Cancel your meetings and gaze upon the soul of my sweet Jersey www.nj.com/news/2025/12...

Taylor ham, the untold story. Iconic N.J. food's legacy is tainted by scandal and cruelty.

The inside story of how a revered pork roll brand became the domain of a mercurial owner.

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Published in Nature! 😂

there was some discussion on here recently about the scientific legitimacy of cognitive dissonance research. as someone who has spent years investigating this literature, i wanted to make a thread to explain why pessimism is not justified by careful inspection of the evidence 1/

Experimental Philosophy@xphilosopher.bsky.social · 9mo ago

There’s growing evidence that something was going seriously wrong in the classic early work on cognitive dissonance Latest revelation: The story in When Prophecy Fails seems to have been fabricated in the most egregious way But this is not the only one… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Greatest city in the world breaking new records! gothamist.com/news/number-...

Number of homeless students in NYC hits record high, new report finds

Nearly 1 in 7 NYC public school students were homeless at some point last year.

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Fantastic researcher, open-minded thinker, dedicated mentor, and one of the absolute nicest people in the field.

Mark Ho@markkho.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I'm recruiting grad students!! 🎓 The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠 Applications through Psych (tinyurl.com/nyucp) are due Dec 1. Reach out with Qs & please repost! 🙏

Sex dolls: the Evolutionary Psychologist’s electrode

My friends @foddy.net and @gcuzzillo.bsky.social's game @babystepsgame.bsky.social came out today and it looks amazing. @foddy.net is an artist and philosopher in the truest sense of the words, who just happens to be using video games as his medium at the moment: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a...

When You Fall on Your Face, a Philosophical Designer Succeeds

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Our entry (with @ericman.bsky.social ) for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, “The Language of Thought Hypothesis”, is now out. doi.org/10.21428/e27...

The Language of Thought Hypothesis

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It was so great! Really lucky to have been able to listen and learn from Barbara, Liuba, & Benedek. Some of the most insightful research happening today, from just the absolutely nicest, coolest people.

Barbara Pomiechowska@bpomie.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Heading for my last day of the ESPP in Warsaw. Amazing to see philosophers and psychologists in one room. It was a privilege to talk about how symbols and compositionality emerge in babies alongside @ljubapi.bsky.social and @benedek.bsky.social 💕 to @ericman.bsky.social for organizing the symposium!

Bob Clark for mayor

The City Reporter@thecityreporter.nyc · 12mo ago

Bob Clark, VP of marketing for Herr Foods, Inc., said the company was surprised to see it was mentioned in the press. “While we can’t speak to the details of the story,” he said, “we can confirm that our Sour Cream & Onion flavor is money.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/21/w...

Hard to think of a better gig. So cool for Cornell too

David Rand@dgrand.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Apply for funding to work with me and Gord at Cornell!

Excited about this in large part because Raphael is the absolute best

Raphaël Millière@raphaelmilliere.com · last yr.

Happy to share this updated Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on 'Associationist Theories of Thought' with @ericman.bsky.social. Among other things, we included a new major section on reinforcement learning. Many thanks to Eric for bringing me on board! plato.stanford.edu/entries/asso...

This work is so cool, (and Vlad rules to boot)

Vlad Chituc@vladchituc.bsky.social · last yr.

Do women feel some emotions more strongly than men do? Out today in Affective Science, I argue that claims like this make a notoriously subtle mistake. What is it? And what does it have to do with an astigmatic painter and thyroid medicine? A short thread... (1/14)

A key takeaway from 20+ years of computational RL is: model-free=automatic, model-based=deliberate. My new paper w/ @benedek.bsky.social challenges this view, suggesting that MB algos are more ubiquitous, & automatic processing more sophisticated, than currently thought: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Model-based algorithms shape automatic evaluative processing | PNAS

Computational theories of reinforcement learning suggest that two families of algorithm—model-based and model-free—tightly map onto the classic dis...

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This is really impressive. Hard to imagine a more painful (or dangerous) rollercoaster than the Cyclone: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWi_...

Cyclone

YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC

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Ummmm the Inside the NBA crew is at center court, watching Inside the NBA?

Cuomo is coming for Eric Adams' trophy as the biggest butthead interviewee

💔 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...

Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation

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🙏🙏🙏

Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸@kristinandrews.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m moving from York to take up a Professorship at the CUNY Grad Center this fall! Graduate student training has been a focus these past years and I’m excited to help mentor next gen philosophy of animal minds in NYC!

📄 NEW PRE-PRINT! 📄 How do we acquire beliefs? According to one intuitive view, we can entertain thoughts, and then choose to accept them as beliefs or reject them. philpapers.org/rec/PIOBWW (🧵1/10)

Griffin Pion, Elliot Schwartz & Eric Mandelbaum, Believe What We Think!: The Spinozan Theory of Mind - PhilPapers

How do we acquire beliefs? According to the Spinozan model, merely having a thought entails believing it. Only through a further, effortful process can one reject automatically-accepted beliefs. This ...

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Excited to share a new paper accepted to @cogscisociety.bsky.social 2025 on the cognitive representation polysemy and their use in reasoning! Pre-print here: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Thread below! (🧵1/9)

Pains me to give this any boost but my lord this tidbit

James Grimmelmann@jtlg.bsky.social · last yr.

The transcript of the faculty meeting that cost Katrina Armstrong her job leaked because nobody at Columbia was able to configure Zoom to prevent transcription. freebeacon.com/campus/what-...

Congrats Shannon! Can't wait to celebrate with you in Ithaca

Tobias Gerstenberg@tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · last yr.

It's my honor to announce the 2025 winner of the Stanton Prize given out by the Society of Philosophy and Psychology (drum roll 🥁): Shannon Spaulding 🏆 Huge congratulations!! Make sure to see Shannon's prize lecture at the SPP conference at Cornell this June. www.socphilpsych.org/meetings.html

Quitting my job to help unravel the "Baseball Maiming Society Industrial Complex" Foul Ball Safety Now! www.publishersmarketplace.com/jobs/view.cg...

SCIENCE!

CUNY Cog Sci continues to be 🔥. Thanks to Charles Yang for a super interesting talk on language learning and the Tolerance Principle.

🚨🚨🚨 Preprint with Zephyr Weinreich, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @ericman.bsky.social in which we show that implicit attitudes are not only sensitive to negation; they even reflect the distinction between easy-to-negate bipolar and difficult-to-negate unipolar adjectives: osf.io/preprints/ps...

“My motto is never think inside the box. Never think outside the box. Think without a box”—

Imagining Darwin opening his trench coat to display his finest treats