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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
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crazy

IG em_clarkson
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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I thought the idea of a sex abuse ring at the highest levels of government was overheated and ridiculous.

I thought Captain America: The Winter Soldier having secret Nazi senators was over the top.

My life has become a single ongoing revelation that I have not been cynical enough
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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They're going to crash the global economy by attempting to create an artificial general intelligence, despite having no idea what that is, no proof they can build it & no hope of doing so. Cunts just read too many sci-fi books.
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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
Job Klaxon!
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
*sigh* must I
October 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
me watching the Netflix adaptation of the Twits
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October 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Reseachers: Please can we have some money?
HORIZON: www.instagram.com/reel/DNNeyxX...
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October 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
this was not the Derry girls spin off I was expecting
September 3, 2025 at 9:24 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.
September 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
*deep breathes*
September 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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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
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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.
August 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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truth
August 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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
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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
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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.
August 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
he has >4 cat beds in my office, but no
August 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
August 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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
Two paper rejects and a funding failure all in a day!
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July 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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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
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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