Haley Kragness
@haleykrag.bsky.social
asst prof, psych of babies and the stuff they hear! 🎵
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Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
Trump talks about Denmark and Greenland just now: "The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."
January 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
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Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open
January 8, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open
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the government is claiming this was an act of self-defense, so it's important to remember the last time that they shot someone and flat-out, demonstrably lied through their teeth to cover up for it
Now that DHS has acknowledged that the ICE shooting in Minneapolis has killed a woman but are saying it was a legitimate act of self defense, let's recall that DHS repeatedly lied about the circumstances when a woman was shot by a federal agent in Chicago:
newrepublic.com/article/2019...
newrepublic.com/article/2019...
January 7, 2026 at 6:22 PM
the government is claiming this was an act of self-defense, so it's important to remember the last time that they shot someone and flat-out, demonstrably lied through their teeth to cover up for it
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dismantle ICE and salt the earth it grew from
A US citizen has apparently been shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis. I’m gathering information, but the situation on the ground is volatile.
ICE should leave now for everyone’s safety.
ICE should leave now for everyone’s safety.
January 7, 2026 at 6:20 PM
dismantle ICE and salt the earth it grew from
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AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING
HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS?
HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON?
HOW??????????
HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS?
HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON?
HOW??????????
Longer statement from Brown University:
"We are very sorry to share that we have confirmed reports of multiple shooting victims, but we are not able to share their condition. They have been transported to local hospitals."
"We are very sorry to share that we have confirmed reports of multiple shooting victims, but we are not able to share their condition. They have been transported to local hospitals."
December 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING
HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS?
HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON?
HOW??????????
HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS?
HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON?
HOW??????????
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What is happening at Ursinus right now appears to be directly out of the higher ed consultant playbook.
Gut the institution of those who deliver on the core academic mission to ‘cut costs’ — without acknowledging the costs of those cuts.
More people should be talking about this.
Gut the institution of those who deliver on the core academic mission to ‘cut costs’ — without acknowledging the costs of those cuts.
More people should be talking about this.
I thought I lost what faith I had in traditional academia long ago, but seeing an institution let the most brilliant, generous, and passionate teacher I've ever met go after twelve years of dedication is both infuriating and devastating. so yeah folks, hire my wife @counterfactual.bsky.social please
December 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
What is happening at Ursinus right now appears to be directly out of the higher ed consultant playbook.
Gut the institution of those who deliver on the core academic mission to ‘cut costs’ — without acknowledging the costs of those cuts.
More people should be talking about this.
Gut the institution of those who deliver on the core academic mission to ‘cut costs’ — without acknowledging the costs of those cuts.
More people should be talking about this.
i made a small personal gift because CHS is *THE* reason i can progress my research program and train students in developmental science from my small town in rural pennsylvania. thank you CHS team!!!!!
This is a fundraising post!
An anonymous donor is matching contributions to Children Helping Science up to 100K through the end of the year - if it's in your giving budget, please consider supporting open science infrastructure!
giving.mit.edu/search/node/...
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An anonymous donor is matching contributions to Children Helping Science up to 100K through the end of the year - if it's in your giving budget, please consider supporting open science infrastructure!
giving.mit.edu/search/node/...
Details below...
Fund Search Results | Giving to MIT
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December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
i made a small personal gift because CHS is *THE* reason i can progress my research program and train students in developmental science from my small town in rural pennsylvania. thank you CHS team!!!!!
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”
the adoption of what now?!
July 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
the adoption of what now?!
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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-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
June 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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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
•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
NBDC Data Hub
NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Sharing Platform: Unifying ABCD and HBCD data management in one powerful platform.
www.nbdc-datahub.org
June 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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
•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
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Been quiet lately for a good reason (vacation), but hopping onto to say:
🚨 NEW NSF LAWSUIT TODAY!!!
🥳🥳🥳
Targets grant terminations & freezes in spending congressionally appropriated funds.
Press release: democracyforward.org/updates/coal...
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
🚨 NEW NSF LAWSUIT TODAY!!!
🥳🥳🥳
Targets grant terminations & freezes in spending congressionally appropriated funds.
Press release: democracyforward.org/updates/coal...
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
two little girls are dancing on a stage .
Alt: two little girls are dancing on a stage, one snaps her fingers
media.tenor.com
June 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Been quiet lately for a good reason (vacation), but hopping onto to say:
🚨 NEW NSF LAWSUIT TODAY!!!
🥳🥳🥳
Targets grant terminations & freezes in spending congressionally appropriated funds.
Press release: democracyforward.org/updates/coal...
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
🚨 NEW NSF LAWSUIT TODAY!!!
🥳🥳🥳
Targets grant terminations & freezes in spending congressionally appropriated funds.
Press release: democracyforward.org/updates/coal...
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
see taskmaster also for examples of functional fixedness, common ground, mnemonics, and more to come .. (work in progress!)
taskmasterpsych.blogs.bucknell.edu
taskmasterpsych.blogs.bucknell.edu
May 31, 2025 at 1:51 AM
see taskmaster also for examples of functional fixedness, common ground, mnemonics, and more to come .. (work in progress!)
taskmasterpsych.blogs.bucknell.edu
taskmasterpsych.blogs.bucknell.edu
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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.
RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times
Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.
May 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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.
RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times
Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.
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"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."
The National Science Foundation was established 75 years ago this week, but as Professor Scott L. Greer writes in this commentary, it’s “been a bit of a rough birthday party.”
michiganadvance.com/2025/05/13/a...
michiganadvance.com/2025/05/13/a...
A troubled birthday for the National Science Foundation • Michigan Advance
Happy 75th birthday, National Science Foundation! On May 10, 1950, Congress established one of the world’s best value, highest impact, and, frankly, coolest science agencies. The NSF finances federal ...
michiganadvance.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
"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."
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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.
This is exactly the problem. If AI can do the work of a junior team member, it still needs to be supervised and managed—so how do you teach that?
Was at a conference dinner a while back and one guy said "The future is AI. It doesn't replace senior developers, but no more need for juniors."
To which i replied:
"Where do you think senior developers come from. Straight from the womb?"
He went quiet, then wandered off to a different huddle.
To which i replied:
"Where do you think senior developers come from. Straight from the womb?"
He went quiet, then wandered off to a different huddle.
May 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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.
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-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
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
May 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
-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
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
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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."
THE COURT ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OZTURK FROM CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY.
"Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."
May 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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."
THE COURT ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OZTURK FROM CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY.
"Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."
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New RSV vaccine, treatment linked to dramatic fall in baby hospitalizations arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
New RSV vaccine, treatment linked to dramatic fall in baby hospitalizations
CDC study finds big declines in hospitalizations—and they may be underestimates.
arstechnica.com
May 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
New RSV vaccine, treatment linked to dramatic fall in baby hospitalizations arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
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Another key difference is that the answers calculators provide are accurate
People keep comparing ChatGPT to a calculator to me and like even if it were that simple of a comparison you still need to learn math. You still need to be able to count and do arithmetic before you rely on the calculator. And you should be able to do easy math in your head and by hand
May 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Another key difference is that the answers calculators provide are accurate
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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:
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:
May 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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:
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!
April 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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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Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.
www.ourhealthroi.com
www.ourhealthroi.com
Our Health ROI
Explore how your tax dollars fund life‑saving medical research.
www.ourhealthroi.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.
www.ourhealthroi.com
www.ourhealthroi.com
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Important piece in @washingtonpost.com on the War against children www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Donald Trump’s war on children
The administration is divesting from future generations. It will cost America dearly.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Important piece in @washingtonpost.com on the War against children www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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"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...
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...
www.propublica.org
April 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"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...