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Ali Fitch @fiotch.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Every week it seems more and more preposterous that I’m supposed to just go to work on Monday and talk about hypothesis testing as though everything is just normal and reasonable.

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Ali Fitch @fiotch.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I taught a graduate level Cognition class this past semester using OECS for the course materials. 10/10 do recommend!

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Ali Fitch @fiotch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

This is a picture of text from the Harvard Crimson. It reads: We have to wonder: How does sending Jewish students from abroad home — including Israelis — root out antisemitism? How does expelling young adults from other countries fight racism? What could be more anti-American than banishing potential immigrants who have come to our country to learn and contribute to our society?

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Elizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Well said. It was never about antisemitism. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...

Mr. Trump’s strangling of this support will harm Jews more than any president in my lifetime. Many practicing and aspiring scientists are Jewish, and his funding embargo has them watching in horror as they are laid off, their labs are shut down or their dreams of a career in science go up in smoke. This is immensely more harmful than walking past a “Globalize the Intifada” sign. Worse still is the effect on the far larger number of gentiles in science, who are being told that their labs and careers are being snuffed out to advance Jewish interests. Likewise for the current patients whose experimental treatments will be halted, and the future patients who may be deprived of cures. None of this is good for the Jews.

The concern for Jews is patently disingenuous, given Mr. Trump’s sympathy for Holocaust deniers and Hitler fans. The obvious motivation is to cripple civil society institutions that serve as loci of influence outside the executive branch. As JD Vance put it in the title of a 2021 speech: “The Universities Are the Enemy.”

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Dr. Agnes Villwock @agnesvillwock.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

At which point will we agree that we must consider going back to a hybrid option for academic conference attendance?

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Ali Fitch @fiotch.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Everything feels awful but at least I can spend my next 60-ish hours refreshing Keith's page for Barkley updates.

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

English pronouns always out here catching strays when there are much more elaborate systems that people could be worried about 😆

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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The Onion should buy Elsevier next

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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 14/02/2024

all jokes aside, we shouldn't forget the real Reason for the Season

weekend twitr
@WeekendTwitr
Valentine's Day is so commercial,
let's not lose track of the real
meaning of this special day
the day native Hawaiians
stabbed British Captain James
Cook right in his colonizing
fucking neck on February 14,
1779

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Ali Fitch @fiotch.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Apparently when I agreed to review for #CogSci2024 I neglected to list my expertise. I see words I know but not how I understand they go together. …I have some apologetic emails to write.

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Ali Fitch @fiotch.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

IRB: do everything in your power to protect the confidentiality of participants. Controller’s Office: we’re going to need the name, SSN, mother’s maiden name, and first car of everyone who receives research participation fees. 🙃

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Ali Fitch @fiotch.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Oh hey, this one was written by me (and my awesome co-authors)!

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Ali Fitch @fiotch.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

Today a child study participant told me that my prizes were boring and I should do something to make it up to her. In case you needed a reminder that academia requires a thick skin.

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Ali Fitch @fiotch.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Feeling the #BUCLD fomo, as I take a desperately needed travel break this weekend and miss my first one in nearly a decade. Thanks for the semi-hybrid option!

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Ali Fitch @fiotch.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

I received an email this morning that signs off with “with sunshine,” and I want to know where they got this optimism from.

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Ali Fitch @fiotch.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Hey #AcademicSky, what’s with faculty scheduling exams for a lot longer than their class period in the middle of the semester? I’m having to find alts for class participation for students who will miss due to exams in *other* classes. Feel disrespectful to the student and to me.

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Ali Fitch @fiotch.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

I will never get over leaf changing time in the Northeast.

Two trees in an otherwise brick courtyard. The leaves on the trees are mostly green but the tops and sides have become red and yellow.

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Ali Fitch @fiotch.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Another great quote from an academic article: “Brain patterns composing an episode are often claimed to be measurable in principle, in terms of information processing or whatever.” (Pereira & Ricke, 2009)

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Ali Fitch @fiotch.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Whose feral child is running around in the dirt with one shoe on? Oh wait. It’s mine.

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Ali Fitch @fiotch.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

Tortilla and I feel similarly about tomorrow being Monday.

A white and tan cat outstretched on the back of a blue couch

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Ali Fitch @fiotch.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

You know we’re off to a good start when the first faculty meeting of the semester comes with a reminder not to name-call.

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Ali Fitch @fiotch.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

Friends, my research group is looking for someone to share their knowledge on SES constructs in research with us in a group meeting. If this is you or someone you know, msg me! Deaf and/or ASL signers especially welcome.

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Ali Fitch @fiotch.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

Arnold does not seem to care that fall classes start tomorrow and I am not ready.

A piebald tabby cat is laying across a laptop keyboard

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