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catholics: oh hey u guys are back early me: pope's woke catholics: what? me: grabs rosary, heads toward the confessional pope's woke

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Crack for Latin nerds like me.

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Excellent blog post about estimating task time! Also feeling weirdly self-satisfied at the mathematical justification of my personal rules, (team member/dev estimate times 2 for my own planning, and times 5-10 with external stakeholders depending on the stakes/certainty needed.)

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Just a normal evening using a normal medium of communication to find out vital info on federal grant disbursement and also whether Tom Holland's 2017 lip sync rendition of Rihanna's "Umbrella" still goes as hard as we remember (it does.)

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North Carolina is second biggest loser when it comes to NIH grant terminations. This will have ripple effects across the state, making it a less desirable place to live. Check out how much your state has lost in health research funding.

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I keep coming across more employer/job listings for those looking for work in social science/education/public policy research fields. Seven links listed below. 👇 1. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 2. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 3. www.purposephilcareer.com 4. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

We all know the rules. This comes on your timeline you're obliged to share it.

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i will never apologize for a post

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

🪓 The US #government is #killing #science. Staff at the US National Science Foundation were told on 30 April to stop awarding all funding. In 2 weeks, #NSF has #terminated ~1,040 #grants that would have awarded US$739 million to #researchers & their institutions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Another amazing postdoc whose funding was cancelled. Dr. Zhang is doing basic research on how children develop stereotypes based on the statistics of their social environment. This is cutting-edge psychological research that's now been interrupted 😠

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

It will be critical in the coming months and years to support junior scholars impacted by politically-motivated cuts to science funding. One potential pathway for philanthropic funders (after the lawsuits are resolved) is to prioritize funding cancelled NSF postdoctoral fellowships & CAREER grants.

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

Marianna is someone I knew as an RA and I have always thought that she will have an amazing, impactful career. I am not surprised she's coming out swinging, and I'm rooting for her and AAUP all the way. She's someone that any university or country should be delighted to have.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

It's about time

submitted 14 days ago • 45 comments

LA Paul uses durian as an example in transformative experience -- 'how can you rationally choose to eat durian, if you don't know what it tastes like?' so when I cover 'big decisions' in my class, I give the option of eating durian. Here are student descriptions of the experience:

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

✨ ✏️ The final meerkat sketches are ready! Straight from the Open Science Retreat #OSR25 in 🇨🇭 1/8

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

All, for a thesis student, please recommend any good guides for analyzing qualitative data, especially, but not exclusively, with examples using R/tidyverse?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

A good step. Brown, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Penn, MIT among the 150+ signatories. But Columbia, Northwestern, Hopkins, Stanford, Caltech, UC except for Riverside, among those who fail to sign.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

I'm happy to see that my institution (MIT) is on this list - all US academic researchers should check whether their institution has signed the AACU statement -- and contact your leadership accordingly!

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Stanford, notably missing. Anyone working at a university missing from this list should be organizing to find out why.

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Unfortunately, the NSF grant that supports our work has been terminated. This is a setback, but our mission has not changed. We will continue to work hard on making cognitive science a more inclusive field. Stay tuned for upcoming events.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Even if we rebuild NSF and NIH in 2029, the long-term damage to US science is that the value of federal funding to researchers now has to be discounted by 25% to factor in the chance that regime change will void all agreements. Would be smart to pass a law explicitly preventing that.

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

Some say the world will end in FOIA Some say in ICE

submitted 21 days ago • 61 comments

Hi again! You may have noticed our position for a new recruitment coordinator was paused for a new approval process, but the posting is back up now and we extended the priority deadline to 5/2!! Please share! ⭐️

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

splitting my time evenly between being mildly annoyed at people who think a survey being conducted online automatically makes it suspect (it doesn't) and people who think "the survey was conducted online" is an adequate methodology statement (it isn't)

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Good question! The short version, which is still annoyingly long: The big question with online surveys (or any surveys, really) is "how did you find and select people for your survey?"

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Yes! Crystal already sort of alluded to this, but line btwn raw data, 'generally clean' and 'modified for analysis' is both field specific (some decisions seem obviously insane to 1 field while common in another) and down to individual researchers (some decisions are heterogenous within a field)

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Today's Psych-DS highlight is folder structure! On the one hand, Psych-DS is extremely permissive compared to other standards what's inside data/ - flat list of files, subfolders📂📂📂, whatever. On the other it's a shift from many people's current workflows - if it's NOT data, get it out of there!!

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments