Forty years to the date of the MOVE Bombing, Philly more or less resurrected the Mulford Act against Black Lion members because a cop purportedly challenged Birdsong to a gunfight. Just like with the BPP, no gun control groups condemning Philly PD. www.axios.com/local/philad...

Recruiting PhD students for Fall 2027! This fall, I will be starting as an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M, where I will launch the Coupled Minds Lab. We will study how conversation shapes the way people connect, coordinate, and change their minds. Learn more: coupled-minds.github.io

I think it's cool that every piece of software I use now is 10X laggier and sludgier to use than WP51 was on my MS-DOS PC at the turn of the century

Our first foray into horror movies was recently published. Former grad student David Gregory used them as a means to study temporal memory for threatening events. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41965942/

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

I don't know who wrote this sentence but they belong in a labor camp

I’m doing a panel for the Rutgers Addiction Research Center—geared toward undergrads interested in addiction research! We’ll talk where to start, what grad school is like ,etc. I’ll probably ramble about organized labor and successfully stumbling into good things. Please join and/or pass along!

Imagine whining to a judge for protection just because you realize you may never get a date again.

One 9/11 per *day*.

we are absolutely cooked

Here is King Trump's new nominee for Director of Homeland Security Sen Markwayne Mullin, a MMA fighter and an avid wrestling supporter, trying to physically fight the Teamsters president in the middle of a Senate hearing. Diaper Don really knows how to pick 'em.

If the CBA is repudiated, arguably, so is the no-strike clause. Fellows might be federal employees (I don't know if so) which complicates striking, but a work slowdown certainly is still on the table regardless.

America needs regime change.

Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.

When I won my NIH DSPAN, I shared my materials in a public repo—many people told me it helped. After Trump killed DSPAN before I could use the K, I applied for an F32 and just found out I got it. In the spirit of transparency and community, I’ve shared those materials too: github.com/wj-mitchell/...

Never thought I'd get a chuckle out of a github page, but then there's: yifengedms.github.io/simPM/ @quantitude.bsky.social @yifeng.bsky.social

I recommend Ian Buruma's excellent piece on how people today (like those in Nazi Germany) look the other way and delude themselves that things will just get better on their own. Putting some exerpts into a thread:.... www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/o...

Excited to share my new preprint with fabulous co-authors Emma Moughan and Chelsea Helion! We explored if normativity in semantic representations of emotion predicts friendship accuracy in a real world social network (it does!). More in thread 👇

New preprint from Lindsey Tepfer (@ltjaql.bsky.social) and me! We silenced portions of internal monologues in two films to manipulate participants' access to characters' thoughts. Using ISC and RSA, we found that this aligned later neural processing of the narrative & encoding of trait impressions.

Mel Curth has been barred from teaching at her institution because a student who didn't do an assignment got a bad grade. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

What kind of a spineless, backwater shithole suspends a graduate instructor for grading according to a long established and otherwise unproblematic rubric? If you refuse to educate, you aren't an educational institution. You're just a bad hedge fund.

Sci-hub is the only morally defensible name in broad public access to academic publications #CanonizeAlexandraElbakyan

Recruiting PhD students for Fall 2026! The Coupled Minds Lab at @tamu.bsky.social will use a multimodal approach combining fMRI hyperscanning, computational modeling, and natural language processing to study how conversations transform minds. Learn more: coupled-minds.github.io Due Date Dec 1

Managing emotions is not easy - we often get by with a little help. In the NEW Social Interaction and Emotion Lab at Rutgers-Newark, we’ll study how social interactions regulate emotion using experiments, naturalistic data, and multi-modal approaches. ✨ Now recruiting! ✨🙌 Learn more: raziasahi.com

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Pardon my whatever, but this is fucking insane

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

Stephen Miller may be the first WH Chief of Staff to pre-tear his underwear in office so the wedgies hurt less

So... I did some analysis of grants that did receive noncompetitive renewals. In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed. Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph... 1/4

At a new job orientation looking at the four flavors of healthcare plans available and I'm realizing it's just an awful high stakes Iowa Gambling Task

The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs

Awwwww Yeah -- it's official

Is there an online repo of example TT application materials like research and teaching statements?

Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.

my DSPAN postdoc grant right now

Following up from this tweet yesterday, I realized that the national right to work foundation is on a warpath against graduate student unions right now and attempting to astroturf support ...

I couldn't imagine being such a loser that I try dismantling one of the only means of labor advocacy for grad workers, but I'm also not Russell Burgett

Hearing rumors from multiple sources that NIH COO Eric Schnabel was terminated yesterday for allegedly trying to award a large contract to his wife (who sometimes uses her maiden name) for "public outreach" associated with the autism data science initiative. #EndlessGrift

Nice write up of our paper (with @vpmurty.bsky.social) showing that memories expressed with greater “authenticity” are more accurate, but people don’t use that information in judging whether someone actually remembers the event accurately or not, and instead use unreliable signals of accuracy.

Did the Tr*mp administration cancel your NIH or NCI grant proposal? Know someone who was affected? The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in the House wants to hear from you. Please fill out this link and share. forms.office.com/pages/respon... #CancerResearch #OncoSky #CanSky

This is the same dickhead that fucked up the 2023 GEO strike and has protestors arrested. Man has no business in higher ed.

RFK somehow manages to make socialists sympathetic to private, predatory science publishers over a nationalized publicly-funded science communication option.

Dark Age Modernity

Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data @epi.org from me & Adam Reich of Columbia Labor Lab. In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before. www.epi.org/blog/america...

Lab-kept bumble bees roll small wooden balls around for no apparent purpose other than fun, a 2022 study reveals. Learn more on #WorldBeeDay: scim.ag/4dAwCuD

“In 2020, prisoners filed a class action lawsuit—the seventh class action lawsuit against PDP since 1971—over dangerous conditions…leading to a 2022 settlement that again resulted in federal court monitoring and required that city officials fully staff the city’s jails. PDP has failed to comply”

I would guess that Zohran Mamdani cultivates alternative media because the New York Times covers him in the Styles section as a “long shot” while he is running a solid second place in the polls.

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