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andrea e. martin
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::language, cognitive science, neural dynamics::
Lise Meitner Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics |
Principal Investigator, Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University |
http://www.andreaemartin.com/
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andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.bsky.social · Sep 29
Ode to the original language model, or:
Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs)
*(no predictive coding either!)

By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n
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randolph-helfrich.bsky.social
New work from the lab published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social by @jonasterlau.bsky.social and Jan Martini. We describe that trial-by-trial variability indexes recurrent connectivity across the cortical hierarchy, which supports reliable and flexible coding www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... (1/4)
Structure in noise: Recurrent connectivity shapes neural variability to balance perceptual and cognitive demands in the human brain
Does neural variability reflect random noise or a feature that benefits adaptive behavior? Using intracranial recordings in humans, Terlau et al. demonstrate that neural variability results from the r...
www.cell.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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symbo1ics.bsky.social
The three words every girl wants to hear:

"Portable TRS-80"

#retrocomputing
Picture of a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 4P portable computer with a classic green phosphor display. It has a separate keyboard, dual 5.25" drives to the right of the CRT (integrated unit) and brightness/contrast/power controls to the left of CRT. The plastics are beige with black panel inserts. Pic credit: snarfusmaximus (owner)
October 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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michaelhendricks.bsky.social
It's irritating that they describe the effects of his racism as limited to causing controversy within science and reputational consequences for himself rather than giving an immeasurable boost, false veneer of legitimacy, and idiot-friendly prestige to modern scientific racism and eugenics.
November 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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meadekrosby.bsky.social
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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lauragwilliams.bsky.social
happy to share our new paper, out now in Neuron! led by the incredible Yizhen Zhang, we explore how the brain segments continuous speech into word-forms and uses adaptive dynamics to code for relative time - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Human cortical dynamics of auditory word form encoding
We perceive continuous speech as a series of discrete words, despite the lack of clear acoustic boundaries. The superior temporal gyrus (STG) encodes …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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molly.wiki
thanks Google AI!
AI Overview: "Cote" is pronounced "coat" in English, but the French pronunciation is "coat".
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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mitpress.bsky.social
We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.
The Coming Out of a Transgender Scientist
"I know that I am making the right decision because whenever I think about changing my gender role, I am flooded with feelings of relief."
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
April 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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perfors.net
Getting nervous for the talk I'm about to give at a workshop about "using AI to drive impact" which features slides such as these.
Slide is titled: You don't need to use LLMs. Science is a process of collaborative meaning making, by which we try to understand the world Even if AI were perfect, we rely on it at our peril — it is not science if we (i.e., humanity as a whole) do not understand and cannot recapitulate all parts of it I very, very rarely use LLMs myself. You can give yourself permission not to. Don’t FOMO yourself into it Conclusion: Don't rely on something you don't understand and can't control If you must use LLMS: 1. Treat them like you would an intern: only use them for things you can easily and thoroughly check 2. Make your process as robust as possible 3. Be aware of your own (human) cognitive biases
November 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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purserhallard.com
Occasionally on my work laptop a black box pops up with the words "Windows Powershell", and I think "Yes, it probably does."
November 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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abeba.bsky.social
me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?

students: no AI

I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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levostregc.bsky.social
"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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ljubapi.bsky.social
“Large Language Models (LLMs) cannot do anything else but create plausibly sounding text with no concern for truth”

Print and hang on your bed and on your desk 🧐
November 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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olivia.science
Finally one thing they are, due to being statistical models of text, these neural networks and other large language models are indeed designed to do: milquetoastify boringify language.

LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.

english.elpais.com/technology/2...
The ChatGPT effect: We’ve all started talking like robots
The use of artificial intelligence is leading to a flattening of our language that is evident in the emails we write and the texts we compose. Studies have already confirmed this. Robotic verbiage era...
english.elpais.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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gretchenmcc.bsky.social
New favourite example of structural ambiguity
November 5, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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abeba.bsky.social
📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...

applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome

pls share with your networks
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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andreaeyleen.bsky.social
OPEN PHD POSITION - Come join our group! The IMPRS at @mpi-nl.bsky.social is offering an PhD position on modelling structured meaning in the brain, supervised by me and Helen De Hoop at the Centre for Language Studies in the @dondersinst.bsky.social -
www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe... #NeuroJobs #cogsci
IMPRS PhD Fellowships 2026 | Max Planck Institute
www.mpi.nl
October 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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pdjeliclark.bsky.social
Happy Halloween
Halloween gravestone reading “I Did My Own Research” in a yard with two skeleton arms sticking out of the grass.
October 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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nmbluk.bsky.social
Happy #Halloween 🎃Since this fellow was so popular we are once again sharing spooktacular illustrations of Vampyroteuthis. The 'vampire squid from hell' is neither squid nor vampire, using sticky filaments to feed on marine snow

📖 Reports from the German Deep-Sea Expedition 'Valdivia' 1898-1899
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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landguyminor.bsky.social
The golden hour
#palacesandgardens #eastcoastkin #trees #japanesemaples #fall #gibbsgarden #northgeorgia #bloomscrolling #trees
October 31, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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levostregc.bsky.social
Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and Broadway to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop makinge a living. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
October 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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olivia.science
"these arrangements are not 'partnerships' or 'collaborations' but contracts that bring profit and publicity to AI firms, while making universities complicit in the continued empowerment of tech oligarchy and expansion of their 'AI Empire' (Tacheva and Ramasubramanian, 2023; Adams, 2024; Hao, 2025)"
heavyredaction.bsky.social Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · 16d
New preprint alert! 🚨

“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University Martha Kenney and Martha Lincoln Abstract This article examines the expansion of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) into higher education. We argue that genAI’s incursion into university systems represents an effort by Silicon Valley to capture lucrative new markets for their products, as well as enhanced credibility by association. Drawing on our experience as faculty in the California State University (CSU) system—the first university system to contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu system-wide—we assess the rhetoric that justifies and legitimizes genAI contracts in higher education. We suggest that the uncritical adoption of genAI in higher education poses problems for labor conditions, the integrity of intellectual property, and student learning on campuses, particularly under the conditions of austerity that are commonly found in public universities.
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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levostregc.bsky.social
Tech wythout heart ys a horror.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
October 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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anids.bsky.social
Ah yes, such good “theories” of language 🙃🙃🙃
vcarchidi.bsky.social Vincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 15d
Another one. This one is super interesting.

arxiv.org/abs/2510.05152
October 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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plosbiology.org
How are auditory features represented across the #AuditoryPathway? @bathellierlab.bsky.social show that #auditory feature tuning emerges through a mix of gradual & stepwise changes, with early representation of simple features & later refinement of complex ones @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4oi0XCY
Gosselin et al. observed that sound information is profoundly transformed from the ear to the central brain. This artwork by Wei Li (Institut de l’Audition, Paris) illustrates the complexity of processes underlying these transformations.
October 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM