aaron bornstein
@aaronbornstein.bsky.social
associate professor, cognitive sciences, uc irvine https://aaron.bornstein.org/ @aaronbornstein@neuromatch.social
Robin DG Kelley on @ucirvine.bsky.social's egregious, unjustified, vindictive persecution of Prof Tiffany Willoughby-Herard substack.com/home/post/p-...
In Support of Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
Most academics in the U.S., as well as activists resisting the genocide in Gaza, are familiar with the case of Professor Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, a renowned Global Studies scholar at the University ...
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Excited for the lab's presentations at @cogcompneuch.bsky.social 2026! see you in ✨New✨York✨City✨ (🧵 1/7)
The academic culture of compensation drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/t...
The academic culture of compensation
I may have told this story on this blog before but it bears repeating as the setup. There is a distinct culture of academics that both derides and takes pride in what we see as our low salaries. Th…
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New preprint with @carlbergstrom.com, Kevin Gross, and @mjcrockett.bsky.social. See Carl's thread. Surprise! Even if LLMs work perfectly, they'll make scientists refine their work less deeply, because they raise the opportunity cost of time, pushing researchers to do more, less well.
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.
Planning to start talking with potential postdoc candidates by the end of this week. The position is very open in terms of topic area. Let me know ASAP if you might be interested!
aaron bornstein@aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 3w agoLooking to work with a postdoc. Prior experience with fMRI and computational modeling required, interest in psychiatry desired. Fellowship provides three years salary plus independent travel/equipment funds. Send CV and 2-3 manuscripts (preprints OK).
Looking to work with a postdoc. Prior experience with fMRI and computational modeling required, interest in psychiatry desired. Fellowship provides three years salary plus independent travel/equipment funds. Send CV and 2-3 manuscripts (preprints OK).
Looking to work with a postdoc. Prior experience with fMRI and computational modeling required, interest in psychiatry desired. Fellowship provides three years salary plus independent travel/equipment funds. Send CV and 2-3 manuscripts (preprints OK).
I wrote about Lorenzo Salgado Araujo—who is now the tenth person federal immigration agents have shot and killed during Trump's second term.
ICE Is Hoping You Won’t Notice the Man Agents Killed In Texas
The administration may have changed its P.R. strategy for Trump’s mass deportation campaign. The violence hasn’t changed at all.
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Excited to share a paper recently accepted at Nature Mental Health! 😄 For decades, we've assumed that covariance among psychopathology informs comorbidity. What if we’ve been wrong?
PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 4w agoCovariation among higher-order psychopathology dimensions is driven by nomorbidity, not comorbidity: https://osf.io/3t2cm
Please sign this letter demanding @ucirvine.bsky.social drop its egregious disciplinary case against Prof. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard over her role attempting to de-escalate a police riot. Orange County dismissed charges, but UCI persists in a lonely crusade to punish her mailchi.mp/db1b0ca958fa...
More reporting from @maxkozlov.bsky.social on the political screening process that is slowing public investment in science to a crawl www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Inside the new political screening that’s stalling NIH grants
Mandatory reviews by top health officials and checks for 235 disfavoured terms have left hundreds of vetted grant applications in administrative limbo.
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Noam Ross@noamross.net · last mo.Thousands of biomedical studies are stuck in limbo as NIH drags out renewals months after annual budgets expire. Since 2025, the rate of overdue renewals has TRIPLED. This leaves scientists unable to plan, keep staff employed, or maintain long-term research. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NIH 🧪
Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard continues to face medical and legal costs in an ongoing struggle with her employer, UC Irvine. Please chip in if you can. chuffed.org/project/1562...
Mutual Aid for Tiffany
Our colleague, friend, and justice-devoted loved one Tiffany is facing significant financial burdens as she defends herself against potential punitive disciplinary actions from the University of Calif...
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This year, FAs successfully defended trans care, HIV research, and community health programs at the UC from feds' illegal attacks. Yet, political interference in higher ed continues, shuttering programs and censoring what we teach. As we celebrate Pride, we must remember that the fight continues.
New lab preprint! Dr. (x2) @biancaleonard.bsky.social leads a multidisciplinary team investigating the opposing effects of early-life unpredictability and anhedonia on foraging under threat of predation. Her results suggest that anhedonia may sometimes be an adaptive response to experience. 🧵 below!
Bianca Leonard@biancaleonard.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew preprint! “Anhedonia buffers the effects of early-life unpredictability on threat-reward decision making” w\ @malejandra.bsky.social, Yifan Zhang, @mikeyassa.bsky.social, @aaronbornstein.bsky.social & many more! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
If this bothers you, join the thousands of people getting these cameras banned and removed from their local areas: noalprs.com
National Week of Action Against ALPRs | DeFlock
Mass surveillance doesn't equal safety. Join the movement to dismantle automated license plate readers in our communities.
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"... the UC system shared data collected by automated license plate readers at multiple campuses with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and other federal agencies, in apparent violation of state law [and] could incur fines of up to $2,500 per instance." www.dailycal.org/news/uc/reco...
Records show UC sharing data with US Customs and Border Protection
Public records turned up by The Ellis Collective, a student-led research group, have revealed that the UC system shared data collected by automated license plate readers at multiple campuses with
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This is the way. We do not need to accept the right’s bad-faith and blatantly dishonest caricature of higher education. Colleges and universities regularly platform views across the political spectrum, perhaps more than any other American institution.
Thomas Zimmer@thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Viewpoint diversity” is a trap For @table.media, I wrote about the Yale report on “Trust in Higher Education” – and why we will not be able to defend academic freedom by accepting the terms set by a rightwing campaign intended to impose reactionary rule. Some thoughts, since it is in German:
New lab preprint! Dr. (x2) @biancaleonard.bsky.social leads a multidisciplinary team investigating the opposing effects of early-life unpredictability and anhedonia on foraging under threat of predation. Her results suggest that anhedonia may sometimes be an adaptive response to experience. 🧵 below!
Bianca Leonard@biancaleonard.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew preprint! “Anhedonia buffers the effects of early-life unpredictability on threat-reward decision making” w\ @malejandra.bsky.social, Yifan Zhang, @mikeyassa.bsky.social, @aaronbornstein.bsky.social & many more! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Now out in Developmental Science! @noraharhen.bsky.social, Rheza Budiono & @catehartley.bsky.social @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social use multi-patch foraging to identify a specific computational role for structure learning underlying developmental differences in exploration. dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc...
Structure Inference in Complex Environments Improves From Childhood to Adulthood
Early in development, children can infer latent structure in the world from sparse and ambiguous evidence. Through a process known as structure learning, they extract statistical regularities, const...
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The Hartley Lab@hartleylabnyu.bsky.social · last yr.🚨New pre-print out from our lab!!🚨 "Developmental differences in exploration reveal underlying differences in structure inference" by @noraharhen.bsky.social, Rheza Budiono, @catehartley.bsky.social, and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social. Read here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Now out in Developmental Science! @noraharhen.bsky.social, Rheza Budiono & @catehartley.bsky.social @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social use multi-patch foraging to identify a specific computational role for structure learning underlying developmental differences in exploration. dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc...
Structure Inference in Complex Environments Improves From Childhood to Adulthood
Early in development, children can infer latent structure in the world from sparse and ambiguous evidence. Through a process known as structure learning, they extract statistical regularities, const...
dx.doi.org
The Hartley Lab@hartleylabnyu.bsky.social · last yr.🚨New pre-print out from our lab!!🚨 "Developmental differences in exploration reveal underlying differences in structure inference" by @noraharhen.bsky.social, Rheza Budiono, @catehartley.bsky.social, and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social. Read here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reading the results of the "Systemwide Faculty AI Survey" I'm wondering if @ucnewsroom.bsky.social used ChatGPT for its statistics. Page 1 loudly proclaims **89%** are "Engaged/AI Advocates", but Page 7 shows 42% use it not at all or once/twice a year. Why lie about this? (1/x)
The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:
Who’s to Blame When an Ivy League President Drives Into His Students?
“Ah! He just ran over my fucking foot!”
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We are also releasing a new research primer, "Myths about Generative AI, Productivity, and Labor Displacement", which discusses five common myths around generative AI at work. This primer will be the first of many. labor.dair-institute.org/primers
Check out our new review titled "Contributions of default mode network to subjective valuation and maladaptive decision making" now out in Current Opinion in Behavioral Science! @dfareri.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1n8Js8MqMi...
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Work with @chrastil.bsky.social ! This is an excellent opportunity for people looking to apply to PhD programs in cognitive neuroscience.
Liz Chrastil@chrastil.bsky.social · 3mo agoMy lab is hiring two full-time research assistants! One position is for a project on spatial navigation across the lifespan, with a focus on midlife aging and menopause. The other is for functional imaging and spatial reference frames. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10136 recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10137
Excited to share I will be joining UC Davis as an assistant professor starting July 2027! Thank you dearly to all mentors and friends who have supported me over the years ❤️ and Cal Poly friends, I'll miss you!
Last week, @ucirvine.bsky.social remained silent as a known hate group held a campus event questioning the existence of Islamophobia. Two days ago, 75 miles away, teenagers radicalized by the same sort of rhetoric murdered several at a mosque. The UCI Muslim Students Union posted this response.
