Noga Zaslavsky

I'm thrilled to share that my lab is moving to @NYUPsych! So excited to join this inspiring intellectual community at the forefront of computational cognitive science, and to be affiliated with @NYUDataScience as well!

Today we open-sourced a new project for developing behavioral experiments online. It is called Smile. Announcement of v0.1.0: todd.gureckislab.org/2025/07/22/s... Smile has been used internally in my lab for several years and has substantially increased our productivity.

📢 I'm looking for a postdoc to join my lab at NYU! Come work with me on a principled, theory-driven approach to studying language, learning, and reasoning, in humans and AI agents. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/170656 And come chat with me at #CogSci2025 if interested!

Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s41586…

77 years ago this week Claude Shannon ushered in the field of information theory with his paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," which has been cited over 100,000 times: bit.ly/44rfByX

Hi @Prolific, your platform is great (I am one of your first users, and very pleased) but recently there is a huge uptick in AI use in tasks that require open text. We explicitly tell participants not to use GPT et al., disallow copy+paste, but it is still quite clear that in…

Thrilled to announce I’ll be joining @PurdueCS as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2026! My lab will work on AI thought partners, machines that think with people rather than instead of people – I'll be recruiting PhD students this upcoming cycle so reach out & apply if interested!

This month I'm celebrating a decade (!!) since my first paper was published, which now has over 2,000 citations 🥹 "Deep learning and the information bottleneck principle" with the late, great Tali Tishby ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/71331…

We're still accepting apps for our research scientist position with LEVANTE (levante-network.org). This position is ideal for folks wanting to interface between a scientific project and an awesome team of software developers. A technical product manager, but for science!

I'm honored and delighted that I was elected to the National Academy of Sciences today! nasonline.org/news/2025-nas-…

Excited to share our new paper "Towards Human-Like Emergent Communication via Utility, Informativeness, and Complexity" direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/d… (w/ @MycalTucker @julie_a_shah @roger_p_levy) And looking forward to speaking about this line of work tomorrow at @NYUDataScience!

Nothing inspires more than the humility of someone with great accomplishments. I hope that generations of researchers will pay attention to the wise words of Rich! (Coming back to X just to post this.)

Out today in Nature Machine Intelligence! From childhood on, people can create novel, playful, and creative goals. Models have yet to capture this ability. We propose a new way to represent goals and report a model that can generate human-like goals in a playful setting... 1/N

Imagine running a restaurant & suddenly only having budget for ingredients & chefs—no rent, electricity, heat, water, support staff, insurance, trash, toilet paper. This is what 'cutting indirects' did to every major biomedical center & hospital in the US.

So Very excited about new paper with @SimonKirby and @EllenGarland4. We used infant-inspired tools to analyze humpback whale song, finding recurring parts that follow a Zifpian distribution science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Why do diverse ANNs resemble brain representations? Check out our new paper with @_coltoncasto, @NogaZaslavsky, Colin Conwell, @RMarkRichardson, & @ev_fedorenko on “Universality of representation in biological and artificial neural networks.” 🧠🤖 tinyurl.com/yckndmjt (1/n)

Thank you so much to all the people that came to discuss our research! This paper was such a fun and exciting collaboration 🔥

If you're at #NeurIPS2024 today, check out our paper "Bridging semantics and pragmatics in information-theoretic emergent communication" neurips.cc/virtual/2024/p… Poster session: Fri Dec 13, 2-5pm, #3711 w/ @elegualdoni @roger_p_levy @MycalTucker

UW-Madison Psychology is hiring a new assistant professor in the area of computational approaches to language (broadly construed). Please share with interested parties! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant…