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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 10d

There’s also a good deal of evidence that some people put themselves in contexts to feel badly (negative emotions) so that definition doesn’t work either. See work from Maya Tamir’s group, among others. Good example of how people’s intuitions about emotions don’t typically map to the data.

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 10d

Valence doesn't map to approach avoid so those terms are not interchangeable. Lots of evidence that there are contexts when things are very bad and individuals approach.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17d

Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead.

We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.

Trump Says He Will Get Drug Prices Down By 500% To 1500%

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Senior Contributor.
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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 19d

Just got the unofficial news that a former lab member got tenure and alum wins are one of the best parts of my job.

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 20d

So super important and such top notch science from an incredible team!

Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 21d

A spatially resolved transcriptomic atlas of the primate amygdala (human, macaque, and baboon) now out in Science Advances (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). The amygdala contains 32 types of neurons with many neuron types specific to particular subdivisions.

Lots of updates from the preprint!

Transcriptomic diversity of amygdalar subdivisions across humans and nonhuman primates

Specialized cell types and links to psychiatric disorders are revealed by genetic mapping of primate amygdala neurons.

www.science.org

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 27d

been so long since i’ve seen a functional supreme court that i’d almost forgotten what one looks like

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 27d

*BRAZIL COURT SENTENCES BOLSONARO TO 27 YEARS IN PRISON

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 29d

Our department is hiring!

Yuko Munakata @yukomunakata.bsky.social · Sep 8

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · Sep 5

Want one of these t-shirts? I’m thinking about ordering a gross for everyone in any position of academic leadership.

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · Aug 30

Rossiter coined the term "Matilda effect" for when women's scientific work is attributed to men.

It was a twist on the "Matthew effect," famously attributed to Robert Merton, but actually studied jointly by Merton and his wife Harriet Zuckerman, who was denied co-authorship

Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · Aug 30

Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Aug 15

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · Aug 15

It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · Aug 14

I think sending a staff member or student in a direct flight w the tissue is prob the best option which seems kinda nuts.

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · Aug 10

We call this “conversational riffing”in my family and the expectation is you keep track of your own brackets and those of everyone else in the conversation and are ready at any moment to jump back to a previous conversational melody at any point. It is one of my most important scientific skills.

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · Aug 10

I have recently learned that not everyone goes on 2-5 tangents in every thought they have, and keeps track of those tangents as if they are brackets which need to be closed

Troubling stuff

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · Aug 1

My pref is “blah blah blah” 😭

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · Jul 31

I've started blocking of time with different configurations of lab members to advance some of our papers and we work in a shared document. Just sat down for a session to work on one of our affect development papers. Coming back to gems like this makes me LOL.

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · Jul 29

Totally. Many people don’t understand that science is possible because of people. My lab is lucky to have senior professional scientific staff. If we lose funding, they will go elsewhere and the lab will never recover.

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · Jul 28

This sounds like a lot of fun!

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · Jul 28

💯 this is SO important. And it can take a lot of different forms. We are currently biobanking tissue from animals for projects (hopefully) in the future - and that's actually some of the most exciting work to me.

Also, can't go wrong with old papers! Good lessons in writing there, too!

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · Jul 28

I 💜 that motivation. Keep on keepin' on!

Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · Jul 28

I'm kinda busting out all of the tools I know: working with collabs that I adore and respect, working with my lab team which is smart and fun and driven, working on questions that I know are important, reading *a lot* including things that don't seem super relevant. None of it's helping much.

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · Jul 28

If people have suggestions about how to get creatively scientifically inspired in these challenging times, I'm all ears.

Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · Jul 28

I am having a hard time sitting down to write grants; it feels extremely futile.

Grant writing is important for bringing in $ to keep my lab going. But, the grant writing process itself is also part of my creative scientific process and helps me fuel the work that we're already doing.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 28

New, from an anonymous NIH insider: Trump is being pushed to spend more NIH money. The White House is ordering NIH to do multi-year budgets for awards. This budget trick means fewer awards, fewer labs funded, and lower paylines for researchers. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/alert-the-...

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · Jul 28

So there's the slowing of science that will happen when there aren't funds for it, or enough funds for it, anymore. And there's also the slowing of science that is *already happening* because people are getting dug under by the bullshitery. The whole situation is one big energy vampire.

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · Jul 28

I've been calling this bullshitery, but I think bullshitrickery has a nice right to it!

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · Jul 28

Writing grants has historically created time for me to read both broadly and deeply, often in fields that are totally unrelated to the ones in which I have expertise. It allows me to think about questions rather than answers, and if done well, brings to mind new questions.

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · Jul 28

The 1st%ile and 4th%ile? Legit random luck. Functionally cutting paylines to lower funding to 4-5%ile as suggested in the post linked above is absolutely going to kill science. And do it such that congress doesn't have a say.

Soul crushing.

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · Jul 28

My entire post-PhD career has been supported by NIH $. My first R21 scored a 1st%ile; my first R01 scored a 4th%ile. They were no better (& actually probably less good?) than my applications that scored between 5th%ile and 20th%ile. I'm here, and my lab is here, because some of those got funded.

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