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Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 7d

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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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 9d

Last Friday, Curtis Phills and I ran our first conference! Introducing CODES. The Consortium of Oregon Diversity and Equity Scholars! We were excited to bring together folks across Oregon who do diversity science work. We need community more than ever. Hope we can continue this in future years...

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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · 28d

I’m admitting 1–2 Ph.D. students to join my lab in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at CU Boulder, starting Fall 2026. We study person perception, stereotyping and prejudice, and intervention science.

Application info: www.colorado.edu/psych-neuro/...
Lab info: www.svmlab.org

Colorado Social Vision & Mind Lab

The Social Vision & Mind Lab (Director: Youngki Hong, Ph.D.) at the University of Colorado Boulder explores how people perceive and make sense of the physica...

www.svmlab.org

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Tiffany Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social · 16d

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Assistant Professor

jobs.colorado.edu

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 17d

As someone who teaches until mid-June, I have a bevy of polished expletives ready and waiting for those folks.

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 17d

Me just realizing our Fall term starts in a week..

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 17d

If you can't be bothered to read, why are trying to be a scientist. Baffling...

Stefan Marciniak @profmarciniak.bsky.social · 17d

Reading papers is a basic skill (and dare I say duty?) of scientists, and I include medical doctors in that group. Keeping abreast of the literature is a foundational part of our professions. There aren’t good shortcuts. In any case, reading papers regularly is fun.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s...

Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers

LLM “tended to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity” when writing news briefs.

arstechnica.com

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 26d

I think your point about the political formations is true, but I think that is truer in some places more than others. For the latter, it is less about asserting power than it is just old fashion apathy or laziness. Interdisciplinary thinking and training is not the outcome either way.

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 26d

1000%. I believe that our compartmentalized areas have led to a generation of compartmentalized scholars.

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John Clithero @johnclithero.bsky.social · 27d

"To the degree that these tools are saving time and energy, I am not seeing researchers reinvest those savings into developing a deeper understanding of their subject matter, making connections to new ideas, or otherwise investing in advancing their current skillset."

Wonderful essay.

Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 29d

My latest piece, on apprenticeship, artificial intelligence, and intrinsic motivation. Handcrafted from the heart.

Please, share and enjoy.

open.substack.com/pub/robchave...

A Vibe Coder's Millennium

I got my first home computer in late 2000 when I was in the middle of 10th grade.

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 29d

👊✊

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 29d

me too 🥰

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 29d

My latest piece, on apprenticeship, artificial intelligence, and intrinsic motivation. Handcrafted from the heart.

Please, share and enjoy.

open.substack.com/pub/robchave...

A Vibe Coder's Millennium

I got my first home computer in late 2000 when I was in the middle of 10th grade.

open.substack.com

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · Sep 6

a fluffy cat is sitting on a wooden table and asking who me .

ALT: a fluffy cat is sitting on a wooden table and asking who me .

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · Sep 6

She was an older black lady who was watching her cute little grand daughter mash an avocado around her lips. I told her my kids did this to me... She understood.

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Leon Festinger @leonfestinger.bsky.social · Sep 5

Cognitive Dissonance: When you rename it "Department of War", while pouting that you deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · Sep 5

😆

Narrator: He didn't look cool.

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · Sep 5

A lady at the coffee shop this morning asked me if the gray in my hair was real or if I dyed it that way to look cool... ⚰️

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · Sep 3

Me too (...both physical and psychological)

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · Sep 3

That goes double if it was at the Launchpad..

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · Aug 29

After 5 years, I finally carved out time to turn this blog post on FDR (markallenthornton.com/blog/fdr-pro...) into a manuscript. The preprint features a much broader range of simulations showing how FDR promotes confounds, and how this effect compounds with publication bias: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Effect of confound mass on true positive rates under FDR correction. Confound mass represents how large a confound is in terms of the product of its voxel extent and effect size. Results are shown at differing combinations of true effect size, true effect voxel extent, and sample size.

Inflated surface maps of meta-analytic z-statistics from Neurosynth for low-level confounds (top) and high-level cognitive tasks (bottom). Red reflects positive activations, blue reflects negative (de)activations, and darker colors indicate larger z-statistics. Maps are thresholded at |z| = 1 for visualization purposes.

Effect of confound effect size on true positive rates for task effects under FDR correction. Colors indicate sample sizes: N = 25 in blue, N = 50 in green, and N = 100 in orange. Effect sizes are reflected by the darkness of each color, with light shades representing d = .2, medium d = .5, and dark d = .8. The task brain maps and confound brain maps referenced in each panel are shown in Figure 3.

Effect of FDR-based publication bias on observed confound effects sizes. Simulated meta-analytic confound effect sizes are visualized through violin plots for each combination of task effect and confound effect examined in the neural data simulations. Meta-analyses featuring publication bias (orange) substantially inflate these effect size estimates in all cases, relative to meta-analyses featuring no publication bias (blue).

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · Aug 28

"Wait...hair and saliva samples have different statistical properties and often aren't correlated within subjects???... But stress... STRESS , RIGHT?!?!"

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · Aug 28

And, of course, asking what the methods are (and are not) good for.

Does brain imaging help us solve bigotry? Probably not.

Does it help us learn about the brain? Maybe.

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · Aug 28

Like it or hate it (I like it), Substack makes it super easy to port over old blogs from other sites (though I'm not sure about Typepad in particular). It will even retain the original post dates, which is nice.

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · Aug 27

I agree. I also think that amplifies the problems more than it capitalizes on its promises.

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