Fun fact, this is how sitcoms were invented

This 1,000%. It's annoying that I'm expected to start all my rants with "While there are legitimate uses for AI"

Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, we found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02390-4

Oh no!

I made this for potential incorporation to my slides, and offer it up for any who might want it

Interested in finding out more about @jaspstats.bsky.social? The Psych Methods Group at the University of Amsterdam is running four hands-on workshops (in person or online) this summer (@ejwagenmakers.bsky.social, @fbartos.bsky.social). More information at jasp-stats.org/workshops/ but to sum up:

I have written a piece articulating what I believe is a reasonably new position on AI, or at least one extremely underrepresented in the discourse, and I hope people will read it. The full piece is behind the New Scientist paywall, but I will share some snippets www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

Tag line for philosophy as a discipline

I can't be the only one who is made /uncomfortable/ by the way that razor clams burrow into sand, right? The final moments of this video by Kate Crump on the Oregon coastline are sort of the crowning glory of horror. 😬 But how does this even work? Let's talk about bivalve mobility (if we must).

@braininspired.bsky.social talks to @dewitmm.bsky.social, Luis Favela and @diovicen.bsky.social about the trend of neuroscientists importing concepts from ecological psychology, how an organism’s interactions with its environment explains perception and action. #neuroskyence bit.ly/3OyNEkp

Cute analogy, if entirely incorrect. Oh and the app this kid has 'created' appears to be a shell for another one, and it's *very* interested in scraping personal details from the computers of unsuspecting students.

Join us in beautiful Dubrovnik for the XVII Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science (21–24 May 2026)! This year’s theme focuses on adaptation and its limits across multiple timescales, individual differences, and mental health. Abstracts from all areas of cogsci welcome! Visit: ducog.cecog.eu

Humans could have as many as 33 senses #philsky #philosophyofperception #philosophyofthesenses theconversation.com/humans-could...

The critics are correct, and the delusional guy who had a bad college experience has created something very bad

If I had the means and the interest to open a restaurant, my concept would be 'Pizza Hut as good as remember it being when you were a kid' - actually good pan pizza, salad bar, red plastic coke cups, fake stained glass light fixtures, prizes for reading books, the works

Paul Lukas has outdone himself today, and I've been reading him since 1994. No piece could be more Lukasian. There's no paywall on it and it's just delightful. open.substack.com/pub/paulluka...

Reading Gibson 1979 and having a thought about a @edbaggs.bsky.social and @tonychemero.bsky.social paper, as one does

One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

We are just drowning on the most boring fucking guys out to be real dicks and it’s so exhausting

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

I made an app. play.google.com/store/apps/d... Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby. I hope it's useful for someone. Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple github.com/yjeanrenaud/... It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making

Making these things able to use words has been the equivalent of whacking googly eyes on the damn things. But of course they don’t ‘want’ anything!

This really stuck out - the loans are currently unrepayable for the vast majority of students. This means you pay for the entire 30 years it takes before it gets wiped, and so you end up paying maybe twice what you borrowed. This is an insane burden to place on students

Why the student loans row is escalating and what it means for graduates

Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.

Yeah I’m really not going to ICPA in Omaha this year. Such bullshit

Just occurred to me: if chickens can distinguish spiky and round, then dinosaurs probably could as well. #dinosaurlinguistics

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

What the fuck

You love to see it

Twitter is owned by a fascist who deliberately manipulates the algorithms to promote far right messages. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.

I’d like to report what should be a crime but somehow may not be

Bug hunting in my code is so relaxing. Sure there’s an annoying error, but logic and a little science in the output will let me solve it!

Rob Arcane posted the opening of David F Noble's In Defense of Luddism (1993) and damn it's like it was written and hour ago.

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

A week ago, we had an open conversation amongst senior academics in leadership roles and their use of LLMs (in both their leadership capacities and individually). Small group, not representative, but it already taught me a great deal about the diversity of perspectives (& their consequences). 1/

Why Technology Doesn’t Normally Make You Dumber, but Agentic AI Will www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Given all the discourse today about Bluesky vs. X... seems like good timing for @lastweektonight.com's latest video on just how bad X has become... www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG...

They say "hang it in the Louvre". So we did #princeandrew

Egg on my face! Amegilla quadrifasciata / white banded digger bee Nikon Z8 and Z105mm macro. Natural light SS1/2500 F8 ISO3200

The server complimented me on how prepared I was when ordering my food and coffee. It’s possible to win at ordering and this is a normal thing to want

This just made me realise I have not seen a bran muffin in literally years 🤔

My son has discovered MST3K so Sunday afternoons may be bad movies for a while 🤔

Recently, somewhat against my will, I went to try the "Sticky Toffee Pudding Pizza" (pt 2)

Recently, somewhat against my will, I went to try the "Sticky Toffee Pudding Pizza" (pt 1)

For all those outraged by their universities’ embrace of AI, NYU’s full-time contingent faculty are poised to strike over issues that include AI

Listen...

Trott (Oxford Uni) says creative arts courses don't give value to students. Usual price of everything /value of nothing Tory bilge - but in terms of bare ( & inadequate) £ value - creative sector is one of most productive in UK economy #academicsky