If you’re in the Salem, OR area and want to watch a corny 1972 film about the founding, followed by a Q & A with yours truly, get your tickets now! June 30, 6-9 pm at Salem Cinema. www.willametteheritage.org/calendar/177...

1776 Film Screening and Q & A Session - Willamette Heritage Center

Join us at Salem Cinema for a screening of the musical drama "1776" followed by a Q & A with historian and author, Seth Cotlar.

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🔥 The way this green heron can stretch out

I've got a new blog post on cognitive offloading. Storing our memories outside our heads. Googling things rather than trusting our knowledge. And a few words on the costs of using AI in terms of learning, ownership of ideas, and feelings of self-efficacy. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ment...

The Cost of Convenience: Calendars, Google, and AI

Our memories aren’t contained just within our heads. We offload them to pictures, social media, and devices. But this offloading carries risks.

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I spent the past semester building interactive teaching apps with AI-assisted coding. I used my personal website to share them with my students, but that makes them hard to find for other educators. So I built Galvoro — galvoro.app

I also created a version of the 'guess the correlation' game. Students always enjoyed it, but the original website (with fun retro design) started to require a google account login. So I created my own version. Play it here: lakens.github.io/statistical_...

New paper🎈: Lessons Learned from Big Team Science Projects in Cognitive Science in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... We share practical, experience-based strategies for running large-scale collaborations - from project structure to ethics, funding, & AI use.

we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...

New article out exploring great ape name recognition! We find partial evidence that zoo-living chimps & bonobos know each other's names 👀 Huge thanks to Animal Behavior and Cognition (a great open-access journal) & co-authors for your collaboration!🎉🐵 unsvr1.com/web/abc/work...

Do Great Apes Know Each Other's Names? Probing Great Ape Comprehension of Social Vocal Labels — Animal Behavior and Cognition

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ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

📣 Faculty line in cognitive psychology in my department at Western Washington University. We just, finally, received permission to search. Details will be posted in early January. But hey, I just want to get this out so people will be watching. Nice place and university. I’ve liked it.

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

The misplaced optimism of the academic who appends .FINAL to their latest document

The ManyTones project is looking for several lead positions. See poster for details. 📢📣✨ Get involved! 🎉🤝🌟

“It’s not that traditional liberal arts is out of step with student demand. Instead, it’s out of step with the priorities values desires of a powerful board of trustees with no apparent commitment to liberal education, an administrative class.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

Opinion | Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much.

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People asked me often over the years... now it's over but finally sharing it: Course manual — including readings, instructions on how to write essays and give presentations — for the course AI as a Science that I taught from 2020/21 to 2024/25 in the School of AI. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

They're forcing us to DIY the parts of society best managed by government: from disaster preparedness to education and public health. Because DIY saves billionaires a few bucks. And because DIY is so cognitively taxing that we can't strategize to fight them and can only fight each other for scraps.

Session Submission and registration is now open for BTSCON2025! bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/ @abrir.bsky.social @psysciacc.bsky.social @manybabies.org

Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science! The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · last yr.

Does anybody have a good visualization to explain how interactions can be confounded, and why interactions require interaction controls? @urisohn.bsky.social maybe? (Asking because I have an idea, but want to check out what exists already before investing the effort)

📣🧪 $25k grants for those who: 1. are working on research on STEM and education (including AI and CS, graduate education and MSIs, and scholarship that aims to reduce inequality), and 2. have had a recently terminated or cancelled grant from NSF. Early-career scholars prioritized

500 Women Scientists@500womensci.bsky.social · last yr.

🧪 funding alert! www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully. You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers. Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

"Applications from US scientists seeking career opportunities in neighbouring Canada increased by 41% between January and March 2025 compared with the same period in 2024. By contrast, applications from Canadian researchers for jobs in the United States dropped by 13%" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: a Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drain

A trawl of job views and application data suggests jobseekers are looking abroad as the Trump administration’s cuts to science take hold.

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My dog has discovered the fidget spinner...

Hi friends, the Spark Society's NSF funding has been terminated. We are dedicated to continuing our work and hope we can rely on you for support.

The Spark Society @sparksociety.bsky.social · last yr.

If you want to help support our mission, you can donate here buy.stripe.com/3cs03h1be38D...

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

Calling all researchers, conservationists, & habitat biologists! We’re collecting insights from users for grants/reports. How does Birds of the World impact your work? That is, what do you use BOW for, and what does it provide that other resources cannot? DM or email birds@birdsoftheworld.org - TIA!

This is completely fucked up. I know everything is fucked up, but THIS is why universities need to stand up and fight, not cave like Columbia did. NOTHING will satisfy them, and all the capitulation just leads to more demands and humiliation.

Jameel Jaffer@jameeljaffer.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know