If anyone is interested in applying to the UC postdoctoral fellowship and we have similar research interests, please reach out! The deadline is November 1. Many other faculty mentor options exist as well. ppfp.ucop.edu/info/

This is an oldie but goodie: Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State, asked his aide to work on a report. He sent it back eight times with the same question. "Is this the best you can do?" On the ninth, the aide finally snapped - "Henry, I've beaten my brains out.

I'm recruiting a graduate student for Fall 2027! Full funding, beautiful campus, and a great community to work in. International applicants welcome - Canada is a great place to be. More info about what I look for and the app process: www.trentdevminds.ca/join-the-lab www.trentu.ca/graduatestud...

My first PhD student started today. I'm both excited and nervous! If anyone has any tips for me as fresh Doktormutter, I'd be happy to hear them...

Here's a fun question: If you had to estimate how many manuscript pages you've written to this point in your career -- be it for a journal article or chapter and published or published -- how many pages would that be?

turns out that making an extremely detailed outline helps with motivation (especially when writing something as open-ended as a chapter)

Deon T. Benton@deontbenton.bsky.social · 3d ago

Anyone else like this? To get myself in the mood to write something, I like to read similar things. For example, I'm currently working on a chapter, and I'm struggling to find the motivation to write it. One thing that helps me find it is to read chapters written by my favorite scientists.

I’ll be presenting next week @btscon.bsky.social on integrating undergraduate students into big team science projects in an advanced course. Come check out my presentation on Tuesday 10/6 at 2pm Eastern!

Big Team Science Conference@btscon.bsky.social · 3d ago

The program for #BTSCON2026 (October 6-8) is out! We’re so excited about our amazing lineup of talks, panels, hackathons, and workshops. Register now (fees are OPTIONAL!) to get access to all sessions and recordings. bigteamscienceconference.github.io

Anyone else like this? To get myself in the mood to write something, I like to read similar things. For example, I'm currently working on a chapter, and I'm struggling to find the motivation to write it. One thing that helps me find it is to read chapters written by my favorite scientists.

Jenna (jennadistefano.bsky.social), our editor extraodinaire, is really killing it with her interviews! Take a listen to the second episode of her segment, "A conversation with a future luminary."

The It's Innate! Podcast@theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · 4d ago

We’re back with episode 2 of “A Conversation with a Future Luminary”! Jenna talks with UMass Boston graduate students, @ckoolh.bsky.social and @quinnpham.bsky.social about time management, working memory, episodic future thinking, collecting data in museums, and much more! itsinnate.fireside.fm/45

little over one month to knock out this invited chapter. ready. set. go!!

Yeah -- this, and the other MB findings, have really got me thinking...

Christina Bergmann@chbergma.bsky.social · 4d ago

What happens when we look closer at textbook findings about early infancy? Well, lots of questions arise. (Which imo makes science fun)

Want a little distraction that can help me with a class demo in Intro Psych? Take a short (1-2 minute) color perception test at ismy.blue Then report your results in the google form below! I'll post a figure of results by gender and age later this week. 🙂 forms.gle/dPkMztpNLNQK...

Is my blue your blue?

Test your color perception with this interactive test.

ismy.blue

I'm a little reticent to say this for fear of it backfiring but I think, for the first time ever, I'm all caught up on my reviewer assignments.

This is absolutely positively not a flex but please tell me I'm not the only prof who doesn't practice talks beforehand (mostly because too busy and don't begin building prezi until way too close to the talk)? A downside? Almost always I have too much content

Ed Sheerain

Kelly@justkelly.bsky.social · 7d ago

LMAOOOOOOOOOO. Sheeran’s tour dates at Robert Kraft’s Gillette Stadium all got rained out 😂 www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

Looks very very interesting

Lisa Feldman Barrett@lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 7d ago

I’m thrilled to share that we have a new paper out, led by the brilliant @katiehoemann.bsky.social and Vanessa LoBue. In this paper, we analyze - for the first time ever - the facial movements that infants see in their everyday interactions with others. 1/3

🚨New paper alert! 🚨 The visual system tunes itself to the statistics of its input. How do individual experiences differently tune vision? In this work, @bjbalas.bsky.social and I examined how one individual difference—height—changes the visual diet and how this affects perception. 1/

Crisis of the most epic proportions has been averted thanks to Katie (@ktvasq.bsky.social)!

Deon T. Benton@deontbenton.bsky.social · last wk.

Anyone have access to the following reference? I've struck out. Hunter, M. A., & Ames, E. W. (1988). A multifactor model of infant preferences for novel and familiar stimuli. Advances in Infancy Research, 5, 69–95.

Anyone have access to the following reference? I've struck out. Hunter, M. A., & Ames, E. W. (1988). A multifactor model of infant preferences for novel and familiar stimuli. Advances in Infancy Research, 5, 69–95.

My Op Ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the harms of cutting student supports and the tenuous state of financing American higher education www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

How Temple University failed my daughter on her first day of college | Opinion

My daughter was collateral damage in an ongoing war for ever-higher enrollment numbers and was let down by an on-campus support system that has been weakened by extreme budget cuts.

inquirer.com

Little (Albert) Rascal

paolo@paolopalma.bsky.social · 2w ago

Pitching a new series: The Wire (Mother)

was really hoping to sleep tonight

Phew, not a lawyer but glad my understandings are accurate. #1stAmmendment

Pew Research Center@pewresearch.org · 2w ago

How much do you know about the First Amendment? Just 9% of U.S. adults answered all our knowledge questions correctly. Curious where you rank? Take the quiz: https://pewrsr.ch/3SPPVdE #PewKnightInitiative #ConstitutionDay

A tale as old as time

Tomer Ullman@tomerullman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Social sciences colleagues working on more critical topics (e.g., inequality, racism, collective action), how are we thinking about advising our PhD students around the NSF GRFP this cycle? Is it work the effort, any sense whether they will receive fair consideration? A lost cause at the moment?

I said it before, and I'll say it again: this has got to Stapel.

Brian Nosek@briannosek.bsky.social · 3w ago

The cover-up is always worse than the crime? Harvard's latest filing says that Gino manipulated a file to cover-up fabrication, hid the laptop used to do it during the discovery process, and did more [redacted] destruction of evidence after being compelled by the court to share the laptop.

I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...

Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks

What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

aiguide.substack.com

So lovely to chat with my former postdoc mentor and to learn some new things about him! ;-)

The It's Innate! Podcast@theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · 3w ago

New ep! 🚨 We chatted with Brown Professor Dave Sobel about the blicket detector, poetry, early-life tragedy, and even his early life of “crime.” 😂 Plus, we chatted about his recent Psychological Review paper on reach tracking and inhibitory control in children. itsinnate.fireside.fm/44

seeking help 🆘 a senior colleague advised that i need to give more invited talks to strengthen my tenure case... how do i find such opportunities?

Wirt from Over The Garden Wall Looks Awkward

ALT: Wirt from Over The Garden Wall Looks Awkward

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New paper with Liz Spelke, @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social, and @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social! We find that when 4- to 6-month-old infants observe two individuals share saliva, they infer that those individuals have a close relationship. Free access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1niQg_Oow0...