You guys are being so mean to Kristi Noem, but sometimes you have to pay for Dalmatian puppies in cash.

Incredible turnout at the #HandsOff rally in Boston

Protesting Trump in Media PA. Best sign I’ve seen yet? IKEA makes better cabinets!!!

Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top. #HandsOff2025

...and in case someone is wondering what this is all about, I started posting my creative writing work a while back, including a #SciFi novel! www.armcintosh.com/my-writing

We are all going to be eating the cats and dogs soon

Booker: Strom Thurmond’s record always kind of just really irked me. That the longest speech on our great Senate floor was from someone who was trying to stop people like me from being in the Senate. So to surpass that became more important to me.

look at this absolute unit

Our report on "The Relations Among Anxiety, Movie-Watching, and In-Scanner Motion" is out now in Human Brain Mapping. In short: even anxiety-evoking movies reduce pediatric in-scanner movement compared to 'rest', highlighting its benefit for developmental neuroimaging. doi.org/10.1002/hbm....

Does your research investigate how the brain communicates using language? Consider the Neurobiology of Language journal for your next submission. We are fully open access with reasonable APCs. Check out our latest papers direct.mit.edu/nol

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Why should they be wary of being recruited for a job?

Last night I stood up for those who need Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. Democrats will never abandon the fight to make sure every American has a safe, healthy, and financially secure life. #ISaidWhatISaid

Oh my god when I first read on social media that by “trans” they probably meant “transgenic” I didn’t want to believe they were so dumb but apparently they are 😂

More F31 study sections were cancelled for later this week, too.

My wife has two students who worked their asses off on F31 submissions that were supposed to be reviewed yesterday. They found out today that study section was cancelled.

“And then if you don’t answer, like you’re sort of semi-fired, or you’re fired.”

Was sorry to see Clancy Blair died! Such an influential scientist! www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

🚨 Reminder! 🚨 Submissions are due December 31 🗓️ to our special issue on the white matter connectome supporting speech & language, by Guest Editors @anthonystevend.bsky.social and Pascale Tremblay. Submit your manuscript before the end of the year! direct.mit.edu/DocumentLibr...

Well, Flux was fun! Great people and stimulating science! I come back with renewed excitement! Can’t wait for Dublin next year!

Off to Flux!

Schadenfraud: Experiencing schadenfreude about Donald Trump.

On societies outsourcing their publishing to commercial ventures like Wiley: “This should probably be taken as a hint to people that think publishing is easy or cheap. It’s not. And there are economies of scale.” #scholarlypublishing #academia dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/t...

Me driving in Miami traffic…

Guess we’d better update our references to mantis shrimp seeing a gazillion colors, since it appears they don’t, according to a very recent paper from, uh, 2014. *adjusts tie nervously* 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/nat...

#AcademicSky 🧪

#ImageForensics Can you spot the overlap? a) through e) are each displaying cells treated with different conditions. (I missed this one when I found another problem in this paper in 2015).

Unbelievable. Can the peers read? From Elsevier's site- "All articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review" #fail #academicchatter #AcademicTwitter www.sciencedirect.co...#fail

My latest “ask a marine biologist” is all about sea cucumbers. And it’s the first question I’ve answered that came from Bluesky! @drfishsg.bsky.social 🧪🦑

Our new paper by the brilliant Ashley Watts just got excepted: A critical evaluation of the p-factor literature. Supporting cast: Ashley Greene, Wes Bonifay, and yours truly. Have a look if you're curious to hear our thoughts psyarxiv.com/7yrnp/

Study section done. Time for a beer, then SSHD meeting in Philly Friday!

Cat traps. 💯

The Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University is looking for a new Head. We have 50+ faculty spread across 6 areas. I've found it to be a great place to work and live. Hit me with any questions. please RP/RT. The full ad can be found here: sites.google.com/view/donald-...

The Department of Psychology at The Ohio State University invites applications for two positions involving diversity science, psychology, and racial/health disparities. (1/3)

7pm downbeat, till 10pm. Coconut Grove Sailing Club! Not too hot, no rain. No buttons to push…

Coming up!

We are still searching for a Technical Community Manager for our new OpenSource@Stanford project. If you know of anyone who might be interested, please pass this along to them! careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/technic...

New Quantitative open-rank TT Psychology faculty position at Florida International University in Miami, FL! facultycareers.fiu.edu?posting=530546 The search is open to a wide range of specializations (see ad for details or ask me!).

Lana Del Rey!

My lab (www.canallab.ca) has an opening for Fall 2024 for a grad student! We study modifiable factors affecting the cognitive neuroscience of aging, including things like cognitive reserve and bilingualism. We have access to fNIRS, EEG, and eye-tracking within the lab, and the potential for MRI too

Upcoming gigs Sunday at Golden Rule 5:30pm and then October 6 at Coconut Grove Sailing Club!

Anna Huttenlocher has published a book about her father Peter— FROM LOSS TO MEMORY Behind the Discovery of Synaptic Pruning

RIP my departmental colleague, Endel Tulving (1927-2023). Such a profound impact on the science of memory in the 20th and 21st centuries. His theoretical contributions will surely endure.

LaTex: "You can't pop an empty literal stack for entry RN1816." Me, in snarky nasal voice under my breath: "You can't pop a ney ney new new...stupid...&$%^!... [and then yelling] No, *YOU* can't pop an empty literal stack!!"

I was excited to see one of my papers cited in my son’s high school psychology book until I read that it was misinterpreted in the opposite way I meant it…