“LLMs do not improve one’s writing ability much like taking a taxi does not improve one’s driving ability. Students should hone their writing, thinking, and other academic skills at every opportunity.” zenodo.org/records/1706... 23/🧵

Announcing the first (and perhaps only) Multilingual Minds and Machines Meeting! Come join us in Nijmegen, June 22-23, 2026, if you are interested in computational models of human multilingualism: mmmm2026.github.io

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

Bad science is science done badly; pseudoscience is not science at all. @critikid.bsky.social offers nine red flags that can be indicative of pseudoscience, and that can help us avoid falling prey to its lure: buff.ly/zzKYx5v

This website is excellent: olivia.science/ai

> “I’m working on my Sunday column and I’m going to play bridge this afternoon,” she told one reporter, “so I don’t have time to read all this crap.” Literally an icon and not only excellent social media disposition but also a natural on "media training"

"Cortical, subcortical, and non-neural fMRI signals differentially predict alpha and delta rhythms" dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Beautiful story of mentoring of high school students www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"De wetenschappelijke integriteit staat op het spel nu universiteiten [AI] zonder kritische bezinning omarmen. Dat is de waarschuwing van een internationale groep van achttien wetenschappers, onder leiding van onderzoekers van de Radboud Universiteit.” www.scienceguide.nl/2025/09/ai-s... 1/🧵

Oh sorry, I misread. We also have a co-author at VU: @felienne.bsky.social I also recommend her newsletter: www.felienne.nl It is an uphill battle, sending solidarity.

You're invited to sign this open letter

This is why politicians always want to replace mathematicians with machines. Protect maths people.

This is true. But you would be surprised how many people are actually quite ok with carrying out unethical instructions when they come from a higher authority and when the bitter pill is sweetened by phrases such as "someone's got to do it", "necessary for the survival of the organization" etc.

Prioritizing in-class work to deal with the challenge of getting students to do homework: inspiring examples www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...

Always a highlight of the year: Ig Nobel prizes. I think in this time, light-heartedness is more important than ever! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our article is out in Annual Review of Vision Science: “Visual Image Reconstruction from Brain Activity via Latent Representation” We trace the path from early brain decoding to modern NeuroAI, highlight progress & pitfalls, and discuss future directions www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

"The version of DeepSeek-R1 that was trained through reinforcement learning alone tended to produce responses that were convoluted, long or otherwise difficult for humans to read. Ultimately, ... they needed to introduce some supervised learning" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

People are more likely to cheat when they delegate t"Köbis and colleagues’ work is a timely warning: AI reflects not only our capabilities but also our moral habits, our tolerance for ambiguity and our willingness to offload discomfort." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Peer reviews relying on independent researchers is a way to dial back hype in the AI industry. Claims that cannot be verified are a real risk for society, given how ubiquitous this technology has become" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"machines were far more likely than human agents to carry out fully unethical instructions." rdcu.be/eGY0v

Susan Monarez testifies at tense Senate hearing that scientific integrity is being quashed at US health agency. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Science under Siege offers a solid frame for understanding the forces that scientists are up against and the challenges at hand. Now, we need new tactics, because our well-worn strategies will not be up to the job." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How billions of hacked mosquitoes and a vaccine could beat the deadly dengue virus www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#PsychJob #PhDJob #HealthPsych #BehSci #PsychSciSky

Reminder (now with hashtags): We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position at CIMCyC (Granada, Spain) to work on the psychology of dis(mis)information. Nice environment, great city! Apply before 26th September. Please share! 🔃 #socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob #PhDJob

Excited to share that I’ll give a talk at this year’s Lindy Hop Festival in Aarhus on September 27! The talks are open to the public. aarhuslindyhoppers.dk/daytime-acti...

Researchers have validated Fabla, a secure smartphone app that lets participants record spoken diary entries in their daily lives. ✅ Higher adherence & usability ✅ 2x more language data than text diaries. #psynomBRM paper by Kaplan @deannakaplan.bsky.social and colleagues.

LSE's Department of Methodogy is searching for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. Applicants from across the social sciences are very welcome! Please reach out if you would like any more details.

Might focused ultrasound one day replace DBS? UK Scientists built a 256-panel focused ultrasound helmet that can precisely target deep brain regions. Using theta-burst TUS, they stimulated the LGN and found visual cortex activity with effects lasting up to 40 minutes. #neuroskyence #ultrasound

Is this all there is? he wondered. Just working harder and harder while things get worse and worse? ... Here's a little thing I wrote. It's been helping me, at least. perfors.net/blog/saving-...

Thank you, @mvugt.bsky.social! We’re indeed pretty happy with these results ourselves. Even more so as there was quite some time between mri recordings and SoF assessment.

General abstract submission is now open for the Netherlands Brain and Cognition conference happening in Egmond aan Zee from December 17-19th. Keynote speakers: Steve Fleming and Maryam Alimardani! Submit your talk and poster abstracts before October 1st www.societyforbrainandcognition.nl/calls/

"individual speeds of forgetting are associated with resting-state connectivity within the default mode network (DMN) as well as between the DMN and cortical sensory areas. " dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... Cool stuff by @van-rijn.org @andreastocco.com and colleagues!

For me my time in the Young Academy Groningen was pivotal. It's therefore cool to see new initiatives like this young academy that combines industry and academia www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This looks like a great conference on cognitive science and clinical psychology in India from March 5-7th: icncnc2026.com

"I now see that the value of a scientific career isn’t measured only by the institution on your diploma, but by whether your work feels meaningful, whether you’re growing as a researcher, and whether you can sustain the curiosity " www.science.org/content/arti...

I spent part 2 of my vacation cycling up and down mountains to get from Srinagar to Leh in India. So refreshing!

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Robbert Dijkgraaf: "make sure to listen to this little voice inside you, because that will guide you through the future." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"OpenAI is making “small steps that are good, but I don’t think we’re anywhere near where we need to be”, says Mark Steyvers, a cognitive science and AI researcher at UC Irvine. “It’s not frequent enough that GPT says ‘I don’t know’.”" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"gender, this gender disparity in STEM, is not one time before it is long way to go, so it requires continuous engagement, mentorship program and policy level changes." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"At 34 weeks after randomisation, the MBCT plus treatment as usual group had significantly lower levels of depression symptomatology than the treatment as usual alone group (adjusted between-group difference –" Nice work by Thorsten Barnhofer! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Had a blast chatting with @neildegrassetyson.com on @startalkradio.bsky.social ’s podcast about how AI and neuroscience come together startalkmedia.com/show/mindrea...

Great article with one of the best brief layperson introductions to AI v. LLMs that I’ve seen. And I love the exploration of whether and how LLMs’ are useful depends on the user’s level of expertise. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/mac0...

Teaching statistics 101 with some insights from Russell.

Are you feeling like your university is actively or passively embracing fascism? Do you just want to run off and be and hippy in the woods? And do you teach physiology? Come to Evergreen, a public experimental liberal arts school! evergreen.peopleadmin.com/postings/4361

How is science fighting back against attacks in the US? The project @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social encourages researchers to publish in local newspapers in their hometowns. The goal: remind people of the value of science 👇 www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/one-goal-is-... #scicomm #wisskomm

“Don’t we want to encourage honest discussions of controversial issues and compel our students to express their conscience, even if that means hard conversations, heated arguments, and, yes, some pain? “

(link fixed) New theory: Categorization is Baked Into the Brain It is not at the end of sensory processing but a core computation that begins at the earliest stages, occurring throughout the cortex as predictive feedback shapes feedforward processing. #neuroscience doi.org/10.31234/osf...