Matteo Lisi
@mlisi.bsky.social
lecturer • research on human perception and decision-making • principled statistics • computational models • he/him • https://mlisi.xyz/
From this week’s Qualia column: “I’ll just say it: What the hell is going on with AI ‘reasoning’?” www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reason...
Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? | Quanta Magazine
The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.
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Multiverse analysis, abdication of responsibility and manufacturing of doubt: I have written on some downsides I see with multiverse analysis (which I like in principle): arxiv.org/abs/2607.14623 I was inspired/provoked to write it by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci (thanks!)
I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight 2026: a Pentagon contract for "any lawful government purpose" Not one safeguard survived intact
Opportunity to join a great team on our Leverhulme-funded project, where we'll apply cognitive science to antibiotic misuse and contribute to tackling antimicrobial resistance, one of the world's most pressing public health threats @rhulpsychology.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #academicsky 👇👇👇
Miroslav Sirota@miroslavsirota.bsky.social · 4w agoWe’re recruiting a postdoctoral researcher / Senior Research Officer to join our new project on antibiotic decision-making. Job details and application link: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE155/s... The project is funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk Please share.
New paper out ! 📣 Across a careful and extensive set of experiments spearheaded by @rimskyrobert.bsky.social, we show that conscious access to a word’s meaning can occur *without* access to its appearance or low-level sensory features. #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
Communications Psychology@commspsychol.nature.com · 2mo agoNew research Article in the journal by Daphné Rimsky Robert and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press) @rimskyrobert.bsky.social @clairesergent.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social
🧵 Thread: Does the internet threaten democracy? I argue that it does in my latest piece in Science: doi.org/10.1126/scie... Here's the short version. 1/9 1/10
The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy
Will democracy survive the internet? Do we need to choose between Facebook’s surveillance capitalism or democracy? Layered lines of evidence can inform questions like these. When considered together, the evidence gives rise to a concerning picture, as summarized in a recent report for the European Commission that I co-led.
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"Upon closer inspection of the DAG, we realized we shouldn't have bothered with this study..."
Jeremy Labrecque@jeremylabrecque.bsky.social · 2mo agoAs a course assignment, I had students rewrite the discussion section from an actual paper (using track changes) and incorporate information from a DAG and bias analyses they ran. Some of these are among the best discussion sections I've ever seen!
Thrilled to be involved in this Leverhulme-funded project. The grant will also support a postdoc position at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social to apply signal detection theory modelling to antibiotic-related medical judgements. Stay tuned if this sounds like your kind of research!
Miroslav Sirota@miroslavsirota.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe are very fortunate to have received generous funding from @leverhulme.ac.uk to investigate the psychology of antibiotic-related judgements. With @mlisi.bsky.social @mariejuanchich.bsky.social and @evakrockow.bsky.social More about the award here: www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...
Excited to announce the 2nd Graduate Summer School on Computational Decision Sciences (GSS-CDS) at RHUL! 📅 Sept 7–11, 2026 📍Stewart House, Central London Fee: £480 (includes lunch, breaks & events) Registration closes on June 15. center-decision-sciences.com/cds-graduate...
CDS Graduate Summer School 2026
Program Registration Schedule Directions Home 7th – 11th September, 2026 The Center for Decision Sciences will host a Graduate Summer School during the second week of September, 2026 in Senat…
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Why we should rethink causal mediation, and what to do instead? Come to hear the answer from Vanessa Didelez at the next CIIG seminar! The seminar will be hybrid. If you are in London, come join us in person at UCL! Otherwise, you can join on Zoom as usual. Registration links in comment below.
Whoops forgot the relevant feeds #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence A comment on Piray’s recent paper on low statistical power in computational modelling studies: Are computational modelling studies severely underpowered? I don’t think the current analyses justify that conclusion Thread + commentary 👇
Matteo Lisi@mlisi.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis is an interesting paper on power in computational modelling, with several useful points. But I think the headline conclusion — that 60–80% of studies are underpowered — rests on a very specific effect-size assumption that is hard to justify and unlikely to be realistic in most cases. 1/5
This is an interesting paper on power in computational modelling, with several useful points. But I think the headline conclusion — that 60–80% of studies are underpowered — rests on a very specific effect-size assumption that is hard to justify and unlikely to be realistic in most cases. 1/5
Payam Piray@payampiray.bsky.social · 9mo agoHappy to share my new paper published in @nathumbehav.nature.com: A critical look at statistical power in computational modeling studies, particularly those based on model selection. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried
If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...
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One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
@orisshenyan.bsky.social and me are happy to share our most recent preprint - we find that prior knowledge protects high-level perception from low-level visual deficits common in healthy ageing. @tessamdekker.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals. Please share widely.
❗️Our next workshop will be on Nov 13 6 pm CET titled Building & Customising Stat Models with Stan and R: Introduction to Bayesian Inference by @mlisi.bsky.social Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
We are hiring, come work with us! Please share widely 🙏 and do get in touch if you have questions about the Department Deadline: December 1st #neurojob #psychscisky #neuroskyence #VisionScience #academicsky
Royal Holloway Psychology@rhulpsychology.bsky.social · 9mo ago🚨We are looking for a scholar to join us as a lecturer (teaching & research contract, full-time, permanent), starting 1 April 2026! The application deadline is 1 December 2025. jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
A very worrying escalation of online harassment. Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves" x.com/EuropaIneffa...
Europa Ineffable on X: "In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match: "it's a game of two halves" 🥴 https://t.co/b5YNKyaQtu" / X
In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match
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I’ll be giving a 'Workshops for Ukraine' session on Building and Customising Statistical Models with Stan and R: An Introduction to Bayesian Inference — online on Nov 13. Open to all, with donations supporting Ukrainian organisations. 👉 sites.google.com/view/dariia-... #stats #rstats #statssky
Dariia Mykhailyshyna - Workshops for Ukraine
Feedback on the past workshops (if you want to learn how to make wordclouds, check out Text Data Analysis workshop below)
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Turns out a university degree does still make a substantial difference to job prospects, once you account for the conditions when people enter the job market. Nice analysis by the FT. on.ft.com/4q6Y8pm
Deeply disappointing. Once again the @royalsociety.org has avoided explaining how *actions* by Elon Musk that clearly repudiate the Society's values are consistent with the code of conduct that Fellows must adhere to. royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...
A statement from the President of the Royal Society | Royal Society
A statement from Adrian Smith, President of the Royal Society, regarding threats to the values that allow science to flourish.
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Amateur view. AI bubble shows that there is too much money chasing too few opportunities for genuine innovation. The solution is to take a medium/long view and put much more funding into basic science in universities rather than cutting as is happening now. (But I would say that wouldn’t I?)
❗️Our next workshop will be on October 2nd, 6 pm CEST, on Effective and Useful Feature engineering by @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence
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