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Prof. Lucy Cheke

@lucycheke.bsky.social

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Cambridge psychologist studying learning & memory. Focus on translational cognitive tests and batteries across animals, AI and humans to help us understand all kinds of intelligence and where it goes wrong

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Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · 6d

Reseachers: Please can we have some money?
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Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · 8d

New Paper out! GIBSONA is a battery of Animal AI tasks evaluating object and affordances understanding - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

General interaction battery: Simple object navigation and affordances (GIBSONA)

Perception of affordances is an agent’s capability to identify what action-possibilities exist with a particular object or set of objects, based on it…

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Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · Sep 3

this was not the Derry girls spin off I was expecting

Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · Sep 2

my 6yo tried to show kpopdh to her friend who didn't like it. 6yo is questioning their entire friendship.

Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · Sep 2

Future Lucy Here: Well Fuck.

Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · Sep 2

No! A landline! like the friking middle ages

Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · Sep 2

Am I unusual in thinking that in ~*2025*~ it is unacceptable for a business to only have a phone number (i.e. no email address) in the "contact us" section - like... I dont even phone my mother? I'm not going to phone a Gym.

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Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · Sep 2

it would be an honour!

Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · Sep 2

*deep breathes*

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Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · Aug 12

so interesting! I've always been someone who finds too much awareness of my own breathing very aversive, becsuse as soon as im aware im in control, then I cant breath...

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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · Aug 7

Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, biomed engineering, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · Aug 7

Very accurate thread

David Roberts @volts.wtf · Aug 7

I want to do a 🧵 about the Sidney Sweeney thing, because it's *extremely* revealing & educational.

First, to be clear: I could not give less of a shit about the details -- the ad, the rhetoric, the jeans, her boobs, whatever. Good lord, who cares.

Let's look at the *structure* of the episode.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Aug 7

truth

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Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · Aug 7

I can beat this. I am about to GO on holiday and this is the hot mess im leaving for future lucy

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Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · Aug 6

Those with younger kids (aged 1-4) might also be interested in the "Babies and Memory" study also running, lead by the same PhD student (Sara Rashid) details here:

Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · Aug 6

Of course what was I thinking 🤦‍♀️

Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · Aug 6

Cambridge-based parents, If anyone is looking for entertainment during the rest of the summer holidays we are still looking for 4-7 year olds to take part in our kids navigation study!

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Jun 28

“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' … is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas and undermine scholarly discussions. It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · Aug 6

But why are we not focussing on "touch the toe of the legs"- I want to touch the toe of the arm!

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Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · Aug 6

Yep - I dont think I can do even 2 pull-ups, and 30 push-ups are you joking?? but I can plank for a couple of minutes

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Aug 4

Was looking into what Cognitive Scientists mean by ‘domain-general’ cognition, and then hit upon this. This is definitely NOT how we use that term.

Tip: read the last sentence to understand what went wrong here.

Sigh.

Domain-General Cognitive Ability
In subject area: Psychology
Domain-general cognitive abilities refer to cognitive skills that are not unique to humans but are present across various primate species and potentially other mammals and birds, indicating a general factor underlying cognitive performance that correlates with brain size and is associated with selective attention and working memory capacity.
AI generated definition based on: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2012

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Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · Aug 1

he has >4 cat beds in my office, but no

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Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · Jul 26

so far so good

Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · Jul 26

no YOU'RE staying up till 2am making sure the jelly is set on an overly ambitious 6yos mermaid birthday cake

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