"[S]tall, manipulate and deceive." "As far as I have experienced, [ceasefire] simply means that Israel is able to do whatever it wants. We aren't." "This is the 'peace' we are offered after two years of suffering the crime of crimes." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide #Military

ML based facial recognition is not reliable in the wild; like many “AI” tools sold to law enforcement, it is thinly-veiled pseudoscience and will harm people by lending law enforcement both a felt sense of epistemic authority and legal impunity.

Surprise: AI based facial recognition is still pseudoscience and will harm people.

rookie mistake. that’s \pagenumbering{gobblegobble}.

I went all the way to Mexico to give a keynote and all I got was this lousy t-shirt

"Plan for a future where you can buy GPUs for ten cents on the dollar, where there's a buyer's market for hiring skilled applied statisticians, and where there's a ton of extremely promising open source models that have barely been optimized & have vast potential for improvement." Yup: Local & open

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

“The sooner the bubble pops, the better” is also true if what we care about is continued financing of AI/ML R&D.

This market is a soap bubble and we all know it. Claims of the capacity to obviate or automate human labor are absurd. We know this. But that won’t stop them from disrupting labor markets and, with them, human lives. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

More frightening yet is the pervasive belief that a generation of American citizens was born lacking all intellectual curiosity, as though by some fluke, while our educational establishments continued to serve us well.

Happy Halloween! Don’t forget, the first translation of the Communist Manifesto into English began with “A frightful hobgoblin stalks throughout Europe”.

If I saw a group of men in plainclothes physically assaulting a woman in public I would be throwing hands. How is everyone just watching this?

how it feels to do physical activity after the age of 35

Mi padre ha hecho la foto más parecida a un 3D malo de la historia

Thrilled to be at UNAM this week and to be keynoting a truly fantastic conference on the Philosophy of Computing.

Mexican starbucks almost gets my name right:

Who do I know in Mexico City?

@bayesianboy.bsky.social as a child:

it’s a competition.

elect this man

Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/

We were so lucky to have Emily's voice in the room. If you're interested to watch our panel, you can find the link here: www.mindandlife.org/events/minds...

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

I’m going to be writing about police violence against #Palestine demos in #Berlin for the LRB. I’m keen to speak to anyone who has been effected, or who has other insight or expertise they wish to share (lawyers, court observers, etc)

Nice blogpost responding to a comment I made about knowledge production and aspirations to automate scientific discovery.

Inspired by a post by @bayesianboy.bsky.social , I wrote something on the differences between information and insight — and why understanding remains a very human act

I’m in a room where a whole ass faculty member said “Chat GPT 5 would be able to write a better NSF proposal than me” and… well… My inside thoughts got the best of me BC I said loud as fuck “that’s unfortunate, because there’s not a machine on earth that writes better than me.”

can’t believe I went to the trouble of getting a PhD and didn’t even get a sword out of it.

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

ICE threatened to shoot. the driver of an ambulance. that ICE was preventing. from carrying a patient to the hospital.

israel has already broken the ceasefire

I am on the job market this year! My research advances methods for reliable machine learning from real-world data, with a focus on healthcare. Happy to chat if this is of interest to you or your department/team.

There’s nothing wrong with inventing your own little thought experiment where a cat licks poison or dances to mambo no.5 when no one is watching if you don’t actually care about the Copenhagen interpretation

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

AI usage accounted for less than 1% of online activity and “the most consistent predictors of AI use across studies were…Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy,” i.e., dark triad personality traits. Nice. www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Very well matched couple of posts on my feed. Links to them: - bsky.app/profile/iris... - bsky.app/profile/jane...

I think it is an incredible privilege to get paid a living wage in order to think. Most jobs in existence today are all but prohibitive of thinking, let alone “thinking jobs.” I am baffled every day by the number of people who openly attest to being incapable of or averse to thinking a thought.

Regardless of what explainability/mech interp in AI is actually after, and whether or not they know what they’re searching for, we can confidently say they’re pursuing what systems neuroscience has pursued for decades, with very similar puzzles and confusions.

What problem is explainability/interpretability research trying to solve in ML, and do you have a favorite paper articulating what that problem is?

anyone invented autoblock for this site (feature that allows you to block yourself from seeing anything that you yourself have posted)?

A user of the anti-blinding-headlight advocacy group at reddit.com/r/fuckyourheadlights tested headlight brightness on multiple vehicles in order to figure out what's going on with regulations and adherence to them. Here's a 4-part infographic with key findings:

A frustrating thread (I agree with @bayesianboy.bsky.social here) in which Mel tries to stick to the point that slurs harm people not objects and people keep saying "But people sometimes use the same word but in different contexts, so therefore you are wrong..."

Let me make this really simple for those of you who don’t understand: a slur is a term that is harmful because its referent is a subject who can be harmed by it.

Toxic boyfriend ass republic