Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️
@joachim.cidlab.com
Professor of #CogSci and #Stats @UCIrvine; Pursuer of Lofty Undertakings; Purveyor of Articles Odd and Quaint; and Protector of the Realm. #blm #trahr he/him
I feel like this was already widely known...?
“This is total armageddon for the online right. It’s looking like half of their large accounts were foreigners posing as Americans all along.”
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I feel like this was already widely known...?
Reposted by Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️
Immediately a fan from reading the behavioral experiment included here to study the effect of psilocybin
Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s41...
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Immediately a fan from reading the behavioral experiment included here to study the effect of psilocybin
Some bullshit
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Some bullshit
Charlie Brown, Charlie Brown, lema sabachthani?
You are privy to a great becoming, but you recognize nothing, Charlie Brown.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Charlie Brown, than are dreamt of in your philosophy
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Charlie Brown, Charlie Brown, lema sabachthani?
Reposted by Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️
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
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!
Reposted by Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️
“Zohran, they said don’t mess with him, don’t mess with the Zohran but we were ready to, but we had a wonderful time quite frankly. And he said Mr. President, we need to seize means of production and we do, we need to seize them so badly.”
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
“Zohran, they said don’t mess with him, don’t mess with the Zohran but we were ready to, but we had a wonderful time quite frankly. And he said Mr. President, we need to seize means of production and we do, we need to seize them so badly.”
Reposted by Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️
I forgot to do the thing where I announce my póster before the Póster session!! 🫣
Anyway, here is a copy for posterity! :-)
Shoutout to Eunice Shin (not on BlueSky) and the great @joachim.cidlab.com !!
Anyway, here is a copy for posterity! :-)
Shoutout to Eunice Shin (not on BlueSky) and the great @joachim.cidlab.com !!
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I forgot to do the thing where I announce my póster before the Póster session!! 🫣
Anyway, here is a copy for posterity! :-)
Shoutout to Eunice Shin (not on BlueSky) and the great @joachim.cidlab.com !!
Anyway, here is a copy for posterity! :-)
Shoutout to Eunice Shin (not on BlueSky) and the great @joachim.cidlab.com !!
The biggest consequence of LLMs seems to be the devaluation of the written word as an indicator of understanding
The bigger change is presentation, historically, these emails were visually chaotic: sudden colour changes, ALL CAPS, screenshots pasted at random. Classic signs of disordered thinking. Now they’re neat, structured, and grammatically consistent. The delusion hasn't changed, but the formatting has.
November 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The biggest consequence of LLMs seems to be the devaluation of the written word as an indicator of understanding
Reposted by Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️
It is almost impossible not to read this comic and also not think of @elisabethbik.bsky.social and her work..
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
It is almost impossible not to read this comic and also not think of @elisabethbik.bsky.social and her work..
American values on display at johnoliversjunk.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
American values on display at johnoliversjunk.com
Dear [Student Name],
Thank you for reaching out. Unfortunately I cannot help you because [reason].
Thank you for reaching out. Unfortunately I cannot help you because [reason].
Email from a student who turned in a ChatGPT essay. Not even looking at the ChatGPT output in the apology 🥴
![Dear [Professor’s Name],
I want to sincerely apologize for my actions regarding my midterm submission.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fs6z2b756buwsdsjkle6utfi/bafkreiecvhzfgr4tlwyy2mvpbvjncqkysytwsxvidaoressh7peonoso3y@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Dear [Student Name],
Thank you for reaching out. Unfortunately I cannot help you because [reason].
Thank you for reaching out. Unfortunately I cannot help you because [reason].
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The em dash has been unfairly maligned for its association with the real ChatGPT tell: the "not just X — Y" thing that makes you sound like you used an English-to-LinkedIn translator
November 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The em dash has been unfairly maligned for its association with the real ChatGPT tell: the "not just X — Y" thing that makes you sound like you used an English-to-LinkedIn translator
Reposted by Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️
#SfN2025 Poster 2 of 6
Today! Sunday 11/16 8a-12p
@khoudary.bsky.social
TKP05.05SU / WW13 Philosophical tools for evaluating computational models of cognition, with
@aaronbornstein.bsky.social
www.abstractsonline....
Today! Sunday 11/16 8a-12p
@khoudary.bsky.social
TKP05.05SU / WW13 Philosophical tools for evaluating computational models of cognition, with
@aaronbornstein.bsky.social
www.abstractsonline....
November 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
#SfN2025 Poster 2 of 6
Today! Sunday 11/16 8a-12p
@khoudary.bsky.social
TKP05.05SU / WW13 Philosophical tools for evaluating computational models of cognition, with
@aaronbornstein.bsky.social
www.abstractsonline....
Today! Sunday 11/16 8a-12p
@khoudary.bsky.social
TKP05.05SU / WW13 Philosophical tools for evaluating computational models of cognition, with
@aaronbornstein.bsky.social
www.abstractsonline....
I'm not at SfN but someone bring me back some swag
November 16, 2025 at 6:35 AM
I'm not at SfN but someone bring me back some swag
Having gone to Catholic schools for my entire youth... yeah this tracks
Holy shit. They're really doing it. They're doing "actually pedophilia is good now." The debasement of the American Right is complete.
MEGYN KELLY IS RIGHT ABOUT EPSTEIN - Catholic League
Bill Donohue
www.catholicleague.org
November 16, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Having gone to Catholic schools for my entire youth... yeah this tracks
It gets me every time -- Ruby Bridges is active on Instagram
From 2022:
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
It gets me every time -- Ruby Bridges is active on Instagram
don't have heroes I guess
In between things I've been checking in on the emails that mention "university" and uhh did we all know about this connection?
![Screenshot from the Epstein Document Search which reads: House_Oversight_029401
From: Donald Rubin
Sent: 1/22/2017 7:31:32 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Republican health care experts dismiss Donald Trump's ideas
Importance: High
https://www.statnews.com/20 1 6/03/04/trump -repub cans-health-care/? s camp aign=trendmd
Jeffrey,
This cannot be true, can it? This guy must be as dumb about this stuff as a tampon laced with arsenic!!
HELP!
Great meeting yesterday — really enjoyed it.
And happy birthday again, Don
Donald B. Rubin
John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics
Department of Statistics, Harvard University
1 Oxford Street
Cambridge MA 02138
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 029401](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ozma3timm5c32fa7bimb4zaj/bafkreiezajc6f2rgwxrdx2242izbelpumkgdruc52pzu236rhovlcyfmde@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
don't have heroes I guess
I'm guessing this might actually be useful as a negatively weighted part of a training set. Nice of them to curate a corpus of how to be a dick
Preprint w/ (rapid) analysis of Grokipedia, showing it to be “highly derivative of Wikipedia”, but differing, often on controversial topics, in that Grokipedia includes content/cites from low quality (hyper partisan & conspiracy laden) sources like Stormfront & Infowars. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09685
arxiv.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I'm guessing this might actually be useful as a negatively weighted part of a training set. Nice of them to curate a corpus of how to be a dick
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Also very happy to share this very [short but also very] cool piece we worked with Eunice Shin, who joined the lab at the end of her undergraduate studies ✨✨
Robust Bayesian hypothesis testing with the hierarchical EZ-DDM: https://osf.io/7gcyw
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Also very happy to share this very [short but also very] cool piece we worked with Eunice Shin, who joined the lab at the end of her undergraduate studies ✨✨
holy shit lol
‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation
‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation
WASHINGTON—Responding to recent revelations suggesting the prominent economist was a close associate of the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a devastated nation reportedly joined together to...
theonion.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
holy shit lol
UCI did a little piece on the journey of my graduate student, Kath. It's a nice read!
Also includes my favorite lab group photo 🤩
Also includes my favorite lab group photo 🤩
From data to models | @ucirvine.bsky.social cognitive sciences Ph.D. student Kathleen Medriano is challenging assumptions and traditional approaches to modeling
@uofcalifornia.bsky.social @joachim.cidlab.com
@uofcalifornia.bsky.social @joachim.cidlab.com
From data to models
www.socsci.uci.edu
November 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
UCI did a little piece on the journey of my graduate student, Kath. It's a nice read!
Also includes my favorite lab group photo 🤩
Also includes my favorite lab group photo 🤩
Reposted by Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️
From data to models | @ucirvine.bsky.social cognitive sciences Ph.D. student Kathleen Medriano is challenging assumptions and traditional approaches to modeling
@uofcalifornia.bsky.social @joachim.cidlab.com
@uofcalifornia.bsky.social @joachim.cidlab.com
From data to models
www.socsci.uci.edu
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
From data to models | @ucirvine.bsky.social cognitive sciences Ph.D. student Kathleen Medriano is challenging assumptions and traditional approaches to modeling
@uofcalifornia.bsky.social @joachim.cidlab.com
@uofcalifornia.bsky.social @joachim.cidlab.com
*slow exhale*
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
*slow exhale*
Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM