New in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... We study how humans explore a 61-state environment with a stochastic region that mimics a “noisy-TV.” Results: Participants keep exploring the stochastic part even when it’s unhelpful, and novelty-seeking best explains this behavior. #cogsci #neuroskyence

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

How does the brain decide? 🧠 Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc. After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up. rdcu.be/eGUrv

R.I.P. Assata Shakur 🙏🏽❤️✊🏽

💔💔 www.whatimreading.net/p/assata-sha...

Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio. led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓ #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization. This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.

You probably missed it - the US govt just added FOUR new groups to the Foreign Terrorist Organizations list. For decades, there have been about 2 new FTOs per year. This year, the Trump admin has added 18 (EIGHTEEN) new FTOs. Can CT practitioners really pursue so many groups? Is this only talk?

A good time to read this book again... And I never fail to just get absolutely enraged by every single paragraph. 🤬 Some things I am even left in absolute disbelief. Like how? How?!

I'm so excited to finally be able to share these animations! Here's the @thrivingautistic.bsky.social page about them, along with the companion blogs (two of which I wrote myself). Please share them widely, if you like them. 😊 www.thrivingautistic.org/autistic-exp...

If I were editing a college president’s guest essay about the importance of colleges hosting “difficult speakers,” I would ask her to clarify how her argument squares with her history of expelling students for protesting, and why speakers should be treated better than her own students.

"The ongoing project Radical Climate Action Bird explores how communication between humans and animals can have political impact. At its core is the song of native songbirds." www.cityofmediaarts.de/en/werke/rad...

It is interesting to see the self-proclaimed 'Land of the free, the beacon of democracy' nation succumbing to authoritarianism with so little resistance from its citizens. It reveals its extremely faulty democratic structures and how little power/influence its normal citizens actually ever had.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX... Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n

The Netherlands is the largest EU investor in Israel, accounting for two-thirds of all EU investments. It’s also Israel’s top global investment partner, receiving 6x more Israeli capital than the US. www.somo.nl/economic-san...

Although some researchers manage to perfectly adhere to preregistrations, it is common to need to deviate. Not all deviations are consequential, but some are, and it is important to evaluate the impact of deviations on the severity of a test. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

We live in an age of spectacular fascism. Not only do they build concentration camps, but they are actually showing off with them. The camp embodies a political paradigm in which law is unapologetically instrumentalized for political purposes - thus conveying that in this new order, might is right.

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/ www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity!!! The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children. Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads. Start: Fall 2025 or later. Details: [email protected] RTs appreciated 💫

In this new preprint, in review @elife.bsky.social, we show what processing steps make up the reaction time using single trial #EEG modelling in a contrast #decision task. In this 🧵 I'm telling the story behind it as I think it is quite interesting and I can't write it like this in the paper...

Out now in Science Advances! We find that infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament. This has be so much fun to work on and ended up being my favourite personal paper! So excited it's out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We are proud to introduce WTools, a new toolbox for time-frequency analysis that is particularly suited for infant EEG. 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour... By @ambrafer.bsky.social @marcobuiatti.bsky.social @eugenioparise.bsky.social @cimecunitrento.bsky.social

#Spain, the only large EU member state with a centre-left government, has recently been in the headlines for rejecting the increased NATO spending target. But it also stands out for its liberal migration policy (much to the benefit of its economy) - and for increasing its development aid spending.

Do kids show adult-like working memory patterns? 🧠 We analyzed nearly 1M observations from 9K+ Dutch students in a real-world adaptive learning platform. ✅ Benchmark effects in children 📊 Bayesian modeling + big adaptive data = new insights ⬇️ Authors & links #WorkingMemory #DevPsych

NATO uses the language of human rights & collective security to conceal the underlying motivations for its birth and current existence. It would be worthwhile to set aside this rhetoric and look at the actual record of this military –not human rights– alliance thetricontinental.org/dossier-nato...

While the treaty contained a detailed regime regarding non-proliferation by states that didn't have nuclear weapons, it lacked clear details/timeframe for countries to implement disarmament, who show no sign of fulfilling that obligation after more than half a century www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Speaking of waving nation state flags, i wrote this in March: "Less and less do I understand great numbers of individuals needing to identify the power of our collective human and nonhuman capacities to sustain one another with jingoistic and garishly-coloured settler state flags."

Probably a bad idea to put emotionally fragile men in charge of society’s violence workers

Our new IMR paper on the great replacement theory is now open-access. We find that about 20% (!) of German adults believe that white majorities are being deliberately replaced by non-white immigrants in a secretive attempt by malevolent elites to undermine their own country. doi.org/10.1177/0197...

Our work, out at Cell, shows that the brain’s dopamine signals teach each individual a unique learning trajectory. Collaborative experiment-theory effort, led by Sam Liebana in the lab. The first experiment my lab started just shy of 6y ago & v excited to see it out: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

We feed you. They hunt us.

Caregivers use joint attention to support sign language acquisition in deaf children. New paper by @jennisander.bsky.social , @carorowland.bsky.social & Amy M. Lieberman. doi.org/10.1111/desc.70034

Para todos aquellos migrantes, compatriotas que han dejado todo atrás por el deseo de una mejor vida. Por mi familia que migró hace tanto y con dolor y labor ha sacado adelanté a la familia. No son criminales ✊🏽 youtu.be/BnvNfE9fOv4?...

Neurodivergent people are treated as noise to be filtered out in most studies supporting the “science of learning”. We are discounted as outliers. Our needs and ways of being are deemed too inconvenient to consider. So, the vast majority of studies just ignore us. stimpunks.org/2025/06/06/t...

New paper just dropped🎉 With novel "Curiosity Boxes", we find that chimps & children are very curious about social interactions, & some even give up a reward to gain info! Fun collaboration with @alisongopnik.bsky.social, @janengelmann.bsky.social & others royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!

The BIPOC Campaign Leadership Fellowship is for BIPOC social justice campaigners & staffers looking to deepen their knowledge of the latest tools, tactics, & campaign management skills. Applications due July 14. socialmovementtechnologies.org/bipoc-campai... #BIPOC, #socialjustice

📢We're delighted to announce the launch of #FOSTERLANG the new EU Horizon funded project aiming to boost minoritised languages and foster Europe's linguistic capital. 😍 👉 Details: www.facebook.com/Fosterlang.E... @eurolang.bsky.social #ELEN2025 #HorizonEurope

Excited to be part of the FOSTERLANG team! Here at MPI-PL, we'll focus on enhancing Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology for minoritised languages, using recent advancements in multilingual machine learning and the unique corpora of data we have in The Language Archive! archive.mpi.nl/tla/

I've been posting threads of papers that come out of MPI-PL's Lang Dev Dept this year. But here Anjie has done it for me. A thread about this this amazing paper by former MPIer Christina Bergmann and colleagues!

At some point scientists need to take an interest, collectively, institutionally, in defending democracy and justice for all, and not just their own resource access

WTools: A MATLAB-based toolbox for time-frequency analysis of infant data. New paper by Amber Ferrari & al. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323179

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

It’s been a year unacceptable police violence on NL campuses, and Radboud University Nijmegen commemorates this with more violence. Get your facts right, NL unis: 1. There’s a genocide going on 2. In a place where you have institutional collaborations 3. Students (& staff) have a right to protest.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has written brilliantly about how anti-DEI is about (future) worker discipline (among other things). It follows that "AI" is the other side of the same coin.