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If you don't pivot from teaching MATH to teaching your students how to correctly use TRANSPARENCIES on the PROJECTOR they will never be able to JOIN THE WORKFORCE

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

#SleepPeeps, You may not know this, but apparently preventing SIDS is a woke neo-Marxist fraud.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Contact your reps daily to oppose Trump's science-gutting budget! 🤬 Resist.bot is an easy way - Just text SIGN PZAOIU to 50409 to send your reps the short letter I wrote earlier.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully. You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers. Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

Sometimes it feels like we all live in an enormous car and they keep yelling “we’re defunding the brakes!”

submitted 3 days ago • 108 comments

🚨HEY DORKS, WE NEED YOUR HELP🚨 We preparing for a BIG fight against Trump's attack on science and we won't stop until we win! We are grassroots and run on donations. Whether it's $5 or $500, every little bit counts in the fight to save science. #standupforscience actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

It's victim blaming. Fascists hate academia because it's an independent institution of knowledge and power. Nothing you you did or can do would stop their attacks on academia, it's ideological. It's stupid to pretend otherwise and only legitimizes the fascists.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

FYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

In case you weren't yet sure this is about racism: The word cloud below shows the most common terms in the titles and abstracts of the 1,000+ NSF grants terminated in the last couple of weeks. (source: grant-watch.us/nsf-summary....) #academicsky

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Amplifying very helpful AAUP guidance "Understanding the Law & Policies for Grant Terminations for the NSF" equally useful for NEH grantees. See esp pgs6-7 re: limits of the "no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities” phrasing used to terminate grants. www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Every time I post about LLMs and higher ed, I see disgruntled tech people/AI pushers whine. I honestly don't care, watching students imbibe the idea that they don't have to learn to read, think, write or imagine anything because the "AI will do it for them" has been the scariest thing.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Wow, was not prepared to see a flood of hate comments on here against NPR & PBS from the left. 🥺 Publicly funded news sources are essential to democracy. NPR and PBS are being targeted because they are a threat to fascism. Abandoning PBS and NPR is just doing the fascists' work for them. Donate:

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Super proud of my undergraduate college, Furman University, for giving a good ol’ FU to folks taking down higher education.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Hey RFK Jr., if you are reading this right now, I would like to personally invite you to audit my undergraduate course "Research Methods and Statistics" course next Fall, at no cost.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Not a word of this is true. Literally not a word.

submitted 6 days ago • 740 comments

you know, we research whether the baby stroller has all the features and amenities we like, not whether it will kill the baby

submitted 6 days ago • 162 comments

It’s literally called the Black Student Success Plan, so when you want to eff with it, you’ve announced your purpose.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Why is higher education in crosshairs? Because if you cripple education, suppress critical thinking, and stifle debate... people will believe any bullshit like this you sell them. #Edusky

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Being at a higher ed institution in a bible belt red state is pretty frustrating today. #Academicsky #Edusky

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Resting-State Memory Consolidation in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: https://osf.io/uz82h

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Congratulations @sacairney.bsky.social! 🧠🟦

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Short periods of rest after learning enhance memory consolidation. Does the benefit of rest differ in populations with differing resting-state brain and mental activity? How about in persons diagnosed with ADHD? New preprint from our lab (in press PLoSOne): osf.io/preprints/ps... #psychscisky 🧠🟦

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

#psychscisky

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Made this back-of-napkin map showing the % of all higher education institutions in each state who have signed the AAC&U letter. It's the familiar red state/blue state divide -- A large proportion of institutions in the bluest states are standing up, very few in red states. #Academicsky #Edusky

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

This is what a rigged economy looks like: In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker. In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker. This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker. That has got to change.

submitted 10 days ago • 749 comments

Following up on our TICS on mind blanking, check out our revised preprint! Mind the blank Behavioral, experiential, and physiological signatures of absent-mindedness www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... w/ Esteban Munoz Musat, Arthur Le Coz, @corcorana.bsky.social, Laouen Belloli, Lionel Naccache

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Like many others, Angela, Kelci, and I were disappointed to learn that the NSF grant supporting Flourish was terminated last week. Flourish remains committed, now more than ever, to our mission of uplifting pre-tenure faculty of color in psychology. Learn more & spread the word about our community.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

⏰ Ack! ⏰ Amongst the deluge, this is the first I am noticing reporting that "...late last week members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency told NSF officials to terminate the 3483 grants listed in Cruz’s report." #Academicsky

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

"Rural gentrification" may sound like an oxymoron, but it is a real phenomenon. My team Furman University built a heat map to show where it is happening in South Carolina www.postandcourier.com/greenville/n...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

My good friend Dr. Kathleen Casey is doing fabulous work in the WGSS program at Furman University in Greenville, SC, and she could use your help to continue to expand the program. We desperately need this spaces in the Southeast. open.substack.com/pub/emilytay...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me. This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.

submitted 14 days ago • 157 comments

NSF didn’t set “new priorities”… NSF illegally terminated grants

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

RFK Jr. logic: - I never heard of narcolepsy when I was a kid - Therefore, it didn't exist when I was a kid - Therefore, probably caused by red food dye Lesson: Maybe read at least 1 fucking article on a topic before spouting bullshit off the top of your head about it to the world? #sleeppeeps

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

OK, so I know that cool websites are the past, but... Is there still that site that had a hilarious publicly sourced archive of "Reviewer #2" comments? There used to be a great one like that but I can't find it. #Academicsky

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I think they may not be using the word "No" correctly in this sentence... 🤔

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder that NSF is explicitly breaking the law if/when they attempt to cancel grants that focus on promoting participation in science by underrepresented groups on that basis, incl women in science programs like NSF ADVANCE. Congress expressly directs the NSF to grant funds for this purpose. 🧪

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments