It cannot be stressed enough that this was the Dartmouth admin's *first* course of action. President Sian Leah Beilock et al. were so eager to deploy thugs with batts on their own —completely peaceful— students and faculty that they couldn't even wait for the sun to fully set

At 12:30 p.m., Dartmouth faculty and staff staged a walkout on the Green in response to the arrest of 90 individuals last night. They are also circulating a petition calling for an emergency meeting of the General Faculty of the College. ow.ly/yP6p50Rvezg

The time between students initiating the encampment action and being arrested by New Hampshire State Troopers in riot gear was about 2 hours. Think about how primed and committed Dartmouth's admin were. They justify this in the name of protecting 'academic debate' and 'safety'.

We talk to share how we see the world. Here, we show that natural consensus-building conversation leads to future neural synchrony. Deeply satisfying to see this in print. With Chris Welker , Hasson Lab , Adam M. Kleinbaum , and Thalia Wheatley link.springer.com/article/10.103…

NEW LLM Summer School. Please REPOST! Understanding LLM Understanding Summer School: June 3 - June 14, 2024 Speakers -- Abstracts -- Timetable nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

What determines the content of replay? A key challenge for current theories is that on tasks that feature unbalanced experience, rats paradoxically replay the less-experienced trajectory (e.g. Carey et al. 2019, Gillespie et al. 2021). Check out our new preprint on the topic!

Angie Wang's illustrated essay for the New Yorker, wondering whether her child's early attempts at speech were the same as LLMs, was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize. Read On The New Yorker's Website: newyorker.com/humor/sketchbo…

Happy to see this work led by Zaid Zada now published in Neuron! We use LLM embeddings to capture word-by-word linguistic content transmitted from the speaker's brain to the listener's brain in real-time, face-to-face conversations: cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

Proud to have the entire FINN Lab at #CCN2024! Here's where you can catch us: First up, Katie O'Nell @katieoneuro has a talk in tomorrow morning's session (Thurs 9:30am) about a new way to quantify what makes conversation good (hint: think pink 🩷🎀💅)

Hippocampus is not representing locations & cognitive maps are not spatial! Anyone interested in cognitive maps, schemas, or navigation & planning should read this companion blog to our paper science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… It will change your mind! blog.dileeplearning.com/p/space-is-a-s…

Applying to Psych PhD programs? Considering applying to UCSD Psychology? For the third year in a row, we’re hosting a two-day virtual event for prospective students on October 17th & 18th. You can register and view the schedule at diversifyingpsychology.ucsd.edu. 1/4

Now out in Nature Communications (lead: Xinming Xu)! How do conversations shape how (and what) people guess about the unknown past and future (e.g., in other people's lives)? Paper/code/data: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Interested in working with me and/or any of my awesome colleagues at UCSD Psychology for grad-school? Come check out this virtual event that Alexis Smith-Flores organized for next week! Registration deadline this Friday (Oct 11)! diversifyingpsychology.ucsd.edu

It's both Diwali and Halloween today and this is my semi regular PSA that y'all should eat more sweets

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uploaded later than i hoped, but here's my step-by-step video guide on ✨HOW TO WRITE A STATEMENT OF PURPOSE!✨ in it, i analyze my very own SoP that got me into Harvard + other top schools 😍 please share widely! #phdchat #admissions youtube.com/watch?v=fQP1rX…