Derek Powell

@[email protected]

Asst. Professor in School of Behavioral Sciences @ASU he/him

[Derek Powell @derekpowll]

Super excited about this collaboration with @tom_hartvigsen !

[Tom Hartvigsen @tom_hartvigsen]

If you learn a Puli’s a dog breed, you’d correctly infer they’ve got four legs and fur. But when knowledge editors inject facts into LLMs, do they generalize too? Using our new TAXI dataset, we find editors indeed generalize, but way worse than people https://t.co/bvTKgof7tg

[Derek Powell @derekpowll]

@maithra_raghu @stanfordnlp @nelsonfliu @percyliang @Fabio_Petroni @MicheleBevila20 Pretty cool, on a surface level seems similar to primacy-recency curves in human memory

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https://t.co/kp4LmdasUg

[Derek Powell @derekpowll]

@DataSciFact People tend not to appreciate this point exactly, although they do see the large number of reviews as an indicator of popularity and therefore quality https://t.co/hIzJcnaeUA

[Derek Powell @derekpowll]

Totally blown away by these findings!

In the interests of moving the goalposts, I wonder how GPT3 might handle novel 2nd order relations in the digit task? Like a progression where the addend changes (e.g. first x, then 2x). ChatGPT seems to struggle:

[Derek Powell @derekpowll]

@hawkrobe @michael_nielsen Surely worth middle authorship

[Alex Halavais (@[email protected]) 👺 @halavais]

We're hiring for a Assistant/Associate Teaching Professor of Data and Society! Please share.

More info here: https://t.co/CUGhDpEDJ1

[Derek Powell @derekpowll]

Well deserved!

[CASBS @CASBSStanford]

Congratulations to former CASBS fellow Ellen Markman, recipient of a 2023 @PsychScience Mentor Award in recognition of dedication and impact with a distinguished record of teaching, advising, and encouraging students and colleagues

More @StanfordHumSci: https://t.co/FiNIcVeWfq

[Lauren Kaori Gurley @LaurenKGurley]

BREAKING: 48K University of Calfornia TAs, postdocs & other student workers just walked off the job.

It's the largest strike in the US since 2019.

Many UC workers earn < $24k/yr. A PhD student I spoke to said they donate blood plasma to make ends meet.
https://t.co/RVI7e1xchT

[Derek Powell @derekpowll]

@JeffRouder My bigger picture take is this situation does feel tough. What’s tough is teachers have an ethics motivating them beyond pay. Higher ups leverage and abuse this to make you feel conflicted as you are feeling now. Similar things happen in healthcare, social work, etc.

[Derek Powell @derekpowll]

@JeffRouder I was a UCLA TA years ago, wages were unlivable and uni housing a joke. My guess is missing a week(?) of class never made or broke anyone’s career but I’d bet that a living wage has often made the difference (I only made it through stably w parents‘ help)

[Derek Powell @derekpowll]

This is a research-focused Psychology M.S. program aimed at preparing students to then pursue a PhD. Ideal for students switching fields or who just didn't get research exp. as UG.

Full/partial funding is available for many students!

To apply: https://t.co/p71DCi3fOX

[Derek Powell @derekpowll]

Before everyone leaves twitter pls share with any promising UG students that my lab and the Cognition Behavior, & Information group at ASU are
recruiting (funded) MS students for 2023!

My lab: https://t.co/xSPA6wMJMD
CBI: https://t.co/t956qptckc

[Derek Powell @derekpowll]

@ASUNewCollege is hiring for 2 TT positions in our Cognition, Behavior and Information cluster. We are looking for researchers using computational and data-science approaches to study any/all aspects of human behavior/cognition.

Happy to answer Qs!

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[Derek Powell @derekpowll]

Make the manuscript reproducible they said ... it'll ultimately save time they said ...

[Division 3 of APA @APADivision3]

Today’s #Div3Feature: Coming soon to @APA_Journals JEP: General:

“Modeling and leveraging intuitive theories to improve vaccine attitudes” by @derekpowll @kgweisman & Ellen Markman.

Read it here: https://t.co/KAOjupWpXe

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[Derek Powell @derekpowll]

The hits keep coming

[Derek Powell @derekpowll]

Twitter’s topic recommendation engine is absolutely unparalleled

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

Marjorie Taylor Green just announced a bill to make gender affirming care for trans teens a class C felony NATIONALLY.

Tucker Carlson says he will pressure every Republican to join.

It has no chance of passing the next 2 years, but this is their plan if they win in 2024.

[Derek Powell @derekpowll]

The Cognitive Data Science Lab at @asu is excited for #CogSci2022!

Here's what we'll be up to, especially want to encourage everyone to check out talks by @B_Schotsch and Justin Mikell!