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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 20h

1,200 reported incidents of sexual assault, dating & domestic violence, and stalking lead to 7 expulsions or dismissals. Cornell has positioned itself as higher ed's industry leader in teaching rape culture to America's future male economic elites. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive

A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

With the recent mainstreaming of AI concerns, I'm very disappointed that we haven't heard more about supporting proof of personhood tools and techniques, which some have worked on for more than a decade.

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J. Brendan Ritchie @jbrendanritchie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If only there was a thing govs could do to make companies align with human values. Some kind of system of legally binding constraints for certain industries. Shame nothing like that has ever existed ever.

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We let AI companies soak up all the IP in the world but dammit if we let them take our maths. If this is the straw that achieves change then so be it.

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Icelandic Vision Lab @icevislab.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

VIVAS correlates only moderately with the VVIQ, well below the ceiling set by their respective reliabilities, and shows striking individual-level dissociations: some individuals scoring in the bottom 10% on one measure fall in the top quartile on the other. 7/9

Cross-tabulation by percentiles: we split both VVIQ and VIVAS into five percentile bands based on each score’s position within the sample: 0-10%, 10-25%, 25-75% (middle half; IQR: interquartile range), 75-90%, and 90-100%; equal scores stay in the same band (ties kept together).

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

When I hear an AI model solved an old maths problem, I ask myself: 1) How many human mathematicians were involved? 2) How much money and freedom were the mathematicians paid to solve the problem? My null hypothesis is that the multi-billion dollar models are not the critical ingredient.

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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

Line chart showing 5 biggest publishers from 2019-2025

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This reads a bit like, "Now that we've built such huge complex models that aren't really interpretable, we need to start using the tools of science to understand them."

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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Our new preprint w/ @edvogel.bsky.social presents a neural marker of a competition/interaction taking place in working memory between memory and current goals. We label it r-CDA Check out preprint for details about r-CDA and other interesting neural dynamics osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Would I have the power to stop the year-to-year arbitrary formatting changes for grant apps? #hahahgivememoremoney

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Skeptical of some /AI/ math proofs banging around public sphere. How do we know what's in the training data? How much was the human doing? But honestly I don't care enough to debate.

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Sometimes I just want to try to code pretty shit low pass filter 3D noise (creates the undulation) -> project noise onto a colour wheel (with some other bells and whistles)

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

great to see some places still have a backbone

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I also left around the same time. We had something special on Twitter, pre-Musk, but now I reckon there's no excuse for publicly funded scientists to tweet or even peruse twitter.

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Just putting this idea out there: if a theory of cog neuro requires screening out left handed people from experiments, maybe the theory isn't really a theory, yet. (And cool work from this team!)

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Put this on your journal club roster 🪶🙋😂

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

An adaptive algorithms that lets you shape your stimulus in any of 50 dimensions according to an observer's response.... and it works almost in realtime so you can use it in experiments on the fly.

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Perception / i-Perception @pec-ipe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

🎤 Perception Lecture at ECVP 2026 We are delighted to announce the Perception Lecture, sponsored by SAGE journals Perception and i-Perception. Join Karl Gegenfurtner for: 🌈 “Colour Vision — Then and Now” 📅 Sunday 23 August 📍 Bournemouth International Centre #ECVP2026 #ColorVision

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Holy shit look at this data science figure. This is an amazing example of communicating a bucket load of highly detailed information in an easy to read and aesthetic format. Also, RIP coal power lol

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 23/07/2026

Any news report that starts “OpenAI says…” or claims “an AI” (sic) has “broken containment” or “gone rogue” is no longer doing journalism, but PR for the #AI industry. #OpenAI used their product to hack a third-party and failed to implement adequate safeguards. That’s it. That’s the story. #AIHype

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Illustration has always been fundamental to scientific discovery and record. This is a fascinating discussion with scientist-artists. It's easy to read because the artwork is so beautiful.

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I've decided for the time being I'm going to stop opting-in to broken systems in science. Case in point: declining a review invite. I received a review invite which I cannot do, so I click the link to decline. A website opens where I have to accept cookies to decline again - no, I will not do that.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 16/07/2026

calling all researchers who collect data from humans 🧠🧪 we are running a very brief survey (<1 min) about jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection. if you use jsPsych, or if you collect data with any other software, please fill it out at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census!

I am writing on behalf of the leadership of jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection used in experiments and surveys from many labs worldwide.

It has been difficult for us to figure out how widespread jsPsych usage is, because the software is freely available online and we do not collect any information about downloads, users, experiments posted online, etc. While the software has been cited in thousands of articles, jsPsych usage is likely more widespread than those citations imply, because not every project using jsPsych leads to a citation, and because there are also often substantial delays between actual jsPsych usage and a publication. As such, we are conducting a very brief census of jsPsych users.

If you collect data from humans using jsPsych or any other type of software, we would appreciate your filling out a very brief survey (<1 min) at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census. This will help us to understand how many people, labs, and institutions are current or former users of jsPsych, information that will help support the long-term sustainability of the jsPsych ecosystem.

We would also appreciate it if you could circulate this message to your lab, your department listserv, and your collaborators, to help ensure that it reaches as many members of the research community as possible. The survey is being distributed by Josh de Leeuw, Melissa Kline Struhl, and myself. Please contact me (sam@auckland.ac.nz) off-list if you have any questions about it.

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 15/07/2026

I just gave a short tutorial on what is a spiking neural network and how to train one. From zero to a trained network in one hour. Slides and code you can run in Colab at this repo: github.com/neural-recko... 🤖🧠🧪

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GitHub - neural-reckoning/cambridge-fens-chen-summer-school-2026: Code and slides for 2026 FENS Chen Summer School on Learning with spikes

Code and slides for 2026 FENS Chen Summer School on Learning with spikes - neural-reckoning/cambridge-fens-chen-summer-school-2026

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

For the first and possibly only time in my career did I nail this setting on the first go in PsychToolbox: Screen('BlendFunction', screen.win, GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Ever had the feeling that someone in your periphery is looking at you? Great study and 🧵

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

File not found: "... is currently the best documented neuroscience mechanism..." (even ignoring that fumble, wtf?)

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Got back from a wonderful experimental psych conference, but there was a lot of, what seemed like to me, AI research without it being clearly relevant. IMO including commercial AI into research, as a question OR tool, is ethically dubious without a very well explained motivation.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

They are stealing our labour, deskilling our professions, hollowing our institutions, and destroying our planet for a fiction that is not only impossible but also dehumanizing.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

“Computational (…) cognitive science (…) can only flourish if we (a) do not confuse AI systems for minds or theories, (b) do not confuse machine learning for the scientific method, and (c) understand that our computational models can track only the scope and limits of our understanding.”

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

In 1902 a farmer ploughed up this bronze horse at Trundholm, Denmark. Thinking it was an old toy he took it home for his children! 😱 On closer inspection he contacted the National Museum. Now the ‘Sun Chariot’ is an iconic symbol of Denmark’s Bronze Age 3,400 years ago! #FindsFriday #Archaeology

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This thread motivated me to sign in to my Twitter account for the first time in a couple of years, just so I could officially de-activate it. After 30 days of deactivation, it will then be deleted. Fuck Elon Musk for destroying a wonderful science communication tool.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Of note: Frontiers in Young Minds should be an exception in these debates. A science journal for kids, written by scientists & reviewed by kids. Articles in multiple languages. Teachers use it a lot. Really high quality with terrific leaders at the helm; a wonderful scicomm effort.

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Frontiers has published some good stuff, but the time is well past to stop submitting and reviewing at any of their journals.

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

To be fair, I probably would have used AI during my PhD if it could calibrate the eye link and run all my participants for me.

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

All of my models are wrong and I’m not sure if any were useful.

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🚨New dataset just dropped🚨 Introducing Places in the Wild: 67,000 RAW-format photographs (45 mpix) densely sampled from 810 places (260 basic-level categories). This is 11x the number of pixels in ImageNet! Preprint is here: arxiv.org/abs/2606.02481 1/

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Places in the Wild: A Large, High-Resolution RAW Photograph Dataset for Ecologically Valid Vision Research

Large image datasets have accelerated progress in cognitive neuroscience and computer vision. However, most datasets are low-resolution, internet-sourced JPEGs with unknown capture conditions and limi...

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Karen (yes, yes, I know 😈) @karkin64.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🏳️‍⚧️🌈😁😁😁

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William Ngiam | 严祥全 @williamngiam.github.io · 28/05/2026

There's ongoing discourse about whether digital technology is impacting attention spans, but the empirical research does not seem to connect with what is felt by the general public. So, to better understand the perceptions, we examined what was being said on the issue in four relevant subreddits.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

My reading of this is that Instructure still doesn’t know if Canvas user data were leaked: www.instructure.com/sites/defaul...

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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Me as a PI: “this paper is 95% done” The remaining 5% are figures 3-8 and all of the writing

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