Tom Wallis

Happy to share our last article on a computational model of traveling waves! @erc.europa.eu funded work led by Dugué Lab PhD student Joao Cardoso.

@upcite.bsky.social

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce…

🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉

The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!

🎉👶 Welcome to the last new born in the Open Science effort!
Replication Research is a diamond open access journal dedicated to robust, transparent and reproducible science.

#OpenScience #ScientificPublication #Replication #OpenAccess

Check out this lovely new paper by the inimitable @emilya-izzeddin.bsky.social ! We examine how humans use natural image statistics to judge similarity.

Principles for proper peer review

New post in @jocnforum.bsky.social by Early Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social: "Principles for proper peer review"

doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

Showing a fictitious system for submitting manuscripts called "Nature Instant" showing bot choices for authors to choose from as initial AI-based peer reviewers. The bots are trained on real human reviewer data.

The future of peer review is here.

Introducing Nature Instant!

We've automated rejection so you can get disappointed faster. Because why wait 6 months for reviewer 2 when you can get roasted by an #AI in seconds?

Here is how it works.

#AI4Science #PeerReview #FictionScience #FiSci #AAAI #ScAISci

We’re recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join our team! 🎉

I’m happy to share that I’ve opened back up the search for this position (it was temporarily closed due to funding uncertainty).

See lab page and doc below for details!

What annotations / metadata do you wish was included with every #cogsci dataset (especially #workingmemory folks 👀)? My current list includes the experiment task, stimulus, level of data (trial-, subject-, or group-level), format, and whether analysis code is provided. Any more?

Me and @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social want to thank everyone who attended, presented at, and helped organize #COSMOS2025! If you weren't able to make it, all teaching materials are already online and we'll be uploading videos of all talks soon cosmossummerschool.github.io/materials/

Long time in the making: our preprint of survey study on the diversity with how people seem to experience #mentalimagery. Suggests #aphantasia should be redefined as absence of depictive thought, not merely "not seeing". Some more take home msg:
#psychskysci #neuroscience

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

👋 Herzlich willkommen an der TU, Prof. Charley Wu!
Der Kognitionswissenschaftler verstärkt die Humanwissenschaften und im Bereich Computational Cognitive Science. Zum Start haben wir ihm ein paar Fragen gestellt 👉 www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet... @thecharleywu.bsky.social @hessianai.bsky.social

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

A wild exchange with Gemini Pro 2.5. In preparing some examples for my seminar (cogsci-llms.netlify.app) I remembered @randomwalker.bsky.social old tweet about playing Rock paper scissors with LLMs. Decided to see what it's like now ....

If neuroscience needs behavior, then it also needs control theory ... but that's not the only reason: check out the workshop at #Bernsteinconference
bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

a table about lemurs

a table about students and schools

a table about wines

{tinytable} 0.14.0 for #RStats makes it super easy to draw tables in html, tex, docx, typ, md & png.

There are only a few functions to learn, but don't be fooled! Small 📦s can still be powerful.

Check out the new gallery page for fun case studies.

vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/vi...

This is a video summary of www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... about what has halted collapses of Democracy before. Via @bwyble.bsky.social by @marinanord.bsky.social (of @hertieschool.bsky.social, coincidentally!) @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social @silindberg.bsky.social & al.

Tessa is great; go work with Tessa!

It’s Lauren Sumner-Rooney talking at the lectern about evolutionary diversity in vision.

It’s @laurensr.bsky.social telling us about her verrry cool work in evolutionary diversity in vision science at #Visionarium2025

paper is up~

This study examines performance evaluation in perceptual detection tasks using response-time-based signal detection theory (SDT) analysis. A defining feature of detection tasks is the asymmetry between trials with stimulus presence and absence, often reflected in ....

Here is my commentary on @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social's BBS paper. I point out deep parallels between topics in 2D and 3D human vision that are usually studied separately: summary statistics and attention in 2D, and 3D vision. This suggests studying them together. psyarxiv.com/dz3rx_v2

Link to HHMI preprint mandate hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Imm...

An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

I fear somebody in the Australian government may have misunderstood the meaning of pull requests

Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience - Communications Psychology Programming is essential for modern research in neuroscience and psychology, but it can quickly become a source of frustration and error. This Primer introduces ten practical principles guiding researchers toward writing clear, adaptable, and easily shareable code, ultimately supporting reproducible science.

Perhaps of interest:

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

If you're paid to collect the data (e.g. as an RA) and you *also* sign on to be (partly) responsible for the manuscript content and its veracity, then authorship may be warranted. More so if you also made any kind of design or analysis contribution.

Should an undergraduate RA be accountable for inaccuracies? imo: if they're not an author, then absolutely not. (see e.g. Gino case -- the "it was the RA" defence). In other words:

Thanks for your thoughts here Alex. I think detailed contribution statements are great and should be mandatory. For me, one thing that differentiates contributorship from authorship is a certain level of responsibility for the content of the manuscript...