andrea e. martin
@andreaeyleen.bsky.social
::language, cognitive science, neural dynamics::
Lise Meitner Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics |
Principal Investigator, Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University |
http://www.andreaemartin.com/
lacns.GitHub.io
Lise Meitner Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics |
Principal Investigator, Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University |
http://www.andreaemartin.com/
lacns.GitHub.io
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Ode to the original language model, or:
Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs)
*(no predictive coding either!)
By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n
Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs)
*(no predictive coding either!)
By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n
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"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
-James Baldwin, from Notes on the House of Bondage (The Nation, 1980)
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
-James Baldwin, from Notes on the House of Bondage (The Nation, 1980)
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
January 24, 2026 at 1:26 AM
"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
-James Baldwin, from Notes on the House of Bondage (The Nation, 1980)
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
-James Baldwin, from Notes on the House of Bondage (The Nation, 1980)
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
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The LingComm Grants are back!
These grants started in 2020, as "hey let's help get lingcomm projects going during lockdown"
They've since run in 2022 and 2024, and thanks to generous folks we've always given out more than expected
But they only work if people apply!!! Please share this!!
These grants started in 2020, as "hey let's help get lingcomm projects going during lockdown"
They've since run in 2022 and 2024, and thanks to generous folks we've always given out more than expected
But they only work if people apply!!! Please share this!!
Working on a project bringing linguistics to broader audiences?
The 2026 LingComm Grants are $300 USD grants to help you with your project!
Please apply and/or share with any up and coming lingcommers you know!
Details:
lingcomm.org/grants
#linguistics #langsky #lingcomm
The 2026 LingComm Grants are $300 USD grants to help you with your project!
Please apply and/or share with any up and coming lingcommers you know!
Details:
lingcomm.org/grants
#linguistics #langsky #lingcomm
January 23, 2026 at 2:47 AM
The LingComm Grants are back!
These grants started in 2020, as "hey let's help get lingcomm projects going during lockdown"
They've since run in 2022 and 2024, and thanks to generous folks we've always given out more than expected
But they only work if people apply!!! Please share this!!
These grants started in 2020, as "hey let's help get lingcomm projects going during lockdown"
They've since run in 2022 and 2024, and thanks to generous folks we've always given out more than expected
But they only work if people apply!!! Please share this!!
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It's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason
January 23, 2026 at 3:06 AM
It's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason
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Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
January 22, 2026 at 5:59 AM
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“We’ve invented a magic computer. It uses all of the earth’s resources, we’ve spent trillions on it and it’s the sole growth area of the US economy.”
“What does it do?”
“We were hoping you could tell us.”
“What does it do?”
“We were hoping you could tell us.”
Delicious to me
January 22, 2026 at 7:36 AM
“We’ve invented a magic computer. It uses all of the earth’s resources, we’ve spent trillions on it and it’s the sole growth area of the US economy.”
“What does it do?”
“We were hoping you could tell us.”
“What does it do?”
“We were hoping you could tell us.”
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ripple researchers probably open this article with sweaty palms, because ripple detection with 77% false positives for standard processing sounds pretty bad... 😨
Ripple oscillations are central for memory and sleep.
But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations
👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations
👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
Aperiodic 1/f noise drives ripple activity in humans - Nature Communications
How aperiodic 1/f noise drives ripple activity in human brain and impacts on ripple detections is not fully understood. Here authors show that ripple detections should be driven by the 1/f noise, whic...
www.nature.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:21 AM
ripple researchers probably open this article with sweaty palms, because ripple detection with 77% false positives for standard processing sounds pretty bad... 😨
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I worry every day about my mother, a Chinese-American who is legally blind and extremely hard of hearing and in her eighties, who speaks with a clear accent.
It will not MATTER to a fucking ICE officer that her accent is because she was born in Hawaii.
It will not MATTER to a fucking ICE officer that her accent is because she was born in Hawaii.
January 22, 2026 at 3:06 PM
I worry every day about my mother, a Chinese-American who is legally blind and extremely hard of hearing and in her eighties, who speaks with a clear accent.
It will not MATTER to a fucking ICE officer that her accent is because she was born in Hawaii.
It will not MATTER to a fucking ICE officer that her accent is because she was born in Hawaii.
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My fellow Asian Americans, we are not white. They cannot tell us apart. They do not think we belong here, no matter how many generations we have lived here.
January 22, 2026 at 3:04 PM
My fellow Asian Americans, we are not white. They cannot tell us apart. They do not think we belong here, no matter how many generations we have lived here.
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In the 1870 census, Boise, Idaho was almost 50% Chinese. Just...think about that. Think about Boise, Idaho today and what you think about it racially.
What happened after that was, to put it bluntly, repeated violence against the Chinese population in the West.
What happened after that was, to put it bluntly, repeated violence against the Chinese population in the West.
January 22, 2026 at 2:59 PM
In the 1870 census, Boise, Idaho was almost 50% Chinese. Just...think about that. Think about Boise, Idaho today and what you think about it racially.
What happened after that was, to put it bluntly, repeated violence against the Chinese population in the West.
What happened after that was, to put it bluntly, repeated violence against the Chinese population in the West.
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Anytime I see numbers showing that Asian people are less underwater than others, I wish we were actually fucking teaching the history of Asian people in this country.
Instead, maybe people are told that Chinese laborers built the railroads in the mid-1800s and then... like, nothing at all.
Instead, maybe people are told that Chinese laborers built the railroads in the mid-1800s and then... like, nothing at all.
January 22, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Anytime I see numbers showing that Asian people are less underwater than others, I wish we were actually fucking teaching the history of Asian people in this country.
Instead, maybe people are told that Chinese laborers built the railroads in the mid-1800s and then... like, nothing at all.
Instead, maybe people are told that Chinese laborers built the railroads in the mid-1800s and then... like, nothing at all.
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I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud
Delicious to me
January 22, 2026 at 6:29 AM
I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud
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Female scientists have to wait longer for their articles to be reviewed than their male colleagues. An analysis of 36.5 million papers in the life sciences shows that for females it took 115 days to reach a decision, compared to 101 days for men journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @plosbiology.org
January 22, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Female scientists have to wait longer for their articles to be reviewed than their male colleagues. An analysis of 36.5 million papers in the life sciences shows that for females it took 115 days to reach a decision, compared to 101 days for men journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @plosbiology.org
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"female-authored articles spend longer under review than comparable male-authored ones"
#Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in #STEMM fields, top institutions & in senior positions. Analysis of millions of biomed & life science articles reveal that female-authored articles spend longer under review than comparable male-authored ones @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4658FZN
January 22, 2026 at 9:30 AM
"female-authored articles spend longer under review than comparable male-authored ones"
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I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊
Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.
Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.
Part 1: How do LLMs work?
YouTube video by Andrew Perfors
www.youtube.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:45 AM
I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊
Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.
Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.
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Interpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap.
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...
Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...
Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
January 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Interpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap.
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...
Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...
Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
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Mood
January 19, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Mood
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I wrote this poem as an homage to Baldwin and to hear it being sung across the world or read in protests has been my own guiding light of hope.
January 18, 2026 at 8:45 PM
I wrote this poem as an homage to Baldwin and to hear it being sung across the world or read in protests has been my own guiding light of hope.
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Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.
January 18, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.
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By my count, this is the 6,743,288,609th time that my intuitions about the implications of some theoretical idea I had turned out to be wrong when that idea was instantiated in a model (and the model was run).
This is why you model folks. Pass it on.
This is why you model folks. Pass it on.
January 18, 2026 at 9:12 PM
By my count, this is the 6,743,288,609th time that my intuitions about the implications of some theoretical idea I had turned out to be wrong when that idea was instantiated in a model (and the model was run).
This is why you model folks. Pass it on.
This is why you model folks. Pass it on.
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eat the slop www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest
A University of Alaska student was charged with a misdemeanor for eating another student's AI-generated art in protest.
www.artnews.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:49 PM
eat the slop www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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my amazing colleagues write amazing books with amazing titles
January 18, 2026 at 11:07 PM
my amazing colleagues write amazing books with amazing titles
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Just divide by zero who gives a shit anymore
January 12, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Just divide by zero who gives a shit anymore
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☀️ Summer School 📚
“Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming"
Organisers and teachers:
👉 @marentierra.bsky.social
👉 @olivia.science
👉 myself
Deadline for application:
🐦 31 March 2026 (early bird fee)
1/🧵
www.ru.nl/en/education...
“Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming"
Organisers and teachers:
👉 @marentierra.bsky.social
👉 @olivia.science
👉 myself
Deadline for application:
🐦 31 March 2026 (early bird fee)
1/🧵
www.ru.nl/en/education...
Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming | Radboud University
This course is designed to foster critical AI literacies in participants to empower them to develop ways of resisting or reclaiming AI in their own practices and social context.
www.ru.nl
January 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
☀️ Summer School 📚
“Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming"
Organisers and teachers:
👉 @marentierra.bsky.social
👉 @olivia.science
👉 myself
Deadline for application:
🐦 31 March 2026 (early bird fee)
1/🧵
www.ru.nl/en/education...
“Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming"
Organisers and teachers:
👉 @marentierra.bsky.social
👉 @olivia.science
👉 myself
Deadline for application:
🐦 31 March 2026 (early bird fee)
1/🧵
www.ru.nl/en/education...
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Take a close look at this picture.
What an interesting coin or artifact, you probably think 🤔. Such interesting detail, intricately carved or molded 🧐 ... HAHA sucker, you're looking at a SPIDER'S BUTT.
Let's meet Cyclocosmia ricketti, the Chinese hourglass spider.
CW: spiders & their butts
What an interesting coin or artifact, you probably think 🤔. Such interesting detail, intricately carved or molded 🧐 ... HAHA sucker, you're looking at a SPIDER'S BUTT.
Let's meet Cyclocosmia ricketti, the Chinese hourglass spider.
CW: spiders & their butts
January 15, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Take a close look at this picture.
What an interesting coin or artifact, you probably think 🤔. Such interesting detail, intricately carved or molded 🧐 ... HAHA sucker, you're looking at a SPIDER'S BUTT.
Let's meet Cyclocosmia ricketti, the Chinese hourglass spider.
CW: spiders & their butts
What an interesting coin or artifact, you probably think 🤔. Such interesting detail, intricately carved or molded 🧐 ... HAHA sucker, you're looking at a SPIDER'S BUTT.
Let's meet Cyclocosmia ricketti, the Chinese hourglass spider.
CW: spiders & their butts