Andrew D Wilson
@adw.bsky.social
Ecological psychologist just trying to make psychology better at explaining us. I study the perceptual control of action and get cranky about politics and AI technologies. He/him
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Setting aside AI stuff, if you don't think computers can "think" how would you define "think" in a way that at least somewhat reliably separates human from machine? (hot takes allowed, thoughtful takes preferred)
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Setting aside AI stuff, if you don't think computers can "think" how would you define "think" in a way that at least somewhat reliably separates human from machine? (hot takes allowed, thoughtful takes preferred)
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This is the kind of thing you would do if you had no idea how to achieve economic growth. It's a stunningly stupid move but only one of many that the government has been making over the last 10 months or so. All those years in opposition and they have no idea what to do while in office. Shameful
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
This is the kind of thing you would do if you had no idea how to achieve economic growth. It's a stunningly stupid move but only one of many that the government has been making over the last 10 months or so. All those years in opposition and they have no idea what to do while in office. Shameful
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An actual must-read article, as pretty much all of Malik's are. I genuinely worry how long she can keep up being the single British commentator who can say any of this stuff.
On Shabana Mahmood's contemptible attempt to mobilise her identity in support of her sadistic immigration policies, this from Nesrine Malik is exactly what needed saying.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
An actual must-read article, as pretty much all of Malik's are. I genuinely worry how long she can keep up being the single British commentator who can say any of this stuff.
The words you’re actually looking for are ‘wealth tax’
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The words you’re actually looking for are ‘wealth tax’
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This perfectly nice idea made me furious because if I haven’t earned the title Captain of the NCC1701 I’m damned sure I’m not going to pretend I did and it’s possible I’m overthinking this
November 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This perfectly nice idea made me furious because if I haven’t earned the title Captain of the NCC1701 I’m damned sure I’m not going to pretend I did and it’s possible I’m overthinking this
You cannot guess the topic that lead to this post
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
You cannot guess the topic that lead to this post
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The great trumph of EduCognitivists has been convincing everyone that there is only one cognitive science in town.
Classical cognitive science may be all the talk in education, but it isn't in the field of cogsci.
Instead, teachers need to hear more about enactive cognitive science.
Classical cognitive science may be all the talk in education, but it isn't in the field of cogsci.
Instead, teachers need to hear more about enactive cognitive science.
November 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The great trumph of EduCognitivists has been convincing everyone that there is only one cognitive science in town.
Classical cognitive science may be all the talk in education, but it isn't in the field of cogsci.
Instead, teachers need to hear more about enactive cognitive science.
Classical cognitive science may be all the talk in education, but it isn't in the field of cogsci.
Instead, teachers need to hear more about enactive cognitive science.
Organising my comics and reading a bunch of things in order has made me realise I need to buy a lot of random issues of things to have all the crossovers but I’ve decided to lean into it because I need a new project now I have basically finished my X-Men/New Mutants/X-Factor collections
November 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Organising my comics and reading a bunch of things in order has made me realise I need to buy a lot of random issues of things to have all the crossovers but I’ve decided to lean into it because I need a new project now I have basically finished my X-Men/New Mutants/X-Factor collections
Me when I get distracted by one thing in a film
November 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Me when I get distracted by one thing in a film
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I feel dumb saying this, but that *Star Wars show* gave me a vocabulary and clear set of examples about living under fascism that I will think about forever. Truly excellent writing at all the key moments
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I feel dumb saying this, but that *Star Wars show* gave me a vocabulary and clear set of examples about living under fascism that I will think about forever. Truly excellent writing at all the key moments
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Any excuse to repost my review of season 1 of Andor
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-return...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-return...
November 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Any excuse to repost my review of season 1 of Andor
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-return...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-return...
I think the moral to be drawn is that dads to be, buy the Batman costume, you’ll be helping and here’s the data to prove it 😂
Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I think the moral to be drawn is that dads to be, buy the Batman costume, you’ll be helping and here’s the data to prove it 😂
Can you turn What’s Hot Classic off? I have it unliked and unpinned and I’m still getting porn. I’m not mad at them, I’m just tired of whack a mole muting them
November 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Can you turn What’s Hot Classic off? I have it unliked and unpinned and I’m still getting porn. I’m not mad at them, I’m just tired of whack a mole muting them
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Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth reut.rs/48tKTYY
Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth
Artificial intelligence may be a useful tool for learning, but don't use it for your homework, Pope Leo told about 15,000 U.S. youth during a question-and-answer session on Friday.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth reut.rs/48tKTYY
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“Our findings challenge the conventional focus on low-dimensional coding subspaces as a sufficient framework for understanding neural computations, demonstrating that dimensions previously considered task-irrelevant and accounting for little variance can have a critical role in driving behavior.”
Neural dynamics outside task-coding dimensions drive decision trajectories through transient amplification
Most behaviors involve neural dynamics in high-dimensional activity spaces. A common approach is to extract dimensions that capture task-related variability, such as those separating stimuli or choice...
www.biorxiv.org
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Our findings challenge the conventional focus on low-dimensional coding subspaces as a sufficient framework for understanding neural computations, demonstrating that dimensions previously considered task-irrelevant and accounting for little variance can have a critical role in driving behavior.”
Process is more important that outcome. Do your own reading and reviewing, peeps
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Process is more important that outcome. Do your own reading and reviewing, peeps
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Gosh with any luck you might be able to avoid doing science altogether
Today @anthropic.com released PubMed integration for Claude. No hallucinations. Just real science, real data. As a beta tester, this has been game changing— a supercharged research tool. Here are 6 prompts that will transform how you search the literature. A 🧵
www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
Claude for Life Sciences
Discover how Claude accelerates life sciences research with new scientific connectors, skills, and improved performance for drug discovery and clinical work.
www.anthropic.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Gosh with any luck you might be able to avoid doing science altogether
So this has been a thought going round recently and it seems true! But now I’m thinking about synergies and lower dimensional systems at the scale of behaviour (think UCM etc) and I’m wondering if these might be ok…
Neuroscience got too enamored with *very low dimensions". Let's learn to explored structured higher dimensional spaces... (Amari to the rescue?)
Let's use very low dimensional figures as illustrations of some of the properties that are present in the high-dimensional space, not as the result itself.
Let's use very low dimensional figures as illustrations of some of the properties that are present in the high-dimensional space, not as the result itself.
November 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
So this has been a thought going round recently and it seems true! But now I’m thinking about synergies and lower dimensional systems at the scale of behaviour (think UCM etc) and I’m wondering if these might be ok…
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It's been SEVEN hours and
fifteen days
fifteen days
November 23, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It's been SEVEN hours and
fifteen days
fifteen days
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Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
What enables human language? A biocultural framework
Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...
www.science.org
November 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
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Brandy you're a fine girl
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See
November 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Brandy you're a fine girl
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See
Why do people still feel the need to have a ‘gentle introduction to dynamical systems’ when they write papers like this? Is it just to guide attention to the bits of dynamics you think sound most like your topic?
𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲
𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀
"...trade-off between cognitive flexibility and stability inherent to dynamical system models of varying complexity."
by S Musslick and A Bizyaeva
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀
"...trade-off between cognitive flexibility and stability inherent to dynamical system models of varying complexity."
by S Musslick and A Bizyaeva
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
November 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Why do people still feel the need to have a ‘gentle introduction to dynamical systems’ when they write papers like this? Is it just to guide attention to the bits of dynamics you think sound most like your topic?
