Jim Thompson
@jimthommo.bsky.social
He/him. Professor of Psychology at GMU. I study social perception and cognition. Carlton supporter.
It's funny when in some random movie or TV show a Richard Thompson track will pop up in the background. Like I was watching Task and in one ep "Walking on a Wire" is playing in the background at a PA biker bar
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It's funny when in some random movie or TV show a Richard Thompson track will pop up in the background. Like I was watching Task and in one ep "Walking on a Wire" is playing in the background at a PA biker bar
Giants buggin
@AdamSchefter tweeted
Giants OC Mike Kafka will be the interim head coach, per source.
Giants OC Mike Kafka will be the interim head coach, per source.
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Giants buggin
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If I lived in Virginia, the second that Spanberger is sworn in as governor, I'd be demanding @kaine.senate.gov's resignation so she could replace him with someone who's actually aware of what is going on.
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
If I lived in Virginia, the second that Spanberger is sworn in as governor, I'd be demanding @kaine.senate.gov's resignation so she could replace him with someone who's actually aware of what is going on.
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So, lots of people picking up Kevin's post to declare all Evolutionary Psychology/ists misogynistic pervs. And I get why but look:
I trained in Evo Psych. I trained in Behavioural Ecology too which maybe helps but I came into academia an enthusiastic researcher of sexual selection.
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I trained in Evo Psych. I trained in Behavioural Ecology too which maybe helps but I came into academia an enthusiastic researcher of sexual selection.
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Evolutionary psychology makes a big to-do about their finding that sexual selection favors a "feminine body type" that "signals fertility/reproductive potential", including some rather... silly research. Turns out, those traits don't seem to signal reproductive success. Oops! doi.org/10.1017/ehs....
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
So, lots of people picking up Kevin's post to declare all Evolutionary Psychology/ists misogynistic pervs. And I get why but look:
I trained in Evo Psych. I trained in Behavioural Ecology too which maybe helps but I came into academia an enthusiastic researcher of sexual selection.
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I trained in Evo Psych. I trained in Behavioural Ecology too which maybe helps but I came into academia an enthusiastic researcher of sexual selection.
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Evolutionary psychology makes a big to-do about their finding that sexual selection favors a "feminine body type" that "signals fertility/reproductive potential", including some rather... silly research. Turns out, those traits don't seem to signal reproductive success. Oops! doi.org/10.1017/ehs....
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Evolutionary psychology makes a big to-do about their finding that sexual selection favors a "feminine body type" that "signals fertility/reproductive potential", including some rather... silly research. Turns out, those traits don't seem to signal reproductive success. Oops! doi.org/10.1017/ehs....
Mamdani is going to implement Sharon Law. Everyone in NY will start playing netball, develop both an expertise in cricket and some terrible cold sores, and always have the worst pash rash
Mamdani is going to implement Shar Law. Everyone will have to bow down to the Mistress of the Night, the Lady of Loss, and devote themselves to bringing about a darkness that will smother her hated foe and sister Selûne
Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.
November 9, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Mamdani is going to implement Sharon Law. Everyone in NY will start playing netball, develop both an expertise in cricket and some terrible cold sores, and always have the worst pash rash
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Folks this is your annual reminder to clean that coffee grinder. Also, don't do it on a Friday night but wait until Sat am to check if the calibration is right (or not as the case may be). Definitely not cool
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Folks this is your annual reminder to clean that coffee grinder. Also, don't do it on a Friday night but wait until Sat am to check if the calibration is right (or not as the case may be). Definitely not cool
Oh if those sulphur crested cookies are so bloody smart why do they have one of the worst calls in all bird-dom? Only bettered (worsered?) by the beautiful-looking but horrendous-sounding rainbow lorikeet
Birds are both intelligent and incredibly agile, yet they are quite small. How do they achieve this with their little brains?
They have twice as many neurons per brain mass than mammals, including primates.
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
They have twice as many neurons per brain mass than mammals, including primates.
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
November 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Oh if those sulphur crested cookies are so bloody smart why do they have one of the worst calls in all bird-dom? Only bettered (worsered?) by the beautiful-looking but horrendous-sounding rainbow lorikeet
Have we moved from cog psych trying to claim Hinton as "one of us" to gladly leaving him to the cs crowd yet?
November 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Have we moved from cog psych trying to claim Hinton as "one of us" to gladly leaving him to the cs crowd yet?
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The story of this week is that millions of Americans were told in 2024 their lives would be improved if trans people's lives were made worse and I'm glad they're finally waking up to the fact that was never true to begin with--but trans people's lives are still getting worse
November 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The story of this week is that millions of Americans were told in 2024 their lives would be improved if trans people's lives were made worse and I'm glad they're finally waking up to the fact that was never true to begin with--but trans people's lives are still getting worse
Researchers like @abeba.bsky.social have been warning about this sh*t for years. Going to be straight up racism
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Researchers like @abeba.bsky.social have been warning about this sh*t for years. Going to be straight up racism
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BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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A defining photo of this administration
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
A defining photo of this administration
BUZZELL!
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
BUZZELL!
Why yes, yes I do...
Do you like RSA analysis, M/EEG and Bayes? Then you'll love Variational RSA for M/EEG, by recently completed PhD student @alexlepauvre.bsky.social from Lucia Melloni's group. It's a method and SPM toolbox for multivariate analysis of M/EEG data. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01784 . 🧵 [1/4]
November 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Why yes, yes I do...
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Did Men With No Rizz Ruin the Workplace?
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Did Men With No Rizz Ruin the Workplace?
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I do declare, these pale sweaty bestubbled Catholic converts really and truly do take the entire cake.
the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I do declare, these pale sweaty bestubbled Catholic converts really and truly do take the entire cake.
I mean I can understand people jumping to conclusions about this but clearly they know nothing about the relationship between FIFA and USSF. It's going to Gio Reyna www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Trump ally Infantino to award first Fifa Peace Prize at World Cup draw in DC
Fifa unveils a new Peace Prize to be awarded at the 2026 World Cup draw in Washington, citing a mission to honor efforts to end conflict
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I mean I can understand people jumping to conclusions about this but clearly they know nothing about the relationship between FIFA and USSF. It's going to Gio Reyna www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Still think brain regions don’t exist? That everything is everywhere? That cell types don’t matter and that everything is a dynamical phase portrait?
Wrong.
Interconnected brain modules exist at the level of fine grained transcriptomics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Wrong.
Interconnected brain modules exist at the level of fine grained transcriptomics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Whole-cortex in situ sequencing reveals input-dependent area identity - Nature
BARseq interrogates the expression of 104 cell-type marker genes in 10.3 million cells over nine mouse forebrain hemispheres to reveal the role of peripheral inputs on cortical area development.
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Still think brain regions don’t exist? That everything is everywhere? That cell types don’t matter and that everything is a dynamical phase portrait?
Wrong.
Interconnected brain modules exist at the level of fine grained transcriptomics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Wrong.
Interconnected brain modules exist at the level of fine grained transcriptomics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Looks like a clean sweep in VA!
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Looks like a clean sweep in VA!
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Desperately searching for all the "Here's how the Sandwich Trial will affect Dems chances today in VA and NY" pieces
November 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Desperately searching for all the "Here's how the Sandwich Trial will affect Dems chances today in VA and NY" pieces
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The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
November 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.