Arturo Hernandez

Not everyone does. A lot people are scared it will take over and replace us.

Sorry to see you go. Thanks for all your help during my first year at Perspectives.

Thank you, @dsbarra.bsky.social!

What if AI isn’t competing with us at all, but acting as a cognitive telescope—extending what humans can perceive and understand?

New piece here: open.substack.com/pub/arturoh/...

#AI #Neuroscience #FlynnEffect #Adaptation

Andy Conway and I are honored to serve as inaugural co-Editors of this new Psychonomics journal, focused on the rigorous study of individual differences in cognition. Please spread the word to potentially interested colleagues; we hope that you will send us your best relevant work!

What enables human language? A biocultural framework Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...

Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n

So informative!

Excited to see this new journal!!

Opinion | Views of Consciousness, Human and A.I.

A short letter I wrote was published in today’s @nytimes.com .

With so much public discussion about AI and consciousness, I wanted to emphasize that the real transformation may be happening in us, not the machines.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...

#AI #Consciousness #CognitiveScience

UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.

They unilaterally canceled a faculty hiring initiative so successful it’s become a national model. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Congratulations!!

Expect some embodiment twists in the science of consciousness 😎

Longitudinal Changes in the Structure of Speech Categorization Across School Age Years: Children Become More Gradient and More Consistent A critical aspect of spoken language development is learning to categorize the sounds of the child's language(s). This process was thought to develop early during infancy to set the stage for the la...

While the first year of life is crucial for language development, our team found that sound categorization continues to develop throughout the early school years.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Flyer with our pictures, a brain, and event details: 2-3:30p Saturday November 15th, Buena Vist Branch Library

Friends (and friends-of-friends) in LA: Please help spread the word!

On Saturday, November 15th 2p, @mameister4.bsky.social and I will be in conversation at the Burbank Library discussing bottlenecks and next steps for brain research.

It's free! Register here:
burbank.libnet.info/event/14639190

Close Encounters of the Cognitive Kind A Personal Perspective: When I introduced Steven Pinker, it felt like our worldviews couldn't have been more different. Here's why that dissonance was exactly the point.

@sapinker.bsky.social came to town. What happened next surprised me.

Read on Psychology Today:
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

and Substack:
arturoh.substack.com/publish/post...

#StevenPinker #PsychologyToday #SubstackWriters #CognitiveScience #LoveOfLearning

Preparing to Meet Steven Pinker How I Started Reading Books Again

Preparing to Meet Steven Pinker

On how I rediscovered reading itself.

Sometimes the mind just needs a spark.

open.substack.com/pub/arturoh/...

#ReadingAgain #StevenPinker #CommonKnowledge #BooksAndBrains #ListeningToThink #EdgeOfOurMinds #SubstackWriters #AcademicLife

Musings on Mastery | Arturo E. Hernandez | Substack My personal Substack views on Mastery. Click to read Musings on Mastery, by Arturo E. Hernandez, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Grateful for this growing community.

Over the past week, Musings on Mastery has reached #54 for Rising in Science publications.

Thank you to everyone who has read, subscribed, and shared.

arturoh.substack.com

#Science #Learning #Neuroscience #Writing #BilingualBrain #MindOnTheEdge

There is hope! I was never able to draw.

Will AI Create a New Era for the Modern Polymath? When machines do the specializing, humans return to synthesis.

Machines specialize. Humans synthesize. Inspired by @nxthompson.bsky.social, Diogo Rau, and Michael X. Cohen.

open.substack.com/pub/arturoh/...
#ModernPolymath #CollectiveIntelligence #HumanAI #TheNextRenaissance #KnowledgeEconomy #FutureOfWork #MachineLearning #EmergentIntelligence

Ich möchte allen Menschen, die nicht #schwimmen können und allen, die kleine Kinder haben etwas nahelegen.

Ich denke, es ist hilfreich, wenn wir alle ein paar physikalische Gegebenheiten wissen und vertanden haben, z.B. dass der Mensch ganz grundsätzlich schwimmt, wenn er eingeatmet hat.

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La ruina de la mayor universidad de España: la Complutense ya no puede ni pagar las nóminas a menos que logre un crédito La asfixia económica a la que la Comunidad de Madrid somete al campus público afecta a las investigaciones, las becas y la calidad de la enseñanza. En 2024 ingresó menos dinero para sueldos que hace 1...

Ayuso se está cargando a la Universidad Complutense.
La ruina de la mayor universidad de España que es asfixiada y ya no puede ni pagar las nóminas a menos que logre un crédito,
por Elisa Silió
Afecta también a la investigación, las becas y a la calidad de la enseñanza
elpais.com/educacion/20...

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.

It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.

The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

Deadline Dec 1: Asst prof (tenure track), speech science, Speech Lang. +Hearing, U Texas Dallas jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30411

The Informational Singularity Is Already Here When knowledge collapses under its own weight

Harvard now gives 60% of students A’s. But this isn’t about grade inflation. It’s about meaning collapse.
We’ve hit the informational singularity, where everyone can know everything, and understanding disappears

#InformationalSingularity #AIandEducation #FutureOfKnowledge #HigherEd #MeaningCrisis

Shimon Sakaguchi Hunted for an Immune Cell Others Dismissed. It Earned Him a Nobel Prize Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi reflects on the role of regulatory T cells in peripheral immune tolerance and how the cells could transform treatment for cancer, autoimmune disease and organ transplan...

I spoke with 2025 Nobel winner Shimon Sakaguchi about chasing regulatory T cells since the 1980s. His advice to early-career scientists: "Nowadays you are expected to do something very, very soon and have a result. But it always takes time to arrive at something important." @sciam.bsky.social

BTW, their number is what I meant? But it sounds like my grammatical error was not the issue.

I saw a couple of teenagers walking dogs in my neighborhood. Do you want me to get there number?

Why I Haven’t Left A reflection on Mike X Cohen’s “Why I Left Academia and Neuroscience”

Mike X Cohen recently wrote about why he left academia and neuroscience.

Why I Haven’t Left, explores another side of that story.

open.substack.com/pub/arturoh/...

#MikeXCohen #AcademicLife #AIandHumanity #HigherEd #Neuroscience #Curiosity #Discovery #ResearchCulture #Meaning #NotesFromTheEdge

Dartmouth’s president declines trumps compact.

Dartmouth says no.

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max