"Remembering what you did: Episodic memory for self-actions", with @silviaseghezzi.bsky.social and Sanjay Manohar now in NBBR. @oxexppsy.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

Well, 3/4 of it was painted plein air. . Spring Sunset In The Woods Behind My Studio 12“ x 12“ oil on wood panel

How well-calibrated are we to the difficulty of the (mental) actions we are about to take? *Right now* in the Banyan Breezeway, undergraduate Lana Milman explores the perception of "mental affordances", using countability as a case study! #VSS2026

I spent the past semester building interactive teaching apps with AI-assisted coding. I used my personal website to share them with my students, but that makes them hard to find for other educators. So I built Galvoro — galvoro.app

A cool Müller-Lyer illusion inherited from Nelson Cowan! You can adjust the length of the line via a slide rule and the back has a ruler to measure how far the estimate of equal length was from reality. More cool perception gadgets that I inherited to come!

How does the brain rapidly distinguish similar memories? We use 7T fMRI to show dynamic shifts between pattern separation and reinstatement signals in hippocampal CA3 and DG with changing task demands: doi.org/10.64898/202...

@anilseth.bsky.social may well be correct about consciousness in AI, but we should also bear in mind that this type of rationalization is of high demand at the moment osf.io/preprints/ps...

Ahh, the poetry of power lines and corvids. . Transformers 8”x6” Oil on cradled wood panel . Available on my website

How do response biases complicate the relationship between mental health and metacognition? Super excited this is out now in PNAS! Fortunate to work with @matanmazor.bsky.social and @ruvidar.bsky.social Check it out! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

I am so so proud of @noamsarna.bsky.social for his tremendous work on this. Now out in @pnas.org. @oxexppsy.bsky.social @ruvidar.bsky.social

A great @radiolab.bsky.social episode about value and ethics. It's not an easy listen, but an important one. Especially if you eat meat. open.spotify.com/episode/3Dgd...

Happy May Day Tom Disch ➛ is.gd/thisisnt

Intelligent

i have had only one very important world changing idea: slack makes you dumber AND makes you pay to access your own data and ideas. email rulez.

The anti-AI crowd on this website went from making good points against AI to being completely delusional and extremely toxic as AI spreads and the in-group/out-group mentality developed As Bluesky’s data is fully open, it would be a prime case study for scientists studying online toxicity

***4-year Career Development Research Fellowship in Psychology now available at Oxford!*** Open to all areas of Psychology, including Cognitive/Behavioural Neuroscience. PhD in last three years, or be about to submit (some exceptions apply). Deadline: 21st May. www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Today is the 2 year anniversary of when I met the Ravens. They just checked me out from a distance then! Here is some of my fav footage: them courting, feeding each other, barrel rolling and some of their vocalisations. They are the most amazing birds and I am so lucky to have them!

Here’s a way to get an LLM to declare itself a conscious AI (or, sometimes, a conscious human...). The Substack article has more examples and some discussion: aifails.substack.com/p/ai-declari...

New paper in PBR: "Working memory’s pointer system is governed by physical objecthood, not spatiotemporal information" rdcu.be/fd2tY Without valid WM pointers, we miss OBVIOUS changes in visible items; the study shows that this "resetting" process is all about objects and not spatiotemporal change!

Does Oxford University have a problem with Sticky Toffee Pudding?

Deadline is next week!

The Causality in Cognition Lab -- a supportive, bluesky-colored team -- is looking for a predoc to join us! Here are infos about the lab (cicl.stanford.edu) and the position (careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...). The application deadline is May 1st. Please share, thank you 🙏

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I finally got to watch this stunningly clear explanation of transformers from the amazing Idan Blank. I agree with Ev, Idan is the best teacher I know. This lecture is a gift to the field. Thank you Idan! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGMn...

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

These are essential questions to be asking right now. Ignoring the power of these models (which are only getting smarter by the month) is a recipe for professional obsolescence for one's self and their students.

🧵 I gave Claude two things: a short paper (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) and a raw behavioural dataset with 3 lines of variable descriptions. Then I asked it to fit three computational RL models described only by equations in the manuscript. No code, no toolbox, no guidance on the fitting procedure. 1/3

🧠 Focused ultrasound changes emotional processing 🔊 In a new study published in Neuron today, we stimulated the human amygdala using transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) and show it plays a causal role in detecting and resolving emotional ambiguity.

I found the framing of this paper... strange: "Associations Between Meat Consumption and Depression Are Small and Unlikely to Be Causal" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Visual #workingmemory peeps, you're going to love this. This is super challenging - might give you pause on how we are measuring color memory... My color memory is a 40.4/50. Please do worse so I feel better. dialed.gg?c=3PCHDE

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

Surely neuroscientists could save a lot of time by asking the philosophers who can imagine exact physical duplicates of their brains for details about what they are imagining.

More Nathan Newby's please, would sort this world right out. And as a Leeds born woman, I hope that man never has to buy his own pint in the city again.

Happy to share our preprint mapping the structure of theories of consciousness and their predictions, with @edenelbaz.bsky.social, @shaifischer.bsky.social, @maorschreiber.bsky.social, and @liadmudrik.bsky.social. Accessible here: osf.io/preprints/ps... Supplementary: osf.io/9xug8/overview

Statement by the Senate of Tel Aviv University

Scientific publishing: Rethinking how research is reviewed and published Review of how the loss of impact factor affected submissions at eLife - uneven drop across countries, but generally holding up remarkably well and shows a new model is possible elifesciences.org/articles/110...

Is mental imagery a single process? Our meta-analysis of 46 fMRI studies suggests not. We find a key divide between object imagery (visualizing an object in rich detail) and spatial imagery (mentally transforming objects). This split mirrors the ventral and dorsal streams of vision

happy to announce the official release of my first R package on CRAN! 🎉 building on the Hmetad toolbox by @smfleming.bsky.social, the hmetad package allows users to fit the meta-d' model of confidence ratings using a familiar brms/lme4-style formula syntax

I've seen a lot of demoralized posts (and emails) from people who didn't get into grad school this cycle. This was one of the worst cycles I've ever seen due to massive cuts to research funding, financial difficulties at universities, and technological disruptions.

📣 New publication 📣 Very excited to share our new paper "A neural signature of adaptive mentalization" out now in Nature Neuroscience (the project started all the way back in 2018!); with @niklasbuergi.bsky.social @drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social @christianruff.bsky.social (1/4)

Sorry, Bluesky, but I have to say it: AI can already do social science research better than most professors with PhDs. And, for the first time in my life, I really have no idea what happens in five years. Things are changing already, we just need to wake up.

We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record." Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...

How does uncertainty transmit from one head to another? Our new paper out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social reveals how public communication alters private confidence. w/ Einar Andreassen & @cdfrith.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk 🧠📈

draft lab ai policy, feel free to use, modify, or discuss! todd.gureckislab.org/2026/03/06/g...

This seems right to me.

Maybe of interest: The submission guidelines of Psychological Science now demand an explicit statement on measures taken to reduce the risk of AI-generated responses for all online studies! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...