Shari Liu
Asst Prof at Johns Hopkins. Dog person. A woman who is up to something. www.liulaboratory.org
- Reposted by Shari Liustarting fall 2026 i'll be an assistant professor at @upenn.edu 🥳 my lab will develop scalable models/theories of human behavior, focused on memory and perception currently recruiting PhD students in psychology, neuroscience, & computer science! reach out if you're interested 😊
- Reposted by Shari Liu🚨🚨🚨 Our 52nd Annual Meeting will be held from June 18–20, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, with a pre-conference on Mental Control and Agency held at JHU on June 17 🚨🚨🚨 We are currently inviting submissions of papers (talks and posters)!
- Reposted by Shari LiuBy age 4, children understand lexical causatives to refer to direct causes and periphrastic causatives to indirect causes in causal chains. Understanding causation by absence develops later in older children. @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social
- Reposted by Shari LiuWell this is exciting! The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank! Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146
- Reposted by Shari Liu🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI. We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods. paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu #VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
- Reposted by Shari LiuMy lab at USC is recruiting! 1) research coordinator: perfect for a recent graduate looking for research experience before applying to PhD programs: usccareers.usc.edu REQ20167829 2) PhD students: see FAQs on lab website dornsife.usc.edu/hklab/faq/
- Reposted by Shari LiuThrilled that this work is (finally) out! We argue that the human brain contains parallel systems for understanding people and places. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/
- New perspective paper (w/ @sedaakbiyik.bsky.social, Joseph Outa, & @minjaek.bsky.social ) in @natrevpsychol.nature.com ⚽💭🧠👶 : www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Thinking about the mind & thinking about the physical world engage distinct cognitive and neural resources. Even babies have different expectations for agents and objects! Yet, we argue that these two systems interact in at least two ways...
- First, our minds and brains represent the bodies of agents as objects, and their actions as physical events. Second, using someone's actions to work out their mental states often requires accounting for their physical constraints (what someone is in a position to do or know; the cost of doing X).
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- Reposted by Shari LiuInterested in applying to graduate programs or research positions in psychology? Want more information and feedback on your submission materials? Then Harvard’s Prospective Ph.D. & RA Event in Psychology (PPREP) Is for you!! psychology.fas.harvard.edu/pprep More info in the link!! Please retweet!
- Reposted by Shari LiuNew Open dataset alert: 🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience! N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks! 🧵below
- Reposted by Shari LiuJUST IN: Harvard won summary judgment against the Trump administration with the court finding that the admin violated Harvard's 1st amend. rights. The court has vacated the funding freeze orders and termination letters and issued a permanent injunction. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Shari LiuCDC scientists receive a heroes welcome after walking out today.
- Reposted by Shari LiuGood. I have questions and the American people deserve answers.
- Reposted by Shari LiuTonight one of the CDC’s top public health leaders, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, has resigned from his post. Below is his full resignation letter. You should read every word. This is a truly scary moment for public health in America. 1/2
- Reposted by Shari LiuA simple tweak to make The Duelist (2016) a better movie. #descartes #dualism #philosophy #philbluesky #cogsci #badjoke
- Reposted by Shari LiuWhen an animals' groupmates go out of sight, do they also go out of mind? In a new paper in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org, Luz Carvajal and I show that a bonobo (Kanzi) can keep mental tabs on the whereabouts of multiple hidden social partners royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/4GI7G...
- Reposted by Shari LiuATTN: Robert Wood Johnson has money to support “canceled” research on racial-indigenous health equity www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...
- Reposted by Shari LiuBoston Mayor Michelle Wu: “Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”
- Reposted by Shari LiuOn the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°! In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
- Reposted by Shari LiuIf you're heading to @cogscisociety.bsky.social, come to our symposium “Perception as a Foundation for Common‑Sense Theories of the World” 📅 August 1 • 9 AM 📍 Salon 2 With @thiskevinsmith.bsky.social @shariliu.bsky.social @judithfan.bsky.social @ardeeb.bsky.social — See you there! #CogSci2025
- Reposted by Shari LiuLooking forward to #cogsci2025 next week - here's a list of presentations from my lab!
- Reposted by Shari LiuThe Causality in Cognition Lab is pumped for #cogsci2025 💪
- Reposted by Shari LiuCome see my lab at the Cognitive Science Society Conference #cogsci2025
- Reposted by Shari LiuThe SoCal Lab is headed to #cogsci2025 this week! Here's where you can find us:
- Who's excited for #CogSci2025? 💭
- Reposted by Shari LiuEXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker. My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
- Reposted by Shari Liu🔆 I'm hiring! 🔆 There are two open positions: 1. Summer research position (best for master's or graduate student); focus on computational social cognition. 2. Postdoc (currently interviewing!); focus on computational social cognition and AI safety. sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...
- Reposted by Shari LiuBREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
- Reposted by Shari Liuwhen you want to join the fun but can't quite get down with the nomenclature (ht @davelevitan.bsky.social)
- Reposted by Shari LiuThe neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow
- Reposted by Shari LiuNIH APPLICANTS: Your application will be WITHDRAWN BEFORE REVIEW if you have an international collaboration and do not include a Foreign Justification. Normally this could be provided after review as JIT but NOT ANYMORE. You have been warned.
- Reposted by Shari LiuIs it true you use only 10 bits / s of your brain? @andpru.bsky.social and I provide a motor systems perspective on a proposed speed limit for human information processing. Out today in @natneuro.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Shari LiuFind your closest rally on Saturday and go. You can tell your kids where you were on the other side of this. Outnumber him everywhere. www.nokings.org#map
- Reposted by Shari LiuNew STAT story about NIH rescinding the institution-wide anti-DEI term and condition that had been added to Notices of Award. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/n... 1/n
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I just signed the Bethesda Declaration and urge you to do the same today, so that we all stand with NIH researchers as Battacharya appears before the Senate Appropriations Committee tomorrow.- (5/5) 🚨 It’s time to flood the zone. NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn. 📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration ✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support 👯♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
- Reposted by Shari Liu"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
- Reposted by Shari LiuSo excited to see this paper with @ckaicher.bsky.social and @cantlonlab.bsky.social finally out!
- Reposted by Shari LiuNew paper just dropped🎉 With novel "Curiosity Boxes", we find that chimps & children are very curious about social interactions, & some even give up a reward to gain info! Fun collaboration with @alisongopnik.bsky.social, @janengelmann.bsky.social & others royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- Reposted by Shari LiuFun new paper led by Sebastian Holt, training adults on artificial number systems. Most work tests only base-10 learning; we trained adults on a range of base systems & manipulated whether numbers were learned as part of a counting system, or unordered words. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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- Reposted by Shari LiuNow officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Shari LiuSuper excited to share this paper! We show that lesions to parietal areas involved in skilled action disrupt processing of tools in the ventral stream. 1/8
- Reposted by Shari LiuI think a lot of people don't understand that in a world where everyone uses "AI" to vomit out statistically average text, the ability to use words uniquely becomes a premium skill and a critical differentiator.
- Reposted by Shari LiuStarting to look like I might not be able to work at Harvard anymore due to recent funding cuts. If you know of any open statistical consulting positions that support remote work or are NYC-based, please reach out! 😅
- I love Maintenance Phase!
- Pleased to report that we are 3 for 3 on health psych classes loving the Maintenance Phase ep on anti-fat bias and I should probably send @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @yrfatfriend.bsky.social a guest lecturer honorarium or a thank you card at the least
- Reposted by Shari Liu63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership
- Reposted by Shari LiuIf you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
- Reposted by Shari LiuWe just got an email that Hopkins is freezing salaries, hiring, and some construction projects. In addition to the 800 million USAID we lost, we’ve had another 50 million in grants canceled so far. And a 2/3 year over year decline in funded grants despite an increase in submissions
- Reposted by Shari Liu"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."
- The National Science Foundation was established 75 years ago this week, but as Professor Scott L. Greer writes in this commentary, it’s “been a bit of a rough birthday party.” michiganadvance.com/2025/05/13/a...
- Reposted by Shari LiuOut now in TiCS, something i've been thinking about a lot: "Physics vs. graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition" (by Balaban & me) relevant for many people, related to imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, aphantasia, and more authors.elsevier.com/a/1lBaC4sIRv...
- Reposted by Shari LiuThis Pride month, don’t forget about the trans and gnc activists who made this happen. People like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, whose leadership at Stonewall has now been stricken from all government websites by a Trump administration that wants us erased from history.
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- Reposted by Shari LiuI urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
