Woensdag 16 okt is het Wereld TOS dag. Hoe is het om met TOS te leven? Ontdek het aan de hand van deze nieuwe TOS-profielen van Deelkracht. Wed 16 Oct is DLD awareness day. Find out what its like to live with DLD with these new profiles from Deelkracht (in Dutch) www.deelkracht.nl/tos-portrett...

TOS-portretten - Deelkracht

Hoe is het om een taalontwikkelingsstoornis (TOS) te hebben? Kinderen, jongeren en volwassenen met TOS beantwoorden die vragen en delen hun verhaal in videoportretten.

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And if you want to see how your OSF repos compare against this corpus in terms of usability try my OSF reusability checker app. This app also provides tips if it flags any potential issues dsquintana.shinyapps.io/osf-reusabil...

"The power of computational models for theory testing"!

Marlene Berke@marleneberke.bsky.social · last wk.

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.

Loved this episode of the Many Minds podcast! open.spotify.com/episode/2NHw...

Coming of age in Ngogo

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Proudly published with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social: A metatheory of classical and modern connectionism. doi.org/10.1037/rev0... We touch on what has been up with connectionism as a framework for computational modelling — & for everything it seems these days with AI and LLMs — pre-2010 vs post. 1/n

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

‼️ new preprint out with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social on connectionism: the framework that uses artificial neural networks to model human cognition: we split it into Modern and Classical (see figure) to show how the (meta)theoretical commitments (see table) changed after 2010. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

🚨 Calling on all my Cognitive Science colleagues on here to please support the Cognitive Science program in Aarhus, Denmark, to stay international. 👇✉️ ✍️

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · last wk.

🚨 I have just signed this petition to keep the Cognitive Science program at Aarhus University (@au.dk) international. Please consider reading, boosting, and signing too. ✍️ The students will be grateful! This petition is on their initiative. 🙏 omnibus.au.dk/en/archive/s...

🚨 I have just signed this petition to keep the Cognitive Science program at Aarhus University (@au.dk) international. Please consider reading, boosting, and signing too. ✍️ The students will be grateful! This petition is on their initiative. 🙏 omnibus.au.dk/en/archive/s...

OPINION: AU wants international talent – but is closing the door on them at Cognitive Science

Students and alumni at Cognitive Science urge the Senior Management Team to reopen the decision to convert the Bachelor’s programme in Cognitive Science to Danish. Why should Arts be left without an E...

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I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

Attn Developmental Scientists: Next and Last Episodes of 7up premiere this week. Catch 70up and, if you need to, catch up on the rest! (If you don't know, these are great teaching materials) Part 1: 9:00 PM on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026, on ITV1. Part Two: Airs one week later in the same time slot.

Caroline Rowland@carorowland.bsky.social · last wk.

6 decades long series following children from age in the 1960s to aged 70 now (7up) comes to an end this week. As a developmental psychologist I've been following this for the last 25 years and it really is fascinating. Watch 7 to 63 on YouTube and 70 up on BBC this week youtube.com/playlist?lis...

So Emma Woodhouse is a pretty girl who is pretty smart, pretty rich, and pretty much has no problems whatsoever. We’re off to a roaring start.

Sunday timeline cleanse

AndyBeavisPhoto@andybeavisphoto.bsky.social · 2w ago

In Senja, Norway, at the iconic Segla Mountain in late afternoon light. #landscape #Landscapephotography #Norway #Senja #sunset #mountain

6 decades long series following children from age in the 1960s to aged 70 now (7up) comes to an end this week. As a developmental psychologist I've been following this for the last 25 years and it really is fascinating. Watch 7 to 63 on YouTube and 70 up on BBC this week youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The 7 Up Series Documentary - YouTube

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No one should be allowed to talk about "dangerous super-human AI" until they have listen to this podcast (available on Spotify etc for non-apple users).

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

To understand the truth about the Hugging Face hack, you could do a lot worse than to listen to Ed Zitron and Cal Newport's recent podcast conversation on Ed's "Better Offline" podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

because that's what the models were instructed to do by folks at open ai

Reuters@reuters.com · 2w ago

OpenAI agents attacked software service RubyGems before Hugging Face incident, WSJ reports reut.rs/46fRAw7

But that's not because the chatbots are waking up and applying to join the Cult of the Dead Cow: it's because they were trained on a corpus of chat transcripts from excitable young people who love to fantasize about starring in a reboot of the movie "Hackers."

Okay this is the best reaction to the claims that AI is developing super-human intelligence yet.

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

Reminded of @olivia.science pointing out that we also have, say, tables that can hold things above ground longer than any human, but we do not call that a super-human ability.

ACL sustainable reviewing policy is live! aclrollingreview.org/sustainable-... This was an incredible amount of work by incredible people in & outside of peer review committee. As any policy, it has compromises and will leave some unhappy. But it'll help to not repeat the disaster of EMNLP'26.

25 years ago, almost every plane that was over the North Atlantic when the second tower was hit was forced to land in Newfoundland. A call was on the radio: they needed folks who spoke various languages to come to the stadium to help organize the sea of humanity that just showed up at our door.

Understanding how learners conclude “X laughed Y” is incorrect is an age-old question, with several hypotheses, some of which have been ~impossible to disentangle! @tomyxw.bsky.social, @fredashi.bsky.social, and I use controlled rearing to shed light on this in our new EMNLP paper: 1/n

Here’s the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2609.017... Thanks to @adelegoldberg.bsky.social , @carorowland.bsky.social , and @qyao.bsky.social for a lot of helpful discussion!

Disentangling Statistical Preemption from Entrenchment in Language Models' Avoidance of Overgeneralization

How do learners avoid overgeneralizations such as Tom laughed me without explicit negative evidence? Constructionists have posited two proposals that describe indirect negative evidence against overge...

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This is one of the best declarations - if not *the* best - I've seen. It: - uses may/could: acknowledges where there is not yet good evidence on the effect of AI on human cognition 🤷‍♀️ -identifies where we *do* know where there is harm/risks 😳 - gives thoughtful practical advice 💭 #PracticallyPerfect

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2w ago

Also worth re-upping: Mathematicians standing up against how their field is being used as marketing for OpenAI and the like: leidendeclaration.ai >>

I'm intrigued by this because someone made it up and then presumably claimed that people think these things in order to make a point about things that no one believes in such an absolutist way. Excuse me but how is that evidence based? 🤷‍♀️

Phantom genetic nurture: assortative mating accounts for most of the apparent association between parental genotypes and childhood cognitive performance https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.01.748516v1

The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 2w ago

We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.

I am annoyed that this is now my most popular post here on Bluesky. If you want more, I wrote a book about scientific racism called How to Argue With a Racist, and another one called Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics. www.adamrutherford.com/allbooks

Adam Rutherford@adamrutherford.bsky.social · last mo.

I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.

This is a thoughtful piece by @ent3c.bsky.social, articulating a view of hereditarianism that I think is shared by many in anthropology, psychology & elsewhere. It's also one that I, as a geneticist working on human evolution, fundamentally disagree with. ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/the-cofnas...

The Cofnas Manifesto

The social consequences of hereditarianism

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705 million euro in ERC Starting Grants has just been awarded to 421 researchers across Europe. In the coming months many will start to hire staff and set up their own research groups. Keep an eye 👀 on the ERC team positions advertised on the #Euraxess website. 👉 buff.ly/7xrOtMp

As for tractability of cognition and the role of structure specifically, yes, that is my 20+ yrs research line. bsky.app/profile/iris...

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

🧵Thread overview of ALL my publications related to "Cognition and Intractability" in chronological order: 🌟

It's a systemic problem in science reporting that these summaries exaggerate the evidence. In the actual candy study, the participants were all students, status was manipulated in the lab by telling some students they were better than others, and "nearly twice" means 1 piece vs 2 pieces.

Mark Crail@markcrail.bsky.social · 3w ago

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

This is my favourite. Bel je oma terug = phone your grandma back. #FeelGoodStreetFurniture

Aidan McGlynn@aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thanks metal post, I needed this