Spouse: “You lectured with students for 2 and 1/2 hours! Your poor students.” Me: “I gave them a 10 minute break.” Spouse: “you only gave them a 10 minute break?! Those poor students” Me: …. “Their grade depends on whether they laugh”

Before panic sets it. The New NIH Director and Congress will want research to continue, so the machine will start up at some point. Keep writing papers and preparing proposals. AND educate the public about the key role peer review plays in science and the time and infrastructure investment needed

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

submitting my cv in new formats and languages might be my strongest skill!

Early career researchers, tech enthusiasts, students, and people with half-baked ideas are especially encouraged to join! DM me to sign up!

Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love. Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...

Out now - National Academies consensus report on Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science 🧪 It was a privilege to serve as one of the 15 committee members from a wide range of scientific disciplines who put this report together. Quick 🧵1/ www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/und...

DONE GRADING! POSTED TO REGISTRAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 186 students served cognitive psychology. AND THEY DID SO GOOD ON THE BAYES FINAL EXAM QUESTION!!!ONE

Wow. Teaching goes a lot better when you don't have emergency gallbladder surgery in another state during the semester... (that was last semester)

Best student answer ever about @mr-jim-is-hungry.bsky.social 1/3 ʘᆽʘ There once was a cat named Jim, Whose enchantment turned quite grim. Now I have testing anxiety, A most unwelcome malady. Thanks Mr. Jim, my chances are slim.

Cats love moving #cat

tfw students taking your 2-hour exam online and there's no questions for the first 150 minutes of exam time (24-hour window to take it)... did i make a clear exam?!

#cat #fitness

when league of legends players are more reasonable in game than undergrads, we be in trouble folks

anyone else always enter 6666666666 as their phone number in letter of rec portals? 😇

What a pretty lady ♥️

I really don't like the sentiment that "it doesn't hurt to ask" about getting a better grade (or similar sorts of questions). At least for me, requests like this have an emotional cost. I've been struggling with compassion fatigue and I imagine I'm not the only faculty that feels this way.

Just finished baking ~80 tahini cookies for my last undergrad lecture at UW-Madison

There are few better feelings than when former students go off and do great things, and then write to you and let you know about them. Students: never wonder if you should get in touch with a former teacher or supervisor to share this kind of thing. It is one of the purest rewards there is. /1

I'm grateful that zero of my students selected the last option. I feel empowered to shout into the bluesky void "I REALLY LIKED THE PRINCESS BRIDE"

Moral psychology postdoc opportunity at the University of Toronto! Please repost, and pass on to anyone you think might be interested.

My paper on hierarchical plans is out in Cognition!🎉 tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2x...

I'm hiring a full-time lab manager / research tech for my new psychology lab at Boston University, to start this summer (July 2025)! The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration. More details here: cldlab.org/join/ 🧠💻 #psychscisky

I've wrestled with how to handle recent undergrad students being less prepared and having less grit than pre-covid. I've found the debate on this in higher ed to be a false dichotomy. DO we NEED to be strictly more strict OR just as lenient as during COVID? #highered 1/3

I like to start my lectures with "fun" questions for the class while people are settling in. Here's one of today's

I can't believe it but I woke up to my #cat being written up in a news article. All based on a reddit post by my partner @alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social . Yay Callie!! www.newsweek.com/senior-cat-w...

10 years ago, I decided to add a 15 minute life unofficial financial advice to the end of my nudging unit for cognitive psychology. I told students that it was a one time experiment and if they hated it, I'd never bother other students again. Students loved it and I'm excited to give it again

#gfbaking just finished these! I'm still learning to pipe. Excited to bring them for the holidays

Watching Daum Kim of Ethnic Neighborhoods (www.youtube.com/@EthnicNeigh...) rocking her PhD defense at Keio University! An early congrats to a new PhD!

Past me: Here are a few free grade drops so you don't need to worry about getting excuses when life inevitably conflicts with class. Past students: Grade drops are for when I do poorly. Please excuse this time so i can keep my drop. Present me: No drops and fewer requests from students...

Oh nothing like submitting recs for #gradadm season. I'm surprised people still require me to enter a phone number. Please don't call my phone without emailing me first for the number. I always just enter 6666666666

Just made a reading list on classics in artificial category learning and modeling for a student prelim. So many fun papers that inevitably had to leave some out. But, though some might enjoy it, so here's a link to a copy: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #compcogsci #categorization #cognition

He has three emotions: Hungry Sleeping and YELLING

Latest item I baked: A gluten-free quiche Unfortunately, I had a crack at the bottom of the crust. So the egg spilled under and I got a soggy bottom :(. One day I'll make a quiche and not have a soggy bottom!

Hi, I'm Joe and I can't tie my shoes with one loop, so I might fail first grade.

(5/5) Thanks to the many contributors to the book! @markkho.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social @eringrant.bsky.social @fredcallaway.bsky.social @tomerullman.bsky.social @jhamrick.bsky.social @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social @spiantado.bsky.social @noahdgoodman.bsky.social @ebonawitz.bsky.social

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