A few months ago, I received a strange email from scholars claiming to be my future colleagues at a so-called “College of Machine Agency.” Attached was a Word file with a story I cannot adequately describe here. Their instructions were simple: submit it to Nature’s Futures section under my own name.

How do we know if research is credible? In Abatayo et al., 86 of us combined evidence across the SCORE program including replicability, reproducibility, robustness, human and machine assessments to understand relationships among many potential credibility measures. 1/ Paper: osf.io/preprints/me...

I teach an undergraduate course on judgment and decision making, where we focus on mathematical models of cognition — some simple, some complex. I like to end the class with a performance of Dan Dennett's "Where am I?" ( https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/daniel-dennett-where-am-i/). 1/x

Today I learned that there are two NSFs. 1/x

A student challenged me to a duel. 1/x

I came across this saying in the bathroom of a exercise studio where I was taking a class: "It is never too late to be what you might have been." 1/x

I've been pretty quiet on social media for the past few years, participating more on the consumption side of media than on the production side. In 2025, my goal is to shift the ratio 1000-fold in the direction of production. So, expect to see a lot more from me here. Stay tuned…

Friends, I think I’ve spotted what must be $1 billion of art bananas. (See https://buff.ly/4idykDZ for an explanation of the reference.)

This morning my 4-year-old, brimming with righteous indignation, calls me Mr. Poopy Pants for the first time. Hurt to the core, I reply, “Come on. Show some respect. That’s Professor Poopy Pants.”