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Musk's Twitter is Quantifiably a More Hateful Place, According to CIS Professor and Collaborators

April 27, 2023
New research from UC Merced CIS Professor Paul Smaldino — along with collaborators at USC, UCLA, and Oregon State University — analyzed Twitter content in the months before and after Elon Musk's takeover on October 27, 2022. Two of Musk's stated goals were to have less...

CogSci Student Association Shares Its Passion for CogSci with Future Bobcats

April 24, 2023
A devoted contingent of undergraduate students from UC Merced's Cognitive Science Student Association shared their excitement for cognitive science at Bobcat Day, an annual event for prospective students. With nearly 8,000 registered attendees — including prospective students and their...

A Philosophy Department Is Born

March 2, 2023
The University of California, Merced, has officially approved a new Department of Philosophy, fulfilling a longstanding goal of philosophers formerly housed within the Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences. We who remain within CIS wish our colleagues all the best in their new department...

CIS Ph.D. Student Gains Confidence at NIH Internship

February 14, 2023
Cognitive and Information Sciences (CIS) Ph.D. student Ben Nguyen spent last summer working as a data analyst at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Nguyen was selected for the competitive fellowship through the nonprofit organization Coding it Forward, which brings early career...

CIS Prof. Padilla Designated “Rising Star” for Groundbreaking Research on Data Visualization

February 10, 2023
Assistant Professor Lace Padilla was named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Sciences. “The APS Rising Star designation is presented to outstanding APS Members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD.” Prof. Padilla was recognized for her groundbreaking...

Prof. Matlock Receives International Cognitive Science Prize

February 7, 2023
Teenie Matlock, Cognitive and Information Sciences professor and the McClatchy Chair in Communications, has been awarded the fourth Jeffrey L. Elman Prize for Scientific Achievement and Community Building — one of the highest honors in the Cognitive Science Society. For Matlock, it’s...

Prof. Carolyn Jennings Publishes New Book About Mind Control

February 3, 2023
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science Carolyn Jennings has recently published her latest book, "Attention and Mental Control", as part of the Cambridge Elements series on Philosophy of Mind. This work provides a scientifically-grounded account of the ability to control...

Want to Use Math and Computers to Understand Society? Read Prof. Smaldino's New Book!

February 2, 2023
For years, Prof. Smaldino has been teaching UC Merced students how to understand human behavior and society by building mathematical models and computer simulations. Now he's sharing that knowledge with the whole world in his forthcoming book Modeling Social Behavior, due out in October from...

Matlock Appointed UC Santa Cruz Special Adviser to the Chancellor on Indigenous Relations

January 22, 2023
In addition to her ongoing role at UC Merced, Professor of Cognitive Science and McClatchy Chair in Communications Teenie Matlock has officially accepted an appointment at UC Santa Cruz as special adviser to the chancellor on Indigenous Relations.

CIS Professor Marghetis Featured on Science Podcasts

November 10, 2022
Assistant Professor Tyler Marghetis was an invited expert on episodes of two different podcast series. On the Simplifying Complexity podcast, he was invited to discuss the science of resilience and revolution in complex systems, from the global climate to individual minds. On the IFL Science Big...

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