Changrun Huang

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Absolutely devastating account of the CSU's $17 million capitulation to ChatGPT, from a fellow faculty member watching it happen www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

03.12.2025 04:24 — 👍 197    🔁 76    💬 1    📌 27

Thread of French and Dutch research institutes slowly unsubscribing from web of science (and thence impact factors).

03.12.2025 06:53 — 👍 72    🔁 30    💬 2    📌 5

Sensory reformatting for a working visual memory A core function of visual working memory (WM) is to sustain mental representations of recent visual inputs, thereby bridging moments of experience. This is thought to occur in part by recruiting early...

new paper in TICS officially out today. great learning from and writing with Anastasia, and super cool cover art from Prof. Pinar Yoldas.
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

04.12.2025 01:21 — 👍 70    🔁 34    💬 1    📌 1

First time watching a football game… Ouch… not a good start😿

15.11.2025 23:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The latest version of Sigmund, the #AI #research assistant, is able to fully control the #OpenSesame interface. This allows you to build #psychology experiments entirely through conversation. This is no AI slop, but real functionality with real benefits! Tutorial 👉 osdoc.cogsci.nl/4.1/tutorial...

13.11.2025 09:40 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

Neural mechanisms of learned suppression uncovered by probing the hidden attentional priority map Learned suppression of distractor locations in visual search emerges through reactive mechanisms that involve initial spatial selection prior to suppression.

We used a brain "pinging" again and found that distractor suppression is reactive rather than proactive, meaning attention is first drawn to the distractor before being suppressed.

27.02.2025 08:00 — 👍 32    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 0

Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...

Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

30.10.2025 18:17 — 👍 1557    🔁 433    💬 163    📌 55

Concurrent selection of internal goals and external sensations during visual search Internal and external selection processes can codevelop in time to yield efficient search behavior.

Now out in #ScienceAdvances: @baiweiliu.bsky.social and I ask how internal (goal) and external (sensory) selection are coordinated during visual search. The key insight: internal and external selection are not inherently serial, but may develop in parallel in the human brain: doi.org/10.1126/scia...

10.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 66    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 1