Do you use @youcanbookme.bsky.social or @calendly-official.bsky.social for scheduling? We were frustrated with recent increases in pricing, so we tapped @anthropic.com's Claude to help! You can easily use it yourself: 100% free to set up and host: cdl-scheduler.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Congratulations @judithfan.bsky.social on winning the Lila R. Gleitman Prize for early-career contributions to Cognitive Science 🥳 Amazing!!
cognitivesciencesociety.org/gleitman-pri...
Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
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Cover of The Lancet:
@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Some thoughts before the President's speech tonight.
If you haven't yet changed how you teach and evaluate thanks to AI, you probably need to. This is not something that educators asked to happen, but it is worth noting what is out there - in this case an OpenClaw tool designed to cheat.
🎉!
Book cover. A silhouette of a person's head filled with colorful geometric shapes—perhaps symbolizing cognitive resources or deployment thereof. The style is attractive and modern, if generic. text: The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources Falk Lieder, Frederick Callaway, Thomas L. Griffithts
I'm excited to announce that I had my first (co-authored) book published today! "The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources" with Falk Lieder and Tom Griffiths (@cocoscilab.bsky.social ). You can read it for free! (see thread)
Oregon Trail was a great game even though the graphics were a little buggy
I will be hiring a full-time pre-doctoral Research Professional to work with me at Chicago Booth.
Know someone interested in studying conversation and connection? Please help spread the word!
More details, including application instructions, are here: www.chicagobooth.edu/-/media/facu...
I was always taught that there were *three* anterior temporal lobes in the lert hemisphere...? Perhaps modern views on the Mirdral Streem have evolved since I was in grad school!
Come to the International Sleep Replay Workshop in Vancouver on March 6th — registration and poster submission closes Feb 15 isrw.bio.uci.edu
The workshop will include symposia, short talks, posters, discussion groups, and many opportunities to interact - Memory - Sleep - Dreaming - and more
Excited to share a new paper spearheaded by the wonderful @baror-shira.bsky.social:
tinyurl.com/bd8xdcum
@erc.europa.eu @nathumbehav.nature.com
We test the link between serial dependence (as an index of continuity) and event boundaries (indexing segmentation). A few key findings in the thread:
All of mine are on GitHub:https://context-lab.com/publications.html#course-mats
Much better than canvas!
Microsoft Research NYC is hiring a researcher in the space of AI and society!
Drop-in replacement for sklearn LDA using MCMC and hyperparameter optimization: github.com/mimno/sklear...
Our experiences have countless details, and it can be hard to know which matter.
How can we behave effectively in the future when, right now, we don't know what we'll need?
Out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com , @marcelomattar.bsky.social and I find that people solve this by using episodic memory.
It won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:
With our v1.0 release, dream-stream now comes in Android 🤖!
context-lab.com/dream-stream...
I finally got around to setting up a lab website!
Have a look: the-steel-lab.github.io
Just in time to start the new semester.
👻!
Also uses all sorts of fun libraries on @hf.co -- TTS, text2music, generative text.
Suggestions (and especially pull requests) welcome! We'll see if it "works" for me tonight 😴!
I made a quirky little web app to help guide your lucid dreams: context-lab.com/dream-stream/
It's kind of like a "netflix" or "spotify" for lucid dreaming-- you select different narratives to form a playlist, and then it uses your device's microphone to start playing when it detects you're in REM.
Excited to be teaching a new undergraduate course on Models of Language and Conversation this term!
Check it out here: context-lab.com/llm-course/
I've added lots of fun interactive demos of chatbots and NLP techniques that let students dig into the approaches.
I did the same for mine (migrated from squarespace)-- worked great, cheaper than squarespace, and easier to update and maintain!
www.context-lab.com
I've been thinking about this too! What I'm imagining doing for my own courses is:
- programmer thinking
- design
- testing (a little debugging but mostly designing appropriate and comprehensive tests)
- vibe coding tools and workflows
- much more sophisticated/deep assignments than "before"
I may be a *little* biased but this 📘 is GREAT! If you ever found language structure interesting, but were turned off by implausible and overly complicated accounts, this book is 4U: a simple and empirically grounded account of the syntax of natural lgs. A must-read for lang researchers+aficionados!
Bichan Wu (@bichanw.bsky.social) & I wrote a tutorial paper on Reduced Rank Regression (RRR) — the statistical method underlying "communication subspaces" from Semedo et al 2019 — aimed at neuroscientists.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.12467
