Prof. Lucy Cheke
@lucycheke.bsky.social
Cambridge psychologist studying learning & memory. Focus on translational cognitive tests and batteries across animals, AI and humans to help us understand all kinds of intelligence and where it goes wrong
Loving that a major critique of the tools my lab are producing is "but for this you have to understand the topic really well to be able to build the evaluations for it! unscalable! unrealistic!" Suddenly "you have to know what you're talking about if you want to say something" is contraversial
November 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Loving that a major critique of the tools my lab are producing is "but for this you have to understand the topic really well to be able to build the evaluations for it! unscalable! unrealistic!" Suddenly "you have to know what you're talking about if you want to say something" is contraversial
Job Klaxon!
RA position looking into evaluating AI Agents in data science tasks
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
RA position looking into evaluating AI Agents in data science tasks
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Research Assistant (Fixed Term)
The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), within the Institute for Technology and Humanity (ITH), is seeking a full-time Research Assistant to contribute to an ongoing two-year
www.cam.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Job Klaxon!
RA position looking into evaluating AI Agents in data science tasks
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
RA position looking into evaluating AI Agents in data science tasks
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
me watching the Netflix adaptation of the Twits
a close up of a man wearing a mask with the words what have you done below him
ALT: a close up of a man wearing a mask with the words what have you done below him
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October 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
me watching the Netflix adaptation of the Twits
Reseachers: Please can we have some money?
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October 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Reseachers: Please can we have some money?
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New Paper out! GIBSONA is a battery of Animal AI tasks evaluating object and affordances understanding - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
General interaction battery: Simple object navigation and affordances (GIBSONA)
Perception of affordances is an agent’s capability to identify what action-possibilities exist with a particular object or set of objects, based on it…
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September 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
New Paper out! GIBSONA is a battery of Animal AI tasks evaluating object and affordances understanding - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
this was not the Derry girls spin off I was expecting
September 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
this was not the Derry girls spin off I was expecting
Am I unusual in thinking that in ~*2025*~ it is unacceptable for a business to only have a phone number (i.e. no email address) in the "contact us" section - like... I dont even phone my mother? I'm not going to phone a Gym.
September 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Am I unusual in thinking that in ~*2025*~ it is unacceptable for a business to only have a phone number (i.e. no email address) in the "contact us" section - like... I dont even phone my mother? I'm not going to phone a Gym.
*deep breathes*
September 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
*deep breathes*
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Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, biomed engineering, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2
August 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, biomed engineering, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2
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Very accurate thread
I want to do a 🧵 about the Sidney Sweeney thing, because it's *extremely* revealing & educational.
First, to be clear: I could not give less of a shit about the details -- the ad, the rhetoric, the jeans, her boobs, whatever. Good lord, who cares.
Let's look at the *structure* of the episode.
First, to be clear: I could not give less of a shit about the details -- the ad, the rhetoric, the jeans, her boobs, whatever. Good lord, who cares.
Let's look at the *structure* of the episode.
August 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Very accurate thread
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Cambridge-based parents, If anyone is looking for entertainment during the rest of the summer holidays we are still looking for 4-7 year olds to take part in our kids navigation study!
August 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Cambridge-based parents, If anyone is looking for entertainment during the rest of the summer holidays we are still looking for 4-7 year olds to take part in our kids navigation study!
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“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' … is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas and undermine scholarly discussions. It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth
June 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' … is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas and undermine scholarly discussions. It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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Was looking into what Cognitive Scientists mean by ‘domain-general’ cognition, and then hit upon this. This is definitely NOT how we use that term.
Tip: read the last sentence to understand what went wrong here.
Sigh.
Tip: read the last sentence to understand what went wrong here.
Sigh.
August 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Was looking into what Cognitive Scientists mean by ‘domain-general’ cognition, and then hit upon this. This is definitely NOT how we use that term.
Tip: read the last sentence to understand what went wrong here.
Sigh.
Tip: read the last sentence to understand what went wrong here.
Sigh.
he has >4 cat beds in my office, but no
August 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
he has >4 cat beds in my office, but no
no YOU'RE staying up till 2am making sure the jelly is set on an overly ambitious 6yos mermaid birthday cake
July 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
no YOU'RE staying up till 2am making sure the jelly is set on an overly ambitious 6yos mermaid birthday cake
Two paper rejects and a funding failure all in a day!
a cartoon character with a kite and the words " everybody hates us " below him
ALT: a cartoon character with a kite and the words " everybody hates us " below him
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July 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Two paper rejects and a funding failure all in a day!
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Palestinian health officials say at least 111 people have died of hunger during the conflict, including 80 children, most of them in recent weeks and 10 in the last 24 hours alone
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July 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Palestinian health officials say at least 111 people have died of hunger during the conflict, including 80 children, most of them in recent weeks and 10 in the last 24 hours alone
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shorturl.at/dUaYd
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Our @pci-regreports.bsky.social recommended study is now out in Cortex! doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
June 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Our @pci-regreports.bsky.social recommended study is now out in Cortex! doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Nothing success "a successful social media platform" than the sheer desparation with which both Instagram and Facebook want to trick me into going onto Threads.
June 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Nothing success "a successful social media platform" than the sheer desparation with which both Instagram and Facebook want to trick me into going onto Threads.
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Someone tell me how this is in any way different to a bog-standard authoritarian dictator.
Trump threatens anyone who protests his birthday military parade this Saturday:
"If there's any protester who wants to come out, they will be met with very big force."
The right to protest is protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
"If there's any protester who wants to come out, they will be met with very big force."
The right to protest is protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
June 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Someone tell me how this is in any way different to a bog-standard authoritarian dictator.
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As RFK Jr declares war on chronic illness - while opposing Covid vaccination for pregnant women and kids - medical journals report that Long Covid has now surpassed asthma as the most common chronic condition in children.
Long COVID in Young Children, School-Aged Children, and Teens
This JAMA Pediatrics Patient Page describes the symptoms of long COVID in children.
jamanetwork.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
As RFK Jr declares war on chronic illness - while opposing Covid vaccination for pregnant women and kids - medical journals report that Long Covid has now surpassed asthma as the most common chronic condition in children.
Hopelessly naive question, but with the difficulties in getting aid through... what the is the most productive charity/institution to donate to for Gaza right now?
June 4, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Hopelessly naive question, but with the difficulties in getting aid through... what the is the most productive charity/institution to donate to for Gaza right now?