Reposted by Konstantina SokratousAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 31/08/2026I can no longer in good faith recommend anyone to study in the US, or stay stateside for work and further education after completing degree programs they had started during the Biden era. US higher ed is unrecognizable even compared to a year ago when ICE was kidnapping students from their homes 282699834
Reposted by Konstantina Sokratousスコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026In 1963 cosmonaut Valentina Ponomareva was to be the second woman in space on Vostok 6, launching the day after Valentina Tereshkova on Vostok 5. But she was a feminist who spoke her mind, a problem for her bosses. So a man replaced her on Vostok 6. She never flew in space and later retired. 02811
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousSaurabh @saurabhr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026One Python function, all 17 @dobyrahnev.bsky.social (2025) measures, plus d', criterion, mean confidence. 26 numbers back from a single call. 183
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousSaurabh @saurabhr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026There are 17 different methods to measure whether confidence tracks accuracy, and these do not include Bayesian or Information Theory based measurements. We present MetaSignal with @makwana.bsky.social @lazyneuron.bsky.social and @brianodegaard.bsky.social to have common platform to access them. 13619
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousSaurabh @saurabhr.bsky.social · 30/07/20268/8 For psychologists, cognitive scientists, and anyone who wants agent behavior measured like a real experiment instead of a leaderboard score. For anyone who wants to design boutique experiments for LLM without the worry of developing boutique pipelines. #Reproducibility 021
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousSaurabh @saurabhr.bsky.social · 30/07/20267/8 Docs: psychscanner.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Code: github.com/saurabhr/psy... #OpenSource #LLM #CognitiveScience #AgenticAI #Psychology #MachinePsychology #MachineInterpretability #NeuroAI Preprint coming soon in collaboration @makwana.bsky.social & @lazyneuron.bsky.socialpsychscanner.readthedocs.ioPsychScannerA framework for running psychological experiments with large language models. 131
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousSaurabh @saurabhr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Can an AI tell its own words from yours? This is "reality monitoring." In humans, failing at it is linked to hallucinations and delusions. In this work we investigated reality monitoring in 6 LLMs of different sizes in collaboration with @lazyneuron.bsky.social and @brianodegaard.bsky.social. 1147
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousHadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 20/05/2026breaking: pope leo has joined anthropic 916512
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousCenter for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) @arc-mpib.bsky.social · 15/05/2026🚨Next week's talk at ARC Join us for a talk presented by Dr. Jan Pfänder @janpfa.bsky.social (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology). 📅 21 May 11:00 (Local Time Germany) @mpib-berlin.bsky.social or online See the link for details👇 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/events/45727...mpib-berlin.mpg.deARC Talk: Jan Pfänder, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag): Strengthening Trust in Climate Scientists in the US: A Megastudy Approach 0104
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousKatherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 16/05/2026Photosynthetic machinery can be harvested from spinach and transplanted into the eyes of mice, where it transforms light into molecules that carry energy and can tame inflammation.nature.comMouse eyes photosynthesize after plant-to-animal transplantCould spinach extracts be the next treatment for dry-eye disease? 031
Reposted by Konstantina Sokratousbeany tuesday @beanytuesday.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Social Media in 2035 8495432248
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Every ad now 8271363078
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousOpinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 07/05/2026god forbid a French rat live out his dream of becoming a chef on a cruiseship 143976739
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/04/2026RESULT: The right took over the Francis Howell school board, a large MO district in the St. Louis suburbs, earlier this decade; followed book bans & restrictive policies on LGBTQ students. Tonight, the slate endorsed by the teacher's slate swept, and the last remaining conservative was ousted. 375196998
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousVarun @mkvarun.com · 05/01/2026I’m currently looking for full-time roles in Machine Learning, Data Science, or Computational Neuroscience. If you know of any relevant roles or teams hiring, I would greatly appreciate a connection. Portfolio: www.mkvarun.com #MachineLearning #DataScience #AI #JobSearch #NeuroJobs #STEMJobsmkvarun.comVarun Machhale Kumar 041
Konstantina Sokratous @lazyneuron.bsky.social · 20/12/2025An inevitable consequence of AI peer reviewing is becoming reviewer #2, if you don’t use it Now you come off being the a-hole for not jumping on the “great paper, the world is full of beautiful rainbows, look at the amazing bees”* train *example as broad as some of these lame a$$ reviews 🤣🤣 020
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousJenni @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Academia has this way of making you feel utterly unsuccessful even when by any reasonable standard you are doing just fine. 841645
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousMichael Rera @michaelrera.bsky.social · 04/12/2025If you have only one thing to read today... "Universities are being retrofitted as fulfillment centers of cognitive convenience." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...currentaffairs.orgAI is Destroying the University and Learning ItselfStudents use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education. 38745
Reposted by Konstantina Sokratousarxiv cs.CV @arxiv-cs-cv.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Oli Bridge, Huey Sun, Botond Branyicskai-Nagy, Charles D'Ornano, Shomit Basu Diminishing Returns in Self-Supervised Learning arxiv.org/abs/2512.03862 011
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousManikya Alister @manikyaalister.bsky.social · 11/08/2025We know that a consensus of opinions is persuasive, but how reliable is this effect across people and types of consensus, and are there any kinds of claims where people care less about what other people think? This is what we tested in our new(ish) paper in @psychscience.bsky.social 56731
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousRichard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/? 17289122
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousTobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Josh Tenenbaum's inspiring keynote at #cogsci2025 on growing vs scaling AI, the big questions of cognitive science, and the many open questions for the field. 16414
Reposted by Konstantina Sokratousarxiv cs.CL @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Xiaomin Li, Xupeng Chen, Jingxuan Fan, Eric Hanchen Jiang, Mingye Gao Multi-head Reward Aggregation Guided by Entropy arxiv.org/abs/2503.20995 011
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousCaroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Inspired by my reading this week, I wrote a list of the resources I think every cognitive science researcher should read/listen to about theory development. It's in this google.doc (feel free to add your own suggestions) and in the thread below. docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comTheory: Whtat to readThe role of theory in cognitive science Or: my guide to what to read if you really want to understand how to do good, robust , theory-driven cognitive science. (disclaimer: this is an aspirational gu... 59520
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 28/03/2025How does exercise and fitness promote healthy brain aging? An outstanding, comprehensive review @thelancet.bsky.social reduced neuroinflammmation, preserves blood-brain-barrier, neurogenesis, role of exerkines, and much more www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 11552148
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousHugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 12/12/2024I'm excited about this new analysis approach because we can now estimate when changes in strategy, goal choice, conflict etc. occur in open state spaces. Providing metrics for studies with patients & sec-sec metrics for upcoming fMRI data and existing iEEG data with Sea Hero Quest #neuroskyence 0234
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousCody Cushing @codycush.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Nothing helps beat the pseudoscience label like humbly comparing your theory with no empirical support to the theory of general relativity 😂 4163
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousMariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 04/12/2024We had a wonderful time at this workshop w/ @blackinneuro.bsky.social! If you missed seeing me & @shahana-ansari.bsky.social talk about how to give constructive & kind feedback on manuscripts, check out the recording – coming soon! Huge thanks to the @blackinneuro.bsky.social team for having us! ❤️ 0269
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousDr Hannimal @hisotalus.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Funded PhD opportunity for AI-driven early detection of dementia using multimodal data supervised by my colleague and friend Qiang Liu. Cannot recommend him more highly, I co-supervise a PhD student with him and this is an absolute bomb of an opportunity www.findaphd.com/phds/project...findaphd.comAI-driven early detection of dementia using multimodal data at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.comPhD Project - AI-driven early detection of dementia using multimodal data at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com 1115
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousItai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Grant agency: "In the end, despite some initial enthusiasm, the panel was not convinced [...], and expected that the impact in the field is likely to be low." Despite evidence to the contrary, funding bodies remain confident they can predict the success of a project. elifesciences.org/articles/13323 39829
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousSam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 12/11/2024I wish that I was able to convince the students in my class that the ultimate goal of science isn't accumulation of facts but the compression of facts into theories. Mel summarizes it well here: www.nature.com/articles/nn1... Unfortunately, I think this is a minority viewpoint within neuroscience.nature.com 411020
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousMike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 24/07/2024Announcing the launch of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: oecs.mit.edu! OECS is a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics in cogsci to a broad audience of students and scholars.oecs.mit.eduOpen Encylopedia of Cognitive Science 513971
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousPeter Kvam @peterkvam.bsky.social · 12/06/2024How do we make choices when our options change over time? In a new paper with @lazyneuron.bsky.social & Andy Fitch, just accepted at Psych Review, we explore "alternative-general" representations of evidence that allow us to make good decisions even when our options shift. osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 021
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousPhivos Phylactou @phivph.com · 18/04/2024Hey, let’s become colleagues! Dr. Siobhan Schabrun is looking for 2 postdocs. Join our lab where we study the neural & biological underpinnings of pain. TMS, EEG, fMRI, multiomics, you name it! 011
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousKate Nussenbaum @katenuss.bsky.social · 17/04/2024I am delighted that I’ll be joining Boston University’s dept. of psychological and brain sciences as an assistant professor in July 2025! I’ll be recruiting Ph.D. students and hiring a lab manager to start alongside me — see here for more info: katenuss.com/lab 🧠👩🔬💻 9559
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13/04/2024When "tech" meant faster computers and smaller phones, it was exciting, you wanted to know what they were going to come up with next. Now it's a bunch of assholes trying to figure out new ways to charge you a subscription to look at the shittiest ads you can imagine 6544371253
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousPlease Follow the Official Guardian Account @guardian-world-rss.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Biggest ever survey of trans Americans finds 94% happier after transitiontheguardian.comBiggest ever survey of trans Americans finds 94% happier after transitionThe 2022 US Trans Survey of 92,000 transgender adults, finds continued discrimination, harassment and even violence at work 422232747
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousAmy @lolennui.bsky.social · 29/12/2023modern society is so divorced from our food sources that most people who eat pop tarts have never actually killed one themselves 13167621571
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousMark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 18/12/2023See: Canada has failed to act on this momentum (best I can tell). Grad student stipends in 🇨🇦 haven't changed for 20 years. Like... literally zero inflation-adjustment. As a 🇨🇦 expat, I can't even dream of returning to run a competitive lab... #AcademicSky #CanadaPoli www.nature.com/articles/d41....nature.comCanadian PhD students and postgrads plan mass walkout over low payAcademics are demanding a significant boost to government-sponsored fellowships and scholarships, which haven’t changed for decades. Academics are demanding a significant boost to government-sponsor... 395
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousBrian Odegaard @brianodegaard.bsky.social · 06/12/2023@saurabhr.bsky.social's first paper from my lab is now in press! Using behavior, machine learning, and computational modeling, he found that during a reality monitoring task, subjects have an "externalization bias" to report imagined memories as perceived. tinyurl.com/bdzjwzhn 033
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousCailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social · 05/12/2023Hello! Do you like *free* things that are *boring* for most people, but *interesting* for a few? Then maybe you'd like a copy of my book *Modeling Scientific Communities* - downloadable from Cambridge for the next two weeks- www.cambridge.org/core/element... 510349
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousTomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 28/11/2023quick q for universities that require you to sign up to a website to submit your letter of rec: (1) how dare you 59717
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousTobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 20/11/2023The talk recordings from the "Causality in Minds and Machines" workshop are live now. sites.google.com/view/causali... Thanks again to all the speakers and to the Society for Mathematical Psychology for sponsoring the workshop! 04816
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousPhil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 21/11/2023Latest pre-print from the lab. Rosa Rossi-Goldthorpe dissects paranoia from other delusions, computationally, via Kamin Blocking data osf.io/preprints/ps... 0910
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 12/11/2023This paper where we develop mathematical & computational models of science, and look at how epistemically homogeneous vs. diverse populations discover, innovate, replicate is a career favorite. I'm delighted every time I read it. Remains massively underappreciated. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...journals.plos.orgScientific discovery in a model-centric framework: Reproducibility, innovation, and epistemic divers...Consistent confirmations obtained independently of each other lend credibility to a scientific result. We refer to results satisfying this consistency as reproducible and assume that reproducibility i... 2206
Reposted by Konstantina SokratousJudith Peters @judpet.bsky.social · 31/10/20232 assistant professor positions at Maastricht University (The Netherlands) in: 1 fMRI research of human cognition: bit.ly/47bgJ9r 2 data analysis and modeling of cognitive neuroscience data: bit.ly/3QEi2bv Application deadline Nov. 19th 22125