A researcher says she made up a disease with two posts on Medium, which led to Copilot telling users it was "intriguing and relatively rare." Posting two preprint papers about it online led to ChatGPT diagnosing people with it. 🧪
skepchick.org/2026/04/chat...
When I was #pregnant, I hated the term "baby brain". My brain was functioning just fine, thanks very much.
And now that I'm in #perimenopause (or so they tell me), I'm starting to hate terms like "brain fog". How about "I'm-doing-every-fucking-thing fog"?
I support this research, but ♀️> hormones
IMPACT OF PARENTHOOD ON UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT. Line graph shows how the probability of holding a research position changes from four years before to seven years after having children.
Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s
Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ
Your review is both painful and accurate. Damn you!
(but also thanks for your time and effort...I know that constructive [scathing] criticism takes time 😂)
#PsychSciSki #AcademicSky
The "2-body problem" affects many in #AcademicSky & #PsychSciSky.
Join us April 28, 2pm EDT, for an open & honest conversation with women who have navigated this reality firsthand. Jointly organized by @sparksociety.bsky.social @wicsc-trainee.bsky.social
Register: tinyurl.com/yc86by7f
Love to my parents, married 50yrs today! So grateful for the #love they gave me and each other ❤️ #hippies #anniversary
Some of these meetings could have been emails. #AcademicSky
“Feel free to adapt and reuse. No attribution needed (…) If you make an adaption that you also want to share, I’d love to know about it, too.”
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/04/08/r...
I am a medieval historian!! The world always is in a state, it has never not been in a state, joy and delight and beauty is what humanity exists for
Flying back on the red-eye so you don't miss your lab meeting (or children any longer): hardcore or stupid? 😂✈️🥱
Having a great visit at SFU, reviewing their Biomedical Physiology & Kinesiology Dept. Packed days, but I'm trying to cram in some "culture" while answering emails 🙃
I have had a sudden influx of review requests, way more than usual. Possibly bc of my CNS talk? or social media posts? Further evidence that I should stay home and shut up. 🙊😶🌫️
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky
Congratulations, @ayannakim.bsky.social! The society (and psych in general) are lucky to have your leadership.
I was about to do a thing that used to be done by an admin person who was recently laid off, and then stopped myself. This isn't my job.
#solidarity #AdministrativeCreep #AcademicSky
Mid-life thoughts: it may be time to start feigning incompetence. #PsychSciSKy #AcademicSky
How do the brain’s event representations change as we gain familiarity with an experience?
Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as events become familiar. Slow-timescale structure predicts memory.
Excited to share this work w/ Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!
Excited to see this work out! We show that attention can rapidly learn to ignore salient distractions within 1-2 exposures. Interestingly, this learned suppression is highly contingent on an initial instance of capture!
More to come!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@yuezhang-mu.bsky.social
the feed is incredible today bc you can't tell which posts are about Trump and his world-ending clown show and which are about a football match in Europe and it doesn't matter because they make perfect sense either way
this is my favorite slide from the talk though, because it's all the doctorates I've hooded since I've been a faculty member...
we always focus on the impact of our research when I really think the greatest impact we have is on the folks we get the privilege of mentoring
Goodbye Vancouver. Thanks for the good eats (oh, and science). ✌️ #CNS2026
(Even the airport #Poké is good!)
Conferences are for science, but they are also for catching up with old friends. Nice to see these and so many others at #CNS2026
You know what's better than eating ice cream?🍦Eating ice cream and seeing @retorresh.bsky.social's cool poster (C115) about the time it takes to decode high vs low memorability objects using EEG! Later today #CNS2026
If you're at #CNS2026 and interested in aging & memory, come see @emilyedavis.bsky.social's poster on implicit associative memory tomorrow at 8am (#63)
Bernie Sander’s 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose
Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why?
If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment.
Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.
TFW you've missed a couple emails/wrote down the wrong meeting times and you're wondering what else is going to come out of the woodwork...🫠
#AcademicSky
It's okay, he told the people (or what's left of them) to rise up
My measly human brain, with my measly human hours left on earth, does not want to read your manuscript/assignment/thesis if you used #AI to help write it.
Fuck off, go ask a robot.
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
Back to in-lab studies it is!
(which we were already doing, really, because online participants are doing loads of other shit in addition to your task - ask me how I know!) #PsychSciSky
Just spent way too long revising procedures that will inevitably lead to an argument with the person who devised the procedures. And really, it's difficult to convey how little I care about this... #AcademicSky