Ever wondered what you need to do to blow away journal reviewers and academic talk audiences with content that is both maximally fun AND maximally informative? Tune in & you might just learn the secret formula... 👀 Thank you for humoring me and coming on!! @ebonawitz.bsky.social

Super fun chatting with Adani @adani.bsky.social You can check out our convo below.

Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

audio version courtesy of @ebonawitz.bsky.social here: on.soundcloud.com/CYE0rKB2RZAZ...

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Of course, @standupforscience.net is taking action. MARK YOU CALENDAR for our EMERGENCY SCIENCE MEETING June 2nd at 4pm et. We will be giving an overview of the rule and assigning EVERY SCIENTIST IN AMERICA their marching orders. Register here: events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...

"I am told by several lesser gods that the boulder understands the seriousness of the moment, though I will grant that the stone has not said this to me directly."

Review request Spouse with open milk 🤝 "smell this and tell me if it's bad?"

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I’m posting a lot about Colbert, but it’s because I am much sadder about his tenure ending than I imagined. It just says something so sad about the nature of this political moment. Yet, I’m also so thrilled for him to have the freedom to do whatever his heart desires.

Glad to see this from the president of Johns Hopkins and the chancellor of U Kansas A rare public acknowledgement from university leaders that the current NIH and NSF funding delays are not okay and are a violation of Congressional intent. www.wsj.com/opinion/get-...

We just got approved to hire a teaching professor in Quantitative Methods! This is the *very* rare tenure track teaching position at Berkeley. I'll be chairing the search committee. Official job ad coming later this summer!

Reposting for no particular reason... ok, there is a reason.

“The fact is that we’re looking at a real drop in research being done by the people of MIT… Frankly, it’s a loss for the nation. When you shrink the pipeline of basic discovery research, you choke off the flow of future solutions, innovations and cures — & you shrink the supply of future scientists”

out now in Psych Review, a project many years in the making: "Reverse Engineering the Centered Self" bit.ly/4wp9fgN

I went to go look, and this time last year, NSF SBE had funded 216 awards. This year, they have funded 2.

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare -Universal healthcare (But get your mom flowers, too)

they wrote on parchment that they hung to dry the ink, but the teachers couldn't grade last night because it was windy and the canvas was down

Daughter's Google AI Overview attached below. I guess in medias res is, in general, a good literature choice, since it bypasses "101002010410101004100234012010100201041010100410023401201010020..." Stories would be pretty boring and weird if they all started that way.

We are looking for a new colleague with expertise in middle-childhood/adolescence developmental science to join us in Copenhagen. Open rank and can be both applied and/or basic science. Please share with relevant colleagues. employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

Want to spark conversation and build community at #CogSci2026? Submit your proposal to host an Affinity Group or a Discussion Group session! The deadline is May 18! 🗓️ Learn more at cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-affin...

Based almost entirely on something Tomer Ullman told me, and I hereby nominate him as First Dean of Shenanigans. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/shenan... PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

Two very good pieces documenting the dismantling of U.S. Science. The first one by Philipp Markolin: www.protagonist-scie... 1/3

My story on the NSB terminations:

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

In FY24, the Harvard Management Corporation (responsible for the university endowment) paid $89M in compensation: paddockpost.com/2026/02/10/e... During this same period, the endowment underperformed the S&P500 by about $4B.

I love how we’re all trying to just live our lives normally as our gov’t charges the key organization that investigates & dismantles white supremacist groups w fraud and a Texas R1 university just banned all mention/study/and teaching of anything related to sexual orientation and gender identity.

Today, our #SCIMaP team released an impact analysis of the White House proposed FY 2027 NIH and NSF budgets. Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US. scienceimpacts.org 🧵

New paper in PBR: "Working memory’s pointer system is governed by physical objecthood, not spatiotemporal information" rdcu.be/fd2tY Without valid WM pointers, we miss OBVIOUS changes in visible items; the study shows that this "resetting" process is all about objects and not spatiotemporal change!

🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences. Steps to counter this are in motion. If you - have an SBE proposal under review - serve on an SBE grant panel You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2

Hi friends at #CDS. If you're looking for drop-in hours, I'll be hanging out by the windows/couches at the cds hotel reception desk (by the free latte machine!) from 1:45 to 2:30 today. Students and all junior folk are especially encouraged to drop by to introduce yourself and have a chat!

The Causality in Cognition Lab -- a supportive, bluesky-colored team -- is looking for a predoc to join us! Here are infos about the lab (cicl.stanford.edu) and the position (careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...). The application deadline is May 1st. Please share, thank you 🙏

Excited (and cold) for my first ever #CDS2026! I'll be presenting work by the 'Dropping Things' dream team in the workshop on "Counterfactual thinking: What is it good for?" Paper sneak peek: cicl.stanford.edu/papers/rose2...

Jumping on the #CDS2026 presentation bandwagon. Check out these talks and posters by the Computational Cognitive Development Lab & Friends, if you're so inclined. Also, I'll post times for a coffee/tea/cocoa hour where you can drop by at chat/introduce yourself in the next day or so! (Stay tuned.)

Concerned about the possible dismantling of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Directorate of NSF?? www.nature.com/articles/d41... Find out what's happening and what we can do to protect behavioral science with @fabbs.org Friday April 10th at 1:30 ET. Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

@edmarkey.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @trahan.house.gov

ORiGINAL SIN reviewed in @theguardian.com: “Harden is exceptionally skilled at interweaving the personal and the scientific. She writes about her own life experiences … with rare, dangerous honesty” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

Giving folks a sense of what the cuts to NSF funding in the 2027 President's Budget Request actually looks like. Note the significant cuts across domains--even to research security! STEM and NCSES aren't captured for prior years, so they appear to be cuts, even though they are not.

Some science cuts in Trump's proposed FY27 budget ❌ NIH: -$5B, including all of NIEHS, NIMHD, FIC & NCCIH. ❌ EPA: -4.6B ❌ NSF: -3.8B ❌ NASA Science: -3.4 Billion ❌ NOAA: -1.8B, including the entire Oceanic and Atmospheric Research budget ($605M) ❌ AHRQ: All of it. -$296M, 100% And there's more.

The complete destruction of American cognitive science is happening right now

Attending CDS 2026? Consider joining us at the morning pre-conference workshop on intuitive theories of care and protection in development @cogdevsoc.bsky.social

Postdoctoral fellowship in developmental science at Wesleyan University. Joint in H. Barth & R. T. Dubar labs. Particular focus on undergrad research mentoring. 1 year, extendable to 2 years. Share and apply! wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

Officially out TODAY in Child Development! It's good to try challenging tasks and explore on your own, but not when it might be too hard and help isn't available. Children get that. w/ Kat Shannon, Aneesa Conine-Nakano, Willem Frankenhuis, @mcxfrank.bsky.social academic.oup.com/chidev/advan...

Friends and colleagues can usually parse my voice-to-text typos and are gracious with my regular errors. But I definitely felt the need to clarify things when I texted that I needed more time with all the "students' feces".

The Cognitive Construction Lab is hiring a full-time lab manager! Come work with me at UMass Amherst, starting this Fall. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3dpz5m3j

Looking forward to hearing @kph3k.bsky.social talk about it at the Harvard Bookstore tomorrow 7PM!

I'm hiring a new lab manager for my lab @ UCSD! For more info on the lab, check out our website: lillab.ucsd.edu Target start date is June 1 (flexible) and application deadline is March 26. Please share with anyone you think might be a good fit! Apply here: employment.ucsd.edu/laboratory-c...

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026

🥁Now announcing the winner of the 2026 Stanton Prize: Congratulations, Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ This honor will be celebrated at the upcoming meeting of the SPP