Bethany Growns
@bethanygrowns.bsky.social
Cognitive psychologist studying decision-making in the legal system | lecturer @ Macquarie University | queer(she/her)🏳️🌈 aussie | foodie🍽 Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
First talk at my new job @mqpsy.bsky.social @macqpac.bsky.social 🤩 Thanks for the pic @hayleycullen.bsky.social 💖
One small action that as a cis women we can do to object to this heinous bill. Along with emailing MPs and making a submission. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/e-... as
E Tū E Kī: They Don’t Speak for Us - Block the Definition of Woman Bill
The Government is progressing a Bill through Parliament that aims to limit the rights of transgender, non-binary, and intersex New Zealanders in the name of cis women, by defining “man” and “woman” (a...
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OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...
Sinceerly is an AI tool to 'un-AI' your writing
A new ouroboros in the tech world has emerged.
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Ran into some people on Reddit who are angry at games for making these statements. Please repost this to make them angrier
Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle ⚖️🦅🎮@ninaaquilagame.bsky.social · 10mo agoBoth *Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle* games over on Steam now have new banners on their store pages. Support human creators.
As someone who retracted a paper a couple of years ago after we were alerted to a problem in our data, this is a good take👌
Betty C. Jung@bettycjung.bsky.social · 7mo agoKeep calm and be transparent: advice from scientists who retracted their papers www.nature.com/articles/d41... @elisabethbik.bsky.social
In late 2024, Cuellar et al published a review of all the studies purporting to validate firearms analysis (eg techniques associating a found bullet to a particular gun). They found 'fatal' errors in each one. Surprisingly, we disagree: doi.org/10.1093/lpr/...
Towards cumulative forensic science: a commentary on ‘Methodological problems in every black-box study of forensic firearm comparisons’
Abstract. Cuellar et al. recently found that methodological flaws in black-box studies of forensic firearms analysis mean that validity cannot be determine
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“correlation is not cognition” — Guest & Martin (2023). doi.org/10.1007/s421... @olivia.science @andreaeyleen.bsky.social
Come join an absolutely amazing researcher here in stunning Christchurch ! 📓
POSTDOC Opening: I'm hiring a postdoc to work with me, @ayeletlandau.bsky.social, and Yuval Benjamini on a 4-year NSF funded project to understand timing and memorability in the visual system. fMRI, EEG, eye-tracking all included. If interested, please DM or email me for more information!
Martin Wiener@martinwiener.bsky.social · last yr.Thanks to NSF and BSF, we've received a CRCNS grant!! 🎉 I'll be working with the amazing @ayeletlandau.bsky.social and Yuval Benjamini to explore and understand how our sense of time and image memorability are linked. ⌛🧠 We have 2(!) post-doc opportunities available - details coming soon!
I do not want, or see any value, in an AI review of any paper I submit to a journal. If you do this, I will withdraw my paper and submit elsewhere. Or simply post as a preprint never to be reviewed. Fuck this enshittification of scholarship.
Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 12mo agoOh FFS. Because what overburdened peer review systems really need is more noise between the reviewers & ACs. Yeah, that's the ticket. aaai.org/aaai-launche... >>
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/
"no worries if not!" But they were, all of them, deceived. For there were some worries if not
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dr. caitlin m. green@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · last yr.okay, malcolm gladwell says he was “cowed” into saying trans girls and women belong in girls’ and women’s sports. well i won’t be bullied or pressured into taking that position! i took it based on the evidence. like for example: www.liberalcurrents.com/do-trans-wom...
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
Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋@jinxungoh.bsky.social · last yr.The psych job market isn’t dead! Join us at UIC!!! We are looking for a clinical psychologist (assistant or associate level)!! Chicago is simply the best, and the department is incredibly lovely! I’m not on search committee, but as the “newest” hire, I’m happy to talk about my experience thus far!
JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/
Fantastic talk by David White showing that super-recognizers don't pay extra attention to all social cues (e.g. bodies), just to faces #ecp2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
Great talk by @bethanygrowns.bsky.social looking at overlap between face super-recognizers and object super-matchers #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
Hey ECRs at @expsyanz.bsky.social this week - if you're interested in object perception and/or neural decoding, come find me for a chat about an upcoming postdoc spot at the @marcsinstitute.bsky.social 👀
Brilliant talk by @andyperfors.bsky.social at #epc2025 encouraging psychology to study the effects of disinformation at the systemic level @expsyanz.bsky.social
In an absolutely barbaric move, the Trump administration is officially cutting off specialized 988 suicide prevention support for LGBTQ+ youth. This is murder. From NPR: "SAMHSA announced Tuesday it was ending these specialized services for LGBTQ+ youth on July 17."
Trump administration cuts specialized suicide prevention service for LGBTQ+ youth
The 988 Suicide and Crisis Prevention Lifeline included a service that provided specialized suicide prevention support by phone and text for LGBTQ+ kids. That's ending.
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