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sam
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Speaking as a member of the board of psych science......
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cognitive scientist at the University of Auckland and the Yale Child Study Center
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lab: themusiclab.org
personal: mehr.nz
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sam
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Speaking as a member of the board of psych science......
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sam
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I mean, this is lab enrichment, essential for good science
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sam
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I can totally see it!
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sam
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Cohort mates thought I was nuts spending like $7500 on a server when I started my lab. It may well last my entire career
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sam
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for me what's unfortunate is both the erosion of autonomy and the injection, without consent, of a business-minded culture into an ostensibly not-for-profit, intellectual enterprise
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sam
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We just carried out a series of upgrades on the server equipment that runs our data processing for both themusiclab.org and our brick-and-mortar lab
One company I can wholeheartedly recommend for scientific use cases is Synology. Their support folks are breathtakingly thorough, fast, and competent
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sam
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We're a big dept (50 permanent faculty members) so there's always going to be turnover, but my point is just that actions the university takes that impact quality of life almost certainly play a role in whether people want to stay!
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sam
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Uoa psych has had people leave for other unis within NZ and in Asia and Europe in last couple years, all staying in the field
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sam
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this but for academics
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sam
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Turing Turing Test test
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sam
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(somewhat less personally, in Psych we've had pretty substantial retention issues in the last couple years!)
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sam
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I'm jointly appointed in the states..... 🙈
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sam
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I actually wonder if it occurs to a single person in the leadership of any universities that do this businessification BS how much of a rentention problem they're causing
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sam
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auckland uni sent out a template for grant proposals that applies an Agile tool (Lean Canvas) to research, asking for things like "Who are your end users" and "Implementation pathways and partners" and your "Unique value proposition" and actually I just vomited typing this all out
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sam
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h-hacking is back!!
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sam
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full-time RA job at Vassar on a project about jsPsych, online experiments, citizen science & gamification, etc
pls circulate!
(Josh is the supervisor for this one but in practice the RA will work with all of us on the project — @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social, @mekline.bsky.social, Josh Hartshorne, me)
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sam
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Everybody gets one embarrassing reply-all to a huge group of people
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sam
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This is new for me since the last time I voted absentee (2020) when I was in Montréal and did it by mail!
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sam
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I have one correspondent who I am 99% sure sets an inbox rule rather than an actual vacation email purely so that he (of course it's a 'he') can insert himself into everybody's inbox repeatedly, reminding them all of his presence
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sam
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look i know democracy is in tatters and politics are depressing as hell but I asked for an absentee ballot and just now voted in the MA primary. didn't even have to do some snail mail song-and-dance, it was all online 🤩
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sam
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my favourite kind of tweet hahahah
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sam
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Hanna Schleihauf is out of the office!
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Will Gervais
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I’ve got a book out soon, grandiosely entitled “Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species.” What’s my book all about, you ask?
A thread 🧵👇
www.amazon.com/Disbelief-Or...
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sam
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NZ lettuce is great! The two-week long berry season is less conducive to pie baking..... Hahha Californian produce though is a point of envy for everybody, bucking the trend of some US states.....
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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my FB feed at the moment
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sam
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sam
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and it was Good
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sam
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Can't find it but someone had a great post awhile back along the lines of "don't give a bad grade on the homework because the student used an LLM, give a bad grade because it is bad"
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sam
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Hahahahh
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sam
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Nice I love her clafoutis and often make a giant skillet version
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sam
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I live in New Zealand, which has much in the way of great produce (but not so much in winter, as the place is v seasonal) So it is with relish that I say, I am currently in Québec, and it's cherry pie season, motherfuckers
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sam
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thanks, this is a great piece
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Steve Silberman
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The ever-astute Rebecca Solnit on how the pundit class has turned into a mob stampeding America toward a catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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sam
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Québec summer lunch. Quiches x2 (lorraine; spinach), corn tomato avo salad. Cherry pie in progress 🍒
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sam
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it's also my favourite example of "replicability, schmeplicability" -- just hang out with a kid and you've replicated it
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sam
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I adore verb overgeneralization, it is the trifecta in developmental psych: (a) highly replicable, in that one observes it on a daily basis in kids; (b) scientifically informative; and (c) hilariously cute 6yo, incensed: of course we rode bikes! Why would we have *droven!??!?
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sam
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I thought this might have been a false memory but I just found evidence of one leg of that itinerary
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sam
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Haha yeah I have this distinct memory of heading to Logan and flying off to NZ on November 9, 2016. Like a cold shower
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sam
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The guilt passes after a few years, for me at least 😅
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sam
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Fair enough; for us we're PRs in NZ and can vote, so different vibe
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sam
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I must say it is much more interesting to observe US politics from afar as an expat than as a resident, and much less full of dread (dreadful?)
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sam
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Thank you this is my position
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sam
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3yo: dada! I'm a dog sausage!! Me: oh should I put some ketchup and mustard? 3yo, clarifying (whispered): no Dada it's pretend
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Deva Woodly
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I came to my 14 year old with a concern about social media. He literally took his glasses off, rubbed his temples, and asked: “what have the moms on the internet said now?” 😯🫤😆
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sam
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💀💀💀
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sam
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🤭 <clutches pearls>
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sam
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hahah certainly possible. or some other thing I reliably click on is collinear with something furries click on (clearly it must be.....psychology posts)
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sam
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Australians very happy to have just spent a half mil on a private jet
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sam
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One thing about the Discover feed is that it does not yet learn user preferences quickly. Like I've politely downvoted quite a few posts from furries (no judgment but not my thing!) and Discover is like "here how about these other furries"
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