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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 13h

OMB's focus on NIH and NSF, which has confused a lot of folks, pretty much boils down to stopping money going to universities.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18h

RIP to everyone’s favorite p<0.05 factory

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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Did you know that your speed — in a simple task of quickly pressing a button every time you see a yellow square — is faster when you are exhaling or pausing then when you are inhaling? Dr. Erika Yamazaki figured this out, did all the work, and published on it this week www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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Response speed is modulated by respiratory phase

Behavioral neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience

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Neil Chadborn @neilchadborn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today & tomorrow are first days of strike as Uni council makes final decisions on massive cuts of courses &staff. Please show your #solidatity by sharing this, to encourage management to take our alternative financial proposals seriously. Compulsory redundancies not necessary!! @uonucu.bsky.social

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice?

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 23/09/2026

after some in-depth discussions with my lab and also drawing on conversations on here, we've edited our new policy on AI usage in my lab feel free to adapt or re-use with attribution, or to reply to tell me how awful this policy is lol

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 23/09/2026

Repeatedly subdividing a triangle using its centroids

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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My entire professional career up to the present in one chart.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yeah, that's a problem www.chronicle.com/article/high... #academicsky #edusky

A line graph demonstrating the nonacademic spending has outpaced academic spending, from 2010 to 2024. The note indicates this is for 146 R1 institutions. Source: NCES, Created with Datawrapper

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Alright, let’s all get on the same page about Vought/NIH/Trump. THEY👏WILL👏STOP👏AT👏NOTHING👏 The goal is to destroy the STEM ecosystem, universities, and democracy as we have known it. PERIOD. The only way to win is to impeach them all…which means we need Congress. HERE’S HOW WE WIN 🧵

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The attacks just keep coming. Planned executive order "aims to create a new external committee with the power to veto awards" We also learn that "Vought...refused to meet with Dr. Bhattacharya... accused the N.I.H. director of funding projects that were in conflict with administration priorities"

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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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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Your research paper will *literally* be AI.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i've read from many that "gold standard science" sounds good in principle and that could not be farther from my truth. there is no such thing, there cannot be such a thing, and the sheer thought that it could actually be a good idea betrays a complete ignorance about science and scholarship.

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1/6 An extraordinary @nature.com paper has just landed from the lab of @sergiuppasca.bsky.social. They found a way to create "xenocortical mice" which have ~92% of their cortex occupied by a cortical organoid derived from human stem cells.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Internet: This is for sale on Amazon. WHAT IS IT? bit.ly/3VggWrg

"Using good materials can make your home decoration last longer...", it says, on a picture of some ductwork with an inset picture of a thing that looks like a dead mole carcass or zombie toupee.

A 3-pack of a mysterious object that looks like it might be part of a testicle haloween costume.

Two pictures of said product, and one is titled "AVIRULENT INSIPIDY"

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Research Idea: What makes people so miserably fail to understand how lame and obvious their AI-generated content is?

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Tony Cunningham @tonycunningham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Can what we think about before sleep shape our dreams? Holder & @wamsleylab.bsky.social found that reactivating emotional autobiographical memories shifted subsequent dream emotion, but dreaming about those memories did not reduce overnight emotional reactivity. Sweet dreams! doi.org/10.1093/slee...

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Validate User

This research demonstrates that reactivating remote emotional memories before sleep influences subsequent dream emotions. Notably, we found no evidence tha

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I am sad to share that Project Implicit, my first non-profit and foundation of my career, is closing. The IAT website will continue, managed by the next generation of leaders in implicit bias research. Here's the statement I posted to LinkedIn. It didn't vibe right as a bsky thread.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm writing a registered report for the first time and it's really fun.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Very bad for our international students. 😢 I often tell my undergrads interested in a PhD to think about working in research for a year or two first-- Make sure they REALLY want to do that, get experience, gain maturity. Not possible for int'l students under this rule. #edusky #academicsky

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Office of Metascience.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For decades, dreaming has been hypothesized to contribute to emotional memory processing. Here, we investigated how reactivating highly emotional autobiographical memories prior to sleep affects dream content and subsequent emotional appraisal of these memories. #sleeppeeps #psychscisky 🧠🟦

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Experimentally Manipulating Dream Content by Reactivating a Remote Emotional Memory

This research demonstrates that reactivating remote emotional memories before sleep influences subsequent dream emotions. Notably, we found no evidence tha

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/09/2026

Two scientists have identified a cause of the sleep disorder narcolepsy, which affects an estimated one in every 2,000 people in the U.S., after their research in animals laid the groundwork.

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Scientists Who Study Sleep and Narcolepsy Win Prestigious Lasker Award

Two researchers who study the debilitating sleep disorder have won a prestigious Lasker Award. Their research in animals laid the groundwork for a new drug that addresses the conditions’s root cause.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You have to. We just had a 6% score go unfunded.

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Daniel S Helman, PhD @helmandaniel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NSF is consolidating its geoscience research grants into a new program, GEOcore and reducing annual grants to $110 million total in 200-350 awards. Typical was about $300 million in 1,200 awards. Not including institutional grants ($1.3 billion/yr) and those may be gone. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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Geosciences Core Research: Atmospheric, Geospace, Earth and Ocean Sciences (GEO Core)

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Alessandro Gifford @alessandrogifford.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

(1/2) The EEG Moments Dataset (EMD) is now public! EMD is a large-scale dataset of simultaneous EEG and eye-tracking recordings of 6 participants for 1,102 naturalistic 3-second videos (while maintaining central fixation), together with rich video metadata. arxiv.org/abs/2608.28768

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.

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SPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha School

What is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp?

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tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

University of California, Irvine (UCI) (@ucirvine.bsky.social) is hiring: Open Rank Professor of Teaching in Statistics #professor #statistics

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.

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Dr. C. Nathalie Yuen @nathalieyuen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Evergreen State College is hiring, including a position in cognitive psychology! We’re a public liberal arts college in Washington state. Review of applications for the cognitive psychology position begins on Nov 1. See details in link. evergreen.peopleadmin.com/postings/sea...

The entrance sign for The Evergreen State College. The sign is in the median of the road and in front of a tall tree.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What makes higher ed administrators, faculty and staff with no background in computer science, cognitive science, or other specialized fields think they are qualified to "teach AI" to college students? #edusky #academicsky

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 04/09/2026

Tell me a fun fact.

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Dogs both pee and poo In a North South direction as personal preference.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The "high-five" was not invented until the late 1970s.

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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Engineering Healthier Dreams" with Karen Konkoly @karenkonkoly.bsky.social and Daniel Morris, a 1-page article just published in AASM Montage (a quarterly publication just for members of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine)

Screenshot of the article in AASM Montage

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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“Contrary to emotional regulation theories of dreaming, these observations suggest that sleep and dreaming are associated with amplified emotional reactivity, at least in the short-term.”

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Our new paper.. 🚨Dreams about the 2024 US Presidential Election 🚨 UPSHOT: -Tons of people dreamed about the election -People who dreamed about it felt worse about it the following morning. And worse about their future and the collective future of the country. No baseline diffs. #sleeppeeps 🧠🟦

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The American dream: Election night dreams predict overnight change in feelings about the election and the future

Real-life experiences are often incorporated into our dreams. Does dreaming about those experiences affect how we feel about them? Prior studies have suggested that dreaming may attenuate emotional re...

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🔥Next Month's Headlines 🔥 Hotmail declares independence from Microsoft and re-emerges as the #1 email service. Frustrated with the modern internet, consumers return to the revitalized Compuserve. ICQ replaces Facebook as the most popular social media site.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I don’t get the “I’m so flooded with peer reviews I simply must use AI” take. Just uhh turn them down? Click decline.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Oh. my. god. The biggest scientific publishers are collecting nearly $4 BILLION A YEAR in author fees. This is absurd. We've got to break free of this system. If everyone would just agree to it, we could just post all our new papers on bsky and it wouldn't cost anything. Or something. But not this.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Our department at Furman University is hiring, in social or social cognitive -- In many ways, Furman is a uniquely excellent place to work for someone who values both teaching and research, looking to do both in a liberal arts environment. Happy to candidly answer questions (DM me).

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Tenure-Track Position in Social or Social Cognitive Psychology

Welcome to Furman University's Career Site! IMPORTANT: Load all documents in the My Experience area under Resume/CV. This may include your resume/C.V., cover letter, unofficial transcript, teaching ph...

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