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Nick Fears

@nickfears.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor - LSU Kinesiology - Director of Human Development & Daily Life Lab - Former Universities: Indiana, Tulane, Michigan- he/him faculty.lsu.edu/huddllab

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Red states and blue states alike Equal opportunity damage to biomedical research and the US economy
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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This proposed budget, which zeroes out many key programs that protect the US, would be catastrophic for American health. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts
HHS would be asked to absorb a $40 billion cut, about one-third of its discretionary budget.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
For those who don't know a K01 is a training grant for early career researchers. Typically 4-5years to help them launch their research careers. It protects up to 75% time for research. Rescinding awarded K level grants is throwing a grenade into an already tenuous research pipeline.
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Kevin Griffith @assumenormality.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
It's entirely reasonable to both think university indirect rates are too high and a 15% ceiling is too low We want universities to be transparent and efficient But if they have to subsidize the research enterprise, it won't happen at most institutions www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...
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NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through science
The NIH said Friday night that it would slash support for indirect costs on all existing and future grants to 15%
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not). Please respond to this post with your institution and materials. THANK YOU!
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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
What is worst advice you have ever received from an academic?
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Rose Matthews (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈 @rosematthews.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
#Thread Why Autistic-led autism research matters. I get Google Scholar alerts about newly published research. It’s striking how little of this has any tangible benefits for Autistic people. On the contrary, much of it is potentially harmful. There’s an alarming sub-text. We’re subjects, not people.
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Jenna Finch @jennafinch823.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Does anyone have an assignment they enjoy grading for developmental psych that has students engage with a (or multiple) scientific article(s)? I have tried many iterations of different assignments and want one I look forward to grading. Right now... not enjoying grading AI-written policy letters.
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 27/12/2024
"even when controlling for specific components of the same evaluation surveys, students tend to give lower overall ratings to female instructors...RateMyProfessors’s overall quality ratings have a greater influence on course enrollment than official evaluations" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Gender Gap in Teaching Evaluations and its Effect on Course Enrollments
The disparity in teaching evaluations between male and female instructors is well documented. This paper demonstrates that, even when controlling for …
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Overworked faculty: there's just too much on my plate, and no time left for the really important stuff AI techbros: so hear me out--what if we automated your entire teaching process and then you can go to more meetings
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Nick Fears @nickfears.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
One of my barometers for men colleagues is if they know and push back against the course evaluation comments their women colleagues receive. Every woman I know gets horrendous comments and they are all deeply misogynistic and unrelated to the course content.
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
This is presuming the "result" is a good grade in the assessment, whereas the result should be the learning and understanding itself. How we re-centre that is the big question.
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Patsnotatweetin @dontbemeanto.me · 05/12/2024
saying "you only live once" - cliche - thanks for the existential dread - offensive to cats saying "leroy jenkins" - has some flare - here for a good time not a long time - leeeeeeeeeeeeroy jeeeenkkiinns - inoffensive to cats
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Nick Fears @nickfears.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
My student just unlocked a researcher core memory: she was trying to replicate an analysis for a class project but the values she were getting didn’t make any realistic sense. Turns out the PUBLISHED paper reported incorrect variable coding. After some troubleshooting, we figured out what they did.
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Cynthia (NAME REDACTED) @8thcyn.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Time for a reminder that "disability" can mean a wide variety of visible and invisible disabilities, and it doesn't mean lower productivity. 🧵1/9 #disability
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🌴✨🦋 Kathryn 🦋✨🌴 @kathrynkatiekwrites.substack.com · 03/12/2024
Every time I read about banning books, I think of this: Reading a book with a gay character will not make you gay any more than reading a book about Einstein will make you a genius. If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books — you're afraid of thinking.
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Mid-career academics - do you have a formal 'mentor' outside of your line management? Have you sought them out? Are they at a more senior career stage, or at roughly your career stage?
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Steven R. Shaw, PhD @shawpsych.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
It's always interesting to hear educational entrepreneurs sell their programs to teachers. The formula seems to be a vague definition of a well-known problem + multiple buzzwords of the moment integrated into a narrative + a healthy dose of neurobabble.
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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Fascinating and depressing. Virtually identical trend as we are seeing in the US.
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 26/11/2024
I had zero luck with grants. People really didn’t get why what I did was important and never figured out how to explain it to them.
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I think you'll find the shark only killed and ate a very small number of the people who were present in the water, and as you can see everyone else is having a wonderful time
The Major from Jaws giving an interview on the beach
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 01/12/2024
This Thanksgiving weekend, I'm thankful for marta running regular service! That said, it's now December, and according to information reviewed by @thexylom.com, marta still hasn't run full service over two consecutive weekends. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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For the first time, you can track MARTA Rail's weekend service statistics.
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Nick Fears @nickfears.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
My students and I spoke about this the other day. The largest impacts on society I will have are through my interactions with them and our community engagement. But that’s also fine with me!
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 01/12/2024
"After coming into contact with pepper spray" Expert deployment of the exonerative tense by the Athletic. www.nytimes.com/athletic/595...
Text from The Athletic: Police and team staff stepped in to break up the fight. In the process, some players were seen on the ground rubbing their faces after coming into contact with pepper spray.
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Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
NEW: Why do we always think crime is rising, even when it isn’t? This week I looked at one of the big data mysteries. Britain is 2/3 less violent than the 1990s; thefts were higher pre-lockdown Why, then, doesn’t it feel like it? 1/8 @thetimes.com 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...
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Aut2Ask 🦦 @aut2ask.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Hi, Kamalla! Can you help me diversify and reach more autistic folks . Im also autistic and advocating to amplify our voices! Check out the below skeet! :) @kamalladreams.bsky.social More info: bit.ly/Aut2ask
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Autism Supports (v.2)
An autistic led community. The community of Aut2Ask members are aut’ers (otters) 🦦 We need each otter. Us: Autistic folk, caregivers, educators, specialists, community helpers, allies, etc. It's about...
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 29/11/2024
Every academic right now
A version of the kermit vs darth kermit meme where good kermit tells the online academic that they should grade, while darth kermit tells them they should eat more pie.
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Autistic Lauren 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @autisticlauren.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Asking autistics, have you ever been seen by others as clumsy?
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Nick Fears @nickfears.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Love this view for academics with 1 caveat. This path will lead to doing innovative work, BUT our academic systems are not designed to accommodate these types of people because we train and hire people in specific fields. Bridging the gap to be hired takes a lot of explaining and LUCK.
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Yeshes.Online 📎🌻🖖♾️ @handle.invalid · 21/11/2024
Intolerance of intolerance is the only way to effect tolerance.
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Laura Crane @lauramaycrane.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
There's so many autism research (#AutRes) accounts on Bluesky that I now have two Starter Packs! go.bsky.app/B9XV8UA go.bsky.app/Pfbbvot And HUGE apologies if I'm missing people. I've gone from 300 to 2k followers in a week, and my notifications are out of control 😱
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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin
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Nick Fears @nickfears.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The biggest barriers we run into also including grant reviewers challenging the inclusion of lived experience perspectives of autistic adults on assessments and supports for autistic children. They tend to only want to fund inclusion of caregivers of those children.
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Aut2Ask 🦦 @aut2ask.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🧵Autistic Representation in Autism Research Historically, autism research has been conducted ON autistic people rather than with autistic people. In recent years, there has been an increase in research conducted by autistics for autistics. #autres #autsky #autism #research #academia #phd #phdsky
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Representation in Autism Research"We understand the values and the traditions of our disciplines and we understand the lived experience of being autistic"
- Heather M. BrownHistorically, autism research has been conducted ON autistic people rather than WITH autistic peopleIn recent years, there has been an increase in research conducted by autistics for autistics
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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
perfect
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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Autism affects my whole body, not just my brain.
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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 17/11/2024
This starter pack is intended for researchers in all areas of gait and posture - just let me know if you would like to be added. go.bsky.app/UaoaLRZ
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Vaccines do not cause autism.
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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Welcome Autism Researchers. Couple of starter packs to get you going: Autism Research (@lauramaycrane.bsky.social‬) go.bsky.app/B9XV8UA Language in Autism (@elenatenenbaum.bsky.social) go.bsky.app/UtaHx7P
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Aut2Ask 🦦 @aut2ask.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I put this together because autistics need to be heard from, not about. That is our ethos at Aut2Ask. I can add you or, please let me know who I should add! Also: find us on IG- @aut2ask. And to learn more: bit.ly/Aut2ask
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
These guys are going to be horrified by the sheer number of meetings they have to attend and also the fact that I personally can FOIA their emails and daily schedules
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David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 14/11/2024
Invalid Handle
A fake Bluesky profile of someone named Norman Doors who has an "Invalid Handle" error on his profile page
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Snowfloe @snowfloe.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
This totally passed me by at the time. Sharing this link because the times link doesn't work for me. So glad they could get in contact. It's horrible when online, or even long distance friends suddely disappear, cos if something has happened to them, you may never know.
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My disabled son’s amazing gaming life in the World of Warcraft
Robert and Trude thought their son Mats lived a lonely life, but they discovered this was far from true.
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Nick Fears @nickfears.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #973,581!
Bluesky user card indicating this account was #973,581
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Chris Jungerius @cjungerius.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
Excited to share my primer on simulation-based power analysis using R, Python, and Julia! Based on @debruine.bsky.social's approach applied to data collected by @kirsten-adam.bsky.social, I hope it's a helpful tool for those starting with simulations. Check it out: cjungerius.github.io/powersim/
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Power Simulation: A primer in 3 languages - Power Simulation in a Mixed Effects design using R
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Danica Kulibert (They/She) 🏳️‍🌈 @danicajk.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Kennesaw State University is hiring for several faculty positions (3 assistant professor, 1 associate professor, and 3 lecturer positions) in psychology. If interested, please feel free to message me.
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Careers at KSU
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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 14/11/2023
Hi all! We have TWO tenure track open positions in psychology available at the University of Melbourne (equivalent to assistant and associate professor). Come join us and please share widely. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/mob/en/job/9...
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