Dermot Lynott
@dermotlynott.bsky.social
Cognitive Science, language, open research, PsyArXiv, music, terrible puns. Maynooth University, Ireland.
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/dermot-lynott
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Dermot Lynott
@dermotlynott.bsky.social
· Apr 29
What Can Language Models Tell Us About Human Cognition?
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
We try to place some constraints on what kind of language models might be useful for helping our understanding of cognition
#academicSky #psychSciSky #CogSci #openAccess
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
We try to place some constraints on what kind of language models might be useful for helping our understanding of cognition
#academicSky #psychSciSky #CogSci #openAccess
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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Attend R4E's online workshop on November 19th at 10 a.m. Eastern Time/4 p.m. Central European Time. This event is open to all who are eager to learn. For more details, visit: repro4everyone.org/blog/r4e-spo... #AcademicChatter #phdlife #PHD #AcademicTwitter #academicWriting
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Attend R4E's online workshop on November 19th at 10 a.m. Eastern Time/4 p.m. Central European Time. This event is open to all who are eager to learn. For more details, visit: repro4everyone.org/blog/r4e-spo... #AcademicChatter #phdlife #PHD #AcademicTwitter #academicWriting
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ADAPT is delighted to announce that Dublin has been selected to host ECAI 2029, one of Europe’s premier artificial intelligence conferences. This puts Ireland firmly on the map as a global AI innovation hub.
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
ADAPT is delighted to announce that Dublin has been selected to host ECAI 2029, one of Europe’s premier artificial intelligence conferences. This puts Ireland firmly on the map as a global AI innovation hub.
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I encourage every PhD student to set up an academic website, even if they don't feel like they have a lot to put on it. Why? Helps to get discovered by search engines and establish a search-friendly presence.
What platforms work well for simple websites and are cheap (or better yet, free)? 👀
What platforms work well for simple websites and are cheap (or better yet, free)? 👀
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I encourage every PhD student to set up an academic website, even if they don't feel like they have a lot to put on it. Why? Helps to get discovered by search engines and establish a search-friendly presence.
What platforms work well for simple websites and are cheap (or better yet, free)? 👀
What platforms work well for simple websites and are cheap (or better yet, free)? 👀
If you’re a morning rail commuter in Ireland you could do worse than follow @railusersie.bsky.social for early morning updates
#speirGorm
#speirGorm
Another messy morning due to what looks like overnight engineering works going wrong
0629 Maynooth Connolly start from Clonsilla
0557 Howth Bray start from Howth Junc +8
0617 Malahide Bray start from Clongriffin
0612 M3 Docklands cancelled
0629 Maynooth Connolly start from Clonsilla
0557 Howth Bray start from Howth Junc +8
0617 Malahide Bray start from Clongriffin
0612 M3 Docklands cancelled
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
If you’re a morning rail commuter in Ireland you could do worse than follow @railusersie.bsky.social for early morning updates
#speirGorm
#speirGorm
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Academic tip: sometimes you have to write "Importantly," to get a sentence started and then you can go back and delete it.
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Academic tip: sometimes you have to write "Importantly," to get a sentence started and then you can go back and delete it.
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Little tip for ya - if you’re listening to an 8-part audio drama, don’t accidentally put it on shuffle, or by the fourth episode you will think you’re going out of your goddamned mind 👍
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Little tip for ya - if you’re listening to an 8-part audio drama, don’t accidentally put it on shuffle, or by the fourth episode you will think you’re going out of your goddamned mind 👍
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Attending #NORFest2025 - National open research forum event taking place today and tomorrow.
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Attending #NORFest2025 - National open research forum event taking place today and tomorrow.
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At #NORFest2025 on Fri Nov 7th, a community engagement workshop will showcase Sonraí with our very own Junwen Luo under "The Next Phase of Open Research Monitoring in Ireland: Community Priorities and Practice". Best of luck, Junwen! See the full list of events here: norf.ie/news-2/norfe...
NORFest 2025 Programme | National Open Research Forum
norf.ie
November 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
At #NORFest2025 on Fri Nov 7th, a community engagement workshop will showcase Sonraí with our very own Junwen Luo under "The Next Phase of Open Research Monitoring in Ireland: Community Priorities and Practice". Best of luck, Junwen! See the full list of events here: norf.ie/news-2/norfe...
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We are all set for the National Open Research Festival (NORFest) 2025 taking place in the @ria.ie 19 Dawson St tomorrow (Thursday) & Friday 6-7 November!🎉
The event is fully booked but you can opt to join Day One of NORFest ONLINE. Register for free via Zoom: ria-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@dri.ie
The event is fully booked but you can opt to join Day One of NORFest ONLINE. Register for free via Zoom: ria-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@dri.ie
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
We are all set for the National Open Research Festival (NORFest) 2025 taking place in the @ria.ie 19 Dawson St tomorrow (Thursday) & Friday 6-7 November!🎉
The event is fully booked but you can opt to join Day One of NORFest ONLINE. Register for free via Zoom: ria-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@dri.ie
The event is fully booked but you can opt to join Day One of NORFest ONLINE. Register for free via Zoom: ria-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@dri.ie
Little tip for ya - if you’re listening to an 8-part audio drama, don’t accidentally put it on shuffle, or by the fourth episode you will think you’re going out of your goddamned mind 👍
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Little tip for ya - if you’re listening to an 8-part audio drama, don’t accidentally put it on shuffle, or by the fourth episode you will think you’re going out of your goddamned mind 👍
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![Comic. [Person sitting at desk with laptop with machine labeled E-21 making “click click” noises on the floor behind] VOICE FROM LAPTOP: Hey all! Does your E-21 humidifier make an annoying clicking noise? Mine did, but I finally figured out that there’s an easy fix, so I made this video in case anyone else… PERSON AT DESK: Oh my god. Yes. *Yes.* [caption] I know there’s more important work in the world, but I feel like these people deserve, at minimum a statue.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifdjde6wgflkeil7kf4kdh3zqk32k55rkljlwu6arzbw557ogbulu@jpeg)
November 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v
PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In
The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In
peercommunityin.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v
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#NORFest2025 taking place next week (6-7 November) in @ria.ie is fully booked!
But you can opt to join Day One of NORFest (Thursday, 6 November) ONLINE via Zoom: ria-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗣️Opening remarks by William Beausang, Assistant Secretary General, DFHERIS: norf.ie/norfest-2025...
But you can opt to join Day One of NORFest (Thursday, 6 November) ONLINE via Zoom: ria-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗣️Opening remarks by William Beausang, Assistant Secretary General, DFHERIS: norf.ie/norfest-2025...
October 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
#NORFest2025 taking place next week (6-7 November) in @ria.ie is fully booked!
But you can opt to join Day One of NORFest (Thursday, 6 November) ONLINE via Zoom: ria-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗣️Opening remarks by William Beausang, Assistant Secretary General, DFHERIS: norf.ie/norfest-2025...
But you can opt to join Day One of NORFest (Thursday, 6 November) ONLINE via Zoom: ria-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗣️Opening remarks by William Beausang, Assistant Secretary General, DFHERIS: norf.ie/norfest-2025...
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There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/
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Staring down the end of my postdoc contract (2 months to go) with no jobs lined up after, realising that I won’t be a scientist for the first time in 8 years. It’s hard not to feel like I’ve failed.
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Staring down the end of my postdoc contract (2 months to go) with no jobs lined up after, realising that I won’t be a scientist for the first time in 8 years. It’s hard not to feel like I’ve failed.
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Then: et al
Now: et AI
Now: et AI
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Then: et al
Now: et AI
Now: et AI
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"The advent of large language models have made this type of content relatively easy to churn out on demand, and the majority of the review articles we receive are little more than annotated bibliographies, with no substantial discussion of open research issues."
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 2, 2025 at 7:51 AM
"The advent of large language models have made this type of content relatively easy to churn out on demand, and the majority of the review articles we receive are little more than annotated bibliographies, with no substantial discussion of open research issues."
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Who did this?!
November 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Who did this?!
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I have been running Nowhere Lab since 2021, and am very proud of the community we've built.
Members communicated that their favourite things about Nowhere Lab were the informal chats and accountability, so now we have two sessions per week for this in different time zones per week! 🧡
Come join us!
Members communicated that their favourite things about Nowhere Lab were the informal chats and accountability, so now we have two sessions per week for this in different time zones per week! 🧡
Come join us!
We are Nowhere Lab 👋
nowherelab.com
Anyone from any field is welcome to join who doesn't have a lab but would like the lab meeting experience!
📆 Join our co-work & chat sessions
⏰ TUESDAYS at 9am (UK) and/or THURSDAYS at 4pm (UK)
🌐 Remote (email priyasilverstein at gmail dot com to join)
nowherelab.com
Anyone from any field is welcome to join who doesn't have a lab but would like the lab meeting experience!
📆 Join our co-work & chat sessions
⏰ TUESDAYS at 9am (UK) and/or THURSDAYS at 4pm (UK)
🌐 Remote (email priyasilverstein at gmail dot com to join)
nowherelab.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I have been running Nowhere Lab since 2021, and am very proud of the community we've built.
Members communicated that their favourite things about Nowhere Lab were the informal chats and accountability, so now we have two sessions per week for this in different time zones per week! 🧡
Come join us!
Members communicated that their favourite things about Nowhere Lab were the informal chats and accountability, so now we have two sessions per week for this in different time zones per week! 🧡
Come join us!
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I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲
October 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲
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A brilliant, poignant letter from by our very own Dr Caoimhe Clarke in The Irish Times this morning!
#ActiveTravel #ActiveTransport
#ActiveTravel #ActiveTransport
October 29, 2025 at 8:26 AM
A brilliant, poignant letter from by our very own Dr Caoimhe Clarke in The Irish Times this morning!
#ActiveTravel #ActiveTransport
#ActiveTravel #ActiveTransport
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"I know writers who use subtext and they are all cowards"
We can now watch the United States explode and sink beneath the ocean live!
Sinking of SS United States to be livestreamed using drones and underwater cameras
The historic ship will be sunk off the Florida panhandle by the end of the year, but no date has been set.
www.phillyvoice.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"I know writers who use subtext and they are all cowards"
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I appear to have spoken to a reporter who took seriously the gravity of NZ's science crisis
does anybody have a newsroom pro subscription so that I can learn what other choice phrases I used on the record?
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...
does anybody have a newsroom pro subscription so that I can learn what other choice phrases I used on the record?
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...
Winner of top science prize blames ‘batshit’ Budget for brain drain
Dr Samuel Mehr says the Government values science, but their ‘idiotic’ approach to funding it will cost them their best and brightest.
newsroom.co.nz
October 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I appear to have spoken to a reporter who took seriously the gravity of NZ's science crisis
does anybody have a newsroom pro subscription so that I can learn what other choice phrases I used on the record?
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...
does anybody have a newsroom pro subscription so that I can learn what other choice phrases I used on the record?
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...