Just wrote a new blogpost trying to summarize my thoughts on the question of how and whether to use AI for research in psychology and cognitive science: babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/04/usin...

Years ago @mikeduncan.bsky.social told me "you can rewrite shit but you can't rewrite nothing" and it's made every draft easier since.

Because if you ban books dealing with family sexual assault, it doesn't exist, right? No awkward conversations allowed - let's go back to Dick and Jane

So very true

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own

Oh:

A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

The vendor claims to obtain location records tied to device IDs from "providers who obtain user consent for location data sharing through SDKs", i.e. through third-party tracking software embedded in mobile apps; we don't know whether directly or indirectly via data brokers or other intermediaries.

I don't know if i am more pleased with this man's collapse or Lindell

Fascinating quote from the article:

True

I try so hard to convince my writing students to do this, but their young digital brains just can't see the value

Ha!

This is so cute even I smiled, but not as goofy as the zebra

This is a great way of describing this part of the
Research Process

Clover is nice

What a concept - AI tools designed by writing instructors instead of people who dislike writing

It has to do with them being union - this is union busting at its core

My college students are clueless about file storage. In HS they were all at Google Schools and everything was Automatically saved to Google Drive. Which, by the way, my employer is trying to duplicate with forced use of *ugh* OneDrive

Listen to John Warner people

Canvas is not about improvement - it has always provided just good enough tools to appease the admins who sign the contract. My Canvas courses are much simplified from what I used to have in Moodle

My father had polio and had to wear a brace on the bottom half of his left leg. Once he started going to a chiropractor, his back pain was greatly reduced. But he was very picky about which ones he would go to

I loved Epicurus the Sage - but Piranha stuff never gets reprinted fo there must be something in the contracts because they published some really good stuff

Green olives

Guess I need to stop using Ariely's material as an example in my citation lectures

I do think part of this is about driving long time professionals out so that when AI fails to work, the new hires are cheaper and less likely to unionize

Thrilled that this article in now out!

My point being - if that's on the ground, what's happening higher up where planes operate?

The winds across the Great Plains yesterday were seriously strong - on top of fire warnings due to dry conditions, and yes, the western part of Nebraska had raging fires with eva uation notices to entire small towns

Not unless they provide the right cash incentive or obeisance

I get the point - this Matlock doesn't need the name reference at all, but you know it got them the pilot and initial audience awareness

Dick Wolf's company produces the One Chicago shows. My wife watches the medical one