Joe Austerweil
@lazytenuredprof.bsky.social
Ass prof of psychology and computer science, aspiring gluten free bakery, esports player, and fantasy lover
January 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Spouse: “You lectured with students for 2 and 1/2 hours! Your poor students.”
Me: “I gave them a 10 minute break.”
Spouse: “you only gave them a 10 minute break?! Those poor students”
Me: …. “Their grade depends on whether they laugh”
Me: “I gave them a 10 minute break.”
Spouse: “you only gave them a 10 minute break?! Those poor students”
Me: …. “Their grade depends on whether they laugh”
January 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Spouse: “You lectured with students for 2 and 1/2 hours! Your poor students.”
Me: “I gave them a 10 minute break.”
Spouse: “you only gave them a 10 minute break?! Those poor students”
Me: …. “Their grade depends on whether they laugh”
Me: “I gave them a 10 minute break.”
Spouse: “you only gave them a 10 minute break?! Those poor students”
Me: …. “Their grade depends on whether they laugh”
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Before panic sets it. The New NIH Director and Congress will want research to continue, so the machine will start up at some point. Keep writing papers and preparing proposals. AND educate the public about the key role peer review plays in science and the time and infrastructure investment needed
January 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Before panic sets it. The New NIH Director and Congress will want research to continue, so the machine will start up at some point. Keep writing papers and preparing proposals. AND educate the public about the key role peer review plays in science and the time and infrastructure investment needed
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All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
submitting my cv in new formats and languages might be my strongest skill!
January 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
submitting my cv in new formats and languages might be my strongest skill!
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Early career researchers, tech enthusiasts, students, and people with half-baked ideas are especially encouraged to join! DM me to sign up!
Join us for the 5th annual Cross Labs spring workshop, "New Human Interfaces"! www.crosslabs.org/new-human-in...
From March 3-7, we will be hosting panels by leading experts, a multi-day hackathon, and deep-dive discussions on new and unexplored innovative human-machine interface design.
From March 3-7, we will be hosting panels by leading experts, a multi-day hackathon, and deep-dive discussions on new and unexplored innovative human-machine interface design.
New Human Interfaces | March 3–7, 2025 | Cross Labs AI
A hands-on exploration of new and unexplored human-machine interfaces. Leading researchers, technologists, and innovators from diverse disciplines to discuss the intersection of artificial intelligenc...
www.crosslabs.org
January 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Early career researchers, tech enthusiasts, students, and people with half-baked ideas are especially encouraged to join! DM me to sign up!
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Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love.
Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...
Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...
Grief Makes Us Time Travelers (Gift Article)
A neuroscientist studying memory, I used to believe time was linear. Then my mother had a stroke.
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love.
Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...
Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...
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Out now - National Academies consensus report on Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science 🧪
It was a privilege to serve as one of the 15 committee members from a wide range of scientific disciplines who put this report together. Quick 🧵1/
www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/und...
It was a privilege to serve as one of the 15 committee members from a wide range of scientific disciplines who put this report together. Quick 🧵1/
www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/und...
December 19, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Out now - National Academies consensus report on Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science 🧪
It was a privilege to serve as one of the 15 committee members from a wide range of scientific disciplines who put this report together. Quick 🧵1/
www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/und...
It was a privilege to serve as one of the 15 committee members from a wide range of scientific disciplines who put this report together. Quick 🧵1/
www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/und...
DONE GRADING! POSTED TO REGISTRAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 186 students served cognitive psychology.
AND THEY DID SO GOOD ON THE BAYES FINAL EXAM QUESTION!!!ONE
AND THEY DID SO GOOD ON THE BAYES FINAL EXAM QUESTION!!!ONE
December 19, 2024 at 2:16 AM
DONE GRADING! POSTED TO REGISTRAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 186 students served cognitive psychology.
AND THEY DID SO GOOD ON THE BAYES FINAL EXAM QUESTION!!!ONE
AND THEY DID SO GOOD ON THE BAYES FINAL EXAM QUESTION!!!ONE
Wow. Teaching goes a lot better when you don't have emergency gallbladder surgery in another state during the semester... (that was last semester)
December 18, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Wow. Teaching goes a lot better when you don't have emergency gallbladder surgery in another state during the semester... (that was last semester)
Best student answer ever about @mr-jim-is-hungry.bsky.social 1/3
ʘᆽʘ
There once was a cat named Jim,
Whose enchantment turned quite grim.
Now I have testing anxiety,
A most unwelcome malady.
Thanks Mr. Jim, my chances are slim.
ʘᆽʘ
There once was a cat named Jim,
Whose enchantment turned quite grim.
Now I have testing anxiety,
A most unwelcome malady.
Thanks Mr. Jim, my chances are slim.
December 17, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Best student answer ever about @mr-jim-is-hungry.bsky.social 1/3
ʘᆽʘ
There once was a cat named Jim,
Whose enchantment turned quite grim.
Now I have testing anxiety,
A most unwelcome malady.
Thanks Mr. Jim, my chances are slim.
ʘᆽʘ
There once was a cat named Jim,
Whose enchantment turned quite grim.
Now I have testing anxiety,
A most unwelcome malady.
Thanks Mr. Jim, my chances are slim.
tfw students taking your 2-hour exam online and there's no questions for the first 150 minutes of exam time (24-hour window to take it)...
did i make a clear exam?!
did i make a clear exam?!
December 17, 2024 at 5:24 PM
tfw students taking your 2-hour exam online and there's no questions for the first 150 minutes of exam time (24-hour window to take it)...
did i make a clear exam?!
did i make a clear exam?!
December 17, 2024 at 1:19 AM
when league of legends players are more reasonable in game than undergrads, we be in trouble folks
December 16, 2024 at 2:48 PM
when league of legends players are more reasonable in game than undergrads, we be in trouble folks
anyone else always enter 6666666666 as their phone number in letter of rec portals? 😇
December 15, 2024 at 6:15 AM
anyone else always enter 6666666666 as their phone number in letter of rec portals? 😇
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What a pretty lady ♥️
December 11, 2024 at 11:56 PM
What a pretty lady ♥️
I really don't like the sentiment that "it doesn't hurt to ask" about getting a better grade (or similar sorts of questions).
At least for me, requests like this have an emotional cost. I've been struggling with compassion fatigue and I imagine I'm not the only faculty that feels this way.
At least for me, requests like this have an emotional cost. I've been struggling with compassion fatigue and I imagine I'm not the only faculty that feels this way.
December 10, 2024 at 6:58 PM
I really don't like the sentiment that "it doesn't hurt to ask" about getting a better grade (or similar sorts of questions).
At least for me, requests like this have an emotional cost. I've been struggling with compassion fatigue and I imagine I'm not the only faculty that feels this way.
At least for me, requests like this have an emotional cost. I've been struggling with compassion fatigue and I imagine I'm not the only faculty that feels this way.
Just finished baking ~80 tahini cookies for my last undergrad lecture at UW-Madison
December 9, 2024 at 11:22 PM
Just finished baking ~80 tahini cookies for my last undergrad lecture at UW-Madison
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There are few better feelings than when former students go off and do great things, and then write to you and let you know about them.
Students: never wonder if you should get in touch with a former teacher or supervisor to share this kind of thing. It is one of the purest rewards there is. /1
Students: never wonder if you should get in touch with a former teacher or supervisor to share this kind of thing. It is one of the purest rewards there is. /1
December 9, 2024 at 6:26 AM
There are few better feelings than when former students go off and do great things, and then write to you and let you know about them.
Students: never wonder if you should get in touch with a former teacher or supervisor to share this kind of thing. It is one of the purest rewards there is. /1
Students: never wonder if you should get in touch with a former teacher or supervisor to share this kind of thing. It is one of the purest rewards there is. /1
I'm grateful that zero of my students selected the last option. I feel empowered to shout into the bluesky void "I REALLY LIKED THE PRINCESS BRIDE"
December 5, 2024 at 7:15 PM
I'm grateful that zero of my students selected the last option. I feel empowered to shout into the bluesky void "I REALLY LIKED THE PRINCESS BRIDE"
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Moral psychology postdoc opportunity at the University of Toronto! Please repost, and pass on to anyone you think might be interested.
December 4, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Moral psychology postdoc opportunity at the University of Toronto! Please repost, and pass on to anyone you think might be interested.
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My paper on hierarchical plans is out in Cognition!🎉
tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2x...
tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2x...
December 3, 2024 at 3:37 PM
My paper on hierarchical plans is out in Cognition!🎉
tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2x...
tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2x...
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I'm hiring a full-time lab manager / research tech for my new psychology lab at Boston University, to start this summer (July 2025)!
The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration.
More details here: cldlab.org/join/
🧠💻 #psychscisky
The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration.
More details here: cldlab.org/join/
🧠💻 #psychscisky
December 2, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I'm hiring a full-time lab manager / research tech for my new psychology lab at Boston University, to start this summer (July 2025)!
The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration.
More details here: cldlab.org/join/
🧠💻 #psychscisky
The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration.
More details here: cldlab.org/join/
🧠💻 #psychscisky
I've wrestled with how to handle recent undergrad students being less prepared and having less grit than pre-covid. I've found the debate on this in higher ed to be a false dichotomy. DO we NEED to be strictly more strict OR just as lenient as during COVID?
#highered 1/3
#highered 1/3
December 3, 2024 at 2:43 PM
I've wrestled with how to handle recent undergrad students being less prepared and having less grit than pre-covid. I've found the debate on this in higher ed to be a false dichotomy. DO we NEED to be strictly more strict OR just as lenient as during COVID?
#highered 1/3
#highered 1/3