OISE Alumni & Friends

oisealumni.bsky.social

21 October 2026 02:45

Behind every chatbot are many human workers making decisions on how those chatbots behave and evolve. Now, recent PhD grad Noah Khan has been observing these workers to uncover the impact. 📡 Listen: https://f.mtr.cool/7jvm9cja6d

Casper Kerrén

ckerren.bsky.social

19 October 2026 14:06

Imagine two people standing in the same spot, looking at the same Goya. They inspect exactly the same parts of the painting, but in a different order. Later, they talk about what they saw. Ignoring all other differences: are the memories they formed identical?

Simon Kuestenmacher

simongerman600.bsky.social

19 October 2026 01:42

The Drawn World. This is what the world map looks like as drawn from memory by 100,000 people. Source: buff.ly/5Mdhsjh

Urvi Maheshwari ツ

urvi.bsky.social

06 October 2026 19:36

New w/ @drbarner.bsky.social in Cognitive Science! We explored how kids learn the “later-greater” principle — the idea that numbers that come later in a count are greater in magnitude. Turns out this simple property governing the count system doesn't come easy! dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs... 1/6

mahwishkittur.bsky.social

mahwishkittur.bsky.social

11 September 2026 10:40

After years of analyzing thousands of drawings from hundreds of adults and children, I am excited to share my first ever paper (w/ @samiyousif.bsky.social )! Using a simple drawing task, we show how topological structure is represented in the mind and its importance in spatial memory.