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Billy Mitchell
@wj-mitchell.bsky.social
CogNeuro PostDoc at Rutgers • emotion, self-regulation, & decision-making • dynamic & naturalistic study design • NIH D-SPAN Awardee • https://wj-mitchell.github.io/
Sci-hub is the only morally defensible name in broad public access to academic publications #CanonizeAlexandraElbakyan
A staggering statistic: "North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year." What are we doing?
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Recruiting PhD students for Fall 2026!

The Coupled Minds Lab at @tamu.bsky.social will use a multimodal approach combining fMRI hyperscanning, computational modeling, and natural language processing to study how conversations transform minds. Learn more: coupled-minds.github.io

Due Date Dec 1
Coupled Minds Lab
Coupled Minds Lab — social neuroscience of conversation, negotiation, and human–AI interaction.
coupled-minds.github.io
October 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Managing emotions is not easy - we often get by with a little help. In the NEW Social Interaction and Emotion Lab at Rutgers-Newark, we’ll study how social interactions regulate emotion using experiments, naturalistic data, and multi-modal approaches. ✨ Now recruiting! ✨🙌 Learn more: raziasahi.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Pardon my whatever, but this is fucking insane
Hegseth: I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho.
October 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.
October 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Stephen Miller may be the first WH Chief of Staff to pre-tear his underwear in office so the wedgies hurt less
October 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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So... I did some analysis of grants that did receive noncompetitive renewals.

In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed.

Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph...

1/4
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media.tenor.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
At a new job orientation looking at the four flavors of healthcare plans available and I'm realizing it's just an awful high stakes Iowa Gambling Task
September 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs
September 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Awwwww Yeah -- it's official
September 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Is there an online repo of example TT application materials like research and teaching statements?
August 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.
August 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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my DSPAN postdoc grant right now
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August 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
August 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Following up from this tweet yesterday, I realized that the national right to work foundation is on a warpath against graduate student unions right now and attempting to astroturf support ...
August 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I couldn't imagine being such a loser that I try dismantling one of the only means of labor advocacy for grad workers, but I'm also not Russell Burgett
Cornell Ph.D. Student Files Federal Complaint Challenging Graduate Student Unions' Legality
A Ph.D. student filed a complaint alleging that a union contract from CGSU-UE violates federal labor law.
www.cornellsun.com
August 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Hearing rumors from multiple sources that NIH COO Eric Schnabel was terminated yesterday for allegedly trying to award a large contract to his wife (who sometimes uses her maiden name) for "public outreach" associated with the autism data science initiative.

#EndlessGrift
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media.tenor.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Nice write up of our paper (with @vpmurty.bsky.social) showing that memories expressed with greater “authenticity” are more accurate, but people don’t use that information in judging whether someone actually remembers the event accurately or not, and instead use unreliable signals of accuracy.
July 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Did the Tr*mp administration cancel your NIH or NCI grant proposal? Know someone who was affected? The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in the House wants to hear from you. Please fill out this link and share. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

#CancerResearch #OncoSky #CanSky
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media.tenor.com
June 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This is the same dickhead that fucked up the 2023 GEO strike and has protestors arrested. Man has no business in higher ed.
“‘I am here to ensure that DEI never returns to the University of Florida,’ Ono said Tuesday.”

you did all that my man & they didn’t even give you the damn job? kissing up to white supremacy gets you NOWHERE

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
Florida Board Rejects Ono for UF Job
The Florida Board of Governors decided against confirming Santa Ono as president of the University of Florida in a contentious vote focused on diversity, equity and inclusion.
www.insidehighered.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
RFK somehow manages to make socialists sympathetic to private, predatory science publishers over a nationalized publicly-funded science communication option.
RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals
The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.
www.politico.com
May 28, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Dark Age Modernity
The FDA announced this week that it was likely to limit access to Covid vaccines among healthy children and adults this fall. Here’s what to know.
The F.D.A. May Restrict Covid Shots. Who Will Be Able to Get Them?
www.nytimes.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data @epi.org from me & Adam Reich of Columbia Labor Lab.

In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before.
www.epi.org/blog/america...
May 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM