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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 8d

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 22h

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 22h

Looks from here like the goal is to create confusion, and focus public attention on a subset of the most outrageous firings — to distract from the other firings.

We shouldn’t be fooled, and should demand that all the illegal shutdown RIFs are made null and void. /end

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 22h

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22h

We’ve reported extensively on how the FDA allowed foreign drugmakers to send generic medications to the U.S. from factories with filthy labs and contaminated equipment.

This month, we’re digging deeper and could use your help. THREAD/

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 21h

Unlawfully fired from your job at HHS or CDC protecting the public health? Want to talk through how to tell your story in the press? I'm happy to help you think through messaging strategy.

I’ve spent years doing public health comms and talking with reporters. You can see my work at matthewcort.land

Matthew Cortland

Matthew became a lawyer by necessity. Now they use their training in public health and law to help others.

matthewcort.land

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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · 1d

Published now (after long last & 10 citations). Although tVNS does not alter food reward ratings in healthy people, it acutely improved liking ratings in patients with MDD (also correlated with anhedonia). #neuroskyence 🩺

Work w/ @akuehnel.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 1d

NIH cuts save $9-10B short-term, but they’re killing 202K jobs & $46B in red-state economies (TX, FL, OH). $8T healthcare disaster loom, no cancer/Alzheimer’s cures, pricier drugs. Scientists fleeing to China? Bad deal. Fight for NIH!
www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh...

#AmericaFirst

NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers

Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.

www.the-scientist.com

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Max Herzberg, Ph.D. @herzberg-mp.bsky.social · 2d

📣 I am excited to be recruiting PhD students to my lab in Psychology and Neuroscience at UGA! If you are applying for Fall 2026 and passionate about environmental effects on brain function, plasticity, and behavior development, consider joining me in Athens!

psychology.uga.edu/how-apply-ou...

How to Apply to Our Graduate Programs

The department offers two graduate degrees: the Ph.D.

psychology.uga.edu

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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 2d

MIT Strong 💪

links.mit.edu/nl3/N5Jy2cKq...

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for giving me the skills to succeed: DAGs and cynicism.

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 2d

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 2d

Like there's something about orchestral intro into heavy baseline + rock riff that takes over juxtaposed overtop of lyrics about universal experiences like guilt and morning that feels like such a poignant example on how emotions and thoughts evolve in parallel but shift what is in primary focus

Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 2d

One of these days I'm going to figure out how integrate symphonic metal into a class to discuss capacity to hold multiple emotions at the same time, how it can be hard to pick out the driving emotion if others are more attention grabbing, and evolution from primary to secondary emotions....

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 2d

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 2d

One of these days I'm going to figure out how integrate symphonic metal into a class to discuss capacity to hold multiple emotions at the same time, how it can be hard to pick out the driving emotion if others are more attention grabbing, and evolution from primary to secondary emotions....

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Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 10d

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 28d

I am not a political pawn. I am a living, breathing human being who has dedicated her life to a scientific problem that I believe matters for human health. The article below tells our story; I hope you will read it and share it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

www.nytimes.com

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 2d

Yesterday, Vanderbilt's faculty senate enacted a resolution condemning the Trump "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" as an illegal, unconstitutional infringement on civil rights and academic freedom, and an unacceptable infringement on institutional independence.

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 3d

I would LOVE to do this!

What percentage of publicly funded studies have serious, but entirely avoidable, methodological flaws?

Sadly, I don't think any of the big funders would be courageous enough to support this.

Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 3d

We should do a study on how much of the funded applied research suffers from problems that the unfunded methods research could have helped prevent or resolve

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JAMES HEATHERS @jamesheathers.bsky.social · 3d

Free data resources in science are having the shit mined out of them to produce X,000's of bullshit papers.

What should we do?

(Warning: I sat on this draft for too long, and publishers are already doing some of it. That's what I get for engaging with the news.)

open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...

How To Stop The Next 10,000 Bullshit Papers

Some remarkably un-radical proposals

open.substack.com

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Nicole Weiss @nicoleweiss.bsky.social · 4d

📣 New Pub 📣

We captured 30-day emotion intensity & dysregulation data from EMA & examined in relation to cortisol (from hair) during the same period. Emotion intensity & hair cortisol levels were significantly associated among women with high (but not low) emotion dysregulation.

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 3d

E. G., a change in results during the review process but now the old results were what an AI was trained on so they are informing AI output. Also, if I trusted ppl learning about the preprint had to download it they'd see the warning watermarks, not so much when an AI summary pops up in search 2/2

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 3d

It's less concern about scrapability (I assume all published papers are scrapable, especially since most of mine have to be pub med deposited) and more about what gets scraped + the lack of context in what some AI summaries spit out. 1/2

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, I hate to say it but the fact they are publicly available and scrapable has reduced my putting preprints out before they are published. Have mostly shifted to using OSF and psyarxiv for postprinting

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