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Judy Fan

@judithfan.bsky.social

Cognitive scientist seeking to reverse engineer the human cognitive toolkit. Asst Prof of Psychology at Stanford. Lab website: https://cogtoolslab.github.io

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Erik Brockbank@erikbrockbank.bsky.social · 3w ago

When you meet someone new, what kind of questions do you ask? It’s tempting to think that *really* getting to know people is just a matter of asking the right questions. Excited to share the next chapter in ongoing work on what makes a *deep question* with amazing collaborators...

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Linas Nasvytis@linasnasvytis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/ New preprint! Reasoning models often require hundreds of task examples and thousands of rollouts to improve on a task. How can they learn more from much less? Introducing CORE: contrastive self-reflection for rapid, sample-efficient, and interpretable self-improvement 🧵

Jon Freeman@freemanjb.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences. Steps to counter this are in motion. If you - have an SBE proposal under review - serve on an SBE grant panel You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2

Share Your Story: Impacts of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF)

Following the release of the President's Budget Request (PBR) on April 3rd, NSF quickly and quietly took steps to begin to dismantle the SBE Directorate. The Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) wants to hear about how the SBE Directorate at NSF has supported your research and career. Your stories help FABBS communicate to policymakers and the public what’s at stake when the federal government fails to fund critical sciences. We may follow up for clarification, but we will not share your name or institution publicly without your permission.

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Judy Fan@judithfan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New paper in press at Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts w/ @aaronhertzmann.com interrogating the information bottlenecks that make the drawing of objects & scenes from observation so difficult. This was a really fun paper to write together--we hope it'll be a fun read, too!

Aaron Hertzmann@aaronhertzmann.com · 4mo ago

If asked to draw a person's portrait, many people would say “I cannot draw.” Why is observational drawing so hard? In a new paper, @judithfan.bsky.social and I answer: it's the limitations of human vision. Learning to draw is learning skills to overcome them. aaronhertzmann.com/2026/03/23/d... 1/

Judy Fan@judithfan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This collaboration with @parastooabtahi.bsky.social @rdhawkins.bsky.social & colleagues has been such a treat! Super excited about this line of work on how people use both words and gestures to coordinate on shared understanding of multi-step assembly tasks—check it out at #CHI2026!

Parastoo Abtahi@parastooabtahi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

If you saw @judithfan.bsky.social present our poster at #CogSci2025, the full paper will appear at #CHI2026: “Gesturing Toward Abstraction: Multimodal Convention Formation in Collaborative Physical Tasks” 
🔗 multimodal-conventions.github.io
📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08914 @princetonhci.bsky.social
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Screenshot of the paper. Teaser figure: five-panel teaser showing a shift from block-by-block to abstract tower descriptions. Panel 1 shows the first L-shaped tower made from three LEGO blocks (blue base, two red blocks stacked). A speech bubble says Put a blue block on the front side of the grid, with a hand precisely placing an imaginary block on a two-by-two grid. Panel 2 shows a speech bubble saying a red block on top of the blue, on the left side, with a hand holding an imaginary block vertically above the previous position. Panel 3 shows a speech bubble saying then another red block on top of that, with the right hand stacking another imaginary block. Panel 4 shows a speech bubble saying like an L shape. Two hands depict an L-shape gesture representing tower shape without position or orientation. The final panel shows the same tower in a different position and orientation, with a speech bubble reading Put a backward L-shape tower on the back of the grid and a hand indicating the back row of the grid.
CAIC @ Purdue@caic-at-purdue.bsky.social · 7mo ago

CAIC has been hard at work creating an interdisciplinary hub for pursuing big questions in cognitive science. This spring we are excited to officially launch the Cognition, Agency, Intelligence Conference featuring talks by an amazing lineup of interdisciplinary researchers. See you on April 2-3! 🥳

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Monica Ellwood-Lowe@mellwoodlowe.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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: phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDWcqUYo

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,.....

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Juan Cole@jricole.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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...

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Judy Fan@judithfan.bsky.social · last yr.

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....

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Minds in the Making: Learning Seminar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Join speakers Yasmin Kafai, Vanessa Bermudez, and Julian Togelius for a conversation at the interface of design and learning

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Judy Fan@judithfan.bsky.social · last yr.

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!! 🧠🛠️

Junyi Chu@junyi.bsky.social · last yr.

Delighted to announce our CogSci '25 workshop at the interface between cognitive science and design 🧠🖌️! We're calling it: 🏺Minds in the Making🏺 🔗 minds-making.github.io June – July 2024, free & open to the public (all career stages, all disciplines)

Judy Fan@judithfan.bsky.social · last yr.

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!! 🧠🛠️

Junyi Chu@junyi.bsky.social · last yr.

Delighted to announce our CogSci '25 workshop at the interface between cognitive science and design 🧠🖌️! We're calling it: 🏺Minds in the Making🏺 🔗 minds-making.github.io June – July 2024, free & open to the public (all career stages, all disciplines)

Sam Wang@samwang.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

To stop intimidation, Eisgruber needs your help

When targeting one institution is a bald attempt to divide and conquer, as is the case with Columbia, it is essential for a coalition or group of institutions and individuals to stand up together.&nbs...

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Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last yr.

👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.