Tyler Marghetis
@tylermarghetis.bsky.social
Asst Prof @ UC Merced, formerly Santa Fe Institute | cognition, complexity, culture, creativity, communication | ❤️b{ooks/ourbon/ikes} | former athlete 🤼♂️ | 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 | (www.tylermarghetis.com)
Nice write-up in Scientific American of some of the latest research from my group, led by my first PhD student Dr. Shadi Tabatabaeian (now a postdoc at Georgetown). I grew up reading Scientific American... Childhood dream fulfilled! @david-landy.bsky.social
Researchers spot the “tipping point” before mathematicians’ moments of discovery
Scientists See ‘Eureka’ Moments in Mathematicians’ Chalkboard Writings
Researchers spot the “tipping point” before mathematicians’ moments of discovery
www.scientificamerican.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Nice write-up in Scientific American of some of the latest research from my group, led by my first PhD student Dr. Shadi Tabatabaeian (now a postdoc at Georgetown). I grew up reading Scientific American... Childhood dream fulfilled! @david-landy.bsky.social
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I’ll be considering graduate school applications for Fall 2026 – positions are fully funded, typically for 5 years. Deadline to apply to the Cognition program is December 1. Come do science with me in beautiful Amherst, Massachusetts! www.umass.edu/natural-scie...
PhD in Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience : College of Natural Sciences : UMass Amherst
Engage in research centered on fundamental theoretical questions about cognitive function using multiple experimental methods and data analysis.
www.umass.edu
October 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I’ll be considering graduate school applications for Fall 2026 – positions are fully funded, typically for 5 years. Deadline to apply to the Cognition program is December 1. Come do science with me in beautiful Amherst, Massachusetts! www.umass.edu/natural-scie...
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One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “An information-theoretic foreshadowing of mathematicians’ sudden insights.” Explore the article here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.
For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.
September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “An information-theoretic foreshadowing of mathematicians’ sudden insights.” Explore the article here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.
For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.
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Can the “eureka” moments that advance mathematics be predicted? Close study of mathematicians working at blackboards to solve tough problems found a spike of unpredictable movements and attentional shifts one minute before breakthroughs. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
September 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Can the “eureka” moments that advance mathematics be predicted? Close study of mathematicians working at blackboards to solve tough problems found a spike of unpredictable movements and attentional shifts one minute before breakthroughs. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Mastering a skill can take decades, but learning unfolds across timescales from moments to days. A new paper by three former SFI postdocs presents a theoretical model of nested timescales of learning, offering a unified, multi-scale account of skill acquisition. www.santafe.edu/news-center/...
May 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Mastering a skill can take decades, but learning unfolds across timescales from moments to days. A new paper by three former SFI postdocs presents a theoretical model of nested timescales of learning, offering a unified, multi-scale account of skill acquisition. www.santafe.edu/news-center/...
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New paper on misperceptions out in PNAS @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Why do people overestimate the size of politically relevant groups (immigrant, LGBTQ, Jewish) and quantities (% of budget spent on foreign aid, % of refugees that are criminals)?🧵👇
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Why do people overestimate the size of politically relevant groups (immigrant, LGBTQ, Jewish) and quantities (% of budget spent on foreign aid, % of refugees that are criminals)?🧵👇
April 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
New paper on misperceptions out in PNAS @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Why do people overestimate the size of politically relevant groups (immigrant, LGBTQ, Jewish) and quantities (% of budget spent on foreign aid, % of refugees that are criminals)?🧵👇
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Why do people overestimate the size of politically relevant groups (immigrant, LGBTQ, Jewish) and quantities (% of budget spent on foreign aid, % of refugees that are criminals)?🧵👇
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Cool paper about why we overestimate the size of minority groups!
From @brianguay.bsky.social, @tylermarghetis.bsky.social, Cara Wong, and @david-landy.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
From @brianguay.bsky.social, @tylermarghetis.bsky.social, Cara Wong, and @david-landy.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Quirks of cognition explain why we dramatically overestimate the size of minority groups | PNAS
Americans dramatically overestimate the size of African American, Latino, Muslim,
Asian, Jewish, immigrant, and LGBTQ populations, leading to conce...
www.pnas.org
April 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Cool paper about why we overestimate the size of minority groups!
From @brianguay.bsky.social, @tylermarghetis.bsky.social, Cara Wong, and @david-landy.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
From @brianguay.bsky.social, @tylermarghetis.bsky.social, Cara Wong, and @david-landy.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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I'll be presenting some work with @tylermarghetis.bsky.social and Elizabeth Geballe at #CES2024 on translation as transmission. Stop by if you'd like to chat about digital humanities and cross-cultural transmission!
Link: ellisc.dev/pdf/ces_2024...
Link: ellisc.dev/pdf/ces_2024...
ellisc.dev
September 9, 2024 at 12:43 PM
I'll be presenting some work with @tylermarghetis.bsky.social and Elizabeth Geballe at #CES2024 on translation as transmission. Stop by if you'd like to chat about digital humanities and cross-cultural transmission!
Link: ellisc.dev/pdf/ces_2024...
Link: ellisc.dev/pdf/ces_2024...
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I've been awarded an early-career research grant in Australia (an ARC DECRA)! Feeling very fortunate 😌
Excited to continue my work on the interactions between music, minds, and culture using a online citizen science approach.
science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
Excited to continue my work on the interactions between music, minds, and culture using a online citizen science approach.
science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
ANU early career researchers awarded $8m in ARC funding
Researchers from ANU received a total funding of $8 million across 17 projects in the latest round of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme.
science.anu.edu.au
August 28, 2024 at 9:30 PM
I've been awarded an early-career research grant in Australia (an ARC DECRA)! Feeling very fortunate 😌
Excited to continue my work on the interactions between music, minds, and culture using a online citizen science approach.
science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
Excited to continue my work on the interactions between music, minds, and culture using a online citizen science approach.
science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
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We’re hosting a conference! In June we’ll host the Visual Language Conference 2024 (VisLang2024) at Tilburg University for research on graphic and multimodal communication. Submissions are now open. Please submit, join us, and circulate the CFP widely! www.visuallanguagelab.com/vislang2024
October 16, 2023 at 1:40 PM
We’re hosting a conference! In June we’ll host the Visual Language Conference 2024 (VisLang2024) at Tilburg University for research on graphic and multimodal communication. Submissions are now open. Please submit, join us, and circulate the CFP widely! www.visuallanguagelab.com/vislang2024
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Hi Bluesky! I'm recruiting graduate students and postdocs to launch the Visual Learning Lab with me at UC San Diego in Summer/Fall 2024!
The lab will focus on how we learn to derive visual meaning, integrating methods from developmental psychology, machine learning, & vision science.
The lab will focus on how we learn to derive visual meaning, integrating methods from developmental psychology, machine learning, & vision science.
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!
vislearnlab.org
October 2, 2023 at 9:24 PM
Hi Bluesky! I'm recruiting graduate students and postdocs to launch the Visual Learning Lab with me at UC San Diego in Summer/Fall 2024!
The lab will focus on how we learn to derive visual meaning, integrating methods from developmental psychology, machine learning, & vision science.
The lab will focus on how we learn to derive visual meaning, integrating methods from developmental psychology, machine learning, & vision science.
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Read broadly and outside your discipline/area of research. It will allow you to make new and original connections that you would not otherwise make.
October 1, 2023 at 1:56 PM
Read broadly and outside your discipline/area of research. It will allow you to make new and original connections that you would not otherwise make.
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My Strategies for Dealing With Radical Psychotic Doubt: A Schizo-Something Philosopher’s Tale | A beautifully written first-person account by the amazing Sofia Jeppsson academic.oup.com/schizophreni... | via @lisabortolotti.bsky.social
My Strategies for Dealing With Radical Psychotic Doubt: A Schizo-Something Philosopher’s Tale
I am a 45-year-old Swedish philosopher with “schizo-something”: I have never been given a precise diagnostic label, but a psychiatrist once said that although I
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September 30, 2023 at 12:49 PM
My Strategies for Dealing With Radical Psychotic Doubt: A Schizo-Something Philosopher’s Tale | A beautifully written first-person account by the amazing Sofia Jeppsson academic.oup.com/schizophreni... | via @lisabortolotti.bsky.social
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During grad school, I worked with an RA who I suspected of fraud. We were running experiments with a pre and post session in the lab. Labor intensive, time suck!
I never witnessed anything but I knew something was off bc the descriptive stats were unbelievable compared to our other similar studies.
I never witnessed anything but I knew something was off bc the descriptive stats were unbelievable compared to our other similar studies.
September 30, 2023 at 2:07 PM
During grad school, I worked with an RA who I suspected of fraud. We were running experiments with a pre and post session in the lab. Labor intensive, time suck!
I never witnessed anything but I knew something was off bc the descriptive stats were unbelievable compared to our other similar studies.
I never witnessed anything but I knew something was off bc the descriptive stats were unbelievable compared to our other similar studies.
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I just wrote "As well, I'm Canadian" and realized it's an example where the words and the construction convey the same information.
September 28, 2023 at 7:41 PM
I just wrote "As well, I'm Canadian" and realized it's an example where the words and the construction convey the same information.
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Coming soon: the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, an open access reference work devoted to the study of the mind. @asifa_majid and I are co-editors in chief – articles will be posted starting in 2024.
oecs.mit.edu
oecs.mit.edu
Open Encylopedia of Cognitive Science
oecs.mit.edu
September 19, 2023 at 6:14 PM
Coming soon: the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, an open access reference work devoted to the study of the mind. @asifa_majid and I are co-editors in chief – articles will be posted starting in 2024.
oecs.mit.edu
oecs.mit.edu