Even though it's not VSS, I was nearby and had to drop by Ted Peter's.

With profound sadness we announce the sudden and unexpected death of our Editor-in-Chief, Tim Meese. A founding editor of i-Perception, Tim was a pillar of the vision science community and instrumental in shaping the landscape of scientific publishing in our field.

Hi, just because a software tells you it’s “reasoning” or “thinking” doesn’t mean it actually is. You won’t believe this but programmers can make software lie about what it does. Maybe programmers need more guardrails.

Law schools: if you invest in tricking out @socarxiv.bsky.social to have SSRN-like capabilities, it can be done…

Please improve acknowledgments sections to better credit research contributors! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Our new paper on this topic begins by summarising three pathways to improve crediting of research contributors – 1. Loosen authorship restrictions.

Sharing our open-letter to the research community “Reply to Westwood: Questioning the empirical evidence that AI survey contamination is real and substantial” by @davmicrot.bsky.social, @soubhikbarari.bsky.social, Sunshine Hillygus, Trent Buskirk, and I. [1/6] osf.io/preprints/so...

🚨New dataset just dropped🚨 Introducing Places in the Wild: 67,000 RAW-format photographs (45 mpix) densely sampled from 810 places (260 basic-level categories). This is 11x the number of pixels in ImageNet! Preprint is here: arxiv.org/abs/2606.02481 1/

Never have I screamed aloud YES YES and pumped my fist in agreement more at something @siracusa.social has written than this hypercritical.co/2026/05/29/e...

This is why we fund basic science. You never know from what little curiosity will derive the tools that enable greatness.

🧵Thread overview of ALL my publications related to "Cognition and Intractability" in chronological order: 🌟

I have been stewing about this for a long time, because I saw it from the inside. People think these certs actually work. But it's very much part of the same Lower Ed-type scam that preys on Black, brown, and lower-class workers. As we fall deeper into the AI hype cycle, I see it more everywhere.

I'm investigating a skyfeed outage, will post updates in this thread.

A study in Nature Sustainability shows sea-level rise is already causing population retreat in coastal Louisiana and uses geological history and demographic data to argue that early, planned relocation can guide global climate adaptation. go.nature.com/4eHOh6q 🌍🌊🧪

What is a psychological theory? Here's our take on this tricky and controversial question in this week's Experimentology chapter summary. Many things called "theories" in psychology aren't actually theories — they're frameworks. 🧵 experimentology.io

The ultimate catch 22 of metascience. Point out errors in individual papers. Response: That's a mean personal attack. Try to discuss field-wide issues. Response: Shrug, no evidence of problems.

Yup. I walked out of my college graduation. It was during the Iraq war, and the speaker was a general who rambled about how only people in the military have true value. I just got up and left.

"Clearly, we’re not missing the right *regulations.* We’re missing the right *motivations.*" @experimentalhistory.skystack.xyz

“The message, very clearly, they’re sending is, do not speak out on behalf of Chinese postdocs. If you do, you’re going to pay a penalty...It seems pretty obvious that this is an attempt by the current administration to silence people that question their activities." — Roger Innes, IU AAUP member

Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Have you noticed many experts say they don't understand AI? What's going on? 🤯 Let us tell you... 1/

It’s time.

The sycophantism of generative LLMs is not arbitrary. Drugs are only addictive if they make you feel good.

What's very frustrating about using influencers to push propaganda is that it does genuinely seem to sway public discourse. I wish it were better regulated and enforced.

New preprint: Preregistration is supposed to make research more transparent. But if registry records aren't kept up to date, the transparency benefit erodes. We checked 1,137 psych meta-analyses on PROSPERO and found the records are systematically out of sync with reality osf.io/preprints/ps...

(I suspect that this is another manifestation of the prevalent perception among students that "statistics are the thing we do to data" as oppose to a part of the methodology and research as a whole) 5/

"For politicians and tech executives: It's incredibly important that the political process [...] makes people feel empowered, not helpless, which is causing a kind of nihilism they have all greatly contributed to. The violence is a result of that helplessness and nihilism." @reckless.bsky.social

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

The sky is not falling; high-quality platforms (Prolific, Verasight, CR Connect) have low rates of apparent bots. osf.io/preprints/ps... But also not zero; vigilance is very much needed!

"Part of the concern may be that AI makes it tempting to extend your methods or claims outside of what you know well." AI is not the only thing pushing for overstated understanding of methods/stats, but it's definitely a big one.

Users hate AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final. And it needs all of your data to do it. In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:

This is my unsurprised face: 😑 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

BOLD is not a simple monotonic readout of local firing. Instead, it reflects the net activity of two opposing neural populations. Interpreting it may require modeling their latent composition, not just overall activity. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

making all the p-hackers look like rookies

I've been redoing my smart home to not rely on any cloud service. Today, my street's internet went down, but everything in my smart home still works, even voice control!

Is a 55% replication rate too low, too high, or just right? Some thoughts on Tyner et al.’s (2026) recent study. #MetaSci #PhilSci

Reminder! The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) hosts summaries of what we know vs don't about a host of fascinating issues. All freely available. What a terrific alternative to doomscrolling: learning about (e.g.) The Mind-Body problem, Delusion, or Free Will. oecs.mit.edu

New preprint out today (osf.io/preprints/ps...). We tested whether AI agents are actually infiltrating online surveys. Spoiler alert: they aren't Thread 🧵 [1/9]

Open the Fuckin’ Wormhole, you crazy p'taqs, or you’ll be living in Gre'thor - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Kahless. President GUL DUKAT #StarTrek #Sisko197

As I’ve said a million times, I’m not particularly against smart uses of AI This is the stupidest use I’ve seen yet though

New pre-print: "AI Agent Prevalence and Data Quality Across Multiple Online Sample Providers,” led by Prolific's research sciences team and researchers from @msftresearch.bsky.social, Oklahoma State University, @lmu.de, Queen's University, and The Research Heads. 🧵 #AcademicSky #Research

Again and again, guardrails are a scam

I'm so tired of seeing this argument – as working memory is a limited resource, and as the modern environment is now so information-rich and complex, and as our brains evolved in the olden times to have dopamine reward circuity - ATTENTION SPANS ARE CRATERING INTO THE GROUND. youtu.be/t0qq9R__XiQ

Academic and technical conferences be like: Come to the United States in the year 2026!

Interesting note from @tobiasgilk.bsky.social: With the current lack of Helium output from Qatar, if an MRI gets quenched, replacing the Helium could become very difficult.

Corporate April Fool's "pranks" are never funny. Also, the combination of time zones and posts staying up too long makes the entire period from March 31 to mid April confusing.

this is so stupid. you simply cannot do behavioural research this way. the core question here is how humans act in this situation and at the risk of having to explain a methodological point so basic it should never have to be said, you need humans for that

This week on Counting Stuff, mostly an observation about how large graveyards of unused dashboards are just a symptom of organizational attention (more like the lack thereof) for long term stuff #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/dashboard-ro...

Good.

Three logical fallacies to watch out for

I can't decide if we're going to see a massive rise in replication/reproducibility failures due to generative LLM use by researchers or a massive in rise replication/reproducibility successes due to generative LLM use by the researchers doing the replications.