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Richard.

@pratherlab.bsky.social
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Professor Dad. ATLien. Scientist. Critical Cognitive Science www.criticalcognition.org

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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
For when you're trying to explain that AI is pattern recognition that doesn't actually understand anything.
A list of top 90s Black movies that includes Meet Joe Black
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
got bit by a spider this morning and still had to go to work.
spiderman at a desk
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
he looks like he just taught back to back sections of research methods.
Uconn coach looking a bit disheveled
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
looks like I'm writing a book. title to be something along the lines of "Critical Approaches to Human Cognition" coming to a well known academic press sometime in the near future. hopefully not too long. I hear writing is pretty easy. 😭
DW with bags in her eyes saying "yeah I can fit it in my schedule"
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
me every morning. ( re: stickwithfinn.com/products/loc... )
Born to dilly dally. Forced to lock in.
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
lemme get back to work
Toni Morrison taking a sip
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I got half a mind to go. 😭
A flyer advertising a talk by John McWhorter
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
they got mahomes
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Seen all over the hallways
A flier with information for umdgradworkers.org
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
wait....what?
confused Cita
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Currently reading
Book titled “Empire of Normality” by Robert Chapman
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
as always, I need someone to make a The Chair edit with only Yaz scenes.
Yaz from the chair inhaling deeply as she contemplates her future
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Wasp nest with moon behind
Moon backed wasp nest in the trees
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Ran into an old frenemy at the doctors waiting room. 😂
The cover of the us news best colleges rankings
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Opened up an old box that had been sealed and unlabeled. This must have been what Indiana Jones felt like. Ark of the covenant type shit.
Box full of wires and N64 games. Goldeneye and Mario 64
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I, at one time, had the makings of a varsity athlete. 😂
Fabric W with a winged foot.
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
"Sure, I could write a paper on qualitative methods"
DW with bags under her eyes
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
"I'm sorry I can't do that Dave"
screen shot of a google search for "turn off AI summary google" showing an AI overview saying it can't be turned off.
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
writing this talk for no reason
Left Behind: What the exclusion of left-handed people from brain science says about us and how we do science. Picture of basketball players holding up their left hand.
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
only posting pics because my drafts are not nice. 😂
Toni Morrison taking a moment to gather her thoughts
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Maryland Ninja Turtle
Statue of a turtle looking like a ninja turtle
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
😂
Girls?!
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
worf and k'ehleyr
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
Why aren't your papers in the right journals?
It's the quality of the work, not the publication venue.
No one cares about your E-journals. Publish in traditional places that your committee likes.
What of academic freedom. I didn't spurn industry for this.
you knew academia was a glorified county club when you started.
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
This has been done before.Reject
No way, I checked the literature thoroughly.
Little did you know in an unreviewed book chapter, a BigWig vaguely suggested the same result.
Vague speculation is not the same as empirical data.
The reality is we trust speculation from a famous researcher more than data from some postdoc.
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
You can hear me talk about how we (psychologists) deal with those sorts of issues. Talk coming to a few places this fall. www.psychonomic.org/page/oneworld
picture of a group of mostly black children. Title is "Critical Approaches to Human Cognition: Cognitive Science and the Myth of the Normal Human"
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
From campus. Almost looks like there will be a train here someday.
Picture of under construction train stop
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
interpreting "only been for a work conference" as visited but not stayed.
map of the us with states colored based on if I lived there, visited or never been. Mainly lived in Georgia and Maryland.
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
a hand puppet from The Tick telling everyone to read a book
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
you really think someone would do that, just go on the internet and tell lies?
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 02/08/2024
lol the crowd shots are great.
rugby player in foreground with surprised crowd behind her
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 08/07/2024
on these zooms like
the cover to that common album with all the faces.
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
Out and about in the city.
Picture of Gallaudet University sign with a Black father’s matter sign next to it.
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
we have a cricket team? not since...
scene of the cricket episode of the Cosby show
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
Venomous or Nah?
Snake
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
Album cover for Fugees, The Score
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 16/05/2024
Finally got it.
Me in doctoral regalia
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
someone: *gets a state capital wrong* me:
meme of kid holding it in while the veins on his head pop
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
Professor sports dad vibes
Me in a button down, glasses and a bucket hat.
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
yelling at him like
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
reminding folks about when kendrick's control verse dropped
story telling uncle
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
the tick cartoon when chairface wrote his name on the moon
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
the two types of black grad students
passing cars meme. Top is "First year black graduate student", bottom is "7th year black grad student who never shows up to anything and is months from graduation"
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
McW back at it again?
judgemental black man staring at you
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 20/04/2024
provosts looking over their graduation speaker list
nervous dj akademics meme
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
flipping through old memes I made. Should have put this one in my talk.
doggo meme. weak dog is "20 undergrads from psych 101"
strong dog is "multidimensional quantitative analysis of contextually heterogeneous sample, supported by by qualitative evaluation of participants' context" and so on.
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
students when you mention something in discussion that they learned about in another class.
leo dicaprio pointing meme
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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · 12/04/2024
what's the saying, be careful what you wish for you just might get it.
Oprah pointing right at you
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