Next week we will host another free and casual session to help people get started with git 👩‍💻 The goal is to help you in getting started with contributing to #opensource projects. Come along and hopefully leave having made your first pull request! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-first-p...

I am once again heartbroken to see that people with so much love for this world are detained because they ask for their human rights. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Turkish police detain dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activists

Human rights groups in Turkey have accused the government of using a family- values campaign to target the LGBTQ+ community.

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Reviewer Zero@reviewerzero.bsky.social · 3w ago

Editing is hard, and editors shape how peer review works. Reviewer Zero is recruiting the 4th cohort of our Editor Learning Community: five 1-hour meetings with editors working to make review better. Interested in 2026 or later? forms.gle/Cu6aJs3kGvYo... Please share with your networks!

How is your day going? Mine is someone tried to recruit me to improve algorithms for Grok content.

Girl's Intense Scream at Doctor's Office

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I recall this too, it was called the Panel Pledge in 2015-ish, but I'm not sure it has survived the past decade I see I blogged about it in my 'how to avoid manels' post but couldn't find a link then ideophone.org/how-to-avoid...

How to avoid all-male panels (manels)

The last time I blindly accepted an invitation to speak was in 2012, when I was invited to an exclusive…

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Also and perhaps most importantly, my redefinition of AI allows us to: 👩🏼‍💻👪 Center human cognition 🤖🤥 Reject AI hype 🤔⚛️ Consider AI in general abstracted terms ⏰📜 Grant AI a (pre)history 🔗📝 doi.org/10.48550/arX...

If it can be done fast and/or mindlessly, it is not really problem solving.

We discussed @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and other colleagues' "Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia" in my class today. My students told me that they didn't have this type of clarity about "AI." We need to introduce our trainees to the scholarly work.

Hello, some people are losing their doctors, their insurance, and their IDs.

Transgender World@transgenderreport.com · 4w ago

Baystate Health has come under pressure after two protests outside of its corporate offices demanded the hospital system reinstate gender-affirming care for youth and advocate for a public healthcare system. recorder.com/2026/09... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Thousands of scientists and other citizens joined together to post comments on this proposal, and Congress took action. Now's the time for a similar effort to block the major changes proposed in peer review at NIH 🧪 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 4w ago

The House has now passed (370–48) the Senate's version of the continuing resolution, so the government will remain funded until Dec. 11 and the OMB rule will remain on ice until then as well.

I'm extremely excited that @brianwwl.bsky.social has started his postdoctoral researcher position in my lab. Dr. Wong will bring his expertise to our behavioral and EEG experiments. After some challenging two years (and feeling like the squirrel below), I'm grateful for my community.

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Just want to give a big shoutout to Behavior Research Methods especially Dr. @jgeller1phd.bsky.social for his extremely transparent and thorough editorial service. Thanks to him and our wonderful reviewers (one of them being Dr. @tjmahr.com), we were able to complete this package.

tj mahr 🤘@tjmahr.com · 4w ago

i reviewed this one. play around with the colab notebooks. it's pretty slick.

FYI: our paper features the analysis of a political debate 💜

Dr. Ethan Kutlu@ethankutlu.bsky.social · 4w ago

Do you work with production data? We have some updates for you. My students and I developed a tool that was accepted for publication in Behavior Research Methods. The tool is called: TAPA (Toolkit for Acoustic-Phonetic Analysis). Yes, the name is influenced by the tapas tradition. #speechscience

It is now cooked and served!

Dr. Ethan Kutlu@ethankutlu.bsky.social · last mo.

Our lab has been cooking something for the last two years and it is almost ready to be served. Coming soon… #speech #phonetics #linguistics #language

Do you work with production data? We have some updates for you. My students and I developed a tool that was accepted for publication in Behavior Research Methods. The tool is called: TAPA (Toolkit for Acoustic-Phonetic Analysis). Yes, the name is influenced by the tapas tradition. #speechscience

Trans people doing the hard work of resistance deserve more than gratitude. They deserve investment. www.lgbtqnation.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Trans people doing the hard work of resistance deserve more than gratitude. They deserve investment.

The communities who made Pride possible are still asked to volunteer their labor while institutions, festivals, and corporations benefit from our culture.

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As part of a Reviewer Zero initiative, @frankikung.bsky.social and colleagues are launching a survey on reviewers' and editors' experiences worldwide to help improve the publishing system. miamioh.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

in case you need a break from depressing political news and just as depressing academic discourse in the western world, turkey is always here to, no not to make you feel better, but to pile on even more crap

@06jank.bsky.social · last mo.

Turkey almost had a successful K-Pop style girl group last year and now they all have suspended prison sentences for "indecent dancing"

the good news is that, for at least the foreseeable future, these humanoid robots can be easily defeated by utilizing any number of foiling tactics demonstrated in your run-of-the-mill looney tunes cartoon.

Congratulations to our 2026 Graduate Student Travel Award Recipients. A full list of recipients can be found on the PS website. www.psychonomic.org/page/2026Gra...

Our lab has been cooking something for the last two years and it is almost ready to be served. Coming soon… #speech #phonetics #linguistics #language

This!

tj mahr 🤘@tjmahr.com · 2mo ago

osf is removing their most useful feature (data sharing) www.cos.io/osf-changes

Seeing group of men (philosophers, engineers, cognitive scientists) finding each other in their shared hate of women experts who work and think outside the(ir) mainstream. Patting each other on the back for mysogynist dunks & mischaracterisations, while thinking they are smart and doing noble work.

Pretty confused ab the coming @cos.io changes to OSF. looks like they’re phasing out “projects” (ie where u share/store code, stimuli, etc) which has been a keystone for our replicable pipelines: the info recreates our manuscript, figs, analyses, etc & lets u do ur own. Open science at its best! 1/4

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM" is nonsense Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

Hi all, @ethicsofai.bsky.social @dim-ah.bsky.social @francescaorfw.bsky.social @octopusfiles.bsky.social @josemariacasas.bsky.social @ethankutlu.bsky.social hope you are well ✨ New CAIL paper you may find of interest, too 😊 cc @marentierra.bsky.social @altibel.bsky.social @joostvossers.bsky.social

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3mo ago

New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM" is nonsense Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

Hoping that our talk connects more people with some of the fantastic organizations enacting change in our communities *right now* including Reviewer Zero @reviewerzero.bsky.social Bilingualism Matters www.bilingualism-matters.org and the ROLE Collective www.rolecollective.org #CogSci2026

Matt Goldrick@mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We then discuss how listeners can adapt to these differences and the cognitive and social factors that can impact this adaptation. The possibility of change motivates interventions in institutions supporting science and the broader community. 4/4

So thrilled to see the fantastic duo @mattgoldrick.bsky.social and @m2b2.bsky.social doing this work, and representing @reviewerzero.bsky.social and the ROLE Collective while they do it. Friday 2-3:30pm in Gavea A if you are at #CogSci2026.

Reviewer Zero@reviewerzero.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to our colleague @mattgoldrick.bsky.social on this year's Elman Prize. He and @m2b2.bsky.social speak this Friday 2-3:30pm in Gavea A on multilingualism in cognitive science and how multilingual scholars' work gets evaluated. #CogSci2026

> Microsoft is promoting Copilot to enhance its profits. This does not mean it will enhance your organization's goals or workflows. Caution is warranted.

Dwayne Monroe@cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 3mo ago

I was asked to create a risk analysis of Microsoft 365 Copilot for a labor council and it occurs to me that others may find it useful. Voila! padlet.com/verdigris21/...