Job Klaxon! RA position looking into evaluating AI Agents in data science tasks www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

*sigh* must I

me watching the Netflix adaptation of the Twits

Reseachers: Please can we have some money? HORIZON: www.instagram.com/reel/DNNeyxX...

New Paper out! GIBSONA is a battery of Animal AI tasks evaluating object and affordances understanding - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

this was not the Derry girls spin off I was expecting

Am I unusual in thinking that in ~*2025*~ it is unacceptable for a business to only have a phone number (i.e. no email address) in the "contact us" section - like... I dont even phone my mother? I'm not going to phone a Gym.

*deep breathes*

Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, biomed engineering, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2

Very accurate thread

truth

Cambridge-based parents, If anyone is looking for entertainment during the rest of the summer holidays we are still looking for 4-7 year olds to take part in our kids navigation study!

“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' … is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas and undermine scholarly discussions. It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Was looking into what Cognitive Scientists mean by ‘domain-general’ cognition, and then hit upon this. This is definitely NOT how we use that term. Tip: read the last sentence to understand what went wrong here. Sigh.

he has >4 cat beds in my office, but no

no YOU'RE staying up till 2am making sure the jelly is set on an overly ambitious 6yos mermaid birthday cake

Two paper rejects and a funding failure all in a day!

Palestinian health officials say at least 111 people have died of hunger during the conflict, including 80 children, most of them in recent weeks and 10 in the last 24 hours alone shorturl.at/dUaYd

Our @pci-regreports.bsky.social recommended study is now out in Cortex! doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Nothing success "a successful social media platform" than the sheer desparation with which both Instagram and Facebook want to trick me into going onto Threads.

Someone tell me how this is in any way different to a bog-standard authoritarian dictator.

As RFK Jr declares war on chronic illness - while opposing Covid vaccination for pregnant women and kids - medical journals report that Long Covid has now surpassed asthma as the most common chronic condition in children.

Hopelessly naive question, but with the difficulties in getting aid through... what the is the most productive charity/institution to donate to for Gaza right now?

Trump vs Harvard: It's the fascism, stupid iandunt.substack.com/p/trump-vs-h...

This is a clear cut coordination policy intended to force independent institutions into loyalty with the regime. It is obviously the behaviour of an authoritarian state and anyone who claims otherwise needs their fucking head examined www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

You can check out the open-access paper here: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

We found that comparative psychologists have incredibly diverse attitudes to these methodological challenges. This suggests that there is still a lot of work for both psychologists and philosophers of science to do to clarify fundamental debates at the heart of comparative psychology research.

First, the apparent distinction between associative learning and cognition, and second, the question of whether some explanations of animal behaviour are simpler than others (often discussed with reference to Morgan's Canon).

We surveyed 220 practicing comparative psychologists, asking them questions about two key methodological challenges that define their science...

I am very pleased to announce that my paper "Morgan's Canon and the Associative-Cognitive Distinction Today: A Survey of Practitioners" was published this week in the Journal of Comparative Psychology.

Many thanks to my coauthors @martahalina.bsky.social , @lucycheke.bsky.social, and Ben Farrar for working with me on this project.

things I didn't expect to be doing: teaching my 5 and 8 year olds how to pronounce "expresso macchiato"

Huge thanks to all my amazing co-authors including Roni Tibon and Denis Schluppeck at @notts-psych.bsky.social , @reid-lab.org at Tilburg University, and @lucycheke.bsky.social and Sabine Yeung at @campsydept.bsky.social.

We found a previously reported effect of Covid-19 on accuracy in 2 long-term memory tasks. This effect extends across 2 additional long-term memory tasks regardless of memory process or stimulus type.

Super excited that the first article from my PhD research has now been reviewed and recommended by @pci-regreports.bsky.social and is available to read at osf.io/preprints/os...!

As scientists it is difficult to stay in love with the questions once you fall in love with the answers

What happens when you have a gigantic majority and the biggest soapbox in British politics, and yet spend all your time and energy legitimising Farage and Reform's views? It's quite an achievement to become the most reviled political party leader given the tough competition. But Starmer managed it.

I'm all for doing the "unpopular but necessary and long-term beneficial" things early in a tenure, riding the negative reaction and then reaping the pay-offs come next election. But what labour are doing is... not that. Knee-jerk populism that is simultaneously damaging AND unpopular.

SURELY the benefit of basically all journals using Editorial Manager should be that authors / reviewers can have a single log-in. The current situation is a nightmare of the browser thinking its saving a new password for [editorial manager] each time and then never being able to log in.

100% this

The worst element of what happened this week isn't even about immigration specifically. It's that Starmer surrendered against populism.

Bringing comparative cognition approaches to AI systems Comment by Konstantinos Voudouris (@kozzyvoudouris.bsky.social), Lucy Cheke (@lucycheke.bsky.social) & Eric Schulz (@ericschulz.bsky.social) go.nature.com/43djJlv

just what the fuck are they doing

My PI is hiring a new postdoc! if you are interested in memory, navigation, or just curious about the hippocampus, come join a lab processing data from human single cell recordings up to whole brain MEG! (Deadline 28th May) www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

spotted in the wild!

how'd these fuckers get my address (which i have edited out)

We need a female equivalent of "guy" - I think thats why "girl" persists, because its the closest one. But "guy" can mean any male ("that old guy" "that guy in his teens") but girl implies young and junior. "Woman" often sounds too impersonal/formal. Gender neutral not always appropriate...