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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · Sep 27

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects

So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?

And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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Jennie Pyers @jenniepyers.bsky.social · Apr 5

For the first time in nearly 20 years of teaching, I showed up to teach a class with the WRONG lecture prepared. The topic of said lecture, "Stress and Sleep", was probably NOT a coincidence #TeachingNightmare #AtLeastIWasntNaked

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Feb 9

developmental psychologist Richard Aslin wrote an excellent piece about the proposed cut to NIH F&A Costs (indirects)

Are we paying too much for biomedical research?

Trump's attack on NIH

dickaslin.substack.com

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Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social · Feb 9

Please share Dick Aslin's excellent blog on indirect costs:
dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-pay...

Are we paying too much for biomedical research?

Trump's attack on NIH

dickaslin.substack.com

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Jennie Pyers @jenniepyers.bsky.social · Feb 1

Based solely on my immediate world, I’d venture to guess that the majority of folks either don’t know what GitHub is and don’t know what is on the other side of the link. I’m one of two in my department whose lab uses GitHub.

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Jennie Pyers @jenniepyers.bsky.social · Jan 30

Such a deep loss. She was a great contributor to the community. She will be missed

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Karen Emmorey @kemmorey.bsky.social · Jan 27

I have supported many deaf graduate students and currently support a deaf post doc using this mechanism. What’s happening at NIH is terrible for science and closes doors for deaf students who face so many more challenges than their hearing peers

Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · Jan 25

The NIH diversity supplement pages have all been pulled down. What is a diversity supplement and why should the public care? A diversity supplement is funding to help diversify the research workforce. You may be wondering, “so what?”. Let me explain. www.nigms.nih.gov/Pages/PageNo...

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

NIGMS supports basic research to understand biological processes and lay the foundation for advances in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

www.nigms.nih.gov

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Jennie Pyers @jenniepyers.bsky.social · Jan 27

My first thought was …subway???

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Nightbird @nightbird39.bsky.social · Jan 27

Kansas has a record breaking Tuberculosis outbreak. You haven’t heard? Maybe bc CDC , NIH and other Health Departments are being muzzled by Executive Order
@ABC @NBC @CNN @cbsnewsconfirmed.bsky.social Where are you?

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Jennie Pyers @jenniepyers.bsky.social · Jan 23

Agreed! I make so many typos. I hate posting, catching typos, removing post, then reposting. It is a barrier to me more regularly interacting here.

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Jennie Pyers @jenniepyers.bsky.social · Jan 20

I’m at a SLAC with my own research program and R1 collaborations. My research is niche enough that any well powered result is interesting. But research moves slowly with undergraduates. As a tenured prof, power analyses and research impact drive what projects survive.

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Jennie Pyers @jenniepyers.bsky.social · Jan 19

Five days away from teaching my first class of the semester. Cue the nightmares about the first day of class 😱 #HigherEd

homer simpson is laying in bed under a blue blanket .

ALT: homer simpson is laying in bed under a blue blanket .

media.tenor.com

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Jennie Pyers @jenniepyers.bsky.social · Jan 19

Right there with you 🫠

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Jennie Pyers @jenniepyers.bsky.social · Jan 10

I had done this for about five years (pre and post pandemic). It led to many more absences and multiple days when I would have 1/4 of the students absent for discussion classes with enrollment caps of 12 and 25. I now have stiff penalties but with a generous window.

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Jennie Pyers @jenniepyers.bsky.social · Jan 2

Yes! And there is so much good YA!

Jennie Pyers @jenniepyers.bsky.social · Dec 31

I took all social media off of my phone and left myself only with the kindle app. Now when I pick up my phone I only have kindle as a distraction. That was enough to get me hooked back into reading fiction. I now pair my e-reading with the audiobook to extend my reading to commute times.

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Jennie Pyers @jenniepyers.bsky.social · Dec 31

My instinct is to ignore summer research inquiries written with AI; I assume AI-use reflects an unwillingness to do hard work. Trying to check this bias, as some of these emails are likely written by students from under-resourced backgrounds who are insecure about their writing skills.

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Jennie Pyers @jenniepyers.bsky.social · Dec 6

It did provide a useful story for my research methods students to emphasize why they shouldn't rely heavily on "as cited in" for their research write ups 😄

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Jennie Pyers @jenniepyers.bsky.social · Dec 6

Woke up to a notification that one of my papers was cited by a recently published paper. While I'm always grateful for citation of my work--the paper the researchers cited really had very little do to with their point. It was nothing egregious, so do I let the authors know 🤔 #PsychSciSky #devpsych

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Jennie Pyers @jenniepyers.bsky.social · Dec 3

We’ve got another cohort of amazing Wellesley students to send Kate’s
way!

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Jennie Pyers @jenniepyers.bsky.social · Dec 3

Excited to read this preprint! I really enjoyed your interview on the under the cortex podcast on this topic #NotIronic

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Jennie Pyers @jenniepyers.bsky.social · Nov 28

We accumulate leaves by credit. Six semesters of teaching = one semester of sabbatical.

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Jennie Pyers @jenniepyers.bsky.social · Nov 28

Love this! Sara makes arroz caldo whenever we’re sick! I’m convinced it is a miracle cure!

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Jennie Pyers @jenniepyers.bsky.social · Nov 25

Back in the day my chair explicitly provided this as a reason not to accept such invitations—but to also list such declined invitations in my materials for tenure and promotion. You get the honor of the invitations while focusing writing energy on what is perceived to be more impactful work.

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Jennie Pyers @jenniepyers.bsky.social · Nov 18

Would love to be added!