….so far

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · 4d ago

one of OpenAI’s ten proofs is incorrect philpapers.org/rec/NIEWTC

I'm going back to in-class exams this semester, which are harder to schedule, less intellectually rigorous, slower to grade, harder to secure, more prone to error, harder to provide disability acommodations for, and use up a lot more paper than online exams. AI makes everything worse.

The Neuroscience Department at UC Berkeley is hiring an Asst Professor in Computational Neuro. All areas of computational/theoretical neuro are welcome. Deadline Oct 30. Join our neuroscience community! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446 #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs

Assistant Professor - Computational Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

Got an absurd book review request: 16 chapters, 121k words, 15-day turnaround. For $25 in book credits from the publisher. Seriously? It would take 8 hours for a first read. Whole review, if carefully considered, twice that. Sorry, my time is worth more than $1.56/hr.

Admirable clarity @science.org

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

You gotta hand it to OpenAI, billing this as a *partnership* between OpenAI & Hugging Face when what actually happened was Hugging Face finding out that OpenAI was using a bunch of bots to exploit security vulnerabilities. Talk about good marketing or whatever you want to call it, by OpenAI.

WhY DoN't MoRe YouTh PrOteSt?!?!?

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · last mo.

NEW: Eight protesters who the DOJ accused of having connections to antifa were sentenced to decades in prison over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center that left one police officer wounded. Activists who didn’t plan the protest and left when asked still received 50-year terms.

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

This week in “WE TOLD YOU SO…”

Ma$on@masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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You can tell a lot about a person by how they behave when someone they like or that they need something from is accused of sexual assault.

🚨New dataset just dropped🚨 Introducing Places in the Wild: 67,000 RAW-format photographs (45 mpix) densely sampled from 810 places (260 basic-level categories). This is 11x the number of pixels in ImageNet! Preprint is here: arxiv.org/abs/2606.02481 1/

Places in the Wild: A Large, High-Resolution RAW Photograph Dataset for Ecologically Valid Vision Research

Large image datasets have accelerated progress in cognitive neuroscience and computer vision. However, most datasets are low-resolution, internet-sourced JPEGs with unknown capture conditions and limi...

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Dear colleagues, PLEASE submit a comment against OMB's proposed rule. Elizabeth wrote great guide on drafting a comment. To submit it, go to www.regulations.gov/search and search for OMB-2026-0034. It will take time & effort to write a good comment, but a worthwhile effort to save our profession.

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

You know that adage about when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail? **#AI is screwdriver.** We have no idea what the screws are, but people in power think it's a hammer, maybe even the whole toolbox. And we're all … screwed.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating scientific output, but risks narrowing inquiry, weakening judgement and undermining how scientists are trained go.nature.com/3RiE5HN

The uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming — we urgently need guard rails

Artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating scientific output, but risks narrowing inquiry, weakening judgement and undermining how scientists are trained.

go.nature.com

Barnard Visual Cognition Lab at #VSS2026!

Excited for #VSS2026! Please come check out the work of my lab and our friends. A 🧵. 1/

I find the late 2000s to be a really interesting time in cognitive neuroscience. Is this because: a. It was a genuinely interesting time (beginnings of decoding, encoding, RSA; methodological fixes). b. I imprinted on grad school era papers, just as people imprint on songs from high school c. ?

Meet “ASU Atomic,” a subscription platform that claims to offer customized learning modules for fee-paying users. None of the ASU faculty whose course materials were harvested for the module I generated were aware that their image, lectures, lessons, or other teaching materials are being used.

🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences. Steps to counter this are in motion. If you - have an SBE proposal under review - serve on an SBE grant panel You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2

It’s a shame that my students’ generation doesn’t know the joy of getting to the stage of friendship when you’re allowed to flip through your buddy’s music collection and bond over the obscure and/or cringe music you both love.

JOB ALERT: PhD opening in my lab! @cimecunitrento.bsky.social in Italy, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant. The project will use advanced analysis methods of MEG data to investigate how our world's naturalistic hierarchical structure facilitates predictive neural processing.

Postdoc opening in Applied Mathematics at Brown! Bridging APMA + brain science or CS. Two-year appointment starting July 2026 — review begins April 1! Great opportunity to collaborate with @carneyinstitute.bsky.social faculty at the Nancy G. Zimmerman Center for Computational Brain Science.

Neat!

Christoph Strauch@cstrauch.bsky.social · 4mo ago

For those interested in (re)analyzing (video-based) pupil data and looking into a solution for the foreshortening error (resulting from changes in the angle between camera and eye), check our open access Behavior Research Methods paper! rdcu.be/faNse link.springer.com/article/10.3...

🚨New preprint alert! 🚨 Do multimodal LLMs (VLMs) reason about high-level visual perception like humans do? We asked over 2000 human observers and 18 VLMs to describe scenes using 15 different tasks, ranging from general knowledge, affordances, affect, sensory experiences, and future prediction. 1/

Holy New York.

Yeah, the world is a dumpster fire right now. But the feeling of celebrating students’ first paper submission? Still magical!

If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I’m still collecting stories and I want to hear from you. Reach me via Signal at marisakabas.04

OK so this young trans gentleman was cut off by his parents, has been unable to get MIT to up his financial aid, has been working multiple jobs while maintaining an A- average AT MIT (no one does this), but he is gonna need to actually pay his tuition to graduate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...

Donate to Help Matthew Graduate From MIT, organized by Irene Dong

Hello everyone, my name is Irene. I'm writing this on behalf of my friend, fellow MIT studen… Irene Dong needs your support for Help Matthew Graduate From MIT

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Hey #visionscience friends - I'm looking to touch base with someone who knows lots about color, esp. contrast/assimilation effects. I'm working on a video about something and I'm worried I'm getting tangled up in part of the explanation. Thanks!

Here's a striking visual illusion - the 9 purple dots. Focus your eyes on the top left dot. That one is more purple than the others, right? Now try another dot... that one becomes the purple one! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41744429/