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memory x decision making x individual differences x cog neuro

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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I need a three year break from all of this
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Does blinding--i.e., concealing applicants' identities--reduce gender gaps in academic conference paper acceptances?

Nope!

Does blinding do anything?

It does! Blinding reduces gaps in acceptances by institution rank.

haruka-uchida.github.io/websitefiles...
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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remember to stream your family fights live tomorrow! share that holiday spirit with those of us without our own seasonal tension!
November 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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really regretting monetizing my hobbies (getting a phd)
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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A little treat on my day off, because I deserve it 💚
November 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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New working paper about a question that’s been a splinter in my brain for years – and I know I’m not alone: can researchers draw conclusions about “belief in conspiracy theories” while our research samples consist mostly of people who reject such beliefs? 1/10

link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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What does it mean to understand language? We argue that the brain’s core language system is limited, and that *deeply* understanding language requires EXPORTING info to other brain regions.
w/ @neuranna.bsky.social @evfedorenko.bsky.social @nancykanwisher.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2511.19757
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What does it mean to understand language?
Language understanding entails not just extracting the surface-level meaning of the linguistic input, but constructing rich mental models of the situation it describes. Here we propose that because pr...
arxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
sorry but consciousness is something a living thing does if it ain’t alive it ain’t conscious
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here:

daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...

All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏

#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
I want to work for this organization so badly
New polling on aliens
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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People keep saying stuff like this, while companies have been literally advertising 'AI can do your laundry, just have it analyze the tag' and then showing someone WASHING SEQUINED CLOTHING. Even the use cases they advertise are SO WRONG.
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Just listed two new neuron mugs. Surly.etsy.com #sciart
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Many Gen AI tools are free now. If you do not train yourself (e.g. you never learn how to program without them) you will be dependent on them. In the future they will increase their prices drastically, and you will have to pay, because you can't do without them anymore.
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
im going to throw up
8/ So why are children being left to languish in federal shelters?

Advocates for immigrant kids believe it's to pressure them to self-deport. Last week, lawyers obtained a document the government provides to kids in the shelter system:
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
"couldn't hurt to try" I say as I fail so hard in each attempt it haunts me for the rest of time
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Tye Leung Schulze became the first Chinese American woman to vote in a U.S. election in 1912. She worked as a translator at Angel Island and fought for immigrant women and girls. Her courage opened doors in a country that tried to keep them shut. #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM
shorturl.at/psm1I
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
it's weird that I've never been taught how to write
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
who asked that embarrassing ass "prompt engineering" question at the non academic career panel show yourself so we can laugh at u
November 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Printers and computers treat each other like they broke up the night before and you’re they’re mutual friend
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
pretty remarkable that everyone was nice to me at my [redacted] poster today, I thought for sure that I was gonna get grilled
November 22, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Fascinating essay on care work, labor struggles, feminism, and the racialized history of care extraction from @emilybaughan.bsky.social
The Care Factory - Boston Review
In the decades since the Wages for Housework movement, care work has become a site of profit in ways its leaders could never have predicted.
www.bostonreview.net
November 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
any rumination researchers out there could you please help save me from rumination it's ruining my life
November 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM