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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Heads up for any labs still using Amazon's Mechanical Turk. It'll be shut down on 30th September. www.mturk.com

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Pigeon Softworks @pigeonsoftworks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Built an experiment in jsPsych and want to send it off to your participants? Try Pigeon - currently free to use during our early adopter phase. Feedback from researchers will help improve Pigeon as it takes flight! pigeonsoftworks.com

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Pigeon Softworks

Simplifying online experiments.

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Pigeon Softworks @pigeonsoftworks.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🐦 Pigeon Softworks is live. Write your jsPsych experiment, upload it to Pigeon, preview it and publish a live link to the study for participants to use. Hosted on infrastructure in Australia. Pigeon Softworks is in an early adopter phase where everything is free to use. pigeonsoftworks.com

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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I just opened matlab for the first time since I left academia and I am SHOCKED. It…has..dark mode..now 🤯

Screenshot of the matlab IDE with dark mode enabled and a comment saying "OMG dark mode".

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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

🧪 10 years ago I published my first paper. I unfortunately haven’t had a chance to work with EEG again for a few years now but still so proud of the one that started my career.

Screenshot of the title page for article: "Theta frontoparietal connectivity associated with proactive and reactive cognitive control processes"

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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

🧪🤖Our latest paper: Towards a Criteria-Based Approach to Selecting Human-AI Interaction Mode is now out. We made a handy rubric to help decisions around adding AI to your work. AI isn’t always the solution but if it is, thinking about how your workflow changes is vital! dx.doi.org/10.1002/hfm....

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Towards a Criteria‐Based Approach to Selecting Human‐AI Interaction Mode

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are now prevalent in many knowledge work industries. As AI becomes more capable and interactive, there is a growing need for guidance on how to employ AI most effec...

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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I completed my first game jam on Sunday. Two weeks to make a game from scratch around the theme of “replicate.” If you have s&box (or want to download it) you can check it out: sbox.game/veggiepatty/...

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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Good luck to all the DECRA applicants, hoping you get some helpful comments today!

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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Gentle error messages have nothing on R

Screenshot of an error message in RStudio that says "R Session Aborted. R encountered a fatal error. The session was terminated." with an icon of a bomb"

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Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I am I'm this picture and I don't like it

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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

We’ve just had our work on assessing how trust in AI support develops accepted as late-breaking work at CHI25. DOI is still to go live but you can check it out here in the meantime: camps.aptaracorp.com/ACM_PMS/PMS/... (I’ll update the thread when the DOI is live).

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Trust in AI is dynamically updated based on users' expectations

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3719870 CHI EA '25: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan, April 2025

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Genevieve Quek @drquekles.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

🧠 💡 PhD scholarships available! 💡🧠 The CogNeuro group at @marcsinstitute.bsky.social is on the hunt for talented students to work on face and object perception using EEG and neural decoding. Learn more here 👇 and get in touch! Project 1: shorturl.at/0NwQl Project 2: shorturl.at/yTdqG

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anianruoss.bsky.social @anianruoss.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Ever wonder how well frontier models (Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini 1.5 Flash & Pro, GPT-4o, o1-mini & o1-preview) play Atari, chess, or tic-tac-toe? We present LMAct, an in-context imitation learning benchmark with long multimodal demonstrations (arxiv.org/abs/2412.01441). 🧵 1/N

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Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Why do I think these instances are interesting? To me, these are not just random instances that LLMs are sometimes wrong (like people), these are *diagnostic* that LLMs do not have a world model and are not “reasoning”, it exposes the basic architecture. Why? 1/n

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Razvan Borza @rborza.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

🚨 If you haven’t seen it yet… 📢 The NIH BioArt Source provides a library of FREE professionally designed illustrations and icons, available for anyone to use. They can be Downloaded in High Definition. Check it out at bioart.niaid.nih.gov

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Jaan Aru @jaanaru.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The craziest paper I have ever done is this thought experiment with Albert Gidon and Matt Larkum. In the first journal, reviewer 1 recommended that we should not try to publish this; reviewer 2 called it "wacky". Thanks for the motivation: A sequel is coming up! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Does brain activity cause consciousness? A thought experiment

The authors of this Essay examine whether action potentials cause consciousness in a three-step thought experiment that assumes technology is advanced enough to fully manipulate our brains.

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

New in NHB: We systematically replicated 26 of 41 PNAS social science studies that used MTurk. The approach provides a proof-of-concept for using decision markets to select findings to replicate. Replication effect sizes were 45% of original effect sizes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Examining the replicability of online experiments selected by a decision market - Nature Human Behaviour

This study finds that decision markets can be a useful tool for selecting studies for replication. For a sample of 26 online experiments published in PNAS selected by a decision market, the authors fi...

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Anthropic posts something a lot of social scientists studying AI have been thinking - you need to apply basic statistical methods to AI evaluations! A solid attempt to lay out how to do better tests with basic methodology. buff.ly/3OijwX0

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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Our latest work, up as a preprint to enjoy. We gave LLMs tasks adapted from experimental psychology to see how they contribute to teamwork. We found LLMs were reasonable at monitoring tasks but were poor at tasks requiring planning and strategising.

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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

Looking up some cognitive task analysis figures this morning and kept finding those slides with the blue background and yellow text. Took me down a rabbit hole about why these things were everywhere. Someone else had the same idea. en.rattibha.com/thread/12942...

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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

New preprint! Mind the blank: behavioral, experiential, and physiological signatures of absent-mindedness With Esteban Munoz Musat, @corcorana.bsky.social, Laouen Belloli and Lionel Naccache biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n

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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Emerging researcher @bellabower.bsky.social giving a fantastic overview of her work on how room characteristics influence brain and behaviour!

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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Dan F @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social had “results so nice he found them twice” finding null effects for visual ERPs scaling with probability.

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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Huw Jarvis suggesting the link between reward prediction errors and vigour is more complicated than first thought! #ACNS2023

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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Julian Matthews @quining.bsky.social suggesting a reframing of some classic metacognitive effects as motivation related! #ACNS2023

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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Linzhi Tao showing us how higher resolution MRI can reduce the number of participants required. Amazing honours project! #ACNS2023

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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Kali Chidley gave a great talk showing metacognitive skills influence cognitive flexibility adjustments! #ACNS2023

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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Looking forward to seeing old colleagues and friends again in Sydney! Also the first time I’ve chaired a symposium 🤖😊🧠 #ACNS2023

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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

I’ll be talking to publishers today about how AI might impact their field, including opportunities for new types of content!

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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Just landed in Adelaide for the Collaborative Intelligence Meet & Mingle. Looking forward to talking about some of the cool AI projects we’ve been working on this year. + working in a team distributed all over Aus means I’ll finally meet people who I’ve only known through video calls 🥳

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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

As a big fan of C. M. Kösemen’s All Tomorrows, I thought I’d see how DALLE3 might envisage some of the major species in the book. Here are The Qu and The Star People.

The Qu: main antagonists in the story. They appear as dragonfly-like with a prehensile tail and eyes on the end of stalks.

A Star Person: star people were engineered as the next phase of human evolution to expand outward from the solar system. Human-like with larger heads and brains.

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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Seen this before? If so, you must have read our latest paper where we provided a carefully curated dataset of AI generated objects. The objects look plausible but do not in fact exist. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An unfamiliar object. It is made from combining regular objects using AI.

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Patrick Cooper @neurocoops.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Hi everyone, I’ve made the migration to bluesky. ✌️ Former academic who used to work in cognitive control, theta oscillations, curiosity and promoting inclusive colour data viz schemes. Nowadays I’m working on assessing human factors required for successful AI-human teaming. #neuroskyence

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