Gary Lupyan
@glupyan.bsky.social
Just finished @blaiseaguera.bsky.social 's Who are We Now. Whatever your priors, you'll be moved. hatandbeard.com/products/who...
Who Are We Now? by Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Hardcover, 496 pages6.75 in. x 9.5 in. | 170 mm. x 240 mm.Includes ~130 graphs and hundreds of additional visual aids
From leading AI researcher Blaise Agüera y Arcas comes Who Are We Now? an explorat...
hatandbeard.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Just finished @blaiseaguera.bsky.social 's Who are We Now. Whatever your priors, you'll be moved. hatandbeard.com/products/who...
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Who stands in the desert all smashed and alone?
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
Vast trunkless legs sunk in sands level and lone
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
If King-of-Kings hubris be something you care
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
Just look on his Works all ye Mighty: despair
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
Vast trunkless legs sunk in sands level and lone
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
If King-of-Kings hubris be something you care
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
Just look on his Works all ye Mighty: despair
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
December 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Who stands in the desert all smashed and alone?
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
Vast trunkless legs sunk in sands level and lone
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
If King-of-Kings hubris be something you care
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
Just look on his Works all ye Mighty: despair
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
Vast trunkless legs sunk in sands level and lone
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
If King-of-Kings hubris be something you care
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
Just look on his Works all ye Mighty: despair
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
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this guy represents all of humanity right now
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
this guy represents all of humanity right now
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yeah I mean it’s genuinely sad that the “reasonable old school” Republican (who Dems eagerly and unanimously voted to confirm) is out here doing pressers blatantly geeked out coke and it’s not subtle
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
yeah I mean it’s genuinely sad that the “reasonable old school” Republican (who Dems eagerly and unanimously voted to confirm) is out here doing pressers blatantly geeked out coke and it’s not subtle
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I hope you’re having a better day than me. I just learned my own cognition is intractable…
December 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I hope you’re having a better day than me. I just learned my own cognition is intractable…
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There are only two reasonable reactions to the invention of a tool that lets you build arbitrary mathematical bridges between language and other mediums:
"Neat!"
and
"Uh oh..."
"Neat!"
and
"Uh oh..."
December 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
There are only two reasonable reactions to the invention of a tool that lets you build arbitrary mathematical bridges between language and other mediums:
"Neat!"
and
"Uh oh..."
"Neat!"
and
"Uh oh..."
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There's a very smart book by our own Chris Knight which unravels the puzzles and paradoxes of Chomsky's politics and science.
Quite differently from his usual critics, Chris was coming from the LEFT of Chomsky.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decodin...
Quite differently from his usual critics, Chris was coming from the LEFT of Chomsky.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decodin...
Decoding Chomsky - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
There's a very smart book by our own Chris Knight which unravels the puzzles and paradoxes of Chomsky's politics and science.
Quite differently from his usual critics, Chris was coming from the LEFT of Chomsky.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decodin...
Quite differently from his usual critics, Chris was coming from the LEFT of Chomsky.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decodin...
Bookmark this post as a 12/2025 snapshot of what's wrong with the AI discourse on this site. @edouardmachery.bsky.social
I am frustrated by the anti-AI obsession on this place. I understand people are annoyed by AI being imposed on us for trivial things and by the AI uber alles discourse but it really feels like older people complaining about a new technology.
December 20, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Bookmark this post as a 12/2025 snapshot of what's wrong with the AI discourse on this site. @edouardmachery.bsky.social
This is so important. One way to have more realizations like this is to time travel. Another is to just travel travel. And also talk to people from different places. Oh, and to have lots of immigrants in your society.
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This is so important. One way to have more realizations like this is to time travel. Another is to just travel travel. And also talk to people from different places. Oh, and to have lots of immigrants in your society.
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Want to have holiday lunches with our social faculty for years to come? That chair could be yours! Tatum Jolink will also be joining the department in the fall of '26. Check out our job posting: shorturl.at/4Vc1T @spspnews.bsky.social @affectscience.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Want to have holiday lunches with our social faculty for years to come? That chair could be yours! Tatum Jolink will also be joining the department in the fall of '26. Check out our job posting: shorturl.at/4Vc1T @spspnews.bsky.social @affectscience.bsky.social
What is this timeline?! www.wired.com/story/people...
People Are Paying to Get Their Chatbots High on ‘Drugs’
An online marketplace is selling code modules that simulate the effects of cannabis, ketamine, cocaine, ayahuasca, and alcohol when they are uploaded to ChatGPT.
www.wired.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
What is this timeline?! www.wired.com/story/people...
My commentary on @futrell.bsky.social & @kmahowald.bsky.social excellent forthcoming BBS paper "How Linguistics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Language Models". arxiv.org/abs/2512.12447 Have a read. It's 🌶️
Large language models have learned to use language
Acknowledging that large language models have learned to use language can open doors to breakthrough language science. Achieving these breakthroughs may require abandoning some long-held ideas about h...
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December 16, 2025 at 3:32 AM
My commentary on @futrell.bsky.social & @kmahowald.bsky.social excellent forthcoming BBS paper "How Linguistics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Language Models". arxiv.org/abs/2512.12447 Have a read. It's 🌶️
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**How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited
for cognition?**
That goes to the top of the list!
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
for cognition?**
That goes to the top of the list!
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
December 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
**How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited
for cognition?**
That goes to the top of the list!
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
for cognition?**
That goes to the top of the list!
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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We're hiring at the Associate Professor level in Social Psychology! Join us in our vibrant and wonderful department and area. Contact Markus Brauer, search committee chair, for details (markus.brauer@wisc.edu). Job ad here: shorturl.at/nnvv8
Associate Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
We're hiring at the Associate Professor level in Social Psychology! Join us in our vibrant and wonderful department and area. Contact Markus Brauer, search committee chair, for details (markus.brauer@wisc.edu). Job ad here: shorturl.at/nnvv8
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Too many people see this as a personal activism platform and not a microblogging website where you get to talk about the stuff you like and your lunch as well. Treating it as a misery pipeline just makes you miserable to be around. Go post a photo of your pet and a song you wanna talk about.
If I had to diagnose the cause of the "Bluesky malaise" as @kleinman.bsky.social calls it, I would describe it as a lot of people without the skills or resources or interest in journalism or activism mistakenly believing that being performatively miserable all the time will net the same results.
December 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Too many people see this as a personal activism platform and not a microblogging website where you get to talk about the stuff you like and your lunch as well. Treating it as a misery pipeline just makes you miserable to be around. Go post a photo of your pet and a song you wanna talk about.
Oof!
Works the other way around too.
“If I was Jonathan Haidt, how would I destroy the next generation?”
“If I was Jonathan Haidt, how would I destroy the next generation?”
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Oof!
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"It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing....It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong."
Tom Stoppard, on complexity theory, in Arcadia.
One of the world's best playwrights. RIP.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tom Stoppard, on complexity theory, in Arcadia.
One of the world's best playwrights. RIP.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88
Sir Tom won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love.
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing....It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong."
Tom Stoppard, on complexity theory, in Arcadia.
One of the world's best playwrights. RIP.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tom Stoppard, on complexity theory, in Arcadia.
One of the world's best playwrights. RIP.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI.
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI.
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
Looking forward to future projects with this crew! Was a joy to work on this admittedly difficult paper! Very proud of the final product. Have a look!
Interesting re-reading & re-appraisal of a classic paper on the design features of specific cognitive systems like human language, by @symbolicstorage.bsky.social @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social K de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🧪
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🧪
Super proud of this fabulous team for challenging old comparative frameworks and rethinking what makes language language.
Read more in the thread below 👇 or here 📖😊: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Read more in the thread below 👇 or here 📖😊: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Looking forward to future projects with this crew! Was a joy to work on this admittedly difficult paper! Very proud of the final product. Have a look!
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Andy Conway and I are honored to serve as inaugural co-Editors of this new Psychonomics journal, focused on the rigorous study of individual differences in cognition. Please spread the word to potentially interested colleagues; we hope that you will send us your best relevant work!
PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!
November 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Andy Conway and I are honored to serve as inaugural co-Editors of this new Psychonomics journal, focused on the rigorous study of individual differences in cognition. Please spread the word to potentially interested colleagues; we hope that you will send us your best relevant work!
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I have been writing critically about twin studies of behavior for many years. Here is a brief overview article I published online last year.
www.madinamerica.com/2024/09/the-...
www.madinamerica.com/2024/09/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I have been writing critically about twin studies of behavior for many years. Here is a brief overview article I published online last year.
www.madinamerica.com/2024/09/the-...
www.madinamerica.com/2024/09/the-...
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Really appreciated this panel discussion session at #psychonomics2025 on threats to psychological science and what we can do about it.
It was organized by @lkfazio.bsky.social. I walked out feeling positive and optimistic. Fight disinformation by giving psychology away. Let’s do this!
It was organized by @lkfazio.bsky.social. I walked out feeling positive and optimistic. Fight disinformation by giving psychology away. Let’s do this!
November 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Really appreciated this panel discussion session at #psychonomics2025 on threats to psychological science and what we can do about it.
It was organized by @lkfazio.bsky.social. I walked out feeling positive and optimistic. Fight disinformation by giving psychology away. Let’s do this!
It was organized by @lkfazio.bsky.social. I walked out feeling positive and optimistic. Fight disinformation by giving psychology away. Let’s do this!
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oh so grok is *fucked* fucked
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
oh so grok is *fucked* fucked
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I’m recruiting PhD students at NYU (start Sept 2026).
Focus: cultural evolution, innovation & cooperation, AI & society, progress studies & development.
Deadline to apply is Dec 1- very soon.
I’ll share more about the move & new work soon.
Please share with students & retweet!
Focus: cultural evolution, innovation & cooperation, AI & society, progress studies & development.
Deadline to apply is Dec 1- very soon.
I’ll share more about the move & new work soon.
Please share with students & retweet!
November 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I’m recruiting PhD students at NYU (start Sept 2026).
Focus: cultural evolution, innovation & cooperation, AI & society, progress studies & development.
Deadline to apply is Dec 1- very soon.
I’ll share more about the move & new work soon.
Please share with students & retweet!
Focus: cultural evolution, innovation & cooperation, AI & society, progress studies & development.
Deadline to apply is Dec 1- very soon.
I’ll share more about the move & new work soon.
Please share with students & retweet!
If you're looking for a fun Tuesday night, tune in to my talk for the Emergentism, Ecosystem, and Expertise series: "The Role of Language in Human and Machine Intelligence" Tonight @ 9pm Eastern. Registration: polyu.zoom.us/.../register....
November 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
If you're looking for a fun Tuesday night, tune in to my talk for the Emergentism, Ecosystem, and Expertise series: "The Role of Language in Human and Machine Intelligence" Tonight @ 9pm Eastern. Registration: polyu.zoom.us/.../register....