Victoria Southgate
@vhsouthgate.bsky.social
Developmental social cognitive neuroscientist and thalassophile. Prof at the University of Copenhagen. Personal site: www.victoriasouthgate.com
We are looking for a new colleague with expertise in middle-childhood/adolescence developmental science to join us in Copenhagen. Open rank and can be both applied and/or basic science. Please share with relevant colleagues. employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
Call for open-rank academic position in child and adolescent developmental psychology
The position is available from October 1st, 2026, but an earlier or later starting date is also possible.
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Sharing a preprint laying out a new theory of the origins of self-awareness. In this theory, our human capacity for self-awareness is an emergent phenomenon arising from the interplay between interoception and ostension, during the first year of life 👶. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Human cognition is often altercentric, and human infants seem to have an altercentric bias. Is this cognitive stance uniquely human or might it be shared with other species? There are arguments both ways and we explore them in this paper. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
An evolutionary perspective on altercentrism
Putting oneself, mentally, in someone else’s shoes is traditionally considered a late-developing, cognitively demanding skill thought to critically un…
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Ireland launches global talent fund! www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob... If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!
If you agree with our 5 requests to our universities, please sign 🖊️ the open letter and don’t forget to confirm your email! ☺️🙏 openletter.earth/open-letter-...
A big thank you again to Athena Demertzi and Emmanuel Stamatakis for organising a wonderful ASSC conference @assc28.bsky.social @theassc.bsky.social! See you all in Chile next year @assc2026.bsky.social !
This paper really is developmental science at its best. Empirically convincing and theoretically rich. Shows once again that we cannot assume that the adult state is the default state.
Victoria Southgate@vhsouthgate.bsky.social · last yr.Sharing our new paper published today in Nature Communications. In my view, this is our clearest demonstration to date that something profoundly changes in how infants encode the world around them before and after the emergence of self-representation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sharing our new paper published today in Nature Communications. In my view, this is our clearest demonstration to date that something profoundly changes in how infants encode the world around them before and after the emergence of self-representation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The self-reference memory bias is preceded by an other-reference bias in infancy - Nature Communications
A classic feature of human memory is that we remember information better when it refers to ourselves. Here, the authors show that before the emergence of self-concept, infants instead remember informa...
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👶Do babies read minds? @vhsouthgate.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen challenges the idea that infants mentalise. Instead they may be “altercentric”, focused on what others pay attention to. 👉 buff.ly/My4EpbB 🎧 buff.ly/9j5ZeF8 #TheoryOfMind #FrontierResearch #EU2025DK @eu2025dk
"Nosek also wants academia to create clear career paths for people doing replication studies—it should be something that university bosses admire and want to promote." Also NO. This is someone's pet theory for how science works, not actually how science works.
🚨 Postdoc Opportunity!!! The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children. Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads. Start: Fall 2025 or later. Details: jessica.sommerville@utoronto.ca RTs appreciated 💫
This @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant will test a novel mechanistic model of how human infants might acquire a concept of a self. We’ll investigate the interaction between interoception and ostension, not only in the lab but in infants in both Vanuatu and Japan! www.linkedin.com/posts/univer...
I dag modtager fire KU-forskere hver et Advanced Grant fra European Research Council (ERC)! | Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen
I dag modtager fire KU-forskere hver et Advanced Grant fra European Research Council (ERC)! 🥳 De fire forskere er: Professor Christian Rostbøll, Institut for Statskundskab Projekt: Moralizing Politic...
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Really stimulating interdisciplinary discussion meeting at the Royal Society in London. I shared some developmental data and new theoretical ideas on the origin of the self and heard some excellent talks.
🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨 We're looking for a postdoc to work on EEG and fNIRS projects with 3-18-month-old infants, looking at whether/how/when infants represent affordances: careers.ceu.edu/job-invite/8... Part of the @simonsfoundation.org SCENE project: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...
Post-doctoral Researcher (f/m/d)
Post-doctoral Researcher (f/m/d)
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Choose Europe for Science: ERC welcomes new budget for 'super grants'. Might be a particularly interesting opportunity for US researchers thinking of relocating to Europe 🇪🇺
Choose Europe for Science: ERC welcomes new budget for 'super grants'
The Scientific Council of the European Research Council welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from the European Commission for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering la...
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This is what you call two different readouts of the same meeting. Go Denmark, Go Greenland!
Really enjoy CogSci but I will not be traveling to the US until the US resumes normal service.
Cognitive Science Society@cogscisociety.bsky.social · last yr.Acceptance notifications for #CogSci2025 have been sent! 📨 This year, we got 1,275 submissions. After careful peer review, we accepted: • 176 for oral presentation • 721 for poster with full publication • 203 for poster with abstract only 🎉 Got in? Tag us — we’d love to repost!
Some thoughts on Adolescence and what it reveals about our failure to protect childhood.
What Adolescence reveals about our society's failure to protect childhood
Netflix’s Adolescence was a brilliantly crafted, yet harrowing look into the causes and consequences of serious crimes committed by children.
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"I want to raise my kids in a country that is not tilting towards a fascist dictatorship." Philosopher Jason Stanley is leaving Yale and taking up a position at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Stanley from Yale to Toronto - Daily Nous
Jason Stanley, currently professor of philosophy at Yale University, will be moving to the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. Professor Stanley is well known...
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I was a middle class, middle of the road, middling person, muddling along. Shocks of Brexit,Trump, Ukraine and Gaza jolted me out of complacency. We must fight for our values every day, never take democracy for granted. I no longer think Bernie and AOC are “radical”; they’re principled and feisty. 👍
Scott Dworkin@dworkin.bsky.social · last yr.AOC and Bernie finished off the first leg of their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour Saturday—as 23,000 people showed up to rally in Tucson, AZ. In total, the five high-energy events had more than 86,000 people turn out. Denver’s rally was the largest held in the city since 2008. More here:
I am begging, pleading in fact, for my fellow academics to find some courage and start speaking up. Because you can't just keep your head down and ride out this storm. And even if you could, is that really what you want being a scholar and educator to be?
Here is a model for the USA. What are the democratic leaders doing?
Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social · last yr.Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you.
Please lecture us more about free speech in Europe.
Joey Politano🏳️🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · last yr.ahhhhhhhhhh
I’m confused by all the headline references to a “shouting match.” I saw one side shouting and the other side getting shouted over when he tried to talk.
