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Hummingbird watcher, a cat’s person, content consumer
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andy™
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you can tell so much about people by whom they give the benefit of the doubt to
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David Barner
about 1 month ago
Happy to share this new entry on numerical cognition for the OECS. Thanks to
@hbaum.bsky.social
and
@mcxfrank.bsky.social
for making this happen! Apologies if your work isn’t cited! Had to limit cites!!!
oecs.mit.edu/pub/rek9756r...
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Numerical Cognition
https://oecs.mit.edu/pub/rek9756r/release/1?readingCollection=9dd2a47d
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Mike Frank
about 2 months ago
What do kids choose to do when they think that someone will help them? What about when no one will help? New paper: "Young children strategically adapt to unreliable social partners" - led by Kat Shannon, with
@hyogweon.bsky.social
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"Condoleeza Rice discusses restoring confidence in American democracy"
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Big Team Science Conference
3 months ago
There's still time to register for the 2025 Big Team Science Conference (October 6-8, live on Zoom)! All fees are OPTIONAL, so you can pay what you'd like (or nothing at all!) to gain access to a ton of amazing BTS content.
bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/
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>>> Register for the 2025 BTSCON now! *** ### BTSCON Registration Info To balance inclusivity with our funding needs, *registration fees for the Big Team Science Conference are optional*. You can pay ...
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Big Team Science Conference
3 months ago
Our full 2025 program and schedule are now up on our website! We've got so many great presentations lined up, you won't want to miss it!
bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/
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Note: The live conference schedule with links to sessions will be provided to conference registrants via email. To access the live schedule, REGISTER NOW *** >>> View the 2025 BTSCON Program *** > Not...
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timeline coincidence of the most depressing order cc
@darthbluesky.bsky.social
@louisathelast.bsky.social
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Mike Frank
6 months ago
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at
experimentology.io
- the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
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Capybaras lounging in yuzu-filled hot springs is my happy place
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It's been a ton of fun to work with
@mcxfrank.bsky.social
and
@asifamajid.bsky.social
on this. I'm so lucky to get to support projects like this (and
@manybabies.org
and
@btscon.bsky.social
and ...)!
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Just got an “out of office” reply with the most amazing example of “there’s a German word for that.” Abwesenheitsbenachrichtigung!
6 months ago
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Jacob T. Levy
7 months ago
Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."
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Max Berger
7 months ago
It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.
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Mike Frank
7 months ago
Huge congratulations to Drs Anjie Cao and Rondeline Williams on their successful defenses this week!!
@anjiecao.bsky.social
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Mike Frank
7 months ago
Please assign these articles for your teaching as well as your own browsing, and let us know 1) how you're using them and 2) what articles you need to help you in your teaching!
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Mike Frank
7 months ago
If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (
oecs.mit.edu
), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
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“We want scientists who hold identities that may be under attack to know that we are proud to be your colleagues, and that our science is stronger as a result of your being in this field.” 👏
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jamelle
8 months ago
my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison
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Hakeem Jefferson
8 months ago
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
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What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
https://stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/what-dei-threatens-isnt-merit-its-monopoly/
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Adele Goldberg
8 months ago
Thanks to Evan Kidd,
@mcxfrank.bsky.social
&
@asifamajid.bsky.social
(Eds) for organizing the awesome *Open* Encyc. of Cog. Sci. and entrusting me with/ the honor of penning the entry on "Language" (in < 3500 words, so do see other entries for much, MUCH more!)
oecs.mit.edu/pub/ho9e9c80...
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https://oecs.mit.edu/pub/ho9e9c80/release/1
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“From her cell in Louisiana, she described the plans she had in the coming months. Completing her dissertation. A conference in Minnesota. Students to mentor. A summer class to teach.”
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ACLU
9 months ago
Our client Rümeysa Öztürk has not been charged with any crime. She is being held in ICE detention in retaliation for her political beliefs. Writing an op-ed is not a deportable offense.
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American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have be...
https://www.propublica.org/article/rumeysa-ozturk-best-friend-inside-story-tufts-trump-louisiana-ice
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
9 months ago
It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken.
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Mike Frank
9 months ago
Super excited to submit a big sabbatical project this year: "Continuous developmental changes in word recognition support language learning across early childhood":
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Katie Von Holzen
9 months ago
🚨4-5 new postdoc positions in language & cognition🚨 😇 One postdoc will work specifically with Eon-Suk Ko and I on the ManyBabies-AtHome project, focusing on infant word recognition in global, remote settings using collaborative, open science practices [https://shorturl.at/5l3tW].
@manybabies.org
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Open letter urging Stanford governance to resist federal attacks on higher education
On behalf of the Stanford Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, Cecile Alduy asks President Levin and Provost Martinez to explicitly resist threats from the federal government.
https://stanforddaily.com/2025/04/10/open-letter-urging-stanford-governance-to-resist-federal-attacks-on-higher-education/
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
9 months ago
In which I, a person who trained over 1,500 early career scientists all over the world in how to use Twitter, tell the scientific community that Twitter sucks now and you should use Bluesky for networking and outreach instead.
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Melissa Kline Struhl
9 months ago
Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn. And it's live RIGHT NOW!
psych-ds.github.io
(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)
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A specification for psychological datasets. JSON metadata, predictable directory structure, and machine-readable specifications for tabular datasets.
https://psych-ds.github.io/
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Brendan Nyhan
9 months ago
An incredible leader who is meeting the moment. Send this to everyone you know in higher education administration.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
9 months ago
It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.
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Nancy Kanwisher
9 months ago
If you are a faculty member at a US university, please consider signing this excellent petition asking our presidents, chancellors, etc to work together to defend our institutions from the direct attacks by Trump administration:
sites.google.com/view/we-must...
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March 20, 2025 Dear Presidents, Chancellors, and Boards of Trustees of the 60 Universities that received a March 10th warning letter from the U.S. Department of Education: You are on the frontlines ...
https://sites.google.com/view/we-must-leverage-the-strength/home
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Kevin M. Kruse
9 months ago
This segment from
@maryannefranks.bsky.social
is an incredibly tight argument that captures the breadth of the Trump assault on free speech perfectly and in less than a minute. Spread it far and wide.
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Brendan Nyhan
10 months ago
"The rise of anti-Semitism on campus since October 7, 2023, is real. But the Republican campaign to use it as a justification to extend political control over universities has nothing to do with protecting Jews, and everything to do with undermining liberal democracy."
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Kevin M. Kruse
10 months ago
Republicans control every part of the federal government. They’re unpopular people who have been doing unpopular things — if you can’t make the obvious case that any shutdown is yet another misstep of their own making, you should get the hell out of politics
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
10 months ago
Republicans’ partisan spending bill turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk. It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.
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Adam Serwer
10 months ago
I’m not sure that the Trump Democrats strategy of letting the bully take their lunch money today in the hopes the bully will be nice to them tomorrow will be all that effective
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Angus Johnston
10 months ago
Holy cow. This is VERY well done. This is what Team Fight looks like.
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Melissa Kline Struhl
10 months ago
The platform I run, Children Helping Science, is supported almost entirely by US government science funding, both directly and in collaboration with CHS researchers. Here's the note we sent to users today - we need help gathering your stories and citations! Submit here:
forms.gle/zFnzrVURntdZ...
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Kevin M. Kruse
10 months ago
I'm going to keep repeating this until they haul me away but -- Trump's 2024 win was not an historic landslide but a fairly modest win (Carter won by a bigger margin in 1976) -- Even if he *had* won a landslide, he repeatedly denounced Project 2025 & pretended he wasn't going to do any of this
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jamelle
10 months ago
yep. and this is the basic problem with trump being psychologically incapable of perceiving a positive sum relationship. everything is a dominance game for him.
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Mikel Jollett
10 months ago
HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
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Adam Serwer
10 months ago
this was always the agenda and some of us said so and were called hysterical
bsky.app/profile/jame...
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Katie Mack
11 months ago
I have work to do but I'm distracted by watching US scientific progress & leadership being irreversibly undermined because a few unelected malcontents are penalizing researchers for following legal requirements set out by congressional orders to augment basic research with benefits to society.
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Sanjay Srivastava
11 months ago
"Indirect costs" just means paying the full cost of the research. That's it. Some costs are for one project, like lab equipment. Some are shared by many, like buildings and utilities. Grants that don't pay shared costs are a net negative. The fact that Harvard used to turn them down drives that home
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Melissa Kline Struhl
11 months ago
Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
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Joshua J. Friedman
12 months ago
Happy New Year from the Izu Shaboten Zoo!
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