Learning the science of spider cognition is awesome. Love that i work w Fiona @drspidernz.bsky.social at UC

Also, Children of Time great.

Kia ora Carl! Id love to help arrange a talk at UC on the 13th if you haven’t already got one set up. (If you have, I’d love to attend! ) I’m in psychology, but we could easily get a talk advertised widely. FYI our semester starts in the following Monday, so v good timing.

New public holiday about to hit NZ next week.

Aleea Devitt’s #kiwicam2025 keynote explains how age changes memory construction and illustrates ingredients that have no place in baking 🍍

Darnay Read from Univ of Canterbury examining how recovering minds are perceived by others #kiwicam2025

Ezra Ramsey from @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social sharing work on experiences of tāngata Māori reclaiming identity #kiwicam2025

Rose Barton from @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social investigating how people perceive the mind of BabyX #kiwicam2025

Max Gurr extending a critical finding to virtual environments: Does passing through doorways inhibit memory? #kiwicam2025

How do our autobiographical memories conform to fictional narrative trajectories? Eva Bonnie from @waikatouniversity.bsky.social shares her findings @ #kiwicam2025

Reece Roberts #kiwicam2025 keynote. what do fish have to do with imagination and memory?

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KiwiCAM 2025 psych student research conference getting underway at the University of Auckland #kiwicam2025
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Dear ICE, oli-gargle my brown balls (goddamn nazi scum)

New favorite sign just dropped

New study shows people who took a causal inference class are better at reasoning about data. Asked if they have any policy recommendations, authors narrow eyes, look at reporter, and reply "Absolutely none"

Ministry of Health forced to release documents showing alcohol lobby influence Papers reveal industry lobbying against tax hikes, restrictions on sales, and a Fetal Alcohol plan.

Great reporting by Guyon & colleagues @rnzrss.bsky.social
The #AlcoholIndustry shouldn’t be involved in policy. They:
▶️ refute evidence of harm
▶️ avoid blame for their actions
▶️ fight approaches that would reduce harm to communities
▶️ prioritise profit over people

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

My embittered genx soul finds it endearitating

Am I happy because it resonates or sadder?

Next to the lake this morning I learned that TikTok dancing takes a LOT of takes. Watching the social-media-sausage get made. 🌭

I’ll see your shorts and raise you swimmers in the lake!

✨Hope the skies clear tomorrow for ya!

Surely your midwestern male upbringing includes shorts in winter?

😂 we’ve just arrived and exploring that way now.
You stargazing tonight [pending clear skies]?

We’re heading to Tekapo today. Weather looks great.

+2¢
- Claude’s artifact generator is great. Claude wants you to feel like a programmer.
- Claude doesn’t link sources from the internet (as of yet), but I don’t find I’m usually looking for that.
- Claude doesn’t digest as large of docs as gpt. But I break em up and it does fine.

I oscillate between the two. GPT’s memory for past conversations is great, but Claude’s projects get you some way to a sustained context window. Claude Pro seems to restrict use of the sonnet model more quickly though with large projects (even w pro) and seems to give less warning than gpt).

I’ve never been so motivated to create a jamovi module. 🙏

If you have anything to do with teaching statistics, visit Kristoffer’s online interactive visualizations. They used to be my favourite contribution to the teaching of research methods. I don’t teach my students R, but this is now my favourite 👇🏼

Oscillating between looking forward to a closer read of this and retreating to my motivated reasoning about the occasional merits of external invalidity.

Oof. *checking my super to see how many years of betas I might have to teach*