‪@benhayden.bsky.social‬ @tyrellturing.bsky.social‬ @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social‬ @pessoabrain.bsky.social I see a lot of talk on here about how we should avoid "x does y" talk because the brain is "a dynamic, reverberant, reciprocally interconnected system". But this does not follow. A thread...

August 31st/September 1st on leave

When reading AI reasoning text (aka CoT), we (humans) form a narrative about the underlying computation process, which we take as a transparent explanation of model behavior. But what if our narratives are wrong? We measure that and find it usually is. Now on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2508.16599

imagine a world without LLMs. what would be the point of living

I love jargon, i think it's often both very useful and very beautiful language, and i have a crazy working theory that if you just stop having the reaction of a whiny baby when confronted with something you don't immediately understand then you will learn to love and enjoy jargon too

We’re hiring—one year post in Ethics—urgent—deadline this time next week www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/122985-...

On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°! In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ

This is in the replies and it demonstrates a real issue which is if you find profundity from an AI, you’re responding to something profound a human being wrote that was vacuumed up and what ends up happening is you thank AI and not only don’t thank the person, you have no idea they were involved

trying this with GPT-5 and charting new frontiers in gaslighting

new reaction image just dropped

A very friendly (but mischievous) White-throated Toucan named Tutu at Reserva Natural Palmari in #Brazil This was a wild bird but it seemed to enjoy hanging out with people more than other toucans. #birds #nature #toucanoftheday #toucans

Just published: Zoe Jenkin (2025) “Encapsulated Failures”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 18. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

500 billion dollars and the robot can't even count to twelve

People on twitter will really be like "you believe in computationalism? that pales in explanatory power to my strategy, a non-computational explanation" and then not have a non-computational explanation

"the computational metaphor" in cognitive science is not a metaphor. computational processes are attributed to the mind/brain in the most dead-literal sense. one can disagree with it but (1) it's not as simple as discarding a metaphor and (2) boy is there a lot of data that has to be explained!

PoVerTy oF tHe sTiMuLuS Is aS WrOnG As PhLoGiStoN

you wouldn't understand

more random exclamation points in working memory papers please

it honestly pisses me off that humans don't all naturally speak the same language. if god was a video game developer that would've been patched millennia ago

when an early career academic or graduate student announces a new paper on here, I think that it's generally nice to reply with "congratulations on the publication!", "W", "let's fucking go!", or some variant thereof before replying with your opinion about what is wrong with the paper

bayesians gotta relax with the taking credit for the concept of infering things about the world

🚨New paper🚨 Neural manifolds went from a niche-y word to an ubiquitous term in systems neuro thanks to many interesting findings across fields. But like with any emerging term, people use it very differently. Here, we clarify our take on the term, and review key findings & challenges rdcu.be/ex8hW

this was a hilarious final slide that just hung up there during q&a

Susan Carey mic-drop at #cogsci2025. "There are no innate concepts: Discuss"

cognitive dissonance reduction is so powerful

Happy to announce that my paper "How Language-Like is the Language of Thought?" is forthcoming at Ergo! Thread with a TL;DR below! philpapers.org/rec/MURHLI-3

All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.

we should be allowed to put "please don't cite without permission" on published papers from >5 years ago

Pleased to announce that my paper, “Common Ground, Conditionals, and Ceteris Paribus Pragmatics,” is forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy! 🧵

New paper out today in Cognitive Neuroscience! Proposing an explicit, causal-mechanistic, falsifiable and empirically grounded neural code for natural language syntax, and its innate basis. ROSE: A Universal Neural Grammar www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

🚨 New Episode! Our recent chat w/ Dr. Zsuzsa Kaldy (@zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social ) is up! We chat about her cog sci journey, her work on infant working memory, and a recent paper in which she argues that attention and working memory work in concert to pursue goals. So much fun! itsinnate.fireside.fm/29

Spotify has begun to funnel its revenue towards “AI powered” weapons tech. If you do not want to be bankrolling that, consider quitting the platform. There are plenty of good alternatives out there (like CDs).

You know, when I heard that all of our personal data had been hacked, I didn't expect the first major use of it to be the NYT trying to fuck over Zohran but maybe I'm naive www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/n...

New paper is out! This one is in analytic metaphysics of mind--I'm branching out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Drive paths for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander during the 2025 NBA Playoffs.

need more evidence for perspectival properties in perception? look no further than this unprompted lecture from my 4-year-old today

How I explain frequentism vs Bayesianism to my students

cool photo of me and @noamchompers.bsky.social

my vibe at SPP

ej green and i wrote a paper, which has been accepted for publication in nous! i won't lie to you, the paper is quite long and i'd say a bit dense, but here's a link to the full paper and a (...long, sorry) thread to give you a feel for the thing philpapers.org/rec/WESPAO-2

okay now that's how you write a dang abstract and some keywords

I wrote about the social history of analytic philosophy @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Fun new paper led by Sebastian Holt, training adults on artificial number systems. Most work tests only base-10 learning; we trained adults on a range of base systems & manipulated whether numbers were learned as part of a counting system, or unordered words. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

SSPP 2025: Akshan deAlwis on Attribution of Desire Factive Mentalizing and the Attribution of Desire Akshan deAlwis, Washington University Research on the extent of mentalizing – attributing and tracking the mental states of other minds – is highly heterogeneous. Some research indicates that…

What makes a concept complex? For decades complexity measures have been stuck in the classical era, suitable only for deterministic (definitional) concepts. But how does it work for probabilistic concepts? Happy to share this new paper (just out in Psych Review)! osf.io/preprints/ps...

this is a fantastic paper