Airports in Hawaii are strange places. At the Maui airport I met a TSA agent that was convinced I was Kenny Loggins and excitedly shook my hand. At the Honolulu airport in a lounge a woman was absolutely convinced I am a Twitter celebrity.

What's the deal with drift rate variability in the Diffusion Model of decision-making? Find out in our newest publication in Computational Brain and Behaviour Led by @jie-sun.bsky.social + @adamosth.bsky.social Come for the slow errors, stay for the joint modelling w/ EEG rdcu.be/e85Re

After several years of work, my lab is starting to put out our first papers on learning in a unicellular organism (Stentor coeruleus). Here we show evidence for a form of associative learning in Stentor: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I'm excited to announce that I had my first (co-authored) book published today! "The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources" with Falk Lieder and Tom Griffiths (@cocoscilab.bsky.social ). You can read it for free! (see thread)

my band was featured in the new issue of Bad Batch Magazine, a rock magazine that focuses on the Melbourne music scene

I really need people outside of Seattle to know how much Krist Novoselic sucks

New prerint w/ my student Haomin Chen and collaborator Andrew Heathcote! Accumulator models are well known for being able to address choice and RT. Joint accounts of confidence are much less common. In this work, we explored 3 LBA models of confidence. osf.io/preprints/ps...

I have been really hurting over the news in Minnesota. I'm having a hard time finding the words for it even now. In short, I'm finding it very hard to be optimistic, and I'm very scared things could get much worse

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

As a memory researcher, I still find results that are really puzzling to understand or explain. Here's one by Henkel (2014) - taking a photo of something impairs your memory relative to passive viewing. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

to those in the US - is Dave’s hot chicken good?

Really happy to announce that in 2026 I will be an Associate Editor at Psychological Review! It’s my favorite journal so this is a huge honor!

New paper in Psych Review on a model of false recognition in Deese-Roediger-McDermott DRM task. Not just recognition responses, but also associated RTs! And not just the semantic task, but also the structural task - where words overlap in orthography/phonology! A thread!

my band has a new single called "It's Called Fear" - here's a spotify link: open.spotify.com/track/2nhuy0...

my band just released a cover of "good luck babe" by Chappell Roan. we did a post punk version of it - it's as if Sonic Youth is playing it, complete with angular guitar stabs and disaffected vocals. not meant to be ironic at all - we love the original song! open.spotify.com/track/6RrOEZ...

This is doing the rounds at the moment and I find it a strange take. A thread

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Hollow Knight Silksong is amazing

It’s been a tough time. Yesterday we took Mabel to the vet because she was having a hypo episode. We unexpectedly ended up having to say goodbye to her. We are devastated. This is a photo from back in 2016 when I adopted her.

I am a huge fan of Tim Robinson and I Think You Should Leave, but I’m not sure if I’m feeling The Chair Company yet

I just submitted a grant today. In preparing it, I went over the reviews I got for my submission for the same grant scheme last year. Nearly every reviewer commented on my prior track record with grants. My question is - why is this so relevant to whether or not someone gets a grant?

people do not understand the movie Fight Club

Hey memory folks! I got a question from a student I couldn't quite answer. I talked about consolidation, and how HM's loss of 3-5 years of recent memories led the field to believe that consolidation might take the same period of time. A student asked - "why would it take so long?"

this is not an Onion article

my partner and I finished Six Feet Under last night and… god. Even though it was a rewatch, I haven’t been that moved by something in a long time.

my partner and I are watching Six Feet Under at the moment. it's a rewatch for me and the first for her. saying it's still good is an understatement. it's incredible. I think it's even better on a rewatch

I have been terribly sick this week for about the third time this year. I seem to get hit much harder than most people, often getting really debilitating coughs and congestion even after the worst is over. I might sound crazy but at this point I'm considering getting sinus surgery.

had a real "pinch me" moment this week... my band's new single "shadow operator" made it on triple j unearthed's tops playlist - a best of new music for new and emerging artists in Australia! www.abc.net.au/triplej/prog...

my band has a new single called "Shadow Operator." we're proud of it. it might have my best guitar work yet. I like to think it sounds like johnny marr playing for joy division - gloomy post punk with some jangle. also big hypnotic guitar solo at the end snailgunband.bandcamp.com/track/shadow...

🧠 New preprint alert! In this study, using a joint modelling method with the Diffusion Decision Model, we offer a mechanistic reinterpretation of the Late Positive event-related potential Component (LPC) as a neural signature of mnemonic strength during evidence accumulation in recognition memory.

📢 New preprint: "Comparing Cue and Target Roles in Cued Recall Reveals Limits of Intrinsic Word Memorability". See lnkd.in/gXs48uyx for a tweet thread. Congrats, Anuska Maity, for your first preprint (and hopefully published paper soon)!

I had a REALLY lovely time talking to @milesklee.bsky.social at Rolling Stone about why The Onion is thriving. It's because we're one of the only legacy outlets unafraid to accurately reflect the mood of this country. That mood? Everyone fucking hates this. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Is computation necessarily independent of its physical implementation? Now there’s a whole symposium on this question in the journal Mind & Language!

Please check out this work by @seymaertekin.bsky.social et al. where we studied key empirical benchmarks of working memory in a large-scale sample of elementary school students. This type of data is AWESOME because you can get a lot of clarity - as long as you don't go down any rabbit holes...

new single new single new single snailgunband.bandcamp.com/track/labyri...

“So what do you think Democrats can learn from somebody who, like you, targets the most vulnerable among us?” said Newsom theonion.com/gavin-n...

In case you haven't seen it yet, M&C is doing a special issue for Larry Jacoby. It says 4/30 for a due date, but I believe we're allowing for some more wiggle room. www.psychonomic.org/page/MCjacoby

Honey, we fixed Signal Detection Theory (SDT)! In this preprint, Constantin Meyer-Grant, David Kellen, Sam Harding, and I critically evaluate the (unequal-variance) Gaussian SDT model in recognition memory and pursue the Gumbel-min model as a principled alternative: doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵

Sorry but I just don't feel comfortable sharing public toilets with transphobes. At any moment they could just demand to have a look at my gennies. The law should protect women's spaces from these creeps.

You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.

I got my old SNES working on a modern tv. I’ve been sick this week, so I spent most of my free time playing the old school sim city. I got this achievement that I was never able to get as a kid

This is now published in the Journal of Mathematical Psychology! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... with @annalschubert.bsky.social, @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social, and Klaus Oberauer

how do you get Siri to adopt a Cajun accent?

Metacognition of medical knowledge in LLMs: “Models consistently failed to recognize their knowledge limitations and provided confident answers even when correct options were absent.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BTW, if you run studies on Prolific, I strongly recommend that you spend some time on the Prolific subreddit to see what participants discuss, complain about, etc. www.reddit.com/r/ProlificAc/

Alright it's here! Where we push back against the exploratory-confirmatory distinction that's become canonized in metascience and talk about what we think exploratory research (including exploratory experimentation and modeling) means and why our view is incompatible with 'unplanned data analyses'.

in “all star” whenever the singer of smash mouth sings “all that glitters is gold” it sounds like he’s singing through a toilet paper roll

Today I played a Travis Bean guitar. Never played anything like it before. Sadly it costs 11 grand :(

hey friends. I've been playing in a post punk band for a little while with @daniellittle.bsky.social. we released our first record recently which is an EP of four songs. this is my first ever recording so it's been pretty exciting to share it. snailgunband.bandcamp.com/album/reset-...

“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.” www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...

this game is sooo scary