iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

So rare to see a behavioral effect so fundamental these days. ❤️

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 12h

Academia is full of horrible stuff, but some lines in the sand still hold and should be actively maintained. Open harassment in response to less than fully deferential treatment of senior academics is such a line.

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I really do not like the recent push against anthropomorphic language

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Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Welp, there’s that. Considering that learning even simple rules is exceedingly difficult for *5 year olds*, we really shouldn’t be surprised.

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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 27/09/2026

conservatively, 98% of ai discourse is believers in human exceptionalism taking roundhouse kicks to the face

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 26/09/2026

My God, I can actually give Opus 5.5 open ended assignments like "make this code run as fast as its C equivalent, or tell me why it can't be done" and leave it for several hours -- and it actually works and has done the job. And not by cheating with cgo either.

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Mikkel Wallentin @mikkelwallentin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

New PhD-opportunity at Aarhus University with a project investigating the cognitive correlates of having no inner speech. Supervised by Johanne Nedergaard and yours truly. Deadline 11 November. Starting date 1 February 2027. Get in touch if you want to know more. phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/o...

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Individual differences in inner speech: Measurement and modelling (5+3), 2026-14

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ispsm @ispsm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How do philosophers and scientists of mind actually work together, and where does the collaboration break down? ISPSM is launching In Conversation, a new online series that aims to bring philosophers and scientists together to work through questions like these. 📅 23 Oct 2026, 1pm BST/8am EDT

Poster for "Philosophy and Science in conversation", the inaugural ISPSM In Conversation event. Speakers: Megan Peters (UCL/UC Irvine), Ida Momennejad (Microsoft Research, New York), Jorge Morales (Duke). Held online, 23/10/26, 1pm BST/8am EDT. QR code and link: tinyurl.com/ISPSMInConversation.

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Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That is indeed the correct conclusion to draw

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026

This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy.

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My plea to scholars of language, literature, literary history, and genre is to take this seriously, rather than standing opposed and incurious. It’s a massive opportunity for the humanities as such to reevaluate and refresh our methods and goals.

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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New episode!! 🎙️🎉 A conversation with @damianblasi.bsky.social about linguistic diversity and what it can tell us. Linguistic diversity is a precious part of our species' heritage. It also offers a wellspring of clues about history, culture, and the human mind. Listen: disi.org/the-natural-...

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Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Reading the TiCS paper by @initself.bsky.social et al., reminded me of the debates around Hoffman et al's interface theory from a decade ago. I think my commentary on it featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/interfacethe... struck a similarly Umwelt-oriented position w/ sprinkles of predictive coding

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#interfacetheory: True enough

In 1625, the astronomer Christopher Scheiner confirmed Johann Kepler’s hunch that images projected to the retina through the crystalline lens of the eye, much like images passed through telescope l…

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Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Yes, exactly. Platonic representations are one of the many erroneous conclusions reached under the assumption that intelligence is a one-dimensional scalar.

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

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Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We are hiring a full professor for "Intelligence in biological and artificial systems". If you don't know about the German system yet, let me tell you a little bit about working as a professor at the institute. Thread 👇

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Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

context sensitivity in google translate

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Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Seeing people who don’t understand what’s happening calling for executions of those responsible

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Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences @weinbergcollege.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Huge honors for Northwestern cognitive science 🎉 At @cogscisociety.bsky.social's meeting in Rio, Matt Goldrick (@mattgoldrick.bsky.social) won the Elman Prize & professor emeritus Doug Medin won the Rumelhart Prize — the field's top award. 🧠 More: news.weinberg.northwestern.edu/2026/08/13/t...

Robert Glushko, who endowed the Rumelhart Prize, places the Jeffrey L. Elman Prize medal around Matthew Goldrick's neck on stage, with conference signage reading "Cognitive (In)efficiency, Rio de Janeiro" in the background.

Doug Medin shakes hands with Robert Glushko, who endowed the Rumelhart Prize, on stage at the Cognitive Science Society conference, in front of a screen announcing Medin as the winner.

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

thanks Daniel for this v useful guide.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

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Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

glad that more people are having that realization! it’s a bitter pill but the sooner we swallow it the more predictive the discourse around AI becomes.

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This video on the HuggingFace-OpenAI incident, calmly presented by OpenAI researchers (Eric is great btw, hi Eric), is one of the best uses of your time all year in AI. I'll probably rewatch tomorrow to write about it more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Dy...

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Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident

The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident - A Technical Reconstruction and Its Implications for AI When AI Goes Rogue. The Incident That Changed Everything. An OpenAI evaluation agent…

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Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

What soft power looks like in 2026

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Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I think I speak for a lot of men (who don’t have daughters) when I say TIL

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Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

like us! No one is doing computer science and math with their naked brains. Pen & paper, math notation, computer language—these are our neurosymbolic add ons! @lampinen.bsky.social , @blaiseaguera.bsky.social , @kmahowald.bsky.social all get it. Not sure why this isn’t more obvious to folks

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Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Exactly. And this is the sense of neurosymbolic intelligence that we humans inhabit as well!

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Applications are open for SFI's 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. SFI is looking for recent Ph.D. graduates with strong quantitative and computational skills who want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

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Martin Wiener @martinwiener.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Alpha rhythm determines speech perception rate? And speeding it up makes unintelligibly fast speech comprehensible? This is nuts! www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

@cogscisociety.bsky.social any word on when the website is coming back online?

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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Are the mental contents underlying implicit evaluations accessible to conscious introspection? Prior studies show high predictive accuracy, leading to a growing consensus that people can introspectively access their implicit biases. New paper out in JPSP! 🧵🧵🧵

The tide is turning against a major idea in social psychology: that implicit evaluations reflect mental content that lies beyond conscious awareness. This view is being reconsidered in light of mounting evidence that people can predict their own implicit evaluations with high accuracy. However, there are reasons to question whether such predictive accuracy reflects introspective access. First, prior studies have relied almost exclusively on familiar targets (e.g., racial groups), allowing predictions to be informed by background knowledge (e.g., knowing that a group is stigmatized) rather than introspection. Second, implicit and explicit evaluations have been highly correlated in prior work, enabling accurate predictions simply by assuming that implicit evaluations mirror explicit ones. Here, we report eight experiments (five pre-registered; N = 6,794) designed to minimize these nonintrospective routes to predictive accuracy. We introduced participants to novel targets and shifted implicit and explicit evaluations of these targets in opposite directions, rendering explicit evaluations an unreliable cue. Under these conditions, predictive accuracy ranged from low to nonexistent; participants frequently anticipated shifts in their implicit evaluations in the opposite direction of the actual change. These results generalized across two learning paradigms (impression formation and attribute conditioning), two implicit evaluation measures (Implicit Association Test and evaluative priming task), and between-participant and within-participant designs. We consider multiple interpretations of these findings, including the possibility that implicit evaluations reflect mental content that is largely or even entirely inaccessible to conscious awareness.

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Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Just up: my entry on #Categorization for @oecs-bot.bsky.social - Western vs Buddhist ”classical” views, William James, behaviorism, prototypes, theories, chinchillas & mantis shrimp, neural nets — it‘s got it all. oecs.mit.edu/pub/mrj0pnj5...

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Most of the federal agency science budgets goes into the salaries of students and trainees, and the decision to take that money and instead give it to industry and already rich venture capitalists is fundamentally a decision to have many fewer scientists and do far less science in the future.

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Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

cf. "So I finally tried Claude [and it sucks]"

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Psychologists should found “participant island,” where we strand a large representative sample of people who must complete our tasks to earn airdrops of food and water. If you’re really good you get to temporarily board the Neuroimaging yacht

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 11/07/2026

The lying, cheating Anthropic has hired a little man to live in my computer and talk to me

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Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

As someone who increasingly uses AI (coding, exploring connections b/w ideas, summarizing, outlining, editing..) I find LLM-generated text to be clean and efficient. LLMs know how to communicate. But I am literally nauseated by the idea of putting any LLM-written text into the public sphere.

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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 10/07/2026

Reddit is one of the few repositories of human knowledge and experience over decades, which makes it ten times more valuable than any meta product. Protect it and use it for the public good. #ScienceSky 🧪

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Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Sublime is the word. So so good...

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Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is the sort of thing that makes me think that in 50 years we’ll look at today as the dark age of neuroscience. Back when people believed in the doctrine of spikes.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Research measuring the effects of AI in education has a major quality control problem that should disqualify most of it from being considered in policy discussions or applied in teaching practice. Quick new post from me codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/t...

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The problem with evidence production on AI in education

Photo by Camille Villanueva on Unsplash The research field of artificial intelligence in education (AIED) has a long history of investigating the effects of AI on learning and other educational out…

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Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It’s almost as though the admin is planning to funnel this X-labs money to certain someones. Almost… 😐

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