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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · 08/07/2026

When a university administrator says ‘right sizing’ I want to throw up. 2% increase in administration and 40% decrease in TT faculty is not right sizing. It’s naked capitalism and ineptitude.

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Ali Cohen @aliocohen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Postdoc job ad is now live! faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/168298/...

The Learning, Understanding, Memory, & Neurodevelopment Lab (LUMeN Lab, PI: Dr.
Alexandra Cohen) in the Department of Psychology at Emory University (Atlanta, GA) is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to work on NIH-funded studies examining emotion-related learning, memory, and brain function across development.

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Billy Mitchell @wj-mitchell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Take the high stress, long work hours, and low pay that have characterized early career academia for years with even more abysmal job prospects than usual, an ever expanding horizon of domains we're each responsible for mastering, and the state of things at large and it's no wonder. (1/?)

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Billy Mitchell @wj-mitchell.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Forty years to the date of the MOVE Bombing, Philly more or less resurrected the Mulford Act against Black Lion members because a cop purportedly challenged Birdsong to a gunfight. Just like with the BPP, no gun control groups condemning Philly PD. www.axios.com/local/philad...

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Scoop: Philly revokes gun permits for Black Panther-style patrol group members

The group's lawyer says the permits were yanked over an encounter with police earlier this year.

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Sebastian Speer @sebospeer.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Recruiting PhD students for Fall 2027! This fall, I will be starting as an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M, where I will launch the Coupled Minds Lab. We will study how conversation shapes the way people connect, coordinate, and change their minds. Learn more: coupled-minds.github.io

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I think it's cool that every piece of software I use now is 10X laggier and sludgier to use than WP51 was on my MS-DOS PC at the turn of the century

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Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

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Billy Mitchell @wj-mitchell.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I don't know who wrote this sentence but they belong in a labor camp

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Billy Mitchell @wj-mitchell.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I’m doing a panel for the Rutgers Addiction Research Center—geared toward undergrads interested in addiction research! We’ll talk where to start, what grad school is like ,etc. I’ll probably ramble about organized labor and successfully stumbling into good things. Please join and/or pass along!

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Imagine whining to a judge for protection just because you realize you may never get a date again.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

One 9/11 per *day*.

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

we are absolutely cooked

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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Here is King Trump's new nominee for Director of Homeland Security Sen Markwayne Mullin, a MMA fighter and an avid wrestling supporter, trying to physically fight the Teamsters president in the middle of a Senate hearing. Diaper Don really knows how to pick 'em.

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U.S. Senator challenges Teamsters president to fight during committee hearing

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Billy Mitchell @wj-mitchell.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

If the CBA is repudiated, arguably, so is the no-strike clause. Fellows might be federal employees (I don't know if so) which complicates striking, but a work slowdown certainly is still on the table regardless.

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Gary1955 @gary1955.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

America needs regime change.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.

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Billy Mitchell @wj-mitchell.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

When I won my NIH DSPAN, I shared my materials in a public repo—many people told me it helped. After Trump killed DSPAN before I could use the K, I applied for an F32 and just found out I got it. In the spirit of transparency and community, I’ve shared those materials too: github.com/wj-mitchell/...

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GitHub - wj-mitchell/F32_Details: Information and Materials Related to My NIH NIDA F32 Award

Information and Materials Related to My NIH NIDA F32 Award - wj-mitchell/F32_Details

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I recommend Ian Buruma's excellent piece on how people today (like those in Nazi Germany) look the other way and delude themselves that things will just get better on their own. Putting some exerpts into a thread:.... www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/o...

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Opinion | Historians Confirm: Tomorrow Won’t Be Better Than Today

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Helen Schmidt @helen-schmidt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Excited to share my new preprint with fabulous co-authors Emma Moughan and Chelsea Helion! We explored if normativity in semantic representations of emotion predicts friendship accuracy in a real world social network (it does!). More in thread 👇

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

New preprint from Lindsey Tepfer (@ltjaql.bsky.social) and me! We silenced portions of internal monologues in two films to manipulate participants' access to characters' thoughts. Using ISC and RSA, we found that this aligned later neural processing of the narrative & encoding of trait impressions.

Figure 1. Experimental stimuli and paradigm. 1A. Manipulation timeline. Each video features a total of 12 IM moments, half of which were silenced in version 1, and the other half silenced in version 2. This produces two versions of each video where only half of the IMs are audible to the participant. 1B. Voice removal. Background sounds were preserved in both versions, regardless of IM presence. 1C. fMRI paradigm. Participants were randomly assigned a version and watched both videos in a counter-balanced order. 1D. Afterwards, they made trait ratings on each video’s main character in random order before rating them on subsequent traits.

Figure 2. Scanner and online participant trait rating results. A. Scanner participants arrive at similar conclusions about characters across versions by the end of each video. B. Trait ratings at the end of the videos are correlated between online and scanner participants. C. The IM manipulation had a significant effect on the trait ratings across the duration of the videos, such that different versions led to different trait impressions. D. Participants who saw different versions changed their ratings for both clip types but changed to a greater degree after seeing the IM segments relative to the NIM.

Figure 3. ISC results. Gaining access to the same mental state knowledge in earlier IM clips led to significantly (p < .05, corrected) more aligned neural activity in subsequent NIM clips across a wide swath of the temporal lobe, as well as the frontal pole and SPL.

Figure 4. Representational similarity analysis results. 4A. RSA pipeline. Clip-specific patterns of brain activity were correlated across movies within segment type (NIM or IM) to create a correlation distance matrix for each participant. Corresponding trait ratings were partitioned into components specific to each of the two versions of each film or shared across both versions. RDMs based on those traits were used to predict the neural RDMs. The resulting coefficients were sorted into matched (version), unmatched (version), and shared across version, and inference was performed via t-tests across participants. See methods section for further details of this analysis. 4B. Prior trait rating results. 1. While watching IM clips of the same version, the prior trait ratings predict activity in the bilateral A1, STS, STG, and right VLPFC. 2. Prior trait rating predicts activity in these regions again in the same-version NIM clips. 3. Across the two versions, while watching the NIM clips, the prior trait ratings predicted activity in the right occipitotemporal cortex. 4C. Trait updating results. 1. While watching NIM clips, the right STS & MTG predict version-matched trait updating. 2. In the unmatched NIM clips, STS & MTG again predict trait updating. 3. Across the two versions, the precuneus and LOC show pattern similarity for trait updating in participants.

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Billy Mitchell @wj-mitchell.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Mel Curth has been barred from teaching at her institution because a student who didn't do an assignment got a bad grade. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

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Oklahoma Instructor Is Fired Over Student’s Gender Essay That Cited Bible

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Billy Mitchell @wj-mitchell.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

What kind of a spineless, backwater shithole suspends a graduate instructor for grading according to a long established and otherwise unproblematic rubric? If you refuse to educate, you aren't an educational institution. You're just a bad hedge fund.

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Billy Mitchell @wj-mitchell.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Sci-hub is the only morally defensible name in broad public access to academic publications #CanonizeAlexandraElbakyan

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Sebastian Speer @sebospeer.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Recruiting PhD students for Fall 2026! The Coupled Minds Lab at @tamu.bsky.social will use a multimodal approach combining fMRI hyperscanning, computational modeling, and natural language processing to study how conversations transform minds. Learn more: coupled-minds.github.io Due Date Dec 1

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Coupled Minds Lab

Coupled Minds Lab — social neuroscience of conversation, negotiation, and human–AI interaction.

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Razia Sahi @raziasahi.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Managing emotions is not easy - we often get by with a little help. In the NEW Social Interaction and Emotion Lab at Rutgers-Newark, we’ll study how social interactions regulate emotion using experiments, naturalistic data, and multi-modal approaches. ✨ Now recruiting! ✨🙌 Learn more: raziasahi.com

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Billy Mitchell @wj-mitchell.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Pardon my whatever, but this is fucking insane

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Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

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Billy Mitchell @wj-mitchell.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Stephen Miller may be the first WH Chief of Staff to pre-tear his underwear in office so the wedgies hurt less

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

So... I did some analysis of grants that did receive noncompetitive renewals. In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed. Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph... 1/4

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Billy Mitchell @wj-mitchell.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

At a new job orientation looking at the four flavors of healthcare plans available and I'm realizing it's just an awful high stakes Iowa Gambling Task

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs

Bar plot showing the number of psychology jobs posted each year by area. There are major dips in 2020 due to covid, and in 2025 (now).

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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · 01/09/2025

Awwwww Yeah -- it's official

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Haroon Popal @hpopal-brain.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Is there an online repo of example TT application materials like research and teaching statements?

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.

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Billy Mitchell @wj-mitchell.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Following up from this tweet yesterday, I realized that the national right to work foundation is on a warpath against graduate student unions right now and attempting to astroturf support ...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Hearing rumors from multiple sources that NIH COO Eric Schnabel was terminated yesterday for allegedly trying to award a large contract to his wife (who sometimes uses her maiden name) for "public outreach" associated with the autism data science initiative. #EndlessGrift

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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Nice write up of our paper (with @vpmurty.bsky.social) showing that memories expressed with greater “authenticity” are more accurate, but people don’t use that information in judging whether someone actually remembers the event accurately or not, and instead use unreliable signals of accuracy.

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Alt National Cancer Institute (NIH/NCI) 🧬 @alt-thenci.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Did the Tr*mp administration cancel your NIH or NCI grant proposal? Know someone who was affected? The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in the House wants to hear from you. Please fill out this link and share. forms.office.com/pages/respon... #CancerResearch #OncoSky #CanSky

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Billy Mitchell @wj-mitchell.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

This is the same dickhead that fucked up the 2023 GEO strike and has protestors arrested. Man has no business in higher ed.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 20/05/2025

Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data @epi.org from me & Adam Reich of Columbia Labor Lab. In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before. www.epi.org/blog/america...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 20/05/2025

Lab-kept bumble bees roll small wooden balls around for no apparent purpose other than fun, a 2022 study reveals. Learn more on #WorldBeeDay: scim.ag/4dAwCuD

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