Tim Vickery
@timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscientist at U of Delaware
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Just a big congrats to everyone participating in the “babies make angry YouTube videos about baby things” art project today, this is a quality bit of comedy
January 28, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Just a big congrats to everyone participating in the “babies make angry YouTube videos about baby things” art project today, this is a quality bit of comedy
I’m writing a horror novel called The Toddler, the Grant Deadline, and the 2-feet-of-snow Forecast
January 21, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I’m writing a horror novel called The Toddler, the Grant Deadline, and the 2-feet-of-snow Forecast
I’ve always thought adding a year to the tenure clock per child born was a good idea, but now that I have a toddler I think it should be 5 years.
January 8, 2026 at 8:25 PM
I’ve always thought adding a year to the tenure clock per child born was a good idea, but now that I have a toddler I think it should be 5 years.
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Investigating individual-specific topographic organization has traditionally been a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. But what if we could map visual cortex organization in thousands of brains? Here we offer the community with a toolbox that can do just that! tinyurl.com/deepretinotopy
December 1, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Investigating individual-specific topographic organization has traditionally been a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. But what if we could map visual cortex organization in thousands of brains? Here we offer the community with a toolbox that can do just that! tinyurl.com/deepretinotopy
Fun times
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Fun times
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On our @whatatimepod.bsky.social recording today we talked about a Wise Old Tree and you KNOW this classic came up
October 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
On our @whatatimepod.bsky.social recording today we talked about a Wise Old Tree and you KNOW this classic came up
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Any early-career researchers in #workingmemory wanting to contribute to an #openscience initiative? I'm looking for help building up a data hub resource for the field. Volunteers can expect to devote a few hours, and might pick up insights into handling research data and how to use Github.
OpenWMData
A collection of publicly available<br>working memory datasets
williamngiam.github.io
October 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Any early-career researchers in #workingmemory wanting to contribute to an #openscience initiative? I'm looking for help building up a data hub resource for the field. Volunteers can expect to devote a few hours, and might pick up insights into handling research data and how to use Github.
What is the etiquette on using other peoples' data posted on, e.g., OSF? If I have a modeling paper that uses someone else's data, should I share the data again through a repository that includes my code? Or is that inappropriate -- I should simply provide a link to their repository?
October 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
What is the etiquette on using other peoples' data posted on, e.g., OSF? If I have a modeling paper that uses someone else's data, should I share the data again through a repository that includes my code? Or is that inappropriate -- I should simply provide a link to their repository?
The journal "Science Direct"? Hmm...
October 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The journal "Science Direct"? Hmm...
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Imagine an apple 🍎. Is your mental image more like a picture or more like a thought? In a new preprint led by Morgan McCarty—our lab's wonderful RA—we develop a new approach to this old cognitive science question and find that LLMs excel at tasks thought to be solvable only via visual imagery. 🧵
Artificial Phantasia: Evidence for Propositional Reasoning-Based Mental Imagery in Large Language Models
This study offers a novel approach for benchmarking complex cognitive behavior in artificial systems. Almost universally, Large Language Models (LLMs) perform best on tasks which may be included in th...
arxiv.org
October 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Imagine an apple 🍎. Is your mental image more like a picture or more like a thought? In a new preprint led by Morgan McCarty—our lab's wonderful RA—we develop a new approach to this old cognitive science question and find that LLMs excel at tasks thought to be solvable only via visual imagery. 🧵
I’m out of ideas. Let’s fit a drift diffusion model and then put weird interpretations on the parameters. I love being so theory driven!
September 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I’m out of ideas. Let’s fit a drift diffusion model and then put weird interpretations on the parameters. I love being so theory driven!
We’re at a 8 out of 10 on the Brawndo It’s What Plants Crave scale of stupid
September 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
We’re at a 8 out of 10 on the Brawndo It’s What Plants Crave scale of stupid
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In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
August 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
excuse me what?
August 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
excuse me what?
If you don’t have suspicion and contempt bordering on hatred for it, you have no business interacting with “AI.” There’s nothing for you there. Move on.
August 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM
If you don’t have suspicion and contempt bordering on hatred for it, you have no business interacting with “AI.” There’s nothing for you there. Move on.
Gather round children, let me tell you the tale of the Dot Com Boom. Long before the great glass slabs, when the drives clicky-clacked….
techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/m...
techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/m...
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is worth $12B in seed round | TechCrunch
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says that her new startup, Thinking Machines Lab, was valued at $12 billion in its seed round.
techcrunch.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Gather round children, let me tell you the tale of the Dot Com Boom. Long before the great glass slabs, when the drives clicky-clacked….
techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/m...
techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/m...
I have a Mac on developer preview and it got macOS 26. Horrific. It looks so so bad. How did no one stop this?
July 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I have a Mac on developer preview and it got macOS 26. Horrific. It looks so so bad. How did no one stop this?
There is just no end to silly pseudoscience stuff on the internet and I just love it…I mean, the harmless stuff.
July 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
There is just no end to silly pseudoscience stuff on the internet and I just love it…I mean, the harmless stuff.
I took chatgpt, and repeatedly typed in "howdy" and then blew a puff of air into its cornea (I said "[I blow a puff of air into your cornea]"). It started to HATE the word "howdy." Bang, foundation model of conditioning. Nature neuro paper easily
July 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I took chatgpt, and repeatedly typed in "howdy" and then blew a puff of air into its cornea (I said "[I blow a puff of air into your cornea]"). It started to HATE the word "howdy." Bang, foundation model of conditioning. Nature neuro paper easily
All of the bureaucracy, none of the rewards for dealing with the bureaucracy.
July 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
All of the bureaucracy, none of the rewards for dealing with the bureaucracy.
