Hetan Shah

hetanshah.bsky.social

23 October 2026 09:10

It’s nothing to boast about as they’ve had so much longer than the rest of us to build up their followers www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Alireza Modirshanechi

modirshanechi.bsky.social

23 October 2026 09:09

Super happy to announce that we have got an Oral at #NeurIPS! 🥳 Together with amazing @ben-eysenbach.bsky.social, Peter Dayan, & @ericschulz.bsky.social, we proposed a notion of controllability to link unsupervised skill learning and downstream goal-reaching. arxiv.org/abs/2605.06145 1/8

Gabriel Stine

gabrielmstine.bsky.social

22 October 2026 22:33

I wouldn't be surprised if crows are indeed slightly faster, but the comparison with the NHP data is problematic. We train monkeys for months on RT-dots to be deliberative and incorporate incentives for them to take longer. Early in training, most monkeys' RTs look much closer to the crows'.

M.J. Crockett

mjcrockett.bsky.social

18 October 2026 19:06

I'm hiring a postdoc to start in summer/fall 2027! My lab uses computational social & cognitive science methods to explore how tech shapes knowledge & power: www.crockettlab.org You can submit an application here: apply.interfolio.com/195297. Review of apps starts Nov 20. Please share!

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra

jrossibarra.bsky.social

16 October 2026 13:17

Today in peak academia: immediately responded to an email in spite of my out of office auto reply. Got an answer several seconds before their out of office auto reply.