The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

How about a jet-lagged live posting while I read? Trying to read this because I keep getting tagged in posts about it, but the first paragraph already contains synthetic text (a quote from Claude). I will skip that bit and persevere... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras

For those #psych researchers who are thinking about AI in any capacity, please think as clearly and carefully as @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and @olivia.science do about this, and let this article start you on that path…

I am responsible for the academic skills line in our AI programme and I think part of the 26/27 curriculum needs to be to help students understand that all those “AI assistants” that publishers and apps force on them are in fact “traps” for them to avoid. >>

This is 💯 entryism. He wrote a piece seemingly critical of AI, got caught & admitted to chatGPT use, but also gaslights us it's a search engine & it's useful for checking links — why not just click them? We can't be anti AI if we don't agree we see it. They did it with climate change, tobacco etc.

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Thank you for your leadership @holdenthorp.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Out today on @nature.com! Connecting neural specialization, population geometry, and their functional implications across the cortical hierarchy. So grateful for this beautiful and fun collaboration with @shuqiw.bsky.social, S Muscinelli, L Paninski, and @stefanofusi.bsky.social!

Oh look, more theft powered AI.

A really interesting piece on reducing AI cheating in the classroom from a Professor of English and former Dean of Humanities at University of Utah. The solutions? Smaller classes, lower teaching loads for faculty, and in-person classes.

There is no way to use ChatGPT responsibly.

His name was Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a loving husband and father murdered July 13, 2026. We stand with the people of Maine, their protest, and their quest for justice for another innocent civilian murdered at the hands of ICE.

I would argue there is nothing ‘promising’ about LLMs except that they will burn through energy and water, deskill experts, add to the slop and destruction of knowledge, impede learning, ...

I love it!!💚

‘Rather than teaching students to approach AI technology criitically, we should first and foremost teach them to think critically.’ -- @olivia.science

Not only in Radboud. This is a widespread issue affecting universities worldwide. It is a shameful waste of human minds. DCeep thanks to @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and to @olivia.science for all your hard work denouncing the terrible path that has invaded academia. Bravo!

ChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters.

HYPERSCALE is hitting bookstores on October 20. Preorder it now! In the book, I dig into how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point, and the incredible efforts of people pushing back against the profit-driven interests of Big Tech. Get your copy: hyperscalebook.com

The fake jobs" complaint is incel code for "women can earn $ for their labor & that enables them to reject men like me." Dissing college is part of that: higher ed must be devalued, bc women are outcompeting men on that terrain. They want involuntary servitude for the majority of the population.

*big sigh* This makes me so sad, because those images are always dreadful in any case. I see a presentation with AI art in it, and I immediately lose interest in whatever‘s being talked about.

we are scarily close to general artificial intelligence

Many have asked about the proposed changes to federal grants by Russell Vought at the Office of Management and Budget. Numerous colleagues have written excellent detailed comments. I have simply joined the chorus — reproduced at the link below. Visit friends at @standupforscience.net to help.

The hippocampus sits at the interface of perception & memory, allowing us to link past, present, & future through its role in generating predictions. Excited to share this theme issue in @royalsociety.org's Philosophical Transactions B, co-edited with @barense.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.social

In case folks - patients or medical professionals - might find it useful, here's an edited version of a letter I sent to my own physician(s) about the reasons I refuse the use of ambient scribes.

Now out at PNAS - congratulations to Ramanujan Srinath and the team! Ram's ability and willingness to connect all these data, models, and ideas has changed my thinking/interpretation of many findings. I suspect I will keep learning from this study for a long time. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM" is nonsense Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

Visiting my university’s new, expensively-refurbished space for startup incubators and senior management and cannot imagine a better illustration of the American university at this moment in time than a breathlessly press-released “collaboration room” featuring a single desk and chair.

We've seen this over and over again. Why don't women negotiate more? Because they're punished when they do. Why don't they network with more people? Because they're punished for it. Women don't need to change the way they act. They're acting rationally based on the way the world reacts to them. +

Trump card

This is all of us who see through the charade ❤️

*Fungal Memory and Minimal Cognition* is now in TopiCS (@cogscisociety.bsky.social). Out yesterday. So is Croatia from the World Cup. 😅 Received in 2024, accepted in 2026. Feels only fair, since the paper argues for cognition at fungal speed. cogsci.online/wp-content/u... #cogsci #philosophy

I think you’ll like this essay by @atomless.bsky.social “Predictive systems only simulate coherence, without, in fact, recognising the user as a subject at all; they do not truly respond to intention or meaning, only to statistical correlation.” 👀 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

Surprising (not really) stat from the new UBS Global Wealth Report 2026. The US ranks #2 when you look at average wealth per adult, but drops to #28 when you look at the median. www.ubs.com/content/dam/...

for America 250 we came up with a whole new meaning for habeas corpus

Talk about missing the point, Google!

glad congress isn’t alive to see this

Every bit of social and environmental destruction these horrible things pump out also involves and hides the abuse of poorly-paid and exploited marginalised humans to maintain the illusion of “automation”.

"There’s been a big increase in AI-generated “academic” content, posters and images on LinkedIn and it is making me feel uneasy. " Hannah McCall Full post at www.linkedin.com/posts/hannah...

How to talk about "AI" When even toothbrushes have "artificial intelligence", what use is the term? What can you say instead? aicaution.ca/media-style-...

"AI is here to stay." Okay... So is email, social media and smoking. Something being "here to stay" has no bearing on whether it should be used in classrooms.

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 9 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/FNfgR

"Instead of racing to adopt and implement the latest in artificial intelligence, it would be wise to ask for evidence on how these tools will affect the academic and developmental needs of students before they are widely implemented." thehill.com/opinion/educ...

What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:

"AI literacy" To regular people it means knowing vaguely how chatbots make stuff up. To boosters it means forcing people to use AI until their skills atrophy and they become reliant on it.

This is VERY MUCH worth reading. It’s even worse than many of us knew. All corruption. All the time.

Feeding AI instead of children.