Maxine Sherman
@maxinesherman.bsky.social
Lecturer at Sussex Uni studying metacognition & other things.
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Maxine Sherman
@maxinesherman.bsky.social
· Sep 28
Help Get Abdelrahman from Gaza to Ireland to Study
For the past four years, I have been working to secure a postgraduate study opportunity abroad. When the war on Gaza began two years ago, it shattered those efforts and dreams, and survival itself bec...
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Abdelrahman Al Gherbawi is so close to being able to begin his postgraduate studies in Ireland - he has his visa, the university have waived his tuition. Now he needs to fundraise his living and evacuation costs. If you can, please help by donating here: #Gaza #Palestine
chuffed.org/project/1514...
chuffed.org/project/1514...
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If you are an academic in the European Union, please consider signing: "to end bilateral agreements with Israeli institutions & for EU to uphold its own legal obligations and immediately end the EU-Israel Association agreement in view of Israel’s breach of Article 2."
uppsaladeclaration.se/europe/
uppsaladeclaration.se/europe/
September 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If you are an academic in the European Union, please consider signing: "to end bilateral agreements with Israeli institutions & for EU to uphold its own legal obligations and immediately end the EU-Israel Association agreement in view of Israel’s breach of Article 2."
uppsaladeclaration.se/europe/
uppsaladeclaration.se/europe/
Abdelrahman Al Gherbawi is so close to being able to begin his postgraduate studies in Ireland - he has his visa, the university have waived his tuition. Now he needs to fundraise his living and evacuation costs. If you can, please help by donating here: #Gaza #Palestine
chuffed.org/project/1514...
chuffed.org/project/1514...
Help Get Abdelrahman from Gaza to Ireland to Study
For the past four years, I have been working to secure a postgraduate study opportunity abroad. When the war on Gaza began two years ago, it shattered those efforts and dreams, and survival itself bec...
chuffed.org
September 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Abdelrahman Al Gherbawi is so close to being able to begin his postgraduate studies in Ireland - he has his visa, the university have waived his tuition. Now he needs to fundraise his living and evacuation costs. If you can, please help by donating here: #Gaza #Palestine
chuffed.org/project/1514...
chuffed.org/project/1514...
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Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio.
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
September 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio.
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
For anyone who is not yet taking part, join the full cultural and academic boycott of Israel bdsmovement.net/get-involved...
Israel’s Gaza escalation sparks global outcry, with leaders warning of devastating humanitarian consequences.
How the world is reacting to Israel’s plan to take over Gaza City
Israel’s Gaza escalation sparks global outcry, with leaders warning of devastating humanitarian consequences.
bit.ly
August 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
For anyone who is not yet taking part, join the full cultural and academic boycott of Israel bdsmovement.net/get-involved...
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Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
July 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
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Sad to hear that Margaret Boden, pioneer in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, has passed away.
Just a few days ago, someone reactivated the post below. I warmly recommend watching the video.
Thank you Margaret for founding and shaping our field.
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
Just a few days ago, someone reactivated the post below. I warmly recommend watching the video.
Thank you Margaret for founding and shaping our field.
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
July 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Sad to hear that Margaret Boden, pioneer in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, has passed away.
Just a few days ago, someone reactivated the post below. I warmly recommend watching the video.
Thank you Margaret for founding and shaping our field.
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
Just a few days ago, someone reactivated the post below. I warmly recommend watching the video.
Thank you Margaret for founding and shaping our field.
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
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Did you all know that Margaret Boden founded the first School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences in 1987.
No?
Well, now you do 😌
Btw, listen to this great talk by her. I'll be adding this to the resources from our 1st year students in Intro to AI.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRA...
No?
Well, now you do 😌
Btw, listen to this great talk by her. I'll be adding this to the resources from our 1st year students in Intro to AI.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRA...
Professor Margaret Boden - Human-level AI: Is it Looming or Illusory?
YouTube video by CSER Cambridge
www.youtube.com
September 1, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Did you all know that Margaret Boden founded the first School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences in 1987.
No?
Well, now you do 😌
Btw, listen to this great talk by her. I'll be adding this to the resources from our 1st year students in Intro to AI.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRA...
No?
Well, now you do 😌
Btw, listen to this great talk by her. I'll be adding this to the resources from our 1st year students in Intro to AI.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRA...
If you are UK academic please consider signing this open letter to Starmer, Cooper, Lammy and Falconer calling on them to do what France, Italy, Ireland and others have already done: defer the req for biometrics & enable the safe passage of students in Gaza to the UK
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
docs.google.com
July 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If you are UK academic please consider signing this open letter to Starmer, Cooper, Lammy and Falconer calling on them to do what France, Italy, Ireland and others have already done: defer the req for biometrics & enable the safe passage of students in Gaza to the UK
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The “appalling scenes in Gaza” have been enabled by the arms, surveillance & diplomatic cover Keir Starmer’s Labour government have provided to a genocidal apartheid state.
He still refuses to call it a genocide because he is complicit in it.
Keir Starmer belongs in The Hague.
He still refuses to call it a genocide because he is complicit in it.
Keir Starmer belongs in The Hague.
July 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The “appalling scenes in Gaza” have been enabled by the arms, surveillance & diplomatic cover Keir Starmer’s Labour government have provided to a genocidal apartheid state.
He still refuses to call it a genocide because he is complicit in it.
Keir Starmer belongs in The Hague.
He still refuses to call it a genocide because he is complicit in it.
Keir Starmer belongs in The Hague.
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This is the most appalling sophistry. I don't even know where to start, but here are some of my personal highlights:
1. "AI-shaming" is classist because AI allows everyone to "pass" as part of the bourgeoisie, which would be a good thing that Marx would like
1. "AI-shaming" is classist because AI allows everyone to "pass" as part of the bourgeoisie, which would be a good thing that Marx would like
July 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This is the most appalling sophistry. I don't even know where to start, but here are some of my personal highlights:
1. "AI-shaming" is classist because AI allows everyone to "pass" as part of the bourgeoisie, which would be a good thing that Marx would like
1. "AI-shaming" is classist because AI allows everyone to "pass" as part of the bourgeoisie, which would be a good thing that Marx would like
This is the most appalling sophistry. I don't even know where to start, but here are some of my personal highlights:
1. "AI-shaming" is classist because AI allows everyone to "pass" as part of the bourgeoisie, which would be a good thing that Marx would like
1. "AI-shaming" is classist because AI allows everyone to "pass" as part of the bourgeoisie, which would be a good thing that Marx would like
July 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This is the most appalling sophistry. I don't even know where to start, but here are some of my personal highlights:
1. "AI-shaming" is classist because AI allows everyone to "pass" as part of the bourgeoisie, which would be a good thing that Marx would like
1. "AI-shaming" is classist because AI allows everyone to "pass" as part of the bourgeoisie, which would be a good thing that Marx would like
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It's a thrill to see this project, led by @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social, see the light of day. It's led me to rethink how emergence and consciousness relate, and it's been an honour and pleasure to work on it with Boki and team (@thomasandrillon.bsky.social, Lionel Barnett, Olivia Carter).👇🏽
📜🪇[PUBLISHED]: NEW PREPRINT!🪇📜
I am incredibly excited to announce that we have published our paper on how "Dynamical independence reveals anaesthetic specific fragmentation of emergent structure in neural dynamics"
w@thomasandrillon.bsky.social @anilseth.bsky.social Barnett, Carter
Strap in!
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I am incredibly excited to announce that we have published our paper on how "Dynamical independence reveals anaesthetic specific fragmentation of emergent structure in neural dynamics"
w@thomasandrillon.bsky.social @anilseth.bsky.social Barnett, Carter
Strap in!
1/n
Dynamical independence reveals anaesthetic specific fragmentation of emergent structure in neural dynamics
Conscious experience depends on the coordinated activity of neural processes that span multiple scales--from synapses to whole-brain dynamics. A recently introduced measure, dynamical independence, id...
www.biorxiv.org
July 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It's a thrill to see this project, led by @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social, see the light of day. It's led me to rethink how emergence and consciousness relate, and it's been an honour and pleasure to work on it with Boki and team (@thomasandrillon.bsky.social, Lionel Barnett, Olivia Carter).👇🏽
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This is disgraceful. Students in Gaza accepted to many universities (not just Cambridge or Oxford!) being blocked by the UK Home Office's unreasonable and inflexible demands. www.thetimes.com/world/middle...
Living in Gaza, accepted to Cambridge — blocked by Home Office
Young Palestinians overcome unimaginable challenges just to apply to university, only for the British government to make unfeasible visa demands
www.thetimes.com
July 20, 2025 at 7:37 AM
This is disgraceful. Students in Gaza accepted to many universities (not just Cambridge or Oxford!) being blocked by the UK Home Office's unreasonable and inflexible demands. www.thetimes.com/world/middle...
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1/3) This may be a very important paper, it suggests that there are no prediction error encoding neurons in sensory areas of cortex:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction.
But...
🧠📈 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction.
But...
🧠📈 🧪
Sensory responses of visual cortical neurons are not prediction errors
Predictive coding is theorized to be a ubiquitous cortical process to explain sensory responses. It asserts that the brain continuously predicts sensory information and imposes those predictions on lo...
www.biorxiv.org
July 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
1/3) This may be a very important paper, it suggests that there are no prediction error encoding neurons in sensory areas of cortex:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction.
But...
🧠📈 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction.
But...
🧠📈 🧪
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The "reproducibility crisis" in science constantly makes headlines. Repro efforts are often limited. What if you could assess reproducibility of an entire field?
That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience
A 🧵 1/n
That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience
A 🧵 1/n
July 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The "reproducibility crisis" in science constantly makes headlines. Repro efforts are often limited. What if you could assess reproducibility of an entire field?
That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience
A 🧵 1/n
That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience
A 🧵 1/n
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Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss):
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
June 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss):
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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Every person aboard the Madleen is a hero.
The genocidal Israeli state's attack on unarmed activists aboard a UK-flagged vessel delivering aid to Gaza is a flagrant breach of international law.
The UK must sanction Israel, end all arms & surveillance, & expel its ambassador.
The genocidal Israeli state's attack on unarmed activists aboard a UK-flagged vessel delivering aid to Gaza is a flagrant breach of international law.
The UK must sanction Israel, end all arms & surveillance, & expel its ambassador.
June 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Every person aboard the Madleen is a hero.
The genocidal Israeli state's attack on unarmed activists aboard a UK-flagged vessel delivering aid to Gaza is a flagrant breach of international law.
The UK must sanction Israel, end all arms & surveillance, & expel its ambassador.
The genocidal Israeli state's attack on unarmed activists aboard a UK-flagged vessel delivering aid to Gaza is a flagrant breach of international law.
The UK must sanction Israel, end all arms & surveillance, & expel its ambassador.
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June 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Take one minute: go to bit.ly/IsraelOnNotice and send a letter to the Israeli government, UN officials, and diplomatic missions demanding that Israel abide by international law and refrain from attacking, sabotaging or otherwise interfering with the #Madleen and her mission.
June 3, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Take one minute: go to bit.ly/IsraelOnNotice and send a letter to the Israeli government, UN officials, and diplomatic missions demanding that Israel abide by international law and refrain from attacking, sabotaging or otherwise interfering with the #Madleen and her mission.
The first preprint from Clémence Compain's PhD 🎉 She showed that on a low-stakes numerosity task, people can reduce their decision bias on instruction and do so non-trivially, in a manner distinct from simply "trying harder". Well done Clémence!
with @anilseth.bsky.social
with @anilseth.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The first preprint from Clémence Compain's PhD 🎉 She showed that on a low-stakes numerosity task, people can reduce their decision bias on instruction and do so non-trivially, in a manner distinct from simply "trying harder". Well done Clémence!
with @anilseth.bsky.social
with @anilseth.bsky.social
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A Stage 1 registered report with Zoltan Dienes: "Reversing the Rubber Hand Illusion with demand characteristics and phenomenological control." A test of whether PC can reverse typical RHI effects, with stronger illusion responses for asynchronous than synchronous conditions.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
May 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A Stage 1 registered report with Zoltan Dienes: "Reversing the Rubber Hand Illusion with demand characteristics and phenomenological control." A test of whether PC can reverse typical RHI effects, with stronger illusion responses for asynchronous than synchronous conditions.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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This paper makes important point that we're not talking about impact of AI on reading enough. Marking work that's full of AI is demoralising but in some ways, the threat AI poses to comprehension is bigger than the threat to what students produce...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#AcademicSky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#AcademicSky
May 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This paper makes important point that we're not talking about impact of AI on reading enough. Marking work that's full of AI is demoralising but in some ways, the threat AI poses to comprehension is bigger than the threat to what students produce...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#AcademicSky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#AcademicSky
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🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)
Below a thread summary 🧵1/n
#metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy
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#metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy
August 16, 2024 at 7:40 PM
🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)
Below a thread summary 🧵1/n
#metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy
Below a thread summary 🧵1/n
#metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy
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🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!
March 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!
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Israel refused to move to phase two of the ceasefire, violating the agreement it signed up to.
Israel kept killing Palestinians throughout phase one, never actually ceasing its fire.
And now it's right back in its comfort zone: genocide. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...
Israel kept killing Palestinians throughout phase one, never actually ceasing its fire.
And now it's right back in its comfort zone: genocide. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...
More than 400 killed by Israeli air strikes on Gaza, Hamas-run ministry says, Hamas-run ministry says - live updates
The strikes across the Gaza Strip end two months of relative calm since a ceasefire began on 19 January.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Israel refused to move to phase two of the ceasefire, violating the agreement it signed up to.
Israel kept killing Palestinians throughout phase one, never actually ceasing its fire.
And now it's right back in its comfort zone: genocide. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...
Israel kept killing Palestinians throughout phase one, never actually ceasing its fire.
And now it's right back in its comfort zone: genocide. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...