Gary Lupyan

Would be nice to get the authors to tell us what they were thinking. Do they really just not give a shit? Have the norms shifted that much? Am I just naive?

lmfao

Sydney Sweeney reveals in an interview that she doesn’t care about the PHP vulnerability because she moved everything to Rust in 2024. “They said the rewrite would take six months. We’re on month 30. We haven’t shipped a feature since, but I’m having a very normal Wednesday.”

The poetry of our times.

I am pleased to share this article written with Marc Feldman that reviews the history of scientific racism and biological race realism, through the lens of two recent books: Hochman’s The Race Illusion and Lorusso & Winther’s Remapping Race in a Global Context. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

My university is pushing "quantum" for social science (and humanities!??). I have no idea what this means, but they keep trying to get us to come to these meetings. Does anyone have any idea what they're talking about?

So, advice for potential PhD students re emailing potential supervisors to connect with them. 1) Do not use AI. Like seriously, don't. It's a Dunning-Kruger issue ... your email might look good to you, but for those of us in our fields AND getting a million of these, the generic language is OBVIOUS

UT Linguistics'll have 4 (!) computational linguists! Consider applying! I'm looking for students and also potentially postdocs. For postdocs, particularly interested in philosophically rich issues around AI cognition: Can AI introspect? How can we study if they have preferences?

This is wild... Can anyone from Purdue share the backstory?

testing astra's parametric modeling capabilities by asking it to reconstruct these marble maze pieces from reference photos, and then use them in threejs to make a marble maze builder with box3d physics.

I think they mean the median bluesky user

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

Do LLMs reason by pattern matching? Why, yes they do! But as we argue here, so do people! @zstuddiford.bsky.social started this work 4 years ago when he was a freshman in my lab. Zach is now at UCSD w/ Ben Bergen and I couldn't be more proud of him and of this project. Have a look!

She done lost her damn mind.

Wonderful clip. www.nytimes.com/video/podcas...

💯 The doomer discourse is also just so boring and intellectually thin. It's not good science & it's not good philosophy.

Very good take

🚨 New paper 🚨 Are your participants using AI to take your study? We conducted the first study directly observing AI assistance in online research, spanning 700K+ Prolific submissions. We found very rare, concentrated AI use, but gaps in safeguards. arxiv.org/abs/2610.09279

Anyone else's Claude Code talk about using smoke screens?

Not in math, but I found this very worth reading. I suspect most academics are going to confront similar questions before the 20s are out.

There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...

You really can’t make this shit up.

So rare to see a behavioral effect so fundamental these days. ❤️

Academia is full of horrible stuff, but some lines in the sand still hold and should be actively maintained. Open harassment in response to less than fully deferential treatment of senior academics is such a line.

I really do not like the recent push against anthropomorphic language

Welp, there’s that. Considering that learning even simple rules is exceedingly difficult for *5 year olds*, we really shouldn’t be surprised.

conservatively, 98% of ai discourse is believers in human exceptionalism taking roundhouse kicks to the face

My God, I can actually give Opus 5.5 open ended assignments like "make this code run as fast as its C equivalent, or tell me why it can't be done" and leave it for several hours -- and it actually works and has done the job. And not by cheating with cgo either.

New PhD-opportunity at Aarhus University with a project investigating the cognitive correlates of having no inner speech. Supervised by Johanne Nedergaard and yours truly. Deadline 11 November. Starting date 1 February 2027. Get in touch if you want to know more. phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/o...

From unicorns to the assBench. We've come a long way! www.assbench.com

How do philosophers and scientists of mind actually work together, and where does the collaboration break down? ISPSM is launching In Conversation, a new online series that aims to bring philosophers and scientists together to work through questions like these. 📅 23 Oct 2026, 1pm BST/8am EDT

That is indeed the correct conclusion to draw

This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy.

New episode!! 🎙️🎉 A conversation with @damianblasi.bsky.social about linguistic diversity and what it can tell us. Linguistic diversity is a precious part of our species' heritage. It also offers a wellspring of clues about history, culture, and the human mind. Listen: disi.org/the-natural-...

Reading the TiCS paper by @initself.bsky.social et al., reminded me of the debates around Hoffman et al's interface theory from a decade ago. I think my commentary on it featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/interfacethe... struck a similarly Umwelt-oriented position w/ sprinkles of predictive coding

Yes, exactly. Platonic representations are one of the many erroneous conclusions reached under the assumption that intelligence is a one-dimensional scalar.

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

A propos: the recently published article on categorization in @oecs-bot.bsky.social oecs.mit.edu/pub/mrj0pnj5/

We are hiring a full professor for "Intelligence in biological and artificial systems". If you don't know about the German system yet, let me tell you a little bit about working as a professor at the institute. Thread 👇

context sensitivity in google translate

Seeing people who don’t understand what’s happening calling for executions of those responsible

Huge honors for Northwestern cognitive science 🎉 At @cogscisociety.bsky.social's meeting in Rio, Matt Goldrick (@mattgoldrick.bsky.social) won the Elman Prize & professor emeritus Doug Medin won the Rumelhart Prize — the field's top award. 🧠 More: news.weinberg.northwestern.edu/2026/08/13/t...

thanks Daniel for this v useful guide.

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

glad that more people are having that realization! it’s a bitter pill but the sooner we swallow it the more predictive the discourse around AI becomes.