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My book ‘Looking Ahead. The New Science of the Predictive Mind’ is available from today. Cambridge has provided a temporary promo code, if you enter HUETT24 and order via the CUP website you get 20% off any version (hardback, paperback, or ebook) www.cambridge.org/de/universit...

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The Tentative Program for in-person SIPS is now available online! Let's meet in Budapest for exciting hackathons, unconferences, roundtables, and workshops! Check out the program here 👇

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New: The largest medical A.I. randomized controlled trial yet performed, enrolling >100,000 women undergoing mammography screening The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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chain of thought is hilarious (distilled deepseek 14b running via ollama)

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"An original, thrilling, poetic, and utterly humane exploration of the linguistic bookends of our human lives."—Ellen Jovin, @grammartable.bsky.social Michael Erard's intimate study of our first and last words arrives in just two weeks: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204942...

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Vote vote vote! Our ballot to save jobs at the University of Dundee will close in 10 days. Post your ballots in the next couple of days to ensure that they arrive in time. #SaveDundeeUniversity

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Fully funded 4-year PhD with me at VU Amsterdam #emca workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

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👉 DeepSeek may well have broken OpenAI’s Terms of Service and distilled their intellectually property without permission 👉 OpenAI may well have done analogous things to YouTube, New York Times, and countless artists and writers. 👉 Karma is a bitch.

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Did a thing bit.ly/SPDsf

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"The Risks and Rewards of Embodying Artificial Intelligence with Cloud‐Based Laboratories" by Nicolas Rouleau and Nirosha Murugan www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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"Imagining abstractness: The role of embodied simulations and language in memory for abstract concepts" by Quentin Marre, Nathalie Huet, and Elodie Labeye www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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I sometimes read papers on human hibernation, because I was curious how coming out of it in a different time would affect the minds of people who go to Mars. I mean, it can't be impossible. The Bears can hibernate and they can't seem to do anything this season #GoPackGo

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It was my last weekend with the amazing people at the Centre for Argument Technology. I learned so much about this interesting area of philosophy and computation corpus linguistics. Let's see what the future holds

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Anna Borghi opens the session on abstract concepts, with a shoutout to the recent consensus paper lead by @jamiereillycog.bsky.social #cogsci2024

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Job offer some #CogSci2024 people who like toddlers and robots may be interested in. For questions come talk to me at my Friday poster LL-545. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DIP502/p...

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The wildflowers in Dundee are in full bloom. I've never really noticed them before this summer. At least I got to enjoy them during my last week in Scotland (for now anyway)

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I really enjoyed that. ☺️ Great work by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social of course as always giving a really fun and insightful talk. There are previous versions of it online if people missed it, here: youtu.be/akuJqk2tDPo?...

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📢 The full detailed program for #CogSci2024 is now available for download on our website! cognitivesciencesociety.org/program/

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Current state of grant writing

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"The Shape of Stories in Art, Popular Culture, Everyday Life, and Science Writing" by James Cutting www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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4-year funded PhD Studentship in Environmental Psychology commences Sept. 2024 enquiries to Tadhg.macintyre@mu.ie applications to info@gogreennext.eu by 31st July 2024. (€22kpa + fees). #JobFairy drive.google.com/file/d/1Guwz... #psychSciSky #cogsci #academicSky

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Still obsessed with this German stats textbook explaining that linear regression is like fitting a large sheet of paper through a swarm of bees.

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We are recruiting to a CINN Operations Support role. Would suit a motivated graduate (human neuroscience-adjacent) with a strong interest in the development and management of interdisciplinary research.

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This is a great intro to a paper. I have had this experience. Don't be this guy. Interesting new work on rote versus reflective pedagogy by Ilona Bass, Cristian Espinoza, Elizabeth Bonawitz (@ebonawitz.bsky.social), and Tomer Ullman (@tomerullman.bsky.social) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Christopher Nolan: I need $200M for my budget and require a 1:1 replica of the International Space Station and 9 hangars with green screens Roger Corman: I need $62 and access to the local VFW to make your war epic

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New report on two experiments on the topic of embodied cognition, visual search, and creativity by Soran Malaie, Michael Spivey, and Tyler Marghetis, "Divergent and Convergent Creativity Are Different Kinds of Foraging" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Here's a really great new paper on symbolic/embodied cognition with a focus on event structure by John Hollander and Andrew Olney, "Raising the Roof: Situating Verbs in Symbolic and Embodied Language Processing" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The future of Perspectives on Psychological Science (the journal) is wide open! Want to be the next Editor in Chief? Have ideas about new directions for the journal? Submit a proposal (2pp) by June 1. Come join the team of APS journals' Editors in Chief! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

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Onward, a centrist Conservative think tank, recommends that low-quality universities should be “repurposed” to focus on vocational and technical education. #UKUnis #HigherEd #AcademicSky

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What Can Language Models Tell Us About Human Cognition? doi.org/10.1177/0963... We try to place some constraints on what kind of language models might be useful for helping our understanding of cognition #academicSky #psychSciSky #CogSci #openAccess

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"Why would I share my research data? They are MINE!" New post in #SORTEE's #blog about #opendata scepticisms by @ElinaTakola, with extra arguments on the benefits of data sharing and practical guidelines for beginners. www.sortee.org/blog/2024/04... #openscience #DataScience

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French 'il est' (he is) comes from a different Latin verb than 'il était' (he was). Languages such as Spanish have two verbs for "to be": 'ser' for essences vs 'estar' for states. Their French counterparts merged before such a meaning difference could crystallise. Here's the full story:

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I was invited to give a talk on open and reproducible science. Sometimes, it is challenging to discuss this topic, so I created The Transparent and Open Science Game. I am sharing here all materials: osf.io/t9ngd

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I hope this isn't April Fools shenanigans from UCU. But seriously, thanks to everyone involved in the negotiations to get our benefits restored. Sincerely, Mrs. Becker

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Three (3!) teaching postdoc positions in Cognitive Science at Rutgers (open until filled) jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/221...

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"My darling, will you marry me?" "Of course, my love" "Cool. Put this on"

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“While both replication and theory crises have caused concern for scientists and philosophers alike, the reforms that so far have resulted allow for cautious optimism.” New chapter by Tomos ap Sion & @briandavidearp.bsky.social www.researchgate.net/profile/Bria... #MetaSci #PhilSci #Methodology

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Wouldn’t mind so much but reviews still take an age to come back. Why is it taking reviewers 6 months to run it through Chat GPT? I thought efficiency was the upside of the robot takeover

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I'm shaken by the news of Frans de Waal's passing. It feels so untimely that he is gone.

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