Heavyweight is one of my favorite podcasts, and I was relieved to see it back after a long hiatus (Spotify cut it loose to pay for Joe Rogan —ahem—). This week’s episode is a quiet heartbreaker. overcast.fm/+ABNzfgKxvqs

It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful #cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs

Had the discussion. 1/3 of the class (15 students) said it was the first time they'd read something this long (7k words) in one sitting. To me, this suggests not that students don't read anymore but that we should assign more interesting things for them to read.

my latest is expanding on the observation that your view of the politics of opposition to the administration depend largely on your view of the election (gift link)

Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky: A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details! psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

Tomorrow, in my science writing seminar, we're discussing "Daryl Bem Proved ESP is Real—Which Means Science is Broken". I highly recommend this piece if you haven't read it. Writer Dan Engber turns a story about shoddy research methods into something absolutely captivating. slate.com/health-and-s...

Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis biorxiv.org/content/10.1... With @daniellametti.com and David Green

More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff... Do you support or oppose "defund the police"? Support - 21% Oppose - 74% Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services? Support - 54% Oppose - 41%

Health and science reporters should lead the coverage of all these health-related conspiracy theories & newsroom leaders should keep their both-sides political reporters out of their way.

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol 2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy. news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

This is an adaptation for AI. These assignments used to be done entirely at home.

Trying some new pedagogy. Without the internet or notes, students complete short assignments in-class as part of a small group. We then, as an entire class, answer the two questions deemed the hardest. Students have a week to submit their answers individually via Moodle. Pretty fun so far!

Thrilled that our new review "Motor Working Memory" is now in press at TiCS! @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social By me + Hanna Hillman We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...

GPT-5 answers PhD-level problems and, yet, when I give it my uni's academic calendar and ask it to play advisor (an aspect of my job I would love to automate!) it makes trivial mistakes. Generalization of learning is a challenge long noted in psych, and still a real limitation of LLMs.

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

Universities forcing profs to incorporate AI into their pedagogy so students can "learn how to use it" is bananas—there's nothing to learn. I showed my 75-year-old mom how to effectively use ChatGPT in like 20 minutes. Now she's a prompt engineer.

Gave my now annual lecture to new Acadia U undergrads on how AI works, how students should and should NOT use it (if they decide to use it), and the ethical implications of AI use. It was a full house with loads of interesting questions!

imagine actually writing the sentence "Hamas propaganda lines such as 'stop killing children'"

"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...

We added a preregistered study to our paper, Affiliation in Human-AI Interactions Based on Shared Psychological Traits. We created bespoke LLMs that exactly mirrored participants' personalities or the opposite. Participants greatly preferred chats with their mirror AI: osf.io/preprints/ps...

We added a preregistered study to our paper, Affiliation in Human-AI Interactions Based on Shared Psychological Traits. We created bespoke LLMs that exactly mirrored participants' personalities or the opposite. Participants greatly preferred chats with their mirror AI: osf.io/preprints/ps...

New preprint: Cloned voices are easier to understand in noise than their human originals: the voice cloning intelligibility benefit (with @hwanguc.bsky.social) osf.io/preprints/ps...

We've become so accustomed to lawbreaking that this probably won't ripple much, but it is important not to forget that firing the IRS Commissioner for refusing to break the law--if that's in fact what happened here--would and should prompt immediate articles of impeachment in any other presidency.

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

Motherfucking wind farms…

🇩🇪 3-year universal basic income (UBI) study, in which n=120 received UBI, n=1500 did not. Website is pretty neat, check it out for core findings. www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en

Lecturer JOB! There is a fixed-term (2 years) teaching-focussed Lecturer position open in our department! Focus is on (human!) cognitive neuroscience. I'm not part of the recruitment process, but always happy to answer any questions about Bristol and our School. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Ireland launches global talent fund! www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob... If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!

Provincial governments are slowly degrading Canadian higher ed. "provincial governments provided the majority of the operating revenue for universities, but across Canada that percentage has dropped from about 55 per cent in 2012 to closer to 40 per cent in 2023." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Harder and harder to ignore that at least some people at the Times seem to think that they’re running a Republican comms operation.

Thinking right now about that period 14 months ago when lefties were portraying Joe Biden as something akin to a fascist dictator. I took a lot of heat for saying people were being ridiculous and that those attacks on Biden would age extremely poorly if Trump won. And now here we are.

Come work in my dept! We are hiring a lecturer in psychology (ideally speaking Dutch) @leidenpsychology.bsky.social www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3529...

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

Our new work led by the incomparable @hannahmech.bsky.social examining brain sensitivity to semantic distance jumps between rolling ngrams (each new word to n-words before it) during auditory narrative perception. osf.io/preprints/ps...

For anyone in the memory field, an incredible summary and tribute to Endel Tulving from Gus Craik. Read it for the writing alone. royalsocietypublishing.org/action/oidcS...

The final section of this interview is so powerful. Dr Haj-Hassan refusing to let the BBC “two-side” the genocide in Gaza. "You don't ask the perpetrator of genocide their opinion on whether they are committing a genocide". The eloquence in her rage is extraordinary. 2/2

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

The equalization formula (which Conservatives love to complain about) was put in place by Conservatives. Alberta receives nothing because Alberta incomes are 30% above the Canadian average. Weird how every PostMedia article on equalization never mentions these facts 🙃.

1st mobile phone based study tracking longitudinal changes in language & voice for #psychedelics ☎️🗣️⏲️🪷: We find 5-MeO-DMT induces a shift from external focus to introspection, predicting psychological transformations, e.g., in #wellbeing ❤️‍🩹. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

9.5 month developmental psych post in our department: tinyurl.com/bdhx9yj2 9.5 months is short—but these posts are at the Assistant Prof level for salary (85k-107k CAD) and benefits and they can lead to TT posts. Plus Nova Scotia is beautiful! DM me to chat about it.

It wasn’t Jenni Byrne who replaced a moderate leader with a right wing populist after the Convoy. It was a bunch of full-grown men in the CPC caucus. Own it, my dudes. nationalpost.com/news/politic...

Here’s the entire scope of treaty lands.

Danielle Smith has one card to play: picking fights for the sake of fighting. If she doesn’t make an enemy out of the federal government, she’s left with no one to blame but herself. Albertans are proud to be Canadians. We know better than to play games when our nation’s sovereignty is threatened.

A lot of weird Liberal doom and gloom today. FOLKS: WE WON. It wasn’t perfect—but think about what we were facing 6 months ago.

Advance polls incoming. Let's go! Lib+NDP coalition please.

Imagine the biggest problem in your life being about which bathroom a total stranger uses. Imagine pretending random people you'll never meet are somehow victimizing you with their existence. Imagine being that hard up for troubles that you have to invent them just so you can play the victim.

It’s Election Day, Canada. Go vote Canada Strong.