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Rachel Flood Heaton @rachelfloodheaton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Academics need to be very careful about their relationships to AI. It's not just artists and authors they are stealing from.

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Rachel Flood Heaton @rachelfloodheaton.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Are people fooled by these AI customer service agents that have more natural and less polished voices? There is a serious uncanny valley situation going on, and I personally would prefer a business be transparent about it being an AI.

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Rachel Flood Heaton @rachelfloodheaton.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This is just, like, my opinion, but I think everyone should be going out and snapping up the amazing deals on late model low mileage electric vehicles. Everything about driving my ID.4 is fantastic and comfortable and it's also the *cheapest* car I've ever owned, like cheaper than my 02 VW Jetta.

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Rachel Flood Heaton @rachelfloodheaton.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

This is kind of old news because the exhibit debuted in 1983, but the model plants in the Plants of the World exhibit at the Chicago Field Museum are astounding. Just draw droppingly good.

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Rachel Flood Heaton @rachelfloodheaton.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

We got a 3D printer and we decided to print an Easter decoration for my mom. Except it turns out it's a little weird and it's probably AI's fault.

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I think Fodor & Pylyshyn's 1988 paper is possibly the most mischaracterized paper in the history of cognitive science. It's often cited as arguing that neural networks cannot achieve systematicity, compositionality, and productivity. But that's not what they actually argue...

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Rachel Flood Heaton @rachelfloodheaton.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I just had a conference paper desk rejected by an automated system I believe to be an AI. The email said that the reasons for the desk rejection were listed at the end of the email. There were zero reasons listed. It's a reviewable paper. I'm not new at this. AI is really bad for reviewing.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I can buy twice as much chicken for the same price at Costco than I can at Cub, but I also have a place to store it. I have to admit that I have been kind of shocked at how expensive groceries are at the normal grocery store. Feels more like the shopping you do when you’re on vacation at a cabin.

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Steven R. Shaw, PhD @shawpsych.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Now this is a movie plot!!! Someone understands grad school.

Movie description of the B horror move Death PhD. Gawdawful movie.

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

AI philosophers in 2026:

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 11/02/2026

ctrl-f for "psychologist", find a bunch of CS and EA people with no obvious formal training in psychology doing dumb shit based on nonreplicable social psych awww yeah

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines. apnews.com/article/mode...

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Moderna says FDA refuses its application for new mRNA flu vaccine

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine made with mRNA technology.

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Rachel Flood Heaton @rachelfloodheaton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

There are some people who go so big with their lies that others just can't believe someone would attempt such a big lie. I've known these people personally and I've seen them heading federal agencies. It's our responsibility to not let them get away with it.

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Rachel Flood Heaton @rachelfloodheaton.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Congrats to iOS 26 for simulating uncorrected astigmatism.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Brilliant.

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Rachel Flood Heaton @rachelfloodheaton.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

It's a shame they're going to crash the economy in order to learn that current AI technology is less than half baked.

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Fat Kid Deals @fatkiddeals.com · 23/10/2025

The details on the Kirkland Signature x Nike SB Dunk Low are insane

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Looks like Barney has finally had enough of Florida's bullshit.

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Rachel Flood Heaton @rachelfloodheaton.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This is starting to look more and more like some sort of fraud or market manipulation

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/09/2025

OpenAI needs at least $500 billion in cash to fund its operations in the next 4 years, and $432.5 billion *on the low end* to meet their other obligations - more than the combined available capital of the top 10 PE firms ($477bn) and US venture capital ($164bn). www.wheresyoured.at/openai-onetr...

OpenAI Will Need To Raise At Least $500 Billion Just To Fund Its Operations, And Another $432.5 Billion Or More To Fulfill Its Obligations - Which Is More Than The Available Capital Of The Top 10 Private Equity Firms and US Venture Capital Combined
So, I am repeating myself a little, but I really, really do not trust OpenAI’s revenue projections, and think they are at best unrealistic or, at worst, a deliberate attempt to mislead investors using the media.

Nevertheless, even if OpenAI is in a position where it is making $200 billion by the year 2030, it will need to have raised at least $500 Billion to get there, and when you add its obligations — including those given to NVIDIA — it will have to raise (or have partners raise) another $400 or so billion.

This is more than the projected available supply of US venture capital at the end of 2025 ($164 billion), and the combined available capital of the top 10 private equity funds ($477 billion), as well as the $50 billion of available direct lending capital from JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs (about $35 billion across two closes).

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/09/2025

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 23/09/2025

Currently attending a conference & our field is quite a bit into fancy modeling, so it’s time to repost this blog post. Don’t try to squeeze your research question into whatever model is fashionable right now; try to build the right model for your research question. www.the100.ci/2024/08/27/l...

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Let’s do statistics the other way around

Summer in Berlin – the perfect time and place to explore the city, take a walk in the Görli, go skinny dipping in the Spree, attend an overcrowded, overheated conference symposium on cross-lagged pane...

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Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

AI Overview: "Dental realism"refers to the philosophical debate about whether teeth exist independently of human perception, a concept rooted in metaphysical realism. While realism asserts an objective reality for teeth, idealist philosophies contend that teeth's existence is tied to our consciousness and perception. Philosophers use this idea, for example, to discuss the ethics of tooth extraction, examining whether a procedure impacts a real entity or merely a subjective experience.

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I strolled in and it was a bit toasty. So I turned the thermostat down, and the room cooled off. Oh. My. God. After living through 20 years of placebo thermostats in offices, classrooms, and labs, I'm flabbergasted.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/09/2025

Oh man, thank you CNN. It's been a heck of a day and I really needed the laugh.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

Photo of a missing slice of cheesecake that looks like a cheesecake hull floating in a deep blue ocean. The "ocean" is actually the blueberry topping on the large cheesecake that we don't see completely.

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Justin @apatheticrabbit.ca · 06/09/2025

People who think that learning statistics will help people understand statistics have a very poor understanding of statistics.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Some of the brightest lights I’ve known have been forced to eat shit repeatedly in their careers. And they were the “lucky” ones—in that they were able to stay in the game. Many more just got completely pushed out and we never know about them except as faceless statistics.

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Dr. Zil Roars (Paul H. White, Ph.D.) @drzilwhite.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Yes, @jamellebouie.net's thread is spot on. We know from lots of research in social & in cognitive psychology that perception can become reality for many (if not all) of us in small & big ways, even when the perception is not just flawed, but not based on reality until we manifest it in some ways.

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Rachel Flood Heaton @rachelfloodheaton.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Yesterday in the orientation for my first year course on 3D form a student raised their hand and asked whether they should leave the object in the wound or remove it when someone is impaled by a projectile during the course. While unlikely, I appreciate this level of intensity in the classroom.

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

"there are no gray squares, man, it's just in your mind"

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Whenever I try to explain this to people who call themselves designers, I get a blank stare. But if you don't understand how your product mediates behavior, you should not be doing this job.

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 24/08/2025

what an absolute and utter shambles this is, in just about every way americabydesign.gov

americabydesign.gov

America by Design

A National Design Studio Initiative

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Rachel Flood Heaton @rachelfloodheaton.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

What is it about human brains that allows us to reason symbolically whereas most other animals cannot? And why does AI sometimes struggle to generate images of objects in statistically unusual spatial relationships to each other, when people wouldn’t struggle to imagine such relationships?

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I fucking called it "the next one is coming very soon and is gonna be AGI for real this time" is the only move in their book

After a rocky rollout of its GPT-5 model, OpenAI is already teasing the artificial intelligence model's next iteration, particularly its planned memory and personalization upgrades, CNBC reports. CEO Sam Altman said GPT-6 will include an enhanced memory feature that lets users create chatbots that better reflect and adapt to their preferences and tastes.

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Rachel Flood Heaton @rachelfloodheaton.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I too want my AI to have the disposition of a bear protecting its cubs. Seriously, though, what could possibly go wrong with an AI trying to make the set of concerns it is responsible for outcompete all other life on the planet over a narrow objective function? That's not the plot of any movies.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13/08/2025

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

bloomberg.com

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study

Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

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Jay Patel @infotainment.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🤖If you're at all following AI progress on benchmarks, this Nature article is very accessible and enlightening. Lesson: Don't rush in and evaluate an AI model on some established or bespoke benchmark without critical thought. AI studies require AI expertise. Don't let #badbenchmarks propagate!

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Is your AI benchmark lying to you?

Artificial intelligence models are too often assessed against flawed goals — a stumbling block for progress.

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Eye movements are cheap, right? Not necessarily! 💰 In our review just out in @natrevpsychol.nature.com, Alex Schütz and I discuss the different costs associated with making an eye movement, how these costs affect behaviour, and the challenges of measuring this… rdcu.be/eAm69 #visionscience #vision

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A review of the costs of eye movements

Nature Reviews Psychology - Eye movements are the most frequent movements that humans make. In this Review, Schütz and Stewart integrate evidence regarding the costs of eye movements and...

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Micah Goldwater @micahgoldwater.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

New paper: we argue that an individual's propensity to compare items and discover abstract relational rules, rather than focus on surface similarity, is stable across learning tasks, and is independent of working memory capacity. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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Evidence for rule versus exemplar learning strategies as stable individual differences independent from working memory - Memory & Cognition

Evidence for two qualitatively different learning strategies has emerged from the function- and category-learning literatures: a rule-based and an exemplar-based strategy. With a rule-based strategy, ...

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