Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
@olivia.science
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
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I'm excited to share this preprint by my wonderful MSc student Yihsin who's thought deeply about how psychological & neurocognitive theories relate to different types of evidence.
Beyond Empirical Success: Evaluating Theoretical Virtue Across the Computational Modeling Chain
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Beyond Empirical Success: Evaluating Theoretical Virtue Across the Computational Modeling Chain
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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✨ bl00d.money - an ongoing #opendata investigation exploring: ''Who is profiting from Israel's genocidal campaign on the Middle East? A sourced map of the money, weapons and people'' #Israel #complexity #finance #gaza #investigativejournalism #datajournalism #mapping
November 8, 2026 at 7:32 PM
✨ bl00d.money - an ongoing #opendata investigation exploring: ''Who is profiting from Israel's genocidal campaign on the Middle East? A sourced map of the money, weapons and people'' #Israel #complexity #finance #gaza #investigativejournalism #datajournalism #mapping
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This sounds like it was indeed a good conversation. It's a bit dismaying (and the outcome of tech industry propaganda) that something the expert systems researchers I knew in the 90s understood must be re-taught
Had such nice conversation with my students in my Theoretical Modeling course, exactly about this. They asked why the skills they're learning are useful. I said, do you mean useful for engineering? They said, yes. I explained the course is about modeling for cognitive *science*, not engineering.
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I have a lot to say, but I of course also agree completely.
I think some of the hardened STS and adjacent people (especially white men with tenure) have forgotten technology and science are separate fields and see rejection of technology as rejection of science too in my experience.
I think some of the hardened STS and adjacent people (especially white men with tenure) have forgotten technology and science are separate fields and see rejection of technology as rejection of science too in my experience.
November 8, 2026 at 10:01 AM
This sounds like it was indeed a good conversation. It's a bit dismaying (and the outcome of tech industry propaganda) that something the expert systems researchers I knew in the 90s understood must be re-taught
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> Valentina Ponomareva (1998):
"it is impossible to create an absolutely reliable automatic system[.] If the cosmonaut loses such skills [then], the probability of [their] choosing and carrying out the right procedure in an emergency would be small."
read more here: olivia.science/before 3/n
"it is impossible to create an absolutely reliable automatic system[.] If the cosmonaut loses such skills [then], the probability of [their] choosing and carrying out the right procedure in an emergency would be small."
read more here: olivia.science/before 3/n
We've been here before!
Parallels between AI and tobacco, and other warnings.
olivia.science
November 8, 2026 at 7:03 AM
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Honestly this is a low for @science.org, publishing a piece transparently pushing industry talking points and arguing humanity *and especially science* needs to be fundamentally altered to make their products work well.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In the image of their tools
In the United States, spending on AI infrastructure now dwarfs investment in the Internet and railroads combined, but spending on the institutions that would let societies absorb that technology is, b...
www.science.org
November 8, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Honestly this is a low for @science.org, publishing a piece transparently pushing industry talking points and arguing humanity *and especially science* needs to be fundamentally altered to make their products work well.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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November 7, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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November 7, 2026 at 1:00 AM
My family is suffering every day. We urgently need food and medicine. Please don’t forget us in these difficult times. If you can’t donate, please share our story to help us reach someone who can. 💔
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Note the difference in long and short vowels
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Comic: macrons matter
Illustrator Matt Russell takes a closer look at why tohutō (macron) matter when it comes to te reo taiao (language of the environment).
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November 7, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Note the difference in long and short vowels
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I demand a year's worth of reparations for all the time I lost having to look shit up because I can't tell if it's take or not.
we’re well into the “beyond parody” era of Trump cabinet appointments
November 7, 2026 at 6:59 PM
I demand a year's worth of reparations for all the time I lost having to look shit up because I can't tell if it's take or not.
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Had to come and see it for myself.
LEGENDARY.
LEGENDARY.
November 7, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Had to come and see it for myself.
LEGENDARY.
LEGENDARY.
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Anti-AI poster spotted in Melbourne
November 7, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Anti-AI poster spotted in Melbourne
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Oh damn, those are leaves.. first and last looked like a bunch of flowers to me at first
November 7, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Oh damn, those are leaves.. first and last looked like a bunch of flowers to me at first
if you don't love me at my "stop kakapitalism"
you don't deserve me at my "start kalapitalism"
(dedicated to /inspired by @igoktugk.bsky.social 🌺)
you don't deserve me at my "start kalapitalism"
(dedicated to /inspired by @igoktugk.bsky.social 🌺)
November 7, 2026 at 6:00 PM
if you don't love me at my "stop kakapitalism"
you don't deserve me at my "start kalapitalism"
(dedicated to /inspired by @igoktugk.bsky.social 🌺)
you don't deserve me at my "start kalapitalism"
(dedicated to /inspired by @igoktugk.bsky.social 🌺)
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A sea of wet webs.
November 7, 2026 at 12:52 PM
A sea of wet webs.
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It's even weirder when you get the sublede, which is "platforms accused of causing mental illness and addiction in children are vying to see who can control screenspace for 5-18 year olds during the previously inaccessible school day."
November 7, 2026 at 4:50 PM
It's even weirder when you get the sublede, which is "platforms accused of causing mental illness and addiction in children are vying to see who can control screenspace for 5-18 year olds during the previously inaccessible school day."
you know the world is weird when you can type a headline like "pedophile-backed technology forced into schools" and it's not even exaggerating
Tech companies face mounting child safety lawsuits while pushing AI into schools
Tech companies face mounting child safety lawsuits while pushing AI into schools
Lawsuits against Snap, Meta and Google are creating headwinds for tech companies just as artificial intelligence tools expand into classrooms.
cnb.cx
November 7, 2026 at 4:29 PM
you know the world is weird when you can type a headline like "pedophile-backed technology forced into schools" and it's not even exaggerating
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
Had such nice conversation with my students in my Theoretical Modeling course, exactly about this. They asked why the skills they're learning are useful. I said, do you mean useful for engineering? They said, yes. I explained the course is about modeling for cognitive *science*, not engineering.
🧵
🧵
I have a lot to say, but I of course also agree completely.
I think some of the hardened STS and adjacent people (especially white men with tenure) have forgotten technology and science are separate fields and see rejection of technology as rejection of science too in my experience.
I think some of the hardened STS and adjacent people (especially white men with tenure) have forgotten technology and science are separate fields and see rejection of technology as rejection of science too in my experience.
November 7, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Had such nice conversation with my students in my Theoretical Modeling course, exactly about this. They asked why the skills they're learning are useful. I said, do you mean useful for engineering? They said, yes. I explained the course is about modeling for cognitive *science*, not engineering.
🧵
🧵
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Fascinating insight! Not only am I not paid, but it often feels career-risky. Research colleagues use it, university admins are pushing it very hard. Resistance is difficult (but necessary).
November 7, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Fascinating insight! Not only am I not paid, but it often feels career-risky. Research colleagues use it, university admins are pushing it very hard. Resistance is difficult (but necessary).
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Here's a sociological revelation: this person and prob others think I care what they think, not as part of general scientific outreach & communication, but as if I am an influencer or my income is tied to a product. Academics against AI don't have income like academics for AI. We're not paid shills.
I'll make this last point & move on...
By appealing to "deep admiration" as something presumably positive combined with the way of speaking to me (stating the argument will be disgusting, and as if I have to engage in caring about admiration such that I agree) is very uncomfortable and unsettling.
By appealing to "deep admiration" as something presumably positive combined with the way of speaking to me (stating the argument will be disgusting, and as if I have to engage in caring about admiration such that I agree) is very uncomfortable and unsettling.
November 7, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Here's a sociological revelation: this person and prob others think I care what they think, not as part of general scientific outreach & communication, but as if I am an influencer or my income is tied to a product. Academics against AI don't have income like academics for AI. We're not paid shills.
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I was old as hell before I had even heard of the word 'thrips' so to see it written down now for the first time feels kinda surreal
like, oh, ok, so other people HAVE heard of these lil sumbitches
I thought 'thrips' was some creole or backwoods shit lol I had no idea that was their ACTUAL name 😂
like, oh, ok, so other people HAVE heard of these lil sumbitches
I thought 'thrips' was some creole or backwoods shit lol I had no idea that was their ACTUAL name 😂
I don't know anything about plants — other than that sometimes mine get too many thrips that try to kill them because I don't have enough spiders of something and so I begrudgingly I have to spray them down with some oily thing — but I love plants and sciences and I thank you for your solidarity. 🪴
Another reminder that using AI for reviews is a breach of peer review ethics.
November 7, 2026 at 2:57 PM
I was old as hell before I had even heard of the word 'thrips' so to see it written down now for the first time feels kinda surreal
like, oh, ok, so other people HAVE heard of these lil sumbitches
I thought 'thrips' was some creole or backwoods shit lol I had no idea that was their ACTUAL name 😂
like, oh, ok, so other people HAVE heard of these lil sumbitches
I thought 'thrips' was some creole or backwoods shit lol I had no idea that was their ACTUAL name 😂
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"The Squad"
2nd one from the left is Rambo. Dude fell and broke and was left for dead. I took it under my wing and JUST LOOK AT IT ALL BEAUTIFUL
just goes to show sometimes the only thing some need to bring em back from the brink of oblivion is sunlight, water, and true love from a grumpy man
2nd one from the left is Rambo. Dude fell and broke and was left for dead. I took it under my wing and JUST LOOK AT IT ALL BEAUTIFUL
just goes to show sometimes the only thing some need to bring em back from the brink of oblivion is sunlight, water, and true love from a grumpy man
November 7, 2026 at 2:52 PM
"The Squad"
2nd one from the left is Rambo. Dude fell and broke and was left for dead. I took it under my wing and JUST LOOK AT IT ALL BEAUTIFUL
just goes to show sometimes the only thing some need to bring em back from the brink of oblivion is sunlight, water, and true love from a grumpy man
2nd one from the left is Rambo. Dude fell and broke and was left for dead. I took it under my wing and JUST LOOK AT IT ALL BEAUTIFUL
just goes to show sometimes the only thing some need to bring em back from the brink of oblivion is sunlight, water, and true love from a grumpy man