One of the first things I learned as a PhD student was that you *need* a website. I built a template site that uses Claude Code to easily design and maintain your personal site—hosted free on GitHub. Clone it, then run the "/setup-site" skill in Claude Code and Claude walks you through set up.

GitHub - mr-devs/cc-academic-website: Academic website template + Claude Code assisted development.

Academic website template + Claude Code assisted development. - mr-devs/cc-academic-website

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First posters for ‘WICKER’, starring Olivia Colman & Alexander Skarsgård. • A twisted love story that follows an ostracized fisherwoman who commissions a basket maker to weave her a husband. • Co-starring Peter Dinklage and Elizabeth Debicki. In theaters this October.

University of Cambridge (@cam.ac.uk) is hiring: Post-doctoral Research Associate #postdoc #psychology #neuroscience

Yale Psychology is hiring an Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology! Review of applications will begin on September 2, 2026. Link: apply.interfolio.com/188806 Please share widely & apply!

A secondary analysis of data from a global clinical trial involving 201 young patients with schizophrenia found that shorter, 10 and 20-item versions of the standard 30-item schizophrenia assessment tool (PANSS) are equally reliable and valid. https://twp.ai/E6FmY9 1/4

Register to join us in this gathering of great minds to talk about the most frontier practices in tech and society. I look forward to welcoming all in the field of AI communication, to explore how AI reshapes the phenomenology of how we perceive, believe, and act.

Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center@techimpactpolicy.bsky.social · 2w ago

As #TSRConf turns 5, we’re looking ahead to the major conversations shaping #TrustAndSafety in 2026.

As #TSRConf turns 5, we’re looking ahead to the major conversations shaping #TrustAndSafety in 2026.

University of Michigan (@umich.edu) is hiring: Assistant Professor - Department of Psychology #assistantprofessor #psychology #socialpsychology

Kane Parsons has clarified that A24 holds the rights to any future ‘BACKROOMS’ film or TV show that he plans to develop. He adds that he doesn’t support their AI deal with Google which will not crossover with any of his future projects.

Job ID: 201433 Extract: The role involves developing the University’s clinical strategy, ensuring compliance with regulations, and managing clinical research governance.

We will be holding a workshop at #CSCW2026 to think aloud on what positive technologies should look like in the age of AI for the scalability of care. Empathizing with every individuality in each support seeking attempt, we hope to use technology to light the way of answers.

Is the only way we can create algorithms that people understand to make them trivially simple? We argue, no. People can predict the behavior of algorithms that are arbitrarily complex, if and only if they are available, compact and aligned. arxiv.org/abs/2601.18966

Positech is back #CSCW2026 ! Join the wonderful group of organizers for a day of collaborative discussions on how social technologies can help people build the capacity to care about global challenges in ways that are both effective and sustainable :)

Lindsay Popowski@popowski.bsky.social · 3w ago

People today are drowning in awareness of suffering with nowhere productive to put it. This is a problem that social technology research can and should tackle! At our #CSCW2026 workshop, we’ll spend the day exploring how to design toward sustainable care. Apply by Aug 3: positech.github.io/cscw2026

People today are drowning in awareness of suffering with nowhere productive to put it. This is a problem that social technology research can and should tackle! At our #CSCW2026 workshop, we’ll spend the day exploring how to design toward sustainable care. Apply by Aug 3: positech.github.io/cscw2026

Extract: The Department of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor position focusing on psychological humanities, with responsibilities in research and teaching.

Restricting access to lethal means of suicide is one of the most important ways that suicide can be prevented. Further, planned suicide methods tend to differ by gender based on prior research. https://twp.ai/4iuLEV

Extract: The University of Copenhagen seeks a motivated postdoc for a 3-year position in Natural Language Processing and Law, focusing on improving the trustworthiness of legal question-answer systems using large language models.

University of Copenhagen is hiring: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Philosophy #assistantprofessor

@uchicagopress.bsky.social is also offering a 30% discount for preorders from their website. Enter the discount code UCPNEW (for US orders, no expiration date that I'm aware of). To get the discount for EU and UK orders, email Chicago.csd@wiley.com and use the reference code XLI30 (expires Dec 31).

Resurfacing online to mention: my book on the history of Speech Rec, NLP, and data-driven AI is coming out in a couple of weeks! Just got my author's copy from @uchicagopress.bsky.social and it finally feels real! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Divination Engines

A revealing and surprising origin story, showing how attempts to render human speech and language computable led from the era of big data to today’s AI. Since the advent of computers, society has fant...

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I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

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University of Oxford (@ox.ac.uk) is hiring: Departmental Lecturer in the History of Medicine Faculty of History

University of Toronto (@utoronto.ca) is hiring: Assistant Professor of Logic #assistantprofessor

Great position open: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10128

Depression Research Cluster Hire - Senate Faculty, Psychiatry Open Ranks

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is hiring: Assistant Professor of Information Systems #assistantprofessor

University of Oxford is hiring: Associate Professor of Causal and Experimental Methods in Politics and Social Policy #associateprofessor

Results showed no evidence that repeated screening increased suicidal thoughts among either group of preteens.

Using the Ask-Suicide Screening Questions screener, the study followed 194 preadolescents from the Pediatric Suicidality Study over 12 months, with lower-risk children screened monthly and higher-risk children screened weekly.

These findings provide reassurance that suicide-risk screening appears safe for preteens, allowing clinicians to screen with increased confidence that the benefits outweigh the risks. #suicide #mentalhealth A podcast interview with the author is available.

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Asking Preadolescents About Suicide Is Not Associated With Increased Suicidal Thoughts: JAACAP January 2026

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This study examined the effects of repeated suicide-risk screens on rates of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in preadolescents. https://twp.ai/4iu4do