Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy! Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user ha...

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Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
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Epistemic Virtues for Scientific Inquiry — Community Survey In Six Memos for the Next Millenium, Italo Calvino proposed six literary virtues he felt should be preserved and cultivated in literature regardless of how the world changed: lightness, quickness, exa...

If you're a faculty, research scientist, postdoc, or senior PhD in any area of science, select your top 6 virtues at this link:
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You can also tell us if you think we missed any.

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In collab w/@devezer.bsky.social @statmodeling.bsky.social

Check out our lab #CDS2026! Talks on early intuitions about democracy, consequences of household inequality, and cross-cultural data on intuitive beliefs about social exclusion.

Some reports say over 500 schools, 55 libraries, & 25 universities hit.
You can debate the numbers, but hitting Sharif University & Beheshti is like hitting MIT & Stanford. I keep wondering: How would the scientific community respond differently if it was those universities? What’s the difference?

🎉 We're excited to announce the SPAN Seminar Series: virtual introductions to concepts relevant to neuroscience & phil of neuroscience. Seminars are free for SPAN members & held virtually.

The first 2 seminars are on MRI methods. Register today! 🧠 philandneuro.wildapricot.org/seminar-Series

New paper! Out now in Neuropsychologia: “Sparsity and memory constraints interact with training sequence to bias learning of associative maps” with @dalezhou.bsky.social*, @kwcooper.bsky.social, @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social, and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mipv6TBG9...
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Happy to share some of the work done in our lab in this mega-thread of nine (!) papers/preprints (+1 sneak peek) from the last six months. Here goes (in no particular order)! **Please repost** and let me know if you need access to any of the PDFs! #sleeppeeps #sleep #neuroscience 1/12

Exciting work by @kevingoneill.github.io to extend / rewrite the HMetad toolbox in R and STAN 🥳

We supercharge meta-d modeling within a bayesian regression framework, wrapped in a user-friendly R package with bespoke plotting tools (+ a new principled measure of metacognitive bias, meta-delta!)

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i think some sort of hybrid approach that combines longer-form semi-regular updates with day-to-day comms about logistics etc is what works well for me

as a trainee i’ve found it very valuable to message quickly with my advisors about various things which makes me hesitant to drop messaging platforms altogether.

but totally agree that these tools can breed cultures of quickness that are not great for scientific thinking

i’ve experienced the same cognitive benefits writing long-form messages on slack, so i don’t think the medium is necessarily the issue

ive had a gdoc “notebook“ running since the start of my phd and we’ve had success with back-on-forth there as well

A graphic containing an image of David Sussillo, his book cover, and a brief description of the book itself. There is a message from SPAN inviting those interested in a pre-read to email danielle.williams@purdue.edu. SPAN will provide a complimentary book to those interested in attending. Caption: David is a research scientist at Google in the Google Brain group and a faculty member in the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University. His research focuses on computational modeling of biological neural circuits and the interface of systems neuroscience and deep learning. In this special session, we will be discussing his new book which describes a remarkable journey of resilience and transformation. From the chaotic corridors of group homes to the halls of Columbia and Stanford, EMERGENCE is a coming-of-age tale where heartbreak and humor meet the scientific wonder of modern artificial intelligence.

We're excited to announce a special SPAN at the PSA 'Meet the Author' session with @sussillodavid.bsky.social! Join us as we discuss David's new book. If you are interested in pre-reading and attending, please email us (details below).

happy to announce the official release of my first R package on CRAN! 🎉

building on the Hmetad toolbox by @smfleming.bsky.social, the hmetad package allows users to fit the meta-d' model of confidence ratings using a familiar brms/lme4-style formula syntax

Very happy that this paper from our lab is now out in @pnas.org! What happens when the *same* person experiences the *same* information with a *different* interpretation? Nearly the whole 🧠—well, at least nearly all association cortex—changes how it represents that information! tinyurl.com/p8chj2j7

Danielle Williams @okaydaniellle.bsky.social is a FORCE OF NATURE.

Why the Brain Consolidates: Predictive Forgetting for Optimal Generalisation Standard accounts of memory consolidation emphasise the stabilisation of stored representations, but struggle to explain representational drift, semanticisation, or the necessity of offline replay. He...

Really neat work by Fountas and colleagues at UCL:
arxiv.org/abs/2603.04688
They propose that consolidation reflects a form of "predictive forgetting" that aids generalization.

this came out really nice, thank you for sharing ❤️

Neural geometry in the human hippocampus enables generalization across spatial position and gaze Hippocampal neurons track positions of self, others, and gaze direction. However, it is unclear how their respective neural codes differ enough to avoid confusion while allowing for abstraction. We re...

Compositional representation of self, others, and gaze direction in *human* hippocampus - super cool.

arxiv.org/abs/2603.04747

it's out!

@hazimi.bsky.social and i explore how higher order representations of *one's own first-order representational uncertainty* -- not representations OF noisiness in the world -- can be studied, including how they are constructed in the first place.

philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

On Loving the World: Revisiting the Scientific Image with Arendt and Haraway

My upcoming talk at The Center for Philosophy of Science & the Department of Anthropology at Boston University, this coming Thursday, March 5th, 4-5.30 pm.
(First Chapter of my new book project @rad-institute.bsky.social)

The inferred value of unchosen options spreads to related items in memory Counterfactual thinking — considering what could have come of choosing the other path — can facilitate inference. Previous studies have demonstrated t…

📢New paper out today in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social!

Does the value of an unchosen option — inferred through counterfactual reasoning — spread to related items in memory, similar to how the value of a chosen option — acquired through direct experience — does?

In short, yes!

Loretta wants you to know that we'll be heading to The Ohio State University soon where I'll be an Assistant Professor of Philosophy 🥹 The OSU phil department is absolutely fantastic and I can't wait to go do philosophy with them!
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Book cover. A silhouette of a person's head filled with colorful geometric shapes—perhaps symbolizing cognitive resources or deployment thereof. The style is attractive and modern, if generic. text: The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources Falk Lieder, Frederick Callaway, Thomas L. Griffithts

I'm excited to announce that I had my first (co-authored) book published today! "The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources" with Falk Lieder and Tom Griffiths (@cocoscilab.bsky.social ). You can read it for free! (see thread)

congrats ida!!! great thread, cant wait to read the paper in full 🤓

My paper, "The problem of explaining shifting targets," has been accepted for publication in European Journal for Philosophy of Science. The preprint is currently available on PhilSci-Archive (final version to follow when its online):

philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28211/

We audited one of the most critical pieces of modern AI alignment: reward models. We find consistent and persistent biases and trace them back to the pretraining stage, challenging the premises of common approaches to alignment based on finetuning on human preferences. Accepted at #ICLR2026

AMAZINGGGGG! you are going to *love* it and what a win for duke!

Philosophy of science of decision making - Aliya Rumana (Feb 6) Dear All,    You're cordially invited to the next installment of the Philosophy of Science of Decision Making seminar series.    Speaker: Aliya Rumana (University o...

I'm giving a talk on how to settle disagreements about how participants should respond to tasks and why it's relevant to cognitive explanation, especially in judgement and decision-making psychology. register by tomorrow to listen in on Friday 4pm CET/ 10am ET/ 8am MT

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This, combined with the evidence we have that it meaningfully degrades cognitive skills, I really think it’s probably bad to allow a group of men wealthy to the point of literal derangement to force us to use a technology that makes us less competent and worse at thinking

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If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.