Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️
@joachim.cidlab.com
Professor of #CogSci and #Stats @UCIrvine; Pursuer of Lofty Undertakings; Purveyor of Articles Odd and Quaint; and Protector of the Realm. #blm #trahr he/him
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December 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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"I wasn't quoting Hitler, I just independently came up with a similar phrase," is kind of exactly the defense you expect from the classical-Nazi staff you imagine writing for Harvard's conservative student paper
on the one hand this does seem like the inevitable outcome of giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to a self-selecting group of the most anti-social and self-regarding entitled assholes in an already entitled and assholic population
on the other hand it’s still pretty shocking
on the other hand it’s still pretty shocking
Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard Crimson
Screenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that lat...
www.thecrimson.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"I wasn't quoting Hitler, I just independently came up with a similar phrase," is kind of exactly the defense you expect from the classical-Nazi staff you imagine writing for Harvard's conservative student paper
Recent discovery via Reddit: equal parts Cointreau, Malort, lime juice, grenadine. Shake and strain.
December 20, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Recent discovery via Reddit: equal parts Cointreau, Malort, lime juice, grenadine. Shake and strain.
Reposted by Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️
teach students `git` early todd.gureckislab.org/2025/12/19/g...
Scientists Should Learn and Teach git First | Todd Gureckis
In the AI era, we need to learn and teach `git` first
todd.gureckislab.org
December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
teach students `git` early todd.gureckislab.org/2025/12/19/g...
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Congrats to @laurennross.bsky.social, @ucirvine.bsky.social logic & philosophy of science Dean's Professor and Chancellor's Fellow, who’s received research funding from the John Templeton Foundation to study token causality, which concerns explanations for specific events!
Bringing scientific insight to the causes of individual events
www.socsci.uci.edu
December 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Congrats to @laurennross.bsky.social, @ucirvine.bsky.social logic & philosophy of science Dean's Professor and Chancellor's Fellow, who’s received research funding from the John Templeton Foundation to study token causality, which concerns explanations for specific events!
This scene is a highlight of the show
I'm deep in Season 3 of Deep Space Nine (a show I watched sporadically but never all the way through), and the Sisko/Nog dynamic is just so fucking good. Sisko has thought he had Nog clocked since Season 1, and he just keeps being wrong. Love it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcAT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcAT...
Worthwhile
YouTube video by blossommorphine
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December 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This scene is a highlight of the show
Fund the arts
The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)
December 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Fund the arts
I'm always surprised at how cheap lobbying seems to be. Could the affected people spend a nickel each to make their health insurance cuts go away? For a dime each, can they get single payer?
One reason why Republicans won't extend expiring ACA subsidies?
Koch-backed lobby groups have spent over $1.1M pressuring GOP lawmakers to let 20M Americans' health insurance costs go up.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Koch-backed lobby groups have spent over $1.1M pressuring GOP lawmakers to let 20M Americans' health insurance costs go up.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
December 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I'm always surprised at how cheap lobbying seems to be. Could the affected people spend a nickel each to make their health insurance cuts go away? For a dime each, can they get single payer?
Reposted by Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️
AI-assisted coding: 10 simple rules to maintain scientific rigor www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i... - my latest in @thetransmitter.bsky.social
AI-assisted coding: 10 simple rules to maintain scientific rigor
These guidelines can help researchers ensure the integrity of their work while accelerating progress on important scientific questions.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
AI-assisted coding: 10 simple rules to maintain scientific rigor www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i... - my latest in @thetransmitter.bsky.social
Teaching a new class in Winter. Too early to start prep.
December 16, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Teaching a new class in Winter. Too early to start prep.
The writers of this season are really phoning it in
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 16, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The writers of this season are really phoning it in
This is an amazing chart but also this chart already existed (as actuarial projection, obvs) in 2016.
Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
December 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This is an amazing chart but also this chart already existed (as actuarial projection, obvs) in 2016.
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Seven-parameter drift-diffusion pdfs and cdfs now in Stan
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/11/s...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/11/s...
Seven-parameter drift-diffusion pdfs and cdfs now in Stan | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
December 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Seven-parameter drift-diffusion pdfs and cdfs now in Stan
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/11/s...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/11/s...
Good piece but man are there some twitter ass responses in the thread
“Public Health Needs a New Motto: No Apologies, No Surrender." It’s time we stopped flinching at the assaults of the far right—and started fighting back.” By @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
Public Health Needs a New Motto: No Apologies, No Surrender
It's time we stopped flinching at the assaults of the far right—and started fighting back.
www.thenation.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Good piece but man are there some twitter ass responses in the thread
Obviously mine is Probability Theory: The Logic of Science but I'm basic like that
omg. Kat Abughazaleh just posted that if she's elected, she'll swear in on a copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
December 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Obviously mine is Probability Theory: The Logic of Science but I'm basic like that
In a world of Carols, be a Mr. Diabaté
December 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
In a world of Carols, be a Mr. Diabaté
Time for my annual rewatch of the first six minutes of X-Men United
a man with blue paint on his face and horns is standing in a room .
Alt: Nightcrawler bamfs away from the Oval Office at the end of possibly the best 5 minutes of cinematic combat
media.tenor.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Time for my annual rewatch of the first six minutes of X-Men United
Time for a Veep rewatch I guess
December 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Time for a Veep rewatch I guess
"The constraint is the feature."
Very nice analogy here I think.
Very nice analogy here I think.
New post: The Electric Motor and the Drill
LLM chat bots are like electric motors: can do anything, bad at everything. The problem is UI/UX. AI should be more like power tools. I built a science planner around this philosophy. 10,000 scientists use it now. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
LLM chat bots are like electric motors: can do anything, bad at everything. The problem is UI/UX. AI should be more like power tools. I built a science planner around this philosophy. 10,000 scientists use it now. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
The Electric Motor and the Drill - we use AI in the wrong way
Power tools are better than general purpose tools for most applications, my science planning app planyourscience.com is a result of this philosophy
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"The constraint is the feature."
Very nice analogy here I think.
Very nice analogy here I think.
A strong start but room for improvement, 7/10
December 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
A strong start but room for improvement, 7/10
Look this OU scandal is just nerd sniping. People all over my feed are talking about rubrics and grading policies when this is a straightforward Republican hit job on a trans person
Universities can't function if they're constantly running scared of an online cancel factory and spineless politicians who won't push back. Should this student have received a bad grade? Don't know. Should the governor of the state be commenting on it? Absolutely not. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...
OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay
www.oudaily.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Look this OU scandal is just nerd sniping. People all over my feed are talking about rubrics and grading policies when this is a straightforward Republican hit job on a trans person
I feel like this was already widely known...?
“This is total armageddon for the online right. It’s looking like half of their large accounts were foreigners posing as Americans all along.”
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I feel like this was already widely known...?
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Immediately a fan from reading the behavioral experiment included here to study the effect of psilocybin
Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s41...
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Immediately a fan from reading the behavioral experiment included here to study the effect of psilocybin