Dan Lametti

Replication as a rhetorical device is a terrible use of scientific resources. We need more curiosity, better methodology, and sounder theoretical grounding in metascience. This shtick of trying to have the last word on everything with poor methodology is going to turn it into a degenerate literature

Wow. 1) The rapid increase in submissions is bananas. 2) The new rate limit is 2 articles per month, which is also bananas. Who’s producing 24 quality papers per year? Should be 1 per month or fewer.

"We observe how students actually used the AI tutor, and the answer is: not much." hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

when you use AI to write code you put yourself in cognitive debt ; at some point you will have to spend the time and effort to understand the code, if you are ever to use it for anything you put your name on. May feel like a shortcut but really it’s only the beginning of your work it’s not the end

So, Associate EU member might open up ERC grants for Canadian researchers?

More than 7,000 people signed up for our free Critical AI Literacy course since we opened it to the public last February. Today, we launched an updated course with new content. It takes about 2 hours to complete and you get a certificate! explore.acadiau.ca/product?cata...

"Students who use AI for schoolwork tasks, such as summarising texts, drafting or conducting research, attain lower scores in science than students who do not use AI. Students who do not use AI outperform those who do by 20 points—equivalent to being one year of schooling ahead of their peers."

Please share widely: We're hiring!📣 The Departments of Psychological Science and Neuroscience at @pomonacollege.bsky.social are seeking candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Psychological Science and Neuroscience. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32248

Here we go again. datacolada.org/138

✨Excited to announce a new post-doctoral position in my lab, focussed on the neural capacity limits of language processing using magnetoencephalography! Apply here: wp.nyu.edu/neurolinglab...

Piece I just wrote for Current Affairs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...

What’s up with interior barn doors and the people who (seemingly) like them? I lived with an old barn door on my only bathroom for 2 years. Zero privacy. The cat could open it. Finally had it replaced with a real door. Put it on marketplace to a dozen requests in minutes. Gone in an hour. 🙃

New work led by @joannakuc.bsky.social: "Human or AI? An Interpretable Method for Auditing Free-Text Data in Online Psychological Research." The paper presents a method to identify AI-use in free text entry (e.g. journal entries, reflections) without using black box software osf.io/preprints/ps...

New work led by @joannakuc.bsky.social: "Human or AI? An Interpretable Method for Auditing Free-Text Data in Online Psychological Research." The paper presents a method to identify AI-use in free text entry (e.g. journal entries, reflections) without using black box software osf.io/preprints/ps...

Kudos to @science.org for this self-analysis of the peer review process. These kind of data are never shared and don't have to be. Wildly refreshing to see it out in the open. Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My department is hiring 2 (TWO!) Tenure Track faculty in Developmental Psych and Biological Psych, to start Fall 2027. Deadlines 9/1 (Developmental) and 10/1 (Biological). More info here: www.carleton.edu/psychology/i.... Reach out with questions! carleton.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Carlet...

McGill social psych is now officially hiring at the assistant prof level, hooray Happy to chat with anyone about the position mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

I just asked our printshop if they still do course packs. "Yes ... but it's been a while." I'm returning to paper readings in all my classes this year—no more PDFs posted on Moodle that no one reads.

The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📍market map here: farmersmarketsnovascotia.ca/find-a-marke...

a good read for anyone interested in the future of libraries, scholarly communication, & the knowledge commons (or for anyone who enjoys nature-inspired analogies!)

Neuroscientist Brenda Milner turns an incredible 108 years old today! In the 1950s she uncovered the role the hippocampus plays in consolidating memories, and in the 1970s she published her seminal studies of speech lateralization. Wishing her all the best today! tinyurl.com/3am8syhf #WomenInSTEM

Is the brain a computer solved in 4 posts so that we never have to talk about this again (please please please). 1. It's not the same physically as a computer - it's made of meat. Hopefully this one at least is uncontroversial.

“Somewhere along the way, we've forgotten the computer is just a metaphor for the brain. A powerful metaphor but still a metaphor. We always get into trouble when we confuse a metaphor with the thing itself – the map with the territory.” Lucid piece by @anilseth.bsky.social on LLMs & consciousness.🧪

Giving nature a say: why Scottish marine scientists appointed the ocean to their board

Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

an interesting article on the public life of scientific knowledge, but i still find it remarkable that “should scientists speak up?” remains an active research question - the climate doesn’t seem interested in waiting for us to settle the debate

New work led by @thelablab.bsky.social out in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. "Inner Speech and the Neurobiology of Psychosis". Highlights below. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New work led by @thelablab.bsky.social out in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. "Inner Speech and the Neurobiology of Psychosis". Highlights below. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dimensionality reduction is how the brain acquires knowledge. Cool new paper from the late, great, Mark Stokes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Finally out at @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social. Everything I think I know about word meanings. Particular focus on words that are unfamiliar or ambiguous. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... with @daniellametti.com

Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds Made-up therapy referrals, incorrect prescriptions among the common mistakes.

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2026-06-12-list337.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

New preprint from my lab led by Acadia Master's student Lindsay Heyland. We provide evidence for a purely motor deficit in real-world L2 speech. "A Motor Basis for a Foreign Accent? Linguistic Context Constrains the Generalization of Second Language Speech Motor Plans". osf.io/preprints/ps...

A motor basis for a foreign accent? Linguistic context constrains the generalization of second language speech motor plans: https://osf.io/y6bqg

New preprint from my lab led by Acadia Master's student Lindsay Heyland. We provide evidence for a purely motor deficit in real-world L2 speech. "A Motor Basis for a Foreign Accent? Linguistic Context Constrains the Generalization of Second Language Speech Motor Plans". osf.io/preprints/ps...

New paper in the Journal of Psychopharmacology led by UCL PhD student @joannakuc.bsky.social and the @thelablab.bsky.social "Speech markers of psychological change following a psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT retreat". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New paper in the Journal of Psychopharmacology led by UCL PhD student @joannakuc.bsky.social and the @thelablab.bsky.social "Speech markers of psychological change following a psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT retreat". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Imagine being a billionaire in an unequal society where the system has been massively rigged in your favor, watching as ordinary people fall further and further behind and get more and more desperate, and thinking a slightly higher tax rate is the worst possible thing that might ever happen to you.

Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles, writes @tonyzador.bsky.social. AI is now offering neuroscience the same deal. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...

New paper 🌟out now in Nat. Neurosci.: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... With advisors @davidpoeppel.bsky.social and @Nai! We show that, while LLMs are optimized to predict the next word, the human brain modulates prediction efficiency by strategically grouping words into constituents. 1/n More 👇

My debut book, Nerve, is six years old this week, and *touches earpiece* I've just been informed that the ebook is on sale across platforms (in North America) for $2.99 U.S. throughout April! That's, what, the price of half a latte?

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

My strange NSERC DG outcome: Offered a 2-year grant but my cash-strapped uni must find matching funds 🙃 . This feels like a regressive tax. If NSERC wants researchers at undergrad institutions to do more research (which is what the text of the award implies) they should just provide what's required.