Ali Fitch

The three genders? #bucld50

This is heinous. I would be writing back to that editor immediately, but I respect your deferral to your student.

I'm sorry that this wasn't their first instinct AND I'm sorry that they didn't immediately throw the "agreements" in the fascists' faces but better late than never, I guess.

It was a really rude awakening when there were students moving their stuff in on campus this morning.

Oh damn are you in Alaska too?!

The only substantial gap I ran into was memory. The current content on WM references LTM, but there's no LTM content, so I had to seek that out separately. Not a problem, but I bet there are some awesome memory researchers who would be thrilled to write for you!

I taught a graduate level Cognition class this past semester using OECS for the course materials. 10/10 do recommend!

This is a picture of text from the Harvard Crimson. It reads: We have to wonder: How does sending Jewish students from abroad home — including Israelis — root out antisemitism? How does expelling young adults from other countries fight racism? What could be more anti-American than banishing potential immigrants who have come to our country to learn and contribute to our society?

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Mr. Trump’s strangling of this support will harm Jews more than any president in my lifetime. Many practicing and aspiring scientists are Jewish, and his funding embargo has them watching in horror as they are laid off, their labs are shut down or their dreams of a career in science go up in smoke. This is immensely more harmful than walking past a “Globalize the Intifada” sign. Worse still is the effect on the far larger number of gentiles in science, who are being told that their labs and careers are being snuffed out to advance Jewish interests. Likewise for the current patients whose experimental treatments will be halted, and the future patients who may be deprived of cures. None of this is good for the Jews. The concern for Jews is patently disingenuous, given Mr. Trump’s sympathy for Holocaust deniers and Hitler fans. The obvious motivation is to cripple civil society institutions that serve as loci of influence outside the executive branch. As JD Vance put it in the title of a 2021 speech: “The Universities Are the Enemy.”

Well said. It was never about antisemitism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...

At which point will we agree that we must consider going back to a hybrid option for academic conference attendance?

Everything feels awful but at least I can spend my next 60-ish hours refreshing Keith's page for Barkley updates.

English pronouns always out here catching strays when there are much more elaborate systems that people could be worried about 😆

The Onion should buy Elsevier next

weekend twitr @WeekendTwitr Valentine's Day is so commercial, let's not lose track of the real meaning of this special day the day native Hawaiians stabbed British Captain James Cook right in his colonizing fucking neck on February 14, 1779

all jokes aside, we shouldn't forget the real Reason for the Season

Apparently when I agreed to review for #CogSci2024 I neglected to list my expertise. I see words I know but not how I understand they go together.

…I have some apologetic emails to write.

IRB: do everything in your power to protect the confidentiality of participants.

Controller’s Office: we’re going to need the name, SSN, mother’s maiden name, and first car of everyone who receives research participation fees.

🙃

Oh hey, this one was written by me (and my awesome co-authors)!

They do this every time. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen ASL clued well in the NYT crossword.

A painting of a bird beside the text "new year, new bullshit."

Today a child study participant told me that my prizes were boring and I should do something to make it up to her.

In case you needed a reminder that academia requires a thick skin.

Feeling the #BUCLD fomo, as I take a desperately needed travel break this weekend and miss my first one in nearly a decade. Thanks for the semi-hybrid option!

I received an email this morning that signs off with “with sunshine,” and I want to know where they got this optimism from.

Wait, we can just piss to publish? I have been working way too hard on publishing.

I try this one every time even though it’s never accepted.

I can’t locate a policy that actually says that! So frustrating.

Hey #AcademicSky, what’s with faculty scheduling exams for a lot longer than their class period in the middle of the semester? I’m having to find alts for class participation for students who will miss due to exams in *other* classes. Feel disrespectful to the student and to me.

Two trees in an otherwise brick courtyard. The leaves on the trees are mostly green but the tops and sides have become red and yellow.

I will never get over leaf changing time in the Northeast.

Another great quote from an academic article: “Brain patterns composing an episode are often claimed to be measurable in principle, in terms of information processing or whatever.”

(Pereira & Ricke, 2009)

Whose feral child is running around in the dirt with one shoe on?

Oh wait. It’s mine.

A white and tan cat outstretched on the back of a blue couch

Tortilla and I feel similarly about tomorrow being Monday.