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Andrew D Wilson

@adw.bsky.social
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Ecological psychologist just trying to make psychology better at explaining us. I study the perceptual control of action and get cranky about politics and AI technologies. He/him

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 7m
I’m just going to assume this is true 🤔
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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 2h
In fact my parents actually named me in honour of Dermot the Frog
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🎃👻🧙‍♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙‍♀️👻🎃 @viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 1h
this is so fucking sad
Alvin Sng 0 @alvinsng My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
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Me: Icanjust play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voic e.
Me:| can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you workin Al.
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 12m
Oh look it’s bad in all the ways I probably would have predicted
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 19m
This is one part of what Gibson was alluding to with ‘behaviour is regular without being regulated’
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David Harper @davidharper.bsky.social · 19h
Hell. YES. I love that Marvel's doing these monster compendiums in the new Marvel Brick line, but I especially love that The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl's one of the line's debut titles. Let's gooooooo!!!!
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Official: Marvel Announces 'Marvel Brick' Thick Paperback Line At NYCC
Official: Marvel Comics Announces Its New 'Marvel Brick' Thick Paperback Line At New York Comic Con Retailer Day
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 46m
I mean, if one doesn’t want to hear Nick Drake at some point in the day, one should simply not turn BBC 6 Music on 🧐
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 1h
Good point - there is research activity that happens before/in parallel to research projects.
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 3h
That and the early slip into ‘well we spent most of our evolution as hunter gatherers so presumably we haven’t had enough time to evolve modern minds’ which just justified so much dumbness. The field wasn’t engaged enough with the real hard work of developing evolutionary explanations
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 3h
@mattwall.bsky.social and I were just reminiscing about how interesting the idea of this field felt in the 90s - what a great idea to try and connect psychology with evolution! It seemed like such a good move. And then it just got racist and sexist and attracted the worst people; massive own goal
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BehavEcolPapers @behavecolpapers.bsky.social · 3h
Adult zebrafish favor vision over flow sensing in increasingly complex hydrodynamic environments CurrentBiology
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Adult zebrafish favor vision over flow sensing in increasingly complex hydrodynamic environments
Dave et al. use an augmented reality flow tank to demonstrate that freely swimming adult zebrafish respond to optic-flow perturbations differently depending on the hydrodynamic environment. During natural behaviors such as station-holding and escape, fish increase their reliance on vision when the flow sensing becomes less predictable.
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 3h
It's madness. I think these costs really make it hard to get grants as a new (untested) researcher too - there's a big difference between asking for £150k to do the work and £300k to a funder I think
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 3h
Thoughts? Would love to hear what people think of this as a practical way to develop policy
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 3h
I think it will stop lazy AI use that is the most likely to cause problems. It also provides a mechanism for consequences if serious problems arise through misuse. And it has the university send a healthy signal about how seriously we take the intersectional issues around AI
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 3h
Pros: I think this brings ALL the issues with AI use to the forefront of planning, instead of being a thing in the background you sort of vaguely acknowledge. I think it sends a clear statement that AI use comes with costs, and those costs may be acceptable, but you need to explicitly justify that
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 3h
So, the idea: make AI use an explicit part of the ethics process, at the planning stage of the research project. You can still use AI, but you have to identify relevant risks and suitable mitigations, as you would with other risks, in order to be able to proceed.
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 3h
There's also a couple of categories of AI in research; work about using AI to do something, and work on something else that uses AI somewhere along the lines. This distinction feeds into the mitigations, I think
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 3h
One that's come up lately - AI has environmental costs, and the university has sustainability commitments. Does using AI impact those commitments, and if so, can the impact be mitigated?
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 3h
I'm thinking AI use should be explicitly folded into the research ethics process, and treated as a risk you must mitigate. We already ask for data plans about storage, confidentiality, privacy protection, etc, so that's immediately relevant. But AI has other risks to mitigate!
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 3h
In ethics, there is the notion of risk categories. You can do risky research, but the more the risks the higher the bar for mitigating processes. The ethics application is about identifying the risks and proposing proportionate mitigation, and ethics evaluation is about whether you have succeeded
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 3h
The current document sort of assumes you are using AI, and suggests some things to think about now you are in it. I'm thinking the guidance should take a step back, and first guide the researcher to ask "how, exactly, will I use AI, do I need to, and if so, how can I mitigate the issues?"
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 3h
Work is developing guidance for responsible use of AI in research. Given 'there is no such thing' isn't clearly an option, I'm thinking about how to feed into the process, and I'm thinking that the best framework is in terms of ethics; making our policy that you have to consider AI use at that stage
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 4h
As soon as indirect costs/full economic costing became a thing, we were doomed, because it’s now an income stream for the university and not just about our work
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 4h
Excellent front page here
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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I’ve never watched The Traitors and to be honest it’s not as good as never watching Love Island.
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 5h
I kind of love all of this
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 5h
That’s a spell.
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 5h
It seemed like a perfectly sensible idea!
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 6h
I though about lunch and fell over, but at least I fell fowards!
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 12h
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Nic Healey @doctornic.bsky.social · 15h
This is a very weird way to phrase this.
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 6h
Evolutionary psychology is the most embarrassing of all the psychologies
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Tom @moll.dev · 17h
*jack reacher, choking a guy out*: who sent you, tell me now! bad guy: yes daddy jack reacher: what bad guy: what
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 16h
Loops here too - they really seem to be the best
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 17h
I do *not* have time to go after all that embodied cognition nonsense, I do *not* have time to go after all that embodied cognition nonsense, I do *not* have time to go after all that embodied cognition nonsense, I do *not*…
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 17h
Getting that done tomorrow. I do not have time for this shit
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 19h
Still upset about that highly cited paper in Psych Science you consider deeply flawed? Now is your time to shine ✨
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Watching North By Northwest with my then-9yo: Eva: "It's going to be a long night." Cary: "True." Eva: "And I don't particularly like the book I've started." Cary: "Ah." Eva: "You know what I mean?" Cary: "Yes, I know exactly what you mean." 9yo: "She means she wants to read a comic book instead."
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 23h
Good points
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 23h
An experimental vaccine aimed at preventing the return of glioblastoma, one of the deadliest types of brain cancer, shows promise in patients 65 and under, according to clinical trial results.
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Experimental vaccine shows promise against deadly brain cancer in some patients
The vaccine, called SurVaxM, aims to prevent the recurrence of glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer with few major advances in treatment.
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 23h
I mean, at least there are drugs this time
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 23h
Brains in vats huh 🤔
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 23h
Indeed. Presumably the onus is now on humans to confirm the results? Or have the AI papers been presented to a suitable standard already?
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pretty sure I’d get yelled at for doing this 😂 But I’ve been waiting for our very overworked IT people to run a bunch of updates for me for weeks, if I had admin rights it would all be done & I wouldn’t have broken anything. I wish I could convince them I’ve been doing this since the 90s, I’m good
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I used to be able to get admin rights and now they just laugh and laugh. Like, I get it - network security for a university of 35000 people must suck. But also, let me help you, people
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The future of automation is here!
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s a great genre. I think it’s the confidence they project and how entirely at odds that is with their performance that’s so endearing
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why is this so FUNNY
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