holy shit lol

UCI did a little piece on the journey of my graduate student, Kath. It's a nice read! Also includes my favorite lab group photo 🤩

From data to models | @ucirvine.bsky.social cognitive sciences Ph.D. student Kathleen Medriano is challenging assumptions and traditional approaches to modeling @uofcalifornia.bsky.social @joachim.cidlab.com

*slow exhale*

Someone declare November 6 our National Day of Heroes

I call training set

I am accepting graduate students for the UCI Cognitive Sciences PhD program for Fall 2026. Check out my lab website - www.relcoglab.org for our recent themes. Our funded work focuses on combinatorial reasoning, moral decision-making, and conceptual cognition in humans and large language models.

My sweeps? Clean.

mine eyes? seeing the glory. the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored? trampled. the faithful lighting of his terrible swift sword? buddy, you better believe that's loosed.

Cheney dipped so he didn't have to see Mamdani win huh

The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Authority at the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Authority is looking for an applied statistician with expertise in Bayesian statistics or causal inference statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/03/t...

Instead of leap day every four years we should have a leap hour every other month. Instead of a weird little day everyone just gets to sleep in a bit.

LA won so I care now

katinamagazine.org/content/arti... by @heroicendeavour.bsky.social

Now we wait for the dark

Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I learned a number of helpful things from this!

My family in Belgium know *exactly* whose grandparents were collaborators, and whose were in the resistance

i know your grants don't fund it (mine didn't). i know your university doesn't give you credit for it (mine didn't). but that extra work you spend at the end of a research project packaging it up and making it a reusable tool? in the "real world" (lol, it's fake here too) we notice. thank you

Seven of Nine was a great character because they added someone who is genuinely and for principled reasons sympathetic to a culture that seems horrifying to the audience, and have her hold her ground to defend it against the Federation pilled main characters.

You're telling me a DESK rejected this paper?

Now this. This is some hero shit 🫡

"Trump sells US military to unidentified buyer."

Wow really impressive turnout at the Minas Tirith No Kings event

University of California, Irvine (UCI) is hiring: Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences

This fun little preprint covers an experiment in my lab that was done 10 years ago. The topic was suggested by the first author, who was then a student in my undergraduate methods class. She wanted to conduct a test of a diagnostic procedure, "manual muscle testing" (MMT) that was used by 1/

The path to the right is why preprint servers do moderation now

Against Publishing: universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/... Preprints are read, shared, and cited, yet still dismissed as incomplete until blessed by a publisher. I argue that the true measure of scholarship lies in open exchange, not in the industry’s gatekeeping of what counts as published.

Robust Bayesian hypothesis testing with the hierarchical EZ-DDM: https://osf.io/7gcyw

FYI if you use EZ diffusion for your cognitive psychometrics needs, there's no reason not to use robust statistics osf.io/preprints/ps...

More nuanced take than most. The process vs product valuation axis continues to have explanatory power theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

This meeting could have been a lasertag event

Interested in understanding how young humans think about social relationships? I am reading PhD applications this year! **Please note**, that Harvard now requires the GRE. More information here: www.ashleyjthomas.com/workwithme

I'm a bit late to the game on this, but I finally read it and if you haven't done so, do check it out. It is a very thoughtfully kind (yet incisive) examination of where a lot of people on the left are right now, with Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates serving as rhetorical poles of sorts.

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

Happy Darmok Day to all who celebrate

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

With the recent formation of the Bayesian Social Science chapter of ISBA, this is a good year for math psych folks to attend the ISBA World Meeting

Come join our new PhD program in Experimental Psychology at Tarleton State University! am recruiting a PhD student to start in Fall 2026! Reach out to me if you are interested...would love to chat

Let's hope Kimmel didn't accept the new academia\.edu user agreement

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

The new Bayesian Social Sciences section of @isba-bayesian.bsky.social has just been created: bss-isba.github.io. The committee is myself as chair, @robinryder.bsky.social, chair elect from 2027, @nialfriel.bsky.social, program chair, @monjalexander.bsky.social, Treasurer, EJWagenmakers, Secretary.

Against my better instincts, I have written some notes on how human probability judgements work and what you should expect from surveys that ask people to guess what proportion of the population is transgender. I hope never to speak of this matter again