We draw a parallel to WEIRD, proposing that CogSci is DEAD (Decontextualized, Engineered, Anonymized, and Disembodied). This is meant to be provocative, of course, but, like WEIRD, it is in the spirit of illuminating limitations and striving for better science 6/

Can the human sciences exist w/out the human? Proposals for using AI as human research subjects suggest yes. But @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I respond with, ‘not so fast.’ In fact, silicon subjects say more about the problems of the research paradigm than the promises of AI. 🚨New article, thread 1/

UBC seeks a CRC Tier 2 Chair in cognitive resilience for dementia prevention within Psychiatry and DMCBH supporting research teaching and inclusive leadership. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/assistan...

🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402

I'm back! In this experiment we had 39 participants choose between 8 different PhD programs which varied in terms of region, application materials, prestige, and fees. Importantly, two of the programs had a GRE requirement and two were equivalent but did not:

We're hiring! @univie.ac.at is seeking a TT Assistant Professor in the Psychology of Digitalization. If your work is about automation, AI, or immersive technology (e.g., VR) in the context of work and organizations (broadly defined), we’d love to hear from you. 👇

From genAI to wearable health tech, are emerging technologies truly meeting people’s needs for better well-being? 🤖💭 @ubcpsych.bsky.social lecturer @jilldosso.bsky.social explores how people experience these tools and why user perspectives must guide their design. Read more ⬇️

Great reading for instructors of History of Psych (me)

It's a full house in Atelier 4.500 where dozens of people have gathered for a panel on measurement, labor, statistics & AI. Our first presenter is @nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social, whose talk focuses on Francis Galton's Anthropometric Laboratory, which she recreated in a #DisHist class. #SHOT2025

if you were to teach a class on the pre/history of AI in terms of key concepts ideas, what would they be? the mind/body problem? abstraction vs materialism? history of the database? automation?

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

I loved this piece. God, gorgeous. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

What happens when a neurologist gets a cochlear implant and then starts hearing a choir singing “The Star Spangled Banner” on repeat?

At the risk of sounding like I'm doing a prompt thing for engagement: What's a great piece of writing (non book category) you've read online recently? Feel like discovery outside of my usual networks is hard right now! Just wanna read some good shit!

Finally, a bandwagon I can join. One like = a super interesting tidbit from developmental biology Trust me. #DevBio will blow. your. mind. 🤯

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/

Listen. The only way you can become a good writer is by being a shitty writer and doing it anyways. You can’t magically become a good writer by having a machine do some of the work for you. That just makes you a fraud.

This is a really fun question to throw at your colleagues when you’re a biologist

Preprint alert! When I was a postdoc, we (Julie Robillard, Katelyn Teng, Katie Roy, and I) analyzed 11k reviews of "smart" infant sleep products -- cameras, mattress sensors, and wearables -- and found both positive and negative health impacts for families. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

nooooooo I’ve used pocket since the end of google reader

Delighted to share this timely article in Boston magazine on our local C. elegans community and the effects of NIH freezes. "There might be no group more enthusiastic, self-aware, or life-affirming than the worm people." www.bostonmagazine.com/news/c-elega...

Google AI overview with give you a definition for any made-up phrase. In theory, AI should be VERY good at identifying what is or isn't common English idiom (considering all the training!). So what went wrong? www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-ma...

Google’s AI Overviews will not only confirm that a gibberish idiom is a real saying, it will also tell you what it means and how it was derived -- often including reference links. www.wired.com/story/google...

let’s be clear that personalisation amounts to determining a person’s future based on recurring patterns of the past. if you belong to a groups that society has not been kind to in the past (black & brown, LGBTQI, poor, disabled, etc), AI personalisation ensures your future encodes past injustice

I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!

📣 Brock #PsychSciSky are hiring a Tenure-Track Teaching-Intensive Asst Prof to teach our 2nd year stats course and a few other stats/methods courses. Pluses: beautiful Niagara, CANADA, strong faculty union, ample TA support, collaborative colleagues. brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree...

3yo got to touch an live iguana Afterwards, his grandma asked him, “was it soft?” He said, “it was not soft. It was [pause]… made of metal.”

open with my students like 'look you don't have to pretend to like this stuff or like you have it all figured out or whatever.' I also talk about how first gen students tend to under-use resources and that asking for help is actually getting more for their tuition dollar. I think it works-ish?

hey bluesky, in case anyone's interested, I wrote this for my students about why I don't want them to use anything AI in my classes. It interrupts the course calendar part of the syllabus, coming immediately after the first day there's a writing assignment assigned. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Impulse ordered this with our grocery delivery, thought about it all day, and it did! not! disappoint! The sourness is perfect.

One of the weirder scholarly practices regarding generative AI that seems to have been normalized is citing chatbots. I say normalized because many univs & scholarly associations recommend it as an element of proper scholarship. But it doesn't make sense when you consider what a citation means. 1/

I'd like to thank that one student in the corner who nodded along with me all semester. You make it all possible.

My favourite slide from my Intro Psych class this morning featuring @gretchenmcc.bsky.social

having a rough day, can't resist

My book, THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE, is about how we imagine extraterrestrial life through science and sci-fi, and what that can tell us about what it means to be human. Pretty dang proud of it tbh. jaimegreen.net/book

Unforeseen advantage of making one’s own pants — were one to wipe out publicly in front of one’s students while holding a giant box of exams and rip them, they can be patched with same fabric + thread

My big summer project! Plus the original vision, which I drew in a notebook and refined using the Instagram stories drawing tools 😄

This is a weird reading year for me. I’ve read too many books I feel super meh about (Deadly Education/ Women of Troy) and some I down right hated (Sun Also Rises). Please recommend truly mindblowingly great sci-fi/ fantasy/ fiction, preferably by POC writers. And I’ve read most of the big hits…

Don't have any specific recs, but in case you hadn't seen this Starter Pack: bsky.app/starter-pack...

What would it look like to build a social robot tailored for kids with a lived experience of anxiety? In this newly published work, we connected with 56 kids and parents to explore robot applications, emotions, and appearance.

Sisyphus but it's me uploading this stupid manuscript file over and over

Peripatus, spitting spiders: glue guns Bombardier beetles, oogpister, some stick insects, skunks: chemical sprays Spitting cobras: venom Cone snails: venomous harpoon Archerfish: water bullet Orca: waves Electric eels: taser Northern fulmar: projectile vomit Santino the chimp: rocks

Me as an undergrad receiving edits from my friends: 😭😖 Why are you attacking meee?! Me as a postdoc receiving edits from my friends: 😍🤩 You took the time to give me edits?!

Make a wordcloud of your research interests based on google scholar!

there's a new best human in british columbia and it's 12 year old will from the city of vernon

I made this list of the Top 20 science-related feeds on BlueSky (ranked by likes). #AcademicSky 🧪

Dying to play this kids song in an animal cognition lecture #PsychSky #CogPsych

Oh wait, here’s @paolopalma.bsky.social asking the same thing!