Professor Dean Mobbs

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs

new preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

aphantasics reported to feel less 'absorbed' as they read stories, but they dwelled just as much on words that typically evoke imagery. so perhaps they just didn't realize they have (non-conscious) imagery too

Ali Moharramipour's 1st paper as senior author

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Ask Elon musk🤣🤣🤣

“My end is great thank you”

I’m waiting for Commando: forgetting that one is naked

Vacancy — Postdoc Investigating Human Sources of Bias in AI Face Classification Models How are human ideologies and prejudices amplified by AI models? How do human biases get into AI model training data? And how does the output of such models influence the decisions and behaviors of use...

Postdoc opportunity in my lab at the University of Amsterdam!

Our project investigates human sources of bias in AI models of face classification & implications for users' behavior. Co-supervised by me and Prof Andreas Schuck.

More details here: bit.ly/4kOS8ir

Deadline is April 15. DM me with Qs!

US version. thank you very much @vikingbooks.bsky.social. I like the black cover more!

Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation - Nature Human Behaviour Seeber et al. studied brain recordings from implanted electrodes in freely moving humans. Neural dynamics encoded actual and imagined routes similarly, demonstrating parallels between navigational, im...

🚨 New lab paper!🚨

A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social

We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!

To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

Epistemic biases in human reinforcement learning: behavioral evidence, computational characterization, normative status and possible applications.

A quite self-centered review, but with a broad introduction and conclusions and very cool figures.

Few main takes will follow

osf.io/preprints/ps...

yup, that’s the distinguished scientist Elon Musk FRS
@royalsociety.org

Our new paper on the neural systems relating to safety. Great work by Sarah Tashjian and the lab(not on Bluesky).

Excerpt from Wikipedia: “President-elect Donald Trump tweeted: "My thoughts and prayers are with the great people of Tennessee during these terrible wildfires. Stay safe!"[24][25]”

🧵 How do we know Trump is full of sh** when he shrieks about “hydrants running dry”?

Because in 2016, a horrendous wildfire hit Gatlinburg Tennessee.

Hydrants ran dry and 14 people died. A higher death toll than the LA Fires.

But Tennessee had a GOP governor, so newly-elected Trump posted:

Completely agree with Sam. This system needs to change. We need to bring the money back into research and/ or increase the salaries of post docs etc

I am very sad to say, David Lodge died on January 1st.
He was a wonderful man and hugely influential writer.
I was lucky to be his agent and he taught me so much.
His campus novels will be read for years to come.
A great loss.
www.penguin.co.uk/articles/202...

FYI - We went to the moon😜. Photos of each of the six Apollo landing sites photographed from low orbit by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The astronauts' tracks, as well as the rover and other items, are clearly visible.

Jupiter and the moon over Toulouse

Nobel Laureates Urge Senate to Turn Down Kennedy’s Nomination Elevating Mr. Kennedy to secretary of H.H.S. “would put the public’s health in jeopardy,” more than 75 laureates wrote.

More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm RFK Jr.

The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...

I agree - I love this movie

An ad for Bluesky in New York City that says “No Trolls” with a man wearing a USA hat in a 🚫 symbol

Me on the way home from karaoke after drinking a bottle of soju: ohhh that’s my website

Hi 유극완 … I still miss the h in hakwan

The early steps of rewriting the shameful history of Trump’s 2020 coup attempt.

Reasons to Be Skeptical about Sentience and Pain in Fishes and Aquatic Invertebrates The welfare of fishes and aquatic invertebrates is important, and several jurisdictions have included these taxa under welfare regulation in recent years. Regulation of welfare requires use of scie...

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"Enacting welfare legislation [...] without strong scientific evidence is a societal and political choice that risks creating scientific and interpretational problems as well as major policy challenges, including [...] unintended consequences. ... "

Congrats Siri!

I don't think this is James Acastor - I'm gonna tell his dad

This is Ket @ketikagarg.bsky.social; she is a postdoc in the lab and freaking awesome! She put this together over a weekend. Bonus: Ket is on the job market for an Assistant Professor position! Here is her website: ketikagarg.com

First time this has happened.

I’ve personally experienced and seen anger at talks. Likewise, we have all experienced the angry reviewer. Both cases are unprofessional and unscientific. Yes, debate, but anger has no place in science (maybe one exception is pseudoscience or religion rejecting real science…).

Huge congrats to @talvaldivia.bsky.social on her first first-author paper accepted at Emotion! An outstanding contribution to what we know about how children, teens, and young adults bring to mind emotion words. Check it out! Many thanks to coauthors for an excellent collab!
osf.io/preprints/os...

Excellent paper from @mjcrockett.bsky.social et al. And gives more reason to leave that toxic shit hole called Twitter/X!