For the last several mornings I've been challenging myself in my language learning by reading a news article in Norwegian first thing. So this morning the usual "ok what does that word mean" was accompanied by an extra layer of "wait +what+ is this saying?"

I see @springernature.com 's bio says they are "empowering researchers" so surely they will address this quickly?

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵

Chinese Lantern Festival in Cary, NC Part one of family new years eve!

That game was a lot of fun! Goodness knows what the crowd on the way out of the stadium must be like for a sold out game 😳

I've lived in Chapel Hill on and off for over 7 years and here I am at my first men's basketball game. Most locked in and responsive crowd I've ever been in.

Today I repaired our dryer and after seeing inside there I'm amazed those things don't break down more often. I didn't expect crucial elements to be made of felt, nor for the whole caboodle to depend on a belt that's less than an inch wide!

I recently read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, mostly known today as the book Blade Runner was based on. Not surprising given it's Philip K Dick, the book is far weirder than the resulting movie. Here's a few highlights... (No real plot spoilers)

I always find old attempts to predict the future fascinating...

I've been enjoying the second Blakes 7 box set and then listening to the podcast Down and Safe with @lizbethmyles.bsky.social @amalelmohtar.com @scottlynch78.bsky.social and @michaeldthomas.bsky.social. Unfortunately it seems to stop at season two but it's a great companion for the first two sets.

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Merry Christmas everyone! My present was mostly a ridiculously good camera.

I have an idea to improve my wife's family recipe for sticky buns (which I'm somehow in charge of making every Christmas) Please send your thoughts and prayers

what's a good (free or cheap) language learning app these days? duolingo's gone to shit and i've looked into babbel but that's a bit expensive for me rn

If you are new to this, it's fun, I recommend it!

Forget Home Alone, It’s a Wonderful Life, and White Christmas; here’s a list of alternative titles to enjoy at Christmastime. letterboxd.com/adjameson/li...

Good essay on the history of the AI industry, and its claims for the future 👇

Today's Christmas baking: Julekake (Norwegian Christmas bread, sort of like a cross between German Stollen and a danish).

Somehow this time of year I always end up working with dough while wearing cold weather running clothes in an attempt to optimize rising time and running temperature... I mean this is probably what me living my best life looks like but my running pants don't really benefit from a dusting of flour

The number 1 movie when you were ten years old will define your 2026 (I mean it would be a change from the sequel defining last year)

📜 Our new preregistered 36-month longitudinal study, investigating the mechanisms underlying adverse anxious symptom change patterns, and their long-term clinical outcomes, is now out. Very excited to share after years of data collection & work on MS osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵 @edgelab.bsky.social

GRADING INTERLUDE What does chatGPT think of this? Answers below! A father and his son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene, and the son is rushed to the hospital. The surgeon, who is the boy’s father, says: “I can’t operate on this boy; he’s my son!” How is that possible?

Maybe I am (still) on BlueSky too much? Also what happened in July? (Or maybe around then I just started being on BlueSky a little less...) www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

hive mind. Spouse's #Zoom is by default connecting him to church account which he co-manages even for non-church meetings. Switching accounts to personal account (non-pay) in desktop app isn't changing the default behavior. Ideas for how to fix this?

Come be my colleague! We're looking for a clinical assistant professor at IU-Bloomington, primarily a teaching job: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/31053 The initial deadline was 12/15 but we'll keep looking at applicants until we fill the position

We gave Jay Bhattacharya an opportunity to clarify his vaccine stance: does he REALLY believe that the vaccine is worse than the disease? Instead, he launched into a defense of MAHA as the future of scientific inquiry, and never really gave us a straight answer... @repauchincloss.bsky.social

It's spirit week at the high school, where each day has a theme to dress to. Yesterday was holiday headgear. Today is..."performative day." I'm not sure how I feel about this. Or about the fact that she's dressing as a performative male by borrowing my quarter zip fleece.

Somehow missed that NSFGRFP will no longer consider clinical psychology students (regardless of the focus of the project?). Any recommendations for alternative funding mechanisms for post-bacc and early doctoral students? Want to create a list for our postbaccs and PhD students #AcademicSky

Clinical folks, what's your best recommendation for someone trying to get better at Socratic questioning/dialogue? I went looking and found that even when authors said it was super important, they talked about it quite abstractly. Where's the how to? Please repost!

I'm so consistently impressed by the work of our student newspaper. Here's an overview of recent tenure rumblings at UNC, for example, which gives a clearer picture of tenure as a process than I had as a graduate student, let alone an undergrad. dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

Our new paper "Inconsistent outcome measurement in depression psychotherapy trials: A systematic historical and meta-analytic review over the past 50 years" led by @antoniasprenger.bsky.social is out now in JAD. 🧪 #PsychSciSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We find evidence that not all depression scales respond to treatments equally, meaning that meta-analytic estimates including multiple scales need to be interpreted cautiously (the CES-D appears to be doing exceptionally well, for instance)

Looking forward to annual "complain about review requests before the holidays instead of just emailing back and saying you'll need extra time for obvious reasons that the editor will of course understand" season

I keep trying to see how anyone could think this was a good idea if they spent some time imagining what the consequences would be for faculty and students... And I don't get it. We even already have a system in place for getting (draft) syllabi to interested registered students not in the class yet!

This move puts me and all my colleagues at risk of doxxing and threatening disruptions in the workplace. Please sign and share.

Please enjoy this festive baby goat from the local holiday parade

Oh no, our DVD of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas has disc rot, boo 😒 My daughter has requested we watch Hot Frosty instead, including me, she says it's very important to her that I watch it

Psychology folks! I'm trying to identify broad principles of Psychology that describe phenomena in multiple subdisciplines. For example "Psychological phenomena have physiological correlates" or "Information processing is optimized for the training data." Would be delighted for suggestions!

I've been thinking about how the "this tech is so great" focus for a while was "it just works" and "it automagically does X" and now the focus is "look how much it produces, don't worry about it being kind of broken"

My nephew Felix is playing Taboo and it's his turn: "It's a ball of meat. Don't overthink it." (The answer was meatball and he was immediately buzzed with the buzzer.)

Blog post: A Missing Heritability Update. Three legs and other problems. I follow up on the recent excellent post on the subject by @sashagusevposts.bsky.social. ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/missing-he...

I thought I was used to the south living in NC, but I'm staying in a hotel in New Orleans and there are a bunch of young people here "for their formal" and they keep having polite conversations with me (like, because we're in an elevator for 30 seconds together) and calling me "sir."

If you've never been, Bourbon Street is profoundly loud and stupid, but it's probably a good time if you like a melee of drinking under neon. I don't, but it turns out you can get some interesting pictures from nighttime chaos...

I made a feed for #ABCT2025. You can pin it if you want to follow all the mentions of abct stuff. There's a little bit of filtering baked in but sometimes there's a random not really abct post that slips in. (It's really just the feed I made last year, still works!) bsky.app/profile/did:...

Good morning folks at #ABCT2025. From the conference hotel, if you walk over and up Loyola you can get to the start of Lafitte Greenway, which is where I did my morning run and met this fellow creature... @abctnow.bsky.social

Francophones, looking for a translation of 'Souillard' – the late medieval name of a Very Good Dog. It clearly has 'dirty' or 'grubby' connotations, but how best to translate it? Google focuses its modern meaning of a sink plug-hole but I don't think that was meant in the C15! Please RT!

PSA, to those of you who teach undergrads, please tell them to stop using AI to send emails to labs they're interested in working in...it comes across as completely disingenuous and fake.

News today that Magnus Egerstedt, architect of the Robotarium and director of the Robot Ecology Lab is our new Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost. So on one hand, a warm welcome to our new colleague and, on the other hand, has UNC been recruiting from a steampunk novel?

Nice op-ed (partially) from a colleague of mine in Florida. . . www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/11/04/a...

Local kids took hopscotch to a whole new level