computational cognitive science researcher trying to understand how we understand each other | currently postdoc @princeton | starting 2023 at @UWMadison | #CogSci #Psychology #Communication #NLProc #Language
Postdoc position in graph reasoning for narrative
https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0009QSP
Deadline: 19 Feb
Tasks: ontology learning, semantic relation identification, extracting structured information from narrative texts. #NLProc #DH #GNN #wikidata #fanfic #job #academic
@gronlp
You don't have to be a Harvard professor to do the math on this one... #JoanDonovan's pathbreaking work on #disinformation and #SocialMedia is a liability for a university that gets half a billion dollars from the owner of the greatest disinformation machine ever built. #commodon @commodon @communicationscholars @ICAHDQ @HigherEdLabor #academic @academicchatter
Do you want to do a psychology experiment while following best practices in open science? My collaborators and I have created Experimentology, a new open web textbook (to be published by MIT Press but free online forever).
Some highlights! š§µ
A fantastic way to make an important point. Researchers took items from widely-used scales of "social media addiction," and reworded them to be about spending time offline with friends. Using parallel criteria, they discovered that 69% of people are addicted to spending time with friends.
"Readers should approach our measure with a level of skepticism that should be afforded to current social media addiction measures."
(h/t @cconrymurray)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-020-01462-9
Starting 2023, four universities are pausing or ending their Elsevier subscription due to exorbitant pricing.
Elsevier's subscription was costing them ~10% of their Libraries' entire budget.
"Elsevierās prices have increased each year and have outpaced inflation"...this is despite Elsevier having the highest profit margins of virtually any other industry or publisher.
via https://www.dailyemerald.com/news/pressing-pause-on-elsevier-subscription/article_93c07dec-9120-11ed-8ce9-abbca97ab954.html
Figure via @MatteoCarandini
#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #Science @academicchatter
š£ New! Beyond Single-Mindedness: A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences
:doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13230 (html)
:OpenAccess: https://is.gd/beyond_singlemindedness_pdf (pdf)
Writing as a transdisciplinary collective from across the cognitive sciences and beyond, we highlight the opportunity for a Gestalt switch that puts interaction at the heart of cognition
Fedi authors include: @andreasliesenfeld @marlourasenberg @saulalbert @abebab @cdutilhnovaes @fusaroli @davidschlangen @LizStokoe
"But letās be clear: this āburnoutā that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be. Or, to use a term that every other normal worker in the US uses to describe their workplace under these conditions: you are suffering from the effects of intentional systemic understaffing." https://contingentmagazine.org/2023/01/07/a-profession-if-you-can-keep-it/
Applications are open (due Feb 15) for MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences' Post-Baccalaureate Research Scholars Program! This is a two-year, fully funded, program offering additional research and academic training in cognitive, systems or cellular neuroscience, cognitive science, computational cognitive science, computational neuroscience, or neuroengineering to individuals from under-represented groups and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Please circulate widely! https://bcs.mit.edu/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-bcs-and-building-46/outreach/research-scholars-program
My homage to Douglas Hofstadter's image, featured on the front cover of some editions of his book Gƶdel, Escher, Bach. He calls this a "triplet" sculpture, I believe because there are "trip" (three) "let" (letters).
Instead of the letters "G", "E", and "B", I used "3", "D", and "P", for "3D printing". #3DPrinting #Shadow #Art
ORBIT: A Unified Simulation Framework for Interactive Robot Learning Environments
abs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04195
project page: https://isaac-orbit.github.io/
"CREPE: Can Vision-Language Foundation Models Reason Compositionally?. (arXiv:2212.07796v2 [cs.CL] UPDATED)" ā A compositionality evaluation benchmark to measures two important aspects of compositionality ā systematicity and productivity ā across 6 architectures trained with 4 algorithms on massive datasets.
Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07796
#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning
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Yesterday, Yudong Luo presented his NeurIPS paper "Uncertainty-Aware RL for Risk-Sensitive Player Evaluation in Sports Game" at Uncertainty in AI reading group !
https://uncertainty-reading-group.github.io/2022-01-09-talk/
Co-author: Guiliang Liu, Oliver Schulte, Pascal Poupart
My first #neuroscience masto-print? Cross-posted to twitter, so apologies for the bird links throughout
Recently we proposed that ventral cortex (VTC) may not represent global shape, but a basis set of local features (https://twitter.com/vayzenberg90/status/1583080259213148160?s=20)
In her commentary https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.11.004, Yaoda Xu raises several important questions which we had the opportunity to address https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.12.001
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Hey #DH #DigitalHumanities #DigitalHistory #CulturalAnalytics #ComputationalSocialScience ppl! I'm teaching a course this Spring on Culture At Scale and would love to hear abt your favorite books or articles that make āØknowledge claimsāØ about culture with computational methods š¤š !!
Could be from or about any time period, disciplinary/domain area, or in any programming language/methodological approach -- so please lmk what you really enjoyed! Thanks š !!!
Great review out in @eLife from
@ElDuvelle @rmgrieves & Matt van der Meer:
Temporal context and latent state inference in the hippocampal splitter signal
@BayesForDays fr need to install a simulator in my actual bedroom
i donāt think iām an especially terrible participant but every time i help with an fmri study i come away convinced the only thing they could possibly be measuring is me exerting every ounce of willpower to keep my eyes open
Oh oh I cannot wait for The Little Learner to come out! https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546379/the-little-learner/
What makes a tutoring session more effective than a lecture? In our new preprint "Learning to teach, teaching to learn," we propose a hierarchical Bayesian model of pedagogy to explore the cognitive mechanisms underlying adaptive teaching.š§µ
w/ Andrew Palacci @natvelali @rdhawkins @gershbrain
