Natalia Vélez

Sooo proud 🥰 I've so enjoyed discussing this paper with Bella throughout our projects together, glad to see it get the spotlight!

We’re recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join our team! 🎉

I’m happy to share that I’ve opened back up the search for this position (it was temporarily closed due to funding uncertainty).

See lab page and doc below for details!

Really cool, conceptually simple approach here: cross-referencing grant proposal scores with literature citations and explicit acknowledgments in drug patents to identify patents linked to projects that wouldn't have been funded given a smaller budget

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
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Happy 3²/4²/5² to all who celebrate :)

Complex technology requires cultural innovations for distributing cognition Over the last decade, new research has shown how human collectives can develop technologies that no single individual could discover on their own. How…

🚨 New paper alert! (slightly belated)

We (with @joshcjackson.bsky.social) suggest that complex technologies, as they need several (often many) people to use them, require innovations that distribute cognition to help regulate cognitive load and coordinate.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Americans: it takes just a minute to submit a comment to the EPA asking them to preserve the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which finds carbon dioxide emissions to be dangerous to public health/welfare..it underpins all subsequent federal regulation of CO2 emissions www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP...

Come work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

We're hiring!!! Princeton Psych has an Assistant Prof search in cog neuro (joint with @princetonneuro.bsky.social). Apply apply apply! puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Thank you! ☺️

Update: the buns are walking around the conference floor 👀

We got too much dim sum! If you’d like egg custard tarts, sesame buns, or pork buns, come down to the lobby! :) #cogsci2025

Thank you so much!! :)

Notes from a 2018 talk by Nora Newcombe, arguing that there is not just one "spatial cognition" - spatial cognition instead spans spatial skills that involve working with our hands (e.g., tools, manipulating objects) and navigation

Fun fact: Nora was one of the very first speakers I ever sketched, back in 2018! :)

Sketchnote of Nora Newcombe's Rumelhart Prize Talk, posing three questions and case studies for cognitive science: (1) innateness (with the geometric module as a case study), (2) representations (featuring cognitive maps vs. graphs), and (3) embodiment (featuring mental rotation)

Notes from @noranewcombe.bsky.social 's beautiful Rumelhart Prize "tasting menu" - congratulations Nora!!! #CogSci2025

Tomorrow, P1-H-244 ☺️

Psych Academic Job Market Slack Interest Form

(please share widely!) With the start of August quickly approaching, I wanted to announce that the usual slack for fellow people on the Psych Academic Job Market for the coming cycle has been activated. If you are interested, feel free to fill out this form to join!
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Excited to see old friends and new science - see you in San Francisco! 🎉

Are You Laughing Yet? Everyone can say exactly what they want, free of the fear of censorship, except by the government.

Alexandra Petri's writing has such punch to it, not only in terms of content but form. In her best stuff, you can *hear* her voice, and this is one of her best.

New episode!! 🎙️📣

A chat w/ @sheinalew.bsky.social & @dorsaamir.bsky.social about childhood across cultures.

Humans everywhere go through childhood—a time of learning, growth, and play. But this universal stage of life can look very different in different places.

Listen: disi.org/varieties-of...

Totally! LaTeX/Overleaf still works best for my needs even with the occasional annoyance - e.g., mostly collaborative writing, mathematical typesetting, templates for grants/conferences, and text wrapping. I've heard good things about Typst, but it's impractical unless my collaborators also use it

Nope, that’s what I do too!

Overleaf is a huge timesaver for me for reference management - I find Zotero/Paperpile integration clunky in every app I’ve tried, and they don’t work well for collaborative writing

I agree - unfortunately, this is math-heavy text, so it’s still the right tool for the job.

It's somehow comforting that the line breaks in this post are messed up, too.

Y'know, I used to think I was saving so much time with LaTeX. But~manually~specifying~which~words~should stay~together~and~which~words~should~break~a~line every~time~I~wrap~text~around~a~figure~in~this~grant because~the packages~that~do~this~are~not~ideal is more absurd than ANYTHING Word could do.

New published paper with Ham Huang and @actlab.bsky.social! @cognitionjournal.bsky.social
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A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.

HAPPY 75th, NSF!

We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.

Read on 🧵(1/11):

The Science and Practice of Team Science Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.

The new National Academies report on the Science and Practice of Team Science is out today: nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2904...

I was very excited to be a part of this group in order to discuss the role of open science in team science.

They’re SUPER popular in Puerto Rico! My grandmother used to fill me in on Fatmagül every week while it was airing :)