Chandler Eli Getty Carr
@gettyscience.bsky.social
UoA || M.Sc. Comparative Cognition and Behaviour Grad student in the SeaSoN lab Nonbinary because "L'esprit n'a point de sexe" Socialist because "The hand that feeds deserves to be bitten when it beats" They/Them
It was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarceration
The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs
Policies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a “zombie apocalypse.”
theatlantic.com
Do humans and birds share an eye for design? 🐦🎨 For my Master's diss, I’m testing if we share aesthetic tastes with bowerbirds. I need 100 responses to finish! Visual, anonymous & under 5 mins. Link: exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🧪 cc: @scienseed.com #AcademicSky #SciComm
Please share! I have two positions for graduate students in my lab, starting Fall 2027. Details on the position s and application process can be found here: kjmathot.wordpress.com/opportunities/
Opportunities
********************************************************************************************************* ***Two graduate student positions in the Mathot Lab**** I am recruiting two new graduate st…
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Good piece by Jefferson Pooley on how LLM-powered “research” tools like Google’s “Deep Research” and Elsevier’s “AI Discovery” likely strengthen the “Matthew effect”: highly-cited authors are amplified while undercited (often female) authors are increasingly ignored: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
The Matthew effect in AI summary - LSE Impact
AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
How many times has a man taken against a woman because she didn't laugh at his jokes.
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3mo agoI find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are
Interested in a PhD working on sexual selection in tropical shorebirds? I'm recruiting a student for Fall 2027! I'm happy to support an applicant writing a Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology & Evolution: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
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Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:
Please share! I'm hiring a new NSF-funded Lab Technician, ideally to start in June at the Claremont Colleges. We study the development of social behavior and its regulation by behavioral, endocrine, and neural mechanisms using a highly social cichlid fish 🐠🧠🧪 +info TessaSolomonLane.com/Hiring
“Much like it’s taken some journalists years to admit that Donald Trump is indeed a fascist, so will others wait until we’re weeks, months or years into a war with Iran to say this needs to end. What would happen if, instead of waiting to see how this all plays out, we just say no, here and now?”
Why now is the time to be loudly anti-war
We don't need the clarity of hindsight to know war in Iran—or anywhere—will end in physical, moral and financial ruin.
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Found this wonderful (and goofy) pic of some of the authors (CEGC, KRS, KB) and a student who helped in collection (El Mayle) checking out the Chicago Bean before a conference! 🧠🧪🎨 Wouldn't have been able to do this project without any of 'em!
Chandler Eli Getty Carr@gettyscience.bsky.social · 5mo agoNewest paper from my undergrad research with the wonderful Dr. Kira Bailey: When science isn't beautiful... 🧠🎨 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Newest paper from my undergrad research with the wonderful Dr. Kira Bailey: When science isn't beautiful... 🧠🎨 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
When science isn't beautiful: Lab aesthetics impact reaction times and reactive cognitive control
Aesthetic experiences are a universal and constant phenomenon, affecting our decision making, job performance, and emotional reactivity. While the eff…
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This is great! And I love the suggestion of using replication studies as a training opportunity for graduate students.
Kate Laskowski@katelaskowski.bsky.social · 6mo agoHow do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
They're so ANGRY that we take care of each other, and not just angry. So CONFUSED by it. And that is why we will win
Important caveat that submission would still only be an illusion of safety.
e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 6mo agothe administration's ongoing justifications of this obvious murder make their goal clear: the only thing that will keep you safe is total and complete submission, at the expense of any personal values or constitutionally guaranteed rights
The Trump regime is smearing this man - Alex Pretti - as a “domestic terrorist.” We can’t let them get away with it. Alex Pretti was a patriotic American - far more so than the ICE agent who murdered him on the streets of Minneapolis today. Far more so than Trump, Stephen Miller, or any of them.
Aaron Stewart-Ahn@badideas.bsky.social · 6mo agoA video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
Would love to shove this down the throat of my toxic former coworker who once said that teaching labs shouldn't have windows because they're "just a distraction" osf.io/preprints/so...
Science is more than just accumulating knowledge, it’s about uncovering life’s mysteries whilst appreciating its endless complexity and beauty. This is somehow lost when everyone uses the same picture of a cell, square protein, and microscope icon.
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...
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Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...
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"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
theguardian.com
Congress Sends Unemployed Americans 40 Million Boxes Of Saltwater Taffy From Vacation https://theonion.com/congress-sends-unemployed-americans-40-million-boxes-of-1844729789/
Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”
