The only thing Orwell got wrong was the year 😢

This must be a great resource! Thank you @gershbrain.bsky.social for being the coolest :-)

This remains my best-ever talk, on "double dipping" in data analysis. Applies to every field of science and data processing, researchers are making the mistakes discussed here every day and in every way #stats #DoubleDipping #RegressionToTheMean youtu.be/VN19B-3P6Cc?...

BREAKING: Indivisible and a broad coalition of groups across the country are calling for a coordinated ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action this Saturday and Sunday to demand accountability, honor the life lost, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s actions.

New paper from the IMC lab! I am very excited about this one. For years, I have been arguing that one of the main claims of the so-called "simulation heuristic" is likely not true for episodic counterfactual thinking, namely that the harder it is to mentally simulate it, the less plausible (1/n)

Five years ago.

This! We, Latinos, matter :-(

This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!

Tomorrow is the last day to apply for SSNAP! Please spread the word! #neuroscience #philosophy #neurophilosophy

Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆? @lucinauddin.bsky.social explains many of the challenges and controversies! Great discussion too. Check out the latest Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon. youtu.be/pP5swFPR0Ns

Y en Chile va a ganar el nazi momio? 🥺

New journal: Experimental Philosophy

When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵

“We are sold the myth that the language of legality is preferable to the language of morality because it is impartial and fixed. But as this whole dispute makes plain, that is least apt to be true precisely when it matters most.” Joseph Margulies on Trump’s murders in the Caribbean:

Repetitive negative thoughts will be investigated using a range of cutting-edge brain science techniques as part of a new study led by the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford and funded by Wellcome @wellcometrust.bsky.social 👇 tinyurl.com/364es88k

Amazing work!!!

Philosophers, why does everything you do turn into a “plague of distinctions” descending on innocent people just trying to live their lives?? Amélie Oksenberg Rorty is giving me joy this morning. (From “Explaining Emotions”) #philsky

Would you plug into machine that simulates perfect life? NO! When told they’re already plugged in, half stay-when reality looks worse, almost everyone does. We don’t value reality. Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny. Link in bio #philosophy #simulation #reality

Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit

Very excited to host Nathan Spreng at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá!

Thank you to the organizers and everyone that participated in the #nokings protests. To those who can’t and/or afraid to do so, you are #hope

I wrote a short commentary on Anil Seth's wonderful forthcoming paper in BBS. It is largely inspired by the work of Andy Clark, although some ideas I owe to Ned Block and Dan Dennett (probably not the same ideas!). I highly recommend Anil's paper to anyone interested in consciousness [1/2]

RIP Jane Goodall 😞

I miss Obama :-(

132,877. That’s the latest official number of people who forcibly disappeared in Colombia during the conflict. 132,877.

“Maybe I met him on some boys’ trip? I feel like I’ve seen his penis before. Have we ever gone swimming at the same time? You have a mole right here under your rib cage, right?” said Trump

Previous generations fought fascism in nearly every corner of the earth. Today it’s on our streets, silencing opposition and attempting to control the airwaves. The GOP has declared all out war on free speech. It’s up to us to fight for it.

Thank you, Senator Warren.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

💯 😢

Come be my colleague! The Department of Psychology at Princeton and @princetonneuro.bsky.social‬ are jointly searching for an Assistant Prof in Cog Neuro. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

The art of the no deal

This was a fun paper to write, and one that fits nicely with some recent work I've been doing on the role of counterfactual simulation in memory encoding. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Columbia. Harvard. UPenn. George Mason. UVA. UCLA. One by one, universities are being attacked—financially, politically, ideologically. Faculty & staff: don’t wait for it to hit your campus. Join the national movement defending higher ed. standtogetherhighered.org (sign up on homepage)

This is unfortunate: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u... I wrote to the president of Harvard. I hope other faculty will speak their conscience, even if it means more struggle ahead.

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)

This looks great!! Can’t wait to read it!

I'm not loving a country that pays its adults half as much to teach children to spell as it does to kidnap them.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

"If you are a woman, acquire your contraception and birth control needs before you set foot in the United States. It is effectively impossible and/or prohibitively expensive in many regions to access reproductive health care or even basic contraception."

I’ll never understand nationalistic pride. Why be proud of that one thing that’s so clearly not up to you?

migos: mi sobrino y sus colegas tienen un canal de divulgación científica buenísimo que se llama "Shots de Ciencia". Le llega a mas de medio millón de hispanohablantes a través de las redes. Los invito a apoyarlos a través de una membresía en Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/shots-...

Here rdcu.be/es8A1 we respond to the recent (unfair) editorial in Nature about recent criticisms of IIT theory of consciousness. We keep fighting for transparent and serious science. @hakwan.bsky.social @felipedebrigard.bsky.social @deanbuono.bsky.social

When you idolize capitalism, you end up moralizing poverty.

Another nice write up on our recent work on forgiveness: greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

Nice write up on our recent work on memory and forgiveness, spearheaded by Gabriela Fernández Miranda, and in collaboration with Matt Stanley, Sam Murray and Leonard Faul. www.psypost.org/scientists-s...

“I am your Republican congressman”. These are Republican policies.

📢 now out @natrevpsychol.nature.com In a new perspective w/ @davidnagy.bsky.social & @gergoorban.bsky.social, we reconcile a glaring problem in applying rate-distortion theory as a framework for human memory, integrating empirical findings across a host of human memory research 🧵👇