Daphna Buchsbaum
@daphnab.bsky.social
Children, Dogs, Monkeys, Robots. Associate Professor at Brown University.
https://sites.brown.edu/cocodevlab/
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https://sites.brown.edu/cocodevlab/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4LRxXyIAAAAJ&hl=en
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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...
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October 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Congratulations to Brown University. An institution dedicated to timeless principles must not yield to temporary improper pressures.
Both proud and relieved to see this news. Brown rejects the government compact!
www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
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...
www.brown.edu
October 16, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Both proud and relieved to see this news. Brown rejects the government compact!
www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
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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...
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
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September 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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!
Brown’s Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working in the area of AI and the Mind (start July 1, 2026). Apply by Nov 8, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173939
#AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity
#AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity
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September 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
AI and the Mind job at Brown. Come work with us!
Finally got a lab account going! Check out @cocodevlab.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Finally got a lab account going! Check out @cocodevlab.bsky.social
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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.
@templetonworld.bsky.social's Listening and Learning in a Polarized World program.
August 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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.
@templetonworld.bsky.social's Listening and Learning in a Polarized World program.
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🚨 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!
🔍🐕🦺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!
July 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
🚨 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!
🔍🐕🦺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!
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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.
We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.
April 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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.
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
November 16, 2024 at 4:01 AM
My child just referred to talking as mouth texting I am dying
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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!
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!
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July 29, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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!
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...
sites.brown.edu/cocodevlab/f...
July 16, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Now with more information and official application link!
sites.brown.edu/cocodevlab/f...
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!
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June 18, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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/
sites.brown.edu/cocodevlab/
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🚨 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
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
April 9, 2024 at 1:39 PM
🚨 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
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
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!
March 20, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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!
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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!!
Do not hesitate to reach out via email (to julia_marshall1@brown.edu) if you have questions about the position!!
March 12, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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!!
Do not hesitate to reach out via email (to julia_marshall1@brown.edu) if you have questions about the position!!
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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.
February 29, 2024 at 3:35 AM
...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
February 12, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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
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Reminder that moralization is the process of converting a directed PGM to an undirected PGM by forcing all parent nodes to marry.
January 30, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Reminder that moralization is the process of converting a directed PGM to an undirected PGM by forcing all parent nodes to marry.
I’m so excited about this work on abstract reasoning across primate species just coming out with Elisa!!!
New paper 📃 out now in Cognition
Preschoolers and, to a lesser extent, chimpanzees but possibly not capuchin monkeys consider abstract patterns in sampled evidence to guide efficient foraging
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Preschoolers and, to a lesser extent, chimpanzees but possibly not capuchin monkeys consider abstract patterns in sampled evidence to guide efficient foraging
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How can I find what I want? Can children, chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys form abstract representat...
Abstract concepts are a powerful tool for making wide-ranging predictions in new situations based on little experience. Whereas looking-time studies s…
https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027724000076…
January 25, 2024 at 2:51 PM
I’m so excited about this work on abstract reasoning across primate species just coming out with Elisa!!!
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We're excited to report that Neurophysin I (oxytocin's carrier protein) is an analytically robust surrogate biomarker for oxytocin in humans & it's easier to measure (no extraction + short EIA)! Work already underway to extend to other species.
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January 8, 2024 at 10:27 PM
We're excited to report that Neurophysin I (oxytocin's carrier protein) is an analytically robust surrogate biomarker for oxytocin in humans & it's easier to measure (no extraction + short EIA)! Work already underway to extend to other species.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1iOVg15hUd...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1iOVg15hUd...
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My first dissertation paper is finally out in Behavior Genetics!
“Transposons in the Williams–Beuren Syndrome Critical Region are Associated with Social Behavior in Assistance Dogs”
Link: rdcu.be/dtyyt
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“Transposons in the Williams–Beuren Syndrome Critical Region are Associated with Social Behavior in Assistance Dogs”
Link: rdcu.be/dtyyt
🐕🦺🧬1/8
December 21, 2023 at 10:47 PM
My first dissertation paper is finally out in Behavior Genetics!
“Transposons in the Williams–Beuren Syndrome Critical Region are Associated with Social Behavior in Assistance Dogs”
Link: rdcu.be/dtyyt
🐕🦺🧬1/8
“Transposons in the Williams–Beuren Syndrome Critical Region are Associated with Social Behavior in Assistance Dogs”
Link: rdcu.be/dtyyt
🐕🦺🧬1/8
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As if you needed more reasons to attend #CDS2024: I'm excited to be speaking at the Early Career Symposium as one of the Early Career speakers. I'm even more excited to be doing it alongside my dear friend Dr. Miller-Cotto (@damcotto.bsky.social)
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December 21, 2023 at 10:01 PM
As if you needed more reasons to attend #CDS2024: I'm excited to be speaking at the Early Career Symposium as one of the Early Career speakers. I'm even more excited to be doing it alongside my dear friend Dr. Miller-Cotto (@damcotto.bsky.social)
cogdevsoc.org/invited-spea...
cogdevsoc.org/invited-spea...
What are people’s thoughts on semester long vs. year long sabbaticals? Is a year worth it, or is a semester + summer already good enough? In this specific case, a pay cut is involved for a year, but it would not delay the next sabbatical. Inquiring minds who are me want to know!
December 19, 2023 at 2:46 PM
What are people’s thoughts on semester long vs. year long sabbaticals? Is a year worth it, or is a semester + summer already good enough? In this specific case, a pay cut is involved for a year, but it would not delay the next sabbatical. Inquiring minds who are me want to know!