So excited to see Professor Sinclair building a new lab at Rice!

Allie Sinclair@asinclair.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 It's official: I'm super excited to share that I'll be joining Rice University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences! Lab will launch in Summer 2026— I'll be recruiting over the next year, so please spread the word! Short thread ⤵️

Course evaluations just dropped and I always love these 😂 “This is an unbearable subject, but Prof SL makes it as enjoyable as it can be.” #teachingstats #highered

Anyone on here teach undergrad statistics and started integrating AI both for student use and for your teaching? Planning to spend the next month retooling our undergrad stats+methods series w responsible AI use. Have lots of ideas but curious what others have done. Please share!

Was the point of this supposed to be that most scientists aren’t rich? Probably had to be there 🤷 There is no universe where professors are blue collar. I know plumbers who make more than some starting faculty but their jobs and access to influence are way way different. I don’t see how this helps.

Peter Sokol-Hessner@p1sh.bsky.social · last yr.

“Science is a smart, low cost investment. The costs of not investing in it are higher than the risk of doing so… talk to people about science.” - @kevinochsner.bsky.social makes his case to the field #sans2025

Spent this semester experimenting on how AI could enhance my stats and methods course. Plenty of uses and also some fun. Made this AI track to explain when you need ANCOVA 😆 😆 🤓 suno.com/song/33d938c...

Celebrating > 15 years of @srndna.bsky.social with a special issue in JGPS co-edited by Drs. Karolina Lempert (@klempert.bsky.social), Nathan Spreng, & Debbie Yee (@debyee.bsky.social). More info: academic.oup.com/psychsocgero... MS submission deadline: 8/15/2025 Expected pub date: 7/2026

Call for Papers

Special Issue: Decision Neuroscience and Aging Psychological Sciences section of The Journals of Gerontology, Series B Guest Co-Editors: Karolina Lempert, PhD

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The same damage being done to the stock market is being done to our health, securities & environment, there just isn't a stock ticker to show how bad it is for the others.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Now when I say “I love you, Emme” to our 7yo, she says “okay” 🥶

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

I love how everyone comes together to rally for those last couple of runners in the distance events at high school track meets. If only the rest of life were that way.

Same. Just had a wonderful time wandering off campus with a great group of Duke first year students

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2y ago

spent the evening with some college kids and it’s always nice to be reminded that a lot of the kids are alright

Yes

Krassensteins@krassenstein.bsky.social · 2y ago

The accuracy.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2y ago

It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them. Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

So the perception of ideological bias is being replaced by the requirement/guarantee of a different ideological bias to stay employed? Got it. Not ironic at all.

It’s almost like it was never about qualifications

Adam Weinstein@adamweinstein.bsky.social · 2y ago

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

NIH indirects case update: Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges. Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides: (I'm paraphrasing here)

What’s actually happening. Federal spending has been flat for yrs w exception of private contracts (like Elon just got for cybertrucks) which have absolutely skyrocketed. Sad that so many lower and middle income ppl are elated that civil servants who made like $200k were fired…by billionaires?? 😵‍💫

Just Jack@just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2y ago

The guy who racked up almost $8T in debt during his first term has no interest in paying it down. The federal purge underway is to allow for oligarchs to make trillions in privatization and run roughshod in a deregulated landscape. Remember that in an oligarchy, everything is run by the oligarchs.

This isn’t and never was about cutting waste, fraud, and abuse. It’s a cover and the supporters have completely fallen for it

Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

Okay I’m using this in class. Teaching interactions to undergrads rn 😆

Dan Goldstein@dggoldst.bsky.social · 2y ago

Don't hate the player, don't hate the game, hate the significant player:game interaction

The “we don’t like DEI bc it puts unqualified people in charge of things” is such a WILDLY ironic perspective given just about every single appointment so far

I have a confession . . . I was an “overhead cost”. I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it. Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician. Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u.

Do you think DOGE realizes the Mars colony won’t save us from cancer and heart disease?

Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA@krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 2y ago

NIH doesn’t just support infectious disease research—it drives breakthroughs in cancer, childhood diseases, heart disease, diabetes & more. Thanks to NIH, we have: 💉 Cancer immunotherapy ❤️ Cholesterol-lowering statins 🩸 Insulin for diabetes Investing in NIH = investing in life-saving discoveries.

New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH. No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts. And no indication how long the pause will last. With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.

Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review

The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.

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I love this news!!! Very well deserved!

Dr. Allison Master@allisonmaster.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am very honored and excited to be one of President Biden's 2025 awardees for the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)--"the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government" for early-career scientists. www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...

Got to chat with Ruby Bridges tonight at a fundraiser for one of her new projects (a camp in the outer banks). She was so nice and extremely down to earth. Talked about being called to do this work and part of that being a feeling like her life didn’t really belong to her. Heavy.

👆🏻👇🏼

Mark Thornton@markthornton.bsky.social · 2y ago

Plus you get some bonuses: people speak much faster than they write, so you get more data; you can get phonetic and prosody information; and it's more accessible for many people with motor issues.

Better Off, Save That, Awful Things by Lil Peep are such iconic tracks of the earlyish days of the emo trap era. (Don’t worry, friends, I’m doing really well 😆)

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