I do not want your AI slop I do not want it in my mop I do not want it in my house I do not want it in my mouse I do not like brain-rotting AI spam I do not want it, Sam Alt-man

Super figure-ground confusion here!

This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it. Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Investigating individual-specific topographic organization has traditionally been a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. But what if we could map visual cortex organization in thousands of brains? Here we offer the community with a toolbox that can do just that! tinyurl.com/deepretinotopy

Yet one more reason we cannot allow LLMs to serve as epistemic grounding is that we cannot triangulate among them the way you can among reasonable independent sources. They bullshit in the same way and end up agreeing with one other about things that are completely false.

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

Another day, and another reference to these bangers. Contemporary causal inference has fundamentally changed the way I think about control variables and mediation analyses. These can show you why: doi.org/10.1177/2515... doi.org/10.1111/spc3... doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Best of both worlds: publish as a preprint before the holidays! You get to share it but people don’t get swamped by review requests! In related news, stay tuned for a few preprints from my lab in the next week!

We're thrilled to introduce ATHENA: Automatically Tracking Hands Expertly with No Annotations – our open-source, Python-based toolbox for 3D markerless hand tracking! Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10....

Dimensionality reduction may be the wrong approach to understanding neural representations. Our new paper shows that across human visual cortex, dimensionality is unbounded and scales with dataset size—we show this across nearly four orders of magnitude. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

This description/reflection from @mattdinan.bsky.social on how he essentially delegitimized using LLMs as a way to outsource student thinking/writing is a model on how to work through your values and build a course around them. mattdinan.substack.com/p/the-ai-ske...

hear, hear. Grace Lindsay puts it perfectly: international science, drawing from people around the world, is "the only way to get the best work done". diversity in background, perspective, culture is not just "nice" -- it's crucial to the breakthroughs that will change our world for the better.

Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p... #MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Had our first graduate thesis defense of the academic year here at Duke - for Yueqi Chen's absolutely lyrical ethnography on nurses' aides working in public hospitals in Hunan, China. Sharing, with permission, a beautiful passage from Yueqi's thesis which I found really moving: #everynightapoem

This is a very neat example of what I like to think of as “deep neural networks as approximate ideal observers”. @joshhmcdermott.bsky.social

💡 Our idea: Use the deep model not just to chase performance, but as a tool for scientific discovery. We isolate "controversial fixations" where DeepGaze's likelihood vastly exceeds SceneWalk's. These reveal where the mechanistic model fails to capture predictable patterns.

🚨 New paper at #NeurIPS2025! A systematic fixation-level comparison of a performance-optimized DNN scanpath model and a mechanistic cognitive model reveals behaviourally relevant mechanisms that can be added to the mechanistic model to substantially improve performance. 🧵👇

If we look back at old science papers, what percentage drew incorrect conclusions? I don't mean how many had data that turned out to be flawed, but how many used good data to claim something that later turned out to be Wrong? I suspect the percentage is quite high but it would be hard to check.

Delighted to co-organise this workshop on Self-Other Actions and Interactions in real and virtual worlds Full info here 👇🏼 Shout out to my brilliant trainee Altea Vanni for the poster design 😎 Check out her talk too ! Hybrid format - everyone welcome

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s. This is the power of vaccines. The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer. Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

Ada, Countess of Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, mathematician & a pioneer of computing; born 1815, died #OTD 1852. #WomeninStem Painted by Margaret Sarah Carpenter 1836 UK Government Art Collection

Seems like a really useful resource; thanks for sharing!

Just published my "Programming for Psychologists" course! 👩‍💻 github.com/Naubody/prog... Designed for Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience Master's students starting their programming journey at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. Feel free to share! Feedback welcome!

It is our great honour to announce the APCV Keynote at #epc-apcv-2026: Prof. Hakwan Lau from the Institute for Basic Science in Korea! The call for member-initiated symposia & abstracts is now open: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026 #psychscisky #visionscience #neuroskyence

It is the ultra-processed food of literature

hahahaha just got an email from someone who was using Claude to generate a boilerplate #QuartoPub document and the LLM *used my name* as the author. The computers are literally trying to be me now 😂🤣🙃🫠

It took me a good 30 seconds of staring at this photo to realise that I wasn't absolutely hammered and/or hallucinating. #theashes

Friendly reminder that a few sponsored registrations are still available. Priority given to black, indigenous people of color in high-income countries or those from low and middle-income countries.

Thanks so much @thetransmitter.bsky.social for this Rising Stars of Neuroscience award! 🤩 And a big thank you to @smfleming.bsky.social for the nomination!!

I don't think this science communication resource gets enough love. OpenMoji offers 4,000+ free, #opensource emojis (CC BY-SA 4.0), with categories for healthcare, climate, UI... Challenge: find Greta Thunberg and a Viennese coffee house. ☕ 🔗 openmoji.org #SciComm #Design

Vivian is great; go work with Vivian!

This is an amazing opportunity: work with Vivian Paulun ‪@vivianpaulun.bsky.social‬, who has deep insights about perception, and extraordinary skills as an experimentalist and theorist.

Our new preprint! The Acknowledgments problem, and what to do about it. With @martonkovacs.bsky.social, @pietropollo.bsky.social, @philobolobstime.bsky.social, Losia Lagisz, & Mohammad Hosseini.

BEST DAY EVER!!! The award is called the Eric & Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications & is run by @nationalacademies.org & @schmidtsciences.bsky.social #scicomm #phdstudent

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Yes. This is another reason why public funding is what we want - why the government should support science with democratic mechanisms of oversight. Public support means not having to beg toxic billionaires for money.

Found out yesterday that the small town where I currently live has an R package named after it! r-packages.io/datasets/Hag...

Latest academic hot take: it is gross and inhumane and wrong that obituaries are ever held behind a paywall that publishers profit from

I'm in Sydney until December 15th. If any tweeps (blueskyers?) are around lets get lunch or coffee! Also ... if you allow random strangers to join your D&D* group for a few weeks ... pleeeeeeease let me know :))) ___ * or whatever pen & paper y'all are up to

A conversation elsewhere has taken me back to the most difficult challenge I ever faced in my work. 26 years ago to the day I got a phone call from a lawyer asking if I would talk to them about being an expert witness in a public inquiry into a fatal train crash at Ladbroke Grove (London).

Anyone need a concrete demo of the cocktail party problem? Conan O'Brien can help.

Do a postdoc with us in San Francisco! A fellowship slot in vision science, clinical vision, blindness, or rehabilitation is available via a NEI T32 slot: 👇🏼

Getting nervous for the talk I'm about to give at a workshop about "using AI to drive impact" which features slides such as these.

In the long-running Nativism-Empiricism debate, have the impressive successes of AI based on blank slate-ish connectionist architectures dealt a knock-out blow for Empiricism? Is it game over for Nativism? @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social gently pushes back 🧪 philpapers.org/archive/KARA...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

"Scholarly publishing, by contrast, too often feels designed to serve corporate profit margins.. what would it mean to design our infrastructures around the communities that use them, rather than around extractive logics?" A large fanfiction platform shows the way!

Someday we'll have acknowledgment citation counts and we can better recognize those who are particularly collegial. The image shows the most frequently-acknowledged people in the journal Psychological Review up to 1999. (Cronin, Shaw, and La Barre, 2003)

For the past 3 years, I've taught a course on Machine Learning for Climate Change to undergrads. At times, people have asked if the course lectures could be made available online. While I can't offer that, I have decided to start making "5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet" videos. Hope its useful!