Table 1, giving an overview of different meanings of AI
"The term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) means many things to many people (see Table 1) (...). One meaning of ‘AI’ that seems often forgotten these days is one that played a crucial role in the birth of cognitive science as an interdiscipline in the 1970s and ’80s." 2/n
on the perils of survey work (there will be trolls!)
greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail
…reproducibility problems are widespread. Only one in three authors (35%) share code, and even when code is available, only every second main result (51%) is numerically reproducible.
I'm really glad more and more people are noticing correlationism, part of the conspiratorial logic of AI...
Guest, O. & Martin, A. E. (2025). A Metatheory of Classical and Modern Connectionism. Psychological Review. doi.org/10.1037/rev0...
PDF: repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/ha...
Hitting the nail on its head with respect to always having to think about "the next step" as a postdoc, even after just having started a new job. We know it is part of the deal, and it is very hard to change this system, but it is important to keep discussing this.
advalvas.vu.nl/en/science-e...
New study in Lancet eClinical Medicine (N=20,358) found that mental healthcare utilization initially increases (consistent with assessment requirements under guidelines), then drops substantially, following gender-affirming medical care. #transgender #mentalhealth #medicine
If you’re interested in irrationality and robust, novel model comparison, here’s an open-access link to the paper:
psyarxiv.com/ygmcj
🎉 psp just hit 14K+ downloads!
Our #rstats package for parameter space partitioning powered our work on g-distance, model comparison, irrationality, and heterogeneity: doi.org/10.1037/rev0...
CRAN: cran.r-project.org/package=psp
I wrote about this last month. Overshooting on reducing migration is going to be very costly.
samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh...
Preprint alert 🚨! Excited to share our new work on metacognition in value-based decision-making. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/.... We ask whether it is possible to derive a computational measure of metacognitive ability for economic preference choices.
A brain injury was reported in a trial using ultrasound, framed as low-intensity TUS. Kim Butts Pauly and I reviewed the case and disagreed with how it's presented. Key acoustic data are missing.
Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...
Reading the discussion below the quoted post I am astonished at how fucking privileged and ignorant some researchers are when it comes to very obvious issues like biases.
anybody as immature and brain rotted as me 🌝
Come and say hi to @seowxft.bsky.social @floorburghoorn.bsky.social @lenarddome.bsky.social & @kenzakdr.bsky.social who will be demonstrating our brain explorer app and research at the @medresfdn.bsky.social stand at New Scientist Live event in London
@uclqsion.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social
📢 NEW PREPRINT 📢 We show a metacognitive paradox (not blanket deficit!) in OCD: confidence is persistently lower, but fluctuations track evidence more tightly and are nearer Bayes-optimal.
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
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A new preprint 📝 with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @kenzakdr.bsky.social @benjwagner.bsky.social
and Andrew Webb accompanying our cpm-toolbox.net python modelling library - including details about our motivations, toolbox features, framework and workflows!
👉 osf.io/preprints/ps...
Some really cool stuff here! Really glad to have been involved in the making 📝🥳
day-to-day fluctuations of confidence (across multiple domains) relate to OCD symptom reports
Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.
Our research on video game loot boxes was cited in a recent Forbes article about Labubus. The article was a systematic review exploring the links between loot boxes, problem gambling and problem video gaming. In other words, purchases with chance-based outcomes. 1/2
www.forbes.com/sites/traver...
New models (three variants of Prospect Theory), new features (more ways to manage parameters, more model components to use), and of course bug fixes. If you want to make your computational modelling reproducible and robust, check out and install the new version of *cpm*:
github.com/DevComPsy/cp...
Ever have a symptom & assume the worst? That’s the Inverse Base Rate Effect—we over-focus on rare outcomes. A new #psynomPBR study by Dome @lenarddome.bsky.social & Wills finds distraction & time pressure can reduce this bias. Post by Alyssa Asmar. buff.ly/FTDQE25
I wonder how much tax money goes into research programmes likely this? In Europe for example? A shame indeed
So excited to share that the NeNa registrations are open now! Can’t wait to see everyone in Heidelberg this October. 🎓🍂
5. The right-wing enthusiasm for AI science is not about doing better science faster. It’s about eliminating one of the most effective forms of societal resistance to authoritarian control.
“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' … is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas and undermine scholarly discussions. It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Models should be constrained on their behavioural heterogeneity and we should be concerned about the number of Unobserved Model Prediction (UMP) they can produce
A quote from Rumelhart/McClelland: "...real biological systems cannot be Turing machines because they have finite hardware."
A sentiment somewhat related to our g-distance framework. What portion of unobserved but possible results your model rejects?
#CPConf2025 is exploring multidimensional reward functions #RufusTempleOrchestra
