Jorge Morales

Fascinating figure at the cogsci biz meeting this morning: because CSS owns their two journals (Cognitive Science and topiCS), they get a ton of revenue from the publisher, on the order of a half mil per year

This is so much money that they can run huge conferences at a loss, in perpetuity

lol folks don’t share personal data with anyone ever

Social scientists should not use chat interfaces when using LLMs in their research: they are impressively inefficient, and obscure/impose important methodological decisions that require thought.

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I’ve never tried it, now I’m curious!

Just made this and it’s excellent. I’ve mixed something like this in the past (sub vermouth for Cointreau) and it works well too!

I guess it could be worse?

thrilled to share this project over a decade in the making out now in @pnas.org! We show that precocious GABA boosting in neonates by early sevoflurane/propofol anesthetic exposure accelerates visual cortical maturation in human infants
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Oh man, the more I hear from you and others the worse I feel about the new change. We had it really good and they completely ruined it. Oh well, here's to month-to-month financing our billion(s)-endowed institutions.

bsky.app/profile/jorg...

We had it so good. Faculty had P-cards and reimbursements took 2-3 days. But some geniuses thought we needed more efficiency and purchased an expensive system that took away our P-cards, massively delays reimbursements, and it hasn’t allowed me to purchase research goods and services in 2 months. 🤷🏻‍♂️

yikes...

Between me and my students, the university owes us $10,000 in reimbursements for expenses we made as far back as early June. Is this good or bad? Please discuss. ☠️

Excellent timing for our HVAC system to completely break down 😭🥵

Lundbeck Foundation Postdoc Grant – Type 2 Overview (2025 Call) Lundbeck Foundation Postdoc Grant – Type 2 Overview (2025 Call) Who: Researchers currently based outside Denmark who wish to move and conduct postdoctoral research at a Danish institution. Applicants ...

Are you an ECR in the US? Thinking about moving to Europe? If you work on computational psychiatry, neuroscience, metacognition, or brain-body interaction, I’d love to support your application for a Lundbeck Fellowship to join our group this fall.

Key details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Hooray! Also, I feel your pain! (Literally)

average online discussion tbh

In our model, signal strength determines the experienced intensity of perceptual content (referred to as mental strength), irrespective of whether that content is perceived or imagined. In contrast, signal precision determines whether that content is in turn inferred to be real

After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

Uy! Hubiera sido genial conocerlas. Igual fue una experiencia quasi religiosa.

Empty Pompeii street

Interior of Roman colosseum

Palace of Minos

It was very special to visit ancient sites at Pompeii, Rome, and Knossos during the past few days. I experienced a weird gleeful nostalgia while witnessing the crumbling ruins of what were once magnificent civilizations.

Western University is offering new scholarships of up to 40k CAD for four years to doctoral students who are studying at, have an offer from, or have had an offer rescinded from one of the top 100 American universities.

Come and study with me or one of my colleagues!

100% I'm just gonna archive everything. Start afresh. Hope for the best.

what happens when you're gone for 2 weeks (and I did check email occasionally)

The University of Sydney is recruiting senior and mid-career academics "within the top 5–10% of academics in their field, with a strong track record and availability to relocate to Australia within 6-months".
If you're a psychologist/neuroscientist and are interested, get in touch with me soon.

2. Tuesday 8th at 12:30pm: What makes mental images vivid?, a poster by Xueyi Huang.

In this exciting project, we distill what visual features of mental images are more diagnostic of subjects’ vividness ratings. By using a new method we offer a more fine-grained way to quantify vividness.

I will be presenting some of my postdoc work during the very last session of the conference. would love to hear your feedback 📊📢 @assc28.bsky.social #ASSC28

Reposting thread with the more popular hashtag #assc28

ETHOS - Empirical Tests of Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness

This last project, is a collaboration with @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social as part of a Templeton adversarial collaboration on higher-order theories of consciousness. www.arc-ethos.org

2. Tuesday 8th at 12:30pm: What makes mental images vivid?, a poster by Xueyi Huang.

In this exciting project, we distill what visual features of mental images are more diagnostic of subjects’ vividness ratings. By using a new method we offer a more fine-grained way to quantify vividness.