Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs
@thecharleywu.bsky.social
Prof. of Computational Cognitive Science at TU Darmstadt & PI of the Human and Machine Cognition lab | hmc-lab.com
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We are recruiting a Lecturer in Psychology: mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web... and a Teaching Fellow: mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web.... Come and join the Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology 🐶🐵🐴🐘🕷️🧒 www.port.ac.uk/research/res...
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February 16, 2026 at 9:37 AM
We are recruiting a Lecturer in Psychology: mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web... and a Teaching Fellow: mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web.... Come and join the Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology 🐶🐵🐴🐘🕷️🧒 www.port.ac.uk/research/res...
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Applications for BAMB! 2026 are officially open!
Join us in Barcelona (July 12–23) to master the art of behavioral modeling with our incredible faculty:
@meganakpeters.bsky.social
@marcelomattar.bsky.social
@khamascience.bsky.social
@thecharleywu.bsky.social
Apply now here: www.bambschool.org
Join us in Barcelona (July 12–23) to master the art of behavioral modeling with our incredible faculty:
@meganakpeters.bsky.social
@marcelomattar.bsky.social
@khamascience.bsky.social
@thecharleywu.bsky.social
Apply now here: www.bambschool.org
BAMB! 2026 | Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of Behavior
Intensive training for experienced researchers in cognitive science, computational neuroscience and neuro-AI. Five interconnected modules, expert faculty, hands-on projects. July 12-23, 2026.
www.bambschool.org
February 12, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Applications for BAMB! 2026 are officially open!
Join us in Barcelona (July 12–23) to master the art of behavioral modeling with our incredible faculty:
@meganakpeters.bsky.social
@marcelomattar.bsky.social
@khamascience.bsky.social
@thecharleywu.bsky.social
Apply now here: www.bambschool.org
Join us in Barcelona (July 12–23) to master the art of behavioral modeling with our incredible faculty:
@meganakpeters.bsky.social
@marcelomattar.bsky.social
@khamascience.bsky.social
@thecharleywu.bsky.social
Apply now here: www.bambschool.org
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📣 Call for Contributions: Do you have interesting work to share? We invite you to submit your abstract for our poster session featuring innovative projects in this exciting field: eveeno.com/342278190
RMU AI and Creativity Symposium
eveeno.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:36 PM
📣 Call for Contributions: Do you have interesting work to share? We invite you to submit your abstract for our poster session featuring innovative projects in this exciting field: eveeno.com/342278190
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🎉 New paper in Nature Communications 🎉
rdcu.be/e24jT
Does our environment influence how likely we are to help others?
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Does our environment influence how likely we are to help others?
Humans are more prosocial in poor foraging environments
Nature Communications - People constantly decide whether to stop what they are doing to do something else. Here, the authors show that the quality of available options has a greater influence on...
rdcu.be
February 10, 2026 at 11:27 AM
🎉 New paper in Nature Communications 🎉
rdcu.be/e24jT
Does our environment influence how likely we are to help others?
rdcu.be/e24jT
Does our environment influence how likely we are to help others?
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These are letters from children detained in an ICE facility in Texas.
Susej is 9 and has been detained for 50 days. Gaby is 14 and has been detained for 20 days.
Their accounts are heartbreaking and should be deeply shaming to our nation.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Susej is 9 and has been detained for 50 days. Gaby is 14 and has been detained for 20 days.
Their accounts are heartbreaking and should be deeply shaming to our nation.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
www.propublica.org
February 10, 2026 at 11:42 AM
These are letters from children detained in an ICE facility in Texas.
Susej is 9 and has been detained for 50 days. Gaby is 14 and has been detained for 20 days.
Their accounts are heartbreaking and should be deeply shaming to our nation.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Susej is 9 and has been detained for 50 days. Gaby is 14 and has been detained for 20 days.
Their accounts are heartbreaking and should be deeply shaming to our nation.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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💡 Our new #preprint is available online!
How do people adapt their decisions when priorities change?
In our new study, we examine how the way people represent value shapes their ability to adjust in multi-goal environments.
🔗 OSF link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
It's a thread 🧵
How do people adapt their decisions when priorities change?
In our new study, we examine how the way people represent value shapes their ability to adjust in multi-goal environments.
🔗 OSF link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
It's a thread 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 2:01 PM
💡 Our new #preprint is available online!
How do people adapt their decisions when priorities change?
In our new study, we examine how the way people represent value shapes their ability to adjust in multi-goal environments.
🔗 OSF link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
It's a thread 🧵
How do people adapt their decisions when priorities change?
In our new study, we examine how the way people represent value shapes their ability to adjust in multi-goal environments.
🔗 OSF link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
It's a thread 🧵
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Well-predicting machine learning in no way means that you can understand how the world works.
open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
Forward vs Inverse problems: why high performance machine learning usually means little about how the world works
Understanding causality from machine learning is unfortunately usually impossible; life sciences take note
open.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Well-predicting machine learning in no way means that you can understand how the world works.
open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
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Check out the latest from Sam HallMcMaster on the role of entorhinal cortex in factorizing representations and generalization
#JNeurosci: Results from Hall-McMaster, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, @gershbrain.bsky.social et al suggest the entorhinal cortex might highlight aspects of past experiences that can be generalized, allowing us to make effective decisions in new environments https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1492-25.2025
January 30, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Check out the latest from Sam HallMcMaster on the role of entorhinal cortex in factorizing representations and generalization
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Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉
We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)
We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)
www.science.org
January 30, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉
We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)
We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)
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Trust in science was destroyed not by scientists, but by the right and rightwing billionaires. I wrote a rebuttal to Douthat’s bad article on Tue w/out even seeing it.
Bhattacharya did this.
Putting an arsonist in charge of putting their fire out is insanity. 1/
Bhattacharya did this.
Putting an arsonist in charge of putting their fire out is insanity. 1/
January 29, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Trust in science was destroyed not by scientists, but by the right and rightwing billionaires. I wrote a rebuttal to Douthat’s bad article on Tue w/out even seeing it.
Bhattacharya did this.
Putting an arsonist in charge of putting their fire out is insanity. 1/
Bhattacharya did this.
Putting an arsonist in charge of putting their fire out is insanity. 1/
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My Centre is a unique place to do a PhD in Philosophy, because you can be in constant contact with experts in veterinary medicine, psychology, zoology and policy and be part of a team united by a shared interest in animal minds. We now have our 1st ever PhD scholarship: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd
PhD Scholarship
www.lse.ac.uk
January 30, 2026 at 7:39 AM
My Centre is a unique place to do a PhD in Philosophy, because you can be in constant contact with experts in veterinary medicine, psychology, zoology and policy and be part of a team united by a shared interest in animal minds. We now have our 1st ever PhD scholarship: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd
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Happy to announce I started a postdoc with @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social at RIKEN-CBS! 🎉
I'm absolutely thrilled to be here (and not just because it's easy to find great waterfalls)
For this position, I'm broadening my research to include more interactive and naturalistic social learning settings 🧠
I'm absolutely thrilled to be here (and not just because it's easy to find great waterfalls)
For this position, I'm broadening my research to include more interactive and naturalistic social learning settings 🧠
January 28, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Happy to announce I started a postdoc with @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social at RIKEN-CBS! 🎉
I'm absolutely thrilled to be here (and not just because it's easy to find great waterfalls)
For this position, I'm broadening my research to include more interactive and naturalistic social learning settings 🧠
I'm absolutely thrilled to be here (and not just because it's easy to find great waterfalls)
For this position, I'm broadening my research to include more interactive and naturalistic social learning settings 🧠
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I’ve started posting on Medium, sharing pieces that sit between academic writing and a broader audience. Topics will likely include decision science, AI, and the history & philosophy of science. First article is up (link below).
medium.com/@stefano.pal...
medium.com/@stefano.pal...
Stefano Palminteri – Medium
Read writing from Stefano Palminteri on Medium. Behavioral and computational scientist interested in understanding how humans and machines make decisions and in the history and philosophy of science.
medium.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:18 AM
I’ve started posting on Medium, sharing pieces that sit between academic writing and a broader audience. Topics will likely include decision science, AI, and the history & philosophy of science. First article is up (link below).
medium.com/@stefano.pal...
medium.com/@stefano.pal...
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"The relationship between childhood exploration and population-level innovation in cultural evolution" with @ndersen.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social @felixthehauskat.bsky.social out in Proc B
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
The relationship between childhood exploration and population-level innovation in cultural evolution
Abstract. The societal effects of children’s learning in cultural evolution have been underexplored. Here, we investigate using agent-based models how a pr
royalsocietypublishing.org
January 22, 2026 at 1:01 PM
"The relationship between childhood exploration and population-level innovation in cultural evolution" with @ndersen.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social @felixthehauskat.bsky.social out in Proc B
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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Now online in @biologicalpsych.bsky.social CNNI - our paper showing that reliance on habitual responding in transdiagnostic compulsivity may be underpinned by uncertainty about learned environmental structure
📃 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📃 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 21, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Now online in @biologicalpsych.bsky.social CNNI - our paper showing that reliance on habitual responding in transdiagnostic compulsivity may be underpinned by uncertainty about learned environmental structure
📃 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📃 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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New preprint from my postdoc with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social at the MPC!
TL;DR: there is a strong recency bias in information gathering and it is attenuated in people on the #OCD spectrum - a possible mechanism for #indecisiveness 🤔
Paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thread below...
TL;DR: there is a strong recency bias in information gathering and it is attenuated in people on the #OCD spectrum - a possible mechanism for #indecisiveness 🤔
Paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thread below...
Indecision and recency-weighted evidence integration in non-clinical and clinical settings
Biases in information gathering are common in the general population and can reach pathological extremes in paralysing indecisiveness, as in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Here, we adopt a new p...
www.biorxiv.org
November 13, 2024 at 9:55 PM
New preprint from my postdoc with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social at the MPC!
TL;DR: there is a strong recency bias in information gathering and it is attenuated in people on the #OCD spectrum - a possible mechanism for #indecisiveness 🤔
Paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thread below...
TL;DR: there is a strong recency bias in information gathering and it is attenuated in people on the #OCD spectrum - a possible mechanism for #indecisiveness 🤔
Paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thread below...
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NATURE has done a terrific (if depressing) job of summarizing the devastating cuts to science during Trump's first year. At this point, only the willingness of the House and Senate to restore research budgets prevents scientific extinction. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
www.nature.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:06 AM
NATURE has done a terrific (if depressing) job of summarizing the devastating cuts to science during Trump's first year. At this point, only the willingness of the House and Senate to restore research budgets prevents scientific extinction. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Writing is thinking
Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
January 18, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Writing is thinking
Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
Very excited to be hosting @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social for this week's Cogsci colloquium @tuda.bsky.social Details 👇
www.tu-darmstadt.de/cogsci/ccs_n...
www.tu-darmstadt.de/cogsci/ccs_n...
Dissecting the Language of Thought Hypothesis across Marr’s levels
Location: Building S1|15 Room 133
www.tu-darmstadt.de
January 14, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Very excited to be hosting @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social for this week's Cogsci colloquium @tuda.bsky.social Details 👇
www.tu-darmstadt.de/cogsci/ccs_n...
www.tu-darmstadt.de/cogsci/ccs_n...
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New paper published! 🎉“A systematic review of pharmacological effects on human aversive memory” is now available in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, providing the first broad synthesis across 36 compounds, different memory stages, and 13 biological systems. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
January 12, 2026 at 10:57 AM
New paper published! 🎉“A systematic review of pharmacological effects on human aversive memory” is now available in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, providing the first broad synthesis across 36 compounds, different memory stages, and 13 biological systems. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
PSA: Academia is not apolitical. When we publish, review, and edit for companies like Elsevier, we support their broader business practices. Their subsidiary LexisNexis has supported ICE deportations, with serious accusations about violating privacy and human rights en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LexisNe...
LexisNexis - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 12, 2026 at 9:43 AM
PSA: Academia is not apolitical. When we publish, review, and edit for companies like Elsevier, we support their broader business practices. Their subsidiary LexisNexis has supported ICE deportations, with serious accusations about violating privacy and human rights en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LexisNe...
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NEW: We show and replicate socioeconomic gradients in heuristics for decision-making under uncertainty, possibly reflecting adaptations varying levels of scarcity and competition for resources 🫰
Shoutout and thanks to @danielnettle.bsky.social & @coraliechevallier.bsky.social ❤️🔥
tinyurl.com/mu7rzz6k
Shoutout and thanks to @danielnettle.bsky.social & @coraliechevallier.bsky.social ❤️🔥
tinyurl.com/mu7rzz6k
Low socioeconomic status amplifies the perceived rarity of large rewards
Decision-making relies on heuristics derived from past experiences that likely vary with socioeconomic status. We investigate socioeconomic difference…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
NEW: We show and replicate socioeconomic gradients in heuristics for decision-making under uncertainty, possibly reflecting adaptations varying levels of scarcity and competition for resources 🫰
Shoutout and thanks to @danielnettle.bsky.social & @coraliechevallier.bsky.social ❤️🔥
tinyurl.com/mu7rzz6k
Shoutout and thanks to @danielnettle.bsky.social & @coraliechevallier.bsky.social ❤️🔥
tinyurl.com/mu7rzz6k
Good morning Paris! Hopefully see you today for this exciting symposium!
Excited to announce our symposium on how AI and humans shape each other
“Humans and Artificial Minds: Mutual Influences”
9 Jan at ENS Paris.
Talks by @smfleming.bsky.social, Valeria Giardino, Silvia Tulli, @thecharleywu.bsky.social, Laurence Devillers & @summerfieldlab.bsky.social .
Program ↓
“Humans and Artificial Minds: Mutual Influences”
9 Jan at ENS Paris.
Talks by @smfleming.bsky.social, Valeria Giardino, Silvia Tulli, @thecharleywu.bsky.social, Laurence Devillers & @summerfieldlab.bsky.social .
Program ↓
January 9, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Good morning Paris! Hopefully see you today for this exciting symposium!
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🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social.
If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here:
tinyurl.com/coxijobs
Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️
If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here:
tinyurl.com/coxijobs
Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️
December 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social.
If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here:
tinyurl.com/coxijobs
Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️
If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here:
tinyurl.com/coxijobs
Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️
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I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.
I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
December 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.
I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...