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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Ari @khoudary.bsky.social on a successful PhD defense! @meganakpeters.bsky.social and I are so proud of all you have accomplished and excited for what you will do at @pennmindcore.bsky.social!

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Please sign this letter demanding @ucirvine.bsky.social drop its egregious disciplinary case against Prof. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard over her role attempting to de-escalate a police riot. Orange County dismissed charges, but UCI persists in a lonely crusade to punish her mailchi.mp/db1b0ca958fa...

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

New lab preprint! Dr. (x2) @biancaleonard.bsky.social leads a multidisciplinary team investigating the opposing effects of early-life unpredictability and anhedonia on foraging under threat of predation. Her results suggest that anhedonia may sometimes be an adaptive response to experience. 🧵 below!

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

On Page 9, the most common response to "Do you currently/intend to use AI" is No, about 1/3rd of respondents to each. Who are these passionate advocates for thee not me? (3/x)

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Indeed, on Page 6 they describe a "cluster analysis" to classify Advocates versus Cautious - presumably on free-text responses; I don't see how this could come from the Likert scales. Would love details on methodology & contract terms for the outside consulting firm they hired to produce this. (2/x)

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Reading the results of the "Systemwide Faculty AI Survey" I'm wondering if @ucnewsroom.bsky.social used ChatGPT for its statistics. Page 1 loudly proclaims **89%** are "Engaged/AI Advocates", but Page 7 shows 42% use it not at all or once/twice a year. Why lie about this? (1/x)

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Last week, @ucirvine.bsky.social remained silent as a known hate group held a campus event questioning the existence of Islamophobia. Two days ago, 75 miles away, teenagers radicalized by the same sort of rhetoric murdered several at a mosque. The UCI Muslim Students Union posted this response.

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

At #ADAA2026? Friday 8:30a (Sup B) see exciting new results presented by @dalezhou.bsky.social, with @talliezee.bsky.social, Laura Glynn, Elysia Davis, Daniel Stout, Victoria Risbrough & @mikeyassa.bsky.social: "Early-Life Unpredictability and the Neural and Computational Timescales of Integration"

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

"Hope in the Face of Genocide" film screening and presentation Mon Feb 23 630pm at @ucirvine.bsky.social Register here: lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/4jthqv3

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

#ACNP2026 - Wednesday afternoon @biancaleonard.bsky.social will present a computational model-driven motivational conflict challenge that identifies novel, *opposing* influences of early-life unpredictability and anhedonia @mikeyassa.bsky.social @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social @malejandra.bsky.social

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

"@ucilifted.bsky.social 2025 commencement: 16 students earned degrees ... many won academic honors: 3 summa cum laude and 4 magna cum laude." "Counting John, now six @ucilifted.bsky.social students—some with commuted life sentences like John’s—have come home." lifted.uci.edu/commencement...

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

"Apple is funding a project to show how multimedia technology can aid education" The Guardian, 1990 www.rops.org/cen/writing/...

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Here's a photo of the vans pulling up this morning: www.instagram.com/p/DLFx037u-TF/ I suppose it's possible they decided to stage there without first asking the Dodgers...

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Jungsun Yoo (@jungsuy.bsky.social) on her successful PhD defense! We're sad that her time with us is past, but excited to see how her future research trajectory unfolds working with @yaelniv.bsky.social and @nathanieldaw.bsky.social

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Wed PM Poster O17: Do adverse experiences lead to uncertainty aversion? Yifei Chen (w @noraharhen.bsky.social & Prof Daniel Stout shows that early-life unpredictability, but not trauma exposure, affects how people plan under uncertainty in a structured foraging task #sfn2024

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Tue AM Poster LBA176: How does multi-step planning change w memory capacity & experience? Emily Dinh (w Dr Dale Zhou, Dr Sharon Noh, @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social & @kwcooper.bsky.social) shows autoencoders can capture human planning diffs using dense/sparse & distributed/local representations #sfn2024

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Wed PM Poster O17: Do adverse experiences lead to uncertainty aversion? Yifei Chen (w @noraharhen.bsky.social & Prof. Daniel Stout) shows that early-life-unpredictability, but not trauma exposure, affects how people plan under uncertainty in a structured foraging task #sfn2024

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Sat PM Poster T7: Does model-based planning change w experience & task complexity? @jungsuy.bsky.social shows planning algorithms depend on task representation & (w Dr. Sharon Noh & Prof. Ilana Bennett) on cognitive & neural measures of information fidelity across the lifespan #sfn2024

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Sat 1pm Room N228: How does the use of memory in decisions develop across childhood and adolescence? @noraharhen.bsky.social and Prof. Catherine Hartley find that children + teens sample individual memories during decisions, but associative structure use develops later. #sfn2024

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

Fri C86: Small differences can have big consequences. How are similar experiences distinguished in memory? Dale Zhou proposes that perceptual and semantic information is lossily compressed and efficiently coded to support pattern separation #CCN2024 (5/5)

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

Thu B37: @noraharhen.bsky.social shows that developmental variation in inferring environmental structure can explain variation in exploration. Children and adolescents represent environments more simply than adults, leading to more extensive exploration #CCN2024 (4/5)

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

Tue A22: How do we figure out the unseen structure in our experiences? @jungsuy.bsky.social extends a state of the art model of latent structure learning, improving its biological plausibility and efficient performance in benchmark tasks #CCN2024 (3/5)

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

Tue A4: Do adverse experiences lead to aversion to uncertainty? Yifei Chen shows that early-life-unpredictability, but not trauma exposure, affects how people plan under uncertainty in a foraging task #CCN2024 (2/5)

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

Find yourself in Oxford this coming Monday? Antsy for some critical, considered, sometimes even comedic thoughts on consciousness?! Join the esteemed Dr. Patrick House at 6pm at Blackwell's. Only £5, which I believe is even cheaper than a fish and "chips"? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/patrick-ho...

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Congrats to Dr. Nidhi Banavar on a successful PhD defense (the lab's first)! We're sad to see her go, but looking forward to what her revealing knife of inquiry unveils in future work with Kirk Bansak @ UC Berkeley. Best of luck! 🖖

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