RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116908359337948457 The usual paywall-dodgers work fine and the piece is absolutely essential reading if you're a software person. #genai

If students are simply uninterested in the core bargain of a class like this, it’s hard to know what to do. You teach the material because you think it’s important they know it; they don’t give a shit, but want the credential; and the university wants their money. Your main option is “pretend”.

Good morning! (up at the quack of dawn) #photography

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2026-07-10-list341.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

Dear peer reviewers everywhere: sometimes we feel pressure to find issues with a submission as a demonstration of diligence. But we have to recognise this is a mistake: picking random and sometimes incoherent holes in research add confusion, generates unnecessary work and encourages defensive

You also don't have to do an editor's job of deciding if a paper "fits" or is "impactful enough" for their journal, because you're a scientist and not a marketing agent for the publisher.

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Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal

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Last year seriously thought, let’s give all my scientific computing students USB keys with bootable Linux & python installed ; they‘ll never cheatGPT in class, they won’t be able to figure out how to get wifi to work lol Linux for the win

45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

Our lab guide now includes an explicit AI usage policy: www.poldracklab.org/labguide/res...

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2026-07-03-list340.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

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seems it's time for our annual "why do you need the building to work, it's the summer!" week at @westernu.ca

Happy academia new year #academicsky

🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day, eh! 🇨🇦

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My department, Neurobiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington (nbio.uw.edu), is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor, application deadline 09/30/26. It's a broad search — molecular to organismal, all of neuroscience/physiology/biophysics welcome. apply.interfolio.com/187735

San Francisco old and new. #believeinfilm #leica

During my postdoc I was trying to move to a new area, my supervisor said: you have to go to a conference, it's the only way to learn what they are thinking and what the key questions are. He was completely right. Science is a collective and social human pursuit, not a bunch of pdfs online

theyre not “predictors” theyre gamblers, hes trying to get 18-34 year olds addicted to gambling

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What is the goal of doing science at a university? For me 1. increase human understanding of the world, 2. train future human scientists. Note *human* in both. Papers are a (necessary) corollary (esp for those scientists-in-training to get jobs), but let's not have the tail wag the dog #academicsky

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2026-06-26-list339.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

Seriously tho is there anything more fun (at work) than loading up some fresh new data, analysing, and seeing how it looks? This is why I am here. #neuroskyence #psychscisky #academicsky

It’s sandwich-generation time and I’m the cheese.

Japan. Fujifilm Fujichrome Provia 100F. #leica #believeinfilm

summer is definitely not easing up on the workload at least not yet my artisanal handwritten todo list on my desk seems to be growing at an alarming pace maybe it's a going out for pizza night #academicsky

If you want to make a repository like this for your own subfield, we'd love to help you do it! Please reach out. manyscale.org

If p < 0.05, you "reject the null." That's what many stats courses teach you to do. This week's Experimentology chapter argues that this binary, dichotomous frame can sometimes be useful but is the wrong default for psych experiments — there is a broader toolkit available! 🧵 experimentology.io

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

Don't Milli Vanilli your thesis! GenZ: look it up

Uh I think maybe we actually have to sit down with the students and say the words out loud, I’m not sure they know : handing in or passing off AI work as your own (i.e. unattributed) constitutes academic fraud. #academicsky #psychscisky #neuroskyence

90 sec north of the city, a different world #iphonephotography

Open Mind, the free OA competitor to Cognition (El$evier) founded by Richard Aslin, has nearly caught up to it impact-factor-wise Submit your best work! It's a great journal with fast and constructive review, a great ed board, and lots of cool work Open Mind is the future of cogsci journals!

Neighbourhood clouds are showing off, too bad I’m not John Constable #photography

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2026-06-19-list338.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

Kiddo making me miss this place

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Excited to share the first of Abdalla Albeely’s work on characterizing a model of cannabis withdrawal after vaporized cannabis flower exposure! In addition to being the first study to look at cannabis vapor, this also is the first time behavioral network analyses are used to characterize withdrawal!

People like to dunk on MATLAB now, but it’s hard to overstate how large an advance it was at the time and the impact it has had on scientific computing. RIP Cleve Moler www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/s...

Apropos of nothing, anyone interested in joining a "software* in social/personality psychology"-themed SPSP submission? *could be R/python packages, dashboards, web-based or mobile apps, etc.,

The Neural Control & Computation Lab is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow to investigate the neural basis of learning, flexible neural computation, and skilled movement control using large-scale electrophysiology from single-neuron populations in non-human primates 🧠🐒 www.ncclab.ca/join-the-lab

Online planning of sequential actions Review by Jörn Diedrichsen (@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social), Mehrdad Kashefi (@mkashefi.bsky.social), Amin Nazerzadeh, & J. Andrew Pruszynski (@andpru.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/2p9nbnbx

Any time I’m in a meeting and the topic of discussion turns to brainstorming ways the university can make more money, I know I’m in the wrong meeting. Or to put it differently the meeting has the wrong attendee. #academicsky

Finally out in Psychological Review (psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...), our update to Signal Detection Theory. We show that contrary to the prevailing Gaussian assumption, evidence distributions in recognition memory are likely minimum extreme Gumbel!

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