> Something seems to be lost on my peers today: it’s still easy to not use AI. [...] Eschewing AI is one thing that we can actually do to live out ethics that affirm values of human and environmental rights. It’s almost a gift! Just use a computer the same way you did three years ago!

Baldur Bjarnason@baldurbjarnason.com · 3w ago

“Potentially Useful | Hating AI in 2026” https://www.eamoncaddigan.net/posts/ai-in-2026/ > We can point out all of the harms being done by the technology right now, and we can speak to the additional harms that will be done if things continue like this, but our concerns are spurned or ignored.

Prediction in language comprehension across the lifespan Review by Kara D. Federmeier, Hui-Sun Chiu, Cynthia L. Fisher & Yukun Yu go.nature.com/4w4Mn4G #psychscisky

13yo is irrationally pumped about the MATLAB shirt he found thrifting. 😂 #math Time to put him to work in the lab, eh #neuroskyence?

Wow. Published in May in The Lancet. Look at those numbers of fabricated references per 10,000 articles in PubMed. The urge to publish is overcoming the urge to, I dunno, discover and learn things? #AI #medsky 🧪 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Fabricated citations: an audit across 2·5 million biomedical papers

Scientific literature depends on the integrity of its references. Each reference implicitly asserts that a verifiable source exists and supports the claims being made. When references point to non-exi...

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Cool, there's nowhere on this #CIHR Biosketch to indicate reviewing activities for CIHR (or anything else for that matter). If #reviewing is important, acknowledge it! #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Belated congratulations to Eryka, Abby, and @hannahgthomas.bsky.social on receiving Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada funding (MA, USRA, and PhD levels, respectively). Thank you #NSERC for your continued support of our science!!! 🙏 🧠 🎥 🎞️ 👩‍🦳🧑‍🦳 #PsychSciSky #Neuroskyence

Guys, I just deleted "Grad Program Director" from my profile and I gotta say, it felt pretty good 🤣 On to the next challenge this fall!

When you're too busy to leave early, but too hopeful to look away. C'mon Canada! 🇨🇦 #WorldCup2026

It's take your kid to a conference day 🫶🏻

If you're at #CSBBCS, come hear me talk about @sarahehenderson.bsky.social's work on event tagging - a novel intervention aimed at improving event memory in older adults. 🌞 9am, HNE room 37 🌞

Come see Joseph Merante's poster on how event tagging affects memory & eye moments 👀 in older & younger adults A69 at #CSBBCS #PsychSciSky Project with @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social

Check out Emily's poster at 6pm TODAY! 👇🏻 #CSBBCS #PsychSciSky

Emily E. Davis@emilyedavis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excited for a few days of science at CSBBCS! I’ll be sharing a poster and talk on two different but exciting projects. Stop by Poster Session A (A03) today to chat about aging, attentional lapses at encoding, and the consequences for later memory of targets and distractors. @karampbell.bsky.social

Wow, I found a Starbucks slower than the one at #BrockU, at #YorkU 🙃 (I do feel for Starbucks workers everywhere these days...no one orders plain ☕️ anymore)

Beautiful day for the Alzheimer's walk in Niagara today! The Campbell Neurocognitive Aging Lab raised over $2000, our most ever. Thanks to everyone who donated for your support. 🙏🏻💙 #IGWalkForAlz #BrockU Thanks @hannahgthomas.bsky.social for organizing our team!

Campbell lab had a great time learning all things memory at #TAMeG2026. 🧠 #PsychSciSky

13yo drew a graph 📈 in my bday card AND thinks I'm cool? I must be doing something right! 😂❤️ Also, what's with the "sad dip" at 85?? 🧐🤣

How do older adults combine familiar concepts to make sense of new ones? We ask this question about semantic composition in a new paper out now: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... #psychscisky #cognition Here's a breakdown of the main findings👇 1/6

Frontiers | Mechanisms of semantic composition in older adults: control, semantic processing, and imagery

IntroductionSemantic composition is the ability to create meaningful novel concepts from familiar concepts. This can be achieved through a set of cognitive a...

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Ever thought, I don't belong here? What if people realize? 👀 Imposter syndrome is real. Come learn some practical strategies to deal with it with Dr. Chantal Boucher. @sparksociety.bsky.social & @wicsc-trainee.bsky.social 🎟️ Register: tinylink.net/qBixb 🗓️ May 28, 2026 ⏰ 1–2 PM EDT 📍 Teams

Up the Villa! #AVFC

Dibu Martinez on the Soccer Field

ALT: Dibu Martinez on the Soccer Field

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I've got 4 months to write a grant quickly becomes I've got 3 months to write a grant...and so on. Which idiot said yes to all these things?! 🤦🏻‍♀️ #AcademicSky

Excited to announce that I will be taking over as Director of the Institute for Lifespan Development Research @brocku.ca in September. I was drawn to #BrockU because of the amazing work being done by Lifespan members. Looking forward to facilitating that work in future. brocku.ca/lifespan-dev...

Institute for Lifespan Development Research

The Jack and Nora Walker Canadian Institute for Lifespan Development Research is a multidisciplinary collaborative effort dedicated to studying human development across the lifespan, with special stre...

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THANK YOU David Letterman & Stephen Colbert for a lifetime of smart satire, laughs, speaking truth to power & sending us to bed with a smile on our collective faces. You will be missed. 🙏 #EndOfAnEra

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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I love spring so much!

Once again, the Onion sustains me.

Cool, a day in which I achieved nothing of substance because I was stuck in email hell. #AcademicSky

Mr Burns: Don't Forget, You're Here Forever

ALT: Mr Burns: Don't Forget, You're Here Forever

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New paper looking at age differences in the neural correlates of attentional selection & distractor suppression, led by @retorresh.bsky.social with @emrich.bsky.social 🧵 #PsychSciSky #Neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Join us in Paris this summer for our #Miniscope Workshop 🔬 We'll teach you everything you need to know about miniscopes and have a blast while we're at it! Applications close on May 22, so don't wait 👇

UCLA Miniscope Project@miniscope.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Applications open for 2026 Paris Miniscope Workshop! July 1-3, hosted at ESPCI. Apply here: forms.gle/4CWh7MeMchLS...

Great to have several @brocku.ca #PsychSciSky PhDs back to talk about how they got their faculty positions & how it's going so far. Huge thanks to Oya Pakkal for organizing, & Jen Roters, Taylor Heffer, Alison O'Connor, & Dawn Ryan for taking part!

A researcher says she made up a disease with two posts on Medium, which led to Copilot telling users it was "intriguing and relatively rare." Posting two preprint papers about it online led to ChatGPT diagnosing people with it. 🧪 skepchick.org/2026/04/chat...

ChatBots are Diagnosing Diseases that Don’t Exist Based on Blog Posts

Transcript: Many years ago, a friend of mine suggested an experiment: make up a conspiracy theory that was just plausible enough, and then track how far it spreads. It was fun to talk about, and he…

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When I was #pregnant, I hated the term "baby brain". My brain was functioning just fine, thanks very much. And now that I'm in #perimenopause (or so they tell me), I'm starting to hate terms like "brain fog". How about "I'm-doing-every-fucking-thing fog"? I support this research, but ♀️> hormones