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Tine Kolenik
@tinekolenik.bsky.social
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PhD in CogSci&AI for complex systems, human change processes, psychopathology&psychotherapy, post-cognitivism @pmu.ac.at. AI lead @Synergetic Navigation System. #Open∀ Unaspiring musician&writer. Perfect is better than done

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jamiecummins.bsky.social
Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.

One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.

THREAD 🧵
The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention
Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...
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September 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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vlott.bsky.social
New paper for anyone working with data:
Better data viz - for free, in few clicks.

Below, all N = 111, M = 0.04, SD = 0.27.
One-sided t-tests vs. 0 yield: t(110) = 1.67, p = .049.

Use raincloud plots. Or risk wrong conclusions!
Plot w/ @jaspstats.bsky.social today!

🧪 📊 #PsychSciSky #StatsSky

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Figure 2 from the linked article. Abstract of the linked article
August 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
I've had people tell me to my face that AI helps avoid biases and I haven't laughed harder in a long time.

Data doesn't grow on trees. We decide who matters and what to quantify about them. The very process bakes in bias.
benpatrickwill.bsky.social Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Aug 29
2. AI enhances inclusion. Maybe not. AI systems rely on datasets based on mainstream school populations "and often fail to adequately include children with complex, atypical or multiple needs.

As a result, learners with SEND may be statistically invisible"
schoolsweek.co.uk/ai-bias-pose...
August 30, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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jomcinerney.bsky.social
Would he prefer to fly in an aeroplane built by expert engineers, or one built by a “citizen that had done their own research” and had come to a very different opinion on how flight should work and built a very different plane? Experts are expert for a reason.
rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · Aug 29
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
August 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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jugander.bsky.social
A beautiful visualization of the state space of puzzles, 11 min of joy, h/t @danlarremore.bsky.social
Adventures in State Space
YouTube video by 2swap
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August 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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profsimonfisher.bsky.social
A reminder that there is no scientific basis for attempts to define people in terms of “good” or “bad” genes - these are discredited views in service of racist ideologies. For the consensus from the experts, see e.g. this 2020 @geneticssociety.bsky.social statement:
www.ashg.org/publications... 🧬🧪
Statement from the American Society of Human Genetics in 2020, countering the myth of "good genes". It reads as follows: "Genetics demonstrates that humans cannot be divided into biologically distinct subcategories or races, and any efforts to claim the superiority of humans based on any genetic ancestry have no scientific evidence. Moreover, it is inaccurate to claim genetics as the determinative factor in human strengths or outcomes when education, environment, wealth, and health care access are often more potent factors. There is no factual basis for attempts to define communities or regions of people with "good" or "bad" genes and a century of science has debunked such claims, which can feed discredited views and racist ideologies. Unchecked, unethical application of false genetic "theories" have resulted in past atrocities from forced sterilizations to the Holocaust and can still fuel unethical social policies worldwide today. Over the decades, our field also has reflected on its own role in such now-condemned ideas, and we speak out vocally as a community and as individuals to combat their resurgence. We must protect and advance the ethical use of genetics and genomics knowledge for the profound good it can realize, including better, more precise healthcare that leverages what we are discovering about human genetic commonality and diversity. The human genetics community dedicates itself to this goal each day, and today we are improving and saving hundreds of thousands of lives. As the ASHG community focuses on realizing the benefits of human genetics and genomics research for people everywhere, we also urge societal attention to address profound educational, economic and health inequalities that fuel differences in human experience and well-being. By pursuing all of these activities, humans can celebrate our common heritage as one people, embrace and fully tap our valued diversity, and help achieve optimal life outcomes for all."
August 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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cmcshaff.bsky.social
Anyone interested in autopoiesis and Randall Beer's formalization of it in Conway's Game of Life would probably enjoy looking at Tom's undergrad thesis, where he extends the ideas to the "Larger than Life" and "Real Life" family of cellular automata!
tomgaul.bsky.social Tom Gaul @tomgaul.bsky.social · Aug 13
This spring I completed my senior honors thesis in Cognitive Science at IU! I extended Randall Beer's formalization of autopoiesis in the Game of Life to a continuous space limit called RealLife.

It is available here: tgaul.gitlab.io/publications....
Author: Thomas M. Gaul Title: Biological Organisation and Viability: A Theory of Autopoiesis in Cellular and Euclidean Automata Abstract: Increasingly, biologists are emphasising the cell as the most fundamental unit of life, and importantly, a view of the cell as an emergent, dynamic object irreducible to its molecular composition — “greater than the sum of its parts.” But what makes a cell itself living? Most answers to this question are unsatisfactory: lists of properties or behaviours that always have exceptions. Moreover, there is a lack of consensus that does not appear to be near resolution. The theory of autopoiesis offers a potential solution here, providing an operational definition of the organisation of a cell, independent of what molecules compose it. Autopoietic theory allows us to answer questions about when a cell dies, and how it can behave. However, for it to realise this utility, rigorous theories need to be developed for specific models of emergent individuals. Beer (2020b) has previously used the Game of Life cellular automaton as one such model, and developed a mathematical theory of autopoiesis that can predict the behaviour and death of an emergent individual (Beer, McShaffrey, & Gaul, 2024). This thesis extends and reformulates this work to a broader class of cellular automata, called Larger than Life (LtL) (Evans, 1996). I then further extend the LtL theory to a Euclidean automata, called RealLife (Pivato, 2007), and provide evidence of the convergence of autopoiesis in LtL to RealLife. I also introduce a method for deriving automata rules from the organisation of an individual. Finally, I discuss the implications autopoietic theory has for our understanding of life and cognition, including a reevaluation of the relation between autopoiesis and the enactive approach to cognition (Di Paolo, 2005; Varela et al., 2017).
August 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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ricardsole.bsky.social
What is emergence? This is one of the most central ingredients of complexity, and a challenging one to formalize. Here's a paper by @seanmcarroll.bsky.social & Achyth Parola that attempts to classify different forms of emergence. @manlius.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2410.15468
August 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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maartenvsmeden.bsky.social
NEW PREPRINT

Explainable AI refers to an extremely popular group of approaches that aim to open "black box" AI models. But what can we see when we open the black AI box? We use Galit Shmueli's framework (to describe, predict or explain) to evaluate

arxiv.org/abs/2508.05753
August 11, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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eikofried.bsky.social
New paper by @bsiepe.bsky.social & WARN-D team out now in JoPACS, on the (lack of) relation between EMA selfreport and Garmin passive data.

Guardian @theguardian.com coverage:
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Paper:
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

🧪 #PsychSciSky #StatsSky #EpiSky
Smartwatches offer little insight into stress levels, researchers find
Academic study suggests devices cannot differentiate between someone being overworked and being excited
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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molthof.bsky.social
"In recent years the concept of 'system' has gained increasing influence in psychology and psychopathology" - Ludwig von Bertalanffy, 1968
August 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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manlius.bsky.social
How can scientists compete with pseudoscience in algorithmic ecosystems?

This comes after several discussions with colleagues and friends, such as @ricardsole.bsky.social

I have just dropped this post on Linkedin (see the attached image, in case): www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Ideas? Answers?
August 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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pessoabrain.bsky.social
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀?
New approach: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#complexsystems
August 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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valoisdubins.bsky.social
The stupidity of this is:

Articles have ABSTRACTS. THAT’s the summary.

They have clearly labelled sections. That’s how you find the definitions, the methods, the results.

AI summaries of academic articles aren’t going to be as reliable as a human finding the same info in a little bit more time.
irisvanrooij.bsky.social Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Aug 4
I went on to read an article about ‘domain specificity’ (this one: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) which seemed helpful. But then I ran into a passage with in it the word “domain generality’ highlighted by a hyperlink. I was surprised and decided to click.

It went to an “AI” summary too :(
A passage from the article with ‘domain generality’ highlighted Domain Generality In subject area: Psychology Domain generality refers to the extent to which an individual's creative mindset extends across various domains, indicating that creativity can manifest in multiple areas rather than being confined to a specific one. This concept suggests that creativity may be influenced by an individual's attitudes and willingness to think creatively across different contexts. AI generated definition based on: Encyclopedia of Creativity (Third Edition), 2020
August 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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kihbernetics.bsky.social
An introduction Ranulph Glanville gave during the 2013 conference of the American Society for Cybernetics in Bolton, UK, on his *Theory of Objects*, developed first in his 1975 thesis about "a Cybernetic Epistemology of Observation"👇
bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/24...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tACF...
August 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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eaclipt.bsky.social
What if positive emotions, not just negative, play a role in self-injury?

Discover the answer in the latest article by Bruckbauer-Schwed et al. in the latest issue of @clinpsycheurope.bsky.social

🔗 doi.org/10.32872/cpe...

#NSSI #PositiveAffect #DynamicComplexity #EMA #ClinicalPsychology #cpe
August 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
tinekolenik.bsky.social
Sometimes the map really is better than the territory. Check out this paper on causal emergence by Erik Hoel: www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19....

I made a quick diagram about it below!

#complexity #complex #complexsystems #emergence
August 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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smellosopher.bsky.social
The grande dame of the philosophy of cognitive science has died: www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Margaret Boden obituary
Cognitive scientist who explored how consciousness arises from biochemical interactions within the brain
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
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olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Aug 3
Also and perhaps most importantly, my redefinition of AI allows us to:

👩🏼‍💻👪 Center human cognition

🤖🤥 Reject AI hype

🤔⚛️ Consider AI in general abstracted terms

⏰📜 Grant AI a (pre)history

🔗📝 doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Screenshot from section 4
August 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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dlevenstein.bsky.social
Looks like it’s “what do people think about big questions day” in science today.

What’s life and what’s stuff?
July 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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stairwaytokevin.bsky.social
New snake oil just dropped

And proudly boosting the nazi approval, bold business strategy!
Alex Strudwick Young @AlexTISYoung · 3h The widget pictured below gives you the expected range of predicted IQs (or disease risks) for the number of embryos. The difference between the average and the highest gives you the expected gain in IQ if you were selecting the embryo with the highest predicted IQ. The spread does not depend on the mean you choose. The mean IQ you put in is actually the genotypic mean IQ of the parents (as we state) as we didn't want to get into the complexities of modeling regression to the mean in this widget, although we do of course model regression to the mean in our customer reports. We will be detailing rigorous validation of our IQ predictor in an upcoming publications, along with lots of other exciting science. -Quote tweeting the nazi Jordan Lasker (Cremieux) saying: "The latest embryo selection company is live, and guess what: They're publicly letting people select for IQ!"
July 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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eikofried.bsky.social
Psychologists & related fields: what is a big methods question that you believe remains somewhat unanswered & that you'd love to see adressed? There may be an opportunity for a large-scale meta-science project with many teams trying to figure out a question.

Any thoughts welcome! #psychscisky
July 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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dpn-journal.bsky.social
Will AI revolutionize or undermine mental health care?

Today's Deep Dive focuses on opportunities & risks of using large language models in psychiatric care & research.

By @skhalsa.bsky.social, @pshrink.bsky.social, @royperlis.bsky.social, @mpwpaulus.bsky.social et al

youtu.be/i8RfTa-dCU0?...
Will AI revolutionize or undermine mental health care?
YouTube video by NPP - Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience (DPN)
youtu.be
July 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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dellsen.bsky.social
Many good and interesting points made here, including the final point about research papers soon being written by AIs, reviewed by AIs, and then subsequently summarized for us by AIs. At some point we'll need to rethink the current model of the ~10k word research article. #philsci #philsky
Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published
Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention
www.theguardian.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM