It’s almost as though the admin is planning to funnel this X-labs money to certain someones. Almost… 😐

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Brutal grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

Great piece. It may just be the algorithm but it does seem like there’s a recent vibe shift where a new group of people are having a “ohhh this is real” moment that others had a long time ago. Agentic LLMs workflows seem to have a lot to do with it. Others are reacting by digging into their denial.

At the #Neurips2025 mechanistic interpretability workshop I gave a brief talk about Venetian glassmaking, since I think we face a similar moment in AI research today. Here is a blog post summarizing the talk: davidbau.com/archives/202...

What's so poignant about this heart-wrenching thread is that the students know AI can't be brushed off. This is a Copernican moment for human cognition and so many academics seem to be stuck on it-can't-even-spell-spell-strawberry level denial.

neat!

I used to explicitly teach exactly this at university of bath computer science in a course called “research project preparation” How to read science articles was in the same lecture as how to not plagiarise / how to cite; iirc Good to have a reading for @hertieschool.bsky.social students, thx Pat

i'm going to be honest with you: this is a load-bearing observation.

I just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted. Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵

The anti intellectualism of the AI discourse on bsky is an embarrassment

This is disastrous AND almost exactly one year ago, we warned it would happen: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @michaelemann.bsky.social @vambros.bsky.social @carlbergstrom.com @briannosek.bsky.social

We recently taught a methods course supported by Experimentology + various primary readings. Experimentology was a truly fantastic resource! psych-methods.netlify.app

PSA: this is *not* what any serious LLM-supported analysis would look like. Instead, LLMs are used to write code (that the researcher needs to understand!), producing reproducible analyses, or make judgments directly validated using human raters.

What is especially galling is that this saved zero dollars, since the cruise ships pay for the inspections. And now their industry is less trusted because of perceived health risks. Amazing lose-lose policymaking.

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

Introducing Datapages, a new project from Mika Braginsky and me. Datapages are open-source templates for creating interactive websites that make research datasets easy to find, explore, and reuse. No coding required for the basic setup. babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/04/data...

oooof.. anyone know of any successful appeals of a submitted NIH proposal being "administratively withdrawn"?

@spiantado.bsky.social ;)

by Robert Gonsalves

The relatively modest implications of multimodality for reasoning are a "dog that didn't bark" in the last 6-7 yrs. We're starting to forget now, but it seemed intuitive to many observers 1970-2020 that symbols needed sensory grounding and intelligence would need embodied interaction with the world.

People celebrating (unverified) reports of data centres being hit with with missiles, on Bluesky, which helpfully only runs on a few old Pentium 4 boxes in someone's garage and not in, say, data centres. Some of you people really don't understand a single thing, do you.

What if we just went back to reading a bunch of books and thinking about them together, and that was the class? With syllabi no longer than three pages.

Keep this in mind when you dismiss AI's "hallucinations". Left to our own devices *we* are not especially good at fact checking. Hence the importance of procedures and institutions.

One takeaway from my brief LLM honeymoon phase that I'll carry with me: It made me realize just how densely & subtly compressed "reassurance-seeking" is in my language (and probably that of users without OCD too). A prompt is just SUCH a rich signal of what framings/attunements it wants validated.

he‘s not wrong… 🤷‍♂️http://sapir.psych.wisc.edu/papers/lupyan_bergen_2015.pdf

Omfg.. this and the Reagan Mastermind clip - just 🌟https://youtu.be/b5wfPlgKFh8?si=4ecCJfnQEoUARJiU

What a fun conversation! @mcxfrank.bsky.social @kensycoop.bsky.social !

Trump Doctrine, ladies and gentlemen.

Very happy that this paper from our lab is now out in @pnas.org! What happens when the *same* person experiences the *same* information with a *different* interpretation? Nearly the whole 🧠—well, at least nearly all association cortex—changes how it represents that information! tinyurl.com/p8chj2j7

Of all the analogies, this one about horses is the dumbest.

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@ucsandiego.bsky.social once again leading the way on high-quality teaching faculty positions. We should all follow!

excited to share some recent work! neural networks trained on multi-view sensory data are the first to match human-level 3D shape perception we predict human accuracy, error patterns, and reaction time—all zero-shot, no training on experimental data arxiv.org/abs/2602.17650 1/🧠

first empirical paper from the Aulet lab! What does learning to count do to a brain? We trained neural networks on different tasks and only counting (i.e., predicting the number of dots in a dot array) reorganized representations around number. New preprint:

Fabulous lineup and a critically important topic!

“Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.”😲🧪

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I have no way of knowing if this is a fair assessment, but it sure does seem to track..

@mehr.nz as a non-musician appreciator of music, I often have the thought that cognitive scientists should be more astonished of how insanely good we (humans) are at making music. But maybe b/c lots of ppl have some musical literacy, the sentiment is "well duh." And I want to scream no, seriously!

At what point do the stochastic parroters admit that maybe (just maybe) they were wrong? arxiv.org/abs/2601.183...

My lab at UW Madison is hiring a new lab manager! I’m looking for a motivated and detail-oriented person to help run the lab’s day-to-day, including our ongoing neuroimaging and behavioral studies. This is especially well suited for graduating undergrads thinking about grad school. Link below

Groundhog Day Meaning xkcd.com/3202/

Ooo

Last night, GOP Senator Rand Paul went on national TV to flatly reject DHS's lies about the Pretti execution: "My advice to [DHS], if they're watching: If you come into [our hearing] and try to justify that [Pretti] was assaulting a police officer, that cannot be acceptable."

👏 www.nature.com/articles/d41.... (you may say BUT AI can't do ___! Sure! Because intelligence isn't all that matters!)

Can someone enlighten me - how are there 100s of thousands of agents on #moltbook already? Are people directing them to the site and asking them to read the posts and opine? If not (or not only) what is happening?

How does that saying go...? If your mind is too open, your brain might fall out?

New paper out in Psych bull & review! With @glupyan.bsky.social It’s a big-picture review on cross-domain mapping: how people connect things across senses and concepts, and why (weak) synesthesia and metaphor might all be part of the same story. link.springer.com/article/10.3...