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
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
These people are just so fucking weird
February 2, 2026 at 9:24 PM
These people are just so fucking weird
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 😂
Not for much longer!
February 2, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Not for much longer!
So business as usual. Nature is really going all in on AI isn’t it
February 2, 2026 at 7:12 PM
So business as usual. Nature is really going all in on AI isn’t it
Love it, but also all the Fremen are just looking at the cold water he’s skating on going ‘what the fuck’ 😂
February 2, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Love it, but also all the Fremen are just looking at the cold water he’s skating on going ‘what the fuck’ 😂
So is “hey, at least I’m not THAT guy 🤪’ an option? 😆
February 2, 2026 at 5:51 PM
So is “hey, at least I’m not THAT guy 🤪’ an option? 😆
“Unlike your actual staff, I have read the university missions/values and have connected with them like this…”? 😂
February 2, 2026 at 5:47 PM
“Unlike your actual staff, I have read the university missions/values and have connected with them like this…”? 😂
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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.
I’ve often wondered if ‘we’re actually better than this’ might be a good thing to say to educators thinking about using this technology 🤔
February 2, 2026 at 3:37 PM
I’ve often wondered if ‘we’re actually better than this’ might be a good thing to say to educators thinking about using this technology 🤔
Look at least the letters actually spell the first letter of the things to remember. I have seen many worse things. But also, fedora is indeed a hilarious thing to use here 😂
February 2, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Look at least the letters actually spell the first letter of the things to remember. I have seen many worse things. But also, fedora is indeed a hilarious thing to use here 😂
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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!
Oh my god amen to that sentence
February 2, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Oh my god amen to that sentence
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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.
I thought this, but I’m honestly not sure! It’s never had anything else in it, and it looks different from other signs thy display traffic warnings etc
February 2, 2026 at 10:12 AM
I thought this, but I’m honestly not sure! It’s never had anything else in it, and it looks different from other signs thy display traffic warnings etc
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?
It’s no wonder Epstein kept dodging his requests to hang out - what a weird little loser 😂😂
February 1, 2026 at 7:04 PM
It’s no wonder Epstein kept dodging his requests to hang out - what a weird little loser 😂😂
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 🤔
It was made by people who loved the books, I think, and it made all the difference ❤️
February 1, 2026 at 10:58 AM
It was made by people who loved the books, I think, and it made all the difference ❤️