No new wars.
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No new wars.
I'm glad I didn't do this. NSERC just sent me an email saying it was an accident that I got the survey 🙃
Thankfully no grading. We had 2200 signups in 24 hours.
A THOUSAND people have signed up for our class in the last 6 hours. Officially the largest single "class" I've taught.
Dr. Lauren Wilson Finniss and I developed a critical AI Literacy course at Acadia that is now freely available to everyone. Within a month of launch, 15% of Acadia students completed it to very positive reviews. The link to the 2.5-hour course is in the CBC article: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Building a Corpus to Analyze Stuttering according to a Dynamic Model of Speech Rhythm Production: https://osf.io/5cfyq
Nice interview with Jonathan Haidt on CBC Front Burner. I don't really get the Haidt hate in some psychology circles. Yes, correlation does not equal causation. But when you see the same pattern over and over again across contexts it certainly provides a good hint. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
Our latest paper, “Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests”, is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Non-paywalled version:
arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786
Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...
Then why don't you offer residents free off street parking like every other major city in Canada during a snowfall??
if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
Walz needs to be clear with Trump.
Pull ICE out by midnight tonight or he sends in the National Guard.
Call for 2026 Mid-Career Award, deadline March 31, with a black and gold beam photo background and the Psychonomic Society logo.
The Psychonomic Society is now accepting nominations for the 2026 Mid-Career Award, which recognizes individuals who have made exceptional contributions to experimental and cognitive psychology and are currently in the middle of their careers. The deadline is March 31. Submit today: buff.ly/Pct3kUM
This Carney speech is incredible. "But when we accept what’s offered, and compete with each other to be the most accommodating, this is not sovereignty—it’s the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination." youtu.be/-9EFPdcSot0?...
If you're gonna post thoughtless trash online anonymously there's a website I recommend called X. You may have heard of it.
It's poor peoples' problem that they require a car for work but can't afford a driveway? Spoken like someone posting anonymously on the internet.
Halifax is a city. People require cars but cant afford/don’t have a driveway. This is common in every large city (Montreal) yet they don’t ban street parking city wide for snow removal. (Montreal also offers free off street parking) The HRM parking ban is a tax on people who can’t afford driveways.
Our annual time and $$ tax on people who don’t have driveways begins.
I got this too. I plan to complete it sometime in the next 3-12 months.
I think you're looking for a different D. Lametti.
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
Major kudos to the Acadia finance department who turned around my complex (multi currency, equipment, and travel) reimbursement request in TWO days! They’re always fast but this has to be some sort of university record.
It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
This press conference is bananas, and the questions being asked are terrible. He's basically saying that anything he deems the US needs the US will just take regardless of where it is. "We're taking wealth out of the ground ..." like WTAF? Greenland and Canada next?
Paper alert! (1/2) We examined brain activation for each content word in a podcast relative to incrementally larger ngrams (1-word, 5-words, 10-words) that precede each word with a focus on semantic distance. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New evidence from over 6,000 college students finds that digital devices are bad for academic performance and even effect peers in negative ways!
Mobile app use reduces grades, increases stress & lowers class attendance, job applications, and wages coming out of school.
www.nber.org/system/files...
I swear it's like a cheat code, doesn't matter what it is you're writing. Grammatical oddities, character voice inconsistencies, tonal or perspective whiplash...something about just reading it aloud as if you were reading it off to a buddy across the room makes problems jump out at you.
The class is workshop and discussion based with only one lecture, and it works with up to 15 students. It's the most fun I've had teaching and the students seem to really like it.
This year we had two incredible guest speakers Zoom in to talk about writing: Journalist and author of "Nerve: A Personal Journey Through the Science of Fear" @evaholland.bsky.social and Science Vs. Senior Producer @roserimler.bsky.social.
If anyone wants to attempt a version—i.e., a Science Communication course—I'd be happy to share my assignment and reading list (mostly New Yorker, Slate, and Atlantic articles, podcasts, plus the book On Writing Well). Students can't use AI and they mostly don't because they like the assignments.
Wrapped my third writing class. Lessons learned: Uni students want to improve their writing but they don't like min word counts, forced topics, and BS rules e.g. no contractions. The class works because papers are short, on what they want, and I teach writing as a form of effective conversation.