Concern with WEIRD cultures and behaviours does not only concern humans. It gets much worse when we look at the animal models and the study of non-human animal cognition, affect, and behavior. Incredibly proud of @jespinosa.bsky.social and colleagues for making this provocative, needed argument.

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Postdoc in comparative psychology, biology, & neuroscience @YorkU & @Harvard | Studying the nature & nurture shaping social behaviour in diverse dog populations 🐩🐕🐕‍🦺 | #ManyDogs Founder & Co-Director...

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Would a dog in New York City respond in the same way as a dog in Kyoto? @jespinosa.bsky.social and colleagues address how studies on domestic dogs tend to focus on a Westernized subset.

Presenting at #ECP22 in Edinburgh: Wed 16:45 (Salisbury): Multilingual Topic Modeling for Cross-Cultural Research (for Y. Li who can't come due to visa). Thu 11:00 (St Trinnean): Intellectual humility & forecast accuracy. DM to connect. #CrossCulturalPsychology #Forecasting #Intellectualhumility

An AI babysitter for humanity, or an AI toddler we want to nurture? One of many questions at last month's Dagstuhl seminar on Social AI, hosted by @lucie-nlp.bsky.social @tomerullman.bsky.social , @maartensap.bsky.social & @jennhu.bsky.social 🧵

After three months on the road, I'm finally putting the bags down for a bit — Freiburg, for the next month, on an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award. A short thread on landing here 🧵

Can LLMs know what they don’t know? A paper by Steyvers & Peters offers a sharp empirical look at AI metacognition: how models track their own knowledge boundaries & communicate uncertainty, in the spirit of metacognitive sensitivity metrics. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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New paper with the amazing Eugene Ji & @amirhkarimi.bsky.social "Metacognition Should Be the Scientific Framework for Bounded and Effective Self-Governance in Generative AI" LINK: arxiv.org/abs/2605.23981 #metacognition #LLM #selfgovernance

A presto, Firenze. 🇮🇹 Spent May 2026 as a Visiting Fellow at the @eui-eu.bsky.social Robert Schuman Centre @eui-schuman.bsky.social, during EUI's 50th anniversary. Fiesole's hills, Renaissance Florence, and conversations on science for policy. Still processing it all.

"If there is anything that still ails psychology... it is the neglect of investigation of environmental or ecological texture." Brunswik, '57 @bayesandbounds.bsky.social takes that seriously in the new Psychological Inquiry 37:1. Check in out! 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2026.2650209

In the Mind or in the World? Types of Beliefs and the Locality of Evidence

People’s beliefs appear to be divisible into two distinct types. Some beliefs refer directly to the observable world, readily guide behavior, and are easily revised when challenged. Others, includi...

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Joseph Sommer@bayesandbounds.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thrilled this is out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵 Do we have 2 kinds of beliefs? Some beliefs seem insensitive to evidence and rarely guide behavior, etc. To explain this, several theories divide belief into 2 types. I argue the explanation isn't in the *mind* but in the *world*

1/ We've been measuring intellectual humility wrong. Most scales ask "are you intellectually humble?" but the people least humble are the most miscalibrated about it. They overclaim. The #humilityparadox. Out today in Behavior Research Methods. Here's what we did instead. 🧵

What might a "wise" AI look like? How would we build one? Tomorrow 11:00–13:00 CEST Hybrid: EUI Florence + Zoom Free, I will be at @eui-eu.bsky.social to talk on benchmarking wisdom and metacognitive AI architectures. With discussant Claire Boine. Register: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

1/ We're hiring a postdoc in the Wisdom & Culture Lab @uwaterloopsych.bsky.social to lead a new SSHRC-funded project on cultural narratives & decision-making. Fall '26 / Winter '27 start. 🧵

@iyadrahwan.bsky.social @psmaldino.bsky.social @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social @lfoswaldo.bsky.social @robysinatra.bsky.social @sunelehmann.com @samulireijula.net @dgarcia.eu @igi.bsky.social @frapierri.bsky.social @rnv.bsky.social @cphsodas.bsky.social @csh.ac.at @sfiscience.bsky.social

Intelligence is processing 10,000 transactions a minute. Wisdom is knowing which 3 failed. 3 weeks in India. 7 talks on AI, metacognition, and wisdom under radical uncertainty. What I learned — and what the audiences taught me. 🧵

Enjoyed talking on #AIwisdom at Jnana Prabhodini and IISER in Pune, India.

1/ NEW in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology — our first review of a decade+ of research on understanding & predicting cultural change, with Michael Varnum. This one is personal. A thread on what we found, what surprised us, and how two kids reading Asimov ended up here. 🧵

Recently got 5 excellent reviews on a paper. Super thankful — four reviewers clearly put real thought into strengthening the work. The problem: Reviewer 2 (of course!) was, by every available indicator, substantially generated by a large language model. 🧵

Imagining and building wise machines: the centrality of AI metacognition By Samuel Johnson @amirhkarimi.bsky.social @yoshuabengio.bsky.social @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social @sydneylevine.bsky.social @melaniemitchell.bsky.social @iyadrahwan.bsky.social @igi.bsky.social and more tinyurl.com/36yc6ant

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What is wisdom, and can it be taught?

Scientists are trying to name the qualities that make someone wise and figure out how to cultivate them

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OUT NOW: The highly controversial issue of Psychological Inquiry (Vol. 36, Issue 4) is live! Are we rethinking everything we know about autism? In our newest target article, @travislacroix.bsky.social argues that the "Theory of Mind" paradigm in #autism research is actually pseudoscience. 🧠 🧵👇

1/3 AI is getting smarter, but is it getting wiser? 🤔 Thrilled to share our new @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social paper on building wise machines, co-authored with Sam Johnson, @amirhkarimi.bsky.social, @yoshuabengio.bsky.social , @sydneylevine.bsky.social , @melaniemitchell.bsky.social, & more!

1/12Wisdom isn’t just a trait or a mystical aura. It’s a metacognitive & cultural process. In a new preprint, we propose a new synthesis at the intersection of Cultural Evolution and Cognitive Science, mapping how to judge, think, and survive in an age of uncertainty. 🧵

Feb 26, Graduate College: #AI & #Ethics Conference events.ucalgary.ca/gradcollege/... Excited to visit @ucalgary.bsky.social - for the first time - to discuss #AIethics & #wisdom. Btw, graduate students are invited to submit posters for an interactive poster session as part of the conference.

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

1/ “Ethics-first” is a comfort slogan, not a theory of wisdom in STEM #education. We argue you don’t need a moral “blueprint” before you can reason wisely in STEM contexts. The bottleneck is often #metacognitive: noticing uncertainty, checking your frame, integrating other perspectives.

Why you’re wise on Tuesday and foolish on Sunday: Practising #wisdom in uncertain times - a brief sunday read & a mild rant against "one trick" gurus & substakers. theconversation.com/why-youre-wi... @theconversation.com

Why you’re wise on Tuesday and foolish on Sunday: Practising wisdom in uncertain times

Wisdom fluctuates. New longitudinal evidence suggests wise reasoning is a trainable toolkit —not a trait — and repeated distanced self-reflection can strengthen it in daily life.

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Can we predict the past? 🔮 New open-access paper in American Historical Review proposes 'Retrodiction'—using gaps in the archival record to test historical theories. Interdisciplinary collab feat. David Gill, Marc Trachtenberg, Phil Tetlock, Cendri Hutcherson, and more 🧵👇

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 "Understanding & Predicting Cultural Change" is accepted at Advances in Experimental Social Psychology! Varnum & I argue that Psychology cannot afford to be blind to time. We need to move from cross-sectional snapshots to dynamic time-series movies. 🧵👇

International students: Were you told "no" to Waterloo recently due to recruitment bans? The door just swung back open. 🚪🔓 Canada just launched the Impact+ Research Training Awards (CIRTA), and my lab is looking for the best global talent to join us. (1/4)

Wrapping up the year feeling very grateful for the brilliant team at the Wisdom & Culture Lab (plus alumni!). End-of-term outing to Toronto’s St. Lawrence Market + the Distillery District—great convos, great company, great snacks. Happy Holidays! 🎓✨🍁

Excited to talk on #AI and #wisdom at the Second Renaissance Conference Online 2025 (Dec 5–7), which explores how we can meet today’s wider poly- and meta-crisis through inner-led change and catalyse a civilizational renaissance. Join us 2rcon.org.