Does anyone know any writing (broadly defined) that links Cognitive Psychology and eugenics? I'm specifically interested in discussions beyond the obvious (but ofc not less important) IQ/intelligence stuff. I'm thinking, e.g., vision science-y stuff or perception in general

Love this short opinion piece on “mechanical bypass” in analogy to “spiritual bypass”.

this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Has anyone attended any pre-data-collection poster sessions (i.e., poster sessions where people present their plans for experiments before data collection in order to get feedback when it's most useful) at conferences other than VSS?

Academic freedom does not exist at my grad alma mater York University thanks to the Palestine Exception. Should be an enormous scandal but of course it won’t be. www.thegrindmag.ca/york-univers...

Age verification laws unequivocally do much more harm than good

"Motorists are hostile to measures that slow traffic and favor pedestrians. Local leaders give token or tepid support. Spending on pedestrian-friendly improvements is not prioritized." www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

This explains something that has always mystified me about drivers who rail against bike lanes and transit. Why WOULDN'T you want people to have options not to drive? It would make your own driving better! But they don't just want good traffic, they want to reinforce the NORM of driving

Okay, time to do something about my social science envy

I have a lot of self-compassion, like, in general, but every now and then I think about some of my early 20s "not like the other gays" attitudes and I cringe so hard 🙃

Proud to announce that I have successfully trained my IG algorithm to exclusively show me lesbian content and its the best ♥️

Breaking news: LLMs behave exactly the way they should given their design (I'm being condescendent and snide not towards OP or even the author, because apparently this needs to be said, but rather towards how gullible we are as a society)

Sex work is work so I don't give a fuck but I do love seeing how much of the media has adopted a term, sex worker, that not long ago was largely limited to community spaces. That's activism.

Not someone quoting his "quick AI search" on CVnet 😭

"The Minister states that “the chatbot was tested extensively...checking responses to “55 questions out of which 53 were deemed successful" Wendy Lyon, an immigration & human rights solicitor at Abbey law, found that many of these 53 “successful” responses were wrong, unhelpful & misleading."

I have some bad news for you about scores & scores of esteemed Harvard professors…

Summaring the problems in every maths department.

Teaching friends, advice please? I have this calculus student who fancies himself a hotshot. During group work at whiteboards he often takes charge, assumes a teacher role, and lectures other students. Other students have told me that they find this condescending and don't want to work with him. 1/

I really think the appropriate response here is not "bullshit, its not intelligent nor conscious" (because the answer will simply and boringly depend on your definition of "intelligent" and "conscious") but rather "we're wasting our time arguing about this"

I have studied enough philosophy to know that we simply don't have to care about whether AI is ""conscious"". This whole argument is so much more about the definition of "consciousness" than about AI and, no offense to philosophers,

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

TIL stimulants like Adderall reduces risk of dementia in people with ADHD to neurotypical levels. So gimme those drugs.

A little piece of good news ♥️

I mean, do we count the reporting on trans issues over the past 5-10 years already as part of this fasho sympathizer era of the NYT?

"Vanderbilt is failing in its moral responsibility to push back against rising authoritarianism and political coercion." My effort to convince Vanderbilt (and all universities) to take a stand for the rule of law, the Constitution, and our democracy. www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

Enough. Awesome to see this billboard up in Vancouver. Was really incredible to work with the people at @visionzerovancouver.ca to bring this to life.

Haven't read the whole thing yet but my advice to our PhD/masters students regarding statistical robustness has always been "okay but do your results ~make sense~ given ~everything~"

Any Open Science Foundation users know what "Date Modified" in the meta data refers to? osf.io/xcaq3/files/... Reviewer pointed out that it was Sept 25th this year (way after data collection ended), but I don't recall updating it, and there is also nothing in the "Revisions" tab. @cos.io ?

Hive mind, could you point me to any papers that report pursuit gains for fast-ish target speeds (30 - 45°/s)? A reviewer admonishes that our gains are unheard-of-ly close to 1 and I want to check how unheard of they are exactly 😊 (feel free to nominate your own or your friends' papers!)

Just added a new small Unity scene to the collection of currently seven virtual environments I created over the years. They are all free to reuse under Creative Commons and are all optimized for standalone VR. Here's the repository tinyurl.com/OpenEnvironm... #VRresearch

If we had actual places to party past 2.30am, that would already go a long way to discourage that 🫣

Doesn't sound like this is gonna have any teeth but good direction!

Rare relatable Holyday moment, don't we all wish proposals at City Hall were better

It never ceases to amaze me how business owners are often so caught up in their class identity that they're willing to cut into their own profits

Glad we're fighting the good fight, lol

you tell'em, Olivia!

This is great! As a sidenote, a 46% ~return on investment~ is actually not even that impressive when it comes to stuff governments can spend money on. Public transport projects tend to have extremely high RoIs, for example. Government spending is good, actually!

Not holding my breath for universities, especially Ivy League suckers, to do the right thing

Please join us. A @connectedminds.bsky.social Conference at the York University Student Centre. October 6th, at 3 PM. Opening keynote address by Dr. Michael Inzlicht from University of Toronto. #neuroscience @jdcrawford.bsky.social @bjorges.bsky.social

Estamos adoptando la ia en nuestras universidades sin un análisis serio al respecto? Corremos detrás del hype sin pensar en sus consecuencias y siendo víctimas de la estrategia comercial de grandes empresas? @olivia.science et al. plantean distintos puntos 👇 zenodo.org/records/1706...

lol okay apparently these stickers are a consequence of participatory budgeting and not Moise's idea 😂 (as I found out in the ever-engaging City Hall Watcher by @graphicmatt.com newsletter!)

and tbh I should be in hell for my data management skills, this folder is a fucking mess

writing letters of recommendation is a special kind of hell

Even if anyone wanted this feature (I don't) I can't imagine an LLM would be the best tool for it???

How strange that LLMs can't do a thing they were never even designed to do in the first place

Was this not… what critical AI researchers have been saying this entire time?

Check out our review paper published at PSPR! 🙂

Opp, can't believe I hadn't signed yet!

I mourn a communal ideology of vaccination that promoted universal vaccine uptake as a way to offer protection to everyone, including those who can’t get vaccinated. It really feels like the anti-vaxxers won with their focus on individual choice with no regard for the harm it would cause others.

Not to commit the sin of earnest posting, but what if the real political violence were the people we lost along the way (to racism, transphobia, ~capitalism~, colonialism, et al.)