DISI 2024
Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute 2024 faculty, storytellers, and fellows
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@chimpanzeve.bsky.social
@paulapefraga.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at Family Dog Project | I am interested in animal-human interactions, communication, welfare, and emotions | Currently working with dogs but I have a secret love for pigs.
@faustocarcassi.bsky.social
Sardinian. Assistant prof at the illc in Amsterdam. Language & cognition w/ models & experiments. Roughly Bayesian. Past: Tübingen, Centre for Language Evolution in Edinburgh (He/Him)
@rmc-law.bsky.social
Interested in the cognitive/computational/neural bases of language and meaning - PhD Candidate at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge - Bornean Malaysian https://rmc-law.github.io/
@mattiwilks.bsky.social
Lecturer (Assistant Prof) in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. Interested in morality and related things.
@neuroai.bsky.social
Principal Researcher @ Microsoft Research. Cognitive computational neuroscience & AI. Writer. Nature wanderer. www.momen-nejad.org
@amaatouq.bsky.social
@beebytes.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Bio @ IUPUI; Director of the Insect Welfare Research Society; Insect neuroscience, farmed insect welfare meghan-barrett.com opinions mine & do not reflect views of IUPUI
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems. Website: https://melaniemitchell.me Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
@dorshilton.bsky.social
Postdoc Cohn Institute, Tel Aviv University Research affiliate School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford University Cultural evolution of music and ritual, human social evolution https://www.dorshilton.com/
@joe-quinn.bsky.social
Sociologist @sc.edu. I study how organizations and networks shape behavior, culture, and inequality. https://demc-lab.github.io/
@sofiaforss.bsky.social
Evolutionary Biologist interested in Animal Behavior and Cognition, especially the interlink between socio-ecological factors, motivation and learning. www.sofiaforss.com
@nedcpr.bsky.social
PhD candidate at ANU and affiliate at the MINT lab. Previously at Google Research, human rights law, some other things
@camrobjones.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Language and Cognition lab at UC San Diego. I’m interested in persuasion, deception, LLMs, and social intelligence.
@stavyros.bsky.social
doctoral researcher/satirist. Interests: emotion and culture, emergence of norms, artificial life and agent based modelling
@kathrynnave.bsky.social
@Leverhulme Trust research fellow @EdinburghUni Working on biological purposiveness & the meaning of life. Occasional sci/tech journalist. Better in writing.
@leonsk.bsky.social
PhD Student in maths at Uni of St Andrews researching digital discourse and culture
@dansperber.bsky.social
@masonyoungblood.bsky.social
Postdoc fellow researching cultural evolution at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science - Electronic music as Callosum - masonyoungblood.com
@kensycoop.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist, writer, podcaster. Interested in the diversity of communication & cognition. Language, gesture, concepts, time, space, metaphor. Host of Many Minds (@manymindspod.bsky.social) www.kensycooperrider.com
@divintelligence.bsky.social
Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration among scholars and storytellers interested in the origins, nature, and future of intelligences. Web: www.disi.org Podcast: Many Minds (@manymindspod.bsky.social)
@sashawinkler.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher studying primate social behavior, emotion, communication & learning. Based in Portland, Oregon.
@pialdecoa.bsky.social
Dr. Behavioral Biology 🎓 Curious about what tickles human & bird minds 🧠 Ecological & cognitive underpinnings of #innovation💡 Postdoc @IASToulouse • PhD from @univie.ac.at • STEMinist 💜 Scicomm 📢 Never stop learning • #FirstGen
@chimpanzeve.bsky.social
Developmental & comparative psychologist. Human & nonhuman primates. Observational methods. Culture. Sociocognitive development, sex, gender, diversity. Postdoc @DurhamPsych. Fieldwork lover. Cat & plant mother. ADHD