Ray Becker (@raybecker.bsky.social)

Sad news to hear my colleague Irene Mittelberg passed last week. She was a very creative and brilliant gesture researcher linguistlist.org/issues/36/3191/

NIH awarded 37 percent fewer neuroscience-related grants in 2025 than in past years thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-aw…

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! 🎯 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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 nature.com/articles/s4156…

I have a new post about gaslighting and what it means raybecker.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-…

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

Looking for @theabcdstudy fMRI timeseries data? It's all in the 6.0 data release, thanks to @DrDamienFair and team at ABCC 🧠: docs.abcdstudy.org/latest/documen…

We have put up all slide decks on the tutorial website: llm-guardrails-security.github.io 🥳🥳🥳 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."

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.

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 psychologicalscience.org/publications/o…

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.

Call for Submissions! Behavioral Medicine: Special Issue on Terminated Grants. Submit by June 30 at 5PM ET. Learn more here: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc…

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. nature.com/articles/s4156…

A computer scientist’s perspective on vibe coding:

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 open.substack.com/pub/raybecker/…

Cooked a new paper 😎 Full text coming along Here’s a sneak peak

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: docs.google.com/document/d/1qy…

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

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We are heartbroken to announce that Brewers icon & Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Uecker passed away today at the age of 90