Good lord

Me sneaking up on my kids in the pool

Amazing 🤩

As a child, running from my room to the TV after trying to get dressed during the ad break and breaking my little toe on the door frame on the way out. AND I missed the end of that episode of Battlestar Galactica (the original, because I am old)

Just seen that my university has access to AI content creation tools on our VLE and I've spotted this year's shitstorm if anyone was curious what nonsense we were going to dealing with in 2026

Anyone can do anything with work under CC-By Attribution, as long as they give you credit creativecommons.org/licenses/by/... It is an open legal question as to whether there is any way to prevent this kind of thing blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Not gonna lie, everyone coming together to get mad about this project - feels like the good old days of Twitter ❤️

Everything about this is kind of perfect. This is the 100% truth of the Trump administration and the surrounding ecosystem

Here's some potentially relevant discussion? Seems like it's probably legit, but I'm way out of my depth here: law.stackexchange.com/questions/91...

This is definitely an interesting side effect of today’s drama

One point of contention is about whether you can use a preprint this way without the authors permission. Is there a TL;DR version of the CC-By Attribution 4.0 International license, or can someone read the one in my article osf.io/preprints/ps...

Dear preprint archives: look into this please

somebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work. lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply

I’m not going to play. But who else got this email? Seems like a lot of us

Some researchers have used a preprint of one of my papers, run it through an AI and got it to generate follow-up ideas. Now they would like me to rate the suggestions. Do I play? I don’t think I want to 🤔

A meta-analysis of studies using Tolman’s sunburst maze suggests poor replicability and little evidence for shortcutting. Ouch! Definitely relevant reading for anyone interested in cognitive maps! 👇

This might be the most 90s thing I’ve ever seen

Mindscape 339 | Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

“Why are you unplugging that machine?”

If anyone is or knows a PhD with EEG experience who is a) eligible for a Marie Curie post doc and b) interested in an ecological neuroscience project based in Leeds, let me know. I have an idea that needs a person!

🎶 Exam invigilation is boring, this is very dull 🎶

I’ve posted about this before, but about five years ago I got third degree burns up my forearm (and livetweeted the experience) and now you can barely even see the scar because during pregnancy, my sons’ stem cells healed the area. And now my husband’s and kids DNA is testably part of me

old way: start > run > notepad.exe new way: launch microsoft 365 copilot for sharepoint copilot for office copilot 365 hbo max 365 and simply say: "hey cortana. copilot run notepad copilot. sharepoint"

Finally, a way to remember how to pronounce “gyros”

I watched this when it came out and I’ve been thinking about it a lot. It’s an excellent example of the Daily Show at its finest, just making the whole game completely transparent through the cunning use of ‘Chuck, roll 2-12’. Absolutely worth a watch to be reassured you are not going mad

I think this is partly why hardly anyone is calling Trump out bluntly. I think a lot of the world is terrified to be made a target, and they are not entirely wrong to be afraid. I’d rather they all stood up to the bully, but when the bully has the power of the USA, I kind of get it

As @jbakcoleman.bsky.social and I wrote, “Every time a scientist abdicates their work to an AI tool, that is a tacit admission that the work is not worth being done by the scientist.” Same goes for instructors.

Just watched some of this and Starmer is just a mess. ‘I think international law is good’ when asked ‘did Trump break that law’ is the single dumbest example of the politician question pivot I’ve ever seen

goddamnit, your email found me.

I never watched this but based on everyone I talk to about this show, I have to ask - did anyone actually enjoy it?

This seems like a terrible idea for about 18 reasons

The past is a strange beast that even I have trouble wrangling with from time-to-time.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

I promise you, you'll never guess which "politics" they're referring to

My god. Have we just found the ethical use case for chatbots and LLMs? Amazing work

Episode #36 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On low-dimensional manifolds in motor cortex – with Sara Solla @sasolla.bsky.social theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn36 Manifold analysis has changed our thinking on how cortex works. One of the pioneers of this modelling approach explains.

He’s just so bad at this

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

We’ve inexplicably sunk billions into this. Please clap.

Damn good day at the comics fair today

Every word of this is spot on. Once ‘everyone should be able to go to university’ was morphed into ‘everyone must go to university’ this was inevitable

Hey #visionsky #perceptionsky I'm designing a perception lab on visuo-motor adaptation using my inversion goggles (upside down goggles). I've got a few ideas for stimuli where students could track their progress at perceptual adaptation. Anyone else done this? It would be non-majors, btw

I love this comic but I can’t say I’m thrilled that it’s relevant again

I mean, I and many others have been saying this for years now but I guess it’s good he’s on board

I’ll take this ✊✊

Rereading Invincible - it’s so much fun

It has been The Onion's best year since we broke Watergate and subsequently, personally had Richard Nixon removed from office. I'm going to share some personal favorite stories in this thread. Please add your own, and visit the Our Annual Year recap below. theonion.com/our-annual-y...

How time felt in 2025

#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #AcademicPublishing Panes 1-3: How journals make us write about our findings Pane 4: sober reflection 15 years later