Alex Danvers

Here is my real concern with AI: Your students are giving all of your material to the AI for free.

Everything you wrote or created and did not keep to yourself? The students have already fed it directly to the AI sites. For free.

#academicsky #k12 #Copyright

Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue in front of a chalkboard

When science starts drifting into performance, producing results, signaling productivity...

What’s missing is the messy, uncertain curiosity and inquiry that once drove the whole.

Without space for open-ended questions, we risk turning research into a polished simulation of discovery.
#philsci

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▪ A 5-day treatment that brings recovery to 80% of highly refractory #depression s
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▪ A tribute to its architect, the late Nolan Williams

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#psychiatry #pmhnp

Undisclosed industry support by journal authors:
▪ Only 14% did not disclose
▪ But around 90% of those were among the "top 10 highest-earners"
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41224314

At Carlat we use the same methods in this study to verify that our authors disclose and are conflict free.

#psychiatry

Predicting student outcomes using digital logs of learning behaviors: Review, current standards, and suggestions for future work - Behavior Research Methods Using traces of behaviors to predict outcomes is useful in varied contexts ranging from buyer behaviors to behaviors collected from smart-home devices. Increasingly, higher education systems have been...

LMS log data can work as an early-warning system for college courses—if we treat students’ clicks as signals for support, not surveillance, and audit models for bias across groups. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Days later, another related paper. (#JESP)

Religiosity ==> slippery slope thinking

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"What can be done about effects of demand characteristics is acknowledging their potential contribution to the effect, and discussing in good faith how a demand account – as any other competing account – represents a sensible alternative for the interpretation of the data."

#SocialPsyc #PsycSci

I'll be missing NeurIPS this year, but we have two conference papers on the dynamics of learning and the structure of data in language modeling, a new direction I'm excited about: arxiv.org/abs/2502.09863 and arxiv.org/abs/2505.18651.

On the right: I when I get any criticism whatsoever.

#philisophy #philosophysky #philsky #cogsci #science #academia

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

It’s definitely worth watching

Seascraper Audiobook on Libro.fm Longlisted for the Booker Prize, this “cinematically plotted...radiant” (The New York Times) novel follows shanker Thomas Flett as his quiet life in a small English coastal town is forever changed ove...

I don't usually listen to audiobooks. I much prefer reading to listening.

But my former wife (and present best friend) recommended Benjamin Wood's reading of his 2025 novel _Seascraper_ so strongly that I gave it a try.

What a beautiful, atmospheric tale, especially in audiobook form.

This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.

The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Biological Theory is now on Bluesky!

We have a new team of editors and a new editorial board.

We will soon be posting about all our articles.

Find out more about the journal at link.springer.com/journal/13752

last night my daughter asked whether there were negative letters, like negative numbers. what a good fuckin question

Therapists, co-therapists, and guides with practical experience in psychedelic-assisted therapy are warmly invited to take part in a new research study on therapist competencies, skills, and best practices. ⁠

Learn more and take the survey: lnkd.in/gzk77ez9

During an interesting discussion yesterday with @philosophyshepherd.bsky.social and our Representations Group (www.tcd.ie/Neuroscience...), I mentioned the idea of thinking of our motor systems as embodying a generative model of possible movements. Some members objected...

Perils of Partialing: Can Scholars Predict Residualized Variables' Nomological Nets? Objective Partialing is a statistical procedure in which the variance shared among two or more constructs is removed, allowing researchers to examine the unique properties of the residualized, parti...

Excited to share a Registered Report in J. of Personality looking at the “perils of partialing” – led by the Bluesky-less Leigha Rose with @drlynam.bsky.social and me. (1)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Brain & Emotion - A grad seminar. Want my updated slides and materials? Shoot me an email. Happy holidays!

a woman says we have to work together in front of a wentworth sign ALT: a woman says we have to work together in front of a wentworth sign

Passionate about women's mental health?

Interested in brain stimulation?

Excited by cutting edge neurotech?

Come do a PhD with me!

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ESCoP is refreshing its logo
The new design modernizes our visual identity while drawing inspiration from the core ideas of the current emblem: information processing, networked cognitive models, and EEG-like signal patterns.

One of the greatest joys and privileges of being a professor is seeing where your former students go. I just got a letter (in the mail!) from Duke's School of Law letting me know that a former student for whom I wrote a letter of support was admitted to their program. Great way to start the day!

Despite Prepublication Peer Review being a core part of science, training materials for it are sparse. This open source guide is very valuable for ECRs!

ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/

Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain www.nature.com/articles/s41... @tknapen.bsky.social "There's a map of your body in my brain" sounds like a pick-up line but it's actually just factual.

Universal scale-free representations in human visual cortex Author summary The human cerebral cortex is thought to encode sensory information in population activity patterns, but the statistical structure of these population codes has yet to be characterized. ...

Universal scale-free representations in human visual cortex journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... "Visual information is distributed across the full spectrum of latent dimensions in cortical activity" not just a few high-variance dimensions.

Open Data In Neurophysiology: Advancements, Solutions & Challenges Ongoing efforts over the last 50 years have made data and methods more reproducible and transparent across the life sciences. This openness has led to transformative insights and vastly accelerated sc...

🧪 Just spent the morning reading this review article by @colleenjg.bsky.social and team. Really highlights momentum and challenges to open science adoption.

Neuroscience has gotten substantially more computationally intensive over the years, and now requires new approaches, training and funding.

This paper changed my life: Nancy Padilla-Coreano on learning the value of population coding The 2013 Nature paper by Mattia Rigotti and his colleagues revealed how mixed selectivity neurons—cells that are not selectively tuned to a stimulus—play a key role in cognition.

“I will die on the hill that population coding is the relevant level of encoding information in the brain.” In the latest “This paper changed my life,” Nancy Padilla-Coreano discusses a paper on mixed selectivity neurons.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...

Check this out! Wonderful resource for grant hunting
#neuroskyence #science #neuroimaging

Take-aways: Model-based planning …
🍽️ does not improve following ketamine 💉, antidepressant 💊, or iCBT 👩‍💻
🍽️ is not necessarily compromised in depression & appears specifically linked to compulsivity
🍽️ may be trait-like rather than state-dependent