Composition A XXI, by László Moholy-Nagy, 1925, 📸 by Eakin Howard
Trevor Day (PhD)
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Developmental psychologist and linguist WA | MN | DC T32 postdoc @ Georgetown 🍁🥏♾️
🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Transdiagnostic latent factor models of psychopathology are widely assumed to improve brain-behaviour associations. So we decided to test this directly and found that they don't. A short 🧵 Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/10
New preprint from the lab! Led by @martingell.bsky.social . There is something for everyone: brain-behavior prediction, latent variable modeling, test-retest reliability. 🧠📈📊 "Disentangling Brain-Psychopathology Associations: A Systematic Evaluation of Transdiagnostic Latent Factor Models"
Martin Gell@martingell.bsky.social · 5mo ago🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Transdiagnostic latent factor models of psychopathology are widely assumed to improve brain-behaviour associations. So we decided to test this directly and found that they don't. A short 🧵 Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/10
Broad peer review is crucial for a healthy scientific literature, but neuroscientists turn down review requests too often. Simple math suggests that small groups of scientists can significantly bias the literature, writes @jvoigts.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/l...
Lack of reviewers threatens robustness of neuroscience literature
Simple math suggests that small groups of scientists can significantly bias peer review.
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Tonight at 7pm: Nancy Kanwisher will be on On Point!! Talking about the brain. @nancykanwisher.bsky.social @npr.org
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
📢 C-STAR Lecture Reminder Join us for the upcoming lecture by @gregoryhickok.bsky.social on Friday, February 6th at 1 pm EST: "Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language and Its Sensorimotor Foundation" No registration needed. Access through: cstar.sc.edu/lecture-seri...
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE
The original word of the year (WOTY) from @americandialect.org is always chaos and always fun. This year's winner: slop americandialect.org/2025-word-of...
2025 Word of the Year Is “Slop”
New Orleans Marriott–Jan. 9—The American Dialect Society, in its 36th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected slop as the Word of the Year for 2025. More than three hundred attendees took part in the…
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The 2025 Word of the Year is "slop," both as a noun for low-quality AI-generated content and as a combining form for anything of little value. Read the full press release. #WOTY2025 #ADS2026 #LSA2026 americandialect.org/2025-word-of...
2025 Word of the Year Is “Slop”
New Orleans Marriott–Jan. 9—The American Dialect Society, in its 36th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected slop as the Word of the Year for 2025. More than three hundred attendees took part in the…
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Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."
Research/teaching postdoc job option! Danny Oppenheimer posted a notice about a "psych/behavior science post-doc position that takes training in teaching/pedagogy as seriously as training in research" Link here: apply.interfolio.com/178893
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My favorite part of being in developmental psychology is writing the - objectively goofy - word "toddler" in very serious documents.
PISSED ABT *motions everywhere* ALL THE THINGS? We are, too. Join us in DC on 11/5! We will start at the @apha.org Rally and then march over to HHS for a rally and delivery of over 100k (!!!!) signatures to impeach and remove RFK Jr. Sign our petition: www.standupforscience.net/taking-down-...
In case you don't know already, the journal Open Mind has a Bluesky account that automatically posts new papers: @openmindjournal.bsky.social The journal is diamond open access (free to read, free to publish) thanks to the support of MIT Press, Harvard Library, & MIT Library.
Today, the Seattle Mariners play their first American League Championship Series game since Oct. 22, 2001. It has been 8,757 days.
🚨🚨🚨 The Subjectivity Lab is looking for a lab manager! The position is available immediately. We want someone who can help coordinate our large sample fMRI study, plus other behavioral work. Because *gestures at everything* the job was approved only now (ends in June 2026). Great opportunity! 🧵 1/4
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About the Opportunity SUMMARY The Subjectivity Lab, directed by Jorge Morales, and housed in the Department of Psychology at Northeastern University is excited to invite applications for a full-time L...
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University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language: tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-... Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine. @snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth. w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social
📣 🚨 Yale Psychology has 3 searches this year! Links below: Quantitative link: apply.interfolio.com/171903 Social link: apply.interfolio.com/171989 Clinical link: apply.interfolio.com/171970
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BIDS v1.10.1 is released! This release includes a large number of minor improvements accumulated over the last year. See bids-specification.readthedocs.io/en/stable/CH... for a summary. #BIDS #BrainImagingDataStructure #neuroimaging #neuroinformatics
Brain Imaging Data Structure 1.10.1
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We’re back in the lab to show you how the new bus network came to life - from public input to design breakthroughs. It’s time for the new network to do what it was built to do: deliver faster, more frequent, and more reliable service!
Our paper was recently published in Dev Sci (doi.org/10.1111/desc...), which describes two linked analyses. The main part of the paper uses Gompertz curves to summarize lexical inventory growth over arbitrary data collection dates ...
Anyone who has ever gotten an NIH review knows that NIH review is extremely rigorous---arguably, rigorous to a fault, because there isn't enough money to fund all the amazing research being done, so you basically have to guarantee it will succeed to get funded. That's not how science should work.
Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · last yr.Republican Senator Katie Britt: We need to create a system "where the beat idea wins... This is our opportunity to make a dollar go further and to make it have a greater impact." (NIH already generates $2.56 for every $1 spent it spends on research.)
Editor: You get the pictures for the air traffic controller story? Photographer: Sure did boss. Real fucking sexy just like you asked. Editor: What
New CRAN package cdiWG2WS with initial version 0.1.2 #rstats https://cran.r-project.org/package=cdiWG2WS
CRAN: Package cdiWG2WS
Convert MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory Words and Gestures scores to would-be scores on Words and Sentences, based on modeling from the Stanford Wordbank <<a href="https://wordbank.stanford.edu/" target="_top">https://wordbank.stanford.edu/</a>>. See Day et al. (2024) <<a href="https://doi.org/10.31234%2Fosf.io%2Frwhcy" target="_top">doi:10.31234/osf.io/rwhcy</a>>.
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