my family plays this game, "you fell asleep at a talk, but have to ask a question at the end; what can you get away with?" it varies by field. e.g. mom, clinical/social: did you control for gender? dad, vision science: can't all this simply be explained by 'attention'?

Putin could end the war tomorrow

1/ New paper in Communications Psychology: Against Frictionless AI. Led by my student Emily Zohar and @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social. The argument: AI's greatest selling point is also its problem. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The UN General Assembly has adopted the resolution "Advancing a Comprehensive, Just and Lasting Peace in Ukraine." The resolution calls for an immediate ceasefire, respect for Ukraine’s territorial integrity, the exchange of prisoners of war, and the release of all unlawfully detained persons.

This is the fourth winter under missiles and bombs, in darkness and cold. And once again fascist Russia has failed to break Ukraine, no matter what it tried.

"silly" and no, it's not a war over territory

What Kremlin doesn’t want you to see. Nearly 4 years after the start of the full-scale invasion, Russia has utterly failed to achieve its stated objectives while sustaining losses not seen since WW2. Now using Washington to try to get what it couldn’t on the battlefield. www.csis.org/analysis/rus...

without looking it up, guess the author. It's a person you know. "History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior."

“Showing Russia that Ukraine can sustain its resistance while expanding the costs on the Kremlin is the only path towards a settlement on durable terms.” www.rusi.org/explore-our-...

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

Very good overview of the state of peace talks. Key point: Team Trump fails to accept Putin means what he says. "Russia wants all of Donbas, but also a rewiring of Ukraine’s government, military, media, religion and identity, amounting to the restoration of Russian sway over the country."

Hey linguists -- chickens can distinguish bouba and kiki: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Humiliating as usual

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

Russia took ~5k more casualties in December than Russia gained in recruits. In January, casualties outstripped recruits by ~8k. As @phillipspobrien.bsky.social writes—with caveats that it may be a fluke or specific to those months—if Ukraine can sustain that, they can exhaust Russia's ware effort.

NSF Update Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit. Now by Directorate... 1/11

Read the paper (“Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI") and also watch this talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj8M...

Honored (and genuinely, wildly grateful and -- even more than I am grateful -- surprised) to share that our paper "Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI" received the @aaas.org Newcomb-Cleveland Prize (for the "most outstanding" paper in @science.org last year).

In case you missed these, here's a compilation (for a few giggles to end the week). 1. Instagram post by NYUmed comms (oops). bsky.app/profile/andr...

New details have emerged about the russian attack on a private home in Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv region, that killed 3 children and their father‼️ Russians struck a family home with a Shahed drone. The house was completely destroyed and burned down, leaving the residents trapped under the rubble.

When Ru tried a similar campaign in 2022-23, journalists were calling me non-stop, essentially to ask when Ukrainians would crack and demand their govt surrender to Ru. By now, the West has realized Ukr won't surrender and now our media doesn't cover the story as much, maybe because...

Incredible stuff from @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/igno...

A lot of professors are vile creeps, aren’t they? “This is just how it is! I -had- to talk about how attractive my female students were in their recommendation letters.”

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

No hint of compromise from Moscow ahead of Abu Dhabi talks. Russian gov'nt paper: “We’ll continue strikes till Kyiv signs peace deal on our terms.” Other papers on the economy: “India cuts Russian oil imports 3 ½ times,” “systemic banking crisis”, “car sales down.” #ReadingRussia

Another round of peace talks took place tonight. The results are on the map. Rocket and drone explosions in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, and many other cities all night. In the morning, electricity and heat were out in many areas.

After a night of russian drones, ballistic missiles, and glide bombs, the early morning in Ukraine now begins with russian cruise missiles entering our airspace.

Are you using, dealing with, or thinking about generative AI / large language models [LLMs] in any capacity, personal or professional? You probably should watch these new videos for public audiences by computational cognitive scientist Andrew Perfors @perfors.net .

As of early 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) has verified 2,209 Russian attacks on Ukrainian healthcare facilities since the Russian invasion of Ukraine escalated into a full-scale invasion in February 2022

This is the way you want to turn up in the Epstein files

This afternoon, russian strike drones attacked a maternity hospital in Zaporizhzhia injuring 3 women. A fire broke out on the second floor in the reception area of the gynecology department. Rescuers quickly extinguished the blaze.

“If you outsource your mental work to an AI tool, you deprive yourself of the experiences that build expertise and intellectual maturity.” Well put.

Neurobiology and Behavior Learning Theory and Behavior Comparative Literature Psychopharmacology Philosophy of Science

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There was a major blackout across Ukraine this morning. The cause was a technological accident in which power transmission lines simultaneously failed—those connecting the energy systems of Romania and Moldova, as well as western and central Ukraine. This triggered automatic protections at

-laughs nervously in Ukrainian- So er, I don't want to be alarmist my Canadian friends but it's not a GREAT sign when the superpower next door starts talking about how the people of a resource rich region of yours yearn for the freedom to join them and suggesting referendums...

Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Tenure-Track Position at Western Washington University. This is an assistant professor position in applied cognitive psychology. Short 🧵 about this position. 1/? Here is the link with details and for applying: hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...

Wow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...

"When asked for comment, a spokesperson for xAI, the owner of Grokipedia, said: 'Legacy media lies.'" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

Treat the US government and ICE claims like you'd treat a Russian government claim after they've shot down an airliner or bombed a hospital. America 2026.

We’ve placed the available videos of the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis today into the same synchronised timeline and are continuing to analyse further.

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

President Trump didn't end up invading a NATO ally this week. Are the Europeans even going to say thank you? by J.D. Vance

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

Trump claimed today at Davos he is achieving world peace - here’s the number of drone and missile attacks on the largest country in Europe since he took office

I love my profession deeply, but some of them are not covering themselves in glory these days. If a mob boss draws a sharp blade languidly across your palm and says it would be a real shame for you to lose your pinky, your headline isn't "Godfather rules out hacking off finger to settle debt."

Here is the full transcript of Trump saying he isn't planning to use force in Greenland. What stands out to me is the incoherence of his comments: there are so many internal contradictions in this short passage that it's hard to treat as a credible renunciation of violence.