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Don't forget the extremely pseudoscientific section on ESP at the end. He seems to believe in weird psychic abilities.

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 23h

Excited to be launching our new PhD program in Minds and Machines at UCL with co-Directors Tali Sharot and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social To apply, find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Our launch event is on Nov 10th, with a cracking lineup of speakers: luma.com/cikzcth0

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 03/10/2026

“I’m not saying all safety regulations are bad. I’m saying that I would personally mouth-pipette a solution of pure chloroform right now, today, in front of God & the NIH Director and the entire Office of Research Safety, if it meant a young scientist in my department could get a payline above 20%.”

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 01/10/2026

Although, in defense of Roger Waters, he asks you to picture *a lot* of random things

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 01/10/2026

😂😂😂 We can combine them! The "Picture this, Picture that!" questionnaire.

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 01/10/2026

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)

YouTube video by Roger Waters

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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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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 01/10/2026

Duke has a dynamic, vibrant community of psychologists, neuroscientists and philosophers. And the Research Triangle Area is fantastic to foster research excellence while keeping a healthy work-life balance. Please share and reach out if you're interested. More info coming soon!

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 01/10/2026

We work on understanding the links between visual perception and mental imagery (formats of representation, vividness, functions). We're also generally interested in consciousness and introspection. Our lab favors interdisciplinary approaches via behavioral, neuroimaging and philosophical tools.

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 01/10/2026

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

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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 · 30/09/2026

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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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 22/09/2026

Oh ok. I'm surprised! I would have thought that screenshotting and analyzing would have messed up the RTs (humans can do this super quickly but image analysis is still somewhat slow, or so I thought).

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 22/09/2026

But the zero shot, specific performance is annoying, especially for the dots. I wonder if a visual task using images (with no cue in html or file name) would be doable. Too expensive to analyze images.

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 22/09/2026

I'm not surprised about the attention and comprehension checks (I don't think they really work for humans either).

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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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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 22/09/2026

This is interesting. But my hunch is that if it's too complicated for LLMs it is also very complicated for humans. This is why I in general don't like attention checks. If too easy, they can be gamed. If too hard, well meaning participants can fail it.

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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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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 22/09/2026

This is very concerning Micah. Thanks for sharing. Can you say more about the type of task you were testing? E.g., did it involve visual discrimination? does it involve reading?

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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

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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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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 13/09/2026

I had a student last year who was complaining about how hard it was to get a co-op opportunity (which, ok, fair). “Not a single interview and I’ve applied to over 300 jobs!”, they said. That’s a lot of work, I replied. “Not really, I just make ChatGPT adjust my cover letter.” 🤷🏻‍♂️

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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...

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 07/09/2026

From the creators of you only use 10% of your brain (except for Einstein, he used more) and the left, rational and right, emotional brain halves, we bring you: The 90% of communication is non-verbal!

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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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