Lorijn Zaadnoordijk

I'll take it! I'm finding myself to be in excellent company...

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

This Philosopher Is Teaching AI to Have Morals The tech company has entrusted the philosopher to endow its chatbot with a sense of right and wrong.

“She compares her work to the efforts of a parent raising a child. She’s training Claude to detect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique personality traits.”

Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests - Nature Machine Intelligence Tangtartharakul and Storrs use standardized neuropsychological tests to compare human visual abilities with those of visual language models (VLMs). They report that while VLMs excel in high-level obje...

Our latest paper, “Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests”, is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Non-paywalled version:
arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786

Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...

Ik ook, maar ook oud genoeg om nog te weten dat er een andere Noor was die het destijds ook uitstekend deed 😋

The international newborn brain conference has just started in Napoli! Given the medical nature of this conference, I doubt many of my bsky-friends are there, but if anyone is, come and say hi 😊 #inbbc26 #inbbc

I think it's in one of Robert Cummins' papers on explanation that he uses the example of tide tables. It's the one that always stuck with me because it makes it so obvious: a tide table perfectly predicts the tides, but explains absolutely nothing about them.

Doesn't the saying go "you study what you don't understand"? 🤷‍♀️

Word salad 😵‍💫

And thank you so much to all of our participants and their families!

Through the Foundcog project we scanned 100+ infants with awake fMRI. In this Nature Neuroscience paper led by clionaod.bsky.social, we show that, by 2-months, infants’ brains already encode rich representations of object category.

Congratulations Clíona on such beautiful results! 🧠✨

It's finally out! #devpsy #neuroskyence #cogsci

1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.

Ooh, a Tobii proponent. So far it was very eyelink biased. Any specific cases in which you'd prefer eyelink over Tobii or just always rather Tobii?

Thanks Christian! Wearable stuff is super interesting but since it's not necessary for the studies I'm currently planning, I don't think I will go through the trouble of convincing infants and toddlers to keep them on. Though if they work, I suppose there's much more versatility!

I'm definitely learning that there are way more Eyelink labs than I naively thought. This is exactly what I was hoping to get out of this post so that's great! Anything you would say I have to keep in mind? e.g. with different age groups?

Another Eyelink fan! What makes it so much better than Tobii? (I'm asking as someone with close to zero experience with either)

These are the type of comments I'm looking for! Would you say Eyelink is better for every age group in the early years?

Dear infant scientist friends,

What's the latest in infant eye tracking in terms of hardware? What are you using, are you happy, is there something I should consider, has there been some development in the last 10 years that I might not know about, etc etc?

Thanks!

#devpsy #PsychSciSky

Also, a loan wasn't strictly necessary (in general, for some people obviously it was) as you got quite some money from the government as a loan that turned into a gift if you finished your studies. All of that is gone by now I think.

Rates of 8% on a student loan --- insane.

I have no idea how the Dutch system is now, but in my time (a long long time ago) the first x years you did not have to pay back at all, and then there was a certain period that was interest-free, and only then did the interest kick in and it was loooow.

*verify meaning I might run it through Google translate but I want to be able to check that the translation matches the original

As people have mentioned the scientific literature in Dutch is almost non-existent. If I found a useful paper in German or another language that i would understand well enough to verify, i would cite it but this practically never happens, also because i don't go looking for such papers.

Devcogsci

Hi Charles, I'm Laurence, nice to meet you.

I suppose the benefit I have is that no one knows my name so they might not have strong associations. The downside of that is that I'm immediately in the "foreigner" box.

"We are all too aware that imposter syndrome and the confidence gap can sometimes stop fantastic candidates putting themselves forward, so please do submit an application — we’d love to hear from you."

Oh the Irish are lovely <3

I always wonder about this too! I don't do a huge round of cleaning, but I do leave the place tidy, dishes done, etc. Isn't that...normal?

Excited to be at #BCCCD26 . Last time was 8 (eight!!) years ago.

Ugh. Send some of all of it our way please. I feel like I've eaten the same 4 dishes all year long.

Gosh I hope not. #titanic

Many people have been giving excellent updates about the $1.6 million that RFK Jr. has given to Danish researchers to “study” the HepB birth dose in Guinea-Bissau, and I’m glad this story is spreading.

The first thing that was confirmed is that the researchers are Benn and Aady, as many predicted.