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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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Silence won't save you... “I just don’t know [that] there’s a lot of wisdom in keeping our heads down anymore,” says Starbird

Today marks the 3 year anniversary of the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist. Shireen was killed by an Israeli sniper on 11 May 2022 for the crime of exposing the brutality of the Israeli government in the Jenin Refugee Camp.

I am shocked there hasn't been some sort of website outing the names and face of all these mask wearing freaks. If you know an ICE worker....you should post about it. Who are these people? Who is making a pot roast when their kidnapping racist ass garbage boyfriend comes home from a hard day at ICE?

BREAKING: Rümeysa Öztürk released from ICE detention by a judge. “The decision is another blow to the Trump administration’s effort to detain and deport international students for their speech,” writes @premthakker.bsky.social for Zeteo: zeteo.com/p/breaking-t...

Maybe not a violent act itself, but it's a precursor to violence. Viktor Orbán and Trofim Lysenko are the two closest analogues I can think of. Both abolished and centralized science institutes. www.science.org/content/arti...

Why is this not the photo of William James used in every intro psych textbook?

WSJ hires Kohei Saito as new chief editor

Letter to the Editor: Mitchell Morgan - Billionaire Landlord and Temple University Board Chair - Is Unfit to Represent Temple temple-news.com/letter-mitch...

I usually post posters *before* I present them but I forgot. Presented at SANS 2025. Examining the effects of continuous ratings on neural activity during video fMRI, we found differences in attention, control, and default mode networks, but no differences in memory or character assessments.

People need to be in prison over this www.nextgov.com/policy/2025/...

This will obviously negatively impact how many people study misinformation and how people frame research related to it But also, way to just make misinformation research cool af. They are "don't think of a white bear"-ing us into wanting to study misinformation.

Shooting memorial cancelled because of a shooting is so very American.

Good Lord. Now this?

Angela Davis didn't receive her PhD because the FBI confiscated all of her paper manuscripts in 1970 before dissertating. Kyle Duyck is no Angela Davis.

There are a million red flags that these tariffs aren't about domestic manufacturing, but growing up in Luzerne Co., PA - which flipped for Trump after being deeply union/dem and was devastated by NAFTA-type policies - it's also that places like that haven't even crossed his mind since the election.

Exclusive: Researchers at the US National Institutes of Health were told they can't attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their way and go during time off, current and former NIH scientists told Reuters reut.rs/4j7rFLT