”
Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
@themanybirds.bsky.social
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The Journal of Comparative Psychology is offering one editorial fellowship for 2026. More details can be found in the link below.
Submissions due by November 1.
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
Submissions due by November 1.
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
www.apa.org
October 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The Journal of Comparative Psychology is offering one editorial fellowship for 2026. More details can be found in the link below.
Submissions due by November 1.
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
Submissions due by November 1.
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
Thanks @chazfirestone.bsky.social! Always a treat to share the mysteries and wonder of animal minds with Intro students!
Thank you @chriskrupenye.bsky.social for visiting Intro Psych!
Hope you enjoy the whiskey as much as we enjoyed your guest lecture :)
Hope you enjoy the whiskey as much as we enjoyed your guest lecture :)
October 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Thanks @chazfirestone.bsky.social! Always a treat to share the mysteries and wonder of animal minds with Intro students!
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Thank you @chriskrupenye.bsky.social for visiting Intro Psych!
Hope you enjoy the whiskey as much as we enjoyed your guest lecture :)
Hope you enjoy the whiskey as much as we enjoyed your guest lecture :)
October 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Thank you @chriskrupenye.bsky.social for visiting Intro Psych!
Hope you enjoy the whiskey as much as we enjoyed your guest lecture :)
Hope you enjoy the whiskey as much as we enjoyed your guest lecture :)