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Professor Dad. ATLien. Scientist. Critical Cognitive Science www.criticalcognition.org
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looks like I'm writing a book. title to be something along the lines of "Critical Approaches to Human Cognition" coming to a well known academic press sometime in the near future. hopefully not too long. I hear writing is pretty easy. š
about 1 year ago
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he looks like he just taught back to back sections of research methods.
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Andrew D Wilson
10 days ago
Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities
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Victor Ray
9 days ago
Whiteness is a credential.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The It's Innate! Podcast
19 days ago
We're looking forward to our conversation tomorrow with Dr. Richard Prather (
pratherlab.bsky.social
) about what it means to apply a critical approach to the cognitive sciences and to releasing the episode shortly thereafter! Don't forget to let us know who you'd like to hear from next!
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sometimes I write sentences just for myself, that probably won't make it to the final draft. "Thatās why thereās a decent chance your favorite 20th-century statistician authored a book chapter titled āThe obvious inferiority of Negroesā or something ridiculous like that. "
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trying to finish writing and someone drops directly relevant paper that i gotta go read now
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Phil Lewis
about 1 month ago
In the 1800s, a slave owner purchased over a dozen people in Georgia and set the foundation for his familyās generational wealth Generations later, a railroad company owned by one of his descendants is using eminent domain to seize land of Black farmers
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Georgia Is Letting a Railroad Seize Land a Black Family Has Owned For 100 Years
Descendants of enslaved people are fighting an attempt to use eminent domain to carve a spur through one of Georgiaās largest Blackāowned farms.
https://capitalbnews.org/georgia-railroad-eminent-domain-black-landowners/
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Krassensteins
about 2 months ago
Jesse Jackson appeared on Sesame Street in 1973. During his appearance, he led a group of children in reciting his well-known poem āI Am Somebody,ā a message focused on self-worth and empowerment The segment became one of the most memorable celebrity appearances from the early seasons of the show.
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Mar Hicks (supposedly)
about 2 months ago
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientistābecause the person felt she did didnāt deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00254-z
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Luke Knox
about 2 months ago
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nobody: education academics: "the [blank] wars" nobody: ?? education academics: "the critical [blank] pedagogy wars"
about 2 months ago
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placing your important work on ethics in social and behavioral sciences behind one of those "rent for 48 hours for $39.99" paywalls.
about 2 months ago
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sitting in my office looking out at this ice-snow
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clearing my parking space
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Victor Ray
2 months ago
"Fugitive slave catchers just need better training"--moderates in 1850, probably
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Rodger Sherman
2 months ago
if the Indiana Hoosiers just won the college football national championship, in football, you can make a difference in your local politics
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M.J. Crockett
3 months ago
Great piece on prioritizing quality over quantity in scientific publication. For those of us with labs, this necessarily involves shrinking our group size. After I got tenure I started to downsize my lab and have not regretted it one iota. More time for each student & more time to think & write.
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Iām going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too
If we donāt slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04061-w
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Artologica aka Michele Banks
3 months ago
I added a few new itty-bitty paintings to my Ko-Fi shop. Only one set of each
ko-fi.com/1626SLXL3044...
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD
3 months ago
"The system has become hyper-competitive ā so much so that it is dangerous & corrosive. The many problems that the grant system has ā incremental research, the loss of innovation ā are symptoms of the fact that too many scientists are chasing after too few grant dollars."
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www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...
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The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left
āWe can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,ā write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/nih-resign-protest-four-leaders-cite-interference-censorship/
3 months ago
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DEI Virologist
4 months ago
This is exactly why things like ethics, unconscious bias and general confronting of peopleās racism in science IS necessary and will always be necessary.
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the mind sometimes need to know about bird poop.
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Dominique Baker
4 months ago
LISTEN! The number of students of color I informally advise on publishing, fellowship applications, dissertations, job applications, fly outs, etc. could fill an auditorium. And the vast majority do not attend the institution that provides me with a W-2.
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Guardian US
4 months ago
"Thereās a freedom people are craving because theyāre feeling so constrained, surveilled and, frankly, threatened in so many other spheres." Zines have made a resurgence as communities seek to share information on everything from ICE raids to local elections.
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Gen-Zine: DIY publications find new life as form of resistance against Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/dec/10/zine-revival-organizing-social-media?CMP=us_bsky&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1765375528-1
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folks seem to be adding a lot of AI addendums. names of majors, schools, all getting "AI" added. Has anyone gone ahead and changed at the university level? Like "Texas A&M" but for Artificial Intelligence instead of agriculture. š
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yearly reminder Don't experiment on thanksgiving. š
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maybe I'm misreading the email, but I think they just floated the idea of using AI in the tenure & promotion process.
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Larrea
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Lana Sinapayen
5 months ago
People are desperately drawn to phrenology. You could set your clock by the regularity at which those stupid papers come out and are debunked. Can't people FINALLY know better? No, the urge to judge people by characteristics they can't control is too strong...
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I've actually been just standing here this whole time reading the AI discourse
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
7 months ago
It was one thing when this was about intellectual ephemera. I ver it. Mock us all day long. We do, in fact, make up words. But seeing people throw āgatekeepingā charges at practical craftspeople feels so bleak.
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I see the professional smart man is saying ridiculous things again.
7 months ago
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Retro Tech Dreams
7 months ago
MusicNet (1995) was an early "online" music store that came on a CD with music samples. You could preview tracks, add items to your shopping list, and then call a phone number to order with your credit card.
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Star Trek Minus Context
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managed to work "D1 babies" into my lecture on day 1 of the semester.
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TIA THE TALKING TITTY TITANš§æ
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Rdell47
10 months ago
This article is always relevant
www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
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'These kids are ticking time bombs': The threat of youth basketball
In part one of a two-part series, ESPN explores the dangers of youth basketball -- and how the culture of perpetual competition is jeopardizing the futures of the very stars it hopes to create.
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27125793/these-kids-ticking-bombs-threat-youth-basketball
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10 months ago
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just me going through my old memes
over 2 years ago
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over 2 years ago
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Watch while it's still available. The people in this doc are roughly my parents age. Very much still around. Very much all in living memory.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiIw...
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Meet The Families Who Defied the KKK | PBS Short Docs
YouTube video by PBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiIw55O_Mbs
11 months ago
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Annie Waldman
11 months ago
NEW: Whistleblower records show that the NIH axed research grants ā even after a federal judge blocked the cuts with an injunction.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trumpās NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show
A lawsuit led by the Washington state attorney general offers an unprecedented view of the termination of more than 600 NIH grants, including transgender research grants threatened by Trumpās executiv...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nih-cuts-transgender-research-grants
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I actually kind of like these "100 men vs a gorilla" type things. Yes there is a lot of comedy and ridiculousness. But also people are actually trying to think through a problem. How it's defined (do we get weapons?), and what might happen.
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KUOW Public Radio
12 months ago
The Trump administration has revoked the visas of nine current and postgraduate University of Washington students without prior notice to the students or school, the university said Monday.
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9 University of Washington student visas revoked by U.S. Department of State
The Trump administration has revoked the visas of nine current and postgraduate University of Washington students without prior notice to the students or school, the university said Monday.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/state-department-revokes-university-of-washington-student-visas
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George Takei
about 1 year ago
If you think this canāt happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
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