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
just the tiniest li'l guy
January 11, 2026 at 9:58 AM
just the tiniest li'l guy
I don't really know this tradition but can I ask the lemon pig to bless my year with RAM
January 1, 2026 at 7:54 AM
I don't really know this tradition but can I ask the lemon pig to bless my year with RAM
Recent discovery via Reddit: equal parts Cointreau, Malort, lime juice, grenadine. Shake and strain.
December 20, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Recent discovery via Reddit: equal parts Cointreau, Malort, lime juice, grenadine. Shake and strain.
Teaching a new class in Winter. Too early to start prep.
December 16, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Teaching a new class in Winter. Too early to start prep.
A strong start but room for improvement, 7/10
December 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
A strong start but room for improvement, 7/10
Some bullshit
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Some bullshit
Yeah, that's... that's a bummer
November 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Yeah, that's... that's a bummer
American values on display at johnoliversjunk.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
American values on display at johnoliversjunk.com
Right there with you
November 15, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Right there with you
![XKCD 793
[Cueball stands at a blackboard covered in diagrams, an open laptop and scattered paper at his feet. His fists are balled in anger and there is a little angry squiggle over his head. A Cueball-like physicist stands behind him, arms out in a shrug.]
Physicist: You're trying to predict the behavior of <complicated system>? Just model it as a <simple object>, and then add some secondary terms to account for <complications I just thought of>.
Physicist: Easy, right?
Physicist: So, why does <your field> need a whole journal, anyway?
[Caption below the panel:]
Liberal-arts majors may be annoying sometimes, but there's nothing more obnoxious than a physicist first encountering a new subject.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ndqg2pxeb45bjhjgtc3z7m4/bafkreieyhofytsyv2lkctn6oh74orkzvgc2toae3vleebdog3avbb7heee@jpeg)
Aaaaaand I'm spent
November 1, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Aaaaaand I'm spent
Now we wait for the dark
October 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Now we wait for the dark
Here's the data, the red line is the "no correspondence" model and the histogram is the "best case" data where we censored trials in which the tester did not feel confident or the patient did not trust the procedure. All other censoring plans gave stronger evidence for the null. 13/
October 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Here's the data, the red line is the "no correspondence" model and the histogram is the "best case" data where we censored trials in which the tester did not feel confident or the patient did not trust the procedure. All other censoring plans gave stronger evidence for the null. 13/
FYI if you use EZ diffusion for your cognitive psychometrics needs, there's no reason not to use robust statistics
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
October 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
FYI if you use EZ diffusion for your cognitive psychometrics needs, there's no reason not to use robust statistics
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
