Cindy

“good news, we’ve created the playroom that tells kids whatever they want to hear and makes them not care about their parents from the seminal Ray Bradbury short story, Don’t Create the Playroom That Tells Kids Whatever They Want to Hear and Makes Them Not Care About Their Parents”

It’s the Trix rabbit all over again

1. Is this a one-off study or a replicated finding? 2. Is it cherry-picked or consistent? 3. Was the study big enough to be reliable? 4. Did it employ robust statistical methods? 5. How big is the effect size? (If there’s a statistical association, does it amount to a big risk or a small one?) 6. Is there any evidence for a causal link or is it just a correlation? 7. Could the correlation reflect some confounding factor? 8. How does this supposed factor sit in the context of other factors (especially genetic risk for autism, which is very highly heritable)?

When reporting on these kinds of claims, the media should ask:

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

Probably should’ve posted the Ai statement separately - not sure how it displays with the rest. It’s not so different from what I originally posted, but prefer people get the final version. Have at it & hope it’s useful to you in your classes. All on my site here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Thank you!

the thing about not liking sports is that you're wrong

If tonight is the last time we ever see this incarnation of NBA Countdown, I think we should appreciate that this version of it really was the single worst studio show of all time. I don't believe four people on television have ever had less chemistry with each other than this.

we heard it was #NationalBestFriendsDay

Registration for the Person Memory Meeting (Oct 13-16 in Lisbon, POR) is open! Info is here jacquelinemchen.wixsite.com/personmemory

the kitchen is undefeated when u need to go look at three incorrect clocks at the same time

i want you all to look at how it works when the Times *wants* a story at the forefront of the conversation.

then i want you to compare it to how they've addressed the destruction of the federal government and rising fascism.

Job alert 🚨

We’re hiring a full-time research staff assistant at Columbia starting Fall 2025! The position will focus on several topics in the lab, including the cognitive & neural mechanisms underlying dynamic social perception using fMRI & natural language processing.

Link: freemanlab.org/ra2025

We're hiring! The Shackman Lab is hiring a full-time postbac RA for the 2025-26 academic year. This is fabulous opportunity to learn, work, and play with us in the DMV before heading off to graduate school. shackmanlab.org/studycoordin...

SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

“The War on Science”

Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.

YALL, THE TITLE!!

Increasing prevalence of autism is due, in part, to changing diagnoses | Penn State University The greater than three-fold increase in autism diagnoses among students in special education programs in the United States between 2000 and 2010 may be due in large part to the reclassification of ind...

Increasing prevalence of autism is due, in part, to changing diagnoses www.psu.edu/news/researc... - many cases of what used to be called 'intellectual disability' are now being diagnosed as 'autism'

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Autism: The Truth is (not) Out There Parents of a child affected by autism naturally want to know the cause. Autism can dramatically disrupt the typical childhood p...

Autism: The Truth is (not) Out There www.wiringthebrain.com/2014/10/auti...

TORPHI The National Weather Service in Mount Holly NJ has issued a * Tornado Warning for... South central Berks County in eastern Pennsylvania... * Until 645 PM EDT. * At 611 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located near Adamstown, or near Reading, moving east at 20 mph. HAZARD...Tornado. SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation. IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree damage is likely. * Locations impacted include... Wyomissing Hills, West Lawn, West Reading, Lorane, Kenhorst, Mount Penn, Birdsboro, Laureldale, Reiffton, Reading, Whitfield, Wyomissing, St. Lawrence, West Wyomissing, Mohnton, Shillington, Flying Hills, Spring Ridge, and Sinking Spring. This includes Interstate 176 in Pennsylvania between mile markers 6 and 11.

🚨 Tornado Warning issued March 31 at 6:12PM EDT until March 31 at 6:45PM EDT by NWS Mount Holly NJ 🚨
Additional Details Here.

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Research Assistant - Psychology Brandeis University is delighted to announce a job opportunity as a Research Assistant in the Snyder lab. The Research Assistant will assist the Principal Investigator in research projects involving c...

Please share: FT RA opening in my lab w/ June/July start. Join a team studying cognitive risk for internalizing psychopathology during the transition to college. Good preparation for PhD (current RA is starting her PhD this fall, with me!) #PsychSciSky
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the classic windows xp wallpaper with your friend darth the red panda, a red panda wearing a darth vader outfit and with blue sky butterfly wings, flying above

hello ok i am awake what did i miss
tell me every thing

blue sky is supreme because every time you post you get 100 school principals in the replies asking to see you in their office

If I had an important job that was dependent on my ability to think, and I actually didn’t like thinking & would rather have a machine do it for me, I would not publicly state that in writing

New trolley problem. You're lying on the tracks, with your friends and family, for no good reason - not tied down or anything - while a billionaire decides whether to run you over. Do you (i) cheer him on? or (ii) stand the fuck up?

Tom.