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My postdoctoral fellowship application is due this Saturday, March 1st. My postdocs have done exceptionally well on the job market, so get your applications in! I accept postdocs that already have jobs-- note the position is full-time & in-person at Stanford. postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

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🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025. www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...

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If you would like to teach theoretical modeling skills to your psychology or cognitive science students, or would like to learn these skills yourself, check out our open online textbook: computationalcognitivescience.github.io/lovelace/

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Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

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So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

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The Program Officer of my R01 to be discussed next month was just fired. FIRED. She was going to send me a feedback on a Specific Aims page, but sorry, she was fired. If you are a scientist in the US and haven't gone nuts or lost you mind by know, you are completely delusional.

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Mount Holyoke College is hiring a 1yr visitor in Devt Psych. Job ad here: mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

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This year as well, during 14-18 July 2025, I will be teaching an introduction to Bayesian data analysis at the MILS 2025 summer school in Gent: www.mils.ugent.be

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If you have an undergrad that will graduate this year but who needs a little more research experience before their next step, encourage them to apply to the UConn RAMP program. genome-postbac.biology.clas.uconn.edu. The application deadline for the 2025 cohort is February 21st. 🧪 1/2

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PS joins fellow scientific organizations in opposing the federal research funding freeze, data access restrictions, and proposed cuts to grant infrastructure costs at NIH. Read here: https://buff.ly/419qOUp

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The MIT Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science is a growing resource, expertly edited and designed, with high quality contributors (OK OK I am one of them) oecs.mit.edu

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Please share Dick Aslin's excellent blog on indirect costs: dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-pay...

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Happy Black History Month ✊🏾 This month, as we do every month, we celebrate Black history and all the many accomplishments our people have made inside and outside of science. We are all Black history yall. We love our community and wish you all joy and peace 🖤

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Never ask a linguist "Is that a word?" because you will always get the same response, "IT IS NOW!" 😃 delivered with some variation of jazz hands like you just won a very low stakes game show and I'm so sorry it's just part of the training it's not something we can control.

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If your research could be affected by such policies, you can use OSF or similar services to post a preprint with a CC-BY license to ensure it is accessible to everyone: osf.io/preprints OSF is open source, free-to-use, and maintained by @cos.io a 501(c)3 charity.

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Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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If White House truly believes that broader impacts, like getting more minorities into science, is unpopular then they should pass a law. Otherwise NSF must continue to fund what the money Congress gave it.

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It is officially safe to block your calendars, sociolinguistics peeps: NWAV 53: Sociolinguistics, Conflict, Justice, and Peace will be held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Nov 6-8, 2025. CFP to follow in February.

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I’m looking for a postdoc to join my lab at the University of Sydney for a project investigating how perception changes during walking (VR, psychophysics, EEG, AI). Full time, 3 years fixed-term position; full details here: usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA... Please repost 🥹

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"A U.S. judge on Tuesday temporarily paused part of the Trump administration's sweeping directive to pause federal loans, grants and other financial assistance, granting a win to advocacy groups who said the policy would be devastating." www.reuters.com/legal/non-pr...

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If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me. Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.

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Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not). Please respond to this post with your institution and materials. THANK YOU!

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Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

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Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

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Generative AI is not an assistive device because being a bad writer is not a disability.

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If you have tips about the DEI mandates coming from the Trump Administration, if you are being impacted or know of others being impacted, email me at [email protected].

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If you’re a federal govt employee targeted for leave or termination on the basis of your DEI work, please file an EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) complaint & retain legal counsel. I’m a former NIH PI. Happy to refer you to a law firm that has successfully sued the govt many times! Pls repost 🙏❤️

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🧵: I am getting texts on what scientists should do in this perilous and scary moment. My advice: your biggest power is to organize through your professional societies. A few ideas -

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Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able. #academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social

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What emotions does music express? Through 3 experiments with association tasks & context-based activities with 5000+ participants & 600+ affect terms, we report structures that differ from music-induced emotions such as romantic, in love, free, & festive #musicscience doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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We are looking for #DLD #SLT #SLP #Speechie researchers, lecturers, professors to fill out our 5 minute survey. What textbooks do you use to teach about #DevelopmentalLanguageDisorder #DLD? What taxonomies do you know about which discuss child language disorders? @ashajournals.bsky.social

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Si la migra te detiene, ¡recuerda esta canción! No tienes que firmar ni decir nada. Tienes derecho a permanecer en silencio, y tienes derecho a un abogado. ¡Mantén la calma y recuerda tus derechos! #conozcasusderechos #knowyourrights #immigration

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Our immigration system should be about compassion and celebration, not incarceration and separation. To our immigrant friends, family members, and neighbors: Know Your Rights www.boston.gov/departments/...

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My MLK day piece is up. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

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I'll tell you about turtlenecks. 🧵

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ICE is planning immigration raids starting Tuesday. Please amplify.

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Helpful ICE Information from JB Pritzger of Chicago, IL. Please share!

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People, just stop doing Frontiers special issues. Find a nice diamond open access journal, and self-publish and collaboratively peer review the set of papers you all want to write. Do not give Frontiers money. They add no value. If anything, they hurt your reputation. MDPI is of course even worse.

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just another reminder that this semantics VAP position here at Swarthmore is still accepting applications til 1/27! apply.interfolio.com/160957 please share around! #linguistics

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Postdoc alert! We have a postdoc position open on our T32 training grant in lang sci at UConn (for US Citizens only, regrettably). Work with one or more of our mentorship team (including me!) Details here, and feel free to reach out w/ questions. cncct.research.uconn.edu/postdoc-trai...

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I am extremely excited to announce that for the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!! Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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💣 praatpicture version 1.4.0 on CRAN! 💣 (1/3)

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