So honored to receive the Glushko prize, and just grateful that @cogscisociety.bsky.social is willing to recognize whatever I’m doing as the study of the “mind” :)
SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Marina Dubova (@mdubova.bsky.social) has received a 2026 Glushko Dissertation Prize from the Cognitive Science Society and the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation.
The prize recognizes recent Ph.D. dissertations for groundbreaking work in cognitive science.
Marina Dubova
The Cognitive Science Society and the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation have awarded SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Marina Dubova a 2026 Glushko Dissertation Prize. The prize recognizes up to five rece...
Ever thought we acquire generalizable knowledge by discarding details and compressing our experiences?
In a new BBS paper, @sabinasloman.bsky.social and I argue otherwise, proposing a novel way of studying human learning inspired by double descent in ML.
Disagree? Propose a commentary by May 15 :)
I’ve written about the (optimistic?) future of science for @nautil.us
full manuscript + supplementary materials: osf.io/preprints/ps...
accepted manuscript: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
instructions for commentary proposals: drive.google.com/file/d/1XkBQ...
Marina Dubova
Interested in radical exploration in science? There's evidence that it can actually be the best strategy for discovery. We talk about it in our new episode of the Night Science Podcast episode with Marina Dubova (@mdubova.bsky.social)!
Apple podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
Marina Dubova
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Itai Yanai
If science is fundamentally about discovery, then are we doing it wrong by using hypotheses testing? A beautiful and thought provoking piece on the potential limits of theory-driven research by @mdubova.bsky.social & @kevinzollman.com .
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Marina Dubova
These job ads have now been posted! 🎉
Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020
Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054
Please spread the word!
Congrats to Doug Medin on becoming the next Rumelhart prize winner! 🏆 My “academic grandpa” through multiple pathways! #cogsci2025
Tim Verstynen
How can we best learn about the world? A new paper by SFI's Marina Dubova (@mdubova.bsky.social) and coauthors applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that scientists consider gold standards for designing experiments could perform worse than random choice.
