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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 19h

With three children under the age of 10, MRI scans are the most relaxing part of my day 😎

Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 20h

How good is the MR data we'll be sharing as part of this deep phenotyping study? So good that someone asked if Jonathan was sedated while viewing his resting-state data collection 😆 Watch this space!

Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 13d

I’m scheduled for surgery today on my Achilles tendon, followed by 2 weeks of no weight bearing.😵‍💫

So, like any good scientist, I got together 7 colleagues to study consequences of limb disuse.

Introducing the HEALING study

with @laurelgd.bsky.social @sneuroble.bsky.social @briemreid.bsky.social

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 1d

Prank a German by setting their spell checker to Dutch. Hilarity ensues.

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 1d

Excuse me?

Text snippet: "quantitative approaches are..."
With word auto-suggesting the alternative spelling "kwantitatieve, kwantitatiever"

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Kyle Mahowald (COLM 2025) @kmahowald.bsky.social · 1d

UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics!

Asst or Assoc.

We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)

faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793

🤘

UT Austin Computational Linguistics Research Group – Humans processing computers processing humans processing language

sites.utexas.edu

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 1d

Admin email from university: "Share your ideas: Help shape operational excellence at U of I"

Soliciting ideas for how to improve operational processes.

Except...

The form doesn't work—the form created by the Operational Excellence team.

Yeah.

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 1d

I love go pizza also

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 1d

Very relevant for when I’m telling my kids (5 and 9) are trying to put on their socks and shoes and we are late.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 2d

If it doesn’t survive the washing machine or the dish washer, maybe it was never meant to be part of your household in the first place.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 1d

I think you may have found a new nom de plume though

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 3d

wait you just get this ONE day each week????

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 4d

"[F]rom the 1940s to the 1970s, a Bell Labs job was said to be just like working at a research university, except the pay was better, the equipment was more up-to-date, the machine shop was available for all your needs and you didn’t have to spend time teaching or applying for research grants."

Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 4d

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

sites.stat.columbia.edu

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 5d

The universities are: MIT, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, University of Texas, Vanderbilt University, University of Arizona, Brown University, Dartmouth College

Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 Are you an alum from one of the 9 universities Trump is attempting to extort right now?

✍️ Sign this petition to defend your university, free speech, and democracy. I signed.

This is a time for courage, not capitulation.
#JustSayNo #Compact 🧪🧠🧬

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Are you an alum outraged by Trump's attacks on universities? Defend your school now by signing this alumni petition in support of these 9 universities as well as campus communities across America.

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Susanne Brouwer @susannebrouwer.bsky.social · 6d

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing - Apply now!

Come work with Mirjam Broersma, @davidpeeters.bsky.social, and me at the Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University in the Netherlands.

Application deadline: 19 October 2025

For more information, see
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a PhD: Accented Speech Processing at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!

www.ru.nl

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 5d

Can’t decide whether these Statue of Liberty rubber chickens that say “squeeze me to hear me scream” are a little too on-the-nose for these times or if they’re perfect

A yellow cardboard carton on a CVS shelf with brightly colored letters that say “squeeze me to hear me scream” and “statue of liberty chicken.” Inside the carton are hot pink, teal, and royal blue rubber chickens with googly eyes rendered like the Statue of Liberty, with their faces distressed and frozen in a shriek. They have tags around their necks that say “squeeze me to hear me scream”

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations! 🎉😳

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 6d

It is peak academic to just get so angry about something that you’ve been bottling up that you finally explode and

Write a long poem

In rhyming meter

With footnotes 🥰

andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.bsky.social · 9d

Ode to the original language model, or:
Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs)
*(no predictive coding either!)

By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations! Great department!!

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 6d

So glad my kids were drawing upside-down hearts today.

It’s too bad they didn’t have time to color this one in all the way…

A somewhat floppy looking upside down heart partly colored in pink.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Stories of WiN @storiesofwin.bsky.social · 7d

Our next profile is here! Dr. Christine Constantinople studies the neural mechanisms of decision-making. Follow the link below to learn more! 🧠

www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

#StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuro

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 7d

I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy af

I encourage everyone to watch this episode of "How the Victorians Built England"

It's 43 minutes of pure sewage and it is astonishing to see how well we can solve problems if we so choose

pluto.tv/us/on-demand...

Also, shout out to @neorsd.bsky.social

Watch How The Victorians Built England Season 1 Episode | P

In this episode, presenter Michael Buerk discovers how the Victorians created the sewers and fresh, clean water for all Stream How The Victorians Built England Season 1 episode free on Pluto TV.

pluto.tv

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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 8d

If you have tenured and would share your own tenure application materials, I would love to build this section out on our Resources webpage! Please email me for eternal gratitude and as always, credit on the site: [email protected]
Please repost to help me reach folks to share!

Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 8d

I continue to believe sharing example materials is useful in academia, so in that spirit, my tenure statements and CV are now available on our Resources for Researchers website (bottom of the New PI page: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...)

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 8d

Kudos to everyone who shares their materials! I aspire to do this but have not done as well as I'd like. @laurelgd.bsky.social is inspirational in this regard. 👏

Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 8d

I continue to believe sharing example materials is useful in academia, so in that spirit, my tenure statements and CV are now available on our Resources for Researchers website (bottom of the New PI page: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...)

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 8d

OK now post the rest, I would totally read this

Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 8d

daughter (9) with a contender for the greatest opening line of the past century

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 8d

When I was a younger faculty, I kept wavering on whether I should apply for the Rising Star every year. And then when I finally worked up the courage to apply, I was no longer eligible. Lesson here is that you should not miss your shot and just apply! Don’t pray for someone to secretly nominate you!

Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 9d

This designation recognizes researchers whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions. #AcademicSky

Nominate a colleague to be an APS Rising Star by October 1!
www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...

APS Rising Stars

The APS Rising Star designation is presented to outstanding APS members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD. This designation recognizes researchers whose innovative work has alre...

www.psychologicalscience.org

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andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.bsky.social · 9d

Ode to the original language model, or:
Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs)
*(no predictive coding either!)

By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n

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