See, when *I* interrupt people, it's to move the conversation along. When people interrupt *me*, they don't go to heaven

More jobs should offer cookies

"I wasn't quoting Hitler, I just independently came up with a similar phrase," is kind of exactly the defense you expect from the classical-Nazi staff you imagine writing for Harvard's conservative student paper

Recent discovery via Reddit: equal parts Cointreau, Malort, lime juice, grenadine. Shake and strain.

teach students `git` early todd.gureckislab.org/2025/12/19/g...

Congrats to @laurennross.bsky.social, @ucirvine.bsky.social logic & philosophy of science Dean's Professor and Chancellor's Fellow, who’s received research funding from the John Templeton Foundation to study token causality, which concerns explanations for specific events!

This scene is a highlight of the show

Fund the arts

I'm always surprised at how cheap lobbying seems to be. Could the affected people spend a nickel each to make their health insurance cuts go away? For a dime each, can they get single payer?

AI-assisted coding: 10 simple rules to maintain scientific rigor www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i... - my latest in @thetransmitter.bsky.social

Teaching a new class in Winter. Too early to start prep.

The writers of this season are really phoning it in

This is an amazing chart but also this chart already existed (as actuarial projection, obvs) in 2016.

Seven-parameter drift-diffusion pdfs and cdfs now in Stan statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/11/s...

Good piece but man are there some twitter ass responses in the thread

Obviously mine is Probability Theory: The Logic of Science but I'm basic like that

In a world of Carols, be a Mr. Diabaté

Time for my annual rewatch of the first six minutes of X-Men United

Time for a Veep rewatch I guess

"The constraint is the feature." Very nice analogy here I think.

A strong start but room for improvement, 7/10

Look this OU scandal is just nerd sniping. People all over my feed are talking about rubrics and grading policies when this is a straightforward Republican hit job on a trans person

I feel like this was already widely known...?

Immediately a fan from reading the behavioral experiment included here to study the effect of psilocybin

Some bullshit

Charlie Brown, Charlie Brown, lema sabachthani?

PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!

“Zohran, they said don’t mess with him, don’t mess with the Zohran but we were ready to, but we had a wonderful time quite frankly. And he said Mr. President, we need to seize means of production and we do, we need to seize them so badly.”

I forgot to do the thing where I announce my póster before the Póster session!! 🫣 Anyway, here is a copy for posterity! :-) Shoutout to Eunice Shin (not on BlueSky) and the great @joachim.cidlab.com !!

The biggest consequence of LLMs seems to be the devaluation of the written word as an indicator of understanding

It is almost impossible not to read this comic and also not think of @elisabethbik.bsky.social and her work..

American values on display at johnoliversjunk.com

Dear [Student Name], Thank you for reaching out. Unfortunately I cannot help you because [reason].

The em dash has been unfairly maligned for its association with the real ChatGPT tell: the "not just X — Y" thing that makes you sound like you used an English-to-LinkedIn translator

#SfN2025 Poster 2 of 6 Today! Sunday 11/16 8a-12p @khoudary.bsky.social TKP05.05SU / WW13 Philosophical tools for evaluating computational models of cognition, with @aaronbornstein.bsky.social www.abstractsonline....

I'm not at SfN but someone bring me back some swag

Having gone to Catholic schools for my entire youth... yeah this tracks

It gets me every time -- Ruby Bridges is active on Instagram

don't have heroes I guess

I'm guessing this might actually be useful as a negatively weighted part of a training set. Nice of them to curate a corpus of how to be a dick

Also very happy to share this very [short but also very] cool piece we worked with Eunice Shin, who joined the lab at the end of her undergraduate studies ✨✨

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*