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Reka Blazsek
@rekablazsek.bsky.social
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Cognitive & social science by day (CEU @weareceu.bsky.social), piano also by day
🔸 ownership, norms, moral psychology, institutions
🔸 interdisciplinary science
🔸 economics & public policy
🎧 curates playlists at headphoneson.substack.com
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Brazil, Australia and Italy have the highest satisfaction scores in Nature’s global 2025 PhD survey. A Nature Careers article examines what makes earning a doctorate in these countries different. #Academicsky 🧪
Are these the happiest PhD students in the world?
Brazil, Australia and Italy have the highest satisfaction scores in Nature’s global 2025 PhD survey — but are these nations really the best places to do a doctorate?
go.nature.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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epthepod.bsky.social
This week, Language and Communication (and the Lindy Hop) with @thomscottphillips.bsky.social!

youtu.be/Gex5b6Nbq7I?...

www.podbean.com/ew/pb-dur6p-...

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Language and Communication with Thom Scott-Phillips
YouTube video by Evolutionary Psychology (The Podcast)
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September 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
rekablazsek.bsky.social
Who owns new creations? with @jfkominsky.bsky.social & @heintz-c.bsky.social is out in #cogsci2025 proceedings!

escholarship.org/content/qt4m...
August 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
rekablazsek.bsky.social
Happy to see my paper on mind-reading & ownership with @heintz-c.bsky.social out in Cognitive Science! 🧵
August 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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thomscottphillips.bsky.social
Is mind-reading involved in ownership judgments?

By @rekablazsek.bsky.social & @heintz-c.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
August 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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tobigerstenberg.bsky.social
Brilliant keynote by @laurennross.bsky.social at #cogsci2025 on cognitive science and its philosophy. Lauren pointed out the myriad ways in which cogsci and philosophy support and benefit one another, using explanation and causal reasoning as case studies. Thank you for a great talk!! 🙏
August 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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ceu-dnds.bsky.social
How do social inequalities shape epidemic outcomes?

Our PhD alum Adriana Manna shares insights from her award-winning dissertation on contact patterns, vaccination gaps & a novel modeling framework.

📖 Interview: bit.ly/44uT6KF

#NetworkScience #EpidemicModeling
How Do Socioeconomic Factors Influence Epidemic Outcomes? | Central European University
Research illuminating the characteristics driving behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic was carried out by PhD candidate Adrianna Manna.
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July 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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thedissenteryt.bsky.social
New episode (1120), my second interview with Dr. Pascal Boyer. We talk about ritualized behavior, ownership #Psychology, and victim-devaluation. #Anthropology #Science

YouTube: youtu.be/ZcvVxnyFQoo
Podcast: bit.ly/46v51JL
#1120 Pascal Boyer: Ritualized Behavior, Ownership Psychology, and Victim-Devaluation
YouTube video by The Dissenter
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July 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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May 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
rekablazsek.bsky.social
Ethics of AI researchers violate fundamental ethics norms in academia. Incredible story.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’
The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.
www.theatlantic.com
May 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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hadas.bsky.social
my revised article arriving at manuscript central
April 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
rekablazsek.bsky.social
What navigating the academic job market seems like

youtube.com/shorts/S2aQ2...
Would You Get It Right? 👀
YouTube video by Red Bull
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April 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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zhgarfield.com
With @sheinalew.bsky.social: Teaching is associated with the transmission of opaque culture and leadership across 23 egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies, in @naturecomms.bsky.social

#evolution #culture 🧪 #LeadSciSky #CultEvo

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Quote: " In sum, leader-directed teaching of opaque cooperative norms would be a mutually beneficial strategy, where the costs incurred by influential teachers are, at least partly, outweighed by the long-term benefits of cultivating cooperation within the group." Mosaic plot illustrating the relationship between evidence for teaching and non-teaching social learning, based on a binary researcher-coded measure of teaching. "Although instrumental cultural transmission frequently occurs through both teaching and non-teaching social learning, opaque cultural information is predominantly transmitted through teaching, with relatively fewer instances of non-teaching social learning."
April 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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koenfucius.bsky.social
Game theory is endlessly fascinating, and @lionelpage.bsky.social can bring its insights to life like none other. His latest (very timely!) post explains why having more power is not necessarily a good thing—The paradox of power: https://buff.ly/4hXE0kB
February 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
rekablazsek.bsky.social
📣 Deadline to apply this great summer school is in a week (14 Feb)!

🧠 ⚖️ The Human Mind and the Open Society: Political Intuitions
July 7–11, 2025, @weareceu.bsky.social Budapest campus
thomscottphillips.bsky.social Thom Scott-Phillips @thomscottphillips.bsky.social · Feb 3
Re-upping this summer school: Cognitive & evolutionary foundations of politics, with a great faculty list!

Deadline is at the end of next week: 14th February

Any questions, feel free to get in touch!
thomscottphillips.bsky.social Thom Scott-Phillips @thomscottphillips.bsky.social · Dec 11
I am delighted to announce another summer university course, in Budapest next year. We will focus in particular on *political intuitions* and their consequences for open society

One week, full time, 7-11 July

Applications are due 14 February

summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses/2025...
February 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
rekablazsek.bsky.social
Back to curating playlists after a short break. I picked songs for Yael van der Wouden’s terrific debut novel, The Safekeep:

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Songs for The Safekeep
15 songs, 1h28m. Featuring Michael Kiwanuka, Dexter Gordon, Lady Blackbird, Micah Thomas, and more.
open.substack.com
January 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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koenfucius.bsky.social
Research by @moralsmyers.bsky.social and @jimaceverett.bsky.social finds people…
•trust AI moral advisors less than human moral advisors, even for the same advice
•particularly distrust utilitarian advisors
•expect artificial moral advisors to make more utilitarian decisions

https://buff.ly/41zlt9i
December 15, 2024 at 9:18 AM
rekablazsek.bsky.social
📣 Call for PhD applications! The Dept of Cognitive Science at CEU has 4-year funding available for multiple incoming students.
📣 Application deadline: 4 Feb 2025
📣 Join us for a Virtual Open House on Monday to learn more!

cognitivescience.ceu.edu/article/2024...

@weareceu.bsky.social
Join us for the CEU Virtual Open Day - Monday, December 16, 2024 | Department of Cognitive Science
cognitivescience.ceu.edu
December 13, 2024 at 6:26 PM
rekablazsek.bsky.social
Highly recommend this new essay by @lionelpage.bsky.social! I like the framing that psychology is an exercise in reverse engineering.

www.optimallyirrational.com/p/why-we-sho...
Why we should look for the good reasons behind our behaviour
We are not here by random luck
www.optimallyirrational.com
December 13, 2024 at 6:01 PM
rekablazsek.bsky.social
Have this playlist on repeat and shuffle throughout the festive season 🌟🥂
headphoneson.substack.com/p/a-happy-oc...
December 6, 2024 at 2:27 PM
rekablazsek.bsky.social
Very important article by @engber.bsky.social. Many things to be disappointed about sadly:
Eg "Her RAs on the project may have caused the problem; Schroeder wonders if they got confused". Disgraceful to try to shift blame on underpaid RAs. It's the PIs responsibility to train & supervise them!!!
engber.bsky.social Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · Nov 19
In 2023, Harvard Business School suspended a star professor over charges of research misconduct.

As it happens, one of her papers also had funny data from a *different* B-school superstar -- a "mad, fraudulent unicorn,” per @jamesheathers.bsky.social... (1/3)

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Fraudulent Science of Success
Business schools are in the grips of a scandal that threatens to undermine their most influential research—and the credibility of an entire field.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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engber.bsky.social
But their audit appears to have done just the opposite. (3/3)

My story for The Atlantic on this unspooling crisis:

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Fraudulent Science of Success
Business schools are in the grips of a scandal that threatens to undermine their most influential research—and the credibility of an entire field.
www.theatlantic.com
November 19, 2024 at 4:20 PM
rekablazsek.bsky.social
I had the great pleasure to be on The Dissenter podcast!

We talked about some of my research on ownership, cognition and society, and the mental health issues many PhD students deal with.

Check it out here👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QJt...
#1019 Réka Blazsek: Social Norms, Institutions, Ownership, and the Mental Health of PhD Students
YouTube video by The Dissenter
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November 19, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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thomscottphillips.bsky.social
Getting back to my Substack!

"How jazz embodies the state"
Drums, bass & piano as the tripartite division of power

open.substack.com/pub/thomscot...
November 13, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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simoncolumbus.bsky.social
Cooperation Colloquium this week:

Léo Fitouchi @lfitouchi.bsky.social
Just desert: Compensatory computations explain moralistic punishment

October 4, 15:00 UTC+2 / 9 am ET

Sign-up here: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...
September 30, 2024 at 3:49 PM