Victoria Southgate
@vhsouthgate.bsky.social
Developmental social cognitive neuroscientist and thalassophile. Prof at the University of Copenhagen.
Personal site: www.victoriasouthgate.com
Personal site: www.victoriasouthgate.com
Sharing a preprint laying out a new theory of the origins of self-awareness. In this theory, our human capacity for self-awareness is an emergent phenomenon arising from the interplay between interoception and ostension, during the first year of life 👶. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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September 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Sharing a preprint laying out a new theory of the origins of self-awareness. In this theory, our human capacity for self-awareness is an emergent phenomenon arising from the interplay between interoception and ostension, during the first year of life 👶. osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Victoria Southgate
European Research Council grants to @vhsouthgate.bsky.social, Peter Brodersen, @adler-nissen.bsky.social and Christian F. Rostbøll: uniavisen.dk/en/four-univ...
Four University of Copenhagen researchers awarded major EU grants
Next five years to see breakthroughs in plant immunity, political morality, geopolitics and childhood self-awareness
uniavisen.dk
August 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
European Research Council grants to @vhsouthgate.bsky.social, Peter Brodersen, @adler-nissen.bsky.social and Christian F. Rostbøll: uniavisen.dk/en/four-univ...
Human cognition is often altercentric, and human infants seem to have an altercentric bias. Is this cognitive stance uniquely human or might it be shared with other species? There are arguments both ways and we explore them in this paper.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
An evolutionary perspective on altercentrism
Putting oneself, mentally, in someone else’s shoes is traditionally considered a late-developing, cognitively demanding skill thought to critically un…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Human cognition is often altercentric, and human infants seem to have an altercentric bias. Is this cognitive stance uniquely human or might it be shared with other species? There are arguments both ways and we explore them in this paper.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ireland launches global talent fund! www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...
If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!
If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!
July 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Ireland launches global talent fund! www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...
If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!
If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!
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If you agree with our 5 requests to our universities, please sign 🖊️ the open letter and don’t forget to confirm your email! ☺️🙏
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June 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
If you agree with our 5 requests to our universities, please sign 🖊️ the open letter and don’t forget to confirm your email! ☺️🙏
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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A big thank you again to Athena Demertzi and Emmanuel Stamatakis for organising a wonderful ASSC conference @assc28.bsky.social @theassc.bsky.social! See you all in Chile next year @assc2026.bsky.social !
July 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
A big thank you again to Athena Demertzi and Emmanuel Stamatakis for organising a wonderful ASSC conference @assc28.bsky.social @theassc.bsky.social! See you all in Chile next year @assc2026.bsky.social !
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This paper really is developmental science at its best. Empirically convincing and theoretically rich. Shows once again that we cannot assume that the adult state is the default state.
Sharing our new paper published today in Nature Communications. In my view, this is our clearest demonstration to date that something profoundly changes in how infants encode the world around them before and after the emergence of self-representation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The self-reference memory bias is preceded by an other-reference bias in infancy - Nature Communications
A classic feature of human memory is that we remember information better when it refers to ourselves. Here, the authors show that before the emergence of self-concept, infants instead remember informa...
www.nature.com
July 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This paper really is developmental science at its best. Empirically convincing and theoretically rich. Shows once again that we cannot assume that the adult state is the default state.
Sharing our new paper published today in Nature Communications. In my view, this is our clearest demonstration to date that something profoundly changes in how infants encode the world around them before and after the emergence of self-representation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The self-reference memory bias is preceded by an other-reference bias in infancy - Nature Communications
A classic feature of human memory is that we remember information better when it refers to ourselves. Here, the authors show that before the emergence of self-concept, infants instead remember informa...
www.nature.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Sharing our new paper published today in Nature Communications. In my view, this is our clearest demonstration to date that something profoundly changes in how infants encode the world around them before and after the emergence of self-representation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Victoria Southgate
👶Do babies read minds?
@vhsouthgate.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen challenges the idea that infants mentalise. Instead they may be “altercentric”, focused on what others pay attention to.
👉 buff.ly/My4EpbB
🎧 buff.ly/9j5ZeF8
#TheoryOfMind #FrontierResearch #EU2025DK @eu2025dk
@vhsouthgate.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen challenges the idea that infants mentalise. Instead they may be “altercentric”, focused on what others pay attention to.
👉 buff.ly/My4EpbB
🎧 buff.ly/9j5ZeF8
#TheoryOfMind #FrontierResearch #EU2025DK @eu2025dk
July 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
👶Do babies read minds?
@vhsouthgate.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen challenges the idea that infants mentalise. Instead they may be “altercentric”, focused on what others pay attention to.
👉 buff.ly/My4EpbB
🎧 buff.ly/9j5ZeF8
#TheoryOfMind #FrontierResearch #EU2025DK @eu2025dk
@vhsouthgate.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen challenges the idea that infants mentalise. Instead they may be “altercentric”, focused on what others pay attention to.
👉 buff.ly/My4EpbB
🎧 buff.ly/9j5ZeF8
#TheoryOfMind #FrontierResearch #EU2025DK @eu2025dk
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"Nosek also wants academia to create clear career paths for people doing replication studies—it should be something that university bosses admire and want to promote."
Also NO. This is someone's pet theory for how science works, not actually how science works.
Also NO. This is someone's pet theory for how science works, not actually how science works.
June 29, 2025 at 6:47 AM
"Nosek also wants academia to create clear career paths for people doing replication studies—it should be something that university bosses admire and want to promote."
Also NO. This is someone's pet theory for how science works, not actually how science works.
Also NO. This is someone's pet theory for how science works, not actually how science works.
Reposted by Victoria Southgate
🚨 Postdoc Opportunity!!!
The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children.
Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads.
Start: Fall 2025 or later.
Details: jessica.sommerville@utoronto.ca
RTs appreciated 💫
The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children.
Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads.
Start: Fall 2025 or later.
Details: jessica.sommerville@utoronto.ca
RTs appreciated 💫
June 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🚨 Postdoc Opportunity!!!
The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children.
Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads.
Start: Fall 2025 or later.
Details: jessica.sommerville@utoronto.ca
RTs appreciated 💫
The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children.
Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads.
Start: Fall 2025 or later.
Details: jessica.sommerville@utoronto.ca
RTs appreciated 💫
This @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant will test a novel mechanistic model of how human infants might acquire a concept of a self. We’ll investigate the interaction between interoception and ostension, not only in the lab but in infants in both Vanuatu and Japan!
www.linkedin.com/posts/univer...
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I dag modtager fire KU-forskere hver et Advanced Grant fra European Research Council (ERC)! | Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen
I dag modtager fire KU-forskere hver et Advanced Grant fra European Research Council (ERC)! 🥳
De fire forskere er:
Professor Christian Rostbøll, Institut for Statskundskab
Projekt: Moralizing Politic...
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June 18, 2025 at 6:21 AM
This @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant will test a novel mechanistic model of how human infants might acquire a concept of a self. We’ll investigate the interaction between interoception and ostension, not only in the lab but in infants in both Vanuatu and Japan!
www.linkedin.com/posts/univer...
www.linkedin.com/posts/univer...
Really stimulating interdisciplinary discussion meeting at the Royal Society in London. I shared some developmental data and new theoretical ideas on the origin of the self and heard some excellent talks.
May 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Really stimulating interdisciplinary discussion meeting at the Royal Society in London. I shared some developmental data and new theoretical ideas on the origin of the self and heard some excellent talks.
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🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨
We're looking for a postdoc to work on EEG and fNIRS projects with 3-18-month-old infants, looking at whether/how/when infants represent affordances: careers.ceu.edu/job-invite/8...
Part of the @simonsfoundation.org SCENE project: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...
We're looking for a postdoc to work on EEG and fNIRS projects with 3-18-month-old infants, looking at whether/how/when infants represent affordances: careers.ceu.edu/job-invite/8...
Part of the @simonsfoundation.org SCENE project: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...
Post-doctoral Researcher (f/m/d)
Post-doctoral Researcher (f/m/d)
careers.ceu.edu
May 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨
We're looking for a postdoc to work on EEG and fNIRS projects with 3-18-month-old infants, looking at whether/how/when infants represent affordances: careers.ceu.edu/job-invite/8...
Part of the @simonsfoundation.org SCENE project: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...
We're looking for a postdoc to work on EEG and fNIRS projects with 3-18-month-old infants, looking at whether/how/when infants represent affordances: careers.ceu.edu/job-invite/8...
Part of the @simonsfoundation.org SCENE project: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...
Choose Europe for Science: ERC welcomes new budget for 'super grants'. Might be a particularly interesting opportunity for US researchers thinking of relocating to Europe 🇪🇺
Choose Europe for Science: ERC welcomes new budget for 'super grants'
The Scientific Council of the European Research Council welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from the European Commission for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering la...
erc.europa.eu
May 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Choose Europe for Science: ERC welcomes new budget for 'super grants'. Might be a particularly interesting opportunity for US researchers thinking of relocating to Europe 🇪🇺
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This is what you call two different readouts of the same meeting.
Go Denmark, Go Greenland!
Go Denmark, Go Greenland!
April 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This is what you call two different readouts of the same meeting.
Go Denmark, Go Greenland!
Go Denmark, Go Greenland!
Really enjoy CogSci but I will not be traveling to the US until the US resumes normal service.
Acceptance notifications for #CogSci2025 have been sent! 📨
This year, we got 1,275 submissions. After careful peer review, we accepted:
• 176 for oral presentation
• 721 for poster with full publication
• 203 for poster with abstract only
🎉 Got in? Tag us — we’d love to repost!
This year, we got 1,275 submissions. After careful peer review, we accepted:
• 176 for oral presentation
• 721 for poster with full publication
• 203 for poster with abstract only
🎉 Got in? Tag us — we’d love to repost!
April 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Really enjoy CogSci but I will not be traveling to the US until the US resumes normal service.
Some thoughts on Adolescence and what it reveals about our failure to protect childhood.
What Adolescence reveals about our society's failure to protect childhood
Netflix’s Adolescence was a brilliantly crafted, yet harrowing look into the causes and consequences of serious crimes committed by children.
open.substack.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Some thoughts on Adolescence and what it reveals about our failure to protect childhood.
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"I want to raise my kids in a country that is not tilting towards a fascist dictatorship." Philosopher Jason Stanley is leaving Yale and taking up a position at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Stanley from Yale to Toronto - Daily Nous
Jason Stanley, currently professor of philosophy at Yale University, will be moving to the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. Professor Stanley is well known...
dailynous.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"I want to raise my kids in a country that is not tilting towards a fascist dictatorship." Philosopher Jason Stanley is leaving Yale and taking up a position at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
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I was a middle class, middle of the road, middling person, muddling along. Shocks of Brexit,Trump, Ukraine and Gaza jolted me out of complacency. We must fight for our values every day, never take democracy for granted. I no longer think Bernie and AOC are “radical”; they’re principled and feisty. 👍
AOC and Bernie finished off the first leg of their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour Saturday—as 23,000 people showed up to rally in Tucson, AZ. In total, the five high-energy events had more than 86,000 people turn out. Denver’s rally was the largest held in the city since 2008. More here:
Great News That’s Terrible For Trump and His Cult
Onward!
www.dworkinsubstack.com
March 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I was a middle class, middle of the road, middling person, muddling along. Shocks of Brexit,Trump, Ukraine and Gaza jolted me out of complacency. We must fight for our values every day, never take democracy for granted. I no longer think Bernie and AOC are “radical”; they’re principled and feisty. 👍
Reposted by Victoria Southgate
I am begging, pleading in fact, for my fellow academics to find some courage and start speaking up. Because you can't just keep your head down and ride out this storm. And even if you could, is that really what you want being a scholar and educator to be?
March 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I am begging, pleading in fact, for my fellow academics to find some courage and start speaking up. Because you can't just keep your head down and ride out this storm. And even if you could, is that really what you want being a scholar and educator to be?
It’ll be social media posts next. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 6:49 AM
It’ll be social media posts next. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Here is a model for the USA. What are the democratic leaders doing?
Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
March 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Here is a model for the USA. What are the democratic leaders doing?