greg_j_davis
@gregorydavis.bsky.social
‘Never knowingly Reviewer 2 www.viscog.psychol.cam.ac.uk
Attention, Visual Cognition, Social Cognition, Security Screening, Decision-making
Uni of Cambridge, DfT College of Experts
Zebra Rump Stripes control attention
ATLAS Task: https://rdcu.be/dU4sr
Attention, Visual Cognition, Social Cognition, Security Screening, Decision-making
Uni of Cambridge, DfT College of Experts
Zebra Rump Stripes control attention
ATLAS Task: https://rdcu.be/dU4sr
Pinned
Research Associate in Applied Social Cognition: Detecting and Predicting Violence (Fixed Term) at University of Cambridge
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate in Applied Social Cognition: Detecting and Predicting Violence (Fixed Term) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and exp...
www.jobs.ac.uk
*Job Klaxon* Interested in Social/Visual Cognition, Criminology or related areas?
Join my group as part of 6-Uni EPSRC collaborative grant!
Candidate will need to pass security screening.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH731/r...
Join my group as part of 6-Uni EPSRC collaborative grant!
Candidate will need to pass security screening.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH731/r...
How do lab mugs affect your microbiome?
February 10, 2026 at 3:21 PM
How do lab mugs affect your microbiome?
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Preparing for class and remembering how brilliant this essay is: persci.mit.edu/pub_pdfs/sha... - "The perception of shading and reflectance" (Adelson & Pentland, 1996). Early and beautiful description of Bayesian perception theories.
February 10, 2026 at 5:35 AM
Preparing for class and remembering how brilliant this essay is: persci.mit.edu/pub_pdfs/sha... - "The perception of shading and reflectance" (Adelson & Pentland, 1996). Early and beautiful description of Bayesian perception theories.
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We're getting excited... just putting the finishing touches to
**PsychoPy Studio**
This is a complete rewrite of the PsychoPy Builder/Coder app, now packaged in Electron.
Faster load, modernised UI, web-ready, independent of the Python interpreter
🎉 🚀
blog.psychopy.org/general%20bl...
**PsychoPy Studio**
This is a complete rewrite of the PsychoPy Builder/Coder app, now packaged in Electron.
Faster load, modernised UI, web-ready, independent of the Python interpreter
🎉 🚀
blog.psychopy.org/general%20bl...
PsychoPy Studio: the app we love, reimagined
It’s now over 20 years since PsychoPy’s humble beginnings as an open-source Python library to help users present high-precision stimuli and collect responses from participants. Since 2009 PsychoPy…
blog.psychopy.org
February 9, 2026 at 6:00 PM
We're getting excited... just putting the finishing touches to
**PsychoPy Studio**
This is a complete rewrite of the PsychoPy Builder/Coder app, now packaged in Electron.
Faster load, modernised UI, web-ready, independent of the Python interpreter
🎉 🚀
blog.psychopy.org/general%20bl...
**PsychoPy Studio**
This is a complete rewrite of the PsychoPy Builder/Coder app, now packaged in Electron.
Faster load, modernised UI, web-ready, independent of the Python interpreter
🎉 🚀
blog.psychopy.org/general%20bl...
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
👀
Google must have finally incorporated AI into Google Maps. How do I know?
It just told me I needed to leave now to be at Dublin Airport by 13:30 now to catch 9am Citylink that arrives in Dublin Airport at 11am. Then I should take the 11:45 Kells bus to Ballymun and walk back one hour to the airport
It just told me I needed to leave now to be at Dublin Airport by 13:30 now to catch 9am Citylink that arrives in Dublin Airport at 11am. Then I should take the 11:45 Kells bus to Ballymun and walk back one hour to the airport
February 9, 2026 at 10:02 AM
👀
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Our latest paper, “Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests”, is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Non-paywalled version:
arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786
Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...
Non-paywalled version:
arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786
Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...
Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests - Nature Machine Intelligence
Tangtartharakul and Storrs use standardized neuropsychological tests to compare human visual abilities with those of visual language models (VLMs). They report that while VLMs excel in high-level obje...
www.nature.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Our latest paper, “Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests”, is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Non-paywalled version:
arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786
Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...
Non-paywalled version:
arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786
Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...
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i feel compelled to remind everyone that chatgpt/LLMs are functionally the *opposite* of an actual expert.
the more your problems are unusual or novel, the more likely LLMS are to be wrong. they are least helpful when it's most important
the more your problems are unusual or novel, the more likely LLMS are to be wrong. they are least helpful when it's most important
March 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
i feel compelled to remind everyone that chatgpt/LLMs are functionally the *opposite* of an actual expert.
the more your problems are unusual or novel, the more likely LLMS are to be wrong. they are least helpful when it's most important
the more your problems are unusual or novel, the more likely LLMS are to be wrong. they are least helpful when it's most important
Lead in Salt Lake City residents' hair
(from Cerling et al., 2025)...wow.
(from Cerling et al., 2025)...wow.
February 6, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Lead in Salt Lake City residents' hair
(from Cerling et al., 2025)...wow.
(from Cerling et al., 2025)...wow.
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The Chinese word for oxymoron, 矛盾語, means “spear and shield word.” It refers to a story of a weapons merchant who claimed he had both shields no spear could pierce and spears that could pierce anything.
February 5, 2026 at 5:40 PM
The Chinese word for oxymoron, 矛盾語, means “spear and shield word.” It refers to a story of a weapons merchant who claimed he had both shields no spear could pierce and spears that could pierce anything.
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The visual world is composed of objects, and those objects are composed of features. But do VLMs exploit this compositional structure when processing multi-object scenes? In our 🆒🆕 #ICLR2026 paper, we find they do – via emergent symbolic mechanisms for visual binding. 🧵👇
February 5, 2026 at 8:55 PM
The visual world is composed of objects, and those objects are composed of features. But do VLMs exploit this compositional structure when processing multi-object scenes? In our 🆒🆕 #ICLR2026 paper, we find they do – via emergent symbolic mechanisms for visual binding. 🧵👇
Ah Spaceforce.. that Carell-Malkovich magic
a man is sitting in a rocking chair with a glass of whiskey in his hand while another man looks on .
ALT: a man is sitting in a rocking chair with a glass of whiskey in his hand while another man looks on .
media.tenor.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Ah Spaceforce.. that Carell-Malkovich magic
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If books were people, I’d introduce these two to each other. I’m sure they’d get along perfectly; and I enjoyed spending time with both.
February 5, 2026 at 6:18 PM
If books were people, I’d introduce these two to each other. I’m sure they’d get along perfectly; and I enjoyed spending time with both.
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New work by my former PhD student, Boyang Li
His team produced 500 stories of less than 100 words. LLMs were basically chance-level at answering binary questions about the stories
arxiv.org/abs/2601.12410
His team produced 500 stories of less than 100 words. LLMs were basically chance-level at answering binary questions about the stories
arxiv.org/abs/2601.12410
Are LLMs Smarter Than Chimpanzees? An Evaluation on Perspective Taking and Knowledge State Estimation
Cognitive anthropology suggests that the distinction of human intelligence lies in the ability to infer other individuals' knowledge states and understand their intentions. In comparison, our closest ...
arxiv.org
February 4, 2026 at 12:36 AM
New work by my former PhD student, Boyang Li
His team produced 500 stories of less than 100 words. LLMs were basically chance-level at answering binary questions about the stories
arxiv.org/abs/2601.12410
His team produced 500 stories of less than 100 words. LLMs were basically chance-level at answering binary questions about the stories
arxiv.org/abs/2601.12410
Our HoD (not on here) is such a brilliant, thoroughly decent and calm person it genuinely lifts my spirits going to work...
Everyone in the dept agrees - occasionally needs reporting.
Everyone in the dept agrees - occasionally needs reporting.
February 4, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Our HoD (not on here) is such a brilliant, thoroughly decent and calm person it genuinely lifts my spirits going to work...
Everyone in the dept agrees - occasionally needs reporting.
Everyone in the dept agrees - occasionally needs reporting.
Honestly dismayed any of this needs saying.
'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3
AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review
If we still believe that science is a vocation grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines, says Akhil Bhardwaj
www.timeshighereducation.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Honestly dismayed any of this needs saying.
EEG studies often claim (non-entrained) oscillations that accompany a behaviour, cause the behaviour..
Do they have a basis for doing so?
Do they have a basis for doing so?
February 4, 2026 at 6:33 AM
EEG studies often claim (non-entrained) oscillations that accompany a behaviour, cause the behaviour..
Do they have a basis for doing so?
Do they have a basis for doing so?
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Really important points…
'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3
AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review
If we still believe that science is a vocation grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines, says Akhil Bhardwaj
www.timeshighereducation.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Really important points…
Can confirm! Though physical peril and mental health benefits probably need weighing correctly :)
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Why riding a motorcycle is one of the best ways to embrace mindfulness
Unlike traditional mindfulness practice, motorcycling does not require deliberate non-judgment of thoughts or sensations
www.independent.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Can confirm! Though physical peril and mental health benefits probably need weighing correctly :)
As member of the League Against Zero Based Ordinates...
I'd argued everyone knows zero is the minimum.. what we need is context.. :)
I'd argued everyone knows zero is the minimum.. what we need is context.. :)
February 2, 2026 at 6:10 PM
As member of the League Against Zero Based Ordinates...
I'd argued everyone knows zero is the minimum.. what we need is context.. :)
I'd argued everyone knows zero is the minimum.. what we need is context.. :)
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Wonderful opportunity to read for a PhD with two of the most amazing cognitive and computational neuroscientists around!
Deadline in 3 days (Thursday 5th) to apply for a PhD with me and @ktsetsos.bsky.social at Trinity College Dublin in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience / neuro-AI. Please share!
🎓Fully-funded PhD studentship in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience!!!
Join @seanfw.bsky.social and myself at @tcddublin.bsky.social for a PhD at the intersection of cutting-edge cognitive neuroscience (OPM-MEG) and neuro-AI.
🗓 Deadline: 5 Feb 2026
#neurojobs #neuroscience #compneuro
Join @seanfw.bsky.social and myself at @tcddublin.bsky.social for a PhD at the intersection of cutting-edge cognitive neuroscience (OPM-MEG) and neuro-AI.
🗓 Deadline: 5 Feb 2026
#neurojobs #neuroscience #compneuro
February 2, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Wonderful opportunity to read for a PhD with two of the most amazing cognitive and computational neuroscientists around!
It's best to say "SPOILER ALERT" before the spoiler.
Olivia Colman’s Angela Dies, Teddy Killed
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/402930/
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the Season 2 finale of “The Night Manager,” now streaming on…
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/402930/
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the Season 2 finale of “The Night Manager,” now streaming on…
Olivia Colman's Angela Dies, Teddy Killed - United Kingdom News Beep
Courtesy of Des Willie/Amazon MGM Studios
www.newsbeep.com
February 1, 2026 at 10:25 PM
It's best to say "SPOILER ALERT" before the spoiler.
February 1, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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The Independent joins 120 high-profile names backing calls to end silencing lawsuits
The Independent joins 120 high-profile names backing calls to end silencing lawsuits
The Independent joins 120 high-profile names backing calls to end silencing lawsuits
www.independent.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 5:36 PM
The Independent joins 120 high-profile names backing calls to end silencing lawsuits
I don't like insistence RT plot ordinates start at 0.
In great paper, plot can be completely wasted
depicting something everyone knows.
In great paper, plot can be completely wasted
depicting something everyone knows.
February 1, 2026 at 1:20 PM
I don't like insistence RT plot ordinates start at 0.
In great paper, plot can be completely wasted
depicting something everyone knows.
In great paper, plot can be completely wasted
depicting something everyone knows.
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February 1, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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