Michael J. Kane

Springtime for Springnuts | Los Angeles Review of Books Grant Sharples offers a personal account of the Boss’s career and legacy in light of the new biopic “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.”

Music writers, what is your favorite piece you wrote this year? Linking mine below. I love asking people this every year bc it gives me a chance to catch up on a bunch of articles I may have missed/create a place for writers to plug their work!

lareviewofbooks.org/article/spri...

I seem to have accidentally stumbled upon a lost media CHRISTMAS MYSTERY...can you help me solve it?

Here's what happened: I sang a carol to my partner the other day, and he didn't recognize it. Fair enough, he's from England, so we don't always know the same music. So I tried searching for it...

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Long and absolutely brutal article on AI and the university. Hard to decide what to emphasize...

www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

The AEA has imposed a lifetime ban on Lawrence H. Summers’ membership and participation in AEA activities. See the full statement here. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...

Works the other way around too.

“If I was Jonathan Haidt, how would I destroy the next generation?”

Shame on me for thinking the Giants wouldn’t show up tonight looking like a 2-10 team. I guess I’ll actually get to go to bed early.

Who is the brillant teacher who found a way to get kids to listen to Beethoven’s 5th—and like it! #AMomentofJoy

Thoughtful essay from a professor at Ohio State wondering why in the world universities are promoting tools of cognitive automation.

Devoured this on my trip to and from Denver for Psychonomics. A terrific read and I learned a lot. Highly recommend!

A few years old, but this is a fascinating article about how a well-debunked method to teach reading may be at the root of American’s poor reading comprehension

www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Rate your score on Factor Fexcectorn.

Well done, Scientific Reports. pubpeer.com/publications...

“The articles in AMPPS offer, month in and month out, the invitation to practice aligning your values, intentions, and actions to do less scientific harm and reach for the methodological ceiling”

Grateful to @dsbarra.bsky.social for continuing what @profsimons.bsky.social & co started at AMPPS!

Thanks Moin. None of the Psychonomics journals (published by Springer) are currently diamond open access.

Thanks Tom! Very exciting, indeed.

Andy Conway and I are honored to serve as inaugural co-Editors of this new Psychonomics journal, focused on the rigorous study of individual differences in cognition. Please spread the word to potentially interested colleagues; we hope that you will send us your best relevant work!

The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered Not with a bang but with a whimper

I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵

The real issue, IMO, is neither education nor tools. It’s that the numbers don’t matter. We quantify reality with numbers that don’t matter. It’s hard to care about 7 ooglebliks plus or minus 2 ooglebliks if nobody gives a fuck what an oogleblik is

I hope to have time soon to write a little thread on this, but for now here's the PsyArXiv link to a new preprint from our lab on the construct validity of probed mind-blanking reports. Chandni Lal will be presenting this work as a poster at the upcoming Psychonomics meeting.

Fair. Game shouldn’t have been nearly as close as it was.

I can’t take much more of this Giants defense. Couldn’t be softer.

We had occasional scientific disagreements in the pages of journals but our in-person discussions were always warm, productive, and fun. His work was hugely inspirational for me. I had deep respect for him as a scholar and a person.

Obituary – Jonathan Smallwood

Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...

Oh no, I had no idea. I’m so sorry, Micah. He was a kind soul who I will miss.

We have a bad roster and we are unquestionably among the very worst organizations in football. But, sure, bring the GM back. Outstanding.

Sorry, but it was the Giants D that pulled a disappearing act.

Brian Daboll’s time as NY Giants head coach is running out - New York News Beep If you have watched the New York Giants all season, and really for the last three years, nothing that happened in Sunday’s 24-20 loss to the Chicago Bears

Ed, just FYI: I don't know what newsbeep is, but they appear to be reproducing your content without proper attribution: www.newsbeep.com/us-ny/34759/

That could be the last straw for me (it definitely would if he brought Lombardi into the building).

Five guys with the f and the E light off

Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR

The Snocaps album is banger after banger. What a Halloween treat!

"AI returns to the university as part of a broad effort to further corporatize universities, vocationalize higher-education instruction, and diminish both research and research-based pedagogy."