If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question

Matt Goodwin has been sent back to Substack. The Conservatives have lost their deposit. Keir Starmer has been told left wing voters are not a guarantee for Labour. Overall, British politics could do worse than follow Gorton and Denton.

Q&A after Dan Simon's @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social One World Seminar- Must attention capture be visual to miss the gorilla? I doubt it. Dan mentioned research about verbal memory impairing visual change detection. Sounds like my first work with @ncowan51.bsky.social! References in the thread🤓:

Exciting that Simons showcased Ding et al’s @jcgntn.bsky.social paper showing theoretically interesting null effects of familiarity on inattentional blindness in his @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social OneWorld seminar. Some null effects matter! Paper here: journalofcognition.org/articles/10....

Attended a Cardiff Uni “wellbeing” event for @cardiffucu.bsky.social today. Argued that the best way to improve staff wellbeing is to save jobs, improve pay & conditions, join a union, and become an active member. Recruited well, had lots of great conversations, & actually listened to colleagues. 🩷✊

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

Roses are redde Violettes are blue Sayinge that the adoption of a technologye ys inevitable Ys a way to trick you

Poor political decisions, a broken funding model, managerial leadership, and metric‑driven governance, which together are transforming the sector into something barely recognisable as a public university system by Constantinos Alexiou and George Saridakis blogs.lse.ac.uk/impa... ​

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

AI does not magically infuse knowledge into people. "We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery. On a quiz that covered concepts they’d used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand"

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.

Utterly wild behaviour from management. Cutting hard earned pensions based on ‘vibes’ is as terrifying as it is absurd.

are YOU a university professor, professor emeriti or associate professor of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion? Did you know you can nominate people for the Nobel Peace Prize?

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

crazy to think how i struggle to ask for any kind of help but the president of the united states asks "can i have your nobel peace prize?"

Christ on a bike, this is brilliant. And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10

Call each other out, even if someone tells you it's not polite or respectful.

🎄 Just getting my last Xmas cards out there. ✍🏼 Dear cabinet....

Right let's breakdown this new poll for Wales because there is a lot going on below the headline figures. [Thread]

🔊 Cardiff UCU members: remember to post your ballot today! You're voting to demand: 1. Removal of all staff from scope 2. No compulsory redundancies 3. To stop the dangerous workloads 4. To commit to staff H&S

This entire weekend

“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.” Open letter, consider signing 🖊️ if you haven’t yet 🙏 openletter.earth/open-letter-...

🔊 Calling all Cardiff UCU members: get your vote in by next Monday! ⏰ The countdown is on: www.cardiffucu.org.uk

www.spin.com/2025/11/40-g... No two people would make the same list, but I'm impressed that the critics did not leave off Tori Amos or Bjork.

Have been invited to a potluck dinner party where every dish must feature hot dogs. I was assigned dessert. Will update.

Do you have an open working memory dataset and want it to be findable and reused? You can now add it to the Open WM Data Hub: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData! The collection of datasets tagged with useful metadata is steadily growing thanks to a small team of volunteers!

Streeting to next launch inquiry into “over-diagnosis” of left-handedness. “Never used to be like this,” he insists.

ha yeah

New content: Bethke, S., Monen, J., Rinsma, T., Trilsbeek, P., Meyer, A. S., & Hintz, F. (2025). IDLaS-DE – A Web-Based Platform for Running Customized Studies on Individual Differences in German Language Skills. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 54, pp. 1–13. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky

New content: Siew, C. S. Q., Chang, F., & Wong, J. J. (2025). Investigating the Effects of Valence, Arousal, Concreteness, and Humor on Words Unique to Singapore English. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 53, pp. 1–22. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

I don’t get it, why does making art become unsatisfying when you remove the part where your brain works and is rewarded with a sense of accomplishment

New content: Körner, A., Röth, L., & Rummer, R. (2025). Names with /i/ Suit Positive Faces: The Naming Paradigm. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 52, pp. 1–14. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky

New content: Klanke, J.-N., Ohl, S., & Rolfs, M. (2025). Microsaccades Do Not Give Rise to a Conscious Feeling of Agency for Their Sensorimotor Consequences in Visual Perception. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 51, pp. 1–22. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

New content: Geller, J., Gomez, P., Buchanan, E., & Makowski, D. (2025). A Distributional Response Time Analysis of the Perceptual Disfluency Effect. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 50, pp. 1–26. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky

New content: Souza, A. S. (2025). Refreshing Multi-Feature Objects in Visual Working Memory. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 49, pp. 1–19. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky

New content: Vergauwe, E., Hautekiet, C., & Langerock, N. (2025). An Examination of Distractor Susceptibility of Prioritized and Unprioritized Information in Visual Working Memory. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 48, pp. 1–9. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky

I've said it before and I will say it again many times, people using "AI" to design and deliver 'teaching' to students, to mark their work, and in this case to (!) generate literal voice overs are risking their jobs, and frankly they *should* be at risk if they do this sort of thing:

youtu.be/hx-qKVVxGLw?... It's a joy to hear someone under 30 make a Strunk & White joke.

lol

When we frame higher education as a concrete means to an end - i.e., I can get X career if I complete Y degree at Z institution, we ignore that a fundamental aspect of education is learning how to think for yourself, learning how to assess information, and communicating those things.

"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.

"running out of topics" is a real problem. If you don't want to be estranged from your family but also don't want to get embroiled in hopeless, bad-faith arguments with them, you call, but what do you talk about? Sometimes calling home feels like censoring my whole personality.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲