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! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲

Cognitive scientists, here is your chance to help @davidecrepaldi.bsky.social and ESCoP continue to build our field's leading open-access journal, @jcgntn.bsky.social. Take a look and get involved!

Wake up. Stretch. There's an oligarchy to fight 🥰 #birds

New content: Camos, V., Jubin, J., & Belletier, C. (2025). Does the Experimenter Presence Affect Verbal Working Memory? Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 47, pp. 1–9. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky

New content: Ford, D., & Nadarevic, L. (2025). Revisiting the Plausibility Effect in Remembering Truth and Falsity: An Analysis of Underlying Memory and Guessing Processes. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 46, pp. 1–13. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky

New content: Dutriaux, L., & Bottini, R. (2025). Memory and Representation of Vision-Related Verbs in Early Blind Individuals. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 45, pp. 1–12. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky

It’s restorative to finally have a little cry over GOOD politics for once. 💚 @zackpolanski.bsky.social absolutely nails it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxt4...

New content: Khoo, J. K. M., & Tibon, R. (2025). Unitization Based Memory Enhancement in Younger and Older Adults. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 44, pp. 1–20. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

This is so good from Cory Doctorow on all the tricks Amazon uses to get both consumers to pay more, and how businesses on the platform end up paying it 45-51 cents on every dollar. Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease. There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done." 1/🧵

The "AI" responses that Google gives about me and my work are consistently error-prone, which I know because I am me. If I know Google's "AI" responses give incorrect answers about things I know about, I can't trust it to give correct answers about things I don't know. So, no, I don't use it.

hahahaha and wow @andreaeyleen.bsky.social wrote a poem about LLMs 🫠

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

No surprise, this is very good. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Call for collaborators! 🧵 The TL;DR: we seek collaborators on a #ManyLabs #RegisteredReport about what causes rapid forgetting. In-principle accepted Stage 1: osf.io/ahjn5 Expressions of interest: cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Further details in the 🧵:

If you protested Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off the air by canceling Disney+ or some similarly simple action that had clear, direct, effective results, it feels good that you helped get him back, right? The neat part of you can choose another simple action, and keep that awesome feeling going.