@nature.com is expanding Registered Reports - an article type where the research plan is reviewed prior to conducting the study, and, if it passes peer review, we promise to publish it regardless of the results - to all fields we publish + a broader range of research: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Anxiously waiting to know if the Pope will get a 1-year ban from arxiv

Did I just go to a coauthor’s google scholar profile and sort their publications by year, because I was not sure whether they were alive or dead? Yes I did and I’m happy to report they live.

Just found a subreddit that pairs people with fucked up balls of string with people who love detangling balls of string and it is *very* wholesome

Just saw someone calling Bujold’s Vorkosigan books a cozy series about toxic masculinity. these books are many many things, but this is a truly mind boggling description.

Still time to apply!! Come & work with me at the Hasso Plattner Institute & @bmittelstadt.bsky.social @cruss.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk If you care about ethical, legal, and social aspects of AI, generative AI and other emerging technologies and EU tech laws, then apply now! tinyurl.com/556jty8t

Kicking off the Machine+Behavior conference in Berlin today with @jfbonnefon.bsky.social , @azimshariff.bsky.social and 225 participants. Check out the program: machinebehavior.science

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

There is a German SF series which has been published weekly for 65 years, with more than 3,000 stories so far, and 3,000 years of internal chronology 😱

ah yes, i have this problem all the time too

One productive use of AI to review papers: asking the chatbot to scour through the 100-page supplementary materials to find places where my criticisms might in fact be partially or fully addressed, before submitting the review (assuming I'm allowed to do this per journal policies)

"On Polymarket, the Journal found, 67% of profits go to just 0.1% of accounts. That means less than 2,000 accounts netted a total of nearly half a billion dollars."

Georgette Heyer describing Sir Waldo’s hand in The Nonesuch : « a shapely member, bare of rings » 👀

‼️Conference Norms in Language-based Human-AI Interaction 📆 5th of June📍Bracka 12, Kraków ☑️preliminary program: docs.google.com/document/d/1... @talkingtobots.bsky.social @edouardmachery.bsky.social @jfbonnefon.bsky.social @monasimion.bsky.social

This is an actual line that was added to the official system prompt for Codex for GPT-5.5 by OpenAI. Usually the system prompt is as minimal as possible, so I assume it would otherwise mention goblins a lot. AIs are weird.

The Wikipedia article “Meaning of life” has been edited 10,713 times in its 25 year existence, and 23% of those edits have been reverted as vandalism. One common pattern is for vandals to delete the entire article and replace it with a single line. I collected some examples from the old days:

it just struck me that in French the word for an adult woman is "wife" and the word for a young girl is "daughter", whereas we have different words for men, husbands, boys, and sons. Now I'm curious to know if other languages show the same pattern

Every PI

I don't understand why reviewers can send confidential comments to the editor about a paper, but authors cannot send confidential comments to the editor about the reviews. As in "look we did our best but this review reads like an entry in the dream diary of Samuel Beckett with a bad case of flu"

As a companion piece to our 'Science Fiction Science Method' article, we explore in Nautilus how we could turn a Ted Chiang story into a behavioral experiment @azimshariff.bsky.social @iyadrahwan.bsky.social

I just confirmed my participation to a conference and meant to write "looking forward to!" but typed instead "looking forward yo!" I have turned into the academic version of Jesse Pinkman

I like how typos in manuscripts are no longer considered evidence of sloppiness, and have turned instead into luxury signals of hand-crafted writing by a human master wordsmith who keeps to the traditional ways

The canvas() function from the ggview R package is very useful for previewing/tweaking a ggplot into publication-ready format: it renders a plot "as it would appear if saved to a file with the specified dimensions". cran.r-project.org/web/packages... #RStats #ggplot #ggview

[user] analyze and summarize the attached document [French LLM] *Bonjour*

My zombie Prof would complain bitterly about \textit vs \emph and the use of raw text in math mode latex instead of using \text or proper operator commands. 💀💀💀

What a better way to start the day than reading the sentence “Grammarly is being accused of necromancy”. Now *that’s* my kind of news

This piece by psychologist/philosopher Brian Earp is about the differing attitudes toward AI in psychology vs. philosophy In psych, one common attitude is; The goal is to get the right answer to fundamental questions in psychology. If AI helps us do that, well then, all the better… 1/

One month to wait for Trace Elements, a conversation on my favorite genres by the author of my favorite series @adapalmer.bsky.social and the person whose taste in books I admire the most @bluejo.bsky.social. I’ve not been that excited about a book for a very very long while

Also: what a missed opportunity to make us Jonathan and Jennifer

My phone decided to autocomplete “Je” (French “I”) with Jérôme and my wife’s phone decided on Jennifer. from our texts you’d think we are obsessed with these two - Jerome will be late tonight - it’s ok, Jennifer will be at yoga - Jerome will stop for food on the way - Jennifer won’t need anything

#Wilmasreview ❄️ Wilma isn't looking for a new home in the snow — but she is wondering: should AI decide who gets welfare benefits like housing support? A new study by Dong, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social & @iyadrahwan.bsky.social looked at exactly this. 1/🧵

Pixel Agents A VS Code extension that turns your AI coding agents like Claude Code into animated pixel art characters in a virtual office. It shows what the agent is currently doing with animations. You can also customize the virtual office however you want. Repo: github.com/pablodelucca...

I went a little overboard with this and a little bit insane. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/t...

I do it when I'm stressed, these emails have such a soothing rhythm

Join us in June at @iast.fr Toulouse for a 2-day workshop on social influence and its large scale implications!

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

My January Reading List reactormag.com/jo-waltons-r...

“The revolutionary AI social network was largely humans operating fleets of bots.”

I saw some people calling it Rectangular February

NGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up

There are thousands and thousands of papers with an abstract that starts with the phrase “With the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence,” and it looks like 99% are from Chinese authors. How come? Does that sentence sound really good in Chinese? Are Chinese LLMs particularly fond of it?

me and the peer reviewer i suggested

The claim in this article is not supported by the data. SGO and NHTSA general public data have different reporting thresholds, and the authors also seems to have used raw gen. pub. crash counts, instead of total vehicles INVOLVED in crashes. Better benchmark is around 50-100k miles b/w crashes.

Should you go to academia or industry for research in AI or cognitive science? It's the most common question I get asked by PhD students, and I've written up some of my thoughts on the answer, as an epilogue to my research-focused series on these fields: infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/on-researc...

New Bridgerton season incoming, cancel all my plans for next weekend

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace."

by submitting a different manuscript 6 months later

Heard some sad news (though not the saddest kind of news) about a fellow bipolar person. A reminder to Always Take Your Meds — or make an appointment with a doctor, stat, if you’re not treated yet. I mean it, do it.

Do we have a trolley problem with chatbots and self-harm? Say we could show that for 20 people they successfully pull away from suicide, there is one person they push toward it. Would we be utilitarian, or would we draw a line and say that this is unacceptable regardless of net impact?

Sorry, but triumphant claims about autonomous vehicle safety are wildly exaggerated. It's an open question whether today’s self-driving cars are any safer than those driven by humans. And if reducing crashes is the goal, that isn’t even the right question. My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵