I’ll soon(ish) post an ad for a postdoc position in my lab to study individual differences in brain plasticity following blindness or deafness, with a start date of spring/summer 2026. Feel free to email me if you’re interested.

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

Huge thanks to @psychopy.org and especially @hirstrj.bsky.social ! After spending thousands on other tools with little support, Dr. Hirst solved all my technical problems within days. If you are using behavioral, eyetracking, and EEG systems in your lab, I recommend checking out PsychoPy.

I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet. Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times. Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀 #PublicHealth

Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

the AUDACITY of turning off your reminder alarm instead of snoozing it, when you KNEW you couldn't be trusted to remember the thing the first time but thought "this time is different"

MA residents: If SNAP goes away, your EBT card still lets you use HIP to get fruits/vegetables: mass.gov/info-details... You can still get Transitional/Emergency Economic Assistance: mass.gov/economic-ass... This hotline gives access to other meal/pantry programs: projectbread.org/foodsource-h...

speech to text error OTD naiveté -> navy tea

My quote of the day How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg. Abraham Lincoln

And throughout the land all A/B/C and X/Y/Z named scholars in alphabet fields rejoiced and all poorly placed co-first and co-last and big team science scholars weeped

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.

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

Hello vision scientists & linguists! The Journal of Vision is publishing a special issue on “The Vision-Language Interface.” Send in your research about reading, perceptual learning, sign language, dyslexia, etc! jov.arvojournals.org/ss/visionlan... #neuroskyence #VisionScience #PsychSciSky

A haunted house for academics but it’s just neverending email notifications that an account on your behalf has been added to a journal review platform by an editor

Our department is hiring two positions (2026 and 2027 start dates) - come be my colleague! apply.interfolio.com/175428

The Speech, Sign, and Systems Lab (formerly VoiceLab) is seeking motivated PhD students to join us in Fall 2026! We are part of the University of Iowa’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, consistently ranked among the top 5 programs in speech sciences nationwide.

We're excited to announce that Cognitive Science at Dartmouth is recruiting PhD students to work collaboratively with me, Steven Frankland, and Fred Callaway. Come study the principles and mechanisms that enable us to understand, plan, and act in the world! Info: sites.dartmouth.edu/cogscigrad/

OPEN PHD POSITION - Come join our group! The IMPRS at @mpi-nl.bsky.social is offering an PhD position on modelling structured meaning in the brain, supervised by me and Helen De Hoop at the Centre for Language Studies in the @dondersinst.bsky.social - www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe... #NeuroJobs #cogsci

Bookmarked this for teaching but also for my own kid when he's old enough. "You'll probably forget most of what you learn, especially if you don't end up using it repeatedly in future. What you will always have, though, is the mind that taking the courses made."

3/3 “but it’s just NIEHS” - aieee. This is the first step; they’re testing our defenses. Mussolini called this “plucking the chicken one feather at a time.”

2/3 Imagine if NFL coaches were hired because they were friends with the White House. You’d end up with bad football teams pretty fast. Same deal with NIH IC Directors and science.

The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad. I made a video explainer about why. Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social 1/4 🧪

reply guys coming in HOT below

@laurelmack.bsky.social 🐦🐦, glad they called in the experts !

Hard to not feel like we are living amid the death of the U.S. research university — for all its problems, a truly important institution. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

canvas is down, amazon web service failure. between this and our brave new GPT world, feeling ever more like reverting to hand written work and hard copies is actually a great plan... #AcademicSky

“The Toddler and the Big Apple: a tale of optimism and food waste” Available wherever apple products are sold

Rita Hamad, professor of social epidemiology and public policy, explains why losing the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System puts the health of mothers and infants at risk, and how she hopes to help keep its data accessible. “Without data, we can’t fix problems,” says @ritahamad.bsky.social

When I was an undergrad, I saw a talk by Oliver Sacks about music. During the Q&A, someone asked Sacks if he thought science would reveal the deepest mysteries of art. Sacks (a rare humanist among scientists) said that he doubted it, at which Eric Kandel (the host) leaped up and grabbed the mic.

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

New contender: hot Cheeto peppers (shishito) #LinguistBabyPhotos

Spread the word: I'm looking to recruit a PhD student for Fall 2026 to @ucsb.bsky.social! Reach out if you are applying this cycle and hoping to study infant and child social cognition, specifically expectations about friendship and/or groups. Bonus: live in paradise! And.. 1/3

googlescholar: okay but are you REALLY a person cuz you've been clicking on a lot of articles, here slide this slider. me: TYSM, i *do* try to be well read, how flattering of you to notice #AcademicSky

ooooh this reply section's gonna be funnnnnn

"Experimenter bias" refers to a mistake in scientific studies where the experimenter wants to see something, and so unconsciously designs protocols to prove what they want to see. RFK here provides an example, Let me explain what we might see based on this. 🧵

"American civil society has more than enough financial and organizational muscle to stop this authoritarian offensive. But it requires collective resolve... Harvard has shown resolve. Now it’s time to lead." via @ryanenos.bsky.social & @stevelevitsky.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29%, their risk of hospitalizations by 39% & their risk of death by 64%” Benefits were seen even if 0 risk factors

“In 1961, when I was just eight years old, I contracted measles. There was no vaccine available at the time. Like many of my classmates, I suffered through dangerously high fevers — mine reached 106 degrees — and nearly died. The disease left me almost totally deaf.” cc @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

now says "No upcoming due dates Program 23-500 is currently waiting for a new publication"; in prior yrs, would've been due 11/5. Can't ask NSF POs right now... if any1 got info on this before the shutdown happy to hear it! @jaeyoungson.bsky.social i saw you had a similar q, tagging you in too. #NSF

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants. About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point. About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education. As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes. Sources below

just spent 2 hours reviewing a paper in my reviewer queue on my calendar, went to find the portal link and things were weird...turns out i had actually said i didn't have time to do this review 2 months ago. 🤦‍♂️. i sent it to the editor anyway.

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

🚨 Are you an alum from one of the 9 universities Trump is attempting to extort right now? ✍️ Sign this petition to defend your university, free speech, and democracy. I signed. This is a time for courage, not capitulation. #JustSayNo #Compact 🧪🧠🧬 (context in thread)

A great way to keep kids safe: Place automatic traffic cameras near schools. After cameras were installed in Toronto: 🔹 Share of vehicles speeding ⬇️ 45% 🔹 85th percentile speed ⬇️ 10.7 km/h Droivers speeding the most were most likely to slow down. injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/inju...

Another call for sources: I'm reporting on pediatric Covid vaccine access. If you've had trouble finding pediatric doses in stock, or if your child was turned away, I'd love to hear from you: [email protected]. Thanks to those who replied to my pregnancy callout; that story will be out soon.

data security for health info is critical. sending a 'please login for an important message' email that you then need to login with a password, & confirm code w/a text, only to read that a doctor at a practice whom you've never seen is retiring is...a waste of everyone's time.

📢 My department is hiring! University of Chicago is hiring an Assistant Professor in Phonology! (EOE/Vet/Disability) See the link for more information. 📢 jobs.chronicle.com/job/37894671...

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91