Mikołaj Hernik
@mikolajhernik.bsky.social
Cognitive Scientist. Infant perception and cognition. Associate professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Also into: birding, modular synths, vinyl and other physical music media, field recordings.
Also into: birding, modular synths, vinyl and other physical music media, field recordings.
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Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.
Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology
Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology
October 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.
Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology
Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology
My colleague at UiT Monika Abels (not on Bsky) recruits a postdoc. Details and contact in the link.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Child Development (285169) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Child Development (285169), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Sunday, September 28, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
September 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
My colleague at UiT Monika Abels (not on Bsky) recruits a postdoc. Details and contact in the link.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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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...
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New paper! Here (in Nature Communications) we (Ale Geraci, Luca Surian, Lucia Gabriella Tina, & I; work led/run by Ale) show that 5-day-old newborns selectively attend to two distinct forms of prosocial over antisocial action: approaching versus avoiding and helping versus hindering.
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Human newborns spontaneously attend to prosocial interactions
Nature Communications - Abilities to distinguish between prosocial and antisocial actions are crucial for sustaining cooperative systems. Here, the authors show that human newborns with just 5 days...
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July 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
New paper! Here (in Nature Communications) we (Ale Geraci, Luca Surian, Lucia Gabriella Tina, & I; work led/run by Ale) show that 5-day-old newborns selectively attend to two distinct forms of prosocial over antisocial action: approaching versus avoiding and helping versus hindering.
rdcu.be/evorW
rdcu.be/evorW
Common cuckoo. Heard them a thousand times, saw only twice. And first time I got to take a pic. Good day #birding at Håkøya, Tromsø yesterday.
May 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Common cuckoo. Heard them a thousand times, saw only twice. And first time I got to take a pic. Good day #birding at Håkøya, Tromsø yesterday.
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New Substack post
It's very personal: my story of a 20-year academic career, and the many challenges of theoretical and cross-disciplinary work
As I put it in the subtitle: There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending
thomscottphillips.substack.com/p/happy-in-t...
It's very personal: my story of a 20-year academic career, and the many challenges of theoretical and cross-disciplinary work
As I put it in the subtitle: There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending
thomscottphillips.substack.com/p/happy-in-t...
Happy In Theory
This is the short story of my long, 20 year search for a stable academic home. There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending.
thomscottphillips.substack.com
May 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
New Substack post
It's very personal: my story of a 20-year academic career, and the many challenges of theoretical and cross-disciplinary work
As I put it in the subtitle: There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending
thomscottphillips.substack.com/p/happy-in-t...
It's very personal: my story of a 20-year academic career, and the many challenges of theoretical and cross-disciplinary work
As I put it in the subtitle: There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending
thomscottphillips.substack.com/p/happy-in-t...
I've just discovered that Proceedings B stopped hosting the movie stimuli from supplementary materials of my paper published in 2014. There is no sign that they were ever there, except for references to them in text.
Did anyone else experience this?
Did anyone else experience this?
May 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I've just discovered that Proceedings B stopped hosting the movie stimuli from supplementary materials of my paper published in 2014. There is no sign that they were ever there, except for references to them in text.
Did anyone else experience this?
Did anyone else experience this?
Today I learned how I am going to loose my hearing. It will be by playing with feedback on E560 Deflector shield
April 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Today I learned how I am going to loose my hearing. It will be by playing with feedback on E560 Deflector shield
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I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology.
We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.
4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!
tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4
We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.
4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!
tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4
Research Associate (m/f/d) Applying Machine Learning to Developmental Psychology
www.leuphana.de
April 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology.
We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.
4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!
tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4
We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.
4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!
tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4
It's been 6 years today since I moved to the Arctic. On Sunday I finally saw Steller's eider - a rare bird in Tromsø. If I saw that, will I see the end of data collection(s), I wonder.
April 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
It's been 6 years today since I moved to the Arctic. On Sunday I finally saw Steller's eider - a rare bird in Tromsø. If I saw that, will I see the end of data collection(s), I wonder.
Flow is a very beautiful movie.
March 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Flow is a very beautiful movie.
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Re-upping this summer school: Cognitive & evolutionary foundations of politics, with a great faculty list!
Deadline is at the end of next week: 14th February
Any questions, feel free to get in touch!
Deadline is at the end of next week: 14th February
Any questions, feel free to get in touch!
I am delighted to announce another summer university course, in Budapest next year. We will focus in particular on *political intuitions* and their consequences for open society
One week, full time, 7-11 July
Applications are due 14 February
summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses/2025...
One week, full time, 7-11 July
Applications are due 14 February
summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses/2025...
The Human Mind and the Open Society: Political Intuitions | CEU summer course
summeruniversity.ceu.edu
February 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Re-upping this summer school: Cognitive & evolutionary foundations of politics, with a great faculty list!
Deadline is at the end of next week: 14th February
Any questions, feel free to get in touch!
Deadline is at the end of next week: 14th February
Any questions, feel free to get in touch!
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Very proud of Laura and collabs for this one!
There's nothing as stimulating in dev science than being confronted with selective patterns of "failures", and this paper is no exception. The question of HOW infants set up a representation of helping as a second-order goal is far from being answered.
There's nothing as stimulating in dev science than being confronted with selective patterns of "failures", and this paper is no exception. The question of HOW infants set up a representation of helping as a second-order goal is far from being answered.
New paper in Open Mind! What does it mean to help? What is the goal of a helping action? We wanted to probe infants' & preschoolers' helping concept - specifically, whether they think helpers reduce others' action costs. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
January 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Very proud of Laura and collabs for this one!
There's nothing as stimulating in dev science than being confronted with selective patterns of "failures", and this paper is no exception. The question of HOW infants set up a representation of helping as a second-order goal is far from being answered.
There's nothing as stimulating in dev science than being confronted with selective patterns of "failures", and this paper is no exception. The question of HOW infants set up a representation of helping as a second-order goal is far from being answered.
Reposted by Mikołaj Hernik
New paper in Open Mind! What does it mean to help? What is the goal of a helping action? We wanted to probe infants' & preschoolers' helping concept - specifically, whether they think helpers reduce others' action costs. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
January 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
New paper in Open Mind! What does it mean to help? What is the goal of a helping action? We wanted to probe infants' & preschoolers' helping concept - specifically, whether they think helpers reduce others' action costs. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
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European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP) 2025, September 2–5, 2025
Submit abstracts by March 3, 2025
Venue: Staszic Palace, Polish Academy of Sciences
Keynote Speakers:
Emma Borg
@cameronbuckner.bsky.social
@noranewcombe.bsky.social
Petra Schumacher
1/2
Submit abstracts by March 3, 2025
Venue: Staszic Palace, Polish Academy of Sciences
Keynote Speakers:
Emma Borg
@cameronbuckner.bsky.social
@noranewcombe.bsky.social
Petra Schumacher
1/2
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January 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP) 2025, September 2–5, 2025
Submit abstracts by March 3, 2025
Venue: Staszic Palace, Polish Academy of Sciences
Keynote Speakers:
Emma Borg
@cameronbuckner.bsky.social
@noranewcombe.bsky.social
Petra Schumacher
1/2
Submit abstracts by March 3, 2025
Venue: Staszic Palace, Polish Academy of Sciences
Keynote Speakers:
Emma Borg
@cameronbuckner.bsky.social
@noranewcombe.bsky.social
Petra Schumacher
1/2
Interested in applying for an MSCA-PF grant to come for a postdoc with me to Tromsø, Norway? Get in touch by 16 Feb to participate in a program offered by UiT to support applications. Candidates within Europe can visit Tromsø in June (online event for the rest).
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/309681
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/309681
Call for postdoc candidates interested in applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in infant social cognition
UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowsk
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
January 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Interested in applying for an MSCA-PF grant to come for a postdoc with me to Tromsø, Norway? Get in touch by 16 Feb to participate in a program offered by UiT to support applications. Candidates within Europe can visit Tromsø in June (online event for the rest).
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/309681
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/309681
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The archives of the International Cognition and Culture Institute (active 2008-2021) are now freely online with past blogs, webinars, and discussions from anthropologists, biologists, cognitive scientists, historians, linguists, and philosophers: cognitionandculture.net/index.html
International Cognition and Culture Institute
This website is not active any more. We are in the process of transforming it into a permanent open archive and of optimising it for that function.
cognitionandculture.net
September 11, 2024 at 4:26 PM
The archives of the International Cognition and Culture Institute (active 2008-2021) are now freely online with past blogs, webinars, and discussions from anthropologists, biologists, cognitive scientists, historians, linguists, and philosophers: cognitionandculture.net/index.html
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Report on recent research on the Upper Palaeolithic "Panel of the Enigmatic Signs" at Las Monedas Cave, led by Izzy Wisher. Important dialogue between archaeology & developmental psych, and great to see archaeological recognition of children's independent creativity!
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Enigmatic’ cave art was made by ice age children
Charcoal doodling appears 14,000 years ago, as adults drew more proficiently nearby
www.science.org
December 17, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Report on recent research on the Upper Palaeolithic "Panel of the Enigmatic Signs" at Las Monedas Cave, led by Izzy Wisher. Important dialogue between archaeology & developmental psych, and great to see archaeological recognition of children's independent creativity!
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...