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Haley Kragness @haleykrag.bsky.social · 2d

Similar vibes at utsc (which has also been used for filming various scenes of imprisonment)

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Haley Kragness @haleykrag.bsky.social · Jul 5

the adoption of what now?!

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Jun 27

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-...

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · Jun 26

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
•Learn more & apply for data access: www.nbdc-datahub.org

@theabcdstudy.bsky.social

NBDC Data Hub

NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Sharing Platform: Unifying ABCD and HBCD data management in one powerful platform.

www.nbdc-datahub.org

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Jun 18

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...

two little girls are dancing on a stage .

Alt: two little girls are dancing on a stage, one snaps her fingers

media.tenor.com

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Haley Kragness @haleykrag.bsky.social · Jun 5

see also phase/faze

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Haley Kragness @haleykrag.bsky.social · May 31

I had to do SOMETHING with the *waiting-for-baby-to-arrive* portion of my parental leave! 😁

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Haley Kragness @haleykrag.bsky.social · May 31

see taskmaster also for examples of functional fixedness, common ground, mnemonics, and more to come .. (work in progress!)

taskmasterpsych.blogs.bucknell.edu

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Haley Kragness @haleykrag.bsky.social · May 25

you mean the one with darth kiki?

a close up of darth maul 's face with a black hood on

ALT: a close up of darth maul 's face with a black hood on

media.tenor.com

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Haley Kragness @haleykrag.bsky.social · May 21

kidney stone 3 months pp 😭

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · May 14

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.

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Martha W. Alibali @marthaalibali.bsky.social · May 14

"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."

Michigan Advance @michiganadvance.com · May 13

The National Science Foundation was established 75 years ago this week, but as Professor Scott L. Greer writes in this commentary, it’s “been a bit of a rough birthday party.”

michiganadvance.com/2025/05/13/a...

A troubled birthday for the National Science Foundation • Michigan Advance

Happy 75th birthday, National Science Foundation! On May 10, 1950, Congress established one of the world’s best value, highest impact, and, frankly, coolest science agencies. The NSF finances federal ...

michiganadvance.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · May 9

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.

Kevin Brennan @newba.com · May 9

This is exactly the problem. If AI can do the work of a junior team member, it still needs to be supervised and managed—so how do you teach that?

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · May 9

Was at a conference dinner a while back and one guy said "The future is AI. It doesn't replace senior developers, but no more need for juniors."

To which i replied:

"Where do you think senior developers come from. Straight from the womb?"

He went quiet, then wandered off to a different huddle.

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · May 9

-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

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · May 9

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."

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · May 8

New RSV vaccine, treatment linked to dramatic fall in baby hospitalizations arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

New RSV vaccine, treatment linked to dramatic fall in baby hospitalizations

CDC study finds big declines in hospitalizations—and they may be underestimates.

arstechnica.com

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · May 8

Another key difference is that the answers calculators provide are accurate

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · May 8

People keep comparing ChatGPT to a calculator to me and like even if it were that simple of a comparison you still need to learn math. You still need to be able to count and do arithmetic before you rely on the calculator. And you should be able to do easy math in your head and by hand

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · May 3

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:

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · May 3

oh boy I hate being right

This is to inform you that the above referenced National Endowment for the Arts award has been terminated, effective May 31, 2025.

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Haley Kragness @haleykrag.bsky.social · Apr 23

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!

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Nihil Dev @nihildev.bsky.social · Apr 21

Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.

www.ourhealthroi.com

Our Health ROI

Explore how your tax dollars fund life‑saving medical research.

www.ourhealthroi.com

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Kathy Hirsh-Pasek @kathyhirshpasek.bsky.social · Apr 20

Important piece in @washingtonpost.com on the War against children www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Donald Trump’s war on children

The administration is divesting from future generations. It will cost America dearly.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · Apr 13

"What emerges is a more intimate picture of Öztürk and how a child development researcher charged with no crime ended up in a crowded cell in Louisiana." www.propublica.org/article/rume...

American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell

“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have be...

www.propublica.org

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · Apr 10

COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

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Haley Kragness @haleykrag.bsky.social · Apr 9

when I moved to canada this didn't even strike me as odd because it is also a common construction in philly, as in, "yew dun yor hoagie??"

Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · Apr 9

Here in Canada some people say “I’m done my dinner” instead of “I’m done *with* my dinner” and I’m still getting used to it

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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · Apr 7

U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)?

Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions.

U.S. Applicant Week:

www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

#AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool

US Applicant Week

www.grad.ubc.ca

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