iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gave a talk in my dept. on the OSF transition. I wrote up a rough script of the session, which could be of interest to others. I synthesize existing resources and provide my own perspectives. Comments and corrections welcome! zenodo.org/records/2306...

the header for a paper describing "Life after OSF" #metascience

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monstrous_gloss @monstrousgloss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think about this scene from Andor a LOT and repeat this phrase to myself often: "Power doesn't panic."

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I see everyone is posting about their labs taking PhD students with pretty AI made posters. So here's mine made with Paint because I'm a luddite. See lab website for details www.pbandjlab.com

a poorly drawn poster made in Paint with words saying "PB & J Lab is looking 4 new PhD student!! Apply!!"

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Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Curious about Zenodo as an OSF Project alternative? Here's a short video to get you started: File Uploads, Communities, and generating links for Anonymous Peer Review. youtu.be/jW84PxuJTMw

youtu.be

Getting Started with Zenodo (transitioning from OSF Projects)

YouTube video by AMANDA MONTOYA

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I hope ASU feels like an idiot for taking UW's trash. Fuck men like this. They deserve a special place in hell.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Again. Again. It was just the usual white supremecist double standard the first dozen times. After Arday‘s sad, avoidable tragedy it feels like more than the usual distraction. They want to gaslight us to death. www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

dukechronicle.com

‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud

New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Literally every university: "we are in a deficit and must shut down programs and fire faculty/staff" At the same time: "let's pay millions for this AI contract that no one asked for!" *SCREAMING INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY*

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 16/08/2026

I WONDER WHAT THE COMMON DENOMINATOR IS. SURELY WE MUST GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS TO PRESERVE THE LEGACY OF HIGHER ED.

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The far right media harassment campaign against Black professors finally led to someone’s death. That’s on the university for sensationalizing what should have been a private investigation and everyone else that contributed including many academics that actively played into their hands.

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

When you watch the Odyssey in Hawaii you can sneak in 7-11 spam musubis and manapua. Man I love my life right now.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The Punisher sticker we've needed all along

You're not The Punisher
You're a white supremacist who didn't read the comics

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

People on Linkedin: we need to keep up with AI to better innovate and increase productivity! Also people on Linkedin: don't use AI to message me, it's like you don't even care about me 😭 🙃

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

New pub by my grad student, @gnihill.bsky.social. This is her first first-author publication! In this work, she has extended our lab's prior work on how confrontations to prejudice on social media can meaningfully shape perceptions. spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

SPSSI Journals

Online confrontations to prejudice can meaningfully shape experiences of racism online for minoritized individuals. We investigate whether confrontation can also operate as an identity safety cue (IS...

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Charles C. Lanfear @clanfear.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

My approach to methods lecturing lately

Slide saying "I offer no solution. I just want it to haunt your dreams."

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I think it's hilarious that all these uni presidents are so fucking terrified of the youth disliking them. Like bro you hold all the fucking power here and your pockets are deep, why are you so bothered that college students don't like you? I'm glad we have that power over them...

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

BRB, pre-registering a study on concordance between tendency to: (1) Rationalize that an LLM must have true intelligence because it demonstrates empathy and kindness and (2) Believe that wait staff are flirting because they smiled

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/05/2026

Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Have you noticed many experts say they don't understand AI? What's going on? 🤯 Let us tell you... 1/

Understanding Artificial Neural Networks:
Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism
Olivia Guest1,2, Nancy Abigail Nuñez Hernández3, and Mark Blokpoel1,2
1Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Radboud University, The Netherlands
2Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
3Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Mysterianism is the idea that human cognition, mind, cannot be understood. Taking this
concept and applying it to known mechanism — such that claims are made that we do not
know how engineered systems, such as artificial neural networks (ANNs), work, or that they
constitute black boxes that we can only open with difficulty — is inappropriate at best and
malicious at worst. We do know the mechanistic structure of such models because we designed
and built them. We also do know their functional role (what they are for) as well as the
mathematical function they are asked to approximate (map inputs to target outputs). Because
mysterianist beliefs about known systems, such as ANNs, are often expressed, scientists need
to sit up and take notice. We provide an error theory as to what is going on to help unpick
this metatheoretical blunder. Ultimately, the problem is that ‘understanding’ is not a technical
term in these cases: the word is co-opted for a specific narrative to sell ‘artificial intelligence’
through mystification. All computational systems, from pendulums to databases, will behave
in ways we cannot predict or control — this is not a unique property of ANNs — and experts
do indeed grasp the computational properties of these systems nonetheless.
Keywords: artificial neural networks; mechanism; black box; epistemology; artificial
intelligence; understanding

4 GUEST, NUÑEZ HERNÁNDEZ, & BLOKPOEL≈
ANNs are equiva-
lent to or inspired
by humans.
α
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ANNs are a black
box or unknowable,
even if opened.
β
≡
Humans are a black
box or unknowable.
γ
Figure 1
Three co-occurring (latent) assertions in the context of con-
temporary reasoning on AI and cognition. While they may
appear to hang together in “reflective equilibrium” (Elgin 2017),
their metatheoretical examination brings their contradictions to
light. Starting from the top, and moving clockwise: 𝛼) represents
the typical assertion of so-called cognitive, neural, or otherwise
biological plausibility or inspiration presented for ANNs; 𝛽) is
the claim we tackle head on here — both in terms of analysing
the constituent terms and in how it relates to the other two
assumptions; and 𝛾) exemplifies a type of mysterianism, which
while not always explicitly expressed, plays a background role
and importantly comes into conflict with the other two claims
in important ways

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Figure 3
Not all systems, 𝑆𝑖 relate to their relevant data, 𝐷𝑖 and world
phenomena this way, but ANN models (as many inferential
statistical models) do when used without scientific understand-
ing of the data-generating process or without verbal or formal
theory to match (Guest and Martin 2025b, 2021, 2023). As we
move from left to right above, we move from full understanding
of engineered systems, 𝑆𝑖 to less or even possibly none of the
data, 𝐷𝑖 to the world which can be thought of as the set of
phenomena to be understood.

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Everytime something big gets hacked I wonder why they don't target student loan or medical loan debt...like just wipe all the data there... better yet, why not shut down something like amazon? i support more technological violence against the 1% please...

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

LOL Canvas is hacked and down now. I say we just burn it all down and start from scratch?? I'm pro going all analog from now on...

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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Psych-DS is spellcheck for your datasets, and it has an R package now! Available in beta now, made by the excellent Brian Leonard, instructions here: psych-ds.github.io/psychds-r/

Screenshot of the "Create Dataset" page of the psych-DS Shiny app from the new R package psychds

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Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

nytimes.com

F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

What's the personality trait/ideological value thats correlated to pivoting your program of research to be attractive to an authoritarian regime?

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

1. New paper with @dymoral.bsky.social in press in @journalphp.bsky.social! Main result: race informs how adults use info about intent when making moral judgments. More in thread below, full text here: columbiasamclab.weebly.com/uploads/5/9/.... #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc @socphilpsych.bsky.social

columbiasamclab.weebly.com

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

It's like this guy watched LOTR and was like that Sauron guy had a point... I hope Tolkien's ghost finds a way to curse this man.

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

This articulates well my ambivalence towards her and many of her films. I didnt quite know why until I read this!

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/04/2026

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

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Dr. Catherine Wall @catherinesjwall.com · 14/04/2026

New publication alert! After four years of analysis, synthesis, and careful writing, I am pleased to announce a brand-new article, “Desistance”: A Multimethod Review of the Literature on Gender Identity Variability in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth (1) 🧵 psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

An image of the article "Desistance": A Multimethod Review of the Literature on Gender Identity Variability in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I often think wow I must not be well connected enough to find support systems that will advocate for me or mentor me to get fancy awards. Then I realize its probably structural. And even after all this I still think maybe I'm just not good at networking. Academia sucks.

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Why is "the chosen one" always a teenager? We're really gonna put the fate of the universe on someone with an undeveloped prefrontal cortex? Give me a story with a chosen one who is a 42 year old mom that has already seen some shit and is totally out of fucks to give

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

apparently we can ban abortions but we can't ban conversion therapy 🙃

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Merrick R. Osborne @merrickosborne.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

New paper out in Social Psychological and Personality Science with @mohammadatari.bsky.social! We ask: How does moral diversity shape communities’ responses to norm violations? Across 7 studies (N = 235k+), we find a surprisingly consistent pattern. tinyurl.com/48tp5k6j

tinyurl.com

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

So much love and solidarity to Ana Murguia, Debra Rojas, Dolores Huerta, and every other survivor. Chavez was just a man; women like them, then and now, are the true heroes of the farmworkers’ movement.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how you’re not a slaver.

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Lots of good gems here - definitely worth your time "If you think Claude Code is a better social scientist than you, then you’re probably right. But that means, at some point, you stopped trying to answer interesting/puzzling questions and started trying to win the publish-the-most-articles race."

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dona 🍤🥔 @aldonanana.myatproto.social · 03/03/2026

I made a bingo card

AI BOOSTER BINGO

The squares read:

I might get attacked for saying this

Imagine what it'll do in 5 years

Al critics are just afraid

Al is better than you

Everyone is doing it

"Levels the playing Field"

Your time will be spent on work that MATTERS

Your time will be spent correcting the Al's errors

MORE VOLUME!!

Shit outputs? Switch to [alternate LLM]

Yes jobs will be cut...

Humans aren't perfect either

It's FUN!!!

No practical advice

"Sorry bluesky"

Solution to chronic underfunding

What if it could cure cancer???

I made something that appears passable

No need for pesky underlings

Is it accurate? No. But...

Framing human work as "bespoke, hand-crafted"

Get with it or get left behind!!!

Al critics are luddites

This was actually written by AI

For more free printables please visit www.timvandevall.com, created by Tim van de Vall, copyright 2013 Dutch Renaissance Press LLC

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Calvin Lai @calvinklai.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Let's say I'm a researcher in a politically controversial topic: flu and hepatitis vaccines for children. I study interventions to increase vaccine uptake. Would I be doing "activist science" given the anti-vaxx political movement & anti-vaxx govt actions here in the US? (Inspired by #SPSP2026)

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

They ran out of rooms by the time I checked in for SPSP so I ended up getting the suite, so after party in my room I guess?? This is practically a studio apartment...bigger than the one I lived in Toronto for sure 🤣

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Instead of yawning when I see all the talks/posters at SPSP that are about AI, I can now say "this is contributing to a scientific monoculture" 🥸

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

New post! "Valuing the Process vs. the Product in Research," in which I try to describe some of the tensions around using GenAI/LLMs in scientific research, and why it can be so difficult to have productive conversations on the topic. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/valuing-th...

getsyeducated.substack.com

Valuing the Process vs. the Product in Research

On reasonable resistance to using GenAI in research

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 23/02/2026

but also, it's not that good at summarizing

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I feel like more people need to watch Star Trek. Like, AI would be cool and all if it actually freed us up to be creative, explore, and have dialogue. But it's just making us all poor and dumb. Current AI is not freeing us from capitalism but ensuring we stay in the trenches!!!

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Hey kids, an alternative is that you can totally skip getting a degree by just dropping out and you know what, that is FREE. You might even get some refunds!!

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I learned there is a hotpot place right near the conference center for SPSP and now my only priority is to find someone who will go eat hotpot with me.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I don’t think he code switched once, for real. Respect. 🫡

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Ocasio gang rise up 🙌🏽🇵🇷

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

YOU BETTER SHOUT OUT ALL OF AMERICA

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