These women once fled ISIS. Now they defuse the landmines the militants left behind in their Yazidi homeland in northern Iraq. A Video by Orlando von Einsiedel

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These women once fled ISIS. Now they defuse the landmines the militants left behind in their Yazidi homeland in northern Iraq

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I can no longer in good faith recommend anyone to study in the US, or stay stateside for work and further education after completing degree programs they had started during the Biden era. US higher ed is unrecognizable even compared to a year ago when ICE was kidnapping students from their homes

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 2mo ago

Jesus Christ: UC Berkeley international students will no longer be allowed to complete internships or co-ops for course credit unless they form an “integral part of an established curriculum,” following repeated threats from ICE. This is going to send shockwaves across SF and Silicon Valley

In 1963 cosmonaut Valentina Ponomareva was to be the second woman in space on Vostok 6, launching the day after Valentina Tereshkova on Vostok 5. But she was a feminist who spoke her mind, a problem for her bosses. So a man replaced her on Vostok 6. She never flew in space and later retired.

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

On deskilling, we always knew; it's the AI hypers who want us to forget: "This experience has demonstrated that it is impossible to create an absolutely reliable automatic system, and sooner or later people face the necessity to act after equipment fails." — Valentina Ponomareva

One Python function, all 17 @dobyrahnev.bsky.social (2025) measures, plus d', criterion, mean confidence. 26 numbers back from a single call.

There are 17 different methods to measure whether confidence tracks accuracy, and these do not include Bayesian or Information Theory based measurements. We present MetaSignal with @makwana.bsky.social @lazyneuron.bsky.social and @brianodegaard.bsky.social to have common platform to access them.

8/8 For psychologists, cognitive scientists, and anyone who wants agent behavior measured like a real experiment instead of a leaderboard score. For anyone who wants to design boutique experiments for LLM without the worry of developing boutique pipelines. #Reproducibility

7/8 Docs: psychscanner.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Code: github.com/saurabhr/psy... #OpenSource #LLM #CognitiveScience #AgenticAI #Psychology #MachinePsychology #MachineInterpretability #NeuroAI Preprint coming soon in collaboration @makwana.bsky.social & @lazyneuron.bsky.social

Can an AI tell its own words from yours? This is "reality monitoring." In humans, failing at it is linked to hallucinations and delusions. In this work we investigated reality monitoring in 6 LLMs of different sizes in collaboration with @lazyneuron.bsky.social and @brianodegaard.bsky.social.

breaking: pope leo has joined anthropic

🚨Next week's talk at ARC Join us for a talk presented by Dr. Jan Pfänder @janpfa.bsky.social (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology). 📅 21 May 11:00 (Local Time Germany) @mpib-berlin.bsky.social or online See the link for details👇 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/events/45727...

ARC Talk: Jan Pfänder, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag): Strengthening Trust in Climate Scientists in the US: A Megastudy Approach

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Photosynthetic machinery can be harvested from spinach and transplanted into the eyes of mice, where it transforms light into molecules that carry energy and can tame inflammation.

Mouse eyes photosynthesize after plant-to-animal transplant

Could spinach extracts be the next treatment for dry-eye disease?

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Social Media in 2035

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god forbid a French rat live out his dream of becoming a chef on a cruiseship

RESULT: The right took over the Francis Howell school board, a large MO district in the St. Louis suburbs, earlier this decade; followed book bans & restrictive policies on LGBTQ students. Tonight, the slate endorsed by the teacher's slate swept, and the last remaining conservative was ousted.

I’m currently looking for full-time roles in Machine Learning, Data Science, or Computational Neuroscience. If you know of any relevant roles or teams hiring, I would greatly appreciate a connection. Portfolio: www.mkvarun.com #MachineLearning #DataScience #AI #JobSearch #NeuroJobs #STEMJobs

An inevitable consequence of AI peer reviewing is becoming reviewer #2, if you don’t use it Now you come off being the a-hole for not jumping on the “great paper, the world is full of beautiful rainbows, look at the amazing bees”* train *example as broad as some of these lame a$$ reviews 🤣🤣

Academia has this way of making you feel utterly unsuccessful even when by any reasonable standard you are doing just fine.

If you have only one thing to read today... "Universities are being retrofitted as fulfillment centers of cognitive convenience." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

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Oli Bridge, Huey Sun, Botond Branyicskai-Nagy, Charles D'Ornano, Shomit Basu Diminishing Returns in Self-Supervised Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03862

We know that a consensus of opinions is persuasive, but how reliable is this effect across people and types of consensus, and are there any kinds of claims where people care less about what other people think? This is what we tested in our new(ish) paper in @psychscience.bsky.social

Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?

Josh Tenenbaum's inspiring keynote at #cogsci2025 on growing vs scaling AI, the big questions of cognitive science, and the many open questions for the field.

Xiaomin Li, Xupeng Chen, Jingxuan Fan, Eric Hanchen Jiang, Mingye Gao Multi-head Reward Aggregation Guided by Entropy https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20995

Inspired by my reading this week, I wrote a list of the resources I think every cognitive science researcher should read/listen to about theory development. It's in this google.doc (feel free to add your own suggestions) and in the thread below. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Theory: Whtat to read

The role of theory in cognitive science Or: my guide to what to read if you really want to understand how to do good, robust , theory-driven cognitive science. (disclaimer: this is an aspirational gu...

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How does exercise and fitness promote healthy brain aging? An outstanding, comprehensive review @thelancet.bsky.social reduced neuroinflammmation, preserves blood-brain-barrier, neurogenesis, role of exerkines, and much more www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I'm excited about this new analysis approach because we can now estimate when changes in strategy, goal choice, conflict etc. occur in open state spaces. Providing metrics for studies with patients & sec-sec metrics for upcoming fMRI data and existing iEEG data with Sea Hero Quest #neuroskyence

Hugo Spiers@hugospiers.bsky.social · 2y ago

⚠️ New preprint ! "Separable cognitive & motor decline tracked across adult life-span for goal-directed navigation" Giovanni Pezzulo's lab modelled the trajectories in Sea Hero Quest to reveal dynamic patterns of goal-directed control and their decline with age: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...