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Journal of Cognition @jcgntn.bsky.social · 1d

New content: Dutriaux, L., & Bottini, R. (2025). Memory and Representation of Vision-Related Verbs in Early Blind Individuals. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 45, pp. 1–12. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....
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Memory and Representation of Vision-Related Verbs in Early Blind Individuals | Journal of Cognition

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Mia @miapia.bsky.social · 2d

It’s restorative to finally have a little cry over GOOD politics for once. 💚

@zackpolanski.bsky.social absolutely nails it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxt4...

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

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Journal of Cognition @jcgntn.bsky.social · 2d

New content: Khoo, J. K. M., & Tibon, R. (2025). Unitization Based Memory Enhancement in Younger and Older Adults. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 44, pp. 1–20. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....
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Unitization Based Memory Enhancement in Younger and Older Adults | Journal of Cognition

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 3d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 3d

This is so good from Cory Doctorow on all the tricks Amazon uses to get both consumers to pay more, and how businesses on the platform end up paying it 45-51 cents on every dollar.

Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 5d

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease.

There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6d

The "AI" responses that Google gives about me and my work are consistently error-prone, which I know because I am me. If I know Google's "AI" responses give incorrect answers about things I know about, I can't trust it to give correct answers about things I don't know. So, no, I don't use it.

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 6d

I’m surprised you don’t use ai answer engines in research you currently do with Google

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 9d

hahahaha and wow

@andreaeyleen.bsky.social wrote a poem about LLMs 🫠

andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.bsky.social · 9d

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

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 9d

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 9d

No surprise, this is very good. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Candice Morey @candicemorey.bsky.social · 12d

Interested? Want to learn more? Read our Stage 1 manuscript: osf.io/ahjn5

Ready to join us? Express your interest here: cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

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Candice Morey @candicemorey.bsky.social · 12d

- Data collection will be in person, not online
- Each lab will need to recruit a minimum number of eligible participants (this will be at least N=120, depends how many labs join)
- The paradigm takes about 20 minutes
- We will provide the Psychpy program
- You lab gets co-authorship at Stage 2

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Candice Morey @candicemorey.bsky.social · 12d

Our project has in-principle acceptance at rr.peercommunityin.org/PCIRegistere.... You can read our Stage 1 Manuscript here: osf.io/ahjn5.

Would your lab like to help us? We're seeking partner labs to contribute to our sample. Details about your lab set up and the min N are in the paper. TL;DR:

PCI Registered Reports

Peer Community in Registered Reports

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Candice Morey @candicemorey.bsky.social · 12d

We (@evievergauwe.bsky.social and Mike Pratte) are ready to kick-off a many-labs extension of the attribute amnesia paradigm (journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....). We designed variations of Chen & Wyble's task to test how ability to prepare the response might impact memory for incidental details.

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Candice Morey @candicemorey.bsky.social · 12d

Call for collaborators! 🧵

The TL;DR: we seek collaborators on a #ManyLabs #RegisteredReport about what causes rapid forgetting.

In-principle accepted Stage 1: osf.io/ahjn5

Expressions of interest: cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Further details in the 🧵:

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 16d

If you protested Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off the air by canceling Disney+ or some similarly simple action that had clear, direct, effective results, it feels good that you helped get him back, right? The neat part of you can choose another simple action, and keep that awesome feeling going.

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Candice Morey @candicemorey.bsky.social · 17d

Album cover of King of the Road, The Best of Roger Miller, with the track list

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 23d

For true innovacioun, we neede poetrye, philosophy, ethics, & the studye of the diversitye of historyes & literatures & languages. We neede to fynde newe wayes of wearinge our heartes, new dreames of the future. Technologye alone will create nothing but wayes of makinge old injustices happen faster.

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 25d

The obituary of Kirk that you should read. One that clearly describes the harm he did.

No one deserves to be murdered. But being murdered does not diminish the harm. We need to acknowledge the harm.

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 26d

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

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Isabel Courage @isabelcourage.bsky.social · 26d

A huge thanks to all participants, my fellow workshop co-organizers @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social and @ruhibhanap.bsky.social, and #ESCOP2025 for hosting our workshop introducing cognitive measurement models with the #bmm R package (venpopov.github.io/bmm/) - it was such a rewarding experience!

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UCU University of Kent branch @ucukent.bsky.social · 28d

This is the best thing anyone working in UK Higher Education can do today, particularly if you're at Kent or Greenwich.
As a union we're stronger together.
Support your local branch.

David P. Carey @dpcarey123.bsky.social · 28d

Join the Union ASAP.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 28d

If you ask me things could be going better these days

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

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Lizzie Bradford @lizziebradford.bsky.social · Sep 5

It’s been an excellent few days in Sheffield for #ESCoP2025! I have enjoyed so many talks, posters, and chats, and have come away feeling inspired and excited about research ideas and topics happening across labs 🤩

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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · Sep 5

Leeds WoMCog group at the #ESCoP2025 conference in Sheffield!

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