Heidi Baumgartner
@hbaum.bsky.social
Hummingbird watcher, a cat’s person, content consumer
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There's still time to register for the 2025 Big Team Science Conference (October 6-8, live on Zoom)! All fees are OPTIONAL, so you can pay what you'd like (or nothing at all!) to gain access to a ton of amazing BTS content.
bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/
bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/
registration
>>> Register for the 2025 BTSCON now! *** ### BTSCON Registration Info To balance inclusivity with our funding needs, *registration fees for the Big Team Science Conference are optional*. You can pay ...
bigteamscienceconference.github.io
October 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
There's still time to register for the 2025 Big Team Science Conference (October 6-8, live on Zoom)! All fees are OPTIONAL, so you can pay what you'd like (or nothing at all!) to gain access to a ton of amazing BTS content.
bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/
bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/
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Our full 2025 program and schedule are now up on our website! We've got so many great presentations lined up, you won't want to miss it!
bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/
bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/
program
Note: The live conference schedule with links to sessions will be provided to conference registrants via email. To access the live schedule, REGISTER NOW *** >>> View the 2025 BTSCON Program *** > Not...
bigteamscienceconference.github.io
October 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Our full 2025 program and schedule are now up on our website! We've got so many great presentations lined up, you won't want to miss it!
bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/
bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/
timeline coincidence of the most depressing order
cc @darthbluesky.bsky.social @louisathelast.bsky.social
cc @darthbluesky.bsky.social @louisathelast.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
timeline coincidence of the most depressing order
cc @darthbluesky.bsky.social @louisathelast.bsky.social
cc @darthbluesky.bsky.social @louisathelast.bsky.social
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Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
Capybaras lounging in yuzu-filled hot springs is my happy place
June 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Capybaras lounging in yuzu-filled hot springs is my happy place
It's been a ton of fun to work with @mcxfrank.bsky.social and @asifamajid.bsky.social on this. I'm so lucky to get to support projects like this (and @manybabies.org and @btscon.bsky.social and ...)!
The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) now features over 100 published articles! Editors-in-Chief @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social share their vision for this open, online reference developed to guide the next generation of exploration in cognition & intelligence:
A conversation with the editors of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
Editors-in-Chief Michael C. Frank and Asifa Majid share their vision for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science as it surpasses 100 published articles.
mitpress.mit.edu
June 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
It's been a ton of fun to work with @mcxfrank.bsky.social and @asifamajid.bsky.social on this. I'm so lucky to get to support projects like this (and @manybabies.org and @btscon.bsky.social and ...)!
Just got an “out of office” reply with the most amazing example of “there’s a German word for that.”
Abwesenheitsbenachrichtigung!
Abwesenheitsbenachrichtigung!
June 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Just got an “out of office” reply with the most amazing example of “there’s a German word for that.”
Abwesenheitsbenachrichtigung!
Abwesenheitsbenachrichtigung!
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Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."
June 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."
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It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.
June 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.
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Huge congratulations to Drs Anjie Cao and Rondeline Williams on their successful defenses this week!! @anjiecao.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Huge congratulations to Drs Anjie Cao and Rondeline Williams on their successful defenses this week!! @anjiecao.bsky.social
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Please assign these articles for your teaching as well as your own browsing, and let us know 1) how you're using them and 2) what articles you need to help you in your teaching!
May 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Please assign these articles for your teaching as well as your own browsing, and let us know 1) how you're using them and 2) what articles you need to help you in your teaching!
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If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
May 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
“We want scientists who hold identities that may be under attack to know that we are proud to be your colleagues, and that our science is stronger as a result of your being in this field.” 👏
Proud to join other CDS Presidents in writing about challenging times for our science. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times
Published in Journal of Cognition and Development (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
April 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“We want scientists who hold identities that may be under attack to know that we are proud to be your colleagues, and that our science is stronger as a result of your being in this field.” 👏
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my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison
This is insane and everyone involved needs to be sued into oblivion and then go directly to jail
April 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison
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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
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Thanks to Evan Kidd, @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social (Eds) for organizing the awesome *Open* Encyc. of Cog. Sci. and entrusting me with/ the honor of penning the entry on "Language" (in < 3500 words, so do see other entries for much, MUCH more!)
oecs.mit.edu/pub/ho9e9c80...
oecs.mit.edu/pub/ho9e9c80...
Language
oecs.mit.edu
April 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Thanks to Evan Kidd, @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social (Eds) for organizing the awesome *Open* Encyc. of Cog. Sci. and entrusting me with/ the honor of penning the entry on "Language" (in < 3500 words, so do see other entries for much, MUCH more!)
oecs.mit.edu/pub/ho9e9c80...
oecs.mit.edu/pub/ho9e9c80...
“From her cell in Louisiana, she described the plans she had in the coming months. Completing her dissertation. A conference in Minnesota. Students to mentor. A summer class to teach.”
Our client Rümeysa Öztürk has not been charged with any crime.
She is being held in ICE detention in retaliation for her political beliefs. Writing an op-ed is not a deportable offense.
She is being held in ICE detention in retaliation for her political beliefs. Writing an op-ed is not a deportable offense.
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 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
“From her cell in Louisiana, she described the plans she had in the coming months. Completing her dissertation. A conference in Minnesota. Students to mentor. A summer class to teach.”
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Our client Rümeysa Öztürk has not been charged with any crime.
She is being held in ICE detention in retaliation for her political beliefs. Writing an op-ed is not a deportable offense.
She is being held in ICE detention in retaliation for her political beliefs. Writing an op-ed is not a deportable offense.
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 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Our client Rümeysa Öztürk has not been charged with any crime.
She is being held in ICE detention in retaliation for her political beliefs. Writing an op-ed is not a deportable offense.
She is being held in ICE detention in retaliation for her political beliefs. Writing an op-ed is not a deportable offense.
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It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken.
In 90 years of social security, we have never had a check bounce or be late, but they want you to believe the system is broken.
April 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken.
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Super excited to submit a big sabbatical project this year: "Continuous developmental changes in word
recognition support language learning across early
childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...
recognition support language learning across early
childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...
April 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Super excited to submit a big sabbatical project this year: "Continuous developmental changes in word
recognition support language learning across early
childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...
recognition support language learning across early
childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...
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🚨4-5 new postdoc positions in language & cognition🚨
😇 One postdoc will work specifically with Eon-Suk Ko and I on the ManyBabies-AtHome project, focusing on infant word recognition in global, remote settings using collaborative, open science practices [https://shorturl.at/5l3tW]. @manybabies.org
😇 One postdoc will work specifically with Eon-Suk Ko and I on the ManyBabies-AtHome project, focusing on infant word recognition in global, remote settings using collaborative, open science practices [https://shorturl.at/5l3tW]. @manybabies.org
April 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
🚨4-5 new postdoc positions in language & cognition🚨
😇 One postdoc will work specifically with Eon-Suk Ko and I on the ManyBabies-AtHome project, focusing on infant word recognition in global, remote settings using collaborative, open science practices [https://shorturl.at/5l3tW]. @manybabies.org
😇 One postdoc will work specifically with Eon-Suk Ko and I on the ManyBabies-AtHome project, focusing on infant word recognition in global, remote settings using collaborative, open science practices [https://shorturl.at/5l3tW]. @manybabies.org
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In which I, a person who trained over 1,500 early career scientists all over the world in how to use Twitter, tell the scientific community that Twitter sucks now and you should use Bluesky for networking and outreach instead.
New paper!
Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should.
This is the *first* paper in the peer reviewed scientific literature to explain how Bluesky works and how to use it for #SciComm 🧪🦑🐠
academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...
Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should.
This is the *first* paper in the peer reviewed scientific literature to explain how Bluesky works and how to use it for #SciComm 🧪🦑🐠
academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...
Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should
ABSTRACT. Social media tools have revolutionized how people communicate with one another. A 2018 paper in Fisheries summarized the use of Twitter, Facebook
academic.oup.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
In which I, a person who trained over 1,500 early career scientists all over the world in how to use Twitter, tell the scientific community that Twitter sucks now and you should use Bluesky for networking and outreach instead.
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Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn.
And it's live RIGHT NOW!
psych-ds.github.io
(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)
And it's live RIGHT NOW!
psych-ds.github.io
(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)
Psych-DS
A specification for psychological datasets. JSON metadata, predictable directory structure, and machine-readable specifications for tabular datasets.
psych-ds.github.io
April 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn.
And it's live RIGHT NOW!
psych-ds.github.io
(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)
And it's live RIGHT NOW!
psych-ds.github.io
(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)
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An incredible leader who is meeting the moment. Send this to everyone you know in higher education administration.
Superb interview w/ Princeton president Chris Eisgruber - a model of resistance that is thoughtful, clear-eyed, but adamant of ultimate lines to draw -- applies for all univ and law and media too. Really worth a listen.
The University President Willing to Fight Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...
The University President Willing to Fight Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...
The University President Willing to Fight Trump
Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton University talks about the administration’s move to freeze billions of dollars in funding to higher education institutions.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
An incredible leader who is meeting the moment. Send this to everyone you know in higher education administration.