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Adani Abutto
@adani.bsky.social
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Ph.D. candidate @ Stanford, interested in children's 💭 and 🧠

https://stanford.edu/~aabutto
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adani.bsky.social
So excited that this latest podcast episode with Adam Benforado is now out: open.spotify.com/episode/6v4J...!
162 - Adam Benforado: How prioritizing kids benefits us all
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November 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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yangxiang.bsky.social
Now out in Cognition, work with the great @gershbrain.bsky.social @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social on formalizing self-handicapping as rational signaling!
📃 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lo8f2Hx2-...
September 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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mcxfrank.bsky.social
A first blogpost from the LEVANTE team, introducing our global project perspective.

A good intro if you're interested in learning more about cross-cultural developmental data collection using LEVANTE.

levante-network.org/global-colla...
Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development - Levante
Ensuring that children around the world can flourish is one of the most important goals of our time. Developmental science has made major strides in understanding how children grow, learn, and thrive ...
levante-network.org
September 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
adani.bsky.social
So cool to see our project, spearheaded by Igor Bascandziev, featured in Harvard's 'Usable Knowledge'!
ebonawitz.bsky.social Elizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social · Aug 27
Nice write-up of work led by Igor Bascandziev, & with @carenwalker.bsky.social & @adani.bsky.social on a recent project from our Caplan grant.

Thought Experiments Can Enhance Science Learning!

Thanks to Jill Anderson at Usable Knowledge for the interview.
www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable...
www.gse.harvard.edu
August 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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tobigerstenberg.bsky.social
The Causality in Cognition Lab is pumped for #cogsci2025 💪
July 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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mcxfrank.bsky.social
Looking forward to #cogsci2025 next week - here's a list of presentations from my lab!
Presentation list for language and cognition lab at CogSci 2025.
July 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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mcxfrank.bsky.social
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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junyi.bsky.social
Delighted to announce our CogSci '25 workshop at the interface between cognitive science and design 🧠🖌️!

We're calling it: 🏺Minds in the Making🏺
🔗 minds-making.github.io

June – July 2024, free & open to the public
(all career stages, all disciplines)
June 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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mcxfrank.bsky.social
If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.

Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
OECS thematic collections.
May 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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mcxfrank.bsky.social
We're still accepting apps for our research scientist position with LEVANTE (levante-network.org). This position is ideal for folks wanting to be the interface between a cool scientific project and an awesome team of software developers. Think of it as a technical product manager, but for science!
We are seeking a Research Scientist for a large-scale project on developmental data collection with children ages 2-12 called LEVANTE (Learning Variability Network Exchange). LEVANTE is a global research network to improve our understanding of variability in learning and development through coordinated data collection. The project is funded by the Jacobs Foundation; learn more at http://levante-network.org. This position is a mix of scientific work and work with a software development team: we are looking for someone to act as the interface between the scientific goals of the project and our team of ~6 software engineers who work to implement different aspects of our web platform including researcher management, tasks and surveys, and data processing. We expect the role to be ideal for someone with technical experience from their scientific work and an interest in building good tools for other scientists through software development. This position is appropriate for recent PhD grads and candidates with postdoctoral experience; exact title and compensation will be relative to experience post-PhD. The RS will contribute to – and have the opportunity to lead on – research products including papers and presentations. The LEVANTE team is a large and lively group pushing the boundaries of cross-cultural developmental measurement through a combination of technical innovation and psychometrics. The RS will also be part of the Language and Cognition Lab at Stanford, a broad interdisciplinary group interested in using data to understand human development. Requirements for the position include: - some kind of scientific software development experience (examples include developing experiments, computational models, or complex data analyses) - theoretical knowledge of psychology or a related discipline (e.g., cognitive science, neuroscience), ideally doing behavioral measurements of some kind - project management experience on a technical or scientific project with multiple participants Additional optional qualifications include: - experience with modern database-backed web applications - experience with measure development or psychometrics - R data analysis experience Applicants should submit a current CV, a short (~1 page) coverletter stating their qualifications for the position, and a link to a github account (preferred) or other code sample.
May 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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phdcomics.com
The Imposter Syndrome 🧵

1. The Attack
May 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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ebonawitz.bsky.social
If you're at SRCD please consider checking out these talks and posters featuring members of the CoCoDev lab and our awesome collaborators.
#SRCD2025
a list of various presentations from the Bonawitz lab at SRCD
May 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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tobigerstenberg.bsky.social
This is a spectacular talk by my colleague @judithfan.bsky.social 🧠 🎨 🤖

"Cognitive tools for making the invisible visible"

🎬: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF3X...
Prof. Judy Fan: Cognitive Tools for Making the Invisible Visible
YouTube video by MIT Quest for Intelligence
www.youtube.com
April 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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stanfordpsypod.bsky.social
HELLO Bluesky! First post here to share our NEWEST episode! This week, Elizabeth @imelizabeth.bsky.social chats with Dr. Kendrick Kay on the groundbreaking Natural Scenes Dataset and discusses the behind-the-scenes considerations that went into its creation.

open.spotify.com/episode/6cGq...
150 - Kendrick Kay: Large-scale fMRI Datasets and What to Consider
Stanford Psychology Podcast · Episode
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April 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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imelizabeth.bsky.social
my first time joining @stanfordpsypod.bsky.social as a co-host! It was super cool to talk with Kendrick. Go listen to it 🤩
stanfordpsypod.bsky.social Stanford Psychology Podcast @stanfordpsypod.bsky.social · Apr 10
HELLO Bluesky! First post here to share our NEWEST episode! This week, Elizabeth @imelizabeth.bsky.social chats with Dr. Kendrick Kay on the groundbreaking Natural Scenes Dataset and discusses the behind-the-scenes considerations that went into its creation.

open.spotify.com/episode/6cGq...
150 - Kendrick Kay: Large-scale fMRI Datasets and What to Consider
Stanford Psychology Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
adani.bsky.social
Excited that this is finally out!! So glad I got to tag along on this project when I first came to the US just about two years ago :)
socphilpsych.bsky.social Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · Mar 25
Mind over Matter: Consistency Monitoring and Domain-Specific Learning

📣 From Igor Bascandziev, Adani Abutto, Caren Walker & Elizabeth Bonawitz
Frontiers | Mind over matter: consistency monitoring and domain-specific learning
www.frontiersin.org
March 27, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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socphilpsych.bsky.social
Mind over Matter: Consistency Monitoring and Domain-Specific Learning

📣 From Igor Bascandziev, Adani Abutto, Caren Walker & Elizabeth Bonawitz
Frontiers | Mind over matter: consistency monitoring and domain-specific learning
www.frontiersin.org
March 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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mcxfrank.bsky.social
AI models are fascinating, impressive, and sometimes problematic. But what can they tell us about the human mind?

In a new review paper, @noahdgoodman.bsky.social and I discuss how modern AI can be used for cognitive modeling: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Figure 1. A schematic depiction of a model-mechanism mapping between a human learning system (left side) and a cognitive model (right side). Candidate model mechanism mappings are pictured as mapping between representations but also can be in terms of input data, architecture, or learning objective. Figure 2. Data efficiency in human learning. (left) Order of magnitude of LLM vs. human training data, plotted by human age. Ranges are approximated from Frank (2023a). (right) A schematic depiction of evaluation scaling curves for human learners vs. models plotted by training data quantity. Paper abstract
March 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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kidsbrains.bsky.social
The Saxe Lab @ MIT is hiring! We seek one lab manager to start in summer 2025. Research in our lab focuses on social cognition (learn more on saxelab.mit.edu).

Please apply at: tinyurl.com/saxe2025 (Job ID 31993).

Review of applications starts on March 24, 2025.

Sharing appreciated. Thank you!
Saxelab Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at MIT |
saxelab.mit.edu
March 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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tomerullman.bsky.social
Hello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall.

It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested.

More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post...

Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723
February 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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mcxfrank.bsky.social
Now hiring for two lab manager positions at Stanford! Hyo Gweon and I are coordinating joint searches since our labs collaborate frequently. Please join us!

careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
and
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/lab-coo...
February 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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thecharleywu.bsky.social
📢 I will be joining @tuda.bsky.social & @hessianai.bsky.social as a W3 Professor of Comp.Cog.Sci. I'll bring my #ERC project "C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture” & will receive funding from a LOEWE professorship. Hiring soon at all levels! 👀
www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet...
Human thinking as a model for Artificial Intelligence
The cognitive scientist Dr Charley Wu has been awarded a LOEWE start professorship at TU Darmstadt. His work focuses on the question of how artificial intelligence (AI) can use human learning strategi...
www.tu-darmstadt.de
January 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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brialong.bsky.social
I’m still recruiting for this position — please get in touch if you’re interested in working together!
brialong.bsky.social Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · Nov 18
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
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
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noahemery.bsky.social
Since this is back…
Unfortunately, academic inflation and toxic productivity culture has all but done away with this. The effects of this on science advancement will be seen for generations. Slowing down and thinking deeply is essential to solve complex problems and it’s undervalued at every level
December 21, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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ebonawitz.bsky.social
Sincere thanks to Carolina Ruggero and the Harvard Graduate School of Education Media team for inviting me to talk with them about curiosity. They took a casual conversation and with some media magic turned it into a great little clip!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3eL...
How to Foster Curiosity in Children
YouTube video by Harvard Graduate School of Education
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2024 at 4:18 PM