I arrive 20 min before class to play tunes from my collection; class begins when I stop music & talk about it. Each semester has a theme. This Fall it's "20th century albums by artists of color." Always brutal narrowing it down w/some diversity in genres/decades (60s-90s); many greats don't make it.

With @remyfurrer.bsky.social, a new piece in Nature Human Behavior. The standard description of a polygenic score as a "genetic predisposition" essentializes a statistical construct. It's not language policing: PGS are a new kind of entity; now is the time to think carefully about what they are.

Polygenic risk scores are not genetic predispositions - Nature Human Behaviour

Nature Human Behaviour - Polygenic risk scores are not genetic predispositions

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I appreciate how this piece highlights the key issue: these "restructurings" are not about student learning. This failure of attention has been eroding for quite some time, if it ever was at the center. I'm grateful to @biblioracle.bsky.social for this framing. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Harvard Administrators Don’t Care About Student Learning

I know, news flash, right?

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Vocal harmonies are the best thing that human beings have ever done.

My department is hiring 2 (TWO!) Tenure Track faculty in Developmental Psych and Biological Psych, to start Fall 2027. Deadlines 9/1 (Developmental) and 10/1 (Biological). More info here: www.carleton.edu/psychology/i.... Reach out with questions! carleton.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Carlet...

Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology

The Carleton Psychology Department is seeking candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Developmental Psychology (preferably with a focus on social, personality, and/or identity de...

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From: Sloppy/lazy vocals ruin a lot of indie rock for me. Unlistenable. To: Sloppy/lazy vocals are fine actually & this stuff is outstanding.

Dave Moore@otherdavemoore.com · 4d ago

Hot takes are annoying, tell me a strong opinion you had about music at some point in your life that changed

I have found a great new #stats teaching hack to find new open datasets for teaching. I've been going to the Collabra: Psychology journal website, and typing in an analysis type (e.g., logistic regression) into the search bar. Both quick and high-quality data! online.ucpress.edu/collabra

audiocassette muffuletta poopy wet bar yada yada

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 5d ago

Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

Post the first album you ever bought. #MusicSky I'm not counting the Star Wars soundtrack.

Jonathan J Hammersley(2026 version)@jhammersley.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post the first album you ever bought. 🎼🎶 #MusicSky The first was surely something like boy George or Madonna, but the ones I recall most vividly and fondly were these KISS albums. I just loved the album covers showing the band in their face paint. I soon grew to love their music too

Restroom doors that you have to pull to exit. They should always be push (hands-free).

Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d ago

What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?

Listening to @jaredlholt.bsky.social, @michaelehayden.bsky.social and @socialistdogmom.bsky.social on the latest Posting Through It episode, and once again cringing at the number of far rightwing provocateurs & propagandists to come out of New Atheism & skeptic circles and orgs—though not surprised

cc: scientists who work with protected human data, and especially those ones who are also AI evangelists

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Jawdropping data visualization www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Further analysis of Packalen & Bhattacharya article, where they claimed #NIH-funded research was slow to pick up on new ideas. I argue that their approach is flawed, and I present an analysis that shows the exact opposite. pubpeer.com/publications...

this broke me techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/m...

Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction | TechCrunch

David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.

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First concert: Ramones Last concert: The Beths Next concert: Black Country, New Road Seen most: Jump, Little Children Haven't seen but want to: Wednesday ; Bonny Light Horseman

Johny Nocash/John Hartley@johnynocash.bsky.social · 2w ago

What's your concert history? First concert: The Wedding Present Last concert: Tennis Next concert: tbc Seen most: The Trash Can Sinatras Haven't been but want to: Public Service Broadcasting

Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Signed.

Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

Many faculty have been sounding the alarm about the problems generative AI poses for student learning. Strangely, some higher ed administrations seem have emerged as major AI boosters. Why? As I write in the latest @hedgehogreview.bsky.social it's a labor story: hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-f...

Ironically, as @mart1oeil.eu showed, there are telltale signs that the piece was edited with ChatGPT: many links include "?utm_source=chatgpt.com" If even Science editorial team cannot afford good human editing, that's worrying

Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · 3w ago

Editor in Chief of Science: AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive.

Johnny Mylanta. Legend.

kim@kimmymonte.bsky.social · 3w ago

your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals

As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵

Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher

Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.

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Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

Huge new class action lawsuit filed by big publishers and authors against Google this week over AI training. It accuses Google of taking millions of books / articles provided to them for use only in Google Books, Google Play Books, and Google Scholar, and secretly using them to train LLMs. 🧵 1/4

What kind of a society do we live in where the grading policies of Duke, Harvard, and Yale are the focus of the *New York Times* but the crumbling buildings of CUNY - literally the public university of the city of the paper - merits barely any attention from the NYT? ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

From mold to malfunctions, CUNY conditions come under scrutiny

Several dozen staff members rallied outside Brooklyn Borough Hall on Wednesday.

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Even the so-called 'good' NYT columnists are committed to making classroom micro-politics national news while ignoring the manifold structural problems with higher ed. The @nytimes.com higher ed's coverage is a manifestation of PMC anxieties about universities, not a depiction of reality.

New York Times Opinion@nytopinion.nytimes.com · 3w ago

“Grade inflation is as bad as they say, and it drains students’ transcripts of meaning, deprives professors of agency and turns schools into approval factories,” Frank Bruni writes. “We should be ashamed, and we should fix it.”

Have i got a meme for you....

Composing a decision letter and deciding on reviewer comments to be addressed/overruled is THE single most important task for which we have editors, IMO. If you get a decision from a journal with zero guidance and a laundry list of unreasonable reviewer demands, the journal editor has FAILED.

Spotting the false or unargued-for claims in an AI-booster piece is becoming a depressing hobby. This one is a mess of them: www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/ai-era...

In the AI era, the human struggle can no longer be the point of research

The rush to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in scholarly inquiry looks like a defence of intellectual craft. In reality, it’s an act of institutional self-preservation, says Ian Richardson

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