You've got to put the fact you're an Olympic athlete in the first sentence. No prof is getting that far into an email.

Tell me you’re a masochist without telling me you’re a masochist

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

Update: It's been 2 hours and all I've done is make a figure but it's a nice figure and a picture is worth a thousand words so....

Sometimes people complain that you don't use high school math the rest of your life But I have 6 hours to write a 6-page research strategy So that's 1 page per hour At 540 words per page I only need to type 540/60 = 9 words per minute and I'll be done

help I'm drowning in email and calendar invitations also bureaucracy

Morning Bluesky.

Groundhog Day Meaning xkcd.com/3202/

Called “Jordan Peele” again today Not a big deal but I can imagine how annoyed HE is when people mistake him for me!!

My weekly update on NIH funding. This is for all projects. The breakdown for competing and non-competing awards will follow. 1/4

All of academia is like: Surely there is a better way to be doing this thing but I don't want to be the one to do it

Evergreen (came up today because I'm sharing slides with class, and instead of uploading a Powerpoint file like a normal person I'm sending them links to quarto-published html files on github) xkcd.com/974/

When a meeting is cancelled with no notice I SHOULD be happy to have an hour of my day to myself but in reality I spend most of that hour being annoyed that something was cancelled with no notice

2026 big update to the psycholinguistic database page! If you know of corpora, lexical databases, or other resources that I've missed, please LMK. Trying to keep this thing relatively current and could use the help www.reilly-coglab.com/data

Just out—a piece I wrote a piece for the APS Observer (@psychscience.bsky.social) in which I share recommendations and resources for running a research lab at a small, liberal arts college. I hope it helps others in the same boat! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

I woke up feeling ready to scrap again. I got some really good advice in grad school for dealing with setbacks and it still works: give yourself the rest of the day to mourn and really feel your feelings—be a caricature, wallow, use all your coping mechanisms. Go to bed, dust off, and move on.

Quite an achievement!!! 🫡

The extended version of my thesis procrastination project/subcortex visualization package is out now in both Python and R, now that I’ve graduated 🤠 This figure shows the 9 atlases included (and counting)! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Website: anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...

Hats off to the great Anne "I don't do fancy" Treisman!

If you need a reminder why we all decided to make science friends on the internet, here’s Daniel asking for help with a weird coding problem and the conclusion of the replies is the R package maintainer/developer fixing the problem in his spare time 🫡❤️🤗

the jerk stop called

I aspire to leave 10 minutes between meetings but it’s impossible to end any meeting early. Thus when I am the one doing scheduling, I often try to START meetings 10 minutes past the hour, and because everyone else starts/ends ON the hour, that gives us all 10 minutes between meetings. 🤷‍♂️

I aspire to leave 10 minutes between meetings but it’s impossible to end any meeting early. Thus when I am the one doing scheduling, I often try to START meetings 10 minutes past the hour, and because everyone else starts/ends ON the hour, that gives us all 10 minutes between meetings. 🤷‍♂️

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

Ok people!!! I believe we may be taking March 7th NATIONAL! This will require financial support. Last year, nationwide, the protests cost $75,000. We need all the help we can get! Help us fuel the fight here: www.standupforscience.net/donate @standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience

👇New biosketch requirement update. “After evaluating the number and types of recent technical inquiries we received to both the SciENcv and eRA Service Desks, we recognize the difficulties these issues have had on the community’s ability to comply with the original timeline of January 25, 2026.” 👇

For folks doing F31/F32 NIH fellowships (hope springs eternal)—do you have trainees list conferences under "products"? 👀 #nihgrants

I always get twisted up with "flyer" vs. "flier" when describing a piece of paper that gets distributed or posted on a wall. I'm now breathing a big sigh of relief. grammarist.com/spelling/fli...

Dear dMRI hive mind: anybody who has the standard 3T HCP DWI sequence as exar & pdf and could share? Somehow cannot find them online. 🙏🙏

Mark your calendar!!! @standupforscience.bsky.social IS BACK FOR ROUND TWO. Join us in DC on March 7th! www.standupforscience.net/march7 Want to host an event in your area?? AMAZING...go sign up: fight2win.standupforscience.net/sign_up/14434/ #standupforscience

🚨Thrilled to share I am able to hire someone (PhD preferred) with coding expertise to work on our HAPPE software for EEG! Knowledge of Matlab, Python, and EEG signal processing required. Enthusiasm for teaching/mentoring, collaboration, and developmental science preferred!

"Fascist" and "Nazi" weren't slurs applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That's what they called themselves. This madness will not end until we make the names Trump's regime calls themselves universally acknowledged slurs. daringfireball.net/2026/01/th...

CC @siracusa.social

Continuing feeling like Monday, I told two embarrassing yet very humorous personal anecdotes in class, which were met with dead silence

Today definitely feels like a Monday

Your Iranian colleagues are cut off from family back home & are in a state of collective grief, which has many faces. We may appear more aloof or be more impatient, may self-isolate, have more typos, may freeze or overwork to numb the pain, or find fear, memory, or hope in unexpected moments.

Garbage in, garbage out www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

oof, i hope they don't kill him off in the first season

Trying to explain to my kids about Drake Maye’s nickname.

At @elife.bsky.social you can now include explainer videos with every figure. Like going to a seminar while you engage with the paper. First example here elifesciences.org/articles/106... Click the arrows next to each figure to get a video of @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social explaining it for you!

They say to start your day with exercise and it sounds inspiring but I started mine with a VO2max test and let me tell you I'm ready to end my day right now

Definitely not ok with this shit Federal agents pin a protester to the ground and spray a chemical irritant directly into his face at 28th and Blaisdell Avenue S. in Minneapolis on Jan. 21. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune) www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Try this one weird Slack hack to make your life better

Our next profile is here! Dr. Eva Pool studies the role of affect in learning and decision making. Follow the link below to listen and learn more 💜 www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202... #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience

Reposting with comments. NIDDK budget appears to be cut because there is a separate fund for diabetes, elsewhere in the bill. NINDS budget is increased because of funds transferred from the Office of the Director (OD) for ALS, Alzheimer's. NIEHS seems like a real cut. OD cut is related to NINDS.

We all identify as passengers on a bus going somewhere we didn’t want to go and the person driving ignores what we want

The NIH's MYF policy in 2025 resulted in 4000 fewer grants and fellowships that touched every area of biology and medicine; continuing it in 2026 would be disastrous for science, technology and health in the United States 🧪 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

@joss-openjournals.bsky.social anyone out there having luck getting the rticles::joss_article template to successfully knit with including png figures inline with the text? We've had no luck with pandoc errors and have strippped figures out of our article(s).

That is, ah, how capitalism works, my bro.