It’s the responsibility and the duty of anyone with a public platform to keep reminding everybody that civilisations flourish by collaboration not hostility and prejudice. This includes intellectuals who keep to their lanes in generating knowledge. Make no mistake, this is absolutely your lane.

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

There are comments out there about how comedians can deal with the cognitive dissonance of performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. They deal with it just as in Festinger & Carlsmith's 1959 forced compliance paradigm - the payment reduces the dissonance.

Marc Bolan, the legendary Glam Rock God, was born on this day in Stoke Newington, London. #MarcBolan #BOTD #MusicSky Marc The Jukebox King🌟

I don't know if people -- in general -- know what "authoritarianism" is. I don't know if they really know what "fascism" is. But I think they're far clearer on what a dictator is. Choice of words is very important right now.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

39 years ago I stopped cocaine self-administration.

The expose on sexual assault in the military under this guy’s leadership is gonna read like cosmic horror

Hegseth's words seem especially chilling in light of his whitewashing of the Wounded Knee Massacre as a heroic "battle" only a few days ago. The message would seem to be that the Trump Administration is willing to forgive any atrocity US troops may commit as an "earnest mistake."

No act of kindness, however small, is wasted. Try to work one in today.

Florian Scharf talks about the machine learning hype cycle in psych at #FGME25 (German psych methods division meeting)

Disturbing and not isolated.

Columbus folks if you want excellent (4th row, right!) seats to Elvis Costello on Fri Oct 10th let me know. Face value, no fees. Can't use them...as life has intervened.

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

For my fellow psychologists, one of the founders of SACNAS was Marigold Linton. A Native American cognitive psychologist who did brilliant work on autobiographical memory. She also received a presidential medal from Obama. And Ohio State says don’t attend? WTF en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marigol...

It's possible to criticise specific scientific work or sociocultural aspects of the scientific enterprise without advancing the anti-science thinking that is currently being weaponised by authoritarian regimes

so practically when ezra klein argues that we need to concede women's bodily autonomy for electoral reasons...I mean, he's saying women don't deserve bodily autonomy. that they aren't entitled to it.

and i think it matters that a lot of the people performing at this monstrosity are the same comics who have been whining about how "you can't make jokes about anything anymore" just to turn around and agree to be censored

No you share lies about precarious people as leverage

Really need to emphasize that the faculty Senate committee reviewed the case, determined he should not be punished, and the admin unilaterally overrode that decision. De-democratization of the university inevitably leads to erosion of academic freedom

Excited to share a new article from @icevislab.bsky.social! In a sample of over 60 people, we found distinct neural differences underlying object and face recognition in dyslexia. These findings highlight crucial domain-general visual processes that may contribute to word reading challenges.

JFC. Like 5 Republicans in Congress could stop this, or at least muck up the works. But it really feels like they all want it.

"Try to appease the voters by doing unpopular things." It's so bizarre.

Not only that, but he doesn’t seem to understand that being a pro-life Dem looks a lot different in 2010 when Roe is there as a backstop versus in 2025 when pregnant women bleed out in hospital parking lots so they can get medical care.

Critical point 👇🏻. Measles will come roaring back in the coming months, with ever-larger outbreaks. Other vaccine-preventable disease will too. We are at the dawn of a massive public health crisis. World leaders don’t realize what’s coming. Didn’t even mention it at #UNGA. We’re in so much trouble.

Neil v. Biggers (1972) is a consequential case still on the books that cognitive psychologists may know about. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_v....

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

spot on

New paper from the lab! w/@davidschultner.bsky.social @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social & Mina Cikara We show that merely viewing a prejudiced person’s intergroup behavior induces bias in observers—a novel learning mechanism for prejudice formation and propagation science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New links between brain activity & behaviour showing that both liking and imagining the scenes *surrounding* a person influence empathy 👇🧠 Place-related representations in setting the stage for empathy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroskyence

New in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... We study how humans explore a 61-state environment with a stochastic region that mimics a “noisy-TV.” Results: Participants keep exploring the stochastic part even when it’s unhelpful, and novelty-seeking best explains this behavior. #cogsci #neuroskyence

What also baffles me is that Democratic Party is ~30 points underwater in favorability & Zohran Mamdani is ~16 points above water in favorability. The Dem Party establishment, who is responsible for the abysmal rating, is too arrogant to support the guy ~50 points ahead of them. Incredible.

Been ruminating today on the fact that the markets no longer care if you are making money or setting piles of it on fire, and political parties no longer care if their voters can even stomach them, much less want to vote for them. It tells you something about where we are.

This is not meeting the moment.

🇵🇱 Poland opens border with Belarus, urges its citizens to leave immediately

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

First time I've been able to say it here on bluesky, but we need a better class of pundit

The idea that you (or any professional sociopolitical commenter) can separate low-quality work from high or determine "skew" is at best merely ludicrous but right now is critically dangerous. You honestly think we spend 5-10 extra years in school for the fun of indoctrination? Get a new job.

It's by design, Greg. This sanewashing is on purpose. There is no "better" for NYT.

Unreal. The casual reader of this @nytimes.com hed and subhed will have no inkling whatsoever that Trump's "characterization" is wildly false and that it's a bad faith *pretext.* Time to get better at conveying the fundamentally pretextual nature of these authoritarian decrees already.

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

An absolutely insane story about false confession: man reports his dad missing, police pressure him to confess to his dad's murder (lying about finding his dad's body, threatening his dog, etc), man confesses and tries to kill himself, dad comes home perfectly fine. abc11.com/post/city-fo...

Setting aside the bad science, these recommendations will amplify the personal and professional burden that women face as family health managers. Because kids will need more medical visits and be more likely to get sick and very sick, meaning more time that moms will have to take off from paid work.

6/n The central contention, that “2025 marks the first time in more than 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber those from the far right” only holds true within a VERY narrow conditions, especially in terms of how violence from the far-right is considered, coded, and counted.

a university is about. It's about structured learning, guided by experts, who do ultimately set the boundaries of what ideas/arguments are worth consideration and how within one's classes.

And they came to that opinion all by themselves (almost no "leaders" or news outlets express this or allow it to be expressed plainly)

The scenario that worries me is one in which the IDF occupation of Gaza City leads to the death of the hostages, and this would be seized by the Israeli cabinet as an excuse to escalate the ethnic cleansing and destruction inside the Strip, perhaps even to push the population to Egypt.

It's probably going to be the dumbest thing possible instead, BUT Pete Hegseth putting out a video glorifying ethnic cleansing and the slaughter of civilians right before his secret gathering of all US generals seems slightly worrisome

Just accepted at BBS - a commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social and @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's Sensory Horizons article: Reality monitoring decision policies and the slowness of consciousness osf.io/preprints/ps...