Patrick Nalepka
patricknalepka.bsky.social
Patrick Nalepka
@patricknalepka.bsky.social
Guiding human skill learning with artificially (🤖) social (👨‍👩‍👧‍👦) agents | Human-AI Interaction, Social VR, AI For Education | Lecturer in the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University
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Out in @pnas.org today!! We ran a field experiment with ~1000 high school students & found:

✅ GenAI tutoring boosts practice perf
⚠️ But hinders human learning, hurting perf when AI access is removed
🛡️ Safeguards like hint-based help can offset this
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
June 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Student Startup Success! 🚀

Georgia Muriti used her passion for mental health & the power of the MQ Incubator program to launch *Welv* — a platform helping people find the right psychologist. 💡Bold ideas, real impact. #Startups #MentalHealth #StudentSuccess

lighthouse.mq.edu.au/life/year-12...
Idea to impact: how the Macquarie Incubator is powering the next generation of entrepreneurs
lighthouse.mq.edu.au
August 1, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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What a day. Our foundation model of cognitive science is out in Nature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@marcelbinz.bsky.social's thread:
bsky.app/profile/marc...

Centaur is featured by the NYT:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/s...

We got featured in a Nature views:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
July 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Hello World.
February 28, 2025 at 12:12 AM