I was invited to give a campus-wide keynote at a flagship university for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. I was offered a speaker’s fee of $150 and parking validation.
These schools really let us know their values based on where they spend their money.
"I've done this and benefited from it but hey graduate students and untenured faculty, you shouldn't do it because it's theoretically boring (in the eyes of Paul Bloom)". Signed, Paul Bloom.
Is he leaving NIH?
So many bad forms at Temple!
I've done cognitive training studies. I 100% do not believe these effects (for reasons obvious to anyone who knows this literature).
Lawn darts? It gets better. The best part of my elementary school was Show-and-Tell. We were all jealous of the kids who brought in their Christmas cross bows. Every few years there would be a hunting related injury - a lost eye, a shot-off toe.
Twin cities resident here. Why is the NY Times using their resources to interview and write this article where rural people are bashing the Twin Cities. We are under invasion by ice agents. There was another shooting last night. People are getting dragged out of their houses. US citizens are being detained. They are pulling people over indiscriminately just because they look a certain way. There is so much bad stuff happening and the news is not even capturing the full extent. Please spend more resources covering this. Not interviewing people who do not understand what is happening. What is happening here is terrifying and needs to be the front page of every newspaper. National news does not seem to be getting it. All NY Times resources in Mn need to be spent on documenting the brutal behavior of the Feds. People need to understand what could be coming to them. Here in the Twin Cities I feel like we have been completely abandoned by government. Local governments are unable to stop the brutalisation of their residents. It is traumatic and it is institutional betrayal.
Read your comment section, NYT.
Also, making us completely redo our syllabi and all readings with little to no support. But hey, we have the Calm app now!
The 2025 Cold Spring Harbor Labs, Single Cell Analysis Meetings are here. This is the longest running single cell meeting, started in 2009. Please register and send an abstract!
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streetslab.berkeley.edu
@saukaspengler.bsky.social
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Great paper by @noranewcombe.bsky.social et al. on Pattern separation and pattern completion in early childhood. Predict that autistic children would have trouble with holistic, not with detail episodic memory (according to WCC hypothesis).
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Amazing work by Dr. Yin Wang, Jamie Reilly, Haroon Popal, and others. The scale of this work is breathtaking.
This resonated with me because I just had to fill out a BS travel request. Took 20 minutes. Some staffer then had to spend 20 minutes reviewing it. Such a waste of time and energy.
Standing up for science in Philly!
Chicago is one of my favorite cities! Congratulations!
This is how it’s done.
Neuroscientists at UC Davis, Yale, and UC San Diego, go down the hall and ask that they stand up for your profession.
The Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH.
GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC.
Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.
Goes without saying for scientists:
This means Musk and his kids have access to grant applications, study section reports, internal scoring, RPPRs. The core of the best ideas in US science. Will they steal those ideas?
#scicomm #neuroskyence #evodevo #publichealth 🧪🧑🔬
Hi all, I'm a WIRED journalist on the science desk. If you're a government scientist or federally funded researcher with info to share about the Trump transition, please feel free to contact me securely on Signal: emullin.06
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A split image from Fox News Channel. On the left, Trump in a suit and blue tie is speaking at a podium with a microphone. On the right, two images show extensive destruction and rubble in what appears to be a war-torn area, the Gaza Strip. The text at the bottom reads, 'Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip and rebuild it to stabilize Middle East.
That protest vote isn’t working out so well.
This is only the beginning.
Letter reading, "Dear agency employees, We are taking steps to close all agency DEIA offices and end all DEIA-related contracts in accordance with President Trump’s executive orders titled Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions. These programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination. We are aware of efforts by some in government to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language. If you are aware of a change in any contract description or personnel position description since November 5, 2024 to obscure the connection between the contract and DEIA or similar ideologies, please report all facts and circumstances to DEIAtruth@opm.gov within 10 days. There will be no adverse consequences for timely reporting this information. However, failure to report this information within 10 days may result in adverse consequences. Thank you for your attention to this important matter. Janet Petro"
Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
I think pretty much everyone who might be concerned in UK science (plus interested newspaper readers like me, who have been following the story which goes back months) will understand what this is about. But for info: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
you look much slimmer in powder blue
Are the costs are hidden? Seneca talked about gifts and favors as a sort of debt. To think otherwise is naive (it does make you wonder about universities and their relationships to billionaire donors).
My recent paper in Economic Journal:
In the Econ job market men and women are recommended differently: letters for women stress hard work, those for men more likely highlight brilliance. This affects job placement.
Link to Paper: t.co/HUieaMuERd
With Giovanni Facchini and Markus Eberhardt
Interesting how the Great Lakes States are pulling away from the rest of the Midwest.
