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NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10

📣📣📣Job alert Multimodal Language Department Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics MAX PLANCK RESEARCH GROUP LEADER POSITION (W2 BBESG) lnkd.in/eaq5MW9a

We should never forget that these "studies" programs -- Women and Gender; African Diaspora; Latinx; Asian and Pacific -- emerged from the demands of politicized students, and that therefore administrators _as a class_ have always resented them and their successes.

Had our first group meeting yesterday with the H.A. Brown Principal & Nick (the artist!) The school is psyched. I'm going to talk about pollinators next week, & have the kids vote on their favorite bug! We have a wall! We have a plan! We just need a little more funding 😅 givebutter.com/KenzoMural

My youngest kid's classmate couldn't come to school yesterday because of reported ICE by the busses in South Minneapolis. If you want to know how the drawdown is going.

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

How do we make new friends after moving? Primarily through work/classes or through friends of friends….and making friends via “friends of friends” predicts greater happiness, meaning, and psychological richness @chriswelker.bsky.social #SPSP2026

If you’re cold, they’re cold, etc

The media should cover this as murder because it is.

Underrated cat mood: when they’re like “where we goin?” And follow you from room to room

Starting a job posting thread in the survey industry. First, off Pew on their methods group

Academic friends: do you have grad students working on survey methods questions (ones we can help answer with Survey 160 data)? Please share with them this fellowship opportunity. Applications for first round are closing soon. www.survey160.com/survey-160-r...

We’re hiring!🔬The MAClab at Texas A&M is looking for a lab manager to join our team in College Station. If you’re organized, passionate about research, and interested in emotion and the brain, we want to hear from you! 🔗Apply at the link in our bio! #PsychSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #AcademicSky

According to the baby (2;7) airplanes are driven by pirates. other recent linguistic innovations: ’happybara’ and apparently baby t-rexes are ’t-Rex puppy’

🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Postdoc! 🚨🚨 Postdoc opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026). We study identity, group dynamics, language, & politics. Rolling review begins 3/14 Apply: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15806 Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇

Trump is lying. Coffee is up 18.3% Ground beef is up 17.2% Cereal is up 6.2 Bananas are up 5.4% Fish is up 5.1% Cookies are up 5%

We're hiring! The Emotion and Psychopathology in Context Lab at Harvard invites applications for a full-time RA/lab manager to start in 2026 summer. Ideal for students preparing for graduate study (e.g., clinical psych). Please consider sharing & applying! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUnive...

📢 PhD position in Computational Neuroscience 🧠 Join the Deco-B project to decode bilingual speech (Spanish–Basque) using MEG/fMRI + multilingual AI models. Work at the intersection of neuroscience & machine learning at BCBL. More: tinyurl.com/2rnur82n

#jobs #Blinguistik #linguistics

Ooh I like this game! My underrated life hack suggestion for academics, including graduate students is: pick an organization system and use it. Getting Things Done, Full Focus Planner, Bullet Journal, something. Academia is not a place for trying to do things haphazard.

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

My post-doc Charlotte King will be starting her own Minerva research group in September and is looking for PhD students. Click here if you are into experimental biomechanics, apes and hominin evolution. www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

College is really expensive. (TOO expensive, IMO, but I don’t make the rules.) If a student is going to insist on aggressively not learning a fucking thing in college by actively seeking out the cheat-on-everything machine, then that student just took on a ton of debt for nothing.

2.5 yo: ‘what the I’m?’

Research plug: we're currently seeking (bilateraly, congenitally) blind adults & Deaf adults for a *paid* online research study (screen reader compatible) on how individuals experience words across perceptual modalities. Ping [email protected] if interested! Reposts welcome! #Blind #Deaf

Trump wasn't elected in a vacuum. A horrible person became president twice because horrible people kept voting for him.

Temporal Information: Synaptic footprints of time in working memory Temporary changes in synapses may allow working memory to keep track of both events and their timing. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... #neuroscience

I seem to be playing this game with the university where every morning I fill out a work order to fix the heat in my office because its 58 degrees in there and then every afternoon they click ‘solved’. Austerity is so fun. 🫠

* CURRENTLY RECRUITING * Do you have experience of hearing loss? Do you regularly listen to music? If you can answer yes to both questions, then we would like to hear from you. This study is concerned with understanding the link between everyday music listening, mental health & wellbeing. 1/4

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Linguist friends: Sadly, Barbara Partee's partner Volodja recently passed away. She has to send a death certificate to Russia and is asking if anyone traveling there in the near future could carry it with them, since sending from w/i Russia by a fast reliable service seems the very best option.

This is great and also feels like the kind of thing that's destined to show up in the slides for an Intro #Linguistics course

Apologies, here is the right link to apply for postdoc positions in the lab: forms.gle/Hb8rS9hD3BV7... Please repost to help us spread the word!

Today, once again, this.

Ho-lee Shit. This is phenomenally good news. Department of Education rolls back— for now— its attempts to destroy Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility initiatives. Keep an eye on them, of course, and watch for the hidden knife, always, but for now: Fantastic news.

Join us for the SFU Multilingual Week keynote by Kyra Borland, titled “Many Worlds: Experiences working in Indigenous language revitalization outside academia.” Feb 26, 12:30pm. Zoom: Email [email protected] for the link. Register & learn more: www.sfu.ca/linguistics/... @sfu.ca

RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’ https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-time-in-hot-cars-helps-babies-to-sweat-out-toxins/

We start our review of applications for our tenure track position in cognitive psychology tomorrow. Cookie wants to remind you to submit your materials.

Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras. This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: the weaponizing of normal speech disfluency is normal practice in political journalism

Today i’ll be going state-by-state to make sure everyone has at least a place to start looking for food assistance in their region. You can help by replying to the post for your state/territory with any resources you know of. #HelpSky #Hunger

Lot of folks (understandably) got hung up on the snorting coke off the toilet part of that RFK clip, but equally important is that when the head of HHS says, "I'm not scared of germs" it's because he is on the record as literally not believing in the germ theory of how infectious disease works 🫠

The number of student full-rides is my go-to metric: How many students did hiring this Ass. Dean cost? This Ass. Vice Chancellor? This 3-year IT contract? This football coach? Or, how many new assistant professors are we losing by paying this senior administrator? #stayangry

In its ongoing war against higher ed—and law firms—the battles MAGA has won are those where the other side surrendered in advance. (The Columbia/UT Austin/Paul Weiss "strategy," vs the Harvard/UCLA/Perkins Coie/etc strategy.) Resistance is not just braver but also smarter and more effective.

I am looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, broadly construed. EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI or related methodological experience preferred. Apply here: jobs.uiowa.edu/jobSearch/po... Lab website: wessellab.org

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