Consciousness science as a marketplace of rationalizations my commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social and @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's thought-provoking BBS paper, and more generally about the field. osf.io/preprints/ps...

People who coax chatbots into sensible answers are basically opening and closing the fridge until it contains something you wanna eat, yes, eventually you get hungrier & eat the stuff in there. But what changed was your cognition. The fridge stayed the same. You changed your mind about the contents.

Nothing. I use it for nothing at all because AI is good at zero of the tasks I do regularly Honestly I don't even know what its web address is, is it like a 2000s style ChatGPT.com or something funkier like chat.g.pt

psych departments post a faculty job that has nothing to do with AI challenge

🚨The first paper of my postdoc is out now in @elife.bsky.social! 🚨 We explored the role of attention in planning. Thank you 🙏 to the reviewers for their helpful comments & suggestions. Keep your 👀 peeled for additional analyses and our response. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

🌟 Excited to share that I'm recruiting PhD students in Psychology for my new lab at Rice University this cycle (Signal boost appreciated!) To learn more, check out the Learning & Behavior Change Lab website: www.sinclairlab-rice.com Applications are due Dec 1st: psychology.rice.edu/graduate/pro...

really love this ingenious set of experiments by @jfkominsky.bsky.social & looking forward to reading up on the final one (not to mention that I *highly* recommend seeing him present this for the causal illusion magic)!

My Lab at the University of Edinburgh🇬🇧 has funded PhD positions for this cycle! We study the computational principles of how people learn, reason, and communicate. It's a new lab, and you will be playing a big role in shaping its culture and foundations. Spread the words!

generating examples for my fall undergrad Perception students on why they should not use LLMs as study aides...

Looking for a postdoc? Apply for Cornell’s Klarman Fellowship with me! I’m interested in rules, rule-breakers, and curiosity, broadly construed. Link for more info here: as.cornell.edu/research/kla... (3 years, $80K/yr; Oct 15th deadline) Email me directly if you’re interested!

My new university's logo is a PSI! How frickin cool is that! Help me grow a new lab at in IU Bloomington! We're seeking brilliant young scientists interested in memory representations, neuromodulation & aging. Coordinator: bit.ly/3Hu3UzT Postdoc: bit.ly/4oBZF6j Accepting GS apps in the Fall!

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢 🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method. Please RT www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

super excited that the first paper from my PhD is now out! we develop a "philosophical toolkit" for computational cognitive modeling & use it to conceptually re-analyze a long-standing debate about evidence accumulation models of decision making 🧠📈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Really loving this kind of engagement between the psychology and philosophy of causation. So much better than psychologists re-explaining how people are just oh so irrational and philosophers examining their intuitions about increasingly elaborate tales of rock throwing and firing squads 😉

A ✨bittersweet✨ moment – after 5 years at UCL, my final first-author project with @smfleming.bsky.social is ready to read as a preprint! 🥲

lovely thread describing our new paper on why temporal order affects people's causal judgments! beyond finding the research cool, I also hope you'll appreciate our pretty plots (courtesy of ggdist / @mjskay.com)

Ok, reinforcement learning fans: RL is great, but what do we do when there's no obvious reward from the environment? What about perfecting a golf swing or a foxtrot or a musical performance? We may have an answer. A tale of 🐦 🎶 + 🧠. 🧵1/ #bioacoustics #prattle 💬 #neuroai #compneuro

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Excited to share that this paper is now published in PNAS! (With @maxmaier.bsky.social & Falk Lieder) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

happy to have been a part of this fun modeling project on the nature of cognitive control!

I feel like this might be some kind of cardinal sin, but I’m ready to come out: is anyone *else* out here, in 2025, using Emacs/ESS for development in R?

Out now in TiCS, something i've been thinking about a lot: "Physics vs. graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition" (by Balaban & me) relevant for many people, related to imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, aphantasia, and more authors.elsevier.com/a/1lBaC4sIRv...

Looking forward to another iteration of my “everything is causal inference” talk today. I’ll talk about how people may actually be in the business of causal inference based on observational data without noticing; missing data, generalization & measurement! Slides: juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...

Google presents this along with the idea of "proactive ai" that is always monitoring camera, screen, and microphone and spontaneously assisting you. Let me say that again: an always-on panopticon actively stealing your self-reliance and your (and everyone nearby's) personal information. Ban it.

If you want to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet, less meat is nearly always better than sustainable meat.

It's nothing personal, but if I get overtaken by a roadie, I'm giving them 500 watts all the way up the hill. 😂

Honey, we fixed Signal Detection Theory (SDT)! In this preprint, Constantin Meyer-Grant, David Kellen, Sam Harding, and I critically evaluate the (unequal-variance) Gaussian SDT model in recognition memory and pursue the Gumbel-min model as a principled alternative: doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵

I have learned that some people have still not heard the Good News about Hamiltonian Monte Carlo. My gentle animated interactive explanation: elevanth.org/blog/2017/11...

Broadly speaking, I agree with @thuyvytnguyen.bsky.social‬’s basic points. Good preregs take time and effort, analyses plans are very important, and clear hypotheses guide the analysis plan.

⏰🚴‍♀️🚨Pedalling people - a protected cycleway is under attack! ACT NOW to prevent efforts to derail the extension of the C51, on Hamilton Terrace (Maida Vale). Show your support ⬇️ - deadline ONE WEEK today! Full story to follow... cycleway51.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

My paper on memory and imagination as attitudes is finally out in print! Check it out here: doi.org/10.1007/s112...

DOGE is operationalizing one of the harms of the term "AI". How you describe your science matters. buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

Decided to move this to psyarxiv from my blog, hope someone finds it useful. I'm particularly impressed with how easy it is to estimate complex SDT models, like multilevel mixtures, with brms. #rstats

5 stars is better than 4 stars, but can we even define how much better it might be? Modeling ordinal outcomes like ratings is a subtle topic; fortunately I have a new chapter that dives directly into that nuance. HTML: betanalpha.github.io/assets/chapt... PDF: betanalpha.github.io/assets/chapt...

No other animal thinks about cause-and-effect in the hyper-objective, hyper-general way that we do, and this is a superpower @marielgoddu.bsky.social

Our "I would have seen it if it were there" paper — a collaboration with @ranimo.bsky.social and @clarepress.bsky.social — is now out in Psych. Review. There’s a lot in this paper, but here are what I see as the 3 main takeaways: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

colleague: “hey can you help us with this analysis? should be simple and we can add you as an author!” the dataset:

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

Thrilled to be a co-author on this amazing work published in Nature! Grateful to be part of such a fantastic team @mkwittmann.bsky.social.

Very honoured to have written a little something for @aeon.co about zero, absence, and consciousness. It was a real pleasure to write, and very curious to know what people think! 0️⃣🧠 #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #consci

New from the IMC Lab: "Episodic details are better remembered in plausible relative to implausible counterfactual simulations", spearheaded by Ricardo Morales-Torres and Kaylee Miceli, w/ Shenyang Huang and Karl Szpunar, and out at Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Dave Lagnado is looking for a post doc to work on causal inference! The BR-UK team is doing some very cool stuff, so if you're currently looking for a job, check this out: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Academics when transitioning from SPSS to #rstats: how can we trust this tool to be accurate? 🤔 Academics when a new chatGPT tool is released: we accept our new AI overlords! 😻

If you would like to teach theoretical modeling skills to your psychology or cognitive science students, or would like to learn these skills yourself, check out our open online textbook: computationalcognitivescience.github.io/lovelace/

New paper in Psychological Review! In "Causation, Meaning, and Communication" Ari Beller (cicl.stanford.edu/member/ari_b...) develops a computational model of how people use & understand expressions like "caused", "enabled", and "affected". 📃 osf.io/preprints/ps... 📎 github.com/cicl-stanfor... 🧵

Meet the Team: @benjyb.bsky.social is working as a Postdoctoral Fellow on ETHOS. He is helping @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social test the richness of higher-order representations using MEG. See more about Benjy here www.arc-ethos.org/news and on his website benjybarnett.github.io