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Kristen Bottema-Beutel
@kbottemabeutel.bsky.social
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Professor of Special Education at Boston College. I research autistic interpersonal interaction and social development. She/her. COI log: https://t.co/YwzPvxEyVb
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drsarahjwhite.bsky.social
Have to share this amazing thread in response to my random shout out for #emca writing on cognitive processing!
dollyeldritch.bsky.social xX💖🌹Xx_dolly_Angelic_xX🌹💖Xx @dollyeldritch.bsky.social · 17h
I thought about this a bit in relation to autistic children's "delays" responding to FPPs. Rendle-Short (2014) noted extended intraturn silences could be understood as reflecting extended processing time due to cognitive difficulty (as in cogpsych) but could also just reflect "desire to withdraw".
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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katestarbird.bsky.social
The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901
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November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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rbtownsend.bsky.social
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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booksofm.com
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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petertarras.bsky.social
"And I guess that’s why I hate AI in the classroom as much as I do. Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a savior. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection."
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
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November 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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francescaorfw.bsky.social
📌 New paper: “Producing Trustworthiness: Locating the Adequacy of Findings in Interactional Research,” published in Qualitative Inquiry.

#EMCA (EMCA-adjacent) #LSI #QualitativeInquiry

doi.org/10.1177/1077...
Producing Trustworthiness: Locating the Adequacy of Findings in Interactional Research - Francesca A. Williamson, Danielle Layton, Jessica Nina Lester, 2025
This article explores the notion of research trustworthiness for ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EMCA) studies. Informed by radical reflexivity, we ...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
"By any consistent standard, if Summers is unfit to work for each of these institutions [from which he resigned], he is equally unfit to teach at our school. Harvard should not be the only institution in America where Summers remains above reproach."

🔥🔥🔥

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The Professor and the Pedophile | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Summers should choose the most straightforward path and resign. Should he refuse to, though, the University must cut ties with its former president to the greatest extent possible.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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joshuaraclaw.com
Intuit to pay OpenAI over $100 million for model access, ChatGPT integrates with TurboTax Dr Manhattan speech, looking at the stars saying “I am tired of earth, these people”
November 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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elmanubohn.bsky.social
⚠️ New Postdoc or PhD position open (3 years+) ⚠️

🚩Developmental milestones across cultures 🌍

Based @leuphana.bsky.social , in collaboration with @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

Please share/apply!

Link: tinyurl.com/58dsn43u
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November 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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sparccenter.bsky.social
"As we have demonstrated, different states face different #SpecialEducation teacher turnover problems. This suggests that the most promising solutions might vary across states."

Read more about our recent findings in our article with @brookings.edu: www.brookings.edu/articles/sta...
States face different special education staffing challenges that require targeted responses | Brookings
Special education teacher turnover varies by state, calling for targeted, locally informed policy solutions.
www.brookings.edu
November 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
kbottemabeutel.bsky.social
Just finished this and can’t recommend it enough. Read it!
The cover of “Disabling intelligences: legacies of eugenics and how we are wrong about AI” by Rua M. Williams
November 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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wtfis2bdone.bsky.social
Right?! I yelled my way through it.

I’m currently obsessed w this piece.

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
November 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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dsquintana.bsky.social
Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉

As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Transparent and comprehensive statistical reporting is critical for ensuring the credibility, reproducibility, and interpretability of psychological research. This paper offers a structured set of guidelines for reporting statistical analyses in quantitative psychology, emphasizing clarity at both the planning and results stages. Drawing on established recommendations and emerging best practices, we outline key decisions related to hypothesis formulation, sample size justification, preregistration, outlier and missing data handling, statistical model specification, and the interpretation of inferential outcomes. We address considerations across frequentist and Bayesian frameworks and fixed as well as sequential research designs, including guidance on effect size reporting, equivalence testing, and the appropriate treatment of null results. To facilitate implementation of these recommendations, we provide the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology (TSRP) Checklist that researchers can use to systematically evaluate and improve their statistical reporting practices (https://osf.io/t2zpq/). In addition, we provide a curated list of freely available tools, packages, and functions that researchers can use to implement transparent reporting practices in their own analyses to bridge the gap between theory and practice. To illustrate the practical application of these principles, we provide a side-by-side comparison of insufficient versus best-practice reporting using a hypothetical cognitive psychology study. By adopting transparent reporting standards, researchers can improve the robustness of individual studies and facilitate cumulative scientific progress through more reliable meta-analyses and research syntheses.
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
kbottemabeutel.bsky.social
What an enormous loss, and how lucky we are to have been on the same timeline as Alice Wong.
November 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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autismcrisis.bsky.social
Assessing the literature, finding "serious flaws, inconsistencies, and contradictions that... undermine any claims about the involvement of the gut microbiome in autism" & "in many of the studies... some or all of the authors have competing commercial interests" www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... free
Conceptual and methodological flaws undermine claims of a link between the gut microbiome and autism
Claims that the gut microbiome causally contributes to autism regularly appear in the scientific literature and popular press. Mitchell et al. critically examine influential studies underpinning these...
www.cell.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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drsubini.blacksky.app
This is color-evasiveness at its finest. They aren’t blind or ignorant to race. They are banning discussions of it to hoard power. They evade race to protect themselves while rewarding whiteness.
victorerikray.bsky.social Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12d
Conservatives claim that structural racism does not exist while simultaneously creating innovative new forms of structural racism like banning discussions of the concept.
hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 12d
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

“The policy defines race ideology as, among other things, ‘a concept that attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity.’”

These GOP-led efforts will ruin their states’ public universities. Sad!
November 14, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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victorerikray.bsky.social
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.

You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12d
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
A photo of Texas A&M University’s logo
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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cgsunit.bsky.social
This will be my thread for thoughts while reading Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social this week.

I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.

🧵
A hand holds a book called "Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about Al" by Rua M. Williams. The cover is burgundy with orange leaves, and behind the book is a blanket with similar colors.
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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lorijn.bsky.social
New paper alert: Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PsychSciSky #DevPsyc #CogPsyc #neuroskyence
Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy
In this paper, we argue that Predictive Processing cannot be a unifying account of cognition until it can explain infant development. We show why development is crucial for understanding human cognit...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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autismcrisis.bsky.social
"preliminary evidence" that "ABA therapy may be associated with increased odds of mental health hospitalizations and more frequent hospital stays among autistic youth" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "future inquiry into the safety of ABA and who may or may not be harmed by it is essential..."
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November 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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kbkarlson.bsky.social
LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark!

We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.

Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!

Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
jobportal.ku.dk
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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deevybee.bsky.social
Nice piece in the Transmitter on recent retractions of work by Gerry Leisman and colleagues www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/j...
Interesting that Frontiers seems to be getting proactive in tackling problematic articles.
#autism #ADHD
Journal retracts two papers evaluating ADHD interventions
Frontiers in Public Health retracted one paper for its “unacceptable level of similarity” to another paper, and the other over concerns about its “scientific validity.”
www.thetransmitter.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM