As a former NSF program director, I find it difficult to put into words the extent to which the content and tone of this memo go against the grain of anything and everything that defines merit-based review at NSF.

Interesting analyses from Hanson et al., the strain on scientific publishing. Many more articles, more special issues (namely Frontiers, MDPI), but stagnation in number of PHDs granted. "in 2022 the article total was ∼47% higher than in 2016".
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Interesting they cite Gardner, but neither him (coming from Education) or they included Education as a fundamental aspect of the discipline. Though in 2002, The CogSci conference organizers (GMU conference) did include Education as an equal member. Proof below.

Long time ago we looked at functional connectivity during rest conditioned on prior language content. This figure had to be pushed to supmat www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
also this for Hippocampal connectivity
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

That fact that HBM, as a journal still allows these data-sharing policies is disturbing.

FYI

We're presenting, "Enhancing Interpretability using Human Similarity Judgements to Prune Word Embeddings", at the BlackboxNLP workshop in EMNLP2023. We improve prediction of human similarity judgments for co-hyponyms and provide interpretability of pruned embeddings. #MLSky #CogSci Link: t.ly/NTRRS

New lab pub: we introduce a supervised pruning method to boost DNN-based prediction accuracy for human-derived pairwise object-distances (brain or behavior; e.g., RDMs).
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... We include code for plotting image-sections important for the prediction. (Github); comments/qs welcome.