🎆🎇🎆2025 HEADLINE OF THE YEAR🎆🎇🎆 🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆GRAND FINAL🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆 After a seeding round and three rounds of voting, we have our finalists: Top seed Pretty Obvious will be facing off against 3rd seed Police Are Scrambling. A reminder of how we got here:

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

So... yeah, this sucks But I think it sucks in a very specific way, one that I haven't seen people talk about much (probably because academic social media is a soulless LinkedIn shell of itself) It sucks that some non-native English speakers are now using generative AI for peer review.

Gutsy #ProBowlVote    + @MicahhParsons11

College football has always been, and will always be, a bad product.

Confirmation of the new triage line at 65-70% of proposals. Introduction of a new “competitive but ND” class to permit exception pay pickups.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

RIP office phones of Notre Dame

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions. A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

There's so much being researched and published about GenAI that I update the 'Against Generative AI' resource list almost every day. Check it out catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

Gonna stake a pole here and say that you should not be allowed to drive your kids around on your golf cart for trick or treating

Last night I had the best pizza in Columbia, MO. It was good to be home again.

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

In compelling fashion, I've discovered that ribs are much better off unbruised. (Getting too old for soccer, I guess)

Did anyone at Amazon try asking AI how to fix their servers?

My goodness, what an article. I mean, it might have made a bit more sense if they had taken the time to define what "ultraprocessed" is, but that would dilute the emotional impact. I look forward to dissecting this with my next Health Psychology class in the spring www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I'm interviewing applicants for clinical psych for this next cycle! Come to South Bend to study how and why people use substances in their everyday lives Learn more about the lab: spiel-lab.nd.edu Learn more about our program: psychology.nd.edu/graduate/are...

Happy for y’all, Milwaukee. It’s been a bit.

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Just heard a @springernature.com journal is requiring authors to pay for open access (~$5k) to submit an invited paper if they want to be compliant with the new NIH policy. If that's how Springer is planning to handle things going forward, I know of a number of journals I will no longer submit to.

my favourite thing about the APS Rising Star programme is that you only get to be a former APS Rising Star if you currently pay APS dues I don't, so I'm not on the list anymore. god-tier level of pettiness, i respect it

All my emails to Director Bhattacharya now available... jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

New cures feel sudden, but the seeds were planted decades ago by basic scientists. Which seeds will turn into cures? Unpredictable looking forward, a straight line looking back. 🧪🧬 🧵

Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

Now with comments... Lots of comments (A long thread) 1/n

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

The 90s.

A child in LA County has died from a complication following measles. subacute sclerosing panencephalitis can occur from 2-10 years after acute infection. This is why we vaccinate. The child was too young to receive the vaccine, but if everyone else does their part we all but eradicate the disease

If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life.

Extremely proud of @melissanance.bsky.social and glad to see her hard work pay off Surreal to think that it's been 10 years since I received my F31, all thanks to the support of amazing sponsors. And now, somehow, I'm the (co)sponsor, all thanks to having an amazing mentee

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award. 3/4

No people on the planet will ever be AI. This is Orwellian bullshit. Zero people will ever be AI. This is no different from saying half the people in the country are television characters. Do not let anybody convince you that you don’t know the difference between a human being and a machine.

Notre Dame is hiring in Psychology! We have an open-rank, tenure/TT position in Cognitive Neuroscience: apply.interfolio.com/170229 Application deadline is soon (Sept. 15)

🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget! House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion. To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle. YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

This rule would have meant I couldn't do my Ph.D. in America. I did do it in America. Became a professor. 12 thriving U.S. labs are now headed by trainees from my research lab. Like me, they are all working hard to enrich American knowledge and society. With this self-harming rule, none of that.

replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names

Starting the day off right

Final: Brewers 12, Pirates 5 🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔 The record: 76-44 (lol)

This is my core belief about LLMs.

This delightful news is slowly filtering down to program staff inside NIH. Notices of Special Interest are going to be a thing of the past...

One of the underrated perks of being a professor is that sometimes, late at night and when you least expect it, a brilliant, but unappreciated, soul will email you about their groundbreaking discovery that will definitely solve the world's problems.

‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Court accepting updated list of plaintiffs/grantees impacted! MUST BE SUBMITTED BY AUGUST 1st 5pm EST! Please disseminate!!! Message from ACLU team below: 1/n

STAT Story www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/t... 1/n

I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.

In advance of next year's (likely dire) job market, here are the 2024-2025 numbers from the psych job wiki: the overall number of tenure-track job listings in psychology and neuroscience fell slightly, from 860 to 822 (this doesn't include canceled searches, which are often not properly reported).

Are my references obsolete? Don't kids these days read 18th c poets? I've alluded several times in meetings to "an albatross around my neck" only to be met by vacant stares, confused looks, and gentle inquiries around my mental health Is the Rime of the Ancient Mariner just not topical anymore?

And so it begins... NIAID has issued 20 R01s with 4 year budgets (i.e. Multi-year funded) since 7/7/25. These are almost unheard of in the past.