Matt Lieberman
@social_brains
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UCLA Neuroscientist (), Author of ‘Social: Why we are wired to connect’. Co-founder of
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I've thought a lot about how we professors should be relating to our students who are protesting against Israel. Here is a piece about my thoughts on this:
Preface: This is being posted just after the standoff between the protesters and the police. I do…
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This is not a photo from 1941. This is a photo from March 2022 with all the color taken out. So angry. So sad.
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This picture has NO red pixels. Great demo of color constancy (ht Akiyoshi Kitaoka)
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Best illusion I've seen, maybe ever. The blue and black lines are NOT moving. Insanely good.
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As an Editor-in-Chief of a journal for the past 20 years, I deal with plagiarism claims with some regularity and I'd love to know what these folks who dismiss this case think "actual plagiarism" looks like. Nobody is submitting Hawking's seminal paper on…
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Academia is on the verge of having most of America turn against it and my progressive colleagues are in such a bubble they are just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic not realizing that Claudine Gay is the canary in the coal mine. If we do not seriously reform, we will lose…
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3 nails in the coffin of any opposition to the Oxford comma
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I’m never shocked when undergrads say uninformed things, but I am a bit shocked to see a social psychologist on Twitter today refer to the “genocide” of Gaza. Do people just not know the meaning of words or do they just prefer to use the wrong word because it has more impact?
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I’m a fan of yours
@CarolLeonnig
, but as a UCLA professor I can tell you that you’ve got this wrong. There were several hostile acts towards Jews in the week leading up to the counter-protesters (including a Jewish girl being kicked in the head til she was unconscious and a…
Clear, fact-based reporting here, backed up by video and reporters who witnessed it.
Peaceful pro-Palestinian encampment at
@UCLA
was violently attacked by counter-protesters chanting pro-Israel slogans on Tuesday night. Police were then called in, and arrested the victims...…
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Worth remembering how large swaths of Israel and Gaza feel
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Another illusion. These two pictures are identical even though the roads look very different.
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This isn’t lightweight plagiarism. This example is full blown. An entire paragraph lifted and the original never cited at all. Any respectable doctoral committee would have refused her a PhD over this. This had to be fully intentional.
In her 1997 thesis, for example, she borrowed a full paragraph from a paper by the scholars Bradley Palmquist, then a political science professor at Harvard, and Stephen Voss, one of Gay’s classmates in her Ph.D. program at Harvard, while making only a couple alterations.
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Do you see it? You might need to watch more than once. Don’t spoil it for others when you see it.
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Just finished
@anilkseth
's "Theories of Consciousness" Nature Reviews Neuroscience paper. Fantastic introduction to the main neural theories of consciousness. I am developing a new course and structuring an entire lecture around this paper
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@Hontas_Farmer
What I am talking about is what the typical case looks like. Hers looks like the typical case (which is different than what most people imagine)
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The dress explained (sort of). Brains guess differently which lighting situation the picture was from (real lighting didn't vary)
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Why you shouldn't make fun of people who mispronounce words
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UCLA campers are stopping anyone trying to enter their encampment with nuts or bananas, but they can’t understand why Israel would have checkpoints given the history of Arab terrorists bringing bombs into Israel.
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First five panels...elegant. Sixth panel comedy perfection
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The hits keep coming. More evidence of plagiarism from Claudine Gay. Still shocked by people who don’t realize this is textbook plagiarism. The fact that there are worse forms doesn’t make this not plagiarism.
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I’m proud to present my wife, Naomi Eisenberger, handling her first manuscript as the new Editor-in-Chief of the APA journal “Emotion”. And yes, those are fake glasses she put on because she thought they would make her look more like an editor.
#congrats
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Looks like Gay also has an issue with her data. The results look very different in her dissertation and her later paper based on the same data. This is not uncommon. Sometimes there is a mistake in the data coding or the analysis includes different…
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@saletan
I’m guessing most 18-24 years don’t know that Jews are one of the smallest groups in the US and the world and could contend for the title of ‘most oppressed’ group in history.
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Killer illusion (the objects that make up the circle are not moving to the right). rt
@SteveStuWill
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@BlueprintHealth
Casualties of war because Hamas started a war and then hid behind civilians. 18,000 civilians have died (plus about 13,000 soldiers). That is a terrible number but nothing compared what has happened in countless other wars in the past 30 years. What the hell do you think Assad…
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Argument in one chart for some vaccine researchers to get the Nobel prize immediately Ht
@jayvanbavel
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I’m Jewish, but I’m guessing this is what it is like to wake up on xmas morning? Such a fan of what
@bariweiss
has done for online reason (not to mention her being my wife’s celebrity crush)
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The force is strong with this illusion (move your phone a little and the planet moves)
@AkiyoshiKitaoka
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Good reminder of how much things have actually improved in a century
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Another hard illusion to wrap your head around. The blue lines are parallel to each other.
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I think it would be great if she was fired and then sued. Think of all the hidden information that would finally be given sunlight. Also, whatever she sued for would be 10x less than what they are losing in donations by her staying as president. Part of the job is raising…
I have heard from a source that is reliable but a step or two removed from the situation that the
@Harvard
Corporation has asked President Gay to resign and she has refused.
Gay has apparently said that if she is fired, she will sue. Gay has retained her own counsel.
I can’t…
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Great illusion from
@AkiyoshiKitaoka
The color you see at the transition of the two sections (e.g. the yellow in the top row of images) isn’t there. Zoom in
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Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) - Wow - I disagreed with nearly everything he said, but he said it all so clearly it really clarified my thinking. Most people don’t know that he also basically invented Theory of Mind research (he came up with the idea for the…
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@Jaamennn
@CHSommers
@CarolLeonnig
They don’t. I saw them interviewed. Her sister dropped an Israeli flag. When she went dont to pick it up, the protesters started shoving and then kicking her.
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I'm very excited to announce that UCLA has formed the first Social & Affective Neuroscience (SAN) area of a Psych dept in the US. The new area will be Naomi Eisenberger, Carolyn Parkinson (
@parkinsoncm
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@jjfcastrellon
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Want to see something horrifying? This is what Roman statues actually looked like before the paint wore away.
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Atheist upbringing associated with more altruism than religious upbringing
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@rosamariafelip
I know the definition. Show me any evidence, other than the killing itself - which is a common consequence of war - that shows it was a deliberate attempt at destroying a group. Because I can show lots of evidence that it is not.
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Which do you see? A man or a dog? Great real world illusion
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Here is a reasonable way for thinking about genocide. It's focused on killing of civilians, relative to military deaths. High bars mean fewer civilian deaths compared with enemy combatants. Low bars are the ones that we might call genocides as the deaths are primarily civilian…
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It might be untenable but it was clearly not untenureable
Claudine Gay is going from "duplicative language" to "duplicitous language" at lightning speed. Plagiarism after plagiarism. This is untenable.
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Horrifying. The silent majority who have been letting this creep into our field need to stand up. Academia is becoming a pedestal for agendas rather than a search for truth.
20% of young professors think it is acceptable to use violence to stop a campus speech
40% to physically block students from attending a speech
60% to shout down a speaker to prevent their speaking
This is the next generation teaching our children at America’s universities
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Pretty clever way to test for students using ChatGPT to write their essays
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I'm teaching Searle's Chinese Room in my new class. So I had ChatGPT explain it and then gave that script to a avatar to read. Seemed appropriately meta.
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This Psych Review paper is the culmination of 30 years of thinking. First with a focus on phenomenology in my college philosophy classes and then 20 yrs of teaching subjective construal and naive realism as the central theme of my social psych class. 1/N
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Why didn’t someone show me this flow chart years ago?
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This is a litmus test. If you are celebrating Hamas doing this, you are a monster not a person.
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Well it happened. Apparently a UC professor complained to my dept chair that I am spewing racial hatred towards Palestinians and Arabs on Twitter. But I am not angry at anyone because of their race. I am angry at progressives.
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The measure of a person is whether they stand up for issues when they themselves would be unaffected or even benefit from the wrong
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Beware of vocal small groups telling you "everyone" is offended by something
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"No depth illusion" Both are same sculpture, but one with blackest least reflective paint ("Vantablack") on earth. Crazy.
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@AdamMilstein
FYI, it was a Jewish student apparently. I assume he was seeing if everyone would repeat it and they didn’t. I am very anti-Hamas, but in this case it was not what it appeared to be
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@DavidRLinn
@Hontas_Farmer
No - in multiple places she did not acknowledge the source at all after copying a fully paragraph from them. These are the cases I am most focused. But let’s be clear, given that she has the more egregious cases, this changes the interpretation of the less egregious cases.…
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Couldn't be happier that UCLA recently promoted both
@JASilvers
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@parkinsoncm
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Great delineation of empathy words that are often confused for one another (ht
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Ironic celebrity 'get out the vote' video
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Are you a 40 plus year old academic who didn't already feel old? How about now? thanks,
@Historiographos
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Harvard is announcing requiring SAT/ACT going forward
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@BlueprintHealth
Why - does it focus on how Jews legally and peacefully purchased last from Arabs, were declared a sovereign state the same way all other Middle East countries were in the 1940s and then were attacked repeatedly by its Arab neighbors?
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Yale admin need to defend
@NAChristakis
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I will never give an online exam again. ChatGPT gets almost every complex question right and gives 'smart' explanations as to why. Examples below.
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Post-apocalyptic fiction has been moved to our current affairs section.
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What has happened after 10/7 is the typical dark stuff of war. What happened on 10/7 is the vilest behavior in my lifetime. Hamas has repeatedly said any ceasefire will be used to prepare to commit more 10/7’s. There is no alternative but to wipe out Hamas completely. Killing…
I do not understand anyone who is not irrevocably changed by what we have witnessed in Gaza over past 3 months.
The darkest shit I have seen in my whole life. All supported with gusto by Washington and London.
Nothing will - nothing should - be the same again. Including us.
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Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The definitive answer
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Jews make up 2% of the US pop and get 55% of all hate crimes. But there has never been a better time or place to be Jewish. The best Jews have ever had it is to be in a place where they get 25x more hate crimes relative to others. That’s the top of the mountain for us.
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Some perspective by looking at the world 100 years ago
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Ever wonder how to tell an alligator from a crocodile? Now you know.
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