Sushmita Sadhukha
@ssadhukha.bsky.social
cognitive neuroscience PhD student with @lukejchang.bsky.social at Dartmouth College
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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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Delighted to share our new paper, now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"
with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social
Summary 👇
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"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"
with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social
Summary 👇
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
October 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Delighted to share our new paper, now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"
with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social
Summary 👇
1/8
"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"
with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social
Summary 👇
1/8
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New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature
An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.
www.nature.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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June 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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🤠 New release announcement for our datawrangler package! Try it using:
pip install --upgrade pydata-wrangler
Lots of awesome performance improvements (including native polars support!), simplified API, support for @hf.co text embeddings, etc. More info here: data-wrangler.readthedocs.org
pip install --upgrade pydata-wrangler
Lots of awesome performance improvements (including native polars support!), simplified API, support for @hf.co text embeddings, etc. More info here: data-wrangler.readthedocs.org
DataWrangler — datawrangler 0.4.0 documentation
data-wrangler.readthedocs.org
June 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🤠 New release announcement for our datawrangler package! Try it using:
pip install --upgrade pydata-wrangler
Lots of awesome performance improvements (including native polars support!), simplified API, support for @hf.co text embeddings, etc. More info here: data-wrangler.readthedocs.org
pip install --upgrade pydata-wrangler
Lots of awesome performance improvements (including native polars support!), simplified API, support for @hf.co text embeddings, etc. More info here: data-wrangler.readthedocs.org
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BREAKING: Court orders Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri to be *freed* from ICE detention.
Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago.
Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.
Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago.
Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.
BREAKING: Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri to be Released From ICE Detention
The release strikes another blow to the Trump administration following the release of Mohsen Mahdawi and Rumeysa Ozturk.
zeteo.com
May 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
BREAKING: Court orders Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri to be *freed* from ICE detention.
Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago.
Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.
Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago.
Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.
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New preprint! Thrilled to share my latest work with @esfinn.bsky.social -- "Sensory context as a universal principle of language in humans and LLMs"
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
May 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
New preprint! Thrilled to share my latest work with @esfinn.bsky.social -- "Sensory context as a universal principle of language in humans and LLMs"
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.
May 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.
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Correction: Columbia's (acting) President Claire Shipman DID sign.
So Dartmouth stands alone among Ivy League non-signatories (albeit w/ some immoral support from Ivy-plusers Stanford and Chicago).
So Dartmouth stands alone among Ivy League non-signatories (albeit w/ some immoral support from Ivy-plusers Stanford and Chicago).
The Presidents of each of the 8 Ivy League Universities signed this statement, with the exception of Neville Columbia and Dartmouth Chamberlain
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
More Than 220 Academic Leaders Condemn Trump’s ‘Overreach’
The statement came a day after Harvard University sued the administration over its decision to freeze billions of dollars in federal funding, following the school’s refusal to submit to a list of dema...
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Correction: Columbia's (acting) President Claire Shipman DID sign.
So Dartmouth stands alone among Ivy League non-signatories (albeit w/ some immoral support from Ivy-plusers Stanford and Chicago).
So Dartmouth stands alone among Ivy League non-signatories (albeit w/ some immoral support from Ivy-plusers Stanford and Chicago).
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. @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social professor @lukejchang.bsky.social received the Presidential Early-Career Award for Scientists and Engineers on Jan. 14. The prestigious award recognizes his pioneering work in understanding the complex interplay between emotions, social interactions, and the human brain.
Luke Chang Receives Presidential Early-Career Award
The award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding young STEM researchers.
faculty.dartmouth.edu
January 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
. @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social professor @lukejchang.bsky.social received the Presidential Early-Career Award for Scientists and Engineers on Jan. 14. The prestigious award recognizes his pioneering work in understanding the complex interplay between emotions, social interactions, and the human brain.
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This is a nice selection of papers illustrating why it's really important to think about causal models even if you're not building causal models (and also how to build better causal models).
A few papers I think worth reading. Mostly open access.
Causal inference is hard:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Causal inference is hard:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Causal inference on human behaviour - Nature Human Behaviour
In this Review, Drew Bailey et al. present an accessible, non-technical overview of key challenges for causal inference in studies of human behaviour as well as methodological solutions to these chall...
www.nature.com
December 19, 2024 at 5:42 AM
This is a nice selection of papers illustrating why it's really important to think about causal models even if you're not building causal models (and also how to build better causal models).
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see you in Amsterdam in August for CCN 2025!
After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇
#NeuroAI #CompNeuro
#NeuroAI #CompNeuro
November 27, 2024 at 7:13 PM
see you in Amsterdam in August for CCN 2025!
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confession: i was rarely driven by curiosity. i was driven by arguments. usually i saw something wrong & wanted to make the point. i did experiments to bring more ammunition for the next round of debates.
isn't that a bit sick? should i stop? would i still be ok if i just try to make things work?
isn't that a bit sick? should i stop? would i still be ok if i just try to make things work?
November 27, 2024 at 12:18 AM
confession: i was rarely driven by curiosity. i was driven by arguments. usually i saw something wrong & wanted to make the point. i did experiments to bring more ammunition for the next round of debates.
isn't that a bit sick? should i stop? would i still be ok if i just try to make things work?
isn't that a bit sick? should i stop? would i still be ok if i just try to make things work?
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Some very exciting news... after many, many, winter beards, I'm overjoyed to be joining sunny @UCSDPsychology as an Asst Prof in Jan 2025!
Looking to recruit folks interested in doing some fun science, while building some cool (and useful) toys! Details: eshinjolly.com/lab/
Looking to recruit folks interested in doing some fun science, while building some cool (and useful) toys! Details: eshinjolly.com/lab/
Lab
I'm joining @UCSDPsychology as an Assistant Professor in Jan 2025! I'll be starting a lab group and hiring, checkout for more details.
eshinjolly.com
May 31, 2024 at 6:57 AM
Some very exciting news... after many, many, winter beards, I'm overjoyed to be joining sunny @UCSDPsychology as an Asst Prof in Jan 2025!
Looking to recruit folks interested in doing some fun science, while building some cool (and useful) toys! Details: eshinjolly.com/lab/
Looking to recruit folks interested in doing some fun science, while building some cool (and useful) toys! Details: eshinjolly.com/lab/
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In a new pre-print (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...), Eric Carmichael, Matt van der Meer and I find evidence that excitability in the mouse striatum varies according to the striatal LFP phase.
Read on to find out why we think it’s important - 🧵
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Read on to find out why we think it’s important - 🧵
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February 3, 2024 at 3:17 AM
In a new pre-print (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...), Eric Carmichael, Matt van der Meer and I find evidence that excitability in the mouse striatum varies according to the striatal LFP phase.
Read on to find out why we think it’s important - 🧵
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Read on to find out why we think it’s important - 🧵
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Are you interested in getting your science journalism career started? The Transmitter is seeking a summer intern to cover the fast-moving field of neuroscience. Find out more and apply for the role here: simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/simons...
January 23, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Are you interested in getting your science journalism career started? The Transmitter is seeking a summer intern to cover the fast-moving field of neuroscience. Find out more and apply for the role here: simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/simons...
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Often times, I feel like academia ignores and under-appreciates profs at small liberal arts colleges. It’s added to my imposter syndrome. Today, I found out the great Jack Dovidio was at Colgate for over 20 years, where he published some of the best papers in the field. Truly GOAT and an inspiration
December 28, 2023 at 5:31 PM
Often times, I feel like academia ignores and under-appreciates profs at small liberal arts colleges. It’s added to my imposter syndrome. Today, I found out the great Jack Dovidio was at Colgate for over 20 years, where he published some of the best papers in the field. Truly GOAT and an inspiration
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“Facts don’t care about ya feelin’s”
December 27, 2023 at 12:44 AM
“Facts don’t care about ya feelin’s”
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📢 Free public lecture this Wednesday (11/15) at 7:30pm MST at The Lensic Performing Arts Center!
SFI’s @melaniemitchell.bsky.social will give a presentation titled “The Future of AI.”
This will also be #livestreaming on SFI’s Youtube. You don’t want to miss this!
santafe.edu/events/futur...
SFI’s @melaniemitchell.bsky.social will give a presentation titled “The Future of AI.”
This will also be #livestreaming on SFI’s Youtube. You don’t want to miss this!
santafe.edu/events/futur...
November 13, 2023 at 8:47 PM
📢 Free public lecture this Wednesday (11/15) at 7:30pm MST at The Lensic Performing Arts Center!
SFI’s @melaniemitchell.bsky.social will give a presentation titled “The Future of AI.”
This will also be #livestreaming on SFI’s Youtube. You don’t want to miss this!
santafe.edu/events/futur...
SFI’s @melaniemitchell.bsky.social will give a presentation titled “The Future of AI.”
This will also be #livestreaming on SFI’s Youtube. You don’t want to miss this!
santafe.edu/events/futur...
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One month until the deadline (Dec 1)! We're excited to read applications and get to know prospective students!
Happy to use my first "skeet" (?) to announce that the Functional Imaging and Naturalistic Neuroscience (FINN) Lab is recruiting a PhD student this cycle! Check out our website to learn more about us and what we do: thefinnlab.github.io 🌲🧠🌲 Apps thru Dartmouth PBS: pbs.dartmouth.edu/menufeature/...
November 1, 2023 at 5:36 PM
One month until the deadline (Dec 1)! We're excited to read applications and get to know prospective students!
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We're excited to be able to announce the keynote lineup for the #SPSP2024 computational preconference! Fiery Cushman (@fierycushman.bsky.social) will speak on computational models; Michael Muthukrishna (LSE) on data-driven discovery; & Aida Davani (Google Research) on bias in big data!
📢#SPSP2024 Update📢 The preconference submission deadline has been extended to October 25 at 11:59 PM PT. Check the links below for more details and to complete your submission!
More info: ow.ly/XXbX50PXM17
Precon Submission Form: ow.ly/z6NY50PXM18
More info: ow.ly/XXbX50PXM17
Precon Submission Form: ow.ly/z6NY50PXM18
October 17, 2023 at 4:24 PM
We're excited to be able to announce the keynote lineup for the #SPSP2024 computational preconference! Fiery Cushman (@fierycushman.bsky.social) will speak on computational models; Michael Muthukrishna (LSE) on data-driven discovery; & Aida Davani (Google Research) on bias in big data!
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As my first post, delighted to share our #neurips2023 paper:
Evaluating Cognitive Maps & Planning in LLMs with CogEval
We test cognitive maps & planning in 8 LLMs. Failures like hallucinating invalid paths & falling in loops suggest no emergent zero-shot planning.
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arxiv.org/abs/2309.15129
Evaluating Cognitive Maps & Planning in LLMs with CogEval
We test cognitive maps & planning in 8 LLMs. Failures like hallucinating invalid paths & falling in loops suggest no emergent zero-shot planning.
1/n 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2309.15129
October 14, 2023 at 11:26 AM
As my first post, delighted to share our #neurips2023 paper:
Evaluating Cognitive Maps & Planning in LLMs with CogEval
We test cognitive maps & planning in 8 LLMs. Failures like hallucinating invalid paths & falling in loops suggest no emergent zero-shot planning.
1/n 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2309.15129
Evaluating Cognitive Maps & Planning in LLMs with CogEval
We test cognitive maps & planning in 8 LLMs. Failures like hallucinating invalid paths & falling in loops suggest no emergent zero-shot planning.
1/n 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2309.15129
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(I want to start my bluesky profile with a positive note, so:) I'm rereading this paper and it is an absolute banger. Just hit after hit, a pretty brutal take on psychology that still makes me hopeful that things can get better www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The generalizability crisis | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
The generalizability crisis - Volume 45
www.cambridge.org
September 19, 2023 at 9:32 PM
(I want to start my bluesky profile with a positive note, so:) I'm rereading this paper and it is an absolute banger. Just hit after hit, a pretty brutal take on psychology that still makes me hopeful that things can get better www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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I should have done this ages ago, but I've finally assembled a list of the various methods tutorials/workshops I've taught over the years. If you're interested in techniques like RSA, ANNs, advanced cross-validation, and beyond, check out the notebooks here: markallenthornton.com/software/
Mark Allen Thornton
Mark Allen Thornton, Ph.D (Psychology), social neuroscientist
markallenthornton.com
September 19, 2023 at 6:04 PM
I should have done this ages ago, but I've finally assembled a list of the various methods tutorials/workshops I've taught over the years. If you're interested in techniques like RSA, ANNs, advanced cross-validation, and beyond, check out the notebooks here: markallenthornton.com/software/
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Excited to have this out!! Check out Tommy's thread:
Why do people process language differently from each other? In a new paper, @esfinn.bsky.social and I show that the “concreteness” of word meanings plays a central role in shaping our unique experiences of natural language.
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thread below! 1/9
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thread below! 1/9
Neural representations of concrete concepts enable identification of individuals during naturalistic...
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
September 15, 2023 at 4:49 PM
Excited to have this out!! Check out Tommy's thread: