Do non-human primates have theory of mind? My new paper takes a new computational approach to this classic question. We implemented verbal theories of primates' mental representations as computational models. These models completed classic visual perspective-taking tasks.

Um I just found out ferral hogs are a real problem. Can someone please just give hogs the “Children of Men” illness? I just KNOW this is going to reach Indiana at some point

1: It comes from the companies so grain of salt but I was happy to read that it's VERY infrequent for people to use LLM chatbots for emotional support (e.g., 0.34 - 3.73% for Claude). www.anthropic.com/news/how-peo... www.media.mit.edu/posts/openai...

How people use Claude for support, advice, and companionship

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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Watching the social media “Patrick Clancy did it” discourse on this trial like “this is me, at my most masochistic”

Men’s grooming products have really doubled down on the whole “take care of your balls” angle

I for one like the idea of Trump’s new hair. In between destroying everything he’s like “guys the look if off. Call Giorgio STAT. Tell him I need a # 10.”

Watching the original It just to feel something

Here you have it folks. I argue tor the importance of spending MORE time on social media (to counter misinformation)

ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health@acamh.bsky.social · 2w ago

In this #OpenAccess CAMH journal Debate, @lluaces.bsky.social & @isabellastarvaggi.bsky.social explore how to combat misinformation in #childmentalhealth and argue that the imperative is to understand & counter #mentalhealth misinformation on #socialmedia. https://bit.ly/4uS2fbp

After Trump gutted the IRS workforce — including the unit tasked with auditing billionaires — the agency's annual audit revenue plunged by 35%. Trump's attacks on the IRS were never about "efficiency." They were about making it easier for the wealthy and powerful to skirt what they owe.

And yet again, for the jazillionth time, I just got f'ed over because of the rotating turnstile of my university's administration. This time, it's a huge financial hit that was completely avoidable. I wrote this a decade ago, but man it's perennial: www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

Why Relentless Administrative Turnover Makes It Hard for Us to Do Our Jobs

Constantly shifting priorities and visions leave universities adrift. Is consistent leadership too much to ask for?

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No starker example of the media having different rules for each political party. If the press treated Elon Musk like Hasan Piker, every Republican in America would be forced to answer questions about why their party's biggest donor espouses anti-semitic race science.

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gonna print this out and put it under wipers on Teslas in Los Angeles

At this point, an emoji would be more instructive than some of the guidance I’ve received on my NIH applications. #MedSky 🧪 #AcademicSky

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2w ago

For those in the mood for some seriously well-done gallows humor, I heartily recommend this... inpreparation.substack.com/p/nih-simpli...

1: New @sadcatlab.bsky.social paper. TL; DR individuals with a good (predicted) prognosis benefit about as much from waiting as from iCBT (SMD=-0.14, 95% CI: -0.34, 0.06). Those w/a poorer prognosis see large intervention effect (SMD=-0.47, 95% CI: -0.67, -0.28). docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Lorenzo-Luaces et al., 2026-prognosis.docx

Development and external validation of a multivariable prognostic index (PI) in nationwide samples of depressed adults in the United States Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD¹ EJ Jardas, BS¹ Allison Peipert,...

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Ok guys what if we all start buying stock and pull off history’s craziest scheme

Eric Schares@eschares.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

Me: "My work is at the intersection of psychology, technology, and AI" Also me: "Hey Siri, look up how to save files on Teams"

The vast majority of Democrats have no idea who Hassan Piker is. Here's why they need to denounce him anyway.

If Penn and Teller started explaining magic tricks these days, a bunch of TikTok/Threads idiots would go: “guys something’s off here, they couldn’t actually fit in the secret compartment. It’s real magic, anyone with pattern recognition can tell.”

I love when bad guys start a seemingly unrelated story that then becomes a threat

Just so you know, the White AirHeads are not their own flavor or randomly one of the others. They are instead a mix of whatever flavors are being run on the production line. So there is “White flavor,” every batch is different

I treat myself to a McDonald’s coffee every other day and have this dynamic with the drive thru staff where if I ask for coffee “black” they ask about “room for cream or sugar” but if I say “coffee, no cream, no sugar” they say “so one coffee BLACK”

One of the only sane ones on Ozark

1/2 We have 3 current and upcoming faculty searches in our department. First, we are currently doing an open-rank Clinical-Track Faculty search. Interest in leadership (clinic director) desirable. Learn more here: psychology.uiowa.edu/about/job-op...

This would be heaven to me

cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · 3w ago

what the fuck is that

Why would Trump end a program that saves you money by letting you file your taxes for free with the IRS? Maybe because TurboTax's parent company donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration. Call it out for what it is: corruption.

This show did not let up a second

Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage.

My husband just reverse-Unod me in a crazy way. I told him a long and boring dream I had last night. Get this, he then has the nerve to tell me HIS long and boring dream.

James Franco's Shocked Expression in The Interview

ALT: James Franco's Shocked Expression in The Interview

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