Caren Walker

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I am recruiting a 2 year postdoc to join my lab at UCSD! See elc-lab-ucsd.com/prospective-po… for details.

We have openings for 3 assistant professors in Cognitive Science at UCSD! All areas of Cognitive Science. Join us! Pass it on! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04016

🚨Come join us @UCSDPsychology! We are looking for🌟an assistant professor🌟in computational approaches to understanding behavior! We are an awesome department, with supportive and inspiring colleagues! San Diego is also a great place to live in!

Feeling so grateful to receive the APA Boyd McCandless Award at #APA2024 today alongside the brilliant @LinBian_ and @DrJuanDelToro

#cogsci2025 will happen in San Francisco July 30–Aug 2 2025, in the capable organizational hands of Azzurra Ruggeri, David Barner, @CarenMWalker, and @NeilBramley – can't wait!

Anyone I know going to APA in Seattle next week? I have a request...!

And that's a wrap for #CogSci2024 Thank you to all the brilliant minds, speakers, and attendees who made this event unforgettable. We can't wait to see you all next year in San Francisco 🌉 🇺🇸 for #CogSci2025 👋 😉 #SeeYouNextYear

#Symposium at #CogSci2024 Don’t miss the Rumelhart Symposium honoring the #RumelhartPrize winner @AlisonGopnik, and discover groundbreaking research inspired by her work! 🗣️ @TamarKushnir (chair), @CarenMWalker, Tom Griffiths @cocosci_lab, Willem Frankenhuis, and Laura Schulz.

That’s my mom’s voice in the ad!

If you’re at #SPP2024, I’m presenting work on preschoolers’ possibility reasoning using a novel task: do they know possible from necessary?! Saturday 3:30pm, 6A w/co-authors Luisa Andreuccioli, Katarina Begus, @E_Bonawitz , Stephanie Denison, and @CarenMWalker Come hang out!

For those attending #SPP2024, come check out Igor Bascandziev present some of our new findings on the roles for error detection in children's theory revision. (Friday 11AM, Session 3b), w/ co-authors @adani.bsky.social @CarenMWalker & myself.

Some very exciting news... after many, many, winter beards, I'm overjoyed to be joining sunny @UCSDPsychology as an Asst Prof in Jan 2025! Looking to recruit folks interested in doing some fun science, while building some cool (and useful) toys! Details: eshinjolly.com/lab/

Reminder to submit your nominations for the APA Boyd McCandless Award for Early Career Contributions in Developmental Psychology by THIS FRIDAY, March 15! apadivisions.org/division-7/awa…

The call for applications for our Research Fellowship Program is now open! 🎉 For more information about the eligibility criteria and how to apply, click here: bit.ly/3t0QB2F

Very excited to receive this book in the mail today! ⁦@andrewshtulman⁩

Why does having a growth mindset increase your ability to memorize? Assistant Professor @julia_a_leonard discusses the importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for developmental growth in order to improve education quality and society as a whole. Learn more 👇

We are hiring! Come work with me 🙂 UC San Diego Psychology will be hiring two Assistant Professors this year in: 1. Social psychology. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03683 2. Computational approaches to behavior and/or its neural mechanisms. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03684 Apply by November 7th

Send your best students to work with my brilliant new colleague!

One of the smartest and most depressing discussions of psychology I've seen in a long time, by the always-interesting @a_m_mastroianni experimental-history.com/p/im-so-sorry-…