if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

Walz needs to be clear with Trump. Pull ICE out by midnight tonight or he sends in the National Guard.

The Psychonomic Society is now accepting nominations for the 2026 Mid-Career Award, which recognizes individuals who have made exceptional contributions to experimental and cognitive psychology and are currently in the middle of their careers. The deadline is March 31. Submit today: buff.ly/Pct3kUM

This Carney speech is incredible. "But when we accept what’s offered, and compete with each other to be the most accommodating, this is not sovereignty—it’s the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination." youtu.be/-9EFPdcSot0?...

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

Major kudos to the Acadia finance department who turned around my complex (multi currency, equipment, and travel) reimbursement request in TWO days! They’re always fast but this has to be some sort of university record.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

This press conference is bananas, and the questions being asked are terrible. He's basically saying that anything he deems the US needs the US will just take regardless of where it is. "We're taking wealth out of the ground ..." like WTAF? Greenland and Canada next?

Paper alert! (1/2) We examined brain activation for each content word in a podcast relative to incrementally larger ngrams (1-word, 5-words, 10-words) that precede each word with a focus on semantic distance. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New evidence from over 6,000 college students finds that digital devices are bad for academic performance and even effect peers in negative ways! Mobile app use reduces grades, increases stress & lowers class attendance, job applications, and wages coming out of school. www.nber.org/system/files...

I swear it's like a cheat code, doesn't matter what it is you're writing. Grammatical oddities, character voice inconsistencies, tonal or perspective whiplash...something about just reading it aloud as if you were reading it off to a buddy across the room makes problems jump out at you.

Wrapped my third writing class. Lessons learned: Uni students want to improve their writing but they don't like min word counts, forced topics, and BS rules e.g. no contractions. The class works because papers are short, on what they want, and I teach writing as a form of effective conversation.

There was never any point to having reference letters. That's why we've all started using AI to do this nonesense task. References should only be used for short-listed candidates for important positions/awards, and ideally, be done via a call to get the most honest opinion possible.

If recent events have caused you to lose trust in The New York Times, might I suggest a subscription to @us.theguardian.com.

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

It's astonishing -- almost every single sentence uttered by Mettler in this pod made me want to scream. This is every bit of reheated reactionary-centrist conventional wisdom, distilled to its essence, delivered under the guise of "political science." So utterly, disastrously wrong, all of it.

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.