Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real www.nature.com/articles/d41... It's going to take a while to sort out the AI slop and hallucinations.

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia

A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

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New analysis of a 1-million yr old fossil skull captured worldwide media attention this week, with many headlines saying it requires a complete rewrite/rethink of human evolution. This is an intriguing study & it's brilliant to see so much public enthusiasm for deciphering our origins, but....1/n 🧪

Hive mind: If you want to communicate “stop!” with an emoji, would you use 🤚, 🖐️, ✋, 🙅 or a different one? Can you give an example and in which situation?

Helen Lewis and Yasha Mounk on ‘the genius myth’ www.persuasion.community/p/helen-lewi...

Helen Lewis on The Genius Myth

Yascha Mounk and Helen Lewis discuss why we look for the extraordinary.

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Amazing account of ChatGPT's sycophancy and confabulation on steroids. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Diabolus Ex Machina

This Is Not An Essay

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Dr Matt Henderson does an awesome job narrating his paper, "Shared semantics- Exploring the interface between human and chimpanzee gestural communication" 🐒 👩‍👦 . Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqHB...

Shared semantics: Exploring the interface between human and chimpanzee gestural communication

Henderson et al. 2024 Mind and LanguageAbstractStriking similarities across ape gestural repertoires suggest shared phylogenetic origins that likely provided...

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Back with another audio paper 🎧! Interested in gestures humans share with chimpanzees? Dr Matt Henderson narrates Patel-Grosz et al’s paper, “Primate origins of discourse-managing gestures- the case of hand fling” 🦾 Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQRl... #WildMindsLab #MondayMicDrop #STEM #science

Patel-Grosz et al. 2023 Primate origins of discourse-managing gestures: the case of hand fling

Read by Mathew HendersonThe last decades have seen major advances in the study of gestures both in humans and non-human primates. In this paper, we seriously...

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One of my favorite articles I've worked on—as a drummer aspiring to be as good as these chimps one day! @vestaeleuteri.bsky.social @nakedprimate.bsky.social and their team find chimpanzees drum rhythmically to communicate

Do chimpanzees have rhythm? Listen to their drumming.

New research on the rhythmic drumming and complex calls of chimpanzees could point scientists to the origins of language.

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Electronic dance music (EDM) exhibits a hierarchical structure also found in comics/cartoons! Out now in Musicae Scientiae🧪https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008866 thread below:

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 A 3-year post doc position is opening as part of my #APELANG project funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social It’s about multimodal combinatorial communication in wild #chimpanzees 🐵 Job ad here: maelleroux-research.weebly.com/apelang.html And here 👇🏻

Call for papers 👀 🧪 The Emoji Workshop🤩🫶🏽 to take place August 29 2025, University of Oslo **Abstract submission deadline: May 16** The workshop will be accompanied by a panel discussion on ‘Emoji meaning: stability and variation’ www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/...

The Emoji Workshop - Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies

The project “Semantics and Pragmatics of Emojis in Digital Communication (EmDiCom)” (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG) is hosting a one-day workshop on the linguistics of emojis at the Un...

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A sad day for the world of great ape language research. www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...

Don't forget to submit your abstracts for #Protolang9 in Vienna in September 2025! Submission deadline for individual papers and workshops: February 14, 2025. More info: protolang9.univie.ac.at Looking forward to seeing you there!

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers. 1/N

Woo hoo! 1K new followers, welcome to 💙🦋! For science-minded folks, there are some very cool tricks 🚀… If you use any of these emojis: 👩‍🔬|👩🏻‍🔬|👩🏼‍🔬|👩🏽‍🔬|👩🏾‍🔬|👩🏿‍🔬 your post will index on a Women in STEM feed If you use 🧪 a Science feed If you use 🧠 a Neuroscience feed Go get it 🚀🧪🧠👩‍🔬💙🎊

Reminder for newcomers that bioRxiv has Bluesky accounts in every subject category - great way to keep up (please re-skeet) connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/09...

“Few people realize that cognitive science is crucial for evaluating claims about AI capabilities. We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University

Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes ...

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