Kushin Mukherjee
@kushinm.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher @ Stanford
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Hello bluesky world :) excited to share a new paper on data visualization literacy 📈 🧠 w/ @judithfan.bsky.social, @arnavverma.bsky.social, Holly Huey, Hannah Lloyd, @lacepadilla.bsky.social!
📝 preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
💻 code: github.com/cogtoolslab/...
📝 preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
💻 code: github.com/cogtoolslab/...
OSF
osf.io
March 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Hello bluesky world :) excited to share a new paper on data visualization literacy 📈 🧠 w/ @judithfan.bsky.social, @arnavverma.bsky.social, Holly Huey, Hannah Lloyd, @lacepadilla.bsky.social!
📝 preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
💻 code: github.com/cogtoolslab/...
📝 preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
💻 code: github.com/cogtoolslab/...
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Do children understand all types of visual media in the same way?
"Cross-contextual diversity in children’s early understanding of visual media" - a new review paper led by Rebecca Zhu: osf.io/preprints/ps...
"Cross-contextual diversity in children’s early understanding of visual media" - a new review paper led by Rebecca Zhu: osf.io/preprints/ps...
February 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Do children understand all types of visual media in the same way?
"Cross-contextual diversity in children’s early understanding of visual media" - a new review paper led by Rebecca Zhu: osf.io/preprints/ps...
"Cross-contextual diversity in children’s early understanding of visual media" - a new review paper led by Rebecca Zhu: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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There are many people I’ve seen on here asking about how we go forward in the current moment
We don’t have all the answers, but in the guide below my co-authors and I discuss building and sustaining academic communities dedicated to antiraicm
Now at Collabra: Psychology
osf.io/preprints/ps...
We don’t have all the answers, but in the guide below my co-authors and I discuss building and sustaining academic communities dedicated to antiraicm
Now at Collabra: Psychology
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
February 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
There are many people I’ve seen on here asking about how we go forward in the current moment
We don’t have all the answers, but in the guide below my co-authors and I discuss building and sustaining academic communities dedicated to antiraicm
Now at Collabra: Psychology
osf.io/preprints/ps...
We don’t have all the answers, but in the guide below my co-authors and I discuss building and sustaining academic communities dedicated to antiraicm
Now at Collabra: Psychology
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Happy CogSci evening to those who celebrate
May your figure axis labels be large and visible
May your figure axis labels be large and visible
February 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Happy CogSci evening to those who celebrate
May your figure axis labels be large and visible
May your figure axis labels be large and visible
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Why does Western paleolithic cave art strongly prefer animal side views and often abbreviations? Our new #eSymb preprint (osf.io/preprints/ps... w Pagnotta, Psujek, Mendoza Straffon and Tylén ) challenges long-held assumptions about these artistic choices based on cogsci experiments. 1/
January 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Why does Western paleolithic cave art strongly prefer animal side views and often abbreviations? Our new #eSymb preprint (osf.io/preprints/ps... w Pagnotta, Psujek, Mendoza Straffon and Tylén ) challenges long-held assumptions about these artistic choices based on cogsci experiments. 1/
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I’m still recruiting for this position — please get in touch if you’re interested in working together!
The Visual Learning Lab at UC San Diego is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our lab!
Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org
Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org
Home | The Visual Learning Lab at UCSD
Lab webpage for the Visual Learning Lab at UCSD, lead by Dr. Bria Long, Ph.D. Launching in July 2024!
www.vislearnlab.org
December 13, 2024 at 5:49 PM
I’m still recruiting for this position — please get in touch if you’re interested in working together!
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We have extended the deadline for this position to January 31st. Also, the start date is pretty flexible; if you're graduating next spring/summer and interested in the role, apply!
We have a postdoc position available in my lab at UC Berkeley, 2 years+, flexible start date, research focus is social reasoning and cultural evolution from a computational perspective. Deadline = November 29th. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04639
Postdoctoral Scholar Employee - The Computational Cognitive Science Laboratory -Psychology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
December 13, 2024 at 1:14 AM
We have extended the deadline for this position to January 31st. Also, the start date is pretty flexible; if you're graduating next spring/summer and interested in the role, apply!
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
March 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
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Three ManyBabies projects - big collaborative replications of infancy phenomena - wrapped up this year. The first paper came out this fall. I thought I'd take this chance to comment on what I make of the non-replication result. 🧵
bsky.app/profile/laur...
bsky.app/profile/laur...
The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"
Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large‐Scale, Multi‐Lab, Coordinated Replication Study
Evaluating whether someone's behavior is praiseworthy or blameworthy is a fundamental human trait. A seminal study by Hamlin and colleagues in 2007 suggested that the ability to form social evaluatio...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 3, 2024 at 11:56 PM
Three ManyBabies projects - big collaborative replications of infancy phenomena - wrapped up this year. The first paper came out this fall. I thought I'd take this chance to comment on what I make of the non-replication result. 🧵
bsky.app/profile/laur...
bsky.app/profile/laur...
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📄👀: cross-modal information flow in multimodal large language models
neat interpretability work on how visual and linguistic information is integrated in MLLMs: "the model first transfers the more general visual features of the whole image into the representations of (linguistic) question tokens."
neat interpretability work on how visual and linguistic information is integrated in MLLMs: "the model first transfers the more general visual features of the whole image into the representations of (linguistic) question tokens."
Cross-modal Information Flow in Multimodal Large Language Models
The recent advancements in auto-regressive multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated promising progress for vision-language tasks. While there exists a variety of studies investigatin...
arxiv.org
December 1, 2024 at 7:24 PM
📄👀: cross-modal information flow in multimodal large language models
neat interpretability work on how visual and linguistic information is integrated in MLLMs: "the model first transfers the more general visual features of the whole image into the representations of (linguistic) question tokens."
neat interpretability work on how visual and linguistic information is integrated in MLLMs: "the model first transfers the more general visual features of the whole image into the representations of (linguistic) question tokens."
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Our new paper “Is Child-Directed Speech Effective Training Data for Language Models?” was just presented at #EMNLP2024! This is work led by Steven Feng, with Noah Goodman.
arxiv.org/abs/2408.03617
arxiv.org/abs/2408.03617
Is Child-Directed Speech Effective Training Data for Language Models?
While high-performing language models are typically trained on hundreds of billions of words, human children become fluent language users with a much smaller amount of data. What are the features of t...
arxiv.org
November 20, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Our new paper “Is Child-Directed Speech Effective Training Data for Language Models?” was just presented at #EMNLP2024! This is work led by Steven Feng, with Noah Goodman.
arxiv.org/abs/2408.03617
arxiv.org/abs/2408.03617
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Not only are we back with a new episode but with a brand new series called "A conversation with a luminary", where we chat with a trailblazing developmental cognitive scientist. We're kicking things off with a conversation with the Rubinstein Professor Jenny Saffran! Enjoy!
itsinnate.fireside.fm/21
itsinnate.fireside.fm/21
A conversation with a luminary #1: Jenny Saffran
itsinnate.fireside.fm
November 18, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Not only are we back with a new episode but with a brand new series called "A conversation with a luminary", where we chat with a trailblazing developmental cognitive scientist. We're kicking things off with a conversation with the Rubinstein Professor Jenny Saffran! Enjoy!
itsinnate.fireside.fm/21
itsinnate.fireside.fm/21
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Okay the people requested one so here is an attempt at a Computational Cognitive Science starter pack -- with apologies to everyone I've missed! LMK if there's anyone I should add!
go.bsky.app/KDTg6pv
go.bsky.app/KDTg6pv
November 11, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Okay the people requested one so here is an attempt at a Computational Cognitive Science starter pack -- with apologies to everyone I've missed! LMK if there's anyone I should add!
go.bsky.app/KDTg6pv
go.bsky.app/KDTg6pv
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UW-Madison Psychology is hiring a new assistant professor in the area of computational approaches to language (broadly construed). Please share with interested parties! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor, Computational Approaches to Language - Cluster Hire - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Job Summary:
This position is a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the Department of Psychology at UW-Madison. The search is for a job candidate whose exper...
jobs.wisc.edu
November 18, 2024 at 10:48 PM
UW-Madison Psychology is hiring a new assistant professor in the area of computational approaches to language (broadly construed). Please share with interested parties! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...
November 19, 2024 at 9:33 PM
(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...
Reposted by Kushin Mukherjee
Summer research opportunity in Psychology at U. of Wisconsin–Madison. Students from historically underrepresented backgrounds, low-income households, and first-generation college students are strongly encouraged to apply. Details and application portal at psych.wisc.edu/nsf-reu-site...
NSF REU Site: Psychology Research Experience Program
Application Opens: November 1, 2018 Application Deadline: February 15, 2018 Admission Notification: Ongoing After Application deadline Application Link: https://srop-uwmadison.fluidreview.com *Note that applicants who are not accepted will receive notification once all admissions have been sent out. Please do not call the Psychology department or send separate admission inquiries. Please note that these dates are currently…
psych.wisc.edu
November 11, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Summer research opportunity in Psychology at U. of Wisconsin–Madison. Students from historically underrepresented backgrounds, low-income households, and first-generation college students are strongly encouraged to apply. Details and application portal at psych.wisc.edu/nsf-reu-site...
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Do you like building great tools for behavioral measurement? We are seeking a Research Scientist to act as the tasks lead and engineering manager for a large-scale project on developmental data collection with children ages 2-12 called LEVANTE: levante-network.org.
October 21, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Do you like building great tools for behavioral measurement? We are seeking a Research Scientist to act as the tasks lead and engineering manager for a large-scale project on developmental data collection with children ages 2-12 called LEVANTE: levante-network.org.
Hi Bluesky! Crossposting the announcement of a new summer workshop on the emerging interface between cognitive science 🧠 and computer graphics 🫖 spearheaded by @kartikchandra.bsky.social!
We're calling it: COGGRAPH! coggraph.github.io
June – July 2024, free & open to all!
🧶
We're calling it: COGGRAPH! coggraph.github.io
June – July 2024, free & open to all!
🧶
May 30, 2024 at 6:02 AM
Hi Bluesky! Crossposting the announcement of a new summer workshop on the emerging interface between cognitive science 🧠 and computer graphics 🫖 spearheaded by @kartikchandra.bsky.social!
We're calling it: COGGRAPH! coggraph.github.io
June – July 2024, free & open to all!
🧶
We're calling it: COGGRAPH! coggraph.github.io
June – July 2024, free & open to all!
🧶
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I lost my password to this account but I FOUND IT and I have NEWS I’ve been dying yarn and roving and spinning and have run out of storage so I’ve opened a shop! Please buy my stuff! It deserves to be loved and used by someone more creative than me! 🧶🌈 https://follyfibers.etsy.com
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May 12, 2024 at 5:52 PM
I lost my password to this account but I FOUND IT and I have NEWS I’ve been dying yarn and roving and spinning and have run out of storage so I’ve opened a shop! Please buy my stuff! It deserves to be loved and used by someone more creative than me! 🧶🌈 https://follyfibers.etsy.com
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@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social just a random note of appreciation for www.psychresearchlist.com which is an AMAZING resource for undergraduates thinking of applying to PhD programs. Its kind of hard to state how important this is for our field!
PsychResearchList
Goal:
www.psychresearchlist.com
May 13, 2024 at 8:07 PM
@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social just a random note of appreciation for www.psychresearchlist.com which is an AMAZING resource for undergraduates thinking of applying to PhD programs. Its kind of hard to state how important this is for our field!
Surely SciENcv is either (1) some kind of PSYOP to deter scientists from ever applying for grants or (2) meant to drive us to the brink of madness
January 18, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Surely SciENcv is either (1) some kind of PSYOP to deter scientists from ever applying for grants or (2) meant to drive us to the brink of madness
Super excited to share that the 𝗦𝗘𝗩𝗔 dataset and benchmark will be presented at #NeurIPS2023!✏️🧠🤖
🌐 Website - seva-benchmark.github.io
📜 Paper - arxiv.org/abs/2312.03035
💻 Code + Materials - github.com/cogtoolslab/...
Thread below 🧵-
🌐 Website - seva-benchmark.github.io
📜 Paper - arxiv.org/abs/2312.03035
💻 Code + Materials - github.com/cogtoolslab/...
Thread below 🧵-
December 8, 2023 at 2:26 AM
Super excited to share that the 𝗦𝗘𝗩𝗔 dataset and benchmark will be presented at #NeurIPS2023!✏️🧠🤖
🌐 Website - seva-benchmark.github.io
📜 Paper - arxiv.org/abs/2312.03035
💻 Code + Materials - github.com/cogtoolslab/...
Thread below 🧵-
🌐 Website - seva-benchmark.github.io
📜 Paper - arxiv.org/abs/2312.03035
💻 Code + Materials - github.com/cogtoolslab/...
Thread below 🧵-
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Apply by Dec 1 to the UCSD Cognitive Science PhD program: cogsci.ucsd.edu/graduates/ph.... We have an incredible community working on language + cognition + development here - if that's up your alley, check us out! I'll also be considering applications to join my new lab opening in Fall 2024 (!!)
November 20, 2023 at 8:24 PM
Apply by Dec 1 to the UCSD Cognitive Science PhD program: cogsci.ucsd.edu/graduates/ph.... We have an incredible community working on language + cognition + development here - if that's up your alley, check us out! I'll also be considering applications to join my new lab opening in Fall 2024 (!!)
