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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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Henrik Singmann @singmann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just opened: UBEL PhD studentships (eg at UCL): ubel-dtp.ac.uk/esrc-student... Reach out if you are interested in working with me on computational modelling in decision-making, memory, etc. or quantitative psych. 1st deadline: 30 October Unfortunately, only few places for international students.
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ESRC Studentships Main Competition - UBEL DTP
ESRC Studentships Main Competition The UBEL DTP’s fully funded ESRC studentships cover full payment of tuition fees per year and an annual maintenance stipend. What’s on offer UBEL DTP studentships co...
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Did you know that your speed — in a simple task of quickly pressing a button every time you see a yellow square — is faster when you are exhaling or pausing then when you are inhaling? Dr. Erika Yamazaki figured this out, did all the work, and published on it this week www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Response speed is modulated by respiratory phase
Behavioral neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 30/09/2026
You're competing with others in building a tower. Tallest tower wins. It costs more money to build than it generates. No one knows how tall towers can get.
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ejwagenmakers.bsky.social @ejwagenmakers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 30/09/2026
I still chuckle at this experience bsky.app/profile/joac...
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 29/09/2026
Lean into it
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PROPOSABLE Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
PROPOSABLE definition: a word derived from propose. See examples of proposable used in a sentence.
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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
@hpc-carpentry.bsky.social this might be of interest to your community, please feel free to distribute!
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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
or a space between words
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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 · 27/09/2026
Tastier, too
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 27/09/2026
Bittersweet 💔
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 26/09/2026
Spin him off into Dave As A Service -> profit
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 25/09/2026
"Evil computer runs deskilled society," is probably the most common standalone trope in Star Trek
Still from Star Trek: Lower Decks. A tired looking Boimler fist bumps with Mariner, whose right arm is in a sling. Agimus, a Pentium case with evil red LED lighting, in the foreground: 

YOU DARE MOCK AGIMUS?!
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 25/09/2026
You're right to push back, I see this margin is far too narrow for the proof. Let me abbreviate the theorem in a way that will not be confusing for readers in the future
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 23/09/2026
yolo
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GitHub - joachimvandekerckhove/introduction-to-bayesian-inference-2026: Open-source version of the paper "Introduction to Bayesian inference for psychology"
Open-source version of the paper "Introduction to Bayesian inference for psychology" - joachimvandekerckhove/introduction-to-bayesian-inference-2026
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 23/09/2026
In the unlikely case that anyone is interested, I'm happy to open-source the LaTeX code for this paper and you can edit in your own favorite franchise! The paper is meant for teaching, after all
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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
Option "C" amirite 😄
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 22/09/2026
"America Intelligence" was right there
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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 · 22/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Man Nodding in Agreement
Alt: Bones and Kirk nod at each other in agreement
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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 · 20/09/2026
Does make one wonder how many c. elegans you'd have to string together to get it to write bubblesort on command
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 19/09/2026
She joins Section 31's antimemetics department
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 19/09/2026
Yeah. I understand and share a lot of the concerns people have about generative AI but to see academics say they want to protect their IP is... Well let's say it adds to my concerns about the effects of AI
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 19/09/2026
That seems unnecessarily gracious, try again.
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 19/09/2026
wait that's amazing
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 18/09/2026
Bah gawd @mikemcmahan.bsky.social you've done it again
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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
Pretexas
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 18/09/2026
This seems like a perfect job for my Doordasher
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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 · 17/09/2026
Typing with your toes gets old quick 😉
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 17/09/2026
Oof. I had one of those for a while (and, for a memorable period, two!). They do help!
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 17/09/2026
I broke out the polo shirt for the occasion
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 16/09/2026
Thanks 😊
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 16/09/2026
It's nice! The best part is it doesn't come with extra work 😁
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 16/09/2026
🫣
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 15/09/2026
Sneaking microplastics in our pizza glue
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 15/09/2026
I had been wondering by what mechanism AI was going to kill us all. This virus stuff doesn't beat death by email yet
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 15/09/2026
My office door has a matte window with a sign that says something like "I can't hear you when you knock. Wave instead." But I'm almost never there so I have no idea how often people stand in that hallway waving at an empty room
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 15/09/2026
Be weird if it didn't
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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 · 14/09/2026
I'm not great at physical exercise but I'm not skipping Brain Day
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 14/09/2026
I've set a location based rule. No AI coding from home office, so I can code and feel Zen. Campus office, no holds barred.
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 12/09/2026
I remember the Deep Blue event as very formative. I definitely became more keen on a job with tenure after that.
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