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On Loving the World: Revisiting the Scientific Image with Arendt and Haraway

My upcoming talk at The Center for Philosophy of Science & the Department of Anthropology at Boston University, this coming Thursday, March 5th, 4-5.30 pm.
(First Chapter of my new book project @rad-institute.bsky.social)

The inferred value of unchosen options spreads to related items in memory Counterfactual thinking — considering what could have come of choosing the other path — can facilitate inference. Previous studies have demonstrated t…

📢New paper out today in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social!

Does the value of an unchosen option — inferred through counterfactual reasoning — spread to related items in memory, similar to how the value of a chosen option — acquired through direct experience — does?

In short, yes!

Loretta wants you to know that we'll be heading to The Ohio State University soon where I'll be an Assistant Professor of Philosophy 🥹 The OSU phil department is absolutely fantastic and I can't wait to go do philosophy with them!
🐎 🐻 🚂 🌰

Book cover. A silhouette of a person's head filled with colorful geometric shapes—perhaps symbolizing cognitive resources or deployment thereof. The style is attractive and modern, if generic. text: The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources Falk Lieder, Frederick Callaway, Thomas L. Griffithts

I'm excited to announce that I had my first (co-authored) book published today! "The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources" with Falk Lieder and Tom Griffiths (@cocoscilab.bsky.social ). You can read it for free! (see thread)

congrats ida!!! great thread, cant wait to read the paper in full 🤓

My paper, "The problem of explaining shifting targets," has been accepted for publication in European Journal for Philosophy of Science. The preprint is currently available on PhilSci-Archive (final version to follow when its online):

philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28211/

We audited one of the most critical pieces of modern AI alignment: reward models. We find consistent and persistent biases and trace them back to the pretraining stage, challenging the premises of common approaches to alignment based on finetuning on human preferences. Accepted at #ICLR2026

AMAZINGGGGG! you are going to *love* it and what a win for duke!

Philosophy of science of decision making - Aliya Rumana (Feb 6) Dear All,    You're cordially invited to the next installment of the Philosophy of Science of Decision Making seminar series.    Speaker: Aliya Rumana (University o...

I'm giving a talk on how to settle disagreements about how participants should respond to tasks and why it's relevant to cognitive explanation, especially in judgement and decision-making psychology. register by tomorrow to listen in on Friday 4pm CET/ 10am ET/ 8am MT

philevents.org/event/show/1...

This, combined with the evidence we have that it meaningfully degrades cognitive skills, I really think it’s probably bad to allow a group of men wealthy to the point of literal derangement to force us to use a technology that makes us less competent and worse at thinking

“Screenshot of a promoted Reddit post by u/AYAGDOS. The post reads: ‘Navigating gender dysphoria? Join our confidential, cross-country study of 18–25 year olds to tell your story, challenge preconceptions, and have YOUR experience reflected in the science.’ Below is a banner graphic with the Northwestern University logo and the text ‘TRANS OR GENDERQUEER? SHARE YOUR STORY.’ The image shows a close-up of a hand with light pink nail polish, partially painted blue, held up against a blurred background. A link to ayagdos.org and a ‘Learn More’ button appear at the bottom, along with Reddit vote and share icons.”

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

Episodic memory facilitates flexible decision-making via access to detailed events - Nature Human Behaviour Nicholas and Mattar found that people use episodic memory to make decisions when it is unclear what will be needed in the future. These findings reveal how the rich representational capacity of episodic memory enables flexible decision-making.

In this Article, @jonathannicholas.bsky.social & @marcelomattar.bsky.social show that people use episodic memory to make decisions when it is unclear what will be needed in the future.

Industry Influence in High-Profile Social Media Research To what extent is social media research independent from industry influence? Leveraging openly available data, we show that half of the research published in top journals has disclosable ties to indus...

Who is the Big Tobacco of today?
In new work, we find 50% of high profile social media papers are connected to big tech through funding, collaboration and employment. Most connections aren't disclosed. @jbakcoleman.bsky.social @jevinwest.bsky.social @carlbergstrom.com 1
arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507

How do hippocampal pathways contribute to learning regularities and exceptions?

To answer this, Melisa Gumus & @drmack.bsky.social use diffusion imaging to identify the endpoints of different hippocampal pathways, and then analyze functional activity within those "footprints". Super innovative!

super excited to share my preprint with @meganakpeters.bsky.social stimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics🚀😊!!

osf.io/preprints/ps...

A few days left to apply to join my lab as a PhD student! We study how people explore, how new ideas form, and how thinking develops. Learn more at liquinlab.github.io. Application review begins 1/15.
#PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogSci #DevPsyc

#ACNP2026 - Wednesday afternoon @biancaleonard.bsky.social will present a computational model-driven motivational conflict challenge that identifies novel, *opposing* influences of early-life unpredictability and anhedonia @mikeyassa.bsky.social @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social @malejandra.bsky.social

it’s honestly such a staple grad student meal, i like to make it even easier by keeping marinated eggs on hand so i don’t even have to cook an egg to eat it haha

SPAN just dropped their new mentorship program open to undergrads and grads! Apply with or without mentors! 🥳🥳🥳

presenting TODAY at #SfN2025 🧠
if you're curious about distinct structure learning & metacognitive dynamics across multiple statistical patterns & stimuli types, come check out my poster w/
@meganakpeters.bsky.social 📈
📍PSTR363.17 / UU13
🕐 Tues Nov 18 1-5 PM
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

congrats!! looking forward to digging into the full piece

#SfN Poster 5 of 6
TODAY! Tuesday 11/18 1-5p
@rochellekaper.bsky.social
PSTR363.17 / UU13 Quantifying the emergence of metacognition in structure learning
www.abstractsonline....

#SfN2025 Poster 4 of 6
TODAY! Tuesday 11/18 1-5p
@hazimi.bsky.social
PSTR363.09 / UU5 Modeling Prior-like Higher-Order Representations in DecNef with a Generative NERD Model
www.abstractsonline....

gooood morning #SfN2025! i’m presenting this poster at board CC11 *today* from 8am-noon

stop by to chat learning, memory, (perceptual) decision making, and normative modeling that bridges cross-species and cross-task findings 🧠🐒

w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social

#SfN2025 Poster 3 of 6
TODAY! Tuesday 11/18 8a-12p
@khoudary.bsky.social
PSTR291.11 / CC11 Precision-weighted integration explains dynamic effects of expectations on perceptual decisions, with
@aaronbornstein.bsky.social
www.abstractsonline....

Good morning from San Diego. Come see my poster (UU7) on splitting and merging latent states in non-Markovian environments, at #Sfn2025 right now !

always happy to bring the flair 💖

edit: I will be at the poster from 8am-noon tomorrow but it’s up from now till end of day on Sunday!

and many thanks to the Center for Theoretical Behavioral Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social for supporting this work with a travel award :)

me & my Theme K poster are finally at #SfN25! stop by board WW13 anytime between now & tomorrow evening to learn more about how philosophy can help navigate meta-scientific questions about models in neuroscience 🧠 w/
@meganakpeters.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social

Come see the lab's work at #SfN2025! (🧵)

Featuring:
@khoudary.bsky.social @biancaleonard.bsky.social @malejandra.bsky.social @jungsuy.bsky.social
@dalezhou.bsky.social @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social @sharonmnoh.bsky.social