Ray Becker (@raybecker.bsky.social)

4E Cognition and Computational corpus linguistics consultant. Embeddings ≠ Meaning

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

Getting citations right:

(1) There’s no central repository of bibliographic data. Google Scholar is terrible, I used it in my first ever paper, and got an angry email from a Professor. Apparently the GS record scanned the front page of his paper and added the editors in,

[Ray Becker (@raybecker.bsky.social) @raybbecker]

Sad news to hear my colleague Irene Mittelberg passed last week. She was a very creative and brilliant gesture researcher https://t.co/DT4ZU8nS2R

[Lucina Uddin @LucinaUddin]

NIH awarded 37 percent fewer neuroscience-related grants in 2025 than in past years https://t.co/jGnGjfxmJC

[Micah G. Allen @micahgallen]

We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 https://t.co/TFelULCmSR

[Nature Human Behaviour @NatureHumBehav]

A Registered Report of 7,978 people in 20 countries finds that decision-makers willfully ignore inconvenient information. Learning about the negative consequences of their choices increases prosociality, especially among guilt-prone individuals. @JF_Schul
https://t.co/RSntatxCsm

[Ray Becker (@raybecker.bsky.social) @raybbecker]

I have a new post about gaslighting and what it means https://t.co/hERSFWWSli

[Association for Psychological Science @PsychScience]

During the APS Awards Ceremony at #APS25DC in D.C., recipients voiced their concerns about federal actions that cut research funding, restrict international students from U.S. universities, and suppress diversity in higher education. #HigherEd #Academia

[Lucina Uddin @LucinaUddin]

Looking for @theabcdstudy fMRI timeseries data? It's all in the 6.0 data release, thanks to @DrDamienFair and team at ABCC 🧠: https://t.co/R9i0RezpVQ

[Liwei Jiang @liweijianglw]

We have put up all slide decks on the tutorial website: https://t.co/TTGILhdKOH 🥳🥳🥳 Although I was only able to deliver the tutorial remotely due to visa constraints, I was really thrilled to learn that our tutorial received a quite full room of audience for the entire 3.5 hr! We were very happy to receive comments from the audience like "I didn't even get bored or distracted listen to the whole 3 hours because it was so engaging."

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’re rolling out new weekly rate limits for Claude Pro and Max in late August. We estimate they’ll apply to less than 5% of subscribers based on current usage.

[Association for Psychological Science @PsychScience]

An international team of researchers has proposed an overall definition of questionable research practices (QRPs) and published a comprehensive list of them—as well as ways to detect and prevent them. @nagyt #PsychScience

https://t.co/46vbRVB07D

[Tal Linzen @tallinzen]

I'm hiring at least one post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and interpretability-style steering.

[Association for Psychological Science @PsychScience]

Call for Submissions! Behavioral Medicine: Special Issue on Terminated Grants.

Submit by June 30 at 5PM ET. Learn more here: https://t.co/Ilh9sUcAc8

[Nature Human Behaviour @NatureHumBehav]

Collecting an extensive publicly available dataset on 4 inhibitory control tasks, @GrattonCaterina et al. show that more than 1000 trials/participant are necessary to reduce within-subject variability and improve the reliability of the congruency effect.
https://t.co/yHTM14B3G8

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

A computer scientist’s perspective on vibe coding:

[Ray Becker (@raybecker.bsky.social) @raybbecker]

I was inspired by the The Daily Show's segment on Monday to write this post relating some work that I did a few years ago with Sabina Tabacaru (@SabinaTabacaru) on the meaning of the phrase "raising eyebrows" . May 12th definitely raised some eyebrows https://t.co/QZ1Ev5RJwM

[Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social @AnnaCiaunica]

Cooked a new paper 😎

Full text coming along

Here’s a sneak peak

[Noémi Éltető @EltetoNoemi]

There's a PhD opening in Shervin's (@neuroprinciples) new lab at TU Dresden! I think this is one of the best opportunities to work on computational cogsci/neuro. Find out more: https://t.co/6SusS4Vw10

[Tilbe Göksun @GoksunTilbe]

A recent paper led by amazing Demet, in collaboration with Aslı Özyürek! @DemetOzer11 @ozyurek_a

[Ray Becker (@raybecker.bsky.social) @raybbecker]

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