Not much you can do in Europe, but if you happen to have a Disney+ subscription: now is the time to cancel it (ABC that pulled Jimmy Kimmel owns the Walt Disney company). Trump's words, after Kimmel and Stephen Colbert were pulled: "That leaves Jimmy [Fallon] and Seth [Meyers]". Free speech no more.
Will you be at #ICON2025 in Porto?
Then drop at our symposium on "Decision Signal(s) In The Electro-encephalogram" (SY23, Thursday at 13.45) with @redmondoconnell.bsky.social @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social @hcp4715.bsky.social organized by Leendert van Maanen and Jelmer Borst
Also with @claires012345.bsky.social, @doramatzke.bsky.social, Sonia Acuna Vargas, and @thatmariia.bsky.social
In this preprint, @chris-pinier.bsky.social shows that open-source LLMs can perform abstract reasoning tasks, that LLMs have representations of pattern type in intermediate layers, and that LLM activations correspond to Fixation Related Potentials from participants' EEG.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.10057
No worries! Thanks for making the method better!
🧠 New preprint alert!
In this study, using a joint modelling method with the Diffusion Decision Model, we offer a mechanistic reinterpretation of the Late Positive event-related potential Component (LPC) as a neural signature of mnemonic strength during evidence accumulation in recognition memory.
I don't agree with everything in this article, but I do agree with this:
"The act of writing the thing is the same thing as the thinking of it. If you can’t write it, you haven’t actually thought it." And AI allows us to 'not' think.
engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-war...
#academicsky #ai #teaching
A grid of portraits of four scientists. A headline reads: "The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump's DEI Cuts"
The NIH has terminated hundreds of diversity grants awarded to young researchers, many of whom come from the very places that supported Trump. “People on the right, they don’t realize they’re limiting the opportunity of their own kids by supporting this.” nyti.ms/4lMDXtN
Totally agree: What we stand to lose when foreign students are seen as a threat (although I am biased, because I was one of those...) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Good time to announce that there will be a symposium on "Decision Signal(s) In The Electro-encephalogram" at #ICON
Chaired by Leendert van Maanen and Jelmer Borst. With @redmondoconnell.bsky.social, @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social, @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social, @hcp4715.bsky.social and myself as speakers
Save the date: Australiasian Mathematical Psychology Conference. 23-25 Feburary 2026. Singapore. "Applying mathematical and quantitative psychology to real-world complex problems"
Save the date! The 2026 *gasp* Australasian MathPsych conference will be in Singapore -- looks to be a great one :)
@ozmathpsych.bsky.social
Donald Trump commandeered 2,000 of our state’s National Guard members to deploy on our streets.
Illegally, and for no reason.
The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.
When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The Republican administration has halted all student (and postdoc etc) VISA interviews.
I've written a lot about soft power here. The attacks on foreign students in the US not only undercuts the funding stream for US universities; they hemorrhage US soft power.
Like I said a few times before, it was NEVER about campus protests or anti-semitism. It was always about seizing control of higher education through govt blackmail and coercion.
🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation.
This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Republican administration is also ordering all current international students (and postdocs, I believe) at Harvard to transfer or leave the country.
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05...
Just a few months until Cognitive Computational Neuroscience comes to Amsterdam! Check out our now-complete schedule for #CCN2025, with descriptions of each of the Generative Adversarial Collaborations (GACs), Keynotes-and-Tutorials (K&Ts), Community Events, Keynote Speakers, and social activities!
reminding myself once again that written is better than perfect
By @marcishore.bsky.social , @timothysnyder.bsky.social , and Jason Stanley.
It is likely behind a paywall for some. This will help the first 10 clickers:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
An important short opinion piece and video from 3 academics who study authoritarianism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
Powerful statement and an inside look at what is happening to science in tge current administration .
time.com/7285045/resi...
The brutal assault on American science by the Trump administration is such an incredible self-own. Our entire country suffers across various domains as we lose out on invaluable cutting-edge research.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology
openletter.earth/against-lang...
Finally, Ven Popov's & my paper introducing the Bayesian Measurement Models (bmm: venpopov.github.io/bmm/) R package is published in Behavior Research Methods: rdcu.be/ehKtv
In the paper we show how to use bmm for fitting mixture models for visual #workingmemory tasks.
Remember the "Highlights" that some Elsevier journals require? Dean Karlan and friends developed an amazing way to troll them: haikus!
