I’ve thought that Pennsylvania touched Canada for my whole life until yesterday

On a road trip with my daughter, and the Charli xcx playlist is super catchy

@perfors.net that’s some fancy shit

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot@oecs-bot.bsky.social · 5d ago

Cognitive scientists prioritize how humans process and transmit information over traditional distinctions between truth and falsity. Information and Misinformation by Andrew Perfors https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.a2555670 #CognitiveScience

📢 PhD opening in comp. cog. neuro. in Toulouse: thalamo-frontal model of cognitive control. Modelling/EEG experience is welcome but not required. Application deadline: 8 Sept. 2026 Details: sdrive.cnrs.fr/s/eDrkeXfjdW... #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #EEG #neuroskyence #compneurosky

Out of office message until Aug 17! Longest vacation in a decade and first actual vacation in four years. You owe no loyalty to a corporation. Use all your time and join a union!

Teacher Required To Provide Own Salary https://theonion.com/teacher-required-to-provide-own-salary/

Just guest edited a PNAS article -- a posh experience. Unaccustomed to people being helpful with anything.

#DIBLives Antarctic explorer Tom Crean (d. #OTD 1938) spent more time in the Antarctic than Scott or Shackleton; he was awarded the Albert Medal and the Polar Medal with 3 Antarctic clasps. The Crean Glacier in South Georgia and Mount Crean in Antarctica are named for him. www.dib.ie/biography/cr...

Our roofing repair company uses a drone. It’s a really cool process until you get the bill. It’s that little dot

New collaborative review of neurophysiological alterations in severe mental illness. 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @crchum.bsky.social @theneuro.bsky.social

This switch wiring makes no sense whatsoever. Two switches powering one old ceiling fan in the same receptacle with electricity generated by a water wheel and a mule wired serially with only one ground wrapped around itself. These old houses man

Here's an ambiguous apostrophe situation from Orson Wells Paul Masson wine ads -- We will sell no wine before its/it's time. Whis is it?

I did it. I removed Outook from all my devices and am synched to One Calendar. That slight delay/chore of me having to access email through a browser has made a huge difference in cutting my email addiction. I check that just a few times a day now

I apply tACS every time I listen to the Chipmunks, and it's made me a fucking genius

Martin Wiener@martinwiener.bsky.social · 2w ago

Alpha rhythm determines speech perception rate? And speeding it up makes unintelligibly fast speech comprehensible? This is nuts! www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

I would estimate that less than 3% of emails bring me any pleasure or are helpful. Yet all day I check email. It’s time to break free. Does anyone have recommendations for how they tamed this addiction?

I was thinking of interesting character arcs in film and books over my coffee this morning. One fun one was Armand in S1 of the White Lotus -- how methodically he went completely off the rails. Who are your favs? Jack Nicholson in the Shining, Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven come to mind as big arcs

Imagine trying to run a pupillometry study on a goat eye. All our mathematical models of the pupil are spherical. I’ll just bust loose with a rectangle

I'm so tired of being a professor. I heard a great NPR interview on being a goat farmer and making goat cheese. I might get a goat or a million goats and a farm in the poconos. @blueheronfarm.bsky.social

I've never felt worse than reading decision letters from papers I've submitted to JML.

micha heilbron@mheilbron.bsky.social · 3w ago

What makes some stimuli more memorable than others? In a new paper w/ @davogelsang.bsky.social, we show that the magnitude of a stimulus's ANN representation predicts both image and word memorability Stimuli that activate more features, more strongly, leave a stronger memory trace Out now in JML⬇️

What makes some stimuli more memorable than others? In a new paper w/ @davogelsang.bsky.social, we show that the magnitude of a stimulus's ANN representation predicts both image and word memorability Stimuli that activate more features, more strongly, leave a stronger memory trace Out now in JML⬇️

Take this ghost story writing class with me!!! We can trade stories and get to know each other

Alex Davis@alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 3w ago

When the nights start to draw in this September and October, let me bring the spirits right to you with my online WRITING GHOST STORIES course! www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-gh... #ghosts #ghost #ghoststory #ghoststories #writing #writers #fiction #authors #courses #course

My copy of Luria’s Higher Cortical Functions in Man arrived. Great chapter on cerebral localization and history. My prudence area is tingling. People literally believed that high level cognition occurred in the ventricles - for 1500 years

Join us at @mpicbs.bsky.social as a fully funded 4-year PostDoc (m/f/d) in Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience (Area: Functions of the Perirhinal Cortex). Excellent infrastructure with a leading scientific network. Apply by 17 August: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/44...?

Deep sea fishing off Cape May and fudge kitchen note to self

1/ I am thrilled to begin sharing the latest release of pyEM, a Python package I built for fitting cognitive computational models to behavioral data using hierarchical expectation maximization (EM) with maximum a posteriori estimation (MAP). github.com/shawnrhoads/...

RIP Sam Neill — dead calm, hunt for red October, Jurassic park - so many classics. He was awesome. His American accent was shite but it made him even more likable

Skylight is in! My art studio demo/reno is really coming along. I moved gas lines, braced a sagging ceiling, pulled down walls, wired in lights — armed only with YouTube. No casualties and so far so good

Wow — that wasn’t expected

I get that we're falling behind, but it doesn't help that the AAAS is using Excel plots w/ Calibri.

Mike Dettinger@mdettinger.bsky.social · 4w ago

China has (as of April) surpassed the US in total R&D in terms of dollars, people, papers & patents. China is now the dominant global power in R&D (based on Org of Economic Cooperation & Developmt, Web of Science & World Intellectual Property Organization stats). www.aaas.org/sites/defaul...

Drywall guys here for the day. Dogs in the basement trying to get at the workmen through the cat door striking out like a snake head