you can just not fund this shit under any circumstances
you don’t have to pretend they need better training, or are doing an important job incorrectly
they’re just racist thugs doing ethnic cleansing and the whole gang should be in jail
Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open
the government is claiming this was an act of self-defense, so it's important to remember the last time that they shot someone and flat-out, demonstrably lied through their teeth to cover up for it
dismantle ICE and salt the earth it grew from
more vivid to my mind is the dialup sound sequence
AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING
HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS?
HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON?
HOW??????????
What is happening at Ursinus right now appears to be directly out of the higher ed consultant playbook.
Gut the institution of those who deliver on the core academic mission to ‘cut costs’ — without acknowledging the costs of those cuts.
More people should be talking about this.
i made a small personal gift because CHS is *THE* reason i can progress my research program and train students in developmental science from my small town in rural pennsylvania. thank you CHS team!!!!!
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”
Similar vibes at utsc (which has also been used for filming various scenes of imprisonment)
the adoption of what now?!
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
Our demands, see link
Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss):
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
The NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Hub is now available!
•Researchers can explore ABCD & HBCD Study data in one place – with robust query & data analysis tools, documentation, & workflows
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@theabcdstudy.bsky.social
Been quiet lately for a good reason (vacation), but hopping onto to say:
🚨 NEW NSF LAWSUIT TODAY!!!
🥳🥳🥳
Targets grant terminations & freezes in spending congressionally appropriated funds.
Press release: democracyforward.org/updates/coal...
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
see also phase/faze
I had to do SOMETHING with the *waiting-for-baby-to-arrive* portion of my parental leave! 😁
see taskmaster also for examples of functional fixedness, common ground, mnemonics, and more to come .. (work in progress!)
taskmasterpsych.blogs.bucknell.edu
kidney stone 3 months pp 😭
Senator Alsobrooks: You’ve been unable to address specific questions about your agency. Can you name which office the Safe to Sleep program operates out of?
RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times
Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.
"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."
Extrapolating from history: the labor market will cannibalize mid-tier knowledge workers, burn out senior knowledge workers, then shout at colleges & govt for not making enough labor-market ready grads, then govt will blame moms for not making K-12 prepare kids for college pre-labor-market skills.
-Across the 4 years of the grant 22! undergrads participated in the research process learning about experimental design and psychological research
We talk a lot about how the elimination of NSF funding affects grad student and postdocs- it it also diminishes the richness of undergraduate education
So therefore the court finds that she does not pose danger to community or present risk of flight.
THE COURT ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OZTURK FROM CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY.
"Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."
New RSV vaccine, treatment linked to dramatic fall in baby hospitalizations arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Another key difference is that the answers calculators provide are accurate
okay
this is an emergency assistance thread for anyone who got this National Endowment for the Arts email today
some of you can still get your money and I’m going to tell you how
article to come later this weekend but here is the Cliffs Notes version:
hey #devpsychsky my lab group is wondering .... any lit out there on gendered preferences for toys based on their gross vs. fine motor affordances? i feel like there's probably stuff on this but maybe we're using the wrong keywords!
