Categorization is ‘baked’ into the brain — a Perspective by Lisa Feldman Barrett & Earl K. Miller
@lisafeldmanbarrett.com @earlkmiller.bsky.social
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Categorization, the grouping of objects, living organisms, actions or events into equivalence clusters, is fundamental to adaptive behaviour. In this Perspective, Barrett and Miller discuss evidence t...
A new preprint, co-authored with @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social:
The Deliberation Taboo
Cognitive science is, nominally, the science of thinking. We argue that the field has no theory of what thinking is and, even worse, that the topic has largely dropped out of focus. 1/
osf.io/preprints/ps...
I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.
I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
“The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue.“
It’s more intense than a one-year ban. You still can’t post preprints after one year, only papers accepted for publication.
Eyeball
its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
It really is quite grimly hilarious how the drive for "Open Access" in academic publication was almost immediately captured by publishers who declared that, if readers weren't going to pay, then authors and their employers would have to.
And we bought it, schmucks.
#hiring
Come work with us to better understand the neuronal mechanism underlying perceptual consciousness!
18 months postdoctoral position at INSERM in Grenoble, France.
⌛Application deadline 10 March 2026.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/408445
Jake Quilty-Dunn
the cutoff scores for #MSCA postdoc fellowships are very high this year. has the score distribution shifted compared to previous years? I made a plot with scores from past years.
if scores are at ceiling level, the process becomes essentially a lottery, because minor issues can lead to deductions.
Thomas Germain
Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they)
Mike Ginn
Michael Pereira
The black hole appears to expand.
www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/akitaoka/Tha...
