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Big Team Science Conference @btscon.bsky.social · 7d

There's still time to register for the 2025 Big Team Science Conference (October 6-8, live on Zoom)! All fees are OPTIONAL, so you can pay what you'd like (or nothing at all!) to gain access to a ton of amazing BTS content.

bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/

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>>> Register for the 2025 BTSCON now! *** ### BTSCON Registration Info To balance inclusivity with our funding needs, *registration fees for the Big Team Science Conference are optional*. You can pay ...

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Big Team Science Conference @btscon.bsky.social · 7d

Our full 2025 program and schedule are now up on our website! We've got so many great presentations lined up, you won't want to miss it!

bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/

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Note: The live conference schedule with links to sessions will be provided to conference registrants via email. To access the live schedule, REGISTER NOW *** >>> View the 2025 BTSCON Program *** > Not...

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Heidi Baumgartner @hbaum.bsky.social · Aug 19

timeline coincidence of the most depressing order
cc @darthbluesky.bsky.social @louisathelast.bsky.social

a post from Louisa saying "Just remembered there's no more Gilded Age this season and got emotionally devastated", directly underneath a Darth repost of a photo of Trump and Zelenskyy sitting in the oval office (where everything has been gilded to shit) saying "You could write a book about this photo. Everything about it is so fucking vulgar." Ugh.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Jul 1

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

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Heidi Baumgartner @hbaum.bsky.social · Jun 28

Capybaras lounging in yuzu-filled hot springs is my happy place

Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · Jun 26

pause your scrolling and bide a moment, weary poster

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Heidi Baumgartner @hbaum.bsky.social · Jun 26

It's been a ton of fun to work with @mcxfrank.bsky.social and @asifamajid.bsky.social on this. I'm so lucky to get to support projects like this (and @manybabies.org and @btscon.bsky.social and ...)!

MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Jun 24

The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) now features over 100 published articles! Editors-in-Chief @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social share their vision for this open, online reference developed to guide the next generation of exploration in cognition & intelligence:

A conversation with the editors of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

Editors-in-Chief Michael C. Frank and Asifa Majid share their vision for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science as it surpasses 100 published articles.

mitpress.mit.edu

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Heidi Baumgartner @hbaum.bsky.social · Jun 24

Small joys like this (☝️) are the only thing keeping me sane right now

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Heidi Baumgartner @hbaum.bsky.social · Jun 24

Just got an “out of office” reply with the most amazing example of “there’s a German word for that.”

Abwesenheitsbenachrichtigung!

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Heidi Baumgartner @hbaum.bsky.social · Jun 12

omg

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Jun 12

Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · Jun 12

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · May 23

Huge congratulations to Drs Anjie Cao and Rondeline Williams on their successful defenses this week!! @anjiecao.bsky.social

Rondeline giving her acknowledgements at her defense.

Anjie showing cat photos at her defense.

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Heidi Baumgartner @hbaum.bsky.social · May 30

There are a couple in progress! :)

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · May 30

Please assign these articles for your teaching as well as your own browsing, and let us know 1) how you're using them and 2) what articles you need to help you in your teaching!

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · May 30

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.

Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

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Heidi Baumgartner @hbaum.bsky.social · Apr 25

“We want scientists who hold identities that may be under attack to know that we are proud to be your colleagues, and that our science is stronger as a result of your being in this field.” 👏

Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · Apr 25

Proud to join other CDS Presidents in writing about challenging times for our science. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times

Published in Journal of Cognition and Development (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 24

my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · Apr 24

This is insane and everyone involved needs to be sued into oblivion and then go directly to jail

“[DOGE staffers] went into the system and they killed off people,” Glasgow told The Daily Beast. “About 4 million people, they marked them as dead. But they’re not sure if those people were supposed to be marked as dead, so they’re sending us an email saying, ‘If these people come into the office with their identification, you can reinstate them.’”

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · Apr 23

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.

Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Apr 21

Thanks to Evan Kidd, @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social (Eds) for organizing the awesome *Open* Encyc. of Cog. Sci. and entrusting me with/ the honor of penning the entry on "Language" (in < 3500 words, so do see other entries for much, MUCH more!)
oecs.mit.edu/pub/ho9e9c80...

Language

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Heidi Baumgartner @hbaum.bsky.social · Apr 17

“From her cell in Louisiana, she described the plans she had in the coming months. Completing her dissertation. A conference in Minnesota. Students to mentor. A summer class to teach.”

ACLU @aclu.org · Apr 15

Our client Rümeysa Öztürk has not been charged with any crime.

She is being held in ICE detention in retaliation for her political beliefs. Writing an op-ed is not a deportable offense.

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...

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ACLU @aclu.org · Apr 15

Our client Rümeysa Öztürk has not been charged with any crime.

She is being held in ICE detention in retaliation for her political beliefs. Writing an op-ed is not a deportable offense.

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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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Apr 16

It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken.

Bennie Thompson @benniethompson.bsky.social · Apr 15

In 90 years of social security, we have never had a check bounce or be late, but they want you to believe the system is broken.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Apr 14

Super excited to submit a big sabbatical project this year: "Continuous developmental changes in word
recognition support language learning across early
childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...

title of paper (in text) plus author list

Time course of word recognition for kids at different ages.

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Katie Von Holzen @katievonholzen.bsky.social · Apr 14

🚨4-5 new postdoc positions in language & cognition🚨

😇 One postdoc will work specifically with Eon-Suk Ko and I on the ManyBabies-AtHome project, focusing on infant word recognition in global, remote settings using collaborative, open science practices [https://shorturl.at/5l3tW]. @manybabies.org

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Heidi Baumgartner @hbaum.bsky.social · Apr 11

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/10/o...

Open letter urging Stanford governance to resist federal attacks on higher education

On behalf of the Stanford Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, Cecile Alduy asks President Levin and Provost Martinez to explicitly resist threats from the federal government.

stanforddaily.com

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