Dermot Lynott
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Dermot Lynott
@dermotlynott.bsky.social
Cognitive Science, language, open research, PsyArXiv, music, terrible puns. Maynooth University, Ireland.

https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/dermot-lynott
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What Can Language Models Tell Us About Human Cognition?

doi.org/10.1177/0963...
We try to place some constraints on what kind of language models might be useful for helping our understanding of cognition
#academicSky #psychSciSky #CogSci #openAccess
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WANTED! Collaborators for a Big Team Science Systematic Review on Statistical Software in #StatsEd, led by @alyssacounsell.bsky.social (RoSE Statistics Software SIG Lead), @maddipow.bsky.social (@forrt.bsky.social rt.bsky.social Director of Education & Pedagogy), & @richharrisleeds.bsky.social. 1/2
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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I took all of your advice.

The new boards are now live in the SLATED Landmark Collection.

Feel free to point out any errors. It was a bit of a rush job.

Reposts would be amazing.

Slated.ie

#SLATED #speirgorm
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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At 45k followers I will reveal which ethnic cuisines it is permissible to enjoy in light of historical atrocities.
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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This is £600m from the same university sector that is pretty close to collapse in a growing number of major institutions?

Many of them universities that are among the biggest employers in the very ‘left behind’ towns and cities that Labour talks so much about…
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Ireland can lead in open research and public engagement. Help us get there. Follow ENGAGED and share our work. #publicengagement #openresearch
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Congratulations to the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative -- a remarkable effort by a remarkable team. This is a wonderful acknowledgement of an incredible contribution to assessing and improving research quality.
🏆 Institutional: The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative is a nationwide effort to evaluate research results in laboratory biology & the largest coordinated replication effort in the field worldwide, showcasing the potential of country-level research improvements. @redebrrepro.bsky.social (3/5)
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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You now need to opt-out of letting Google use your G-Mail to train its AI. Go to your general settings and scroll to Smart Features: Unclick it. Done.
November 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Training initiative FORRT has released a platform for those who wish to discover and publicize computer and tabletop games about open research and publishing! Linked through this landing page:

forrt.org/games/
Open Research Games Portal
Integrating open and reproducible science into higher education
forrt.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Come join me and my brilliant, talented, kind, and generous colleagues at the University of Regina!

I’m delighted to share this open rank faculty position in Clinical Psychology.

#academicsky #highered #sciencejobs #womeninacademia

https://urcareers.uregina.ca/postings/17692
November 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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The Research Ireland Centre ADAPT at Trinity College Dublin is hiring x2 Postdoctoral Researcher positions in Legal Compliance Analysis and Engineering, to work in the RECITALS Horizon project.

Deadline: Apply by 7th December
Find out more lnkd.in/d6DcfqPC
LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
lnkd.in
November 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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My friend has caught some evil flu or Covid situation so I have a spare ticket for this if anyone’s looking for one
Extremely hyped for this, almost can’t believe I’m going to actually see them
November 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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#AcademicSky anyone remember a Science™️ article published that challenged the orthodoxy that men and women sorted into hunter and gatherer roles, respectively because of evolved biological diffs? I can't google my way to it so hoping someone knows what i'm referring to....
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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🎈 Time flies! Exactly one year ago today @rorinstitute.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social launched MetaROR, a platform to publish metaresearch through the publish-review-curate approach.

Over the course of the year, we published 28 articles reviewed by 59 different reviewers.

[1/3]
MetaROR Turns One - MetaROR
An exciting year of open, community-driven evaluation of metaresearch One [...]
metaror.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Reminder of this event today, should be a good one, registration below.

#FAIRdata #marinedata #openresearch
UCC's FAIR Data Forum – Establishing a Data Culture Using Frameworks to Navigate the Waves of Marine Data. Online on the 21st of November 12.30 to 13.30pm.

More about The Marine Insitute and FAIR:
datascience.codata.org/articles/10....

Register for the event here: libcal.ucc.ie/calendar/Eve...
Establishing a Data Culture Using Frameworks to Navigate the Waves of Marine Data | Data Science Journal
datascience.codata.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The place where we get our cat litter from informs me they’re having a Black Friday sale. Not sure what to make of that really
November 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Not only is Labour’s policy insulting and cruel to those who want to make a life in the UK, but it’s also incredibly stupid. Why on earth would you want to discourage nurses and teachers from settling in your country?
Shabana Mahmood's Indefinite Leave To Remain Culture War

3 years - if you're earning £125k+

15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher

Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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MERRY CMMSMSTMMSS EVERYONE!
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM