Billy Mitchell

One 9/11 per *day*.

we are absolutely cooked

YouTube video by 11Alive U.S. Senator challenges Teamsters president to fight during committee hearing

Here is King Trump's new nominee for Director of Homeland Security Sen Markwayne Mullin, a MMA fighter and an avid wrestling supporter, trying to physically fight the Teamsters president in the middle of a Senate hearing.

Diaper Don really knows how to pick 'em.

If the CBA is repudiated, arguably, so is the no-strike clause. Fellows might be federal employees (I don't know if so) which complicates striking, but a work slowdown certainly is still on the table regardless.

Not ICE. Not Border Patrol. Just the same rotten local cops we've always had

America needs regime change.

Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.

When I won my NIH DSPAN, I shared my materials in a public repo—many people told me it helped. After Trump killed DSPAN before I could use the K, I applied for an F32 and just found out I got it. In the spirit of transparency and community, I’ve shared those materials too: github.com/wj-mitchell/...

Never thought I'd get a chuckle out of a github page, but then there's: yifengedms.github.io/simPM/
@quantitude.bsky.social @yifeng.bsky.social

Opinion | Historians Confirm: Tomorrow Won’t Be Better Than Today

I recommend Ian Buruma's excellent piece on how people today (like those in Nazi Germany) look the other way and delude themselves that things will just get better on their own.
Putting some exerpts into a thread:....

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/o...

Excited to share my new preprint with fabulous co-authors Emma Moughan and Chelsea Helion! We explored if normativity in semantic representations of emotion predicts friendship accuracy in a real world social network (it does!). More in thread 👇

New preprint from Lindsey Tepfer (@ltjaql.bsky.social) and me! We silenced portions of internal monologues in two films to manipulate participants' access to characters' thoughts. Using ISC and RSA, we found that this aligned later neural processing of the narrative & encoding of trait impressions.

Oklahoma Instructor Is Fired Over Student’s Gender Essay That Cited Bible

Mel Curth has been barred from teaching at her institution because a student who didn't do an assignment got a bad grade.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

What kind of a spineless, backwater shithole suspends a graduate instructor for grading according to a long established and otherwise unproblematic rubric?

If you refuse to educate, you aren't an educational institution. You're just a bad hedge fund.

Sci-hub is the only morally defensible name in broad public access to academic publications #CanonizeAlexandraElbakyan

Recruiting PhD students for Fall 2026!

The Coupled Minds Lab at @tamu.bsky.social will use a multimodal approach combining fMRI hyperscanning, computational modeling, and natural language processing to study how conversations transform minds. Learn more: coupled-minds.github.io

Due Date Dec 1

Managing emotions is not easy - we often get by with a little help. In the NEW Social Interaction and Emotion Lab at Rutgers-Newark, we’ll study how social interactions regulate emotion using experiments, naturalistic data, and multi-modal approaches. ✨ Now recruiting! ✨🙌 Learn more: raziasahi.com

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Pardon my whatever, but this is fucking insane

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

Stephen Miller may be the first WH Chief of Staff to pre-tear his underwear in office so the wedgies hurt less

a man with his eyes closed is wearing a plaid shirt and a blue jacket . ALT: a man with his eyes closed is wearing a plaid shirt and a blue jacket .

So... I did some analysis of grants that did receive noncompetitive renewals.

In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed.

Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph...

1/4

At a new job orientation looking at the four flavors of healthcare plans available and I'm realizing it's just an awful high stakes Iowa Gambling Task

The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs

Awwwww Yeah -- it's official

Is there an online repo of example TT application materials like research and teaching statements?

Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.

a man and a woman are having a conversation and the man is saying snip ALT: a man and a woman are having a conversation and the man is saying snip

my DSPAN postdoc grant right now

I never submitted the K proposal because of all the snip snap snipping. Wound up trying for an F32 instead, which would have been an insane decision in any other context.