Steven Watson

What a flirt

She was posing magnificently yesterday and we were so busy being interesting I forgot to compliment her.

Also, happy to join in on fireworks hate. The obsession with them here in NL is actually a big reason why I would consider leaving the country.

Co-writing a grant in Dutch, which as we enter the final stages makes me feel like a human ChatGPT*. "Hey Steven, what evidence is there for an argument like this?"; then we swap roles with me giving prompts for arguments the humans have to write for me.

*Hopefully one with actual knowledge.

The problem with research very often is that it's humans doing it!

My Psych brain immediately thinks of category accentuation and how it'll absolutely warp attention and perception. Once something is put into a box people will never see the thing being classified quite the same way again. Which presumably makes it really hard to see when you need a new box.

I once genuinely considered flying to Norway for reindeer stew from a specific pub before remembering the concepts of time and money.

I'm sorry this happened to you, but delighted this happened for humanity.

My partner has a sticker on her laptop that says "Once I hyperfocus on this it's over for you bitches", so maybe you can 😉

Xavier continued. “Another one of our employees can drain you of your life force if you touch her. Why settle for a workplace that champions autism over one that encourages you to weaponise it?”
I'll be laughing all day.

I'd recommend it, we have dogs and everything. Drop me a message when you contract ends and that'll force us to do something before our ND brains sabotage us :)

DB almost makes me nostalgic for the UK trains. Almost.

Sounds wonderful to me!

Still working on the fatigue part myself, and setting boundaries for myself and others. Still, it's nice to have now learned the difference between overstimulation, anxiety and anger, which has been helpful!

But hanging out with other ND folk is the secret to a good life. Worst advice I ever got was from the guy that diagnosed my dyspraxia "You'll want to hang out with other dyspraxics, but don't because you'll start to think that behavior is normal". It was another time... (about 2011...)

Yes, in hindsight I've realised basically all my best friends and partners have been autistic, adhd or both! I was lucky to have such a gang from when i was quite young - tougher over here in NL though. Tried communicating in a second language while autistic? Not easy...

You were part of my inspiration - quite a few people I identified as "being a bit dyspraxic like me" who got themselves assessed were getting autism diagnoses so I figured I should get that checked out 😅 About 3-4 years ago now I think? I'm also team ADHD, so that's always a fun balancing act.

Similar over here - "great news, our faculty isn't in deficit after all!" Mint - I'll tell all the people you made redundant and all the people that had to fight to stay. They'll be delighted!

I've often said it's weird how academics are expected to give a 2 hour high-level performance and then go and do a bunch of additional demanding tasks in the same day. As a fellow autistic I'm totally with you though - I LOVE teaching, but the overstimulation afterwards is exhausting.

This is a stone cold fact. When I was at school one class had to read The Mayor of Casterbridge, and my class got to read Lord of the Flies. My teacher knew how to pick a book teenagers might actually want to read.

Our uni is getting rid of Endnote so I had to swap to Zotero which you all told me was better, but it... isn't? Or am I missing something? I find it hard to believe anything I read on the internet might not be 100% accurate.

You basically have to treat him like a second language speaker on this one. For those of us that talk proper (Geordies) it's dinner and tea. Lunch is something that happens down south and probably doesn't even include a stottie.

Normally I would say "I don't speak for all autistics" but on this one I think I'm safe. Autism isn't caused by paracetamol, it's caused by people finding us fun, interesting and attractive and making autistic babies with us in the traditional way. I hope this clarifies this apparently complex issue

Prior work shows AI is often truth-biased in text-based deception detection. In our new 12-study paper in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we find a substantial lie-bias in audiovisual deception detection during mock interrogations. Read more here!

doi.org/10.1093/joc/...

I've done unfunded research supporting rape victims. I didn't realise that would only be important if it had funding. I might be confused about what we are paid salaries for.

Absolutely fine. Nature's defence systems worked perfectly. The toad secreted bitter poison to escape, my dog foamed at the mouth to expel the poison. My cortisol shortened my life span by 5 years. Nature is beautiful.

Mine tried to eat a toad. She swiftly discovered that this is a very inadvisable course of action. She did not *learn* this, however, and thought the next one might be delicious. It was not.

Katie! My actual hero! Always happy to engage in sketchy activities at your behest - but you might find that there's a reason why I try to help the police from the sidelines, rather than actually do investigations myself 😉

A new paper which warns perceived knowledge doesn't predict security behaviour as well as actual knowledge, and perceived knowledge can increase vulnerability through overconfidence. The problem, intervention success is usually measured with perceived knowledge.
www.iadisportal.org/ijcsis/paper...

Always!

... that deception detection occurs very late (if at all) in the naturalistic process, and only when careful scrutiny is triggered. (3/3)