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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Incredible Someone get this man a pipette and let him cook

Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is an excellent thread on the ridiculousness of claiming LLM’s are truly “thinking” I am biased being a collective behavior/complex systems guy myself, but this articulates perfectly something I have been trying to tell folks for years

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When a system incentivizes constant never-ending growth, with no checks to ensure that growth is good for people, this is what we get.

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It’s an institutional death spiral — a pattern that will likely spread

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I’m thinking more about how weird this rule is — I have a collaborator at IU who I expect will eventually have some of my data on a machine there, does this mean that they own that data?…

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Whether I’m supposed to or not, the vast majority of my work happens on a personal MacBook Air

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I love how translatable a skill GMing is

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Should be no surprise that Altman, who came from the Y-Combinator Ecosystem, sees higher ed as a stepping stone best skipped as fast as possible.

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Silicon Valley experience is the worst place to be making this statement from. The goal of students I’ve talked to who go to Stanford *is* to drop out for their start-up, the goal of their culture is different than the vast majority of students and Universities.

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I’m curious, are you in the camp of no usage? I could probably be put in the Boromir category (the one Hank is being thrown into) — but I’m wary of how it could/will impact my and my students work

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NPR @npr.org · 17/07/2026

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 10/07/2026

6 months ago, I predicted that the biggest bailout in corporate history was going to be Nadella, Altman, and Dario Amodei,,, and that it would be dressed up as investment/growth. It's a bailout.

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I have this interesting mental rift; when I think about one shots it is typically with disdain — but when I think about the one shots I’ve ran, they’ve been so much fun

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My anthem for the year hits hard today heart 🤘

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Tyler! 🐿️ 🔜 CUBE CON! @funnylittleguys.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Been working as a personal assistant for about 3 months now, and looking to add onto my workload! I love handling logistics and organizing! Please DM if you're a small business who needs help with administrative work!

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

😆 I thought it was an Onion headline

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

- Stats - Social Psych - Cognitve Psych - Psychobiology Please spread the word and DM me with questions!! #academicjobs #psychjobs #phdjobs

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

UC Psychology is hiring 3 educator faculty to start as early as this coming Fall — educator track faculty are incredibly important and highly valued/respected in our department (I should know, I am one!) We’re looking for folks who can teach in the following areas:

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I love how weird cogsci departments get to be.

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Tyler! 🐿️ 🔜 CUBE CON! @funnylittleguys.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Some brands need a logo. Some brands need a funny little guy. But what if you could have BOTH!? Currently looking for new branding projects! Feel free to DM for details! Additional add-ons are possible as well! But I can't fit all that onto this jpeg.

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I figured that the experience of imposters syndrome disqualified me from that list, but reading it still made my spidey senes tingle 🤪 Maybe I’ll get over it after another decade in academia

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Ouch, you’ve hit me right in the *imposter syndrome*

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I don't usually watch 60 Minutes, but I sure as heck watched the banned segment via other means. I don't usually watch Colbert, but I sure as heck watched the banned segment via YouTube. I'm unsure if this overt state censorship is having its desired effect, actually!

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I watched it with my son randomly over the holiday break, had no clue what I was getting into. Absolutely loved it, totally shed tears

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

“and social groups…” — I’d think that social groups are a large part of the process of persuasion Eg, families and communities frame the media you consume as good, bad, extreme, well said. And another aside, extended cognition theory includes social groups in your mind’s infrastructure.

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Fajen was his PhD advisor and Hayhoe his post-doc, but yes :) Matthis was my post-doc advisor for transparency and context

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I’ve been thinking of the Boston Massacre a lot lately, and how the event shaped the Bill of Rights.

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I should add, the Matthis papers don’t comment on saccadic suppression, but rather the flow signal human eyes receive during locomotion. Adding more detail to my thoughts, VOR+blinks could reduce a lot of the “need” for saccadic suppression. Motion is information

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

also, for large saccades, you typically blink while making them. Segmenting the times we blink vs when we don’t is interesting here, blinks could be a good indicator of the ecological value of certain types of motion caused by head+eye movements

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

A takeaway I have from their work and the data I’m collecting looking at gaze during locomotion is that VOR does a lot of work to create regular patterns of optic flow that I imagine are information rich and specify detailed information of how your body moves through space…

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I think a lot of the work I plan to do over the next ~1-3 years or so could start to address this question (thanks for asking it! It’s a good one) but for now, check out Matthis Muller Bonnen & Hayhoe 2022 and look at the videos from Matthis Yates & Hayhoe 2018 —

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Wild to think that’s a safe place to store anything

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Absolutely, short form missed so much If you’re not following her already, @kyla.bsky.social is a favorite voice of mine in this space

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

In isolation, it does sound like that in this clip However, in the broader context of Kyla Scanlan’s or Scott Galloway’s (haven’t listened to Ed) economic assessments, treat culture is a symptom, not a cause of young people’s economic situation

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I think it’s fairly different, the logic here is a learned economic hopelessness.

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I got the in-person interview! For a lot of reasons, this is the only job I applied to — the pressure is on 😬 Funny, because my current role is as an educator, I prepped a teaching demo but I haven’t ever prepped a job talk. I’m going to have a busy (but hopefully great) January 🤪

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Trent Wirth @withwirth.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I don’t know but we need to be keeping an eye on it for a lot of reasons I talked about brainrot a lot in my “Cog Sci & AI” Capstone this semester — the students we have now are mostly disturbed/amused by it but pretty soon it could be a core piece of consumed entertainment

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