Andrew D Wilson
@adw.bsky.social
Ecological psychologist just trying to make psychology better at explaining us. I study the perceptual control of action and get cranky about politics and AI technologies. He/him
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Reading Group: Turvey (2019), Lectures on Perception
Michael Turvey ran a famously intense graduate level class on perception and action at CESPA . He has recently, finally, published a ...
psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com
I have finally completed the blog posts on each Lecture on Perception, the Michael Turvey book based on his UConn graduate seminar. All posts linked here, as well as links to the journal club discussions with Rob Gray and Marianne Davis that enabled me to actually finish this project
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I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!
February 2, 2026 at 12:01 PM
I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!
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"Institutions that once proclaimed their commitment to humanistic inquiry now appear eager to embrace a set of tools whose leading use cases—predictive policing, military targeting, advertising, and porn—stand in profound contradiction to the values they claim to uphold."
One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
A Pedagogy of the Inevitable
Over the last couple of years, two altogether incompatible discourses of “AI literacy” have emerged. One seeks just enough literacy to support a smooth, perhaps even joyful, integration with new techn...
read.dukeupress.edu
February 2, 2026 at 10:03 AM
"Institutions that once proclaimed their commitment to humanistic inquiry now appear eager to embrace a set of tools whose leading use cases—predictive policing, military targeting, advertising, and porn—stand in profound contradiction to the values they claim to uphold."
Amazing news! I adored this album, it was so good it got me all the way back into all their previous albums, which I hadn’t listened to in ages.
SIMON, JASON, ROGER, REEVES AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE GRAMMY'S FOR THIS WONDERFUL AWARD;
WE ARE VERY HONOURED TO RECEIVE IT.
WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK;
EVERYONE WHO HELPED IN THE CREATION OF OUR SONGS OF A LOST WORLD ALBUM, PARTICULARLY CO-PRODUCER PAUL CORKETT;
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WE ARE VERY HONOURED TO RECEIVE IT.
WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK;
EVERYONE WHO HELPED IN THE CREATION OF OUR SONGS OF A LOST WORLD ALBUM, PARTICULARLY CO-PRODUCER PAUL CORKETT;
1/3
February 2, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Amazing news! I adored this album, it was so good it got me all the way back into all their previous albums, which I hadn’t listened to in ages.
This sign has been up on Roundhay Road in Leeds for a while - does anyone know what the hell it means??
February 1, 2026 at 9:47 PM
This sign has been up on Roundhay Road in Leeds for a while - does anyone know what the hell it means??
I think I’m having a stroke
February 1, 2026 at 9:26 PM
I think I’m having a stroke
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Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
February 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
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Am I positive that video shows the president shitting himself on camera? No.
Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.
Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.
February 1, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Am I positive that video shows the president shitting himself on camera? No.
Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.
Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.
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What do you MEAN the president audibly SHIT himself live on camera and they immediately cancelled the press conference and rushed everyone out of the room like it's a fire drill, and it happened two days ago, and I'm just hearing about it NOW?
February 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
What do you MEAN the president audibly SHIT himself live on camera and they immediately cancelled the press conference and rushed everyone out of the room like it's a fire drill, and it happened two days ago, and I'm just hearing about it NOW?
I wonder what Trump thinks about the movie and the lacklustre response 🤔
I watched Melania at a 10 am screening in a Trumpian corner of New Jersey, where I was (naively) shocked to find at least a dozen others in attendance.
What flashed across the screen over the next hour and 48 minutes amounts to an American obscenity.
What flashed across the screen over the next hour and 48 minutes amounts to an American obscenity.
The Melania movie is an American obscenity
The vapid, corruption-soaked film, which celebrates the myth of the "good immigrant," is more revelatory than it seems.
www.motherjones.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:01 PM
I wonder what Trump thinks about the movie and the lacklustre response 🤔
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Americans will really use anything but the metric system (complimentary)
I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep
January 31, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Americans will really use anything but the metric system (complimentary)
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*frantically googling*
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Who up bending they arc toward justice
January 19, 2026 at 8:38 PM
*frantically googling*
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moral arc technician near me
moral arc bent wrong how to fix
wikihow diy moral arc fix
moral arc technician near me
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“I do not think this is a moral thing for you to do...”
Martin Lewis shares his message to Chancellor Rachel Reeves on her decision to freeze the threshold at which graduates begin to repay their student loans.
#Newsnight
Martin Lewis shares his message to Chancellor Rachel Reeves on her decision to freeze the threshold at which graduates begin to repay their student loans.
#Newsnight
January 29, 2026 at 1:08 PM
“I do not think this is a moral thing for you to do...”
Martin Lewis shares his message to Chancellor Rachel Reeves on her decision to freeze the threshold at which graduates begin to repay their student loans.
#Newsnight
Martin Lewis shares his message to Chancellor Rachel Reeves on her decision to freeze the threshold at which graduates begin to repay their student loans.
#Newsnight
Damn, this is taking me back - windows down, cruising to the gym to climb everything in sight
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Stone Temple Pilots
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Stone Temple Pilots
Interstate Love Song
January 31, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Damn, this is taking me back - windows down, cruising to the gym to climb everything in sight
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The fact this resistance and showing up continues and seems to be growing is damned impressive - full marks, Minnesota, no notes ✊✊
Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
January 30, 2026 at 11:10 PM
The fact this resistance and showing up continues and seems to be growing is damned impressive - full marks, Minnesota, no notes ✊✊
Proud to have inspired this thread ❤️
I gave briefer answers to this question, but now I want to give a fuller answer because honor demands no less of me.
To this end, I got up early, I did the fucking research, and now I am able to provide a comprehensive answer to this question grounded not just in Disco but in TNG, VOY and DS9.
To this end, I got up early, I did the fucking research, and now I am able to provide a comprehensive answer to this question grounded not just in Disco but in TNG, VOY and DS9.
We’ve had endless exposition on most of these things. The thing, for example, with the comm badge transporter is I just never know how they told it what to do. It’s such a break from earlier versions of the tech that having it needs some story
Discovery would have been the place to do this…
Discovery would have been the place to do this…
January 30, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Proud to have inspired this thread ❤️
Proud of you, London
January 30, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Proud of you, London
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New paper in QJEP with Dave George, Dom Dwyer and @markhaselgrove.bsky.social. We discuss a recent claim to have shown complex statistical reasoning in crows, and show the simplest S-R learning would give the same behaviour. A fun paper to write with old friends.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning - David N George, Dominic M Dwyer, Mark Haselgrove, Mike E Le Pelley, 2024
Johnston et al. report results which they argue demonstrate that crows engage in statistical inference during decision-making. They trained two crows to associa...
journals.sagepub.com
December 22, 2024 at 6:44 PM
New paper in QJEP with Dave George, Dom Dwyer and @markhaselgrove.bsky.social. We discuss a recent claim to have shown complex statistical reasoning in crows, and show the simplest S-R learning would give the same behaviour. A fun paper to write with old friends.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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I am happy to share this article, entitled "The importance of Biological Theory". It is my inaugural editorial as the new Editor-in-Chief of @biologicaltheory.bsky.social . In these complex and challenging times, theory is more important now than ever. Enjoy!
doi.org/10.1007/s137...
doi.org/10.1007/s137...
The Importance of Biological Theory - Biological Theory
Biological Theory -
doi.org
January 30, 2026 at 1:40 PM
I am happy to share this article, entitled "The importance of Biological Theory". It is my inaugural editorial as the new Editor-in-Chief of @biologicaltheory.bsky.social . In these complex and challenging times, theory is more important now than ever. Enjoy!
doi.org/10.1007/s137...
doi.org/10.1007/s137...
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Watching this Labour government try to kill UK universities is like watching an animal disembowel itself. You just sit there thinking ‘Why?? Why would you rip out something that has always kept you alive?’
Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
January 30, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Watching this Labour government try to kill UK universities is like watching an animal disembowel itself. You just sit there thinking ‘Why?? Why would you rip out something that has always kept you alive?’
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Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
January 29, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
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"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.
Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI'
The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.
www.pcgamer.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:45 PM
"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.
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Thank you for reading. We're sorry.
January 29, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Thank you for reading. We're sorry.
You’re going to learn about salamander sex in the weirdest possible way today, and you’re going to like it
On 29th January 1996, "Threshold", the Star Trek: Voyager episode where Captain Janeway and Tom Paris turned into giant space newts and had babies first aired. Since it's #ThresholdDay we aim to answer a burning question: did Paris and Janeway fuck? If so, how did they fuck?
January 30, 2026 at 10:22 AM
You’re going to learn about salamander sex in the weirdest possible way today, and you’re going to like it
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january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing
January 30, 2026 at 9:42 AM
january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing