Holy shit look at this data science figure. This is an amazing example of communicating a bucket load of highly detailed information in an easy to read and aesthetic format. Also, RIP coal power lol

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 7d ago

Once upon a time, industry was powered by rivers. Once upon a time, industry was powered by coal. Things change. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

Any news report that starts “OpenAI says…” or claims “an AI” (sic) has “broken containment” or “gone rogue” is no longer doing journalism, but PR for the #AI industry. #OpenAI used their product to hack a third-party and failed to implement adequate safeguards. That’s it. That’s the story. #AIHype

Illustration has always been fundamental to scientific discovery and record. This is a fascinating discussion with scientist-artists. It's easy to read because the artwork is so beautiful.

Simon Fisher@profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nature interviewed five artists from a variety of backgrounds about how to create engaging images that accurately convey scientific/medical concepts, & how they see the future, in light of AI developments. Insightful nuanced piece, with beautiful visuals from talented real-life human illustrators. 🧪

I've decided for the time being I'm going to stop opting-in to broken systems in science. Case in point: declining a review invite. I received a review invite which I cannot do, so I click the link to decline. A website opens where I have to accept cookies to decline again - no, I will not do that.

calling all researchers who collect data from humans 🧠🧪 we are running a very brief survey (<1 min) about jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection. if you use jsPsych, or if you collect data with any other software, please fill it out at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census!

I just gave a short tutorial on what is a spiking neural network and how to train one. From zero to a trained network in one hour. Slides and code you can run in Colab at this repo: github.com/neural-recko... 🤖🧠🧪

GitHub - neural-reckoning/cambridge-fens-chen-summer-school-2026: Code and slides for 2026 FENS Chen Summer School on Learning with spikes

Code and slides for 2026 FENS Chen Summer School on Learning with spikes - neural-reckoning/cambridge-fens-chen-summer-school-2026

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For the first and possibly only time in my career did I nail this setting on the first go in PsychToolbox: Screen('BlendFunction', screen.win, GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);

DO YOU SEEEEE

Ever had the feeling that someone in your periphery is looking at you? Great study and 🧵

Renzo Lanfranco@renzolanfranco.bsky.social · 4w ago

1/11 New preprint! Can we register eye contact before we consciously see gaze direction? We flashed faces for just 1–5 ms and found that direct gaze facilitates face detection before explicit gaze awareness. 🧵 doi.org/10.64898/202... Work with: @axc.bsky.social & @arvidguterstam.bsky.social

File not found: "... is currently the best documented neuroscience mechanism..." (even ignoring that fumble, wtf?)

Stanislas Dehaene@standehaene.bsky.social · last mo.

The global neuronal workspace (GNW) is currently the best documented neuroscience mechanism by which conscious processing arises in the human brain — and now Anthropic researchers have discovered a similar workspace inside their large language model ! www.anthropic.com/research/glo...

Got back from a wonderful experimental psych conference, but there was a lot of, what seemed like to me, AI research without it being clearly relevant. IMO including commercial AI into research, as a question OR tool, is ethically dubious without a very well explained motivation.

They are stealing our labour, deskilling our professions, hollowing our institutions, and destroying our planet for a fiction that is not only impossible but also dehumanizing.

Teresa Heffernan@tjheffernan.bsky.social · last mo.

Finishing a paper on the myth that nature and Big Tech can ‘meet’ with no repercussions...a founding belief in the field is that AI replicates nature: ‘Getting machines to behave like humans and animals has been the quest of my life,’ writes Yann LeCun, former chief scientist at Meta’s AI lab.

“Computational (…) cognitive science (…) can only flourish if we (a) do not confuse AI systems for minds or theories, (b) do not confuse machine learning for the scientific method, and (c) understand that our computational models can track only the scope and limits of our understanding.”

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Published version now available in Current Directions in Psychological Science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In 1902 a farmer ploughed up this bronze horse at Trundholm, Denmark. Thinking it was an old toy he took it home for his children! 😱 On closer inspection he contacted the National Museum. Now the ‘Sun Chariot’ is an iconic symbol of Denmark’s Bronze Age 3,400 years ago! #FindsFriday #Archaeology

This thread motivated me to sign in to my Twitter account for the first time in a couple of years, just so I could officially de-activate it. After 30 days of deactivation, it will then be deleted. Fuck Elon Musk for destroying a wonderful science communication tool.

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 2mo ago

When you accept that Elon Musk turned the once-Twitter into the new 8chan, the enduring presence of democratic (and Democratic) organizations on there becomes gross and delegitimizing. 8chan had normal context mixed in with the owner-approve abuse, just like X. We need to treat it the same way.

Of note: Frontiers in Young Minds should be an exception in these debates. A science journal for kids, written by scientists & reviewed by kids. Articles in multiple languages. Teachers use it a lot. Really high quality with terrific leaders at the helm; a wonderful scicomm effort.

Frontiers has published some good stuff, but the time is well past to stop submitting and reviewing at any of their journals.

Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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. 👇

To be fair, I probably would have used AI during my PhD if it could calibrate the eye link and run all my participants for me.

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Artificial intelligence systems will allow a single PhD student’s output to match that of a whole laboratory, according to Demis Hassabis, a Nobel laureate for chemistry.

😢😢😢

Perception / i-Perception@pec-ipe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

With profound sadness we announce the sudden and unexpected death of our Editor-in-Chief, Tim Meese. A founding editor of i-Perception, Tim was a pillar of the vision science community and instrumental in shaping the landscape of scientific publishing in our field.

All of my models are wrong and I’m not sure if any were useful.

Felipe De Brigard@felipedebrigard.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Many have heard the expression “All models are wrong but some models are useful”. I prefer its counter-positive: “All models are wrong and most models are useless”, which I think more closely captures a lot of science.

The entire editorial board has resigned from Springer Nature's Natural Language Semantics (NLS) to launch a diamond OA journal, Semantics of Natural Languages www.openlibhums.org/news/943/

New Open Access Journal to Launch Following Resignation of Editorial Team from Natural Language Semantics

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language …

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🚨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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Antonino Greco@agreco.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here, we analyzed fMRI responses while typically developed, congenitally blind and deaf participants experienced audiovisual, auditory, or visual versions of the same narrative. This revealed how information dynamics depend on sensory richness, lifelong experience, or is invariant to those factors.

There's ongoing discourse about whether digital technology is impacting attention spans, but the empirical research does not seem to connect with what is felt by the general public. So, to better understand the perceptions, we examined what was being said on the issue in four relevant subreddits.

Collabra: Psychology@collabrapsychology.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New: A qualitative analysis of the perceived impact of digital technology on attention. From @williamngiam.github.io, Natasha van Antwerpen, @ellamoeck.bsky.social, and Carly Stagg doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My reading of this is that Instructure still doesn’t know if Canvas user data were leaked: www.instructure.com/sites/defaul...

Me as a PI: “this paper is 95% done” The remaining 5% are figures 3-8 and all of the writing

Ol' Chef Dan@olchefdan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

What a breath of fresh air. Good to see at least one university being clear and granting students exactly the space they need to hone their skills. "The use of AI is prohibited for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit.”