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Kirsten Read
@kreadlab.bsky.social
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Associate Professor (woot!) developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, and word nerdiness at Santa Clara University, CA
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motherjones.com
At least 3,800 kids, including 20 infants, have been detained since Donald Trump returned to office.
They want to tell you a kid with a Spider-Man backpack is evil
Liam Ramos' innocence, like the innocence of all kids, is unimpeachable. The visuals of his arrest are excruciating.
www.motherjones.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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deontbenton.bsky.social
The tenure track is hard, no doubt. What can make it a bit easier is to have senior colleagues who willingly share their knowledge and wisdom, provide constructive feedback, and generally are committed to your success. I am lucky to have exactly that.

Be that senior colleague. Pass it on.
January 20, 2026 at 7:41 PM
kreadlab.bsky.social
how is this helping to solve the problems caused by the grotesque wealth gaps in our country, let alone our county? @rokhanna.bsky.social do you have suggestions?
January 20, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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stardustbluepr.com
January 17, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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irahyman.bsky.social
Who needs more plants? In Seattle?

Maybe everyone.
amuzi.blacksky.app Mka @amuzi.blacksky.app · 15d
If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
January 17, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"We have checked our inventory thoroughly, and we no longer have any shits left to give. We only had a small amount of shits left at the end of last year, and now we’ve found that the most recent news cycles have completely emptied us out."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...
FAQ: The Status of the Shits Women Have Left to Give
Q: I was wondering: how much of a shit do women give about what conservative old white dudes say about them? A: Thanks for contacting us. We have c...
www.mcsweeneys.net
January 16, 2026 at 2:20 AM
kreadlab.bsky.social
love how this is putting the peices together. elegant work.
mcxfrank.bsky.social Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 26d
Now up as a reviewed @elife.bsky.social preprint: "Continuous developmental changes in word recognition support language learning across early childhood" elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Using data from ~2000 kids ages 1-6, we quantify links between word recognition and early vocabulary growth!
Paper title and authors
January 6, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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mehr.nz
somebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study

they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work.

lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply
Dear Author, I am Honglin Bao (www.hbao.info), a data science PhD student in Knowledge Lab (https://knowledgelab.org/) at the University of Chicago, working on a study about “The Capabilities and Potential of AI for Automating Scientific Idealization: A Large-Scale Human-in-the-Loop Study” (under UChicago IRB25-1372). As AI plays an increasingly significant role in scientific discovery, this project aims to evaluate how far AI helps scientists extend their work in new directions – or if it is not useful in this regard. This is a research project – it has no commercial purpose. I will share the final draft, technical details, and aggregate results from scientists once the study is complete. We came across your preprint "Principles of music perception" and applied custom AI models on it in accordance with the terms of the preprint license, which generated five new extensions (i.e., ideas proposed by AI based on the same context as your paper). Our pilot study of 400 scientists (excluding you) indicates that around 60% found at least one of the proposed extensions thought-provoking and actionable. However, the remaining reported that AI only generates seemingly plausible but vague sentences. We solicit your help in evaluating whether you think AI is useful or not, since we believe you are the best judge of new ideas proposed from your own paper. No matter where you stand regarding AI and science: From principally believing that AI is prone to producing fake and morally problematic science to finding it useful, or something in between, we hope to receive evaluations that reflect a spectrum of views. The AI-proposed extensions are included in the survey link below. If you consent to review them and participate in the survey, we would appreciate it if you could do so within the next 14 days (it will take you < 10mins). If you do not consent, we will not use your research in this study. If you find these ideas valuable, you are welcome to purs… Please remove my data from your study. I want nothing to do with this — and I would also point out that if you had done appropriate background work in the selection of articles you fed to the plagiarism machine, you would have found that the preprint of mine you used is way out of date and has been updated substantially since it was first posted. ——— Samuel Mehr School of Psychology, University of Auckland and Child Study Center, Yale University Be a citizen scientist at themusiclab.org!
January 5, 2026 at 10:55 PM
kreadlab.bsky.social
hard same
theferocity.bsky.social Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Dec 19
At this point, I have a fight or flight response to the shades of pink and green they used for WICKED. And I’m all out of flights, bitch.
December 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
kreadlab.bsky.social
i love this.. yay for humans.
December 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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noranewcombe.bsky.social
The APS Advocacy Task Force is mobilizing scientists to communicate their stories, their research, and the real-world impact of their work.

Learn more about APS's #WhyPsychScience video competition and submit by Jan 12! #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

www.psychologicalscience.org/2025-why-psy...
Share Your Story and Your Science Competition
Participate in APS's social media video competition designed to bring the importance of psychological science to the public. Deadline: January 12, 2026
www.psychologicalscience.org
December 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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biyolokum.bsky.social
Students applying for grad school, or reaching out to professors. I have an important piece of advice for you: STOP DOING THIS 👇 (a thread) #STEM #PhD #gradschool #academictips
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Reposted by Kirsten Read
Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...
Visiting Internship for Ph.D. Students (VIPS) Program
The VIPS program is an initiative of the DEI committee of the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. VIPS will support up to 4 Ph.D. students who are full-time students at other universitie...
psych.princeton.edu
October 31, 2025 at 12:09 AM
kreadlab.bsky.social
this would make a good example for teaching factor analysis.. @notawfuljess.bsky.social do you do FA examples on your blog?
infobeautiful.bsky.social Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · Nov 21
Do have flu, COVID, RSV or just a nasty cold? source: New York Times
Comparison chart of symptoms for Cold, Flu, Covid-19, and RSV. Shows frequency (rarely, sometimes, often) of 12 symptoms including cough, breathing difficulty, fatigue, fever, headaches, muscle pain, loss of taste/smell, runny nose, sneezing, sore throat, vomiting, and wheezing. Source: CDC. Shows symptoms overlap but vary in frequency across illnesses.
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
Humans are bad at big numbers. Which makes it easier for billionaires (and trillionaires) to get away with hoarding wealth. Because most people just can't comprehend how much money that is.

So, I appreciate this WaPo effort to help people visualize what ridiculous amounts of wealth really mean.
Elon Musk is set to make more than every U.S. elementary teacher combined See how your profession stacks up against Musk’s pay. By Alyssa Fowers and Leslie Shapiro Every elementary school teacher On average, Musk will make $3 billion more per year than the 1.4 million elementary school teachers in the U.S. combined. Each figure represents 1,500 elementary school teachers. Together, they made $97 billion last year
November 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
kreadlab.bsky.social
i'm soooo tired of waking up at 5am to be grossed out by all these monsters before i start my day. i can't digest my coffee and toast with all this opulence and corruption in my face. i just wanted to take my pup for a run and try to do a little good in the world.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
Video: Saudi Crown Prince Dines With Trump at the White House
President Trump stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman of Saudi Arabia during a White House dinner on Tuesday. The room was packed with leaders from several industries.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
While RFK Jr. spewed his misinformation on campus, students, allies, and scientists rallied to demand he "get the 🦆 outta here!"

The Anti-science agenda has no place on our campuses — whether platformed in events or as part of academic "compacts for excellence."

@christopherstreet.bsky.social
Person holding sign in crowd reading Get the (Image of Duck) Outta Here RFK Jr. Two people in crowd holding signs reading "Autism is not a problem. RFK Jr. is a problem." Group of students holding signs, visible sign reads: "Warning, Speaker contains toxic levels of misinformation" A person in a bright purple reflective vest holds a microphone as a crowd behind them holds signs and faces a subject off-stage to the left.
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
kreadlab.bsky.social
true.
sccdp.bsky.social Santa Clara County Democratic Party @sccdp.bsky.social · Nov 14
California colleges and universities would welcome Texas kids who want to learn the things Trump and their state government don’t want them to know.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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mpolikoff.bsky.social
SCARY
October 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
kreadlab.bsky.social
chef's kiss 😘
October 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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caworkingfamilies.bsky.social
Bay Area! Join us in San Jose this Saturday for a BBQ and canvass in support of Prop 50 and Santa Clara County Measure A! We'll be joined by WFP champions Asm. Ash Kalra, Santa Clara Supervisor Duong, and San Jose Councilmembers Campos & Ortiz. RSVP Here: www.mobilize.us/ca-wfp/event...
YOU'RE INVITED TO SAN JOSE FOR A CANVASS & BBU Saturday November 1st 9:00 AM Canvass begins at 2302 Zanker Rd 12:00 PM: BBQ at Cimarron Park
October 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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drjoehanson.bsky.social
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
academic.oup.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
kreadlab.bsky.social
tracks..
mehr.nz samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Oct 17
lab heads have two moods:
lots and lots of tracked-change edits thumbs up kid with 'looks good'
October 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
Hey US scientists, the NY Times wants to hear from you if you've had your funding cut. 🌊🧪
Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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psychscience.bsky.social
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced changes to its Grad Research Fellowship Program, which include excluding clinical science students and limiting eligibility to 1st year students. #AcademicSky

Sign a petition to urge #NSF to reverse these changes:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition
laurenkuehne.github.io
September 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM