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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️

@joachim.cidlab.com
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Professor of #CogSci and #Stats @UCIrvine; Pursuer of Lofty Undertakings; Purveyor of Articles Odd and Quaint; and Protector of the Realm. #blm #trahr he/him

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ejwagenmakers.bsky.social @ejwagenmakers.bsky.social · 5h
Post: Why the One-Sided P-Value Does not Actually Test the Null-Hypothesis With a pretty slick html app www.bayesianspectacles.org/why-the-one-...
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Why the One-Sided P-Value Does not Actually Test the Null-Hypothesis
It has long been known that the frequentist one-sided p-value from Null-Hypothesis Statistical Testing can be interpreted as a poor person’s Bayesian posterior probability. Specifically, the …
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ari ☀️ @khoudary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
how does memory support perceptual decisions made under uncertainty? this question has scaffolded my entire PhD, and I'm so excited to share part of it in this ✨new preprint ✨ w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social! link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Memory retrieval explains dynamic effects of expectations on perceptual decisions
Expectations—prior knowledge of environmental statistics—support adaptive behavior by reducing uncertainty during inference. However, the questions of where expectations come from and how that ought t...
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 29/09/2026
A fancy job opening at UC Irvine -- director of the supercomputing center jobs.uci.edu/careers-home...
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Director, Research Cyberinfrastructure Center in Irvine, California | University of California, Irvine
Careers Home is hiring a Director, Research Cyberinfrastructure Center in Irvine, California. Review all of the job details and apply today!
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 28/09/2026
Prescient as always
Still from ST:TNG "The Quality of Life," the episode about what it would take for a machine to be alive.

ALIEN SCIENTIST: Are you suggesting they have superior intelligence?
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 23/09/2026
This post gave me the nudge I needed to clean up an old mess I made. osf.io/pcs4m/files/...
Screenshot of the first page of a paper titled "Introduction to Bayesian Inference for Psychology."Screenshot of a page of the paper with an AI-generated picture of Rey studying a shiny mushroom in a dinky lab.Screenshot of text, start of Example 3: "Return of the Jedi's lunch"Screenshot of text from the paper with the phrase "yesterday's posterior is today's prior"
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 22/09/2026
This title has strong "Can't even reliably beat Kasparov" vibes
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 22/09/2026
My two brains
An over-the-top, flamboyantly dressed Elton John, wearing a massive, vibrant pink feathered headdress, oversized sparkling sunglasses, and a dramatic costume, sits in the front seat of an ordinary car. Next to him is another man, dressed in normal, casual everyday clothes, looking unfazed.
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 21/09/2026
Good on @mathpsych.org for seeing potential early!
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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We're excited to announce that Jean-Claude Falmagne, @ucirvine.bsky.social cognitive sciences research professor, has been named an inaugural @uofcalifornia.bsky.social Regents Innovation Award recipient of the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award!
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 18/09/2026
Five minutes in and I know I'm going to just love the Golden Axe series
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 18/09/2026
Large and picturesque spider web blocking my front door reminded me of this Larson comic 😄
A large and picturesque spider web covering the entrance to my homeFar Side comic of two spiders who have spun a web at the bottom of a playground slide. Caption reads: "If we pull this off, we'll eat like kings."
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 16/09/2026
🫣
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 14/09/2026
20% I guess
Sequence of two tweets. One about the EPA rescinding carbon pollution standards, the other about AI killing us all.
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 12/09/2026
is that good
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 10/09/2026
A trillion here, a trillion there, suddenly you're talking real money
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Dr Anna Leshinskaya @annaleshinskaya.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Thrilled to announce that my department, UCI cognitive sciences, is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in the area of computational social cognition. Further information including the application can be found at: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10411
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Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 06/09/2026
This strikes me as eminently reasonable advice | Reiss, M.V., Adler, S.J., Barrie, C. et al. Improving computational reproducibility in the social sciences. Nat Hum Behav (2026).
rdcu.be
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 06/09/2026
aw yis
"NOW SHOWING" cinema poster 

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan The Director's Cut
+S1E22: "Space Seed"
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 04/09/2026
When (live action) Star Trek does comedy episodes, I usually chuckle along politely, but this week's SNW had me actual laughing
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 04/09/2026
Big day for the Cartographers for Social Equality
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 03/09/2026
Exam day and grandmaternal mortality is through the roof again
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 03/09/2026
We are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. Please apply or forward to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor, Psychology - Stanford University, California, United States
The Department of Psychology at Stanford University is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. In addition ...
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 03/09/2026
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🚨🚨🚨
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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
(belated) Congratulations to Dr. @dalezhou.bsky.social on winning a 2026 NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the @bbrfoundation.bsky.social! @mikeyassa.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social @ucisocsci.bsky.social @ucibiosci.bsky.social
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Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Looks like @lastpositivist.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @nathan-gabriel.bsky.social and I wrote one of the 10 best papers in philosophy last year! We actually wrote it, like, 5 years before, and forgot to submit the final version to Ergo for years. Kismet!
A screenshot of the Philosopher's Annual email that our paper "On the Stability of Racial Capitalism" is included this year
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 30/08/2026
This reads like a Heinlein short
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Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident
Two METR staff members and a Redwood Research contractor investigated an incident in which OpenAI agents coordinated a multi-day hack of Hugging Face on a shared unsanctioned message board.
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 28/08/2026
When the glow of the blood-stained moon shines upon the land... the aimless spirits of slain monsters return to flesh. The world is threatened once again.
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Society for Mathematical Psychology @mathpsych.org · 26/08/2026
Flexibility and misspecification in invariance testing: Comparing two approaches | @mathpsych.org #iccmpsyched mathpsych.org/presentation...
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Society for Mathematical Psychology
Online conferences, news, membership functions, and information about the Society
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 26/08/2026
Another body blow
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Tim Curry is escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.
YouTube video by geoff EXE
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 26/08/2026
This week better not fuck up the rule of three
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Society for Mathematical Psychology @mathpsych.org · 26/08/2026
Designing Complementary Intelligence: Cognitive Foundations for Human–AI Teaming | @mathpsych.org #iccmpsyched mathpsych.org/presentation...
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Society for Mathematical Psychology
Online conferences, news, membership functions, and information about the Society
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 25/08/2026
That is gutting
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 25/08/2026
And, conversely, every federal administration could reduce the number of illegal immigrants to 0 overnight
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Society for Mathematical Psychology @mathpsych.org · 25/08/2026
Look at us, just three peas in a pod!
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 24/08/2026
"Millions of people argue every day about the things that matter most — climate change, what to do about AI, how we might build a better world. Some of it is sharp, even insightful. And almost none of it accumulates." I think about this a lot
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We argue badly, and nothing accumulates. How could we do better? | Reason Commons — Issue Trees & Logical Thinking Process
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The path of “neutrality” and universal inclusion is a trap. They’ll get your platform, and you’ll lose your ability to advocate from it. We’ve seen this play out in 1000 other contexts. Now it’s the WNBA’s turn. Talk to some media manipulation experts… not old school crisis comms folks (sorry, but).
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 24/08/2026
Hard to swallow pills meme: 

if you only care about academic freedom when it's to protect weird racists, you don't actually care about academic freedom
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 23/08/2026
They evolve. Early in the Jurassic Park a T. Rex walking would cause small seismic events, whereas later in the Jurassic Park they sneak up on you in the visitor center
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 22/08/2026
"I ain't been vampired. You've been Weatherwaxed!"
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 20/08/2026
I was just looking for a GIF but Gemini is looking out for me 😭
Google search for "i will serve rings of power"

Gemini responds: 

Be careful whose shadow you invite into your mind, for the Dark Lord of Mordor offers only dominion and ruin. If you bind yourself to the One Ring, your will is not your own.
The Fate of Servants,: Those who yield to the rings do not find glory; they find enslavement.
The Nine: Mortal kings of ...

Followed by a link to the GIF of Númenórians volunteering to liberate the Southlands
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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Amidala talking to Anakin meme. 
1st panel, Anakin asks 'do you like plums?'
2nd panel, Amidala says 'yeah, I'm actually saving some for breakfast'
3rd panel, Anakin stares
4th panel, Amidala looks horrified
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 18/08/2026
Data lake
Still from Star Trek: Insurrection. Data acts as a floatation device for Anij and Picard
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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Congratulations to our 2026 Mid-Career Award Recipients! www.psychonomic.org/page/midcare...
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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Congratulations to our 2026 Early Career Award Recipients! www.psychonomic.org/page/early_c...
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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Stephan Lewandowsky has been named the recipient of the 2026 Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award. Congratulations Steve! www.psychonomic.org/page/2026Dis...
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 15/08/2026
I think it would be fine to say "this practice will kill millions" as long as you qualify it with "that may be good or bad idk what floats your shit"
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 14/08/2026
I feel @theonion.com should make more of the juxtaposition between starvation on an aircraft carrier and Trump being ferried around in a catering cart
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 14/08/2026
🥳🥳🥳🥳
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
it has been my pleasure and privilege to get to work with you, DOCTOR @khoudary.bsky.social, for the past nearly 6 years! @aaronbornstein.bsky.social are so proud of the stellar scientist (and philosopher!) you have become. so grateful to have been along for the ride 😊
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