Hey, I wrote a big thing about The Cars, a great American band, in conjunction with a new biography. www.theringer.com/2025/10/01/m...

A landmark new study in JAMA Pediatrics shows the HPV vaccine is doing exactly what it promised & more. 17yrs after rollout, adolescent vaccination has slashed HPV infxns not only among those vaccinated but also those unvaccinated, showing powerful herd protection. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

What if there is a tech device that will substantially decrease your risk of dementia? My new blog post. And yes, I have started using this device. (Hearing aids. Hearing loss is strongly associated with dementia risk. Hearing aids solve things.) www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ment...

My weekly newsletter is now live. Please consider subscribing for links to my writing/pods, as well as newsletter-exclusive things. It's free! stevenhyden.substack.com/p/the-bland-...

I reviewed the new Wednesday joint www.pastemagazine.com/music/wednes...

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

Can’t remember the last time I joyously jumped up during a Giants game. Felt good!

Bad coaching on both of TN‘s last drives. too conservative after the fumble and too greedy before the field goal attempt

Today North Carolina issued statewide standing orders to allow pharmacies across the state to provide COVID-19 vaccines to high-risk adults over 18, including everyone over 65, without a prescription.

This is epic.

Bandcamp offering a cool new feature: Playlists based on purchased items that also incentivize listeners to purchase artists' work: bandcamp.com/about_playli...

Hey everyone, I'm hoping to get some sense from academics on what kind of financial support (if any) they get from their university/college employers for conference travel. Please chime in and repost if willing.

This year’s Giants team might finally be the one to have me tap out before the season’s up.

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

Today's Bandcamp Friday purchases (1/2): -The Tubs "Cotton Crown" ; thetubs.bandcamp.com/album/cotton... -Plains "I Walked With You A Ways" ; plainsband.bandcamp.com/album/i-walk...

Happy Bandcamp Friday! Support some of the artists you enjoy. bandcamp.com

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

First game of the season and I have to watch the two teams I hate more than any other.

Excited to present this great essay by Ashanty Rosario, a talented young journalist who attends Newtown High School in Queens, about how she's experienced the arrival of AI in the classroom. "These programs have destroyed much of what tied us together as students."

No drum solo should ever extend beyond 10-15 seconds.

Reminder that there are multiple vaccines already out there that reduce your kids' chances of multiple types of cancers (and some people want you to believe this is bad!) www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/6-vaccines...

The long term data on hepatitis B vaccination shows it reduces the incidence of liver cancer by 84% and death from liver disease by 70%. This comes from a large cluster RCT in which entire towns were randomly selected to give the hepatitis B vaccine to all newborns.

Moderna vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 2/2

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2

Tour de force review on “Economics of Attention” by Loewenstein just published in J Econ Lit @aeajournals.bsky.social #behavioraleconomics

'tools that give medical advice should be regulated as medical devices'

This thread about the gibberish that GPT5 will spew takes an unexpected turn as we learn about LLMs optimizing to satisfy the rating systems of other LLMs. Weird and worrying especially when we think about the use of these tools in education.

realistic Star Trek

Isn't "Chatfishing" just as ethically problematic as catfishing? Isn't it simply wrong that people are purposely led to believe that their conversations with generative AI are communications with an empathetic intelligence?

With streaming listeners quitting Spotify over its CEO’s $700M investment in AI military tech, Apple has launched a free tool for users to transfer playlists to its platform

If Paul Westerberg were a ‘70s English country rocker: open.spotify.com/track/0tEP1Q...

AI-adjacent people working in cognitive science should pay attention to this horrifying lawsuit about ChatGPT helping (encouraging!) a child to commit suicide

There's something oddly comforting in the Fall 2025 semester starting with a faculty-wide email, to which multiple professors replied-all to be removed from the list, followed by multiple faculty asking everyone not to reply-all, followed by multiple profs replying-all to be removed from the list. 🤌

I will never forget the groans Niels Waller elicited by teaching “A correlation is just a covariance computed in France—between z scores!”

how it feels to scroll twitter

Huh! I share a birthday with Tori Amos and Vernon Reid, and I was born on the *exact* same day as Layne Staley.

🚨New Paper🚨 I spend a lot of time trying to control what people dream about. Usually, we are looking at dreams of recent memory. In this new paper, for the first time, we caused people to dream about a specific REMOTE memory from their distant past. #cogsci #psychscisky 🧠🟦

Hotline TNT are removing their music from Spotify

Just got around to reading the nytimes story about that racist community in Arkansas. As always, their ideology turns out be be based on perversions of genetics.

More info about changes to moderation at PsyArXiv - improvingpsych.org/2025/08/20/c...

Anyone done a study on the patrons of museums devoted t9 fictional realities, like the Roswell UFO museum, the Creationist museum, and others? #AcademicSky

I’m an instructional designer at a large university and I just did a whole class including sessions on how syllabi and outcomes express your values and perspective to students, and so a robot just can’t do it for you. I think I’m hitting my head against a wall- I’m not sure anyone truly agreed.

Your team having a losing season because your Head Coach is falling in love with ChatGPT

I laughed so hard I almost spit my *checks can* Beer Den Calypso Tropical Hazy India Pale Ale

To solve this problem, there are things individual students need to do & there are things higher education & society need to do. The latter two need to decrease the pressures placed on students' time, increase the value & meaning of what they teach, & emphasize long-term learning not punishments.

Excellent episode and it’s just now dawning on me that PTFO is doing “True Crime for Men” as a vehicle for his investigative journalism.

Today's enshittification of life experience: Repeated reply-all messages to junk texts. Please make it stop, without replying-all "stop!"

I’ve been teaching my own university courses for 29 years (yikes!) and I still get major butterflies on the first day of class (argh!).