Haley Kragness

the adoption of what now?!

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

Our demands, see link

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss):

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

openletter.earth/open-letter-...

The NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Hub is now available!

•Researchers can explore ABCD & HBCD Study data in one place – with robust query & data analysis tools, documentation, & workflows
•Learn more & apply for data access: www.nbdc-datahub.org

@theabcdstudy.bsky.social

two little girls are dancing on a stage . Alt: two little girls are dancing on a stage, one snaps her fingers

Been quiet lately for a good reason (vacation), but hopping onto to say:

🚨 NEW NSF LAWSUIT TODAY!!!

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Targets grant terminations & freezes in spending congressionally appropriated funds.

Press release: democracyforward.org/updates/coal...

Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

see also phase/faze

I had to do SOMETHING with the *waiting-for-baby-to-arrive* portion of my parental leave! 😁

see taskmaster also for examples of functional fixedness, common ground, mnemonics, and more to come .. (work in progress!)

taskmasterpsych.blogs.bucknell.edu

a close up of darth maul 's face with a black hood on ALT: a close up of darth maul 's face with a black hood on

you mean the one with darth kiki?

kidney stone 3 months pp 😭

Senator Alsobrooks: You’ve been unable to address specific questions about your agency. Can you name which office the Safe to Sleep program operates out of?

RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times

Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.

"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."

Extrapolating from history: the labor market will cannibalize mid-tier knowledge workers, burn out senior knowledge workers, then shout at colleges & govt for not making enough labor-market ready grads, then govt will blame moms for not making K-12 prepare kids for college pre-labor-market skills.

-Across the 4 years of the grant 22! undergrads participated in the research process learning about experimental design and psychological research

We talk a lot about how the elimination of NSF funding affects grad student and postdocs- it it also diminishes the richness of undergraduate education

So therefore the court finds that she does not pose danger to community or present risk of flight.

THE COURT ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OZTURK FROM CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY.

"Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."

New RSV vaccine, treatment linked to dramatic fall in baby hospitalizations CDC study finds big declines in hospitalizations—and they may be underestimates.

New RSV vaccine, treatment linked to dramatic fall in baby hospitalizations arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Another key difference is that the answers calculators provide are accurate

okay

this is an emergency assistance thread for anyone who got this National Endowment for the Arts email today

some of you can still get your money and I’m going to tell you how

article to come later this weekend but here is the Cliffs Notes version:

hey #devpsychsky my lab group is wondering .... any lit out there on gendered preferences for toys based on their gross vs. fine motor affordances? i feel like there's probably stuff on this but maybe we're using the wrong keywords!

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Opinion | Donald Trump’s war on children The administration is divesting from future generations. It will cost America dearly.

Important piece in @washingtonpost.com on the War against children www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell “So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have be...

"What emerges is a more intimate picture of Öztürk and how a child development researcher charged with no crime ended up in a crowded cell in Louisiana." www.propublica.org/article/rume...

COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

when I moved to canada this didn't even strike me as odd because it is also a common construction in philly, as in, "yew dun yor hoagie??"

U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)?

Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions.

U.S. Applicant Week:

www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

#AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool

Trade deficit. I have bought food from say, Chilis. They have never bought food from me.

There is a trade deficit with Chilis. I’m still doing fine.

The trade deficit argument SOUNDS compelling, but it’s a straw man with no relevancy

What Canada doesn't tell you, but should, is that you should try to enter through pre-clearance at nearly every Canadian airport (excluding Billy Bishop) if possible.

You can only be denied, and not detained by ICE, if you run into trouble in pre-clearance. I speak from experience.

To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models Huettig and Christiansen in an earlier issue argue that large language models (LLMs) are beneficial to address declining cognitive skills, such as literacy, through combating imbalances in educationa...

Out this week @cogscisociety.bsky.social! @samhforbes.bsky.social & I ”urge extreme caution in the use of LLMs in classrooms lest we further normalize: pupils losing their privacy, reducing contact between learner and educator, deskilling teachers & polluting the environment”
doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody.

She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.

This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

🤦‍♀️ not that they ever checked it anyway, as far as I can tell...

so, so sad. what are we doing here?!