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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did captain picard lead the x-men
February 4, 2026 at 7:04 PM
did captain picard lead the x-men
Fair warning, world
February 4, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Fair warning, world
Well this is terrible
NEW: NEW: HHS is working on an AI tool to analyze VAERS—a database of vaccine injury claims to which anyone can make submissions—and "generate hypotheses." This is from @emilymullin.bsky.social:
HHS Is Making an AI Tool to Create Hypotheses About Vaccine Injury Claims
Experts worry Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Health Department will use an internal AI tool to analyze vaccine injury claims in a way that furthers his anti-vaccine agenda.
www.wired.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Well this is terrible
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Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition.
TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
February 4, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition.
TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
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The Guardian has added this erratum to its review of Melania
February 3, 2026 at 7:23 PM
The Guardian has added this erratum to its review of Melania
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New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped
February 4, 2026 at 6:05 AM
New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped
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the conference for which I was invited to be on a panel to be *that guy* about AI had a douchebag keynote speaker who recommended Haidt to a group of people and I couldn’t control myself from laughing out loud and I was like what is wrong with you lol in front of everyone
What a grift from Haidt.
Book 1: parents, it’s not your fault, it’s the phones
Book 2: parents, it’s not your fault for being busy, in fact that’s better for your kids.
Book 1: parents, it’s not your fault, it’s the phones
Book 2: parents, it’s not your fault for being busy, in fact that’s better for your kids.
February 3, 2026 at 6:43 PM
the conference for which I was invited to be on a panel to be *that guy* about AI had a douchebag keynote speaker who recommended Haidt to a group of people and I couldn’t control myself from laughing out loud and I was like what is wrong with you lol in front of everyone
Reading the Turvey book in depth has really made me unsympathetic to predictive coding approaches as anything other than just the last flavour of doomed Cartesian cognitive theory 🤔
Jakob @hohwy.bsky.social unravels how we understand the mind, cognition, and existence in "The Self-Evidencing Agent," analyzing how human agents perceive and make sense of the world, decide to act, and act of their own volition: bit.ly/4sXomMq
February 3, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Reading the Turvey book in depth has really made me unsympathetic to predictive coding approaches as anything other than just the last flavour of doomed Cartesian cognitive theory 🤔
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who the hell called them "podcast hosts with whom I've developed an unhealthy parasocial relationship" and not
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earbuds.
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earbuds.
February 3, 2026 at 6:13 PM
who the hell called them "podcast hosts with whom I've developed an unhealthy parasocial relationship" and not
. . .
earbuds.
. . .
earbuds.
I had engaged students in my seminar and one of my DL students dropped some great memes for this week’s topic and I think I like teaching again 🤔
February 3, 2026 at 7:38 PM
I had engaged students in my seminar and one of my DL students dropped some great memes for this week’s topic and I think I like teaching again 🤔
Imagine being this dumb ass and thinking that you have any shot in Minnesota right now. What a dumb ass 😂😂
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell spent more than half the money he raised in his campaign for Minnesota governor last year buying copies of his autobiography.
Mike Lindell's campaign for governor is buying boatloads of Mike Lindell autobiographies • Minnesota Reformer
Mike Lindell’s memoir, “What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO,” has enjoyed a new surge of sales since he announced a run for governor late last year. Who’s buying the book, which details his ad...
minnesotareformer.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Imagine being this dumb ass and thinking that you have any shot in Minnesota right now. What a dumb ass 😂😂
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Noam Chomsky: why hello miss monkey
Koko the gorilla (signing): bad man pedo man bad man
Noam Chomsky: UH UH MONKEYS CANT TALK DONT LISTEN TO HER
Koko the gorilla (signing): bad man pedo man bad man
Noam Chomsky: UH UH MONKEYS CANT TALK DONT LISTEN TO HER
February 3, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Noam Chomsky: why hello miss monkey
Koko the gorilla (signing): bad man pedo man bad man
Noam Chomsky: UH UH MONKEYS CANT TALK DONT LISTEN TO HER
Koko the gorilla (signing): bad man pedo man bad man
Noam Chomsky: UH UH MONKEYS CANT TALK DONT LISTEN TO HER
If we’re going to starve kids I expect more than 5 fucking pence off the price of a pint
February 3, 2026 at 11:03 AM
If we’re going to starve kids I expect more than 5 fucking pence off the price of a pint
Amazing. Also I love how the tone of the Bugs Bunny lesson is slightly different from the rest but spot on 😂
February 2, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Amazing. Also I love how the tone of the Bugs Bunny lesson is slightly different from the rest but spot on 😂
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Just a Monday morning reminder that we are searching for a tenure track faculty position in cognitive psychology.
Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Tenure-Track Position at Western Washington University.
This is an assistant professor position in applied cognitive psychology.
Short 🧵 about this position. 1/?
Here is the link with details and for applying: hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
This is an assistant professor position in applied cognitive psychology.
Short 🧵 about this position. 1/?
Here is the link with details and for applying: hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
February 2, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Just a Monday morning reminder that we are searching for a tenure track faculty position in cognitive psychology.
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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;
1/3
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 🤔