Judy Fan

Research Coordinator, Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab in Graduate School of Education, Stanford, California, United States The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) seeks a full-time Research Coordinator (acting lab manager) to help launch and coordinate the Minds,.....

I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share:
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If you're heading to @cogscisociety.bsky.social, come to our symposium “Perception as a Foundation for Common‑Sense Theories of the World”

📅 August 1 • 9 AM
📍 Salon 2

With
@thiskevinsmith.bsky.social
@shariliu.bsky.social
@judithfan.bsky.social
@ardeeb.bsky.social
— See you there! #CogSci2025

Linking student psychological orientation, engagement & learning in intro college-level data science

New work ‪‪at @cogscisociety.bsky.social w/ @erikbrockbank.bsky.social @shawnschwartz.bsky.social, C.Bryan, D.Yeager, C.Dweck & @judithfan.bsky.social

poster 8/1 @ 10:30
tinyurl.com/solds-cogsci25

"36 Questions That Lead To Love" was the most viewed article in NYT Modern Love.
Excited to share new results investigating these and other “deep questions” with @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social @judithfan.bsky.social & @rdhawkins.bsky.social
Preprint: tinyurl.com/bdfx5smk
Code: tinyurl.com/3v6pws4s

Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...

The National Institutes of Health is responsible for more than 80% of the world’s grant investment in biomedical research and Trump is destroying it projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

Protect Science and Innovation

Day of Action planned for July 21 to protect science protectscienceandinnovation.org

THIS WEEK the @cogscisociety.bsky.social Minds in the Making workshop brings you Vanessa Bermudez and @togelius.bsky.social in conversation about LEARNING 🧠💪 x DESIGN 🛠️! And what makes GAMES awesome for learning. Wednesday July 16th, 12pm-1pm PT. Register here: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

Next up is the CREATIVITY session in our
@cogscisociety.bsky.social Minds in the Making workshop ft.
@aaronhertzmann.com @manishsaggar.bsky.social & Aaron Kozbelt! Thursday June 19th, 11am-12pm PT. Register here: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...!

Super stoked for our Minds in the Making workshop at @cogscisociety.bsky.social 2025! If you are at all interested in the intersection between cognitive science and design, you won’t want to miss it!! 🧠🛠️

Super stoked for our Minds in the Making workshop at @cogscisociety.bsky.social 2025! If you are at all interested in the intersection between cognitive science and design, you won’t want to miss it!! 🧠🛠️

Out today, the Academic Council of the University of California issues the following statement:

“Higher education is under direct and sustained attack.

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senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/repor...

Opinion | Funding for R&D isn’t a gift to academia Investing in scientific research and development is vital to U.S. security.

NEW: Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.)& Trump's former NatSec Advisor Matt Pottinger make the case that funding for scientific R&D isn't a gift to academia. It's vital to U.S. national security, as China, the United States' primary strategic adversary, is already investing heavily in R&D.
shorturl.at/PgUK0

Every one of you involved in higher education – student, faculty, alumni, staff – needs to get in touch with your leadership (president and trustees) and local media to make it clear what’s at stake and get them to band together.

Example message: www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

I'm writing today with a big request during a difficult time for all of us. Together, we've grown Children Helping Science into a cornerstone for online developmental research. Researchers from roughly 150 institutions have conducted remote studies with over 15,000 families since 2020, with many of those families returning to participate in multiple studies across labs. The CHS team and infrastructure is currently supported almost entirely by the United States government (NSF and NIH). Like many US researchers, we're facing substantial uncertainty about what this means for our financial stability over the coming months and years, and we are hard at work pursuing every angle to keep this platform available to the community. This includes exploring new funding strategies we have previously not considered, like possibly allowing some carefully vetted companies to display ads to families. Researchers will continue to be able to use the CHS platform for free, but your support right now is critical. At the same time, we know that many of you, especially those of you in the United States, are facing the same instability to present and future funding as we are. Today, we are asking for three FREE actions from all of you to support our immediate fundraising efforts:

**Send us your citations.** If you have publications that collected data or advertised studies through CHS or Lookit, please share those references. These citations are essential for demonstrating CHS’s impact to funders. A list of all the citations we're aware of is linked here, in case you're not sure whether we have your recent articles. **Send us publicly shareable materials and press coverage.** If you have cute study designs, engaging visuals, or images of adorable kids (with the necessary permissions) we’d love to use them in presentations to potential funders. Similarly, if your research has been covered in any public media (university publications, podcasts, news articles), please send these to us. **Share your funding applications and ideas.** If you are preparing a grant proposal (to any funding source), please reach out to discuss how you can include a budget line to support CHS. If you have ideas for joint projects, or even of funders you think we should reach out to - we're all ears! And if you have ever received funding to conduct studies using CHS/Lookit, please also make sure we know about it.

You can do all of these things right now at this link (https://forms.gle/zFnzrVURntdZizMK8). Please also feel free to email us (best address: mekline@mit.edu) with any other questions or ideas. We are committed to keeping CHS running and serving this community, and we will do everything in our power to keep the lights on. Thank you for helping to make CHS such a wonderful community resource and for helping us in whatever ways you can! With appreciation, Melissa Kline Struhl Executive Director Laura Schulz Scientific Director

The platform I run, Children Helping Science, is supported almost entirely by US government science funding, both directly and in collaboration with CHS researchers.

Here's the note we sent to users today - we need help gathering your stories and citations! Submit here: forms.gle/zFnzrVURntdZ...

Hello bluesky world :) excited to share a new paper on data visualization literacy 📈 🧠 w/ @judithfan.bsky.social, @arnavverma.bsky.social, Holly Huey, Hannah Lloyd, @lacepadilla.bsky.social!

📝 preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
💻 code: github.com/cogtoolslab/...

SO proud of this work on data visualization literacy getting out into the world — especially when our tools for figuring out what is true are as vital as they have ever been!!! #StandUpForScience today and always!

Table 1 from paper: recognition and reference evidence for perception of different types of visual media by infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.

Do children understand all types of visual media in the same way?

"Cross-contextual diversity in children’s early understanding of visual media" - a new review paper led by Rebecca Zhu: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Happy New Year everyone! Jim and I just put up our January 2025 release of Speech and Language Processing! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

I have recently launched the relational cognition lab at UC Irvine: relcoglab.org!
We study learning and memory in mind, brains and machines. I am open to collaborations and hiring a lab technician (lab manager/junior specialist). Job ad & application here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09400.

The most creative technology I’ve ever used is a pencil. Sketching, brainstorming, communicating, writing, art… this thing can do it all.

What an honor & joy to be with you last week to celebrate the eSYMb team and Kristian Tylén's vision/spirit. Thank you so much, @izzywisher.bsky.social, @fusaroli.bsky.social, @jcskewes.bsky.social & all Aarhus colleagues who made this impactful workshop possible (despite the many obstacles).

3rd day of "Celebrating eSYMb: The Evolution of Symbolic
Behaviour - A Workshop in Memory of Kristian Tylén" workshop.
Murillo Pagnotta on the makapangsat cobble: this face-like pebble is a controversial archeological finding, but can we test the idea that it's attention grabbing because of 1/

2nd day of "Celebrating eSYMb: The Evolution of Symbolic
Behaviour - A Workshop in Memory of Kristian Tylén" workshop masterfully arranged by @izzywisher.bsky.social.
Larissa Mendoza Straffon presents Honing the tools of the mind (paper here: osf.io/b8fz2) 1/

At the "Celebrating eSYMb: The Evolution of Symbolic
Behaviour - A Workshop in Memory of Kristian Tylén" workshop (masterfully arranged by @izzywisher.bsky.social).
Thread of thoughts: 1/

I’m still recruiting for this position — please get in touch if you’re interested in working together!

We have extended the deadline for this position to January 31st. Also, the start date is pretty flexible; if you're graduating next spring/summer and interested in the role, apply!

A screenshot of the first page of the paper.

Graphics has long studied how to make:
(1) realistic images 📷
(2) non-photorealistic images ✍️
(3) realistic sounds 🎤

What about (4) "non-phono-realistic" sounds?

What could that even mean?

Next week at SIGGRAPH Asia, MIT undergrad Matt Caren will present our proposal… 🧵

arxiv.org/abs/2409.13507

Cool job at Princeton open to Computational Social Scientists: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇
#NeuroAI #CompNeuro

Home | The Visual Learning Lab at UCSD Lab webpage for the Visual Learning Lab at UCSD, lead by Dr. Bria Long, Ph.D. Launching in July 2024!

Finally, if you find this kind of work interesting, I’m currently hiring! I'm recruiting both a postdoc and a lab manager (more at vislearnlab.org) to launch the Visual Learning Lab at
@UCSDPsychology
—please feel free to reach out (or come say hi at CDS)!