Gary Lupyan
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Huge congratulations to Matthew Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social, recipient of the 2026 Jeffrey L. Elman Prize for Scientific Achievement and Community Building!
This honor will be celebrated at #CogSci2026 with a dedicated symposium.
Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/elman-prize/ to learn more
This honor will be celebrated at #CogSci2026 with a dedicated symposium.
Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/elman-prize/ to learn more
January 23, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Huge congratulations to Matthew Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social, recipient of the 2026 Jeffrey L. Elman Prize for Scientific Achievement and Community Building!
This honor will be celebrated at #CogSci2026 with a dedicated symposium.
Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/elman-prize/ to learn more
This honor will be celebrated at #CogSci2026 with a dedicated symposium.
Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/elman-prize/ to learn more
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Trump is ranting and hallucinating now, before a world audience, on live TV. While our decades-long allies talk about how to protect themselves.
Anyone who sounded the way he does, RIGHT NOW, would be moved from "main" part of assisted living facility to the memory unit.
Hey GOP: just listen.
Anyone who sounded the way he does, RIGHT NOW, would be moved from "main" part of assisted living facility to the memory unit.
Hey GOP: just listen.
January 20, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Trump is ranting and hallucinating now, before a world audience, on live TV. While our decades-long allies talk about how to protect themselves.
Anyone who sounded the way he does, RIGHT NOW, would be moved from "main" part of assisted living facility to the memory unit.
Hey GOP: just listen.
Anyone who sounded the way he does, RIGHT NOW, would be moved from "main" part of assisted living facility to the memory unit.
Hey GOP: just listen.
arxiv.org/abs/2601.11432
I want to share an astonishing result. LLMs can "translate" Jabberwocky' texts like 'He dwushed a ghanc zawk” & even and even 'In the BLANK BLANK, BLANK BLANK has BLANK over any BLANK BLANK’s BLANK' This has profound consequence for thinking about.. 1/2
I want to share an astonishing result. LLMs can "translate" Jabberwocky' texts like 'He dwushed a ghanc zawk” & even and even 'In the BLANK BLANK, BLANK BLANK has BLANK over any BLANK BLANK’s BLANK' This has profound consequence for thinking about.. 1/2
arxiv.org
January 19, 2026 at 3:27 AM
arxiv.org/abs/2601.11432
I want to share an astonishing result. LLMs can "translate" Jabberwocky' texts like 'He dwushed a ghanc zawk” & even and even 'In the BLANK BLANK, BLANK BLANK has BLANK over any BLANK BLANK’s BLANK' This has profound consequence for thinking about.. 1/2
I want to share an astonishing result. LLMs can "translate" Jabberwocky' texts like 'He dwushed a ghanc zawk” & even and even 'In the BLANK BLANK, BLANK BLANK has BLANK over any BLANK BLANK’s BLANK' This has profound consequence for thinking about.. 1/2
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🚨 NEW VIDEO 👇🏽This puts an end to all the lies. Horrific.
They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him.
Stop the lies.
They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him.
Stop the lies.
January 9, 2026 at 6:12 PM
🚨 NEW VIDEO 👇🏽This puts an end to all the lies. Horrific.
They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him.
Stop the lies.
They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him.
Stop the lies.
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What we are all seeing, and for those who chose not to view but are reading the details of, is the murder of a US civilian in broad daylight by armed forces of the US government, endowed with the powers this administration has allowed them to have.
State’s rights only matter if we enforce them.
State’s rights only matter if we enforce them.
January 7, 2026 at 8:14 PM
What we are all seeing, and for those who chose not to view but are reading the details of, is the murder of a US civilian in broad daylight by armed forces of the US government, endowed with the powers this administration has allowed them to have.
State’s rights only matter if we enforce them.
State’s rights only matter if we enforce them.
Just stumbled on something I wrote back in 2016 that I totally forgot about -- a commentary on a special issue of PB&R on concepts. I think it holds up pretty well! featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/symbodiment-...
#symbodiment should be #symbodimeaning: Do we need concepts?
How are the meanings of words, events, and objects represented and organized in the brain? This question, perhaps more than any other in the field, probes some of the deepest and most foundational …
featuredcontent.psychonomic.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Just stumbled on something I wrote back in 2016 that I totally forgot about -- a commentary on a special issue of PB&R on concepts. I think it holds up pretty well! featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/symbodiment-...
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I can’t fully articulate the way my stomach dropped when I saw this headline. Please know the evidence has not changed. The people in charge have changed, and they did not consult any relevant experts or the public. “This new policy has not been vetted with pediatricians, the public, or the ACIP”
Federal health officials slash recommended childhood vaccinations under Trump’s directive
The number of recommended childhood shots drops from 17 to 11.
www.statnews.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:20 PM
I can’t fully articulate the way my stomach dropped when I saw this headline. Please know the evidence has not changed. The people in charge have changed, and they did not consult any relevant experts or the public. “This new policy has not been vetted with pediatricians, the public, or the ACIP”
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What can cognitive science learn from AI? In infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/what-cogni... I outline how AI has found that scale and richness of learning experiences fundamentally change learning & generalization — and how I believe we should rethink cognitive experiments & theories in response.
What cognitive science can learn from AI
#3 in a series on cognitive science and AI
infinitefaculty.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:10 PM
What can cognitive science learn from AI? In infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/what-cogni... I outline how AI has found that scale and richness of learning experiences fundamentally change learning & generalization — and how I believe we should rethink cognitive experiments & theories in response.
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...
arxiv.org
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...