Stephen J. Gotts
@sjgotts.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscientist interested in vision, conceptual processing, learning and memory. Views and opinions my own.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephen-Gotts
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I named my fists Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries because when I need them the most they’re almost guaranteed to let me down.
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
I named my fists Blood and Meridian because I’m fixing to Judge your ass.
December 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I named my fists Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries because when I need them the most they’re almost guaranteed to let me down.
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Coat bath
Coat bath
It's a coat bath
A room in my new house
With two toilets for a laugh
Coat bath
It's a coat bath
A room in my new house
With two toilets for a laugh
December 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Coat bath
Coat bath
It's a coat bath
A room in my new house
With two toilets for a laugh
Coat bath
It's a coat bath
A room in my new house
With two toilets for a laugh
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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This is kinda like what ML/AI was before LLMs lol
December 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This is kinda like what ML/AI was before LLMs lol
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Did you know the heart imprints onto the voice? New preprint spearheaded by Marijn Hafkamp, confirming (seemingly forgotten) research from the 80's and testing for the first time possible biomechanical mechanisms (evidence points to heart-lung-voice interactions).
wimpouw.com/files/Hafkam...
wimpouw.com/files/Hafkam...
December 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Did you know the heart imprints onto the voice? New preprint spearheaded by Marijn Hafkamp, confirming (seemingly forgotten) research from the 80's and testing for the first time possible biomechanical mechanisms (evidence points to heart-lung-voice interactions).
wimpouw.com/files/Hafkam...
wimpouw.com/files/Hafkam...
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Rahmanullah Lakanwal, served in a CIA-backed Afghan force unit, known as the “Zero Units.”
His unit mate said Lakanwal sought help from a CIA program designed to aid unit veterans.
Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
His unit mate said Lakanwal sought help from a CIA program designed to aid unit veterans.
Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, served in a CIA-backed Afghan force unit, known as the “Zero Units.”
His unit mate said Lakanwal sought help from a CIA program designed to aid unit veterans.
Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
His unit mate said Lakanwal sought help from a CIA program designed to aid unit veterans.
Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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100% chance ChatGPT also helped write the proposal
This is great. More please! The more folk who rely on LLMs for funding planning means my chances go up even before I submit!
November 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
100% chance ChatGPT also helped write the proposal
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When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
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Special issue of Neuropsychologia celebrating the career of John Duncan.
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
#neuroscience
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#neuroscience
Neuropsychologia | Cooperating brain systems and intelligent behaviour: Special issue in honour of John Duncan | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Throughout his distinguished career, John Duncan has made numerous influential contributions to understanding the behavioural and brain basis of attention and intelligence. John’s ideas, invariably co...
www.sciencedirect.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Special issue of Neuropsychologia celebrating the career of John Duncan.
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
#neuroscience
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
#neuroscience
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In Google's search engine, you can suppress AI summaries by adding "-ar" to the end of your query.
For example: "best way to brine a turkey -ar" www.google.com/search?q=bes...
For example: "best way to brine a turkey -ar" www.google.com/search?q=bes...
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
In Google's search engine, you can suppress AI summaries by adding "-ar" to the end of your query.
For example: "best way to brine a turkey -ar" www.google.com/search?q=bes...
For example: "best way to brine a turkey -ar" www.google.com/search?q=bes...
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Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
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Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Fan Nils Yang, Jeff H. Duyn, et al:
Increased intra-thalamic and thalamo-cortical functional connections during human REM sleep: Insights from a two-night EEG-fMRI study
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Increased intra-thalamic and thalamo-cortical functional connections during human REM sleep: Insights from a two-night EEG-fMRI study
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Fan Nils Yang, Jeff H. Duyn, et al:
Increased intra-thalamic and thalamo-cortical functional connections during human REM sleep: Insights from a two-night EEG-fMRI study
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Increased intra-thalamic and thalamo-cortical functional connections during human REM sleep: Insights from a two-night EEG-fMRI study
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Adam Kimbler & Craig E.L. Stark:
Advanced diffusion imaging in grey matter reflects individual differences in cognitive ability in older adults
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Advanced diffusion imaging in grey matter reflects individual differences in cognitive ability in older adults
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Adam Kimbler & Craig E.L. Stark:
Advanced diffusion imaging in grey matter reflects individual differences in cognitive ability in older adults
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Advanced diffusion imaging in grey matter reflects individual differences in cognitive ability in older adults
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?)
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Assistant Professor in Biology and Neuroscience Program - Waltham, Massachusetts (US) job with Brandeis University | 12848464
The Department of Biology and the Program in Neuroscience at Brandeis University invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor positio...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?)
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Ella Striem-Amit (@striemamit.bsky.social) at Georgetown University is looking for a postdoc interested in brain plasticity and behavior in people born with blindness, deafness, or without hands, using behavioral paradigms, computational methods, and fMRI. Details at: apply.interfolio.com/177838 🧠🧪
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Ella Striem-Amit (@striemamit.bsky.social) at Georgetown University is looking for a postdoc interested in brain plasticity and behavior in people born with blindness, deafness, or without hands, using behavioral paradigms, computational methods, and fMRI. Details at: apply.interfolio.com/177838 🧠🧪
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Someone said to me recently that the reason the AMA was organized was as an institution to fight quackery: it credentialed doctors and provided standards of care. And imposed consequences for quackery and sham science.
We let institutions like that founder. Their role IS to punish quacks.
We let institutions like that founder. Their role IS to punish quacks.
November 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Someone said to me recently that the reason the AMA was organized was as an institution to fight quackery: it credentialed doctors and provided standards of care. And imposed consequences for quackery and sham science.
We let institutions like that founder. Their role IS to punish quacks.
We let institutions like that founder. Their role IS to punish quacks.
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An important piece of reporting. Even congressional Republicans wanted to include appropriations-bill language to protect Congress's power of the purse. But Russ Vought has pressured them to cut the language, and the House Republicans rolled over. www.notus.org/congress/mar...
A Top Republican Wanted to Reclaim Congress’ Spending Authority. The White House Stopped Him.
Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart, a top appropriator, tried to add guardrails from ‘pocket rescissions’ in an appropriations bill. But then Office of Management Budget Director Russ Vought talked to him.
www.notus.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
An important piece of reporting. Even congressional Republicans wanted to include appropriations-bill language to protect Congress's power of the purse. But Russ Vought has pressured them to cut the language, and the House Republicans rolled over. www.notus.org/congress/mar...
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Dr. @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social will present her research at the interface between cognitive representations of objects & action planning processes to the Swiss Association for Neuropsychology tomorrow (11/20) @ 10:30am EST.
Attendance is open to all interested via Zoom:
unige.zoom.us/j/6572689738...
Attendance is open to all interested via Zoom:
unige.zoom.us/j/6572689738...
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Dr. @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social will present her research at the interface between cognitive representations of objects & action planning processes to the Swiss Association for Neuropsychology tomorrow (11/20) @ 10:30am EST.
Attendance is open to all interested via Zoom:
unige.zoom.us/j/6572689738...
Attendance is open to all interested via Zoom:
unige.zoom.us/j/6572689738...
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As part of our Research Registry Anniversary Celebration, we will be sharing perspectives from Registry leaders throughout the week. First, Dr. Myrna Schwartz, co-founder of our Institute and the Research Registry, reflects on the tremendous time & effort dedicated to its development.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
As part of our Research Registry Anniversary Celebration, we will be sharing perspectives from Registry leaders throughout the week. First, Dr. Myrna Schwartz, co-founder of our Institute and the Research Registry, reflects on the tremendous time & effort dedicated to its development.
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New AFNI Academy playlist!
This tutorial presents afni_proc.py's quality control HTML for single subject FMRI.
The APQC HTML has systematic views of data and useful derived quantities. Users can instantly rate, comment and query the fully processed subject data.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD9z...
This tutorial presents afni_proc.py's quality control HTML for single subject FMRI.
The APQC HTML has systematic views of data and useful derived quantities. Users can instantly rate, comment and query the fully processed subject data.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD9z...
November 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
New AFNI Academy playlist!
This tutorial presents afni_proc.py's quality control HTML for single subject FMRI.
The APQC HTML has systematic views of data and useful derived quantities. Users can instantly rate, comment and query the fully processed subject data.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD9z...
This tutorial presents afni_proc.py's quality control HTML for single subject FMRI.
The APQC HTML has systematic views of data and useful derived quantities. Users can instantly rate, comment and query the fully processed subject data.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD9z...
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By definition, AI algorithmic engines repackage an aggregated, mathematically averaged version of what has already been thought & said. This means they are best seen as ideology machines: mechanisms built to recirculate the common sense of a social formation back to itself as though it is knowledge
📸 New research just out revealing disturbing problems with AI image captioning. AI models can now analyse both texts and images, and are trained on vast collections of human-created content spanning centuries. Some claims these models could soon help human historians interpret and explain the past.
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
By definition, AI algorithmic engines repackage an aggregated, mathematically averaged version of what has already been thought & said. This means they are best seen as ideology machines: mechanisms built to recirculate the common sense of a social formation back to itself as though it is knowledge
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📣 Final reminder: the nomination window for the #ElmanPrize closes TOMORROW.
Got a standout mid-career cognitive scientist in mind? Let’s give them the recognition they deserve👇
Got a standout mid-career cognitive scientist in mind? Let’s give them the recognition they deserve👇
⏰ Reminder
Nominations for the #ElmanPrize close November 18🗓️
Know a mid-career cognitive scientist who combines stellar research with community service? Nominate them today!
cognitivesciencesociety.org/elman-prize/
Nominations for the #ElmanPrize close November 18🗓️
Know a mid-career cognitive scientist who combines stellar research with community service? Nominate them today!
cognitivesciencesociety.org/elman-prize/
November 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
📣 Final reminder: the nomination window for the #ElmanPrize closes TOMORROW.
Got a standout mid-career cognitive scientist in mind? Let’s give them the recognition they deserve👇
Got a standout mid-career cognitive scientist in mind? Let’s give them the recognition they deserve👇