Me reading this thread: 🧐no 😟, no 🫨 No, 😱 NOOOO

📣 Introducing Easy Peasy, an EC workshop focused on simple, elegant, teachable results! Do you have a result (even old, or a special case of a longer paper) that is so self-contained and easy to communicate that you could explain all the details in under 15 minutes? Then this is the venue for you!

I’m tempted to put as many m-dashes as possible in my next paper

Sometimes academics are invited to give a talk to share their thoughts on a specific topic (e.g., in the context of a targeted symposium or meeting) and instead they give a generic lab promo talk.

Why?? Is this not as frowned upon as I’m assuming it should be?

“Even if any given
terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature
it must be a selection of reality,
and to this extent
it must function as a deflection of reality”
(Burke, 1966; possibly paraphrased).

Given we had Velociraptor Awareness Day. Did you know, many species of famous theropods were named after Polish women in palaeontology. Velociraptor osmolskae & Citipati osmolskae are named after Halszka Osmólska, a Mongolian dinosaur expert, responsible for describing Deinocheirus and Gallimimus.

Today in ~research that is cooler than mine~

What function did ~100k-year-old engravings from Blombos Cave & Diepkloof serve? Decoration, identity marking, proto-writing? osf.io/preprints/ps... uses transmission chains + cognitive experiments to find out & help answering one of the hardest questions in cognitive archaeology. long thread! 1/

Congratulations Ed! 🎉🎊🥳🎈

Me, defending my proposal in front of a grant panel:

My name is Fede Adolfi. I am not one of them. I wish to save the world.

I will express my opinions on The Discourse when somebody invents a social media mechanism that prevents them from instantly becoming part of The Discourse.

Until then, I’m sorry or you’re welcome

Correct (not naive/idealistic)

Brief fun survey from Jessica, Andrew & myself:

If you are a faculty member, research scientist, postdoc, or senior Ph.D. student in any area of science, please take five minutes and fill it out. We’ll share the results widely along with some reflections.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The first few articles in this collection are now published, including ours. I look forward to reading all. Our piece is not open access because of the ridiculous fees but the preprint linked at the end of the quoted thread (will link again below) is the accepted version of our commentary.

Introduction: Progress in Radical Embodiment - Topoi Topoi -

We (@edbaggs.bsky.social, @segundo-ortin.bsky.social, @guicogsci.bsky.social, & I) have organised the conference "Dimensions of Radical Embodiment" for the last few years [Stay tuned for the next one!]. And we just edited a special issue around it. Here's the intro: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Crater Nutella

The death of bluesky is greatly exaggerated

Or, I’m getting my shitposts out while I can

Call for a PhD position in Cognitively inspired natural language processing with Lisa Beinborn and me. Part of the new SPP "Robust Assessment & Safe Applicability of Language Modelling: Foundations for a New Field of Language Science & Technology” (LaSTing). huds.uni-goettingen.de/assets/Call_...

There’s a kind of brain rot that can come, it seems, from spending too much time at prestigious/elite academic institutions. It can make otherwise sensible people go “you know [unambiguously bad thing for everyone]? Well hear me out because maybe if we [cognitive acrobatics] then it’s a good thing?”

*reference class problem intensifies*

Me deriving predictions from theories in the cognitive and brain sciences:

I said 3 to 6, or 6 to 8. It could be 2. Or it could be 17. It could be any particular number. It’s anything I say it is.

The existence of humble-brag implies the existence of bash-praise and guess what that’s definitely a thing that exists

If you squint it looks like a giant feline sitting on a frozen lake in front of a glacier on a cloudy day

How do you identify which problems are interesting and valuable? When people don’t work on problems that matter, why do you think that is?

When a problem doesn’t chunk neatly in the research/publication cycles of the respective discipline (eg 6-12 months in AI, 1-2 years in neuroscience), it tends to be postponed indefinitely— that’d be my guess anyway

I’m planning to organize one very much like it, same venue. It’d be great to have you as a speaker +participant or even co-organizer

This would have fit well in this workshop 👇🏻🧠🤖

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Our ICLR paper 👆🏻 on the parametrized complexity landscape of circuit discovery is cited in this thought-provoking piece 👇🏻 by @gershbrain.bsky.social

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Our ICLR paper 👆🏻 on the parametrized complexity landscape of circuit discovery is cited in this thought-provoking piece 👇🏻 by @gershbrain.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/thet...

“Meaning .rar” 😂👌🏻