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Konstantina Sokratous

@lazyneuron.bsky.social
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I often inspire envy, as I get paid to stare at hot models run all day long | Postdoc @Mizzou | | #Ψ #AI #modeling #decisions #cogsci |🧠👩🏼‍💻| | Bucket hat enthusiast |

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 31/08/2026
I 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
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スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
In 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.
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Saurabh @saurabhr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
One Python function, all 17 @dobyrahnev.bsky.social (2025) measures, plus d', criterion, mean confidence. 26 numbers back from a single call.
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Saurabh @saurabhr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
There 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.
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Saurabh @saurabhr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
8/8 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
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Saurabh @saurabhr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
7/8 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.social
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PsychScanner
A framework for running psychological experiments with large language models.
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Saurabh @saurabhr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Can 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.
Diagram of the word-pair task, external words given to the model vs. internal words the model generates itself, then judged as
internal or external.
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
breaking: pope leo has joined anthropic
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Center 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...
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ARC Talk: Jan Pfänder, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag): Strengthening Trust in Climate Scientists in the US: A Megastudy Approach
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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 16/05/2026
Photosynthetic 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.
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Mouse eyes photosynthesize after plant-to-animal transplant
Could spinach extracts be the next treatment for dry-eye disease?
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beany tuesday @beanytuesday.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Social Media in 2035
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Every ad now
[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]

JANET:
Ugh...

LIZ:
What's up?

JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!

LIZ:
Have you tried...

AI peas?

JANET:
AI peas?

LIZ:
They're peas with AI!

[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].

LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas

JANET:
What

LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]

Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?

[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]

LIZ:

Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine

[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]

LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!

JANET:
What

LIZ:
Shut up

LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow

From opening the bag of peas

to boiling the peas

to eating the peas

To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.

JANET:
Is it really necessary to-

LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET

[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:

AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.

[Ends]
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
god forbid a French rat live out his dream of becoming a chef on a cruiseship
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
RESULT: 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.
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Varun @mkvarun.com · 05/01/2026
I’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 #STEMJobs
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Varun Machhale Kumar
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Konstantina Sokratous @lazyneuron.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
An 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 🤣🤣
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Jenni @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Academia has this way of making you feel utterly unsuccessful even when by any reasonable standard you are doing just fine.
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Michael Rera @michaelrera.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
If 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...
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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students 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.
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arxiv cs.CV @arxiv-cs-cv.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Oli Bridge, Huey Sun, Botond Branyicskai-Nagy, Charles D'Ornano, Shomit Basu Diminishing Returns in Self-Supervised Learning arxiv.org/abs/2512.03862
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Manikya Alister @manikyaalister.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
We 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
Screenshot of the article "How Convincing Is a Crowd? Quantifying the Persuasiveness of a Consensus for Different Individuals and Types of Claims"
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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Paper 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/?
Cover page for the manuscript: Morey, R. D., & Davis-Stober, C. P. (2025). On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2025.2544397Abstract for the paper: The P-curve (Simonsohn, Nelson, & Simmons, 2014; Simonsohn, Simmons, & Nelson, 2015) is a widely-used suite of meta-analytic tests advertised for detecting problems in sets of studies. They are based on nonparametric combinations of p values (e.g., Marden, 1985) across significant (p < .05) studies and are variously claimed to detect “evidential value”, “lack of evidential value”, and “left skew” in p values. We show that these tests do not have the properties ascribed to them. Moreover, they fail basic desiderata for tests, including admissibility and monotonicity. In light of these serious problems, we recommend against the use of the P-curve tests.
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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Josh 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.
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arxiv cs.CL @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Xiaomin Li, Xupeng Chen, Jingxuan Fan, Eric Hanchen Jiang, Mingye Gao Multi-head Reward Aggregation Guided by Entropy arxiv.org/abs/2503.20995
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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Inspired 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...
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Theory: Whtat to read
The 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...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
How 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...
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I'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
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Cody Cushing @codycush.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Nothing helps beat the pseudoscience label like humbly comparing your theory with no empirical support to the theory of general relativity 😂
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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We 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! ❤️
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Dr Hannimal @hisotalus.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Funded 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...
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AI-driven early detection of dementia using multimodal data at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - AI-driven early detection of dementia using multimodal data at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Grant 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
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I 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.
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 24/07/2024
Announcing 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.
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Open Encylopedia of Cognitive Science
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Peter Kvam @peterkvam.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
How 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...
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Phivos Phylactou @phivph.com · 18/04/2024
Hey, 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!
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Kate Nussenbaum @katenuss.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
I 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 🧠👩‍🔬💻
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13/04/2024
When "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
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Please Follow the Official Guardian Account @guardian-world-rss.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Biggest ever survey of trans Americans finds 94% happier after transition
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Biggest ever survey of trans Americans finds 94% happier after transition
The 2022 US Trans Survey of 92,000 transgender adults, finds continued discrimination, harassment and even violence at work
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
modern society is so divorced from our food sources that most people who eat pop tarts have never actually killed one themselves
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
See: 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....
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Canadian PhD students and postgrads plan mass walkout over low pay
Academics 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...
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Brian 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
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Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Hello! 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...
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
quick q for universities that require you to sign up to a website to submit your letter of rec: (1) how dare you
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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
The 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!
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Latest pre-print from the lab. Rosa Rossi-Goldthorpe dissects paranoia from other delusions, computationally, via Kamin Blocking data osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
This 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...
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Scientific 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...
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Judith Peters @judpet.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
2 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
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