@mamsmandrill
Early Career Nonbinary Research Fellow. Interested in #neurodiversity, Open scholarship and reading, using combined eye-tracking/EEG in neurotypical and neurodivergent groups! #Dyspraxic 🧠. We/They/them/Xe/Xem.
Bluntly: Frith's entire career was a waste of time that did more harm than good.
We don't need more scientism and epistemic injustice.
stimpunks.org/2023/11/22/o...
Engineer Annette Ashberry was born 132 years ago today. She worked in munitions during World War I, then after the war was co-founder of Atalanta Ltd, an engineering company dedicated to employing women which existed from 1921 to 1937.
#WHM #WomenInSTEM #Engineering ⚙️🧪
On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we feature the unforgettable Judy Canova (1913-1983), a Vaudeville performer who had a hit radio series for 12 years centered around her persona as a singing comic country bumpkin as well as a successful film career. We remember her today!
#WHM #MusicSky #BookSky
I may be unduly pessimistic but it seems to me that what we've done with all the modern statistical & computational machinery we have access to leaves a lot to be desired. We c/should have deployed it to augment the meticulous exploratory methods we already had but used it as a replacement instead.
In a sense, we have completely replaced a lot of scientific processes with the power of statistical methodology and essentially outsourced part of our scientific thinking and practice to statistical inference. And now we're confronted with the risk of the same thing happening with AI.
Contribute to open science! Collabra: Psychology needs a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026. Repost please!
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"working class" to politicians and pundits is an aesthetic, characterized by rolled up sleeves and rugged manual labor
to the rest of us, it just means we can't afford to tell our abusive bosses to kick rocks, because we have lofty aspirations to maybe get our teeth fixed some time this year
A pioneer of autism research is asking us to rethink the diagnosis, only viewing as autistic those diagnosed in early childhood (usually before 3 or 5) with severe intellectual/language impairments. Everyone else with the label may be suffering from something else...
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Israeli attacks on UNIFIL peace keepers tonight. Irish service men were not directly hit, but they aided their counterparts from Ghana. This will further deteriorate Irish Israel relations.
Young offenders 'with DLD were more likely to have their behaviour interpreted as non-compliance.'
Which of course has serious implications for them!
This is why we need far greater awareness of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
#DevLangDis
Well supported families = better outcomes for young people with DLD.
Join us next week for the award winning 'DLD Together' so you can empower families about DLD.
www.naplic.org.uk/events/
#DevLangDis
Some women-led resources and books on #dyspraxia and #neurodivergence that are worth checking out during and after #IWD26 docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Salma Yaqoob @SalmaYaqoob Almost feel sorry for the haters who are trying to spin Muslims voting for a woman in a party led by a gay Jewish man is evidence of Islamist sectarianism In fact it's evidence of genuine tolerance, rejection of superficial identity politics and ability to prioritise tackling common concerns of cost of living, protecting public services and rejecting war mongering. And the promotion of mutual respect and individual freedoms. The coming together of people is terrifying for the ruling elites.
Totally this.
The rightwing hate “journalists” are spinning Muslims voting for a woman in a party led by a gay Jewish man as Islamist sectarianism.
“When I began teaching, I joined UCU because the people in the union seemed cool – and because I quickly realised I needed to organise with my peers. If you’re feeling isolated or precarious at UoB, BUCU is where you’ll find your people.”
Betsy Porritt - BUCU Anti-casualisation officer
New newspaper headline for your Intro to Causal Inference lecture just dropped
This whole thread is a very important insight as to why getting information from an LLM, even if you are dutiful and vigilant, corrodes your ability to ascertain what is true or not
** LLMs do not provide the info you need in order to evaluate truth. **
I agree with a lot of the criticism about how universities work these days and their marketing. But I find it funny that the loudest critics are often people who've never even been to one.
It's clear that unis have been yielding diminishing returns over the last 20 years, and that's probably going to get worse. But if you go around telling everyone that spending five years learning the bases of the knowledge in your field is a total waste of time, that really says something about you.
And people also kill babies sometimes! Why is it bad only when a machine does that?? A baby-murdering machine is so much more useful than a baby-murdering human!
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science
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Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model.
This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine.
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I keep telling anyone who will listen: the students in my classes are starving for knowledge, for big hard ideas, and for opportunities to actually think and challenge themselves harpers.org/archive/2026...
how much more food and years does he need because the first 20 didn't do it for him
Paper 🚨 We found that LLMs can match or exceed human coders on theoretical variables assessing the form and function of ritual fasting. Guided by theory and ethical human oversight, LLMs can generate units of cultural analysis for cross‑cultural theoretical tests. #BioAnth doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
The Times has a leak of the White Paper & Labour’s terrible, damaging SEND plans. Children’s legal right to support will be reviewed by stricter criteria when they move to secondary school (+ worse) We’ll fight It. #SaveOurChildrensRights #AreYouWithUs bit.ly/4rpvmAv
Mary Somerville: Scotland's First Scientist www.youtube.com/watch?v=utvO...
Ramadan Mubarak everyone
Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
i don't know how to put this politely but stating that your work is approved/supported by companies like open ai, google and anthropic doesn't give you the credibility you think it does.
for me, this is a clear sign that i am not interested in engaging or working with you
