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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 1d

Thrilled to see this paper out! It's the culmination of a project begun in the depths of the pandemic with Sabrina Karjack and @zoengo.bsky.social . We continue our exploration of how children generalize when their episodic memory is not yet mature.
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The dependence of children’s generalization on episodic memory varies with age and level of abstraction - Nature Communications

Children’s ability to generalize from episodic memories varies by both age and the level of abstraction. Here, the authors show that lower level generalization increasingly depends on episodic memory with age, whereas higher level generalization shows no such relationship.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 1d

This video is part of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom's series, "Faculty on the Frontlines," which spotlights ten AAUP members who share their stories of repression and resistance in the face of partisan interference and violations of academic freedom.

Learn more at the link below👇

Faculty on the Front Lines

Faculty on the Front Lines:AAUP Members Share Stories of Repression and Resistance"Faculty on the Front Lines" is a series documenting the stories of AAUP members. While some of these participants hav...

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 2d

Every time someone wants to decide something on merit alone

Angry goose chasing someone while asking "How do you define merit?"

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Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 6d

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

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Anna Schapiro @annaschapiro.bsky.social · 5d

Members of the Penn community: please sign this actionnetwork.org/petitions/ju...

Just Say No to Trump's Compact for Academic Extortion

Yesterday, the University of Pennsylvania was one of nine targets of the Trump Administration's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." Through it, Trump asks once again for universitie...

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 5d

Since it resonated with the audience, I’ll recap my main argument against AGI here. ‘General intelligence’ is like phlogiston, or the aether. It’s an outmoded scientific concept that does not refer to anything real. Any explanatory work it did can be done better by a richer scientific frame. 1/3

Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 5d

This was a truly heartening day, with deeply thoughtful challenges to the dominant narrative framed around AGI, coming from across disciplines and perspectives. Felt like the tide might finally be turning a bit, at least among the scientific community. Thanks @royalsociety.org!

Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 7d

1/2 I'm looking forward to taking part in a panel on AGI and the Turing Test, tomorrow afternoon (Thurs 2nd Oct) at the @royalsociety.org, w/ Dame Wendy Hall, Shannon Vallor, William Isaac, & Sir Nigel Shadbolt. royalsociety.org/science-even...

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 5d

"Among other steps, universities would also be required to change their governance structures to prohibit anything that would 'punish, belittle and even spark violence against conservative ideas.'"

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5d

New York Times story about "Compact" for funding preferences for universities

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Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 6d

Note that the Trump Administration is already going back to schools with whom it earlier reached "deals" (such as UPenn and Brown) for further concessions. Conceding to a bully has only emboldened them to make new demands.

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 22d

Developmental changes in memory structure and precision alter the use of retrieved episodes during decisions for reward: https://osf.io/78zmx

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Mar 3

Developmental differences in exploration reveal underlying differences in structure inference: http://osf.io/t8hpr_v1/

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 7d

"Faculty, like all University employees, are also entitled to First Amendment protection for speech on matters of
public concern, but only insofar as the employee’s expressive interests outweigh the University’s interests in
fulfilling its public service mission."

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 7d

UC faculty are fighting through the courts to save the UC system. Our funding has been swept by central admin. We can’t pay to travel or research. Every time we lecture we’re at risk of attacks by right-wing mobs. Fortunately the UC Regents are on the ball: they’re…finding new ways to discipline us.

The same is true for faculty extramural speech, which may be protected under APM - 010 only insofar as it is consistent with the standards of professional conduct set forth in APM - 015. The standard provided in APM - 015 allows for discipline only for conduct which is not justified by the faculty's ethical principles stated in APM
- 015 and which significantly impairs the University's central functions, as defined in APM - 015's preamble.
This analysis must recognize the particular context of the University as an environment that encourages free inquiry and the exchange of ideas and, as described in APM - 015, "seeks to provide and sustain an environment conducive to sharing, extending, and critically examining knowledge and values, and furthering the search for wisdom."
Faculty, like all University employees, are also entitled to First Amendment protection for speech on matters of public concern, but only insofar as the employee's expressive interests outweigh the University's interests in fulfilling its public service mission.

Coordination with UC Police Departments: Beginning in Fall 2025, the Systemwide Office of Civil Rights will coordinate on developing systemwide guidelines in partnership with the UC Police Departments for sharing information in all misconduct cases, including expressive activities cases.

Notices to Respondents of Proposed Range of Disciplinary Sanctions: The Chancellor already has authority to propose a range of disciplinary sanctions in the notice of proposed discipline under APM - 016. Pursuant to the authority already provided in APM - 016, beginning, in the Fall 2025 term, when a Chancellor issues a notice of proposed discipline, the notice should include a range of proposed disciplinary sanctions. Also, in Fall 2025, campuses should begin including the dates the administration is available to participate in a hearing, providing five (5) or more options, in their notices of proposed discipline.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · 8d

👏 stop 👏 requiring 👏 recommendation letters 👏 in 👏 the 👏 first 👏 round 👏 of 👏 academic 👏 job 👏 applications

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arXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · 16d

Andrew Kyle Lampinen, Martin Engelcke, Yuxuan Li, Arslan Chaudhry, James L. McClelland: Latent learning: episodic memory complements parametric learning by enabling flexible reuse of experiences https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16189 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16189 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.16189

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 11d

Spineless.

Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 11d

On Trump demands to UCLA, Chancellor Julio Frenk:

-- Won't "speculate" on where UCLA would land on federal demand to ban "anti-American" and "anti-Western" international admits.

-- Said government demands could become "non-issues" after negotiations.

www.latimes.com/california/s... (3/3)

UCLA chancellor ready to stand firm against Trump demands, unless they’re ‘valid’

UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk, speaking at an event with a Los Angeles-based Jewish organization, defended campus efforts to support Jewish communities.

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 12d

At this point the choice to "negotiate" has to be seen as willing complicity.

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‘Command and control’: University of California institutes information blackout amid federal negotiations

Over the past two weeks, leadership at UC Berkeley and the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, has come under fire following the disclosure that roughly 160 names of

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 12d

Outstanding cross-species work co-lead by Madison Tetzlaff and @biancaleonard.bsky.social

Tallie Z Baram @talliezee.bsky.social · 12d

Published! to NAIL human paraventricular thalamus, we imaged & aligned postmortem human thalamus labeled c calretinin. Finally a gold standard allowing mouse, rat human comparisons onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social @flagel-lab.bsky.social @mikeyassa.bsky.social l

A Combined Neuroanatomy, Ex Vivo Imaging, and Immunohistochemistry Defined MRI Mask for the Human Paraventricular Nucleus of the Thalamus

Existing definitions of the human paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT) differ between histological and MRI atlases; this study addresses this conflict by leveraging MRI and histology in the ...

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 15d

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants

A San Francisco-based federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore all National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA, roughly $500 million, that the government suspended in July.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 16d

this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses.

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The net result is the worst of both worlds. Universities invoke the rhetoric of business discipline, but they lack the governance structures that give that discipline bite. They operate without the checks that private ownership provides, yet subject staff and students to the cost-cutting and efficiency drives that profit-maximising firms pursue. The result is waste at the top and insecurity at the bottom.

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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 16d

This study of intelligence in the UK Biobank is typical of a lot of current social science genomics. Impressive technically, and not over-interpreted. But still, a main result gets lost in the sauce. Within-families, the direct-effect polygenic score explains no more that 1-3% of the variance. /1

Imputation of fluid intelligence scores reduces ascertainment bias and increases power for analyses of common and rare variants

Studying the genetics of measures of intelligence can help us understand the neurobiology of cognitive function and the aetiology of rare neurodevelopmental conditions. The largest previous genetic st...

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 21d

"most stacked cast in movie history" 🎯

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 21d

Facing a proposed $1.2-billion fine and severe medical research grant cuts at UCLA, the University of California has not gone head-to-head with Trump in court.

So on Tuesday, groups representing more than 100,000 of its employees did.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts

University of California faculty, students and staff on Tuesday sued President Trump over a $1.2-million penalty against UCLA and federal demands over campus changes. They argued that the actions camp...

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 21d

On behalf of the AAUP, I am so honored to share that today we joined our sister UC unions in a wall-to-wall lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the use of Title VI as a cudgel to bend the University of California in its ideological vision.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts

University of California faculty, students and staff on Tuesday sued President Trump over a $1.2-million penalty against UCLA and federal demands over campus changes. They argued that the actions camp...

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 22d

TUESDAY 9/16: meet all your colleagues at the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social Regents meeting. They will be talking about Trump's latest demands. We will stand up and demand Hands Off Our UC!

CUCFA, AAUP, AFT, UAW, CNA, and AFSCME. You want acronyms, we've got all of them! 2pm Sept 16 at UCSF, Join us!

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Union Jobs @unionjobs.bsky.social · Sep 3

The CUCFA (Council of University of California Faculty Associations) seeks an Operations Director. This position is Remote. Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong @uc-faculty.bsky.social @aaup.org

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Emma Scholey @emmavscholey.bsky.social · 22d

Early bird registration for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" conference ends on 30th September!

This meeting provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the neural, behavioural and computational mechanisms of foraging across species.

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