Alexandra Witt
@alexthewitty.bsky.social
Cognitive computational (neuro-)science PhD student at Uni Tübingen 🧠🤖 she/her
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My Lab at the University of Edinburgh🇬🇧 has funded PhD positions for this cycle!
We study the computational principles of how people learn, reason, and communicate.
It's a new lab, and you will be playing a big role in shaping its culture and foundations.
Spread the words!
We study the computational principles of how people learn, reason, and communicate.
It's a new lab, and you will be playing a big role in shaping its culture and foundations.
Spread the words!
August 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
My Lab at the University of Edinburgh🇬🇧 has funded PhD positions for this cycle!
We study the computational principles of how people learn, reason, and communicate.
It's a new lab, and you will be playing a big role in shaping its culture and foundations.
Spread the words!
We study the computational principles of how people learn, reason, and communicate.
It's a new lab, and you will be playing a big role in shaping its culture and foundations.
Spread the words!
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Don't miss it!
Submit your abstract for our Satellite Symposium on Computational Neuroscience to celebrate 20 years Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen!
Deadline for your abstracts is August 17!
Participation is free!
Join us in Göttingen on Oct 15!
Submit your abstract for our Satellite Symposium on Computational Neuroscience to celebrate 20 years Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen!
Deadline for your abstracts is August 17!
Participation is free!
Join us in Göttingen on Oct 15!
#CompNeuro Satellite Symposium at the Göttingen Cognition Forum (Oct 14-15), deadline for abstract submission extended to Aug 17. Topics:
• Neural Interfaces
• Cognition, Circuits & Cells
• Neural Circuit #Evolution
events.gwdg.de/event/1099/
• Neural Interfaces
• Cognition, Circuits & Cells
• Neural Circuit #Evolution
events.gwdg.de/event/1099/
August 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Don't miss it!
Submit your abstract for our Satellite Symposium on Computational Neuroscience to celebrate 20 years Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen!
Deadline for your abstracts is August 17!
Participation is free!
Join us in Göttingen on Oct 15!
Submit your abstract for our Satellite Symposium on Computational Neuroscience to celebrate 20 years Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen!
Deadline for your abstracts is August 17!
Participation is free!
Join us in Göttingen on Oct 15!
Happening today after lunch! Stop by W-213 (conveniently placed at the very entrance of the salon, near fresh air!) to hear about positivity biases across individual and social learning #cogsci2025
August 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Happening today after lunch! Stop by W-213 (conveniently placed at the very entrance of the salon, near fresh air!) to hear about positivity biases across individual and social learning #cogsci2025
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Proud of the work from hmc-lab.com & collaborators @ #CogSci2025 this year, but sad I cant be there myself
@hanqizhou.bsky.social @davidnagy.bsky.social @alexthewitty.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @brendenlake.bsky.social @kefang.bsky.social @rdhawkins.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
@hanqizhou.bsky.social @davidnagy.bsky.social @alexthewitty.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @brendenlake.bsky.social @kefang.bsky.social @rdhawkins.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Proud of the work from hmc-lab.com & collaborators @ #CogSci2025 this year, but sad I cant be there myself
@hanqizhou.bsky.social @davidnagy.bsky.social @alexthewitty.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @brendenlake.bsky.social @kefang.bsky.social @rdhawkins.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
@hanqizhou.bsky.social @davidnagy.bsky.social @alexthewitty.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @brendenlake.bsky.social @kefang.bsky.social @rdhawkins.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
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The CoLab is headed to #CogSci2025!! 🥳 Here's where to find us!
July 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The CoLab is headed to #CogSci2025!! 🥳 Here's where to find us!
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Thrilled that our paper on the mechanisms underlying social learning strategies is out! First big paper from my @erc.europa.eu & @kawresearch.bsky.social funded group. More to come! I'm currently looking to recruit two post docs, get in touch if you find this line of research interesting.
Through experiments and simulations, this study shows how individuals learn to learn from others, dynamically shaping the processes involved in cultural evolution. @davidschultner.bsky.social @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social
@lucasmolleman.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@lucasmolleman.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Feature-based reward learning shapes human social learning strategies - Nature Human Behaviour
This research advances a mechanistic reward learning account of social learning strategies. Through experiments and simulations, it shows how individuals learn to learn from others, dynamically shapin...
www.nature.com
July 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Thrilled that our paper on the mechanisms underlying social learning strategies is out! First big paper from my @erc.europa.eu & @kawresearch.bsky.social funded group. More to come! I'm currently looking to recruit two post docs, get in touch if you find this line of research interesting.
This was so fun! Thanks to everyone for coming, presenting, and exchanging ideas! :)
Our pre #cogsci2025 workshop @unituebingen.bsky.social is wrapping up. Thx to @ml4science.bsky.social for supporting the event, @alexthewitty.bsky.social & Polina Tsvilodub for helping organize, and all the amazing participants who came from as far away as Tokyo!
July 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This was so fun! Thanks to everyone for coming, presenting, and exchanging ideas! :)
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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)
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
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)
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)
🚨CogSci preprint alert🚨
When you look at reviews, do you like to focus on positive or negative ones?
@stepalminteri.bsky.social, @thecharleywu.bsky.social and I set out to investigate how learning rate biases differ between individual and social learning in our new study.
osf.io/bcrw9_v2
🧵 below!
When you look at reviews, do you like to focus on positive or negative ones?
@stepalminteri.bsky.social, @thecharleywu.bsky.social and I set out to investigate how learning rate biases differ between individual and social learning in our new study.
osf.io/bcrw9_v2
🧵 below!
OSF
osf.io
May 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🚨CogSci preprint alert🚨
When you look at reviews, do you like to focus on positive or negative ones?
@stepalminteri.bsky.social, @thecharleywu.bsky.social and I set out to investigate how learning rate biases differ between individual and social learning in our new study.
osf.io/bcrw9_v2
🧵 below!
When you look at reviews, do you like to focus on positive or negative ones?
@stepalminteri.bsky.social, @thecharleywu.bsky.social and I set out to investigate how learning rate biases differ between individual and social learning in our new study.
osf.io/bcrw9_v2
🧵 below!
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👨🎤COSMOS strikes back🌠! This time in Tokyo 🇯🇵 with a fantastic new program designed to teach computational modeling of social phenomena. As always, it's free to attend & we will offer travel stipends to ensure diverse attendance. For details visit 👉 cosmossummerschool.github.io/application/ pls share🙏
March 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
👨🎤COSMOS strikes back🌠! This time in Tokyo 🇯🇵 with a fantastic new program designed to teach computational modeling of social phenomena. As always, it's free to attend & we will offer travel stipends to ensure diverse attendance. For details visit 👉 cosmossummerschool.github.io/application/ pls share🙏
How do we integrate social information from others with similar, but distinct, preferences? Find the answer in the first publication of my PhD, now out in PNAS! (pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Or get the quick rundown in the thread below 🧵
September 23, 2024 at 10:41 AM
How do we integrate social information from others with similar, but distinct, preferences? Find the answer in the first publication of my PhD, now out in PNAS! (pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Or get the quick rundown in the thread below 🧵
Ever had to go through the gruelling process of finding a good restaurant based on Google reviews? 🍝 Come check out my poster today to learn how humans use social information from others with similar, but nonidentical, tastes! #CogSci2024 (P1-LL-178!)
July 25, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Ever had to go through the gruelling process of finding a good restaurant based on Google reviews? 🍝 Come check out my poster today to learn how humans use social information from others with similar, but nonidentical, tastes! #CogSci2024 (P1-LL-178!)
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We're looking for a new PhD student to come and work with us on the topics of cognitive control and reinforcement learning! Deadline April 26th. For more information, please see users.ugent.be/~sbraem/
March 27, 2024 at 10:06 AM
We're looking for a new PhD student to come and work with us on the topics of cognitive control and reinforcement learning! Deadline April 26th. For more information, please see users.ugent.be/~sbraem/
Happy to share that I recently started a research visit at the
@velezcolab.bsky.social - looking forward to collaborating with the experts on collaboration, and to delve back into neuroscience 🥳 🧠
@velezcolab.bsky.social - looking forward to collaborating with the experts on collaboration, and to delve back into neuroscience 🥳 🧠
March 22, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Happy to share that I recently started a research visit at the
@velezcolab.bsky.social - looking forward to collaborating with the experts on collaboration, and to delve back into neuroscience 🥳 🧠
@velezcolab.bsky.social - looking forward to collaborating with the experts on collaboration, and to delve back into neuroscience 🥳 🧠
Super stoked to announce that the preprint for my first PhD project is out! 🥳 In everyday life, we often rely on other people's opinions, despite them not sharing our exact preferences. But how do we do this adaptively? Find out in this 🧵 (1/7) or here: osf.io/e4g3q
February 27, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Super stoked to announce that the preprint for my first PhD project is out! 🥳 In everyday life, we often rely on other people's opinions, despite them not sharing our exact preferences. But how do we do this adaptively? Find out in this 🧵 (1/7) or here: osf.io/e4g3q
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Our fearless inaugural lab manager @bellafascendini.bsky.social
is going to grad school (🥳🎉), so the CoLab is hiring a lab manager!! Please share with anyone who wants to deepen their experience in cog sci before grad school. Review starts on 3/15!
research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/18575/r...
is going to grad school (🥳🎉), so the CoLab is hiring a lab manager!! Please share with anyone who wants to deepen their experience in cog sci before grad school. Review starts on 3/15!
research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/18575/r...
February 22, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Our fearless inaugural lab manager @bellafascendini.bsky.social
is going to grad school (🥳🎉), so the CoLab is hiring a lab manager!! Please share with anyone who wants to deepen their experience in cog sci before grad school. Review starts on 3/15!
research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/18575/r...
is going to grad school (🥳🎉), so the CoLab is hiring a lab manager!! Please share with anyone who wants to deepen their experience in cog sci before grad school. Review starts on 3/15!
research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/18575/r...
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📣 We are hiring!! 📣
A postdoc position in the Computational Group Dynamics (COGNAC) lab, RIKEN CBS, Tokyo (Wako). Starting in April 2024 or soon after. Interested in experimenting human collective behaviour?
See full details 👉 cbs.riken.jp/en/careers/2...
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A postdoc position in the Computational Group Dynamics (COGNAC) lab, RIKEN CBS, Tokyo (Wako). Starting in April 2024 or soon after. Interested in experimenting human collective behaviour?
See full details 👉 cbs.riken.jp/en/careers/2...
Please Repost 🙏
January 4, 2024 at 8:40 AM
📣 We are hiring!! 📣
A postdoc position in the Computational Group Dynamics (COGNAC) lab, RIKEN CBS, Tokyo (Wako). Starting in April 2024 or soon after. Interested in experimenting human collective behaviour?
See full details 👉 cbs.riken.jp/en/careers/2...
Please Repost 🙏
A postdoc position in the Computational Group Dynamics (COGNAC) lab, RIKEN CBS, Tokyo (Wako). Starting in April 2024 or soon after. Interested in experimenting human collective behaviour?
See full details 👉 cbs.riken.jp/en/careers/2...
Please Repost 🙏
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Been saving this for my first post here. As part of a new Research Training Group on Curiosity to be established at Göttingen (www.uni-goettingen.de/de/681631.html), we advertise a PhD position in developmental curiosity research in my group. More details here: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/document/...
November 22, 2023 at 1:44 PM
Been saving this for my first post here. As part of a new Research Training Group on Curiosity to be established at Göttingen (www.uni-goettingen.de/de/681631.html), we advertise a PhD position in developmental curiosity research in my group. More details here: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/document/...
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New paper alert: a mini meta analysis of human studies related to exploration and exploitation. Hopefully the start of a great collab with this team! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 2, 2023 at 9:27 PM
New paper alert: a mini meta analysis of human studies related to exploration and exploitation. Hopefully the start of a great collab with this team! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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November 20, 2023 at 8:18 PM
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We are hiring!
cbs.riken.jp/en/careers/2...
cbs.riken.jp/en/careers/2...
RIKEN Center for Brain Science (RIKEN CBS)
The Social Value Decision Making Collaboration Unit (Rei Akaishi) is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher
cbs.riken.jp
November 19, 2023 at 7:25 AM
We are hiring!
cbs.riken.jp/en/careers/2...
cbs.riken.jp/en/careers/2...