Jim Thompson
@jimthommo.bsky.social
📤 1967
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He/him. Professor of Psychology at GMU. I study social perception and cognition. Carlton supporter.
Oh if those sulphur crested cookies are so bloody smart why do they have one of the worst calls in all bird-dom? Only bettered (worsered?) by the beautiful-looking but horrendous-sounding rainbow lorikeet
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Have we moved from cog psych trying to claim Hinton as "one of us" to gladly leaving him to the cs crowd yet?
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Gillian Branstetter
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The story of this week is that millions of Americans were told in 2024 their lives would be improved if trans people's lives were made worse and I'm glad they're finally waking up to the fact that was never true to begin with--but trans people's lives are still getting worse
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Researchers like
@abeba.bsky.social
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”
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BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/dc-sandwich-guy-verdict-rcna242142
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Kevin M. Kruse
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A defining photo of this administration
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BUZZELL!
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Why yes, yes I do...
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Mia Sato
1 day ago
Did Men With No Rizz Ruin the Workplace?
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JaimeL
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I do declare, these pale sweaty bestubbled Catholic converts really and truly do take the entire cake.
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I mean I can understand people jumping to conclusions about this but clearly they know nothing about the relationship between FIFA and USSF. It's going to Gio Reyna
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Trump ally Infantino to award first Fifa Peace Prize at World Cup draw in DC
Fifa unveils a new Peace Prize to be awarded at the 2026 World Cup draw in Washington, citing a mission to honor efforts to end conflict
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/05/fifa-peace-prize-world-cup-draw-trump
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Vinny Costa
2 days ago
Still think brain regions don’t exist? That everything is everywhere? That cell types don’t matter and that everything is a dynamical phase portrait? Wrong. Interconnected brain modules exist at the level of fine grained transcriptomics.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Whole-cortex in situ sequencing reveals input-dependent area identity - Nature
BARseq interrogates the expression of 104 cell-type marker genes in 10.3 million cells over nine mouse forebrain hemispheres to reveal the role of peripheral inputs on cortical area development.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07221-6
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Looks like a clean sweep in VA!
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Matt Ufford
4 days ago
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Desperately searching for all the "Here's how the Sandwich Trial will affect Dems chances today in VA and NY" pieces
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Dave Jamieson
4 days ago
The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground. "That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks. "It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
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Anne Applebaum
6 days ago
For those asking for background - I was in Sudan twice this year and wrote about it
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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It's going to be funny when all the ex-AFL college punters find out about these
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weeder
7 days ago
You told me you got a raspberry pie and I show up and it's little fucking computer?
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I'm not sure why so many people love to retweet the stylized photos of The Mad Cow in his Nazi garb. He and his ICE mob get off on the publicity. Let them keep it for their own grubby little Signal groups
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The Refurbished Lincoln Bathroom in the White House - Highly polished, Statuary marble
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tweety fish
10 days ago
the term "what the absolute living fuck" gets thrown around a lot these days,
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Python Software Foundation
12 days ago
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share.
pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
https://www.python.org/sponsors/application/
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Imagine this will get quite the spin. Regardless of how the authors draw conclusions "ie focus on issues supported by polls, except for things like abortion rights bc women" it is worth looking at the actual questions asked of the participants (see
@kwcollins.bsky.social
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12 days ago
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Return of the Cmonmacques
12 days ago
“A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe…”
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Garrett County, apart from being the deepest fog pocket east of the Mississippi, is deep red and my guess is they'll just blame this on the Dems anyway
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jamelle
14 days ago
i mean i don't think you can separate any of this discussion from the fact that so many of the participants are men who clearly have hang-ups about their inability to perform a certain kind of blue collar masculinity
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"It's a Goggomobil. That's G-o-g-g-o..."
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I get that 13 is an awkward age, esp for boys. But why would you swallow up to 100 magnets in the first place?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Surgeons remove up to 100 magnets from New Zealand teenager’s intestines
Boy, 13, swallowed the high-power magnets after apparently buying them from the online retailer Temu
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/24/surgeons-remove-high-power-temu-magnets-new-zealand-teenagers-intestines
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Derek Lowe
16 days ago
A lot of people have tried to come in and be steely-eyed engineers when it comes to drug discovery - y’know, get things acting rationally and on schedule for once. The track record for that approach has been. . . Unimpressive.
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Phil Corlett
16 days ago
New from star grad student
@m-meyer.bsky.social
we wanted to study why delusions (and other beliefs) are so fixed. We turned to a generalization paradigm and the peak shift effect. Martin finds people with delusions over generalize causal relationships during learning:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/6ne95_v1
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Holy shit. So they gave him NIEHS bc they decided not to move another institute to NC. Like, they were thinking about it.
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Colin Carlson
17 days ago
THEY GAVE HIM NIEHS BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO MOVE TO BETHESDA
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Better Things Are Possible
17 days ago
Running for office and revealing a giant back tattoo that just says WOMEN. Nobody can agree if it's good or bad
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My only contribution to the nazi tattoo debate (jfc) is that you'd have to go to a special kind of tattoo parlour in Croatia to get that particular tat
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Angel hair a close second, but the correct answer is linguine. Bullshit all the way
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This is a very interesting use of cultural transmission methods to study origins of legislation
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So the whole Centerville High School abortion scandal was all made up and surely Youngkin knew this when he made it a scandal
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Fairfax County schools investigates, suspends teacher who reported student abortion claim
On Monday, Fairfax County Public Schools placed a teacher - who reported information about school staff allegedly arranging abortions for students - on paid adm
https://wjla.com/news/local/fairfax-county-schools-investigates-suspends-teacher-who-reported-student-abortion-claim-zenaida-perez-fcps-director-of-employee-relations-glenn-youngkin
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JOB! We are hiring a tenure track assistant professor in Psychology at GMU. Focus on computational cognitive/AI, to be part of the Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience program in Psych.
@martinwiener.bsky.social
is chair of the search, but I'm happy to answer more general questions about GMU/dept
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about 1 month ago
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Mark Lescroart
18 days ago
Job announcement! UN Reno Psychology (Cognitive & Brain Sciences division) is hiring for a tenure-track position. Come join us! We have a great group! Deadline December 1. Please share!
nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external...
#neuroskyence
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Assistant Professor, Cognitive and Brain Sciences
The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) appreciates your interest in employment at our growing institution. We want your application process to go smoothly and quickly. Final applications must be submitt...
https://nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external/job/University-of-Nevada-Reno---Main-Campus/Assistant-Professor--Cognitive-and-Brain-Sciences_R0149374
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This story is insane
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I'm usually a fan of Wolfers though I sometimes disagree. Here though he is just flat out wrong - I assume he just hasn't taken the time to learn the debate about AI, which is a pity given his reach
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RIP Ace Frehley. The coolest member of KISS as judged by the knock down argument ahead of my 10yo birthday where my friends and I dressed up as the band
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Going to steal this as its perhaps the best example I've seen of why standardized effect sizes are terrible
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24 days ago
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Sam Gershman
24 days ago
When I was an undergrad, I saw a talk by Oliver Sacks about music. During the Q&A, someone asked Sacks if he thought science would reveal the deepest mysteries of art. Sacks (a rare humanist among scientists) said that he doubted it, at which Eric Kandel (the host) leaped up and grabbed the mic.
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Hey Google is six shots of espresso, a can of coke, and a red bull too much caffeine for a day? Sure the walls are vibrating but all I want to do is curl up and sleep
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ThĂąy Vy T Nguyá»…n
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Excited to share my new preprint. My work focuses on solitude, but I am not one to advocate for a "solitude theory"; psych has too many theories so one less would be good. So, what I did the past 2 yrs is talking to people, reading work outside of my literature, essentially to shop for a framework đź§µ
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