This is an unjust, illegal war. It violates our treaties and our laws. Presidential impunity must end.
28.02.2026 11:45 — 👍 542 🔁 105 💬 5 📌 4This is an unjust, illegal war. It violates our treaties and our laws. Presidential impunity must end.
28.02.2026 11:45 — 👍 542 🔁 105 💬 5 📌 4Deadline March 30 (rolling): Postdoc, computational linguistics and language acquisition w/ H. Dai, Linguistics, U Michigan careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.
Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).
Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.
Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
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We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Great thread.
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The fundamental premise behind AI-enabled cheating is that coursework is merely busy work, because your'e just doing it for professors.
We would never say that showing up for football practice is merely busy work because you're just doing it for your coaches.
🚨Postdoc alert! T32 training grant on Cognitive Neuroscience of Communication, position begins in Summer/Fall of 2026. Applications due March 1st. Get in touch with a program mentor for more info! cncct.research.uconn.edu/postdoc-trai...
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Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations.
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me when the students have done the reading
19.02.2026 21:50 — 👍 1178 🔁 130 💬 12 📌 0Happy international day of women im science day. 🥳 From the MPI for Psycholinguistics ... led by a majority women directorate. It can be done :)
11.02.2026 09:57 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
The Visual Learning Lab is hiring TWO lab coordinators!
Both positions are ideal for someone looking for research experience before applying to graduate school. Application deadline is Feb 10th (approaching fast!)—with flexible summer start dates.
New PhD and post-doc job openings!
Join me and Prof. Nina Kazanina @ Uni Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in an exciting project on relations and binding in language and vision, explored with cutting-edge neurophysiology (#iEEG and MEG).
Full details in the job offer below.
Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Tenure-Track Position The Department of Psychology at Western Washington University seeks applicants for a tenure track Assistant Professor position with expertise in applied cognitive psychology to begin September 16, 2026. This is an assistant professor position in applied cognitive psychology. The position is open with respect to area of expertise. Possible applied topics in cognitive psychology might include, but are not limited to: culture and cognition, memory, human-computer interaction, eyewitness memory, learning and education, aging, embodied cognition, social cognition, and judgment and decision-making concerning current social issues. We are seeking candidates who have experience with equitable and inclusive teaching, mentorship, and research practices and share a strong commitment to promoting the success of students from historically underrepresented groups. The candidate will have teaching experience commensurate with their career level. They will be required to teach courses at the undergraduate level in cognitive psychology and research methods and statistics. The candidate should also be prepared to teach a cognitive course in a master’s level program. Responsibilities also include establishing and maintaining an active research program that involves undergraduate and graduate students, as well as service activities as appropriate. Review of files will begin on February 18th, 2026. More information at: https://hr.wwu.edu/careers-faculty?job=502873
Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Tenure-Track Position at Western Washington University.
This is an assistant professor position in applied cognitive psychology.
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Here is the link with details and for applying: hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
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New postdoc position with the LEVANTE project! We're looking for someone with language development / reading knowledge to help work on our international adaptations of language assessments. Please forward to interested candidates
22.01.2026 23:31 — 👍 17 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0
How do hippocampal pathways contribute to learning regularities and exceptions?
To answer this, Melisa Gumus & @drmack.bsky.social use diffusion imaging to identify the endpoints of different hippocampal pathways, and then analyze functional activity within those "footprints". Super innovative!
You still have two weeks to register for COGNESTIC, 14-25 September 2026. We provide training in state-of-the-art methods for neuroimaging analysis and great opportunities for professional networking, especially for early-career researchers. For more info:
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...
How do priors influence speech processing? Do they enhance expected signals or highlight the unexpected (prediction errors)? @fabianschneider.bsky.social' s work shows: It depends!
12.01.2026 13:02 — 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
I am recruiting a Postdoc to join my lab at UMN. If you or someone you know is interested in studying individual differences in brain and cognitive aging, check out the listing and my website in my bio and apply!
I appreciate RTs to help get the word out as well :)
Great work by former Union VAP and all around stellar scholar/researcher Cameron Kay!!
08.01.2026 21:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Paper alert! (1/2) We examined brain activation for each content word in a podcast relative to incrementally larger ngrams (1-word, 5-words, 10-words) that precede each word with a focus on semantic distance. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
22.12.2025 13:56 — 👍 37 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 3
New story in STAT with data about Early Stage Investigators
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02.12.2025 14:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s not too late to apply for the PhD position in my lab! Please send your documents (cover letter, CV, transcripts, names of references) through the official application platform by Nov 25!
24.11.2025 08:55 — 👍 9 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0This is so true, and it highlights how annoying it is that outlets like the New York Times and The Atlantic obsessively fixate on the Ivies. Most U.S. students attend public universities, and those institutions change lives at a scale the Ivies can’t touch.
23.11.2025 17:44 — 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Excellent opinion piece about the "compact" from a legal perspective.
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Sarah Kendzior • 4m I've been suspended from BlueSky. I don't know why. I wasn't online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explanation. It seems there's a crackdown. If you enjoy my work and want to make sure you can access it, subscribe! It's free - I would never paywall in times of peril — and voluntary paying subscribers keep it going. It would be great to have your support at this time. Thanks!
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
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A green Black In Neuro graphic. It lists the event date — November 14 at 9AM PT / 12PM ET. The talk is titled “Non-invasive neurodiagnostics for neurodegenerative diseases in Africa.” The right side features a head-and-shoulders photo of the speaker. The Black In Neuro handle appears at the bottom.
A green Black In Neuro graphic. At the top is the Black In Neuro logo with a person’s profile and the words “Meet Our Speaker.” Below is a card introducing a featured neuroscientist from Ghana, describing their research in neurodegenerative disease, creation of Ghana’s first dementia research program and biobank, and their goal to develop culturally adaptive tools for early detection of cognitive decline in Black communities. The Black In Neuro handle appears at the bottom.
Join our next #BlackInNeuro seminar! 🧠✨
🗓️ Nov 14 — 9AM PT | 12PM ET
Topic: non-invasive neurodiagnostics + advancing equitable brain health resources in Africa.
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Thrilled to share our new preprint highlighting distinct neurocomputational mechanisms underlying how reward and punishment determine adaptive cognitive control - a massive fMRI study and collaborative team effort with the @shenhavlab.bsky.social 🧠
Link here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I’m in a room where a whole ass faculty member said “Chat GPT 5 would be able to write a better NSF proposal than me” and… well…
My inside thoughts got the best of me BC I said loud as fuck “that’s unfortunate, because there’s not a machine on earth that writes better than me.”
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11.10.2025 15:15 — 👍 29 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2
Assistant Professor opening in behavioral neuroscience at the University of Albany (SUNY). Join an outstanding department in one of the nation's greatest university systems.
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