Sad Georg should not have been included

Spring cleaning required a new website www.minedogucu.com

My lab is hiring two full-time research assistants! One position is for a project on spatial navigation across the lifespan, with a focus on midlife aging and menopause. The other is for functional imaging and spatial reference frames. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10136 recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10137

Some bad taste in friends, that guy

Made a doctor today so that's cool (Congratulations Dr. @adrifelcha.bsky.social!)

For a niche audience

As a reminder, don't push your AWS keys to GitHub

Me when I have visitors

🗣️excited to be giving a TALK TMRW at #VSS2026 🏖️ if you're interested in anything predictive learning, metacognition, successor representations & more, check it out!☀️ 🕚 tues may 19 @ 12 pm 📍talk rm 2: decision-making w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social ✨

"Do not spend your pity on me, Elf. Save it for our enemies for they do not know what they have begun."

Type out the code. This is both how I teach programming and how I use assistive agents for actual non-boilerplate problems. It's instructive when the generated code is good and defensive when it's bad

This is cool as hell. I was teaching LLM-in-the-loop coding just yesterday. h/t @twiecki.bsky.social

This was a lovely touch.

heading to #vss2026 this week👀come chat with me about all things predictive learning, metacognition, successor representations & perception🤩! ✨eager to be giving a talk in the decision-making session on tues at noon!✨ @vssmtg.bsky.social

"[T]he National Science Board was just about to release a report that highlighted China’s rapid increase in science and technology investments and the prospect that they will attain worldwide leadership in the next few years if the US fails to invest more heavily." thebulletin.org/2026/05/nati...

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University of California, Irvine (UCI) (@ucirvine.bsky.social) is hiring: Lecturer in Psychology #lecturer

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

This short read by my lab member Nicole Cruz is very much worth reading! Check it out!

Like most of bluesky, I want everyone to be intelligent and informed consumers of whatever technology is available, not whatever's in this bill I haven't read

This is brilliant

Same energy:

Happy silly space show day!

some Bayesian cognitive modeling students are having trouble seeing the industry-relevance of the methods (my worked out examples are research based, since it's what I do). Tips for good industry examples? @ajordannafa.com @natehaines.bsky.social @rmcelreath.bsky.social @avehtari.bsky.social

The Metacrisis is upon us!

wait what? we sure are not diagnosing a "recursive crisis" we're also not recommending replicating packages, meta-analysis or preregistration as solutions wtaf?!

Registration is now open for MathPsych / ICCM 2026 🎉 July 17-21 Montreal, Canada early birds registration until June 19: mathpsych.org/conference/23/ @elfox89.bsky.social @mathpsych.org

Replication remains valuable for evidence accumulation, calibration, and characterizing variability. But replicability rate is NOT a demarcation criterion. Replicability rate-based verdicts on fields are INVALID. If there is a crisis in science, it cannot be established by these methods.

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

bump for visibility!

Nomination DL for the MathPsych Society awards 30 April: - Estes Early Career - Senior Fellow - JMP Outstanding Paper - CBB Outstanding Paper mathpsych.org/page/awards Send all nominations to [email protected] All winners announced at the main Math Psych Conference July 2026 in Montreal

Her point Number 4 is straight up fiction: "Lapses in research integrity have damaged the reputation of science and we need some clear damage repair there." No it FUCKING HAS NOT. Read the goddamn polling data on damage to science's reputation. It's minor and nearly exclusively Republicans.

URL for IDIC submissions: link.springer.com/journal/44504

Congrats to our 2025-26 Outstanding Teaching Award recipients!⁠ ⁠ ✅️ @nadiachernyak.bsky.social - Dr. Joseph L. White Award for Outstanding Mentorship⁠ ✅️ @chrisrodelo.bsky.social - Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching⁠ ✅️ Laura Enriquez - Outstanding Teaching Innovation⁠ @ucirvine.bsky.social

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

Okay we can't forget about all the other stuff but it might be worth a weekend to goad him into releasing the Vatican files Which of course he doesn't have access to and if he did he wouldn't have the authority or balls to publish them and certainly not by Sunday night

Even if you're not a Star Wars fan, go watch Andor. If you've seen it already, go watch it again.

"When a poor man eats a chicken, one of them is sick!"

"Evil must be opposed," claims left-wing vedek in vitriolic anti-administration messaging

I’m offering a lightly used set of regalia in UC Berkeley colors to a junior faculty member, preference for a mom and 1st gen scholar. DM me your details— I’ll ship for free.

He’s announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged.

Cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written and I think it’s important to credit our sources.