"Democracies risk falling into a doom loop, in which restrictions on immigration mean ever greater demands on the purse of the native-born population and ever worse services, which in turn deepens opposition towards immigration" @stephenkb.bsky.social calls for honesty. www.ft.com/content/43da...

So, THIS is happening "Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London. Every bit of power we take from Big Tech takes it away from autocrats like Trump. Showing how is what I'm doing to meet this moment. (tk u @robin.berjon.com)

My most centrist dad take is that most governing politicians deserve sympathy because almost every policy that's actually any good for the country is unpopular, and almost every popular policy is probably bad. Johnson's Brexit approach was far worse than Chequers IMHO but 20ppts more popular 1/

@chrisbjohns.bsky.social This resonates with your recent pods

UK guts public spending, wrecks research training, exits largest economic bloc on Earth, adds red tape to talent-based visas, wonders why it can't recruit "top AI talent" to help cut even more costs: on.ft.com/3Kl9tBJ AI ‘hit squad’ set up to drive Whitehall efficiency struggles to hire top talent

learning styles: a seductive but utterly useless idea - Fuggetaboutit, they don't exist www.brainpizza.com/p/learning-s... #learningstyles #learning #memory #cognition #psychscisky #brainpizza #neuroskyence

learning styles: a seductive but utterly useless idea - Fuggetaboutit, they don't exist www.brainpizza.com/p/learning-s... #learningstyles #learning #memory #cognition #psychscisky #brainpizza #neuroskyence

i think i am an atlanticist mugged by reality🤔🫣📡 (with apologies to other versions of this)

3 of my books and about 90 of my scientific papers pilfered here. Grotesque. Never forget: youtu.be/mj5IV23g-fE?...

There's something lovely about sitting on the upper deck of the bus (normally, I take a train, but there are issues this evening)

Harvard's demonstrated resistance isn't futile, as I said back in April - Not only because of vast resources, but also astute leadership by Alan Garber, who has withstood unprecedented attacks from Trumpers (and a few swipes from some self-proclaimed progressives) Other institutions must do the same

interleaving: the mix-it-up memory method that works www.brainpizza.com/p/interleavi... When you go to the gym, you expect gains entail (a little) pain, or effort, exertion, and discomfort. Learning demands the same! #learning #memory #memorystyles #memorystylesdonotexist

interleaving: the mix-it-up memory method that works www.brainpizza.com/p/interleavi... When you go to the gym, you expect gains entail (a little) pain, or effort, exertion, and discomfort. Learning demands the same! #learning #memory #memorystyles #memorystylesdonotexist

i think i am an atlanticist mugged by reality🤔🫣📡 (with apologies to other versions of this)

What will be the deranged reason given for this idiotic move? That they might recommend vaccine research or something? RFK Jr. must be removed from office. It’s him or us.

umwelt:- the world is not as you see it, and so is the universe What you can see, hear, and smell is not the world in its entirety, just your piece of it; your umwelt - the world you live in. More: www.brainpizza.com/p/umwelt?r=k... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #perception

Preprint alert: From ‘Neurons to Nations’: Neurocognitive Foundations of Nationalism osf.io/preprints/ps... #neurons #nations #nationalism #memory #cognition #identity #imagination #neuroskyence #psychskysci

using your memory to strengthen your memory: retrieval practice perhaps the best, general, scientifically-validated, most-easily implemented method for strengthening your memory open.substack.com/pub/brainpiz... #learning #memory #cognition #retrieval #psychscisky #brainpizza

using your memory to strengthen your memory: retrieval practice perhaps the best, general, scientifically-validated, most-easily implemented method for strengthening your memory open.substack.com/pub/brainpiz... #learning #memory #cognition #retrieval #psychscisky #brainpizza

the agi dream keeps missing the point intelligence isn’t some benchmark. it’s a social process. open.substack.com/pub/brainpiz...

the agi dream keeps missing the point intelligence isn’t some benchmark. it’s a social process. open.substack.com/pub/brainpiz...

Confirmation

why current ai integrations are so offensively stupid (and what it tells us about the real state of ‘artificial general intelligence’) www.brainpizza.com/p/why-curren... You even get some amusement from ‪@foilarmsandhog.bsky.social‬ and The Pin (Ben Ashenden & Alexander Owen)

why current ai integrations are so offensively stupid (and what it tells us about the real state of ‘artificial general intelligence’) www.brainpizza.com/p/why-curren... You even get some amusement from ‪@foilarmsandhog.bsky.social‬ and The Pin (Ben Ashenden & Alexander Owen)

www.brainpizza.com/p/the-puzzle... the puzzle of authority when no one is really in charge: distributed cognition and aircraft carriers 🛬🚢

www.brainpizza.com/p/the-puzzle... the puzzle of authority when no one is really in charge: distributed cognition and aircraft carriers 🛬🚢

What's the optimal number of steps of physical activity this is associated with multiple (9) favorable outcomes? The largest, systematic review of 57 studies, 35 cohorts. 7,000 steps is clinically meaningful, benefit also seen for 4,000 steps cf 2,000 steps thelancet.com/journals/lan...

am reading a paper with lots of graphs. the cursor rests on one of them; unwanted pdf ai bs tells me this is 'a graph of a number of running lines' then says 'ai content may be inaccurate'. it's not even wrong... why oh why do they bother with this 💩?

Really sad to hear that Maggie Boden has passed away. She was one of my favourite tutors, a giant of cognitive science and of @sussex.ac.uk . I was one of many who she helped in my academic career. profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p276-maggie-...

Ireland launches global talent fund! www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob... If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!

Blogged: why economic stagnation might be here to stay: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...

Latest piece is up, with the unattractive but useful neologism 'enfactify'... read on

Latest post: certain + wrong= you can’t enfactify your way out of it... what if we’re wrong about 'being wrong'? rethinking polarisation as more than a bunch of cognitive biases in action www.brainpizza.com/p/certain-an... #cognition #confirmationbias #polarisation #psychscisky #neuroskyence #bias

Latest post: certain + wrong= you can’t enfactify your way out of it... what if we’re wrong about 'being wrong'? rethinking polarisation as more than a bunch of cognitive biases in action www.brainpizza.com/p/certain-an... #cognition #confirmationbias #polarisation #psychscisky #neuroskyence #bias

Even in these times, there is beauty.

New preprint commentary from me, @malte.the100.ci, and @ianhussey.mmmdata.io. Cognitive dissonance in large language models is neither cognitive nor dissonant. THREAD BELOW 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...

"Even when shown pessimistic information about mobility, right-wing respondents do not want to support more redistribution policies, because they see the government as a 'problem' and not as the 'solution.'"

the self as a governance unit: some reflections on how identity, cognition, and agency converge in the architecture of democracies www.brainpizza.com/p/the-self-a... #democracy #cognition #agency #psychscisky #brainpizza #neuroskyence

"You're wasting your life*, @chrisdillow.bsky.social tells me.😉 stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...

Brilliant piece. Don't debate the racists. Marginalise them by doing what really matters in people's lives.

‘policy attitudes generally do not have strong cognitive representations, are eminently changeable, and once they are changed, an individual's cognitive autobiography is revised so as to render the changes invisible.’ www.brainpizza.com/p/elections-...

latest podcast with @jimpowerecon1962.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5CrT...

“Politicians and experts are arguing for a real European technology alternative. “You can feel that you are one executive order away from losing access to critical technology and critical infrastructures,” said Francesca Bria, an innovation professor at University College London.”

Study this carefully, especially the bottom...

A key lesson: sometimes you improve things by subtracting from them, not adding to them. This is a key cognitive blindspot, because we usually do the opposite: add complexity, instead of subtracting it. www.brainpizza.com/p/the-planni...

A key lesson: sometimes you improve things by subtracting from them, not adding to them. This is a key cognitive blindspot, because we usually do the opposite: add complexity, instead of subtracting it. www.brainpizza.com/p/the-planni...

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984 Srsly, @npr.org ?

unitary presidentialism as a collective cognition design flaw, because it reverses the logic of distributed information processing Latest: www.brainpizza.com/p/unitary-pr... #nokings #nounitaryexecutive #presidentialism #leaderlessunity #cognition #parliaments #psychscisky #brainpizza #leadership

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣