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Steve Piantadosi Nov 29, 2023

Andrew Perfors Oct 23, 2023

I'm very proud to have been a part of this paper written with @celestekidd and @spiantado. It is a short summary of why it is just wrong, given what we know about the cognitive science of concepts, to think that biological sex is the only "scientific" way to define man/woman.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01657-y.epdf

Trans-inclusive gender categories are cognitively natural - Nature Human Behaviour

On the basis of decades of cognitive science research into the nature of lexical concepts, we argue that gender categories that reflect the reality of the experiences of transgender people are more useful and cognitively natural than sex-based category definitions.

Nature

Steve Piantadosi Sep 13, 2023

Only one week left to apply to the open rank Cognition area search at UC Berkeley Psychology! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04035

Steve Piantadosi Jan 5, 2023

Ida Momennejad Jan 5, 2023

Friends of the #learningSalon, start the year off right & join us
Fri Jan 6th (yup)
4 PM ET
Myself, John Krakauer, @melaniemitchell & Claire Sun are excited to chat with Michael Levin about:

Diverse intelligence: morphogenesis as cognition in anatomical space

Link to the talk:
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/56

Reading:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9222757/

* The #LearningSalon is an online interdisciplinary forum, with brief talks & 2-hour discussions on #neuroscience #AI #psychology #philosophy

The Learning Salon - Crowdcast

Crowdcast

Steve Piantadosi Dec 20, 2022

Tom Stafford Dec 19, 2022

CONFERENCE

Cognitive Science 2023 is in Sydney Australia

The #cogsci Society are offering grants of up to $2500 to people who want to organise local meetups around the conference https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/call-for-proposals-2023-cogsci-meetup-funding/ deadline Jan 9th

Call for proposals: 2023 CogSci Meetup Funding - Cognitive Science Society

Cognitive Science Society

Steve Piantadosi Dec 19, 2022

Alex Holcombe Dec 19, 2022

RT @StevenXGe
Happy holidays! Introducing http://RTutor.ai, an AI-powered app that lets you chat with your data in English! RTutor uses Davinci (#ChatGPT’s sibling) to turn requests into R code, which is executed & results are shown instantly, available as a HTML report in seconds. 1/8

RTutor

Steve Piantadosi Dec 18, 2022

ProPublica Dec 16, 2022

A partial list of our reporters you can follow on Masto:

•Caroline Chen @carolinechen

•Annie Waldman @AnnieWaldman

•Perla Trevizo @Perla_Trevizo

•Jeremy Schwartz @JeremySchwartz

•Emily Hopkins @emilyhopkins

•Ken Armstrong @bykenarmstrong

•Mariam Elba @mariamelba

•Jessica Lussenhop @lussenpop

•Ellis Simani @emsimani

•Justin Elliott @elliottjustin

•Max Blau @maxblau

•Andy Kroll @andykroll

•Kartikay Mehrotra @kartikay

•Jeremy Kohler @jeremykohler

•Neil Bedi @neilbedi

Steve Piantadosi Dec 18, 2022

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️Dec 18, 2022

There's always a tweet.

Steve Piantadosi Dec 17, 2022

Mindy Weisberger (she/her)Dec 16, 2022

Masochism Tango! Poisoning Pigeons in the Park! Songwriter Tom Lehrer entered Harvard at age 14 & then earned a PhD & taught math at MIT, but he's best known for his bitingly clever, satirical songs. Now 94, Lehrer has released all his songs into the public domain, you can download lyrics/sheet music/albums here: https://tomlehrersongs.com/

And then check out nerd extraordinaire Daniel Radcliffe doing an impromptu performance of The Elements in 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSAaiYKF0cs&ab_channel=BBC #music #math #science