Computational cognitive neuroscientist at University of Nevada, Reno. Uses fMRI to study visual representations of objects, scenes, and bodies, and how attention affects them. Dad. Nerd since before it was cool. Likes pretty science pictures & puns. He/him
Mark Lescroart
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🚨New dataset just dropped🚨 Introducing Places in the Wild: 67,000 RAW-format photographs (45 mpix) densely sampled from 810 places (260 basic-level categories). This is 11x the number of pixels in ImageNet! Preprint is here: arxiv.org/abs/2606.02481 1/
If their goal is to choke off economic advantages from the US’s university system it’s hard to think of a more effective way.
Scientists and other academics come to the US to study— then stay in the US often via green cards, to start companies, do unique work, and contribute to the US economy.
A big congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Yu (Joseph) Zhao. Feels great to have students graduate.
One year later - my reflections on what's happened to US science since the National Science Foundation grant terminations last year. The problem of misinformation isn't going away, but our ability to study and understand it is under attack. 1/ 🧪
www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...
I’m in both boats, but my last download was a few weeks ago and my mechanism to turn in grades is through Canvas. This seems quite bad.
Yikes.
Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack.
www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
It was a banner year for UNR psych, we had eight PhDs and two masters this year! (Not pictured Dr @arnabiswas.bsky.social , who is busy post-doc-ing)
Another new one from the lab in J Neurosci:
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
Evidence accumulation is a core principle by which brains convert information into decisions. But what happens when the evidence the brain needs can't be directly read from an external stimulus or memory? 1/N
🧵 Thread: Does the internet threaten democracy? I argue that it does in my latest piece in Science: doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Here's the short version. 1/9
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Large image datasets have accelerated progress in cognitive neuroscience and computer vision. However, most datasets are low-resolution, internet-sourced JPEGs with unknown capture conditions and limi...
The criminal extortion group ShinyHunters breached Instructure last week. The hackers, who have also attacked individual universities, demanded the ed-tech giant pay up or face a data leak.
Will democracy survive the internet? Do we need to choose between Facebook’s surveillance capitalism or democracy? Layered lines of evidence can inform questions like these. When considered together, the evidence gives rise to a concerning picture, as summarized in a recent report for the European Commission that I co-led.
"AI amplifies whatever is already there. Good discipline becomes great output. No discipline becomes technical debt at machine speed. Anthropic chose a direction. Go faster. Have Claude check Claude. And when it breaks, go faster still." substack.com/home/post/p-...
There are two higher ed Bluskies right now:
Anthropic claimed 100% of Claude Code is AI-written. A source leak exposed a 3,167-line function, regex sentiment analysis, and 250K wasted API calls daily
