The NYU department of psychology is also reinstating the GRE as a requirement for PHD admissions. I heard Yale and Harvard are as well. Now Penn too. If you are applying to psych PHD programs this year be sure to take the exam.

A #Roman mosaic octopus, found in a villa at Villaquejida (Spain) - laid some 1800-1900 years ago, but still looking fabulous today #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky

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!

Look how far we've come in just a few years! We're fast as well! It turns out, recruiting reviewers is much easier when they're not being used as free labor for massively profitable publishers Support free-to-publish and Open Access science by submitting to Open Mind today! direct.mit.edu/opmi

"Canal" is a borrowing from Semitic/Sumerian. Cf Arabic qanāh, an older meaning for which is a (reed) lance or spear but which now also means canal.

Frank Stella, Astoria, 1958 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135444

—— Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal. We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026 Submit your papers to Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi

Check our new work! Studies led brilliantly by @louisakuper.bsky.social. We investigate the parafascicular thalamus as an interface of sensory, attention, and movement signals that guide exploration and cue-related learning.

I'm not sure there's a more bizarre collection of supporting cast members than this handful from the credits of THE EXORCIST III.

Sometimes I worry we are still in the long 19th century. No I will not elaborate

can't argue with this.

Black Cat - Min Zhen, 18th-century ink on paper scroll painting 78.5 x 38.5 cm

2008: I must configure my new iPhone to route and report every notice, call or email. 2026: if my iPhone makes any noise for any reason I have to go sit down for a little while to suppress my rage.

MOON’S HAUNTED starring Austin Butler and Zendaya, spring 2028

A new paper, forthcoming in PPR: Visual Icons This paper took me more than 5 years to write. It argues that the visual system constructs imagistic representations ("visual icons") and sketches a theory of how visual icons, and iconic representations generally, are compositionally structured.

ZaSu Pitts explains her name

I hope they turn that meme of the little girl smirking at the fire into a movie.

The number of time I had to click on "I'm human" and wait is in the hundreds this week

Today is the US launch of my book, The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Hawaiʻian kai: "sea" and Japanese 海/かい/kai: "ocean, sea", definitely no relation. They come from *tasik and something like *m̥ˤəʔ, respectively On the other hand, Hawaiʻian ʻīlio: "dog" and Japanese 犬/いぬ/inu: "dog" are plausibly (but not certainly) related, from something like *(ŋ)kuɣ(kuɣ)

Since I work from home it’s always weird when the kids are home for the summer. And it’s hard to maintain a position of authority when your kids watched you have a pot of coffee and a fruit roll-up for breakfast while you read a comic book.

The massive 7T-fMRI Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD) has been extended to Neuropixels recordings in macaques! Exciting resource for inter-species comparisons by Li et al. @natneuro.nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Also nice News & Views by Kay and colleagues! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you need a little bit of a mental reset, may I suggest vibing out to this polar bear having a grand old time swimming in the sun to Enya. I’m not sure who is having more fun: her chasing after random vegetables or me trying to film her. #mammals

Simba (1969-1972): A tart, lemon-flavored soda from Coca-Cola, marketed as a "pure, thirst-quenching beverage." Known for its distinctive green, embossed glass bottles. But the background, roll-out and demise were a wild ride...check this 🧵

June 15, 1926: New York-based Drake Bakeries introduces the Devil Dog, a cream-filled, chocolate devil's food cake. It’s unclear how the treat got its name, but “Devil Dog” had recently been popularized as a nickname for the Marines for their tenacity in WWI.

Incredible things are happening on Sesame Street

You can still go to starwarstel.net via ssh or telnet and watch the whole of Star Wars as an ASCII animation, though, so the old Internet is still out there...

It's always "you're autistic" and never "please, do say more about the life and times of Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin"

Wow 🔥🔥🔥 link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Best pop record with emphasis on "best" is "Good Vibrations" Best with emphasis on "pop" is "Sugar Sugar" Best with emphasis on "record" is "Paperback Writer" (mono mix only).

I love that part in sleeping beauty where she discovers that for 16 years the minions had been searching for a baby, not recognizing that we are all changing all the time

Boarded-up Shelby, MT

Cosmic horror is great because it just kinda invents itself. Spend a bit too long thinking about the sun and you realize it’s a radioactive death ball larger than your mind has capacity to comprehend, so inherently dangerous that looking directly at it will harm you, and it’s just sitting there.

Hey fun friends, does anyone recognize this as any kind of translatable shorthand?

The fact that BART tracks are so insanely loud means every extension has to put underground when in a populated, non freeway ROW area. At some point the re-engineering of the wheel profile has to cheaper than the billions in future extensions being underground.

Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to [email protected]

One of the things that perplexes me most about human memory is how we can recall distant events with sustained effort. Sometimes it can take minutes, hours or several days of dwelling on episodes in the past before a vivid memory appears that was manifestly there all along. We don't seem to have

good mechanistic theory for this. Our models of memory (attractor states and so on) predict that memories should be accessible on uniform timescales. They don't predict that you should have to work over extended periods to retrieve a memory. Is this really a giant hole in our understanding?

If human editors can’t control who reviews science, it’s no longer peer review — it’s a rubber-stamp machine designed for volume and profit, not quality. I have no intention of attaching my name to it. So I’m out.

I emailed and met with the editorial office to ask for the AI assistant to be turned off. I was told this is not possible. Instead, I was treated to some vague promises of potential future improvements and a dose of gaslighting.

Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts.

When Frontiers started automating the editorial process, I stayed. I reasoned that as long as the automation could be turned off, human editors can still ensure rigorous, high-quality peer review. This now became impossible - the system has been entirely hijacked by algorithms.

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

I’d say “known sexual harassment case” is different than the other two, and bears mentioning in passing. There’s no obligation to say everything disagreeable about a person, or most articles would be much longer.

I’m working on a piece right now that dwells for a few paragraphs on the work of one such person and it feels odd to just drop in something like “by the way, they did [insert relevant sin here]" when it isn’t relevant for understanding the work at all.

Science journalists: how do you handle it when you need to discuss the work of a researcher who is genuinely intellectually significant but also did some Seriously Bad Stuff (e.g. associations with Epstein, known eugenics views, confirmed sexual harassment case, etc.)?

Natural behavior unfolds as a continuous stream of actions. Because these actions often occur in rapid succession, the brain must prepare multiple future actions while the current action is being executed. Our TICS piece explores how this works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...