Call for collaborators! 🧵 The TL;DR: we seek collaborators on a #ManyLabs #RegisteredReport about what causes rapid forgetting. In-principle accepted Stage 1: osf.io/ahjn5 Expressions of interest: cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Further details in the 🧵:

Our article in the Annual Review of Psychology, on The Relation between Attention and Memory, is open access, we just learned: www.annualreviews.org/eprint/J4IQF...

Francis Collins, longtime NIH director with bipartisan bona fides*, retires as of yesterday. He returned to NIH in 2023 to focus on research in his own lab, in the NIH in-house intramural research campus. His letter seems to imply he wasn’t ready to leave. NIH is being torn down. 1/🧪 #academicsky

This is an important opportunity to send a message.

Among the many reasons the list is bananas is the lack of recognition of how basic science produces unexpected directions and benefits. My own and others work on implicit bias and examining how social systems intersect with identity fundamentally shaped mine and COS's work on science reform.

NSF has unfrozen funds but is continuing to scour research grants for violations of Trump’s orders Nature spoke to six NSF staff members, who shared documents detailing plans to search 10,000 flagged grants for DEI language. For @nature.com w/ @dangaristo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Snow in Baton Rouge LA!!! Everyone is staying home and making gumbo!

Thank you to all the CowanFest presenters for sharing your research and celebrating Dr. Nelson Cowan. Nelson’s unwavering dedication to the field—to the work and to its people—inspires so many. @ncowan51.bsky.social @candicemorey.bsky.social @lsuemily.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social

Happy to be able to share this work from a great group of colleagues!

This is great news!

SAVE THE DATE: CowanFest - Nov 21, 2024 - NYC – celebrating @ncowan51.bsky.social! Schedule includes invited speakers, Pre-data posters from ECR (Sept submission), and stories from guest contributors. Registration (coming Aug) will include catered lunch.

This is an important read, not only for people doing equity and inclusion work, but also for institutional leaders of the places where this work is happening--it captures the experience of doing this work in these places. www.statnews.com/2024/01/12/r...

We’re excited to announce that the Psychonomic Society is now on Bluesky! Posts will begin in January. Please help spread the word by following us and reposting.