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Hilary Barth

@hilarybarth.bsky.social
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Professor of Psychology at Wesleyan U, CT, USA. Cognition / Development. Still on Ukraine X/Twitter.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Four days after Musk wrote, “Zelensky has gone too far.” @financialtimes.com #ukraine www.ft.com/content/3708...
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 11/10/2026
On Trump's Diesel Deal. Writing this as catharsis because I live in a rental and thus punching walls is off the table.
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Trump’s Diesel Deal
Writing So I Don’t Scream.
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Hilary Barth @hilarybarth.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Another really good time for Americans to donate to Ukraine causes, for sure.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."
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Dzyga's Paw @dzygaspaw.com · 11/10/2026
The US announced a deal to import Russian diesel this week, suspending sanctions on those exports until April. We want to speak directly to our supporters in the US and around the world.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The emergence of Black Plague in Russia can be blamed on the provocative good health of neighboring European societies. by John Mearsheimer
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Azamat Junisbai @azamatistan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Putin and his minions have demanded Zelenskyy's removal for years. To watch an American president echo Moscow's regime-change script is devastating. Trump is actively validating Putin's goals while Russia bombs Ukrainian families. A horrific betrayal of a democratic ally. [1/3]
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump throws Putin yet another lifeline while russia intensifies its killing of Ukrainian civilians. Every American who loves democracy and freedom should be deeply ashamed of their govt and working to punish it for this betrayal of basic American values and interests.
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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
22 people killed in their beds yesterday in a targeted Russian strike on a residential building in northern Ukraine. 33 people killed this morning in Russian attacks on public buses in eastern Ukraine. Russia is now massacring Ukrainian civilians with complete impunity
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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 08/10/2026
🔴 Filashkin: the death toll in Kramatorsk has risen to 30. 18 people were injured. The head of Donetsk region military administration has ordered the suspension of public transportation in Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, "a necessary step dictated by the behavior of the enemy".
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In response to our questions, an NSF spokesperson said that SBE has not been shut down. But with zero SBE-specific funding opportunities, no review panels, and dwindling numbers of staff, it's hard to see the directorate continuing for much longer.
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Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I am number 58, where do genuinely new concepts come from? (Central question for AI) on this fascinating list www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/s...
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What Are the Biggest Questions in Science Today? 100 Scientists Weigh In. (Gift Article)
We asked 100 scientists about unsolved problems in their fields. They sent back provocations — on the origins of life, the possibilities for human progress and much more.
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Hilary Barth @hilarybarth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Star Trek II with the rest of my generation
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 01/10/2026
“I was flabbergasted that someone could take the time to generate a paper that I believe is fake,” Rastle told us.
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When open data are misused
Credit: HALUSTD from Popspixel via Canva When Dorothy Bishop was asked to review a paper for a small neuroscience journal in August, she could tell from the abstract the authors had used a dataset …
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Gwendolyn Sasse @gwendolynsasse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Glad to see first academic and first outreach article published from an international interdisciplinary project initiated by #KonKoop @zois.bsky.social on dimensions of psychological impact of war in #Ukraine theconversation.com/one-in-three...
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One in three Ukrainian civilians estimated to meet the criteria for PTSD or complex PTSD – new study
War-related trauma now affects most people in Ukraine and presents a major threat to the country’s resiliance in the face of continuing Russian aggression.
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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gave a talk in my dept. on the OSF transition. I wrote up a rough script of the session, which could be of interest to others. I synthesize existing resources and provide my own perspectives. Comments and corrections welcome! zenodo.org/records/2306...
the header for a paper describing "Life after OSF" #metascience
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Hilary Barth @hilarybarth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Russian drone kills at least two in Ukraine science academy attack | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Russian drone kills at least two in Ukraine science academy attack
New underground labs are being built as war rages on
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 29/09/2026
“Estonian authorities have confirmed that the 15 August arson attack against the Estonian defence company Milrem Robotics in Tallinn was an act of sabotage ordered by Russian security services.” www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Estonia says arson attack on ‘consistent with other acts of sabotage carried out in Europe on behalf of Russia’ - Europe live
Foreign minister summons Russia’s chargé d’affaires over attack on Milrem Robotics as security agency says incident was ‘deliberate and pre-planned’
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Hilary Barth @hilarybarth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Russian Drone Strikes Ukraine’s Science Academy, Causing Fire in City Center
A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.
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Olga Patlyuk @olgapatluyk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Two scientists were kіІІеd in the strike on the building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Several other people are still out of contact, and there are injured people. Two floors of the building were destroyed in the attack.
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ingmarvisser.bsky.social @ingmarvisser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New paper 🍼📄 ManyBabies 3 is out (open access, registered report in Developmental Science). 30 labs, 33 languages, 839 infants set out to replicate a textbook finding: 7-month-olds learn abstract rules from speech (@garymarcus.bsky.social et al., 1999). We didn’t find it. 🧵
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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 28/09/2026
Greetings from the path from Prague to Stará Boleslav, where Czechs (and at least one Englishman) are gathering in honour of that "good king" from the carol. For the day that's in it, here's a new piece about why his name in English has an N, but not so in Czech. dannybate.com/2026/09/28/g...
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Good King Václav
Every September 28th, thanks to a brutal fratricide over a thousand years ago, the Czech Republic gives itself a day off. The victim of that crime was Wenceslaus, ruler of Bohemia from 921 to maybe…
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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
5/6 This is not just a problem for survey research. Any online community or platform that assumes a human is completing a task now has to rethink how that assumption can actually be verified.
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Esther Boissin @boissinesther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Happy to share a new preprint with @tomcostello.bsky.social, @dgrand.bsky.social and @gordpennycook.bsky.social 🧵 "What beliefs are most debunkable?" osf.io/preprints/ps... We investigate the characteristics of the beliefs that are (or are not) influenced by counterevidence in 3,341 AI dialogues.
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Data projects by Texty.org.ua @texty.org · 22/09/2026
There is "popular wisdom" in #Ukraine saying that Russian strikes decrease, or even stop, when visible support rises. We analyzed Kyiv’s air alert archives for 2026 together with the StratCom of the Armed Forces of Ukraine — and the data largely backs it up👇 texty.org.ua/articles/118...
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Visits by foreign partners are indeed Kyiv’s fine air defense (INFOGRAPHIC)
Ukrainian jokes about the "Keith Kellogg’s operating range", the "Duty roster for Western officials in Kyiv", and "The prince has …
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 22/09/2026
So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?
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Brian Taylor @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Why does Putin bother with elections? Great piece by @paulsonne.bsky.social running through the social science literature on the question with quotes from leading experts on Russia and authoritarianism.
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Why Autocrats Care What People Think (Gift Article)
Russia is staging an election that matters to almost no one — except President Vladimir V. Putin and his inner circle.
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Seher Asaf @seher-education.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
“I’ve been shocked over many years with the assumption that if one has studied Russia, they can easily understand Ukraine, when Ukraine is culturally and historically very different,” said Rory Finnin, who teaches Ukrainian Studies at Cambridge www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ukraini...
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Ukrainian studies in ‘crisis’ despite rising demand in Europe
Most universities still treat Ukraine as a marginal topic even as need for specialists with deep knowledge of the country rises
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Brian Taylor @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Here is a picture of the head of Russia's Presidential Security Service (i.e., Putin's bodyguards) with the oligarch/gangster who bankrolled Don Jr.'s wedding, Umar Kremlev. The chief bodyguard has used his influence w/ Putin to funnel assets to Kremlev. Unfuckingbelievable. My head is spinning.
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Hilary Barth @hilarybarth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Five years without a classroom: How Ukraine is taking schools underground
For some Ukrainian children, remote learning was supposed to be temporary. Five years into Russia's full-scale war, they are still waiting to return to a classroom. In frontline regions studied b...
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Brian Taylor @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is worse than a crime, it’s a mistake. Trump/Witkoff/Kushner still think this war is about a piece of territory. Putin would simply pocket the territorial gain & move on to using the negotiations to push his ultimate aim of controlling Ukraine.
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It'll be an incredible memory for us all, to be fair: the time the US president sent two of his closest, if least competent, aides to flatter the autocrat responsible for an unprovoked war against a neighbour and the murder of many thousands of its citizens. In front of the world's cameras.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Witkoff: "President Putin, thank you so much for having us. We were sitting outside just now, me, Jared, Kirill, Yuri, and we were talking about, when we retire, we'll have all these incredible stories and memories, and yours will be right at the top of it all."
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Hilary Barth @hilarybarth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Bobcat on our front walk this evening
Bobcat against greenery
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Data Colada @datacolada.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Colada[139] Artificial Deadlines Part 2 Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination. datacolada.org/139
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Hilary Barth @hilarybarth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Do read the report from MIT on AI in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training. aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
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Report – AI and Education
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 29/08/2026
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At least 37 dead and hundreds evacuated after strike on Kyiv warehouse
An investigation has been launched into the storage of weapons in the deopt near a residential area.
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Hilary Barth @hilarybarth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Full consideration for our fulltime Lab Coordinator position guaranteed for applications received by Fri Aug 28! Please apply, and share.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NSF just announced its GRFP solicitation due in October - deadline varies by field: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Now for the bad news... * NSF estimates they will issue 1,500 awards, down from 2,500+ last year. * NSF removed STEM Education and Learning Research as a Major Field.
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Fourteen people were killed in Kryvyi Rih after a russian attack on the city’s largest shopping mall in broad daylight. Another 121 people were injured, including 22 children
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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I’m aware that it sounds hawkish to some, but only more weapons to the defender can change the calculus of the attacker. If Putin fears that Ukraine may win or if economic pressure on Russia becomes too high, then MAYBE he’ll agree to real talks.+
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...
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Which Data Repository Should You Use?
The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...
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Hilary Barth @hilarybarth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It will depend on the length of the search process, but we aim for a start date as early in October as possible. Somewhat negotiable.
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Hilary Barth @hilarybarth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Applications accepted on a rolling basis with full consideration guaranteed for applications received by Aug 28 (soon!)
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Hilary Barth @hilarybarth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Lab Coordinator will assist with studies of child and adult cognition, including NSF-funded collaborative work on numerical cognition.” See ad for position details and application instructions.
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Hilary Barth @hilarybarth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“The Cognitive Development Lab and the Reasoning and Decision Making Lab at Wesleyan University (Dr. Hilary Barth and Dr. Andrea Patalano) announce a full-time joint Lab Coordinator position.
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Hilary Barth @hilarybarth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Job ad - please share! wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...
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Lab Coordinator
The Cognitive Development Lab and the Reasoning and Decision Making Lab at Wesleyan University (Dr. Hilary Barth and Dr. Andrea Patalano) announce a full-time joint Lab Coordinator position. The Lab C...
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Hilary Barth @hilarybarth.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“Want to support Ukraine? Read its books” theconversation.com/want-to-supp...
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Want to support Ukraine? Read its books
Translation of Ukraine’s literature serves as a means of cultural resistance by preserving and promoting knowledge of Ukraine.
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