Check out our new paper! 🧠 Me, @xiongbowu.bsky.social and @fuentemilla.bsky.social review how reactivation at the end of events support memory formation and propose it serves multiple functions from preventing interference to helping preserve temporal continuity! ✨ www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Neural reactivation supports memory formation when events end

Memory routinely transforms continuous experience into discrete episodes that support flexible retrieval. We propose that these structured representations are established via rapid neural reactivation...

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"Emerging Questions in #AIWelfare" with Winnie Street and Geoff Keeling, Google Research. 30 minute talk, 20 minutes of discussion and Q&A 19 August 2026, 17:00 UTC Free & everyone welcome to attend ➡️ Register for free: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #AISentience #AIConsciousness #AI

What we have here, gentlemen, is a failure to communicate norms

Worth revisiting this prescient paper from @mmitchell.bsky.social and others from @hf.co : arxiv.org/abs/2502.02649

Fully Autonomous AI Agents Should Not be Developed

This paper argues that fully autonomous AI agents should not be developed. In support of this position, we build from prior scientific literature and current product marketing to delineate different A...

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New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching

Excited to share our Preview about this excellent recent paper. In this Preview, @giuliacabbai.bsky.social and I explore how these findings connect with the rich literature on sensory reinstatement during imagery, and outline important questions for future imagery research! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

You should not laugh! You should see the outdated, 2005 era, buggy, oracle softwares my university uses for its administrative tasks (as of tap years ago). Thanks Oracle.

onekade@onekade.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...

How does human genetics research live in the information ecosystem? Is it misused? Misrepresented? In my paper with @sramach.bsky.social, we tackle this question with 25 years of Wikipedia data, AI chatbot responses, and pages from Grokipedia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

From Wikipedia to AI: Measuring 25 years of synthesis of human genetics research in the public-facing information ecosystem

Genetics research frequently intersects with ethnicity, nationality, and race, making it uniquely vulnerable to misrepresentation. Yet, 25 years after the initial sequencing of the human genome, there...

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Perceptuo-cognitive Development in Infancy and Childhood (2026) is a provoking review on how early prelinguistic, emotionally charged experiences may provide the foundational scaffolding for later cognitive, social, and cultural belief systems. #infant #conscio www.academia.edu/3071-4087/2/...

Perceptuo-cognitive development in infancy and childhood

This paper reviews the development of perceptual and cognitive abilities during infancy and childhood as reported in the literature to connect them with the same in adults. First, infants are engaged ...

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Happening this morning at #CCN poster session C, @zahmb.bsky.social will present ‘Mechanisms of Emergent Analogical Mapping’ 2026.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=p... please check it out if you’re at CCN!

I keep seeing/hearing people say that there aren't any open-science and meta-research events. Collecting and curating these the past month has shown me there is a LOT going on, just maybe difficult to keep track. See screenshots, take your pick. Metaventory can help: metaventory.vercel.app/events

After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨ osf.io/preprints/ps...

hell ya

With support from TWCF, researchers at @harvard.edu & the Global Development Incubator developed a trivia game that pairs Republicans and Democrats to cooperate as partners. Contestants gained an understanding that people are more than their political beliefs. 👉 https://bit.ly/4gJn2Jv

Can a Trivia Game Help Heal Political Division? Joshua Greene Discusses "Tango" on "Here & Now"…

What happens when strangers with different political views work together instead of debating one another?

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The CogSci Mind Challenge is ALL NEW for 2026! Choose your format: video, podcast, animation, visual explainer, blog post, and more! New formats. New possibilities. Same challenge: make cognitive science accessible and engaging. Deadline: Aug. 26🗓️ cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-mind-...

Code profiling russpoldrack.substack.com/p/code-profi... - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series

Code profiling

Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 10, Part 3

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Vector's 2025-26 Annual Report just dropped! Read the full report: na3.hubs.ly/y0yXCt0

Validated against the original MATLAB pipeline across 6 published datasets (Haddara, Maniscalco, Rouault, Shekhar, Locke). Core benchmark profiles replicate at r = 1.000.

metasignal also ships itmc, an experimental information-theoretic metacognition module: meta-I, meta-Ir1, meta-Ir1_acc, meta-Ir2, RMI (Dayan, 2023; Rausch et al., 2025). Included today, not a roadmap item. Cross-validated against R's statConfR to machine precision (r = 1.0000).

We'd love to hear from anyone who tries metasignal out: bugs, feature requests, use cases we haven't thought of, all welcome. #Metacognition #DecisionMaking #SignalDetectionTheory #CognitiveScience #ComputationalPsychology #NeuroAI

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.

Install: pip install git+https://github.com/saurabhr/metasignal.git GitHub Repo: github.com/saurabhr/metasignal Documentation: metasignal.readthedocs.io Future Roadmap: metasignal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/roadmap/ Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2607.29093 #Metacognition #Information #Bayesian #NeuroAI

GitHub - saurabhr/metasignal: A Comprehensive Package for Signal Detection Theory and Metacognitive Measures

A Comprehensive Package for Signal Detection Theory and Metacognitive Measures - saurabhr/metasignal

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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.

The project was inspired and is connected to our now widely used "Effect size and confidence intervals guide" (matthewbjane.quarto.pub) that was an amazing effort by Matt and Qinyu, and a group of statisticians, and we're hoping to do more versions of in the upcoming years.

Guide to Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals

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Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't this the message from "tit for tat" many decades ago? neurosciencenews.com/social-coope.... e.g., see: cs.stanford.edu/people/erobe...

Rethinking the Prisoner's Dilemma: How Cooperation Wins - Neuroscience News

Simple opponent-specific responses allow cooperation to spontaneously evolve and thrive.

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Most LLM eval tools ask "did it get the right answer." Cognitive psychology experiments ask "under which manipulated condition, with which controls, measured how." We open-sourced PsychScanner: an experimental harness for LLMs, not a benchmark, a lab. 🧵

#Reminder

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

> there is no such thing as automated plagiarism detection software. They are a scam sold by the very same companies that create the AI systems used for plagiarism in the first place. And companies through such so-called tools want to further erode our trust in each other. olivia.science/anxiety/

CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism.

Critical AI

Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.

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

It feels many only know my work pushing back against AI, which is very fair — but I have a broader research interest, which also forms a protective belt against such forces, as well as being what I have been thinking about since discovering "cognitive science" in ~2006: 🍃 metatheory.space 1/

the #ReflexionLab 's posters at @cogcompneuro.bsky.social #CCN2026!! presented by @aliekhlasi.bsky.social @yuzhengwu2329.bsky.social @rochellekaper.bsky.social and @emilwolsson.bsky.social!