1/5. I just finished re-reading King's "The Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement"--a speech he gave at the American Psychological Association in 1967.
I revisit this speech every few years; much of it remains relevant.

A few notable sections...
www.apa.org/topics/equit...

you're telling me a cherry picked this example?

This is one of our most wonderful students and the university doesn't understand they basically tricked her into studying here because they didn't explain the extortionate fees they would apply to her after the pre masters. Please if you're able, consider donating.
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Deadline for faculty research grants up to $60k is 27 Jan! “The Research Scholar Program provides unrestricted gifts to support research at institutions around the world, and is focused on funding world-class research conducted by early-career professors”
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Unjustified pride that looking over my hundreds of repos that are not forks

OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019).

The renamed:

Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)

The 80's fad is back

North Pacific killer whales have again been seen in Puget Sound wearing salmon on their heads, as they did in 1987 and 1988.
It is not known whether this is simply a fad or has some function (such as saving food for eating later).

(blog) https://buff.ly/4g4sTW5

Do you teach neuroscience? Here’s a list I’ve compiled of mostly free online neuroscience textbooks, simulations and datasets you can use for your course! If I’m missing something, let me know so I can add it! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

UW-Madison Psychology is hiring a new assistant professor in the area of computational approaches to language (broadly construed). Please share with interested parties! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...

You can also watch here the workshop keynotes that inspired all the work presented in this special issue.

2 associate prof neuroscience jobs being advertised in Oxford.

Very fun place to do neuroscience:)

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

We are hiring! My dept at CCNY is looking to hire a computationally minded cognitive neuroscientist at the Full professor level. Ad here: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/.... Open until filled. #neuroscience #neuroskyence

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