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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power."

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Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Germany is that country where one governing party stages a protest walk against the other governing party (their coalition partner) as photo op, instrumentalizing nazi history in the process. Politics is basically 100% denial now, send help.

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Indeed. Here's Selfridge in the discussion of McCarthy's common sense paper at the 1958 Mechanisation of Thought Processes Symposium (Vol 1, p. 87), where, among others, Grace Hopper was present.

snippet of text (Selfridge in reply to Bar-Hillel):
"(...) Deductive logic is inferred as much as anything else. Most women have never inferred it, but they get on perfectly well, marrying happy husbands, raising happy children, without ever using deductive logic at all."

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Statistical power has been lionized in metascience. First, you care about statistical power only bec your whole scientific vision relies on the results of a hypothesis test. Get over it. Second, power can never make up for poor design, lack of theoretical understanding, or biased samples/measures.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"We still don't know how large or reliable the effect is" suggests you need more exploration bec you have not stabilized the effect yet. That is not something a replication (esp. non-exact), however large, can answer for you. You need to do more groundwork to figure out what phenomenon you study.

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Like, when there was a brief 70s revival in the late 90s, I started listening to my parents' vinyl records and wearing my mum's old flares. And surely got most of the (sub-)cultural markers completely wrong, because my only references were repeats of Top of the Pops (well, the German equivalent)

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Similarly sad about unauthentic retro computing. But hasn't co-opting past decades' cultural artefacts as broadly "retro" (i.e. with little regard for authenticity) been around for ages?

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Erinnert mich an die sehr hervorragenden Traumzeichnungen der letzte Woche leider verstorbenen Ingrid Wiener (wie dieser, in der Konrad Bayer sie in eine Schmelzkäsesemmel verwandelt)

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1) Träume ich bin in Estland oder Lettland? Am Theater. Es ist in der "Dakamer" Konrad Bayer. Dakamer heisst so etwas ähnliches wie

2) "Boulevard" in est- oder lettländisch in meinem Traum. Konrad Bayer hat mich an das Theater geholt.

3) Er lebt hier noch (in Österreich ist er schon lange tot) und ich soll zusammen mit ihm und einer rotgekleideten Dame mit 50er Jahre -> II

Walster 05.04.04

II

1) Kränzchenlockenfrisur spielen. Er tritt als Zauberer auf und verwandelt mich in ein grosse Schmelzkäsesemmel.

2) Es ist ein grosser Erfolg - höre das Publikum tosend klatschen.

3) Erwache bei Vogelgekreische

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Erinnert mich an die sehr hervorragenden Traumzeichnungen der letzte Woche leider verstorbenen Ingrid Wiener (wie dieser, in der Konrad Bayer sie in eine Schmelzkäsesemmel verwandelt)

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

I had the same problem with Richard Herring's Enterprise Linux

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dear @erc.europa.eu , we DO already have common standards & frameworks. 'AI' likes to pose itself as 'special' but we do not need to reinvent the wheel. We already have established codes of conduct for research integrity. We just need to apply them. See below + more resources in thread🧵

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic
the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth
— the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “informa-
tion”. At best, such output is accidentally true, but generally citationless, divorced from
human reasoning and the web of scholarship that it steals from. At worst, it is confidently
wrong. Both outcomes are dangerous to the ecosystem.
Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij, Marcela Suarez, et al. (2025, n.p.)
Knowledge production is supposed to be safeguarded by (inter)national codes of conduct for research
integrity (ALLEA 2023; KNAW et al. 2018). Such codes forbid, for instance, fabrication of data,
falsification of results, plagiarism, and, generally, distortion of the scientific record. Many argue that
new rules are required to regulate academic AI use, but pre-existing guidelines fit the bill (cf. Tafani

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

"put a Richard Herring in it!" could be the new catch phrase

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So how about this for a "pause AI" proposal: "pause credulous AI reporting". No more media about "breakthroughs" or "rogue agent swarms" or ... UNLESS and UNTIL that media demands the actual empirical evidence and/or focuses on the motivations of & harms by these companies.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11/09/2026

I'm excited to share this preprint by my wonderful MSc student Yihsin who's thought deeply about how psychological & neurocognitive theories relate to different types of evidence. Beyond Empirical Success: Evaluating Theoretical Virtue Across the Computational Modeling Chain doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Beyond Empirical Success: Evaluating Theoretical Virtue Across the Computational Modeling Chain
Authors/Creators

Chuang, Yihsin
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Guest, Olivia1
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Description

Computational models in psychology are typically judged by a single standard: empirical fit. Unfortunately, fit is insufficient, even misleading as a sole criterion, as the same result can arise from fundamentally different situations: theoretically faithful models, mathematically flexible ones, miscalibrated operationalizations, or implementations that compute something other than intended. Distinguishing between these is vital. Our evaluative metatheoretical account recognises that models stand in three distinct relations: a) toward the theory whose causal commitments it purports to capture, b) toward the specification and implementation it purports to compute, and c) toward the phenomenon it purports to explain. Each relation can succeed or fail independently, governed by criteria local to that stage. Importantly, relations are ordered such that theoretical content is transmitted or lost, and losses at earlier transitions are irrecoverable downstream. What a model's empirical success implicates about its theoretical commitments, therefore, depends on whether transitions are secured. Some success or failure profiles support explanatory claims; others only prediction; others establish theoretical coherence without empirical contact. Our account diagnoses what a given model shows, replacing the implicit assumption that empirical success transfers automatically to theoretical understanding with an explicit conditional rendition of what models can and cannot establish.

a figure that looks like a cloud that stays "cognitive capacity" with an arrow pointing to a lozenge with "theory" which points to a lozenge with "specification" which points to the same with "data" which is pointed to by a cloud that says "phenomenon"

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Wenn man bei der Post hockt, hockt man gescheit (post hoc ergo propter hoc)

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"We should not be content with theories and models that prioritize numerical correlation over explanation that blur their metatheoretical ties, and which render our fields closer to pseudoscience. Computational cognitive science in principle can and should do more than merely model data."

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

Dabei ist er in anderen Belangen so faktenaffin und unaktivistisch :P bsky.app/profile/benn...

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

That's also why there's still Tamagotchis everywhere

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

Immerhin bewerten sie qualitativ. Sicher spannend, die Positionalitätsstellungsnahmen der Kommissionsmitglieder zu lesen :P

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Paul Schütze @paulschuetze.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Do we need AI at all? What about not developing AI technologies in the first place? And what about prohibiting certain AI systems or business models altogether? 👉 These are questions Benedetta Brevini and I raise in our new paper. Find the paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Containing AI: from responsible to critical AI governance - AI & SOCIETY

This paper argues that most responsible AI (RAI) governance frameworks do not meaningfully address AI’s environmental and social costs. Rather, they merely create the impression of managing these prob...

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026

Have you unsubscribed from their unsubscription confirmation emails though? :p

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026

Die Deutschlehrerin, die mir in der 7. Klasse Rocky Horror empfohlen und auf VHS ausgeliehen hat, wusste auch vor mir selbst Bescheid xD

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/08/2026

Friends, I think Ghent University should hear from us as the eugenicists are out in full force. This letter is from academics there to counter the ridiculous letter supporting the white supremacist now being called a "whistleblower" by his ilk You can add your name👇🏽 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University

***Version française en dessous*** We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decisio...

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

This setup didn't really take off, as we were lacking resources to do it properly at a larger scale. So there is no fancy publication. But if anyone is curious and doesn't mind somewhat shakey grad student writing, they may read the method chapter of my MSc thesis: utheses.univie.ac.at/detail/40727/

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Representational dynamics in problem solving

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

One thing we tried was to have participants type their intermittent notes into essentially a chat interface, with us (given skill in task domain & interviewing techniques) reading along in realtime (with pp's consent), enabling us to clarify ambiguities in a subsequent debriefing interview

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

Among other things, this involved careful practice sessions with participants (not leading on, but letting them encounter common problems themselves, develop their own reporting style), separating task work and reporting, but keeping them very close still ("event-contingent immediate retrospection")

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

In the book, I used dyadic interactions and natural dialogue as a data source, but before that we had developed a complex setup for investigating this domain with an introspective method we designed to avoid some of its pitfalls.

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

The 2nd author of that article, Cornell Schreiber, and me were collaborators for many years. Among others, we worked on the paper folding domain I ended up writing my book about. bsky.app/profile/benn...

First page of Schreiber, C. (2015). Topologie | Konstruktion einer Kreuzfaltung: Selbstbeobachtungen zum lebendigen Denken. In Raab, T. & Eder, T., editors, Selbstbeobachtung: Oswald Wieners Denkpsychologie, pages 191–216. Berlin: Suhrkamp.

Topologie | Konstruktion einer Kreuzfaltung:
Selbstbeobachtungen zum lebendigen Denken

Cornell Schreiber

In diesem Aufsatz berichte ich von meinen Selbstbeobachtungen zur wie folgt lautenden Aufgabe:

Falte ein A4-Blatt in deiner Vorstellung, so oft es dir gelingt, nacheinander abwechselnd horizontal und vertikal. Beachte dabei die Form, die das Blatt nach jeder Faltung annimmt. Nimm dazu kein »echtes« Blatt zur Hilfe. Die in der Aufgabenstellung besagte Kreuzfaltung dürfte den meisten aus eigener Erfahrung wohlbekannt sein, zum Beispiel als Falttechnik, einen A4-Briefbogen auf die Größe einer Postkarte zu komprimieren. Schnell hat man ein Papierblatt binnen weniger Handgriffe und nahezu automatisch über Kreuz gefaltet. Der genauen Form des Blatts, etwa den Kantenformen an seinen Seiten, muss man sich dabei nicht
widmen.

Hingegen stellt die Aufgabe, eine mehrfache Kreuzfaltung vorzustellen, eine Herausforderung für unseren kognitiven Apparat dar – und ist insofern von denkpsychologischer Relevanz. In der Vorstellung können die Konsequenzen einer Faltung nicht mühelos am echten Blatt »abgelesen« werden. Stattdessen muss man die immer komplexer werdenden Formen des Blatts im Arbeitsgedächtnis konstruieren: angefangen bei einfachen Intuitionen von Blatt und Faltung müssen die Strukturen des mehrfach-gefalteten Blatts aus den Strukturen des jeweiligen Ausgangszustands nach und nach neu »zusammengesetzt« werden. Einsicht in die Regelmäßigkei-
ten der Kreuzfaltung, z. B. welche Kantenformen typischer- (...)

Title and abstract of Angerer, B., & Schreiber, C. (2019). Representational dynamics in the domain of iterated mental paper folding. Cognitive Systems Research, 54, 217–231.

Representational dynamics in the domain of iterated mental paper folding

Benjamin Angerer a,⇑, Cornell Schreiber b
a
Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany
b
Department of Philosophy, Research Platform Cognitive Science, University of Vienna, Austria

Received 14 December 2017; received in revised form 25 October 2018; accepted 11 November 2018
Available online 17 December 2018

Abstract

Successful problem solving relies on the availability of suitable mental representations of the task domain. Especially for more complex problems, there might be a wide variety of possible problem representations, and it might even be beneﬁcial to change them during problem solving. In a ﬁrst part, we argue that investigating the dynamics of understanding in terms of dynamically changing problem representations is an underexplored aspect of problem solving research, and that most classic tasks even preclude the opportunity of such dynamics to occur. Continuing this theoretical discussion, as an illustrative example of a task designed for the exploration of such representational dynamics, the second part of the paper discusses a novel, complex spatial transformation and problem solving task. In this task, one is asked to repeatedly mentally cross-fold a sheet of paper, and to predict the resulting sheet geometry without the use of external aids. Through its deliberate openness and diﬃculty, this task requires ﬁnding new and more eﬃcient representations – ranging from kinaesthetic and visuospatial imagery to symbolic notions. We present an overview of the task domain and discuss various ways of representing the domain as well as potential dynamics between them.
Ó 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Keywords: Problem solving; Representational change; Spatial imagery; Paper folding

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

Amory Danek recently had a chapter that might be a good starting point for the first part of the question: Danek, A. H. (2024). The Phenomenology of Insight: The Aha! Experience. In L. J. Ball & F. Vallée-Tourangeau (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Cognition (pp. 308–331).

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Reminded of this work by Jäkel & Schreiber (2013) "Introspection in Problem Solving", because I’m trying to solve a chess proof game and have been introspecting deeply on why I’m stuck, how I pursue paths, experience fixedness (even though as cognitive scientist I know I should let go!), etc. 🧵

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Introspection in Problem Solving

Problem solving research has encountered an impasse. Since the seminal work of Newell und Simon (1972) researchers do not seem to have made much theoretical progress (Batchelder and Alexander, 2012; O...

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“Theory and Model Building in Psychology” New book edited by @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social and Alexander Wendt, with chapters by @ufeest.bsky.social, @devezer.bsky.social, @mieronen.bsky.social, and @bringmannlaura.bsky.social. link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026

Ultrahocherhitzt wird die Gesellschaft ja schon

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026

Das Berner Würstel wurde übrigens nach dem österreichischen Koch Erich Berner benannt de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berner_...

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Berner Würstel – Wikipedia

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026

I'd say that even suspending all other important criticisms, the only way to use such unreliable and intransparent tech at least _somewhat_ in line with the requirements of academic integrity would mean manually verifying all its outputs, thereby negating all the alleged benefits. So why?

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026

Indeed. There are still institutions that haven't even begun dealing with the past of their post-war decades' members and leadership

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026

Ich versuch's gar nicht erst, aber bitte: Wikipedias Beispiel für einen stimmlosen lateralen alveolaren Frikativ: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026

Cheers! Looks like an interesting read indeed! Even if, at first glance, I'm probably less positive on the GDR's legacy

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026

Just the other month, a former "social democrat" prime minister of a german state, now chief lobbyist for Philip Morris in Germany, wrote a newspaper article arguing SPD should give up its resistance to forming a potential coalition with the Nazi party...

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 12/07/2026

Makes you feel especially crap when having sent a 4-digit sum of tax payers' money the publisher's way for them just to do this

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