whats worse than receiving a grant rejection? having to download an app, and spend 15 minutes trying to FIND the rejection in the world's worst website. thabks Horizon, that was the salt in the wound I was looking for

In my ongoing attempts to give you a break from *gestures widely* THE HORRORS: Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring. Here's a weird starting point: There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr. Cats that roar = genus Panthera Cats that purr = genus Felis

Making pretty lecture slides right now feels a little like re-arranging deckchairs on the titanic.

yyyyeah thats not reassurance. Thats threat.

The powerful have their power. We have the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to act together | Mark Carney

incredible speech from Mark Carney. Feels like a turning point www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Universities are not a commodity in which quality holds steady regardless of price. Rather, starving the system of overall steady funding means a few winners and a race to the bottom for the others.” today’s @theglobeandmail.com #academicsky #psychscisky #neurosckyence

We need a dedicated website for news stories (mostly about trump) that confirms whether or not they are satire / AI. I am no longer able to distinguish truth from parody.

Literally my entire bluesky feed got an ERC consolidator grant.

The future is not in the training set.

crazy IG em_clarkson

I thought the idea of a sex abuse ring at the highest levels of government was overheated and ridiculous. I thought Captain America: The Winter Soldier having secret Nazi senators was over the top. My life has become a single ongoing revelation that I have not been cynical enough

They're going to crash the global economy by attempting to create an artificial general intelligence, despite having no idea what that is, no proof they can build it & no hope of doing so. Cunts just read too many sci-fi books.

The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

Loving that a major critique of the tools my lab are producing is "but for this you have to understand the topic really well to be able to build the evaluations for it! unscalable! unrealistic!" Suddenly "you have to know what you're talking about if you want to say something" is contraversial

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.