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This will be bad for:
- the students
- the research progress
- the universities
- the towns the universities are in
- the companies hiring students
- the states the universities are in
- the national economy
- national security
- the country
- the world
The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week.

It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
September 13, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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Want to make peer review more inclusive & equitable? @mattgoldrick.bsky.social and @mariamaly.bsky.social are hosting a free webinar on how to write better, fairer reviews!

📅 June 15th | 12–1:30pm EST

🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/59ez5azt

#PeerReview #AcademicTwitter
April 30, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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Concerned about the possible dismantling of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Directorate of NSF?? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Find out what's happening and what we can do to protect behavioral science with @fabbs.org Friday April 10th at 1:30 ET. Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration
Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.
www.nature.com
April 6, 2026 at 8:53 PM
A bit belated, but it was cool to talk with Kirsten Weir for this article on Music and the Mind that appeared last month in the APA Monitor on Psychology. (It's also cool to be mentioned in the company of big shots like Psyche Loui, Lisa Margulis, and Robert Zatorre!)

www.apa.org/monitor/2026...
www.apa.org
April 3, 2026 at 12:46 AM
I played a small role in this gigantic project (let's see... I'm one of 865 authors so... um... actually nvm).
SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.
SCORE | Center for Open Science
SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...
cos.io
April 3, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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Very cool idea to view research studies as opportunities for science communication! A more thoughtful approach to debriefing and other aspects of research might help the public better understand how science works and why it is valuable. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/xge0...
February 10, 2026 at 12:58 PM
I'm excited to moderate (~introduce smart people) this panel at #APS25DC tomorrow, where I expect to learn a ton about how we can use Large Language Models to learn something about regular-sized human language. Check it out if you're at APS too!
This #APS25DC panel will bring together leading early-career voices whose work engages with the relationship between human language and LLMs.
May 23, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Karaoke inspired #musicscience (credit mostly due to Rachel Thompson, who isn't on bluesky)
At Psychonomics, @slevc.bsky.social told me that he followed up on the honors thesis project he did with me ~20 years ago and conducted a meta-analysis of the association between music and L2 proficiency! A preprint is available on PsyArXiv, and it looks great. Check it out!

osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
November 30, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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We have an open position for a full time junior research scientist to work at the Ripollés and Fuentes labs at MARL in the context of an NIH project. The position starts in January/February 2025, is full time, and based in NYC.
November 26, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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We're hiring a Language Science postdoc as part of our inaugural Fellowship for Postdoctoral Scholars! Click the link in bio to apply #UniversityofMaryland
November 25, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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bird sounds
November 16, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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Want to do fun science, hang out with wonderful, supportive people, and live in a bike-friendly college town in northern California? Then come be a postdoc in our lab! Check out our website for details: ferreiralab.faculty.ucdavis.edu
Ferreira Lab
ferreiralab.faculty.ucdavis.edu
February 9, 2024 at 10:55 PM