Composition A XXI, by László Moholy-Nagy, 1925, 📸 by Eakin Howard

[frantically dialing the Dad Joke Hall of Fame]

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Transdiagnostic latent factor models of psychopathology are widely assumed to improve brain-behaviour associations. So we decided to test this directly and found that they don't. A short 🧵 Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/10

New preprint from the lab! Led by @martingell.bsky.social . There is something for everyone: brain-behavior prediction, latent variable modeling, test-retest reliability. 🧠📈📊 "Disentangling Brain-Psychopathology Associations: A Systematic Evaluation of Transdiagnostic Latent Factor Models"

Broad peer review is crucial for a healthy scientific literature, but neuroscientists turn down review requests too often. Simple math suggests that small groups of scientists can significantly bias the literature, writes @jvoigts.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/l...

I don't think it works that way.

Tonight at 7pm: Nancy Kanwisher will be on On Point!! Talking about the brain. @nancykanwisher.bsky.social @npr.org

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

📢 C-STAR Lecture Reminder Join us for the upcoming lecture by @gregoryhickok.bsky.social on Friday, February 6th at 1 pm EST: "Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language and Its Sensorimotor Foundation" No registration needed. Access through: cstar.sc.edu/lecture-seri...

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

The original word of the year (WOTY) from @americandialect.org is always chaos and always fun. This year's winner: slop americandialect.org/2025-word-of...

The 2025 Word of the Year is "slop," both as a noun for low-quality AI-generated content and as a combining form for anything of little value. Read the full press release. #WOTY2025 #ADS2026 #LSA2026 americandialect.org/2025-word-of...

Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."

Research/teaching postdoc job option! Danny Oppenheimer posted a notice about a "psych/behavior science post-doc position that takes training in teaching/pedagogy as seriously as training in research" Link here: apply.interfolio.com/178893

My favorite part of being in developmental psychology is writing the - objectively goofy - word "toddler" in very serious documents.

PISSED ABT *motions everywhere* ALL THE THINGS? We are, too. Join us in DC on 11/5! We will start at the @apha.org Rally and then march over to HHS for a rally and delivery of over 100k (!!!!) signatures to impeach and remove RFK Jr. Sign our petition: www.standupforscience.net/taking-down-...

In case you don't know already, the journal Open Mind has a Bluesky account that automatically posts new papers: @openmindjournal.bsky.social The journal is diamond open access (free to read, free to publish) thanks to the support of MIT Press, Harvard Library, & MIT Library.

Today, the Seattle Mariners play their first American League Championship Series game since Oct. 22, 2001. It has been 8,757 days.

Version 0.3.0 of what now?

🚨🚨🚨 The Subjectivity Lab is looking for a lab manager! The position is available immediately. We want someone who can help coordinate our large sample fMRI study, plus other behavioral work. Because *gestures at everything* the job was approved only now (ends in June 2026). Great opportunity! 🧵 1/4

University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language: tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-... Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine. @snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth. w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social

📣 🚨 Yale Psychology has 3 searches this year! Links below: Quantitative link: apply.interfolio.com/171903 Social link: apply.interfolio.com/171989 Clinical link: apply.interfolio.com/171970

BIDS v1.10.1 is released! This release includes a large number of minor improvements accumulated over the last year. See bids-specification.readthedocs.io/en/stable/CH... for a summary. #BIDS #BrainImagingDataStructure #neuroimaging #neuroinformatics

We’re back in the lab to show you how the new bus network came to life - from public input to design breakthroughs. It’s time for the new network to do what it was built to do: deliver faster, more frequent, and more reliable service!

Our paper was recently published in Dev Sci (doi.org/10.1111/desc...), which describes two linked analyses. The main part of the paper uses Gompertz curves to summarize lexical inventory growth over arbitrary data collection dates ...

Anyone who has ever gotten an NIH review knows that NIH review is extremely rigorous---arguably, rigorous to a fault, because there isn't enough money to fund all the amazing research being done, so you basically have to guarantee it will succeed to get funded. That's not how science should work.

Editor: You get the pictures for the air traffic controller story? Photographer: Sure did boss. Real fucking sexy just like you asked. Editor: What

New CRAN package cdiWG2WS with initial version 0.1.2 #rstats https://cran.r-project.org/package=cdiWG2WS

Washington Monument Collapses After Someone Pulls Loose Block

A cat walked over CRAN Bot’s keyboard today

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

There are two schools of developmental psychologists: The ones who say “kiddo” 800x a day and the ones who hate the word “kiddo” with a passion, and they share grad students.

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

Today at the “Stand up for Science” demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial.

Stand Up For Science DC #StandUpForScience Science will not be silenced

It’s official! Starting in Fall 2025, I will be an Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona. 🥰

I’ve worked for weeks on this one, having conversations with 15+ people about changes to U.S. science funding, what actions they’re taking, if protesting is effective, & more. I’m thankful to those individuals & the eight neuroscientists who are featured for sharing their stories. #neuroskyence 🧪

Happy to be a part of this piece

The full text of the complaint tablet is well worth a read. It's in the alt text here:

🐦🐦 🚨 Come spend a month in lovely Oregon this summer, while learning cool linguistics stuff at the #LSAInstitute2025. The theme this year is "Language in Use" (my fav topic). I'm co-teaching an intro course on the linguistics of signed languages with @ryanlepic.bsky.social. Love to see you there!

How about a little good news in this *gestures around*... you can now get ebooks via bookshop.org, including THE AI CON! (Available May 13, but you can pre-order now.) bookshop.org/p/books/the-... w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

postdoc opportunity in @alexwoolgar.bsky.social and my lab, based in Cambridge UK! seeking someone with excellent analytical skills to join our project using time-resolved human neuroimaging to study receptive language processing in non-speaking autistic individuals 🧠✨ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Julia Moser, Damien A. Fair, et al: Multi-echo acquisition and thermal denoising advances precision functional imaging direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

2024 was the first full calendar year for Imaging Neuroscience @mitpress - 350 papers published. We're proud of how the brain imaging community enthusiastically embraced open access non-profit publishing. Our aim is to be *your* journal. Full size PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1M170...

I couldn’t move for a postdoc. Fellowship reviewers shouldn’t have penalized me for it www.science.org/content/arti...

hey -- i'm hiring a postdoc! the ad will be up shortly, but looking for someone with network neuroscience experience (very broadly). the position isn't tied to any specific project/grant, so lots of flexibility in terms of what you'd actually *do*. hmu if you might be interested/want to learn more!

☀️ New preprint! ☀️ Cognitive tests from 23,000+ participants in 4 datasets show cyclical fluctuations across the calendar year, including a small but replicable “summer slide” where youth show worst performance after school vacation. t.ly/OMzgl #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci Thread /1

As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access. A thread, with links: >>