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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 4d

A strong statement from the Dartmouth President regarding the "Compact"

president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...

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Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President

president.dartmouth.edu

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve started a watchdog group that follows only your preprints so we can circle your p values and tell ourselves they we‘re saving science. You’re welcome!

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 5d

Surely the persistent mocking and condescension will work. Is that what you mean? Seriously disappointing.

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 5d

IMO claims that non-OS people are hostile are largely overstated. Sure, some senior folks are hostile toward OS. Many young people (incl trainees) are open to it, but might not be trained in labs that use OS practices. I'd like to think those folks could be persuaded. Hostility doesn't help.

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 6d

I've said it once, and I'll say it again: Open science discussions that are largely hostile and condescending toward non-adopters will not motivate behavior change. Are we doing altruism, or antagonism?

Signed, someone who practices open science

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 9d

here are some helpful steps for academics who are considering creating genAI images to use for lab branding:

1. don't

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Kate Humphreys (she/her) @klhumphreys.bsky.social · 13d

Vanderbilt University's Peabody College is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Clinical Psychology (child/family focus) with expertise in AI methods (ML, NLP, LLMs, CV).

📅 Review begins Nov 15, 2025

👉 apply.interfolio.com/174418

Please share!

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 14d

😂 I’ve always struggled with email but outlook has completely ruined me.

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 14d

Did you discover a fix? I had the same thing happen with this summer!

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 19d

My lab has been using a mix of these methods — splines, change point models — and we’re working on a simulation study to see where some methods outperform others. In our applied work, methods tend to tell the same story, but it’s nice to check. I’ll ask my postdoc for paper recs and will email you.

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 27d

Comes to Nashville and visits Margaritaville

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 27d

I’m at the Garbage concert with @ashleylwatts.bsky.social and Shirley Manson just mentioned Britney and this is the crossover I needed 😭

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 29d

The people whipping up panics about "academic freedom" rarely speak up when academic freedom is actually imperiled.

This is absolutely chilling.

Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 29d

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum

The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

www.kbtx.com

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · Sep 8

89 of my journal articles were used to train Meta’s AI. You can alert the lawyers handling the class action suit if your intellectual works were used as well at www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com.

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm happy to announce that Vanderbilt Psychology's clinical area is hiring a TT asst prof this year! Please share with your networks and consider applying if you're on the market! Happy to (try to) answer questions about the search if you have them.

Link here: apply.interfolio.com/173316

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Aug 29

That’s two reported ChatGPT suicides in one week, plus the grandpa who died trying to meet Meta’s chatbot which had arranged an in-person meeting

All going really well

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Aug 29

WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.

A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich

“Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.

www.wsj.com

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · Aug 27

Finally some hard hitting journalism

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · Aug 21

So sorry, Claire. I'm keeping you in my thoughts. What an excruciating thing. I went through the same in the spring and don't know that I'll ever recover. River is loved ❤️

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thank you for proving my point 😂

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · Aug 17

a close up of a woman 's face with blonde hair making a funny face .

ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with blonde hair making a funny face .

media.tenor.com

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · Aug 17

The fact that it wasn’t your previous post on the four-way stop scares me

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · Aug 15

So unlike you to take the opportunity to brag!

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · Aug 15

sure thing!

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · Aug 15

Why do editors let these reviews by? As a reviewer who often spends 6-8 hours per review I write, it's a bit demoralizing to receive reviews like these!

ps I hope you figured out how to add that mystery table!!

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · Aug 15

I think they meant "tge writing way" smdh

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