iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Imagination researchers: The new VVIQ just dropped! We can use this (terrible) Roger Waters song, in which he keeps asking you to picture a bunch of random things. 🎶 🎶 Picture your finger pushing the doorbell Picture a seat on a private plane Picture no windows, picture no doors 🎶 🎶

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Roger Waters - "PICTURE THAT" (Live)

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 6h

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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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 7h

Our lab is growing! We're looking for a graduate student to start next fall (applications due on Dec 1) and a postdoctoral researcher to start soon (ad coming soon; starting date is flexible, probably some time next year). subjectivitylab.org

subjectivitylab.org

The Subjectivity Lab · Duke University · Jorge Morales, PhD

Duke interdisciplinary research group led by Dr. Jorge Morales studying vision, mental imagery, consciousness, and introspection.

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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 22h

pouring one out for mturk today

“Amazon Mechanical Turk will permanently close on September 30, 2026.”

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NPR @npr.org · 29/09/2026

The MacArthur Foundation has just announced its latest batch of 20 fellows. Among the recipients of the $800,000 "no-strings-attached" fellowships are researchers who were recognized for their work at the intersection of science and justice. n.pr/4ynOvq0

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This year's MacArthur Fellows include researchers who fuse science and justice

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 29/09/2026

Massive congratulations to my colleague @felipedebrigard.bsky.social for being awarded a MacArthur Fellowship! today.duke.edu/2026/09/duke...

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Duke Scientist Awarded MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ | Duke Today

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

AI is the Gyges' ring of student work: it offers perfect concealment of wrongdoing. If Glaucon is right, then everyone will use it to do injustice (cheat), & will be wise to do so. If Socrates/Plato is right, then doing so also harms the wrong-doer, whose soul will be malformed into misery by it.

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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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Martin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Our department at UC San Diego is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor. Open area, research addressing foundational issues in cogsci using modern computational methods. I love my department, and you will too. Apply!! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04633 #cogscisci #cogsci #DevPsyc #PsychSciSky

apol-recruit.ucsd.edu

Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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Reza Shadmehr @rezashadmehr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Faculty position opening in computational neuroscience at Duke University. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32697

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 22/09/2026

Yes, was a metacognition battery with adapted meta dots task and a recognition memory task (which of these items did you just see). AI was able to hit 85% on each condition even with staircasing and also produced realistic confidence ratings and RTs.

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 22/09/2026

So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?

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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

DataPipe (pipe.jspsych.org) is ready for its post-OSF life. You can use it as before to save data from online experiments, but now the data can be sent to Zenodo, Google Drive, or a Dataverse instance. Existing OSF connections work until 11/16 I took this opportunity to do some major updates...

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DataPipe

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Wiktoria Kozyra @wiktoriakozyra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m very grateful to @smfleming.bsky.social for his supervision and @kevingoneill.github.io for a great collaboration. We show that the PE bias in confidence judgments can be a Bayes-optimal consequence of inference in high-dimensional spaces, and in CNNs, the bias also increases with dimensionality

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 20/09/2026

Reality monitoring LLM version

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hivemind: does anyone here have experience with (and ideally recommendations for) hosting services for academic podcasts? If so, please respond to this post or contact me directly.

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 20/09/2026

Reality monitoring LLM version

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 20/09/2026

This is me reading the news from the last decade.

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 20/09/2026

Please, I am begging you. Do not use dplyr::ntile() in any serious statistical analysis in which you want to group continuous observation into quantile-based bins. Despite the name it doesn't actually do that, and the thing it actually does is very dangerous when accuracy matter. #rstats

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The trouble with ‘ntile()’ – Notes from a data witch

Please, please, please do not use ‘dplyr::ntile()’ in an analysis that will be submitted to a regulatory agency. It’s secretly an ill-conceived SQL tool that doesn’t do what you probably want it to, a...

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 18/09/2026

The Psychology & Neuroscience Department at Duke is looking to hire a Full Professor in clinical psychology (Distinguished Chair, endowed). Specific research area is open, but preference will be given to applicants employing human neuroscience to advance and improve mental health. Deadline Nov. 15.

academicjobsonline.org

Duke University, Psychology and Neuroscience

Job #AJO32753, Professor (tenured), Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US

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Kevin O’Neill @kevingoneill.github.io · 17/09/2026

New commentary! Are scientists and laypeople alike under persistent illusions of understanding? Shiffrin, Stigler, & Keil (2026) seem to think so. I argue this isn't the case w/ @sharonchungsl.bsky.social, Adam Harris, @davidlagnado.bsky.social & @singmann.bsky.social: rdcu.be/3swzbgH3ePva

rdcu.be

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 17/09/2026

Alleged new Siri AI functionality. I'm terrified of running this command though. I...don't wanna know? (Sorry if I owe you something.)

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

How your email finds me.

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

📖 New review out today in @natrevneuro.nature.com: Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition 🧠🧪 Full-text link to the paper is here: rdcu.be/9YK3mF7dYhFa

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Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New tenure-track faculty position at Duke! The Neurobiology department is looking for a computational neuroscientist. Join a highly collaborative & interdisciplinary community. My time at Duke has been amazing so far & we would love the opportunity to collaborate with you! Applications due Dec 1.

academicjobsonline.org

Duke University, Neurobiology

Job #AJO32697, Tenure Track Assistant Professor - AI/ML Neurobiology, Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Trying to decide how much room to leave for handwritten responses is tricky but we are gonna preserve critical thinking if we have to bring back feather quills to do it idc

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ángeles @angeleserana.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Tres plazas abiertas a concurso en el Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas UNAM. Acá la convocatoria: www.filosoficas.unam.mx/docs/2103/fi...

filosoficas.unam.mx

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is hiring! Focus on social cognition, broadly construed. Come be my colleague :) I am not on the search committee but happy to talk about the campus, environment, careers, etc any time. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10411

recruit.ap.uci.edu

Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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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...

facultypositions.stanford.edu

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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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🚨 WashU is hiring! 🚨 As part of WashU’s +AI Initiative, the search includes tenure-track opportunities in Psychological & Brain Sciences for people who place AI or machine learning at the center of their research. I'm on the committee, so feel free to reach out with questions. Please repost!

insideartsci.washu.edu

Rules of Life

Recruiting interdisciplinary expertise to explore fundamental questions regarding living systems and the physical world

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 01/09/2026

So close to the Arctic Circle!

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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Finally out in @JOCN_Journal. We had hoped to inhibit the amygdala using transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) as a proof-of-concept that the amygdala is causally involved in emotional episodic memory encoding, but this backfired…1/10 direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

direct.mit.edu

Enhanced Episodic Memory Encoding Following Modulation of the Amygdala via Transcranial Low-intensity Focused Ultrasound

Abstract. The amygdala is considered crucial to the formation of emotional episodic memories, yet causal evidence in humans is limited due to challenges in noninvasive neuromodulation of deep brain st...

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My history of AI poster's updated! It now features notable prehistory, the 1930s, + about 40 additional nodes in the 40s-2020s (including a new McCarthy quote from 2005). you can download it from my website and if you find any typos I don't want to know www.daniellejwilliams.com/posters

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Adi Upadhyayula @adibuoy23.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

(1/9) Preprint Alert! 🚨 New work on how the brain comprehends narratives. 🧠🎥 Are "Key Moments" - our recent line of research - truly distinct from "Event Boundaries"? We put them to the test to see if these two constructs differ from each other. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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OSF

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We're currently hiring a new director for the renowned UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. The director will be appointed as a Professor in our psychology department: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07814

recruit.ucdavis.edu

Director of the Center for Mind and Brain & Professor of Psychology

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

AirBnB experiences where for $200 you can teach my class, go to faculty meetings

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 26/08/2026

The NSF GRFP solicitation is out. Aspiring Psychology PhD students, the deadline is October 20. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Dr. Fim @fim.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ansel Adams on assignment for IBM - one of my favourite shots. Not the usual landscape but the skill of a woman weaving magnetic core memory. The beat up nails captures total “woman in STEM” vibes.

A woman with extremely short painted nails weaving magnetic core memory. A series of rows and columns of wires in a grid.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

How your email finds me.

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Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

nominative determinism is bullsh-

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 16/08/2026

I guess it’s indeed hard to make friends in your middle age

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 14/08/2026

I just found our new lab logo

drawing by Odilon Redon of a terrifying looking surrealist eye like a hot air ballon carrying what looks like a human head. Odilon Redon. The Eye like a Strange Balloon Mounts toward Infinity (L'Œil, comme un ballon bizarre se dirige vers l'infini). 1882

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simine vazire @simine.com · 10/08/2026

Special issue at Psych Science on psychological science in the real world! Send us your best work looking at whether effects from the lab (or from theories) hold up in ecologically valid settings. Submission deadline: 15 January 2027 www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

psychologicalscience.org

Special Issue Call for Submissions: “From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World”

Editors: Roni Porat and Vishnu SreekumarPsychological Science invites submissions presenting innovative research that brings psychological science “into the wild,” whether to strengthen its ecological...

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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Please share--the Shansky lab is currently recruiting at all levels to work on an NIH-funded project investigating sex differences in the neural circuits that drive defensive behaviors. The official job ad isn't yet up, but interested folks can contact me as instructed here www.shanskylab.com/join

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Join — Shansky Lab

The lab at our end-of-semester field day

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Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

When we started scanning human infants 13 years ago, it seemed likely that functional responses in infant cortex would be qualitatively different from adults. Instead we keep finding similarities between infants and adults. Even for scene perception, despite the slow development of navigation.

Image of brain activation when infants look at movies of visual scenes, showing activation in three cortical regions: OPA, PPA and MPA.

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Rocco Chiou @rocco-chiou.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

At long last, I’m excited to share our latest preprint on the cortical topography of mental imagery! Building on the tethering hypothesis of brain evolution, we examined the spatial layout of imagery-driven neural activities to know how visual, auditory, tactile & multisensory imagery is organised.

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 01/08/2026

I’m still trying to understand why this car dealership subscribes to Science.

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