Our World in Data

ourworldindata.org

19 October 2026 20:50

📝 New article on Our World in Data: When do people experience mental health conditions for the first time? Mental health conditions can begin at almost any age. For many people, they develop in the early stages of life.

Simon Fischer-Baum

cogsimon.bsky.social

12 October 2026 15:26

The economics Nobel was annouced today, and for the 30th straight year and maybe 75th time total, the prize went to people who were funded earlier in their career by the NSF economics program.

Hayoung Song

hayoungsong.bsky.social

02 October 2026 12:26

Medial PFC interacts with the hippocampus to retrieve context-congruent memories.. but HOW?? was what started this. Simulating mPFC-HIP🧠, we designed an RNN🤖 that retrieves memories similar in context, on top of self-attention. It learns to retrieve like humans faster! arxiv.org/abs/2609.37791

Sheina Lew-Levy

sheinalew.bsky.social

29 September 2026 12:43

🚨 Our new lab paper, led by @amandinevisine.bsky.social, examines exploration, group composition, and play activities among BaYaka children and teens living in a village context! Amandine is currently on fieldwork following up on this for her PhD 🎯 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Toby Wise

tobywise.bsky.social

23 September 2026 16:05

One thing we've found is that using canvas-rendered tasks (rather than the standard HTML DOM) makes it substantially harder for AI agents as they have to rely on vision rather than knowledge of the different page elements and how to interact with them.