In my experience students are fairly happy to tell you they use LLMs, and do so responsibly. It is also my experience that when you ask them (with an authoritative tone) to declare how much LLM they used on a doc... they panic like a rabbit cornered.

We can go deeper. The quote, by a radio host Paul Harvey, has always stuck with me: "Despite all our accomplishments, we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact it rains.”

K. Wroten 🍏@jukeboxcomix.bsky.social · yesterday

Imma keep this professional, but to the anonymous reviewer you who said my work was "completely inadequate and should be thoroughly rewritten". I am re-writing it, but sure as hell not because of you. Even if I wanted to, the three sentences you gave me were insufficient to guide the re-write.

Cool finding on 'parentese' from Gaye Soley's lab: when a parent speaks to each of their two children, the sound/style of their voice indicates whether they're speaking to the younger or older one (and other kids can tell!)

Preschoolers Infer Listeners from Age-Related Variation in Maternal Child-Directed Speech

Child-directed speech (CDS) varies systematically with the recipient child’s age. The present study examined whether children aged 3–6 years are sensitive to this within-register variation and use ...

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I get unreasonably pissed-off in discord servers - particularly quiet servers - when someone makes a specific and pointed request in the 'general' tab, then someone comes in and buries it with an announcement two hours later. GTFO, that general post couldn't have waited?

Reminder: two weeks are left to apply for the PhD and postdoc positions in my lab. See more info here www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo...

Open position of Associate Professor in Behavioral ecology and cultural evolution at the @dee-unil.bsky.social! You can toggle the ad to English on top right: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

.The very talented and fun Jonathan Henshaw has two positions to offer! If you like theoretical eco-evo questions, don't hesitate. Also, Freiburg is a very pretty place PhD: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb... Postdoc: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

I really want a cigarette, but I don't want to buy a pack. What I want is to bum a cigarette off a stranger at the pub. But all you dorks smoke vapes these days. Vapes are objectively uncool, and show no solidarity to the quitters you aspire to be!

MOOCS were an attempt to scale profit but not labor or investment. Every time a 'pedagogy expert' suggests something that fits this description, it's wrong and bad, and they can ignored (even more than they should usually be ignored).

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last wk.

Joke‘s on me because MOOCs failed at being remembered and but MOOC politics absolutely won the university.

I have just been informed I'll be writing an Elements in the 'Psychology of Religion' series entitled 'Santa Claus and Religious Cognition'. To the best of my knowledge, it'll be the first serious, long-form treatment of the psychology of Santa in Children. www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

Psychology of Religion

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan

Ancient Egypt had zero wild baboons, yet imported and deified one species while ignoring another. New spectroscopy shows why: the sacred baboon’s hair spectrally matches moonlight. #Egyptology #Archaeology www.anthropology.net/p/the-baboon...

The Baboon That Glows Like the Moon

How spectroscopy solved a 3,000-year-old puzzle in Egyptian zoomorphism

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One of the very few successful predictions in social science was that unbridled capitalism would lead to concentrated wealth, which will undermine democracy. And yet instead of taking the win, people rush to invent theories about social media, immigration, gender, and what not.

Coward. If it's going to be in 'the north', put it in Crewe.

Fiona Robertson@fionaswriting.bsky.social · 2w ago

The new Prime Minister has set up 'No 10 North', which I'm not opposed to but also...

www.astronomyedinburgh.org/event/partia... We'll be holding an event on Calton Hill to view the partial solar eclipse on 12th August. We'll have some solar telescopes with us and lots of eclipse glasses so that people can view the eclipse safely. Remember THE SUN IS DANGEROUS TO OBSERVE.

Partial Solar Eclipse Viewing on Calton Hill - Astronomical Society of Edinburgh

Join us in the evening on 12 August to watch the amazing partial eclipse of the Sun. We'll have our solar telescopes with us plus lots of free eclipse glasses to give away.

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In terms of reverse anthropomorphic blindness, we ignore that humans are basically nest builders. We focus on stone tools (and other more recent things), but rarely talk about 'beds'.

Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm always amused by the way humans fetishize "walking upright," "tool use," and "language" as the iconic features of a superior species. And of course we ignore or downplay the obvious signs of all three in every other species. "They only walk upright SOMETIMES. Not like a true upright walker."

I'm really excited to share the results of a new study that @bjbalas.bsky.social and I have been working on this summer. This project was a bit of a labor of love. If you're interested in #chess, mental imagery, #aphantasia, or the value of a sabbatical, this is a 🧵 for you: 1/?

Clever Cat Plays Chess

ALT: Clever Cat Plays Chess

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New preprint w/ Leo Tiokhin & @lakens.bsky.social! Registered Reports (RRs) are great for science b/c publication is guaranteed before results are known, reducing publication bias & QRPs. This feature supposedly also makes them great for *scientists*. But is that really true? 1/ tinyurl.com/4sy993rr

Career incentives make Registered Reports unattractive under realistic academic conditions

Registered Reports are a publication format designed to reduce publication bias by guaranteeing publication before results are known. This guarantee is considered attractive in the prevailing ‘publish...

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🔺 Psychology Job 🔺 Assistant Prof in Psychology (Grade 8) at Durham Uni to support our new MSc Psychology (Conversion) You should use computational approaches (e.g., machine learning, artificial intelligence) Closing date 30th Aug Please share! #Psychology #AcademicSky #PhDSky More info 👇

Noticing strong similarities between Harris' argument for why factual claims are believable (screencap) and Nichols and Stich's structural claims about pretense as involving a) setting a premise, b) inferential elaboration, c) embellishment, and d) appropriate behavior.

Pluribus is aggressively mediocre and wilfully cowardly. The year is 2026, and a TV show sets up a story about agency and consent, moves a dozen interesting pieces into provocative positions on the board... and then choses not to make a single interesting move, and in so doing, says nothing.

Not that other guy, that's for sure@neogliberal.bsky.social · 2w ago

My headcanon is that Pluribus is the naive and mediocre first novel of Kim Wexler after she's forced to leave the law.

My headcanon is that Pluribus is the naive and mediocre first novel of Kim Wexler after she's forced to leave the law.

First time I've tried writing a manuscript with a 5k word limit. I've resisted it for so long! I always write what needs to be said then I shop for the journal. But this limit is actually kind of freeing! I'd probably hate doing it every time... but right now, it's good!

"Hello, emergency services!?! My robot butler was serving me a daiquiri, then spontaneously collapsed on my four year old! Please send ***four men*** to come lift it up off him, hurry!"

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 2w ago

Quick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot.

The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter

To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...

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Want to do a PhD to work on models of opinion dynamics and the inequalities of information flow, with an emphasis on climate change and climate policy? Apply by October 15 to work with Ago Merico and myself, based at @leibniz-zmt.de in Bremen, Germany. www.leibniz-zmt.de/en/vacancies...

Doctoral candidate (gn) - WG Systems Ecology

Das Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung (ZMT) erforscht tropische und subtropische Küstenökosysteme und ihre Bedeutung für Natur und Menschen erforscht.

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It is crazy to say this about the Argentinean team. They're not babies. They might be soft like babies. They might cry like babies. They might even throw little tantrums if they don't get their way. But they're full-ass adults. And their coach should talk to them, actually.

Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 2w ago

I cannot overstate how much I hate when people are dicks about babies crying in public (especially airplanes). Do you think the parent is having a good time right now?? Do you think they are not aware of the situation??? Are you going to negotiate with a literal infant????