Haley Kragness
@haleykrag.bsky.social
asst prof, psych of babies and the stuff they hear! 🎵
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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...
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COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back
April 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back
when I moved to canada this didn't even strike me as odd because it is also a common construction in philly, as in, "yew dun yor hoagie??"
Here in Canada some people say “I’m done my dinner” instead of “I’m done *with* my dinner” and I’m still getting used to it
April 9, 2025 at 4:17 AM
when I moved to canada this didn't even strike me as odd because it is also a common construction in philly, as in, "yew dun yor hoagie??"
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U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)?
Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions.
U.S. Applicant Week:
www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool
Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions.
U.S. Applicant Week:
www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool
US Applicant Week
www.grad.ubc.ca
April 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)?
Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions.
U.S. Applicant Week:
www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool
Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions.
U.S. Applicant Week:
www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool
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Trade deficit. I have bought food from say, Chilis. They have never bought food from me.
There is a trade deficit with Chilis. I’m still doing fine.
The trade deficit argument SOUNDS compelling, but it’s a straw man with no relevancy
There is a trade deficit with Chilis. I’m still doing fine.
The trade deficit argument SOUNDS compelling, but it’s a straw man with no relevancy
April 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Trade deficit. I have bought food from say, Chilis. They have never bought food from me.
There is a trade deficit with Chilis. I’m still doing fine.
The trade deficit argument SOUNDS compelling, but it’s a straw man with no relevancy
There is a trade deficit with Chilis. I’m still doing fine.
The trade deficit argument SOUNDS compelling, but it’s a straw man with no relevancy
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What Canada doesn't tell you, but should, is that you should try to enter through pre-clearance at nearly every Canadian airport (excluding Billy Bishop) if possible.
You can only be denied, and not detained by ICE, if you run into trouble in pre-clearance. I speak from experience.
You can only be denied, and not detained by ICE, if you run into trouble in pre-clearance. I speak from experience.
Canada updated its travel advisory for the US, telling travellers to "expect scrutiny at ports of entry, including of electronic devices," adding, "If you are denied entry, you could be detained while awaiting deportation.": travel.gc.ca/destinations...
Travel advice and advisories for United States (USA)
Travel Advice and Advisories from the Government of Canada
travel.gc.ca
April 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
What Canada doesn't tell you, but should, is that you should try to enter through pre-clearance at nearly every Canadian airport (excluding Billy Bishop) if possible.
You can only be denied, and not detained by ICE, if you run into trouble in pre-clearance. I speak from experience.
You can only be denied, and not detained by ICE, if you run into trouble in pre-clearance. I speak from experience.
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Out this week @cogscisociety.bsky.social! @samhforbes.bsky.social & I ”urge extreme caution in the use of LLMs in classrooms lest we further normalize: pupils losing their privacy, reducing contact between learner and educator, deskilling teachers & polluting the environment”
doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models
Huettig and Christiansen in an earlier issue argue that large language models (LLMs) are beneficial to address declining cognitive skills, such as literacy, through combating imbalances in educationa...
doi.org
April 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Out this week @cogscisociety.bsky.social! @samhforbes.bsky.social & I ”urge extreme caution in the use of LLMs in classrooms lest we further normalize: pupils losing their privacy, reducing contact between learner and educator, deskilling teachers & polluting the environment”
doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
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🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
April 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.