Many thanks to @marciegeffner.bsky.social for her thoughtful review of our new book! We're grateful for the opportunity to have the book's insights on Black faculty experiences in academia highlighted and shared. Read the review: marciegeffner.substack.com/p/book-revie...

For when you're trying to explain that AI is pattern recognition that doesn't actually understand anything.

Call your reps -- blue, red, purple, it doesn't matter -- about the proposed OMB science funding rule. The house can stop this. Let them know it matters for your district.

NDT and Shay in a room together is definitely my own circle of hell.

It’s the end of science as we know it, and I feel fine www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s... via @statnews.com I wrote a thing (also hi, I’m alive!).

print it out and slip it under my office door like it's 1995

This is who fried the rice.

Might have my students call my land line office phone for grade updates.

just saw some sort of demands letter flash up on my screen

somehow getting emails from one of those "institute of free thought" type places. Where free thought means "everyone here is really into eugenics".

Actual “AI” literacy would involve explaining why it's not and never will be a reliable source of information nor will it ever be a replacement for research or creativity.

always feel like I'm getting away with something when I renew my library books

got bit by a spider this morning and still had to go to work.

On April 15, APS urged Congress to act immediately to preserve Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the #NSF. ACT NOW! Tell your federal lawmakers that these cuts harm their constituents and the country! www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2026-ap...

Tough times for orgs that are trying to "do the right thing" but also curry favor with people in power. Those will inevitably conflict.

“Congress did fund NIH. That is true. The President signed the appropriation. The money exists. But the grants are not necessarily moving.” Great piece from Liz Ginexi detailing why. Add to this all of this new screening is happening with 20% less staff. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

for when your admins ask where their indirects are.

some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this

googled "famous psychology experiments" and the auto complete was "what were unethical" anyway book writing is going great.

he looks like he just taught back to back sections of research methods.

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Whiteness is a credential. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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!

sometimes I write sentences just for myself, that probably won't make it to the final draft. "That’s why there’s a decent chance your favorite 20th-century statistician authored a book chapter titled “The obvious inferiority of Negroes” or something ridiculous like that. "

trying to finish writing and someone drops directly relevant paper that i gotta go read now

In the 1800s, a slave owner purchased over a dozen people in Georgia and set the foundation for his family’s generational wealth Generations later, a railroad company owned by one of his descendants is using eminent domain to seize land of Black farmers

Jesse Jackson appeared on Sesame Street in 1973. During his appearance, he led a group of children in reciting his well-known poem “I Am Somebody,” 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.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nobody: education academics: "the [blank] wars" nobody: ?? education academics: "the critical [blank] pedagogy wars"

placing your important work on ethics in social and behavioral sciences behind one of those "rent for 48 hours for $39.99" paywalls.

sitting in my office looking out at this ice-snow

clearing my parking space

"Fugitive slave catchers just need better training"--moderates in 1850, probably

if the Indiana Hoosiers just won the college football national championship, in football, you can make a difference in your local politics

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.

I added a few new itty-bitty paintings to my Ko-Fi shop. Only one set of each ko-fi.com/1626SLXL3044...

"The system has become hyper-competitive — so much so that it is dangerous & corrosive. The many problems that the grant system has — incremental research, the loss of innovation — are symptoms of the fact that too many scientists are chasing after too few grant dollars."

at firefox

This is exactly why things like ethics, unconscious bias and general confronting of people’s racism in science IS necessary and will always be necessary.

the mind sometimes need to know about bird poop.

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.

"There’s a freedom people are craving because they’re 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.

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. 😂

yearly reminder Don't experiment on thanksgiving. 😂

maybe I'm misreading the email, but I think they just floated the idea of using AI in the tenure & promotion process.