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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 6h

I guess I need to stop dropping the f-bombs when teaching.

But for some things, FUCK is the right word. And I do prefer using precise language.

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 7h

Love the frog and other costumes.

Protesters should be wearing costumes. It really makes the fascists look completely ridiculous.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 3d

wizard frog is insane

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 9h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 7h

Cognitive psychology, social psychology, social cognition.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23h

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 9h

This is why we need more costumed protesters

Hard to cosplay as a badass when a giant frog or a dino or a big pink pig is waving its arms and thrusting its pelvis at you

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 7h

Yay Mariners!

Basic ESPN box score showing the Seattle Mariners winning game 3 and going up 2-1 in their series against Detroit.

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 7h

I’m sure all those files about Amelia Earhart were digital in, checks historical record, 1937. Bound to be on someone’s workstation.

CNN @cnn.com · 8h

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

www.cnn.com

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 10h

I guess we really should all pay our fines?

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 11h

And I just got another text scam about paying driving things.

Again a UK number. Nobody at DMV or tolls have my text number attached to our cars. Both are good tells of a scam.

But why are phone companies letting scams from faked numbers through? Why do attorneys general not prosecute?

Ezpass Final Notice: Enforcement will begin on October 9th.
Our records indicate that as of today, you still have an outstanding traffic ticket. Pursuant to New York Administrative Code 16C-16.003, if you fail to pay within 24 hours, we will take the following actions:

1. Report to the DMV violation database
2. Suspend your vehicle registration effective October 9th
3. Suspend your driving privileges for 30 days
4. Go to a toll booth and be charged a 35% service fee
5. You may be prosecuted, and your credit score will be affected

Pay Now:

https://ezpassny.lsuared.fans/us

Please pay immediately, before enforcement occurs, to avoid license suspension and further legal complications.

(If the link isn't clickable, reply Y and reopen this message to click the link, or copy it into your browser.)

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 11h

Our work I need to finish and get published. I am soooo slow sometimes.

bsky.app/profile/irah...

Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · Nov 23

A Just Asking Questions Effect for spreading false information.
This thread is an overview of my lab’s research that I presented at Psychonomics this morning. #psynow24

TLDR: Getting people to generate their own false answers leads them to believe that info. 1/

Just Asking Questions: Can an Implication Generate an Illusory Truth Effect?
Ira E. Hyman, Jr., Jasmine Balmelli-Morales, Macallan Enns-Ford, Annika Fiala, Zoe Gadbow, Macy Kneipp, Isabel Nguyen, Gwen Pane
Western Washington University

Madeline Jalbert
University of Washington

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 11h

Great example of just asking questions.

And @maddyjalbert.bsky.social I will finish the next revision because we really need to get our Just Asking Questions paper out.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 11h

Today’s scam text.

I mean the UK country code is a pretty good tell.

But the question is why scammers can make their texts appear to come from numbers that probably aren’t theirs. This could be shut down to protect people.

Cut down and scammers and you’d most likely cut down on disinfo.

Washington State DMV Final Notice: Enforcement Begins October 9th.
Our records indicate that as of today, you still have an outstanding traffic ticket. Pursuant to Washington State Administrative Code 16C-16.003, if you fail to pay within 24 hours, we will take the following actions:

1. Report to the DMV violation database
2. Suspend your vehicle registration effective October 9th
3. Suspend your driving privileges for 30 days
4. Proceed to the toll booth and pay a 35% service fee
5. You may be prosecuted, and your credit score will be affected

Pay Now:

https://seattle.gou-wor.cc/pay

Please pay immediately, before enforcement begins, to avoid a license suspension and other legal consequences.

(If the link is unclickable, reply "Y" and reopen this message to click the link, or copy it into your browser.)

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 17h

Pretty sure my asthma inhaler is not contributing much to climate change compared to the private jets of the oligarchs.

Pretty sure I would need my inhaler less if climate change wasn’t causing fires and such.

I do my part with e-bikes and electric cars and better light bulbs.

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 17h

They didn’t vote for this stuff which is exactly the stuff that Trump promised and which the democrats warned folks about.

Sure.

But welcome them to the opposition. We need to welcome people back to reality and to treating others as equal humans deserving their rights.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants.
About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point.
About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education.
As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes.

Sources below

Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 18h

Two things of note in today's announcement of the 2025 Nobel physics prize (besides the work being honored).

1: The US institutional dominance of the prize continues.
2: 2 of the three laureates are immigrants, drawn here decades ago by the then-unmatched opportunities for science here...

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Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics

www.nytimes.com

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 20h

New from me and @brendannyhan.bsky.social

Why Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence" is a devil's bargain and should be rejected in all forms

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.

Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.

www.msnbc.com

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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 21h

One thing to take from this is that legacy media’s attempts to win back GOP audiences have utterly failed. If those attempts have also eroded trust among Dems and Independents, then they’re a massive own-goal.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 21h

Gallup has been surveying Americans' trust in legacy media since 1972. This year, a mere 28 percent of the public have "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of trust in legacy media, its lowest level in more than five decades of tracking.

news.gallup.com/poll/695762/...

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 19h

AI generated false references.

For a discussion with grad students, I asked ChatGPT for 10 academic papers with summaries on a topic I know well.

6/10 were made up citations that sounded possible (1 by me!).

Of the 4 real papers, the summaries all were over-general and included errors.

Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 1d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 19h

Thrilled to see this paper out! It's the culmination of a project begun in the depths of the pandemic with Sabrina Karjack and @zoengo.bsky.social . We continue our exploration of how children generalize when their episodic memory is not yet mature.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The dependence of children’s generalization on episodic memory varies with age and level of abstraction - Nature Communications

Children’s ability to generalize from episodic memories varies by both age and the level of abstraction. Here, the authors show that lower level generalization increasingly depends on episodic memory with age, whereas higher level generalization shows no such relationship.

www.nature.com

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 1d

Even better. Decrease the need for police enforcement. Build safety into the infrastructure.

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 1d

Actually, speed limits in school zones is something the police should enforce.

Protests are not something government should try to police.

But keeping the public safe from drivers, especially speeding drivers, is something to enforce.

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 1d

MS Word prior to AI would give readability stats. AI isn’t needed.

And the grammar suggestions are the clearest example of enshittification that I’ve seen.

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 1d

Mostly because they believe both sides journalism makes them look neutral. It makes them complicit.

Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 1d

Pull them off, throw them on the ground, and crunch them. Violating privacy. Destroy the capability to do so.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

I think it should be socially and legally acceptable to smack these clean off somebody's face if they're filming you against your will

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 1d

Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming https://gizmodo.com/buckle-up-the-smart-glasses-backlash-is-coming-2000668213

Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 1d

It wasn’t fear. It was anger. At people different from the group who became MAGA. Racism.