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‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent

I've said it before and I will say it again many times, people using "AI" to design and deliver 'teaching' to students, to mark their work, and in this case to (!) generate literal voice overs are risking their jobs, and frankly they *should* be at risk if they do this sort of thing:

YouTube video by The Daily Show Epstein-Trump Saga Gets 20K Pages Longer & Megyn Kelly Splits Hairs on Pedophilia | The Daily Show

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It's a joy to hear someone under 30 make a Strunk & White joke.

lol

When we frame higher education as a concrete means to an end - i.e., I can get X career if I complete Y degree at Z institution, we ignore that a fundamental aspect of education is learning how to think for yourself, learning how to assess information, and communicating those things.

Did Tori Amos Invent The Pumpkin Spice Latte? An Investigation | Sprudge Coffee Tori Amos's Pumpkin Spice Latte pre-dates Starbucks's by almost a decade.

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'Give your money away,' Billie Eilish tells billionaires The singer called on the mega wealthy to donate more to charity, during a speech at the WSJ Awards attended by the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and George Lucas.

"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.

"running out of topics" is a real problem. If you don't want to be estranged from your family but also don't want to get embroiled in hopeless, bad-faith arguments with them, you call, but what do you talk about? Sometimes calling home feels like censoring my whole personality.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲

Cognitive scientists, here is your chance to help @davidecrepaldi.bsky.social and ESCoP continue to build our field's leading open-access journal, @jcgntn.bsky.social. Take a look and get involved!

Wake up. Stretch. There's an oligarchy to fight 🥰 #birds

Poster: Defend Wales’ Nation of Sanctuary, Stand Against Racism. Caerphilly CF83 1JL, 12pm Saturday 18th October

Does the Experimenter Presence Affect Verbal Working Memory? | Journal of Cognition

New content: Camos, V., Jubin, J., & Belletier, C. (2025). Does the Experimenter Presence Affect Verbal Working Memory? Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 47, pp. 1–9. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....
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Revisiting the Plausibility Effect in Remembering Truth and Falsity: An Analysis of Underlying Memory and Guessing Processes | Journal of Cognition

New content: Ford, D., & Nadarevic, L. (2025). Revisiting the Plausibility Effect in Remembering Truth and Falsity: An Analysis of Underlying Memory and Guessing Processes. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 46, pp. 1–13. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....
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Memory and Representation of Vision-Related Verbs in Early Blind Individuals | Journal of Cognition

New content: Dutriaux, L., & Bottini, R. (2025). Memory and Representation of Vision-Related Verbs in Early Blind Individuals. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 45, pp. 1–12. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....
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YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

It’s restorative to finally have a little cry over GOOD politics for once. 💚

@zackpolanski.bsky.social absolutely nails it.

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Unitization Based Memory Enhancement in Younger and Older Adults | Journal of Cognition

New content: Khoo, J. K. M., & Tibon, R. (2025). Unitization Based Memory Enhancement in Younger and Older Adults. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 44, pp. 1–20. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....
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Tawny owl

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

This is so good from Cory Doctorow on all the tricks Amazon uses to get both consumers to pay more, and how businesses on the platform end up paying it 45-51 cents on every dollar.

Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action
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As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease.

There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."

1/🧵

The "AI" responses that Google gives about me and my work are consistently error-prone, which I know because I am me. If I know Google's "AI" responses give incorrect answers about things I know about, I can't trust it to give correct answers about things I don't know. So, no, I don't use it.

hahahaha and wow

@andreaeyleen.bsky.social wrote a poem about LLMs 🫠

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

No surprise, this is very good. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Interested? Want to learn more? Read our Stage 1 manuscript: osf.io/ahjn5

Ready to join us? Express your interest here: cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

- Data collection will be in person, not online
- Each lab will need to recruit a minimum number of eligible participants (this will be at least N=120, depends how many labs join)
- The paradigm takes about 20 minutes
- We will provide the Psychpy program
- You lab gets co-authorship at Stage 2

Our project has in-principle acceptance at rr.peercommunityin.org/PCIRegistere.... You can read our Stage 1 Manuscript here: osf.io/ahjn5.

Would your lab like to help us? We're seeking partner labs to contribute to our sample. Details about your lab set up and the min N are in the paper. TL;DR:

We (@evievergauwe.bsky.social and Mike Pratte) are ready to kick-off a many-labs extension of the attribute amnesia paradigm (journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....). We designed variations of Chen & Wyble's task to test how ability to prepare the response might impact memory for incidental details.

Call for collaborators! 🧵

The TL;DR: we seek collaborators on a #ManyLabs #RegisteredReport about what causes rapid forgetting.

In-principle accepted Stage 1: osf.io/ahjn5

Expressions of interest: cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Further details in the 🧵:

If you protested Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off the air by canceling Disney+ or some similarly simple action that had clear, direct, effective results, it feels good that you helped get him back, right? The neat part of you can choose another simple action, and keep that awesome feeling going.