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Veronica Lewis, M.Ed. 👩‍🦯 @veron4ica.com · 4h

I'm recruiting volunteers for a study on reading statistics equations with low vision, which will take place across several Zoom sessions from Oct to Nov 2026. Participants must have low vision/visual impairment and be 18 or older. Learn more at forms.cloud.microsoft/r/925LMZgGzn #PhDSky #EduSky

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 10h

hey #CogSciSky, wake up, a new class demo just dropped

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

for my Clinical Psych folks especially! Stomp and shout! [yes i can both think the nih's notion of what a clinical trial is is wrong (RIP BESH mess) AND think they should allow clinical trials in K awards, i hold multitudes]

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A great overview of how the Trump admin cultivated fear inside NIH to force compliance, even with harmful, unethical & unlawful orders. Also covers origins of the Bethesda Declaration community. From my friend & co-organizer Dr. Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

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NIH Employees Lived in A Culture of Fear, So They Started Keeping Receipts

Sylvia Chou, former NIH program director, says “nobody’s OK” after massive disruptions to funding policies and infrastructure.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Another study finds no link between taking acetaminophen (Tylenol) during pregnancy & autism or ADHD The study examined data from 7 meta-analyses involving more than 3 million participants I wish RFK Jr & Trump would stop terrorizing people about this drug onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Prenatal exposure to paracetamol and the risk of autism and attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder: An umbrella review and meta‐meta‐analysis

This meta-meta-analysis synthesizes evidence on prenatal paracetamol exposure and neurodevelopmental outcomes. Crude analyses suggest small associations with autism and ADHD, but these attenuate subs...

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

screaming into the void: if u write w/interest ab our work, i try hard to reply, even if we don't have openings. but if u write, i reply, & then u write again w/in a few wks as if we've never emailed bc u're just using AI to make 100 emails seem tailor written...everyone loses. STOP IT. be a human.

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Ben de Bivort @debivort.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hello friends, the Harvard Life Science departments have banded together to hire a new colleague working at the intersection of Life Sciences and AI. Could be primarily an experimentalist, or could be primarily a compute/theorist. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16773

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Tenure-Track Professor in Life Science and AI

The Life Sciences Departments in Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences seek to recruit a tenure-track professor whose research is at the interface of AI and life sciences, from methodological developme...

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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My department is looking to hire 3 new faculty members! Please share widely. Assistant Professor - Cognitive: apply.interfolio.com/193975 Assistant Professor - Social Psychology: apply.interfolio.com/193979 Associate/Full Professor - Mental Health: apply.interfolio.com/193984

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Update on Vought’s #ScienceDeathPanels: The administration is reportedly backing away from the promised EO that would have furthered political oversight at NIH. Looks like our advocacy has worked (for now). www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u... When we fight, we win!

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Trump Backtracks on Plan for New Controls on N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)

Democrats and Republicans in Congress opposed the creation of a commission with the power to veto federal research awards.

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Martin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Our department at UC San Diego is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor. Open area, research addressing foundational issues in cogsci using modern computational methods. I love my department, and you will too. Apply!! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04633 #cogscisci #cogsci #DevPsyc #PsychSciSky

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Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this semester I'm aiming high. My goals include once, JUST ONCE, printing all the docs I need for my seminar that week 1) to the right printer 2) with the right number of copies 3) double sided 4) without jamming the stapler or running out of staples pray for me, I'm 0/3 for far. #AcademicSky

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants" [everybody up in arms, as they should be, but for those who have been paying close attention, this has pretty much already happened - the realization just hasn't sunk in yet] www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...

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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

reviewer 2: so uh, tell me about your filtering process bc that is a truly unexpected result me: ikr??

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

CLANG, BASH, ruby, python, 🍺. whatever's happening inside my computer right now seems like a helluva party

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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New RISE Study currently recruiting baby siblings. Please help us spread the word! - For babies aged 11 - 13 months - ***Must have an older biological sibling with ASD*** - Living in the United States - Primary language spoken in the home is English childrenhelpingscience.com/studies/f785...

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How do babies learn about their world? Baby Siblings - Children Helping Science

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Excellent oped in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social by my @harvard.edu colleague Jill Lepore. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

But of course, the machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends. Not to mention, supervising student researchers is our job.

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 16/09/2026

Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026

Short thread: 18 months ago, as part of their assault on higher ed, Trump/DOGE/Vought terminated my friend Kelton Minor's NIH Director's award that would have allowed him to take a faculty position there. Without the funds, Columbia ultimately rescinded the position. Kelton moved to Denmark.

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

academia in 2026 is a huge mess but right now i have the privilege of a tiny seminar that excludes AI & the students are DOING THE WORK & want to talk & have thoughtful Qs as they dip their toes in a new field & they're brilliant & creative & IT IS AMAZING. small scope learning, from humans, yes plz

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13/09/2026

This will be bad for: - the students - the research progress - the universities - the towns the universities are in - the companies hiring students - the states the universities are in - the national economy - national security - the country - the world

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just proposed bringing apples and honesty to a gathering instead of apples and honey and actually sometimes typos are the change we need to see in the world just saying

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I used to love this time of year, hearing from students applying to work in my lab. No more. Every day a fresh batch of nearly identical emails with nonsensical remixes of the text on my lab website. It makes me so sad.

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Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New paper, co-authored with Justin Wood, in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: The Nativist-Empiricist Debate Is Broken We argue that radical nativism and radical empiricism are compatible and, in some cases, both plausibly true. So something is wrong. 🧵 Author share link here, valid til Oct 31:

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

RIP SBE. One point of confusion maybe someone can clarify? SBE is not listed as one of the directorates for the GRFP, but e.g. psychology is still an eligible major field of study per the appendix here www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo.... so where's that $ come from?

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) @cossa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Over the summer the National Science Foundation (NSF) took several actions that appear to further the Administration’s plans to shut down the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE). Read more and act now ➡️ cossa.org/nsf-skips-sb...

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NSF Skips SBE Funding Opportunity, Limits GRFP Eligibility | COSSA

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

But there are no banned words, right? 🙄

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Jared Medina @jaredmedina.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New paper in iScience. In the mirror box illusion, you see the reflection of one hand where your other, hidden hand should be. Over time, people report feeling the hidden hand where they see it, not where it is. We found that the qualia of this illusion differ across individuals.

Figure showing five types of time course for the mirror box illusion. Each row shows a series of mirror box diagrams over time, with perceived hand position in red. Sometimes participants abruptly feel their hand is where the mirror reflection is (abrupt trials). Other times they feel a gradual shift from the actual toward the reflected position (gradual trials). Some trials fall in between (intermediate trials). On other trials, they feel their hand is at the reflected location as soon as they open their eyes (immediate trials). And sometimes they experience no illusion, perceiving the hand where it actually is.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NIH to continue discussing only the top 1/3 of applications. This is a disservice to the research community. Fewer applications will get the higher quality of review from discussion. Applicants will get less nuanced feedback from review. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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NOT-OD-26-114: Continuation of Modifications to Peer Review Practices

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Continuation of Modifications to Peer Review Practices NOT-OD-26-114. NIH

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Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Curious about Zenodo as an OSF Project alternative? Here's a short video to get you started: File Uploads, Communities, and generating links for Anonymous Peer Review. youtu.be/jW84PxuJTMw

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Getting Started with Zenodo (transitioning from OSF Projects)

YouTube video by AMANDA MONTOYA

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Abby Dernburg @adernburg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Biomedical scientists - a reminder that NIH proposes to "improve" peer review by hiding impact scores from Program Officers and applicants, and binning applications into broad categories of "Most competitive,""Competitive," or "Not discussed." Please provide feedback before the October 13 deadline!

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Now out online! Why do kids sometimes bomb possibility reasoning tasks and other times totally nail it? We review the lit and show how differences in a set of common ancillary cognitive demands in these tasks "push around" the age at which children succeed - psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

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Brandon Woo @brandonwoo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New paper with Liz Spelke, @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social, and @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social! We find that when 4- to 6-month-old infants observe two individuals share saliva, they infer that those individuals have a close relationship. Free access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1niQg_Oow0...

A conceptual schematic illustrating the logic of the studies. (A) Infants observe a central actor who shares saliva with one actor and does not share saliva with another actor. (B) From such observations, infants may infer and represent whether the actors are connected and how thick each connection is. (C) These representations support infants' expectations of who will respond to the central actor's distress.

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Apropos of nothing, 12 Angry Men is a great movie, well worth watching.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Not stated strongly enough.

Without notifying Congress or the American people, DoD has signed an interagency agreement that could give the Department access to billions of dollars that Congress provided to NIH for critical biomedical research. These funds were provided to support research to develop treatments or cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens.

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've seen this go down in virtually every dept I've been in (ask me IRL) but what's clear to me is you can't count on ppl in power not to shit where they eat. Universities need clear, enforceable policies explicitly forbidding sexual relationships across power levels, esp. fac w/grads in their dept.

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Joey Saito @jsaito25.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Has anyone taught a course of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision (w/ emphasis on the neuro side)? Would you be able and willing to share your slides etc. to help me develop a course?

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

maybe more effective with the link: www.harvard.edu/emergency/ also update 9:52am: Harvard Alert The search for the suspect in the Mt. Auburn and Brattle Street area is still ongoing. Please continue to shelter in place.

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

hypothesis: men listen to whatever is in their headphones/earbuds louder than women do, thanks to women's lifelong conditioning in the importance of situational awareness. Consequence: men are more shocked when I nearly plow them over after yelling 'on your left' 5x on a bike/walk path. #NoRegrets

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.

Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

AI "summaries" of academic journal articles make me especially angry. Like, the authors carefully constructed a summary. It's at the top. It's the paragraph or bullet points at the top. It was written by experts, underwent peer review, may even by translated by subject matter experts. Right there.

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Rebecca Peretz-Lange @rebeccaperetzlange.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We're hiring! Clinical Psychologists, come work in this beautiful building with me at Vassar! Please repost!

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

my dreams are simple. 1) running someone else's script without getting any errors, on my first attempt 2) accessing an article that i know my university has access to by just clicking the link. no redirects. no logins. one day i may still attain them...not today.

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

exciting preprint from a 2025 summer internship project! Peep the graph in post 4 below, that manual vs human alignment is 😻! BabAR measures infant babble well, across a range of clinical populations. So many use cases unlocked…hats off to @marvinlavechin.bsky.social & @wiernik.bsky.social!

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Last year, I got a text from a friend in public health. They were checking into a hotel in West Texas to help contain a measles outbreak that would eventually grow to more than 900 known cases, likely a fraction of the true number. This once eliminated disease had already killed one child.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Vaccines save lives. That’s it. That’s the post.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Most top universities now require standardized tests for college admission. I know many top PhD Programs are going to require GRE tests again too (I know several departments at these same schools that voted to require it again). So check the test policies before you prepare your applications!

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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“The undergraduate social-sciences division will also ban in-class audio or video recording and prohibit faculty members from using generative AI to assist in grading”

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U. of Chicago Bans Tech, AI in Social Sciences Core Courses

The new restrictions apply to students and faculty members.

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