Recent posts by Computational Cognitive Scientists on Bluesky

Carl Sagan: Are we alone?

Well, of all the hearings that have been held, that certainly was one of them.

Instagram's user-made AI Studio bots are obviously not licensed therapists. But if you ask for credentials, a bot will make up license numbers, practices, and education to try to convince you it's qualified to help with your mental health. www.404media.co/instagram-ai...

A male Violet-headed Hummingbird perched at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #nature

As soon as I can I’m loading the camera gear into the motorhome and heading to the stunning Scottish Highlands. This is the kind of scenery I want to spend some days, and nights, in. Have a great day/afternoon/evening/night #bluesky friends.

In 2022, I was part of a group who clarified the flavors of "cause" in neuroscience. Now that my new hobby is arguing on the internet about what "mood" is, I'm calling for clarity around "mood-ality" in neuroscience. We need modifiers for flavors of mood. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Where will you be this Thursday? Find your place with the link below

Now, me, myself, I like a lot of regulations on nuclear reactors. Just seems like not a place you want that disruptive startup grindcore mindset. To me.

Hopes critically endangered snails breed at safari park. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Opposite day, but as a government

The Resistance Is Here In recent weeks, more higher ed leaders and faculty members have been joining forces across institutions and taking public stands against Trump’s policies. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3YNTqAL

Some exciting news- for my ocean conservation and sustainable fisheries research, policy, and education efforts, I’ve been named one of the 500 most influential people shaping policy by the Washingtonian! @washingtonian.com

Trump’s agenda was never to make America great, but rather to make America so shitty that he is worthy of it as a leader

Once again begging folks to ask themselves if someone is asking a question or asking for advice before responding to their post. Questions often end with a question mark so that’s a good place to start.

Another great bird of Costa Rica, this is a White-collared Manakin snapping his wings to attract the ladies at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica For about half the year, the forest around my house is full of the sound of these birds displaying. #birds #nature 🌿

Coral City Camera | Baby Porkfish & Southern Stingray | 11.9.24

Coral City Camera | New Year Manatee Eclipse | 1.1.25

Coral City Camera | Dolphin Overhead! | 2.18.25

Endangered species act: You can't "'harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect' plants and animals on the verge of extinction." Trump admin: "I mean, what is HARM anyway..." Like they don't NEED that forest, right? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I'm late to this but it's so good. Because let's be honest, becoming a gladiator in ancient Rome could lead you to fame, fortune! Women! Song! But it also could really bite you in the butt. www.scientificamerican.com/article/roma...

I'm glad somebody out there is brave enough to push back against the "personal ChatGPT usage is terrible for the environment" message andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sh...

exactly, we do not need to launder their false beliefs into “reasonable concerns” thinkpieces, we need to figure out what will get them to move off of these bad ideas or at least stop basing their votes on them! this extends to their beliefs on immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, DEI, “urban crime” etc

A smooth galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.37 (lookback time 4.17 billion years) with coordinates (150.11696, 1.91265). 45 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

How is it only Tuesday. Morning!

That is, in fact, exactly what it is.

Astronomy has prepared me well for understanding that the size of a system governs how fast substantial changes will become visible. In astrophysics, we use this to estimate the size of the black holes in centers of galaxies. Here, it helps to understand when the consequences of tariffs are felt. 🔭🧪

How bad must Amazon's internal projections be looking if Bezos is finally willing to get a spine?

Look how good this kitten is. That cat's a born performer.

Also, @jimfarley.bsky.social, if you ever need someone to talk EVs and deep-sea mining, I'm a phone call away (and a huge fan of my Escape PHEV).

How is taking a knee to the king working out Bezos?

I’m so glad that Poilievre lost for many reasons including now never having to figure out how to pronounce his name

What does it feel like to work in higher education today? Sad, bleak, uneasy, and exhausting. chroni.cl/4jNb93s

For this week's #TalonTuesday we have an Osprey perched on a nest platform on a beautiful spring morning. Jemseg, #NewBrunswick, Canada April 2025 📸 #birds #osprey #OSPR #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

Interesting! I like the proto-planet idea, but it may not be true 🤔 I am pro-proto-planet. I have held and own chunks of Vesta - it's a good asteroid (side eyes Apophis)

#GoodMorningFromSaskatoon where I met my snowshoe hare friend again 👇

While I would say my research is part of #NeuroAI, I don't actually thing it's very useful to define a research field as a constellation of methodologies. We should organize primarily around questions, and then use whatever methods best answer them.

Newsletter time! I have a lot of events coming up so this is a good way to hear about them. buttondown.com/rosemarymosco

We're used to a world where baseline competence is hard, so we have an elaborate system of training to get there. (Above baseline, it's mostly up to you tbh.) In the emerging world, baseline is (too) easy. So we're going to have to think harder about how we train ppl to do genuinely new stuff.

Singing Wood Warbler! 😍🎶 A little bird that I'd only ever seen on 2 previous occasions, and never had a decent shot of. 😀 Taken at the weekend on the Quantock Hills in Somerset. 😊🐦 #Birds 🪶

They should do a thing where, as they continue to revisit these guys every month, the cartoons slowly get more and more disheveled, bedraggled, pock-marked, etc

This illustrates what the GOP strategy has been for decades: block everything good that Democrats are trying to do, and hope that enough of the electorate are too stupid to know who is actually to blame

Let me guess, Meagan has never visited a foreign country

More Florida Colleges Sign ICE Agreements At least 15 campus police departments in Florida are seeking immigration enforcement powers. ICE has already approved eight institutions as active partners. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4362H9V

Jelly fungi out in the world ...

My latest for @wweek.com

Don't worry, Duffy -- rich cunts like you can still afford the small congestion prices to drive your car in NYC

Never know what kind of clouds we will see on the coast. ⛅️

Head over heels in love with our overnight dolphin and manatees overhead 😍〰️🐬〰️🐮〰️🌝 #dolphin #manatee #dolphinsofcoralcity #manateesofcoralcity #overnight #overhead #headoverheels #coralcityafterdark #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #noaa #aoml #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity

It is fucking insane that we're all going to be paying catastrophically higher prices because we elected an idiot president who doesn't understand a single thing about anything

Far right (again) rides TikTok wave in elections in Romania 🗳️ www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Look I understand cable news incentives, but if I were running diametrically opposed breathless takes within 30 days of each other I would probably slow my roll a bit.

A smooth galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.10 (lookback time 1.35 billion years) with coordinates (150.28061, 2.66725). 43 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Folks, universities here are have decided to cut international psychology programs, which will be devastating to psychological science in the Netherlands. Please consider signing this open letter on behalf of my colleagues and me; anybody can sign. openletter.earth/against-lang...

You should really watch North of North

NYT has the uncanny ability to find the most gullible people on the planet

RFK, Jr. thinks autistic people are a tragedy bc some will never pay taxes. If that’s his biggest issue, maybe he should create a registry of freeloading billionaires, instead. skepchick.org/2025/04/rfks...

Academic senate of the University of Illinois resolves to join the Big 10 mutual defense compact! Proud to have been a co-signer of a great resolution put forward by @gipperfish.bsky.social

#SciComm folks, it's time to change our language and say “Let’s do science” rather than “Let’s be scientists.” 🧪 "All kids can do science, but.. they think of being a scientist as something reserved for certain kinds of kids." 📖: www.scientificamerican.com/article/keep...

“Gars” but rhyming with “Jaws” Part of my prep for a Shark Trek with @whysharksmatter.bsky.social this weekend 🦈

I made a new sign for the 50501 protests on Thursday

A learning and memory account of impression formation and updating Perspective by David M. Amodio (@davidamodio.bsky.social) Web: go.nature.com/3YTubx3 PDF: rdcu.be/ejREM #psychology #psychscisky

Man, everyone with the replies turned off. Where's your sense of adventure?

If you're curious, here are some samples from my upcoming birding dictionary www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...

Around here, people practice for *weeks* before the annual office-allocation Mario Kart Tournament.

If it's clear tonight I will be capturing Mars and the Beehive again. Getting a bit tricky. Need to wait for it to get really dark for the exposures. By then they're starting to get low to the West. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography

LAUNCH at 1337 UTC of Firefly Alpha FLTA0006 from Vandenberg. Rocket flew through second stage cutoff; there seem to have been some issues at stage1/stage2 sep but Firefly reports that the rocket reached orbit.

These sea turtles dance for joy when they magnetically sense it’s snack time. Learn more on #InternationalDanceDay: scim.ag/42VqsSz

If you have a story to tell it, please tell it in all the forums that ask you too. Documenting this stuff is important. grist.org/climate/lost...

Tag yourself. I’m “puzzled-misinformed.”

Temu started showing tariff costs.

Black throated magpie jay. San Diego county. 🌿🪶

I will be tuning in to the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the NRC hearing on Exploring the Potential of Deep-Sea Mining to Expand American Mineral Production. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s75c...

Day two of complaining every day that I don’t have a girlfriend until I have a girlfriend #ThisWillWorkImSureOfIt

Cost-intensive fundamental research is unlikely to be replaced, policy experts warn. “No one has the capacity of the federal government,” Herd says. “You’re producing research, but you’re also training the next generation of scientists. Private industry can’t do that.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

House Bill Calls for Risk-Sharing, Sweeping Changes to Student Loan Program The proposal is part of Republicans’ broader plan to pay for Trump’s tax cuts and other priorities. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4dcS7BL

"In the face of repeated violations of academic freedom and attempts to undermine institutional autonomy from political influence, many institutions’ responses have been the equivalent of a blank stare."

Golden sun shines in an amber sky, Whispers where the seabirds fly. The tide, like silk on ancient stone, Telling tales in an undertone. Rocks stand firm, though ages flee, Guardians of the endless sea. Twilight hums a lullaby. Where waves and wonder unify.

Good morning. Massive cloud offshore.

The Liberals win in Canada, and here's where the results stand with 312 of 343 seats called. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Mr. Cardinal at Paton's Center for Hummingbirds yesterday, when anyone tried to get near his favorite suet feeder. Magnificient! 🪶

Eastern chipmunks! #Sqrlpix

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We now resume our regularly scheduled programming... Here's a young Grizzly Bear out for a walk on a fall day last year. #wildlife #bears

So, today I learned about Public Square: a Pro-MAGA website for boosting and promoting Pro-MAGA businesses. I checked my zip code and now I definitely know where I am never shopping again. www.publicsquare.com/why-publicsq...

If HPV Infection Increases Heart Disease Risk, Can Vaccination Lower It? www.scientificamerican.com/article/if-h...

What can HBO do? Kill off his character?

The president's new task force on antisemitism appears to be bypassing most of the procedural steps required of Title VI investigations, lawyers say. It's sparking confusion and alarm on college campuses. chroni.cl/3GHvUPI

Still tracks--my kiddos take on the first Trump Presidency for her 3rd grade writing assignment (and seriously teachers are the best).

Pretty cool that in Canada a politician can be so disliked that he loses two elections at the same time.

I wrote an article about the psychology by which disinformation campaigns work, with examples from anti-trans propaganda. It's not just about individual beliefs, but also the way our institutions and norms are manipulated. Please read and share! pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/Ant...?

Your friendly neighborhood Squirrel of the Day for April 29, 2025 #sqrlpix

The beauty of twilight, night touched by day, light fading into dark, a world barely visible, glowing, a world we never imagined..... #photography #landscapephotography #landscape #travel #nature #naturephotography #bluesky #outdoors #sunset #sunrise #adventure

Can we all take a minute to appreciate these functions: - mute (thread, words, tags, people) - detach quote - hide reply from everyone - block Just enhances the experience here 10-fold. I used to get shitty about some really dumb replies but now I just do 2 clicks and its sunshine and rainbows.

If you know you have to bribe someone to get what you want, well, maybe you can feel a bit savvy about it, or at least world-weary and resigned. But if you smoothly pay your money and the other party simply ignores what you wanted, and carries on being an asshole to you, then you’re just a sucker.

Career Advice Reminder | Beyond the Research Michel Estefan offers a road map for helping graduate student instructors cultivate their distinct teaching style. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4lSYn5c

How has that picture from the closed-door inauguration with all your rich buddies turned out, my dear Bezos? P.S. To be honest, none of them should have been there. The inauguration should have been held outside and they should have had to get a seat with the public.

Sometimes you look at the ground and sometimes the ground looks at you 🌿 (thirteen-lined ground squirrel)

The bribes go stale so fast these days

i do tend to avoid calling bad people unamerican, because i think america produces all kinds of people including bad ones, but honestly trump really is anti-american, as in he hates and wants to hurt americans. and i feel it fits my general refrain: “he is not america, we are america”

Little balcony break during lunch