Donald Griffin, discoverer of bat echolocation, was born OTD 1915. I imagine “small mammals enough like ourselves to feel that I could understand what their lives would be like, and yet different enough to make it a sort of adventure and exploration to see what they were doing.” 🐋🌱🧪 #HistSTM

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Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.

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A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.

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“Who knows what other childhood curiosities are quietly growing into world-changing ideas right now in bedrooms, backyards and notebooks across the globe? The next big breakthrough might not come from a high-tech lab. It might come from a 10-year-old who just can’t stop wondering about butterflies”💖

Oisín McGann@oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 3w ago

I don’t know why this post doesn’t give his name, but it’s Jo Nagai. This is a true story. medium.com/@zehraanjum2...

I do not use ChatGPT as my search engine because, among other things, I understand the difference between looking for the correct thing and looking for the most frequent thing

Holden Thorp@holdenthorp.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hi, this is Holden emerging from my Bluesky hiatus to tell everyone that when checking the links in the piece, I used ChatGPT as my search engine (does anyone use Google anymore?). The piece was written by me and edited by humans. So all the links were checked by me and again by our copyeditors.

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It’s not a little guy who is looking things up for you! It’s a computer that is processing the frequency of words in (stolen) text on the Internet and then doing a math problem to create an average. That’s all it can ever be!

Oh hi! This is the level of professional linguistics I’m at these days. #linguistics

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True Enough

Philosophy valorizes truth, holding that there can never be epistemically good reasons to accept a known falsehood, or to accept modes of justification that ...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 2y ago

I'm looking back at this paper written 2019 & published 2021 with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social: How Computational Modeling Can Force Theory Building in Psychological Science (pdf: oliviaguest.com/doc/guest_ma...) We presented a positive view and kind, if I do say so myself, compatibilist stance. 1/

My tiny silver barn owl charm is hidden in this photo. While you hunt for him in the image the plant patterns will alleviate stress & when you find him there’ll be a ping of dopamine in your brain, lifting mood. It’s a small neuroscience-based visual puzzle I’ve made to help your brain 🌿🧠:

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 2y ago

People haven't taken up more computational modelling in the ethos of the blue path model in the OP. What I've seen is more equivocation between model & system under study. Removing the ability of models to act as mediators. See also: doi.org/10.1007/s421... doi.org/10.1007/s421... 3/

The second proposes theoretically active scientists should spell out explicitly what we want and how we want to evaluate it with respect to the scientific objects we label theories. I say this all because it's clear we don't all agree and because we don't all explicitly state goals and requirements:

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3y ago

Oh, gosh! It's out! Delighted with the process at Computational Brain & Behavior; thankful to all especially @irisvanrooij.bsky.social for inviting me to the workshop and Todd Wareham for editing it! Hope you enjoy: What Makes a Good Theory, and How Do We Make a Theory Good? doi.org/10.1007/s421...

The first asks for clarity on representations, within a worked example (the cognitive map) to make it clear and concrete what we mean. Thus, @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social and I end up proposing different ways of regarding and therefore theoretically dealing with "representation" — table 2:

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · last yr.

To tease problems out, we use the cognitive map (a proposed theory for mental representation; although, see Table 1 for deeper analysis) as a case study and show how it differs from other related scientific concepts (phenomena and theories) and why this matters (Boxes 1 & 2, above). 2/

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“if someone claims their AI system is a “theory” of human cognition, they are more likely than not overstating the scope & capacities of the system (van Rooij et al., 2019) and obfuscating the system’s limits, including the human in the loop needed to make such systems “work” (Guest & Martin, 2025)”

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Published version now available in Current Directions in Psychological Science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Did you know octopuses are technically colorblind? 🌈 One photoreceptor, no color vision, should only see in grayscale. So how are they perfect color matching camouflage artists? 🐙 A thread 🧵 (with sources at the end, of course 😋) 🦑🐡

"Picturing Pyrotechnics" — @simon_werrett on how artists have responded to the challenge of depicting #fireworks, from the highly politicised renderings of the early modern period to Whistler’s impressionistic Nocturne in Black and Gold: publicdomainreview.org/essay/p... #FourthOfJuly

Come be my colleague! 🚀 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Perceptual and Cognitive Neuroscience: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... The UvA is a wonderfully collaborative, inspiring place to do science—if you love brains and perception, and working with great colleagues, please do apply!

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A collaborative guide to Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT): Methods, insights, and recommendations. New paper by Kabir Arora & al. With Cecília Hustá, @lindadrijvers.bsky.social doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1273

A collaborative guide to Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT): Methods, insights, and recommendations

Abstract. Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) is a recent advance in frequency tagging that exploits novel, high-frequency displays to modulate luminance at imperceptibly high frequencies. RIFT g...

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There's a new 'Innateness and Language' entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by my colleague Gabe Dupre plato.stanford.edu/entries/inna...

Same. Once more unto the breach, dear friends!

Mike Feigin 🥯@mikefeigin.bsky.social · last mo.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. Anyway, about to submit another grant.

Finally out at @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social. Everything I think I know about word meanings. Particular focus on words that are unfamiliar or ambiguous. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting (CPL 2026) has an updated submission deadline! (July 17) ☀️

Ece Takmaz@ecekt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

After the very nice 15th edition of CMCL last Saturday 🌴, I'm happy to announce that the 2nd edition of the Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting (CPL 2026) will take place again in Utrecht in December! We are looking forward to receiving abstracts ✨ cpl2026.sites.uu.nl

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This is so true. Look at any given set of promotion criteria. Also true of disability and/or neurodivergence and/or chronic illness. I've raised this repeatedly where I am but nothing has changed. Signed, a lecturer whose peers are professors already.

Petra Boynton@petraboynton.bsky.social · last mo.

I do have moments when I meet colleagues who ask why I'm not at the level my experience and skills dictate and I've stopped saying 'it's because I've been caring for my children' and saying 'academia was not conducive to me having children and actively opposed my family's diverse needs'

This Primer explores a @plosbiology.org study showing that #neuronal firing is selectively tuned to oscillatory frequency, complementary to phase tuning, suggesting an additional dimension in how #brain rhythms may organize neural activity 🧪 Paper: plos.io/44odgVM Primer: plos.io/4eJ6bUI

Thrilled to receive this support and excited to start! @stannescollege.bsky.social @oxexppsy.bsky.social

European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · last mo.

Stuttering affects up to 8% of children, with 1 in 5 continuing to stutter into adulthood. Using a new ERC Advanced Grant, Kate Watkins will research how to better understand it, and explore innovative therapies. Read more 👉 link.europa.eu/6b9pgV #ERCAdG @kateewatkins.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

Some neurons like to ride on slow LFP oscillations, regardless of their phase! This might represent a mechanism to coordinate neural activity and propagate information across brain circuits 🧠 amazing collaboration led by the super talented @zahrajourahmad.bsky.social and Andrew Watrous!

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · last mo.

Do #neurons show preferential firing at specific oscillatory frequencies? @elebartoli.bsky.social &co use recordings from neurosurgical patients to show that freq of oscillations modulates neuronal firing; implications for freq-targeted #NeuralStimulation @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/44odgVM

This does require going against the mainstream, but that gets easier when a) you find you're not alone and b) you see how much of mainstream opinion on this is actually the result of marketing. /fin for now