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@samuelmehr

2 years

'academia is a calling' i whisper to myself as I reply to the 34th email concerning a reimbursement of a $160 flight to Detroit

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⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 not Wordle, just some white and gold squares

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academics during the pandemic maintaining their prior levels of productivity

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ok we are writing a lab handbook so I spent my afternoon reading 25 lab handbooks to figure out all the things that people put in lab handbooks. here they are so that you don't have to read 25 lab handbooks. (this is not exhaustive and many of the topics overlap, obvi) 1/

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did it hurt?? when you realized that machine learning is just statistics?

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a lot of academics seem unhappy with their experience recording lectures & their "zoom fatigue" from long days of videoconferencing. I'm a scientist who studies music and sound. I hope this thread will help. here is Taylor Swift on stage. look what's in her ear! 1/

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pleased to announce {ggbernie}, a new R package for topical scatterplots

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who did this

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how do academics with two or more kids get everything done? wrong answers only

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academics publishing their papers

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industry jobs: send us a CV and a paragraph about your interests; thx we'll get back in 2 wks academic jobs: send us a CV, research statement, a statement of fealty, an original sonnet using only phrases from your published work, and your left pinky; thx we'll probably ghost

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2021 academics backing out of extra commitments only to agree to new ones they will subsequently need to back out of

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reviewer 2, who hates your paper but is incapable of saying why

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very academic email energy

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how most psychology labs are run

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some personal news: today, for the first time in my life, I clicked an APA PsycNet link and it gave me an actual pdf of the article I was asking for

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"for your next game, you must download a pdf from APA PsycNet"

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what's your least favorite thing academics say routinely? mine is: "come join us!!" after posting a link to a single tenure-track position that will likely receive 200+ apps

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PI: why on earth did we do it this way grad student: because you told me to, let me show you the email PI:

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i guess the economists don't watch friends?

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The Office (US) characters as academics, a thread. Creed Bratton: got a TT job by mail in 1964, without an interview. somehow hasn't retired yet. Invented some method used by the entire field. Completely nuts but still friendly 1/n

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We Will Adopt Your Baby (psychology edition)

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Elon Musk can't hurt me with tweet views; I've published papers that not even the reviewers read

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some personal news: i’m leaving Harvard and will soon begin two permanent roles - Senior Lecturer in Psychology at University of Auckland (assoc, for US-types) - Senior Scientist at Haskins Labs/Yale so, my News are Zealand and Haven

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academic parents working from home during the pandemic

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grad student emailing the editor with PI cc'd

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btw this was intended to be a joke tweet BUT but it's entirely possible that a union could help universities to implement more equitable reimbursement policies, which literally everyone agrees would be a good idea!!

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some personal news: I've accepted a faculty appointment at the Yale Child Study Center, which I will hold jointly with my position in Psych at the University of Auckland as such, I am starting a club for profs whose appointments are at least 10,000 km apart. who's with me?

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hi science twitter, what are the best intro-to-R tutorials these days? I have some new students looking for resources reply with your favorites, pls & thank you

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in 1835, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called music "the universal language of mankind". he turns out to have been right. psychology of music meets computational soc sci, anthro, cs, from @_themusiclab // , in @sciencemagazine 🧵

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the more letters of recommendation I read, the more I think letters of recommendation should be abolished

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ok so it turns out that PIs get little or no training in how to run what are essentially small companies. this is hard but good software can help! here's a thread of how we now run things @_themusiclab in case it's useful to ppl starting new labs or retooling old ones :) 1/

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scientists excitedly explaining their new method that approximately four people will ever use

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when you get an R&R

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the dolphin motherese paper is wild — "we recorded 19 adult female dolphins over 34 years" (!!!) you don't need statistics to see what's going on here: in all dyads, higher pitch whistles with calf than without congrats @LaelaSayigh @frantsjensen et al

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psychology is amazing

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senior academics choosing not to retire while the junior faculty candidate pool grows

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when you get invited to a gluten-free christmas bake-off

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this classic

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1 year

What's a tweet that's so canonical in your mind you make shorthand reference to it, even if people might not know what you're talking about? (I sometimes just say "uh oh y'all it's gettin' kinda hazy" expecting people to get it)

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science twitter, you know what the best alternative platform is to twitter? it's called.... You Should Be Writing

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look I'll be impressed when ChatGPT can download a pdf from APA PsycNet

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Pedro Pascal as psychology books, a thread The modularity of mind (Fodor 1983)

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until now I had only read the "COVID is airborne" coverage and not the actual paper (in @TheLancet by @DFisman @zeynep et al) it is beautifully written and *utterly* convincing, a model of scientific prose here's the whole piece:

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@ItsMattsLaw

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very academic email energy

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nobody: every PI ever: "wow, fantastic job on the draft!" <changes 98% of the draft>

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I speculate that hearing yourself in a headphone mix has a few different effects. (n.b. would be awesome to test these empirically). (a) you don't talk as loudly, because you know how loud you really are. Your voice may last longer and get less hoarse. 8/

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many ppl getting hired these days will soon be starting labs with little guidance. so: PIs, what was the best decision you made early on? I'll start: I spent an embarrassing amount of $ on a very powerful computer. felt extravagant but in 5 yrs it has repeatedly saved our asses

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I'm migratimg to a new social media platform it's called "the manuscript I'm almost three years late on, but still really want to finish, I swear" see you all on there

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if we're going to take team science seriously, then we should really cite papers with co-first authors as "Smith & Doe et al. 2021" (not Smith et al)

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I've lost count of the number of times science journalists have asked me why music is so great to play for babies in the womb. here's the response I just typed, in case anyone wants a stock answer to this question

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why yes my 2yo was very well behaved during my meetings this morning sitting quietly on my lap right up until he shat through his diaper his pants and my pants how is your quarantine going

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some personal news: I am very pleased to share that I have logged onto Editorial Manager on the first try

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really happy to share our piece on gamification out today in @Nature tldr: decades after the first online experiment, gamification is the biggest opportunity to improve robustness in behavioural science

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new measure of academics' well-being: time between last coffee and first wine of the day. values can be negative

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dammit not 24 hours after posting this my infant is home from daycare w a fever 🤷‍♂️

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but I'd be willing to bet that the most prominent sound in his mix was his own voice. why? the job of a spoken word performer (again, that's us, 2020 academics) is to use one's voice to communicate. it's easier to communicate when you know what your listeners are hearing. 7/

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some personal news: I submitted to my uni an expense report for a $250 meal w/ collabs and was reimbursed in full, no questions asked, in 36 hours

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Stanley Hudson: ultimate work-life balance prof. Shows up at 9, leaves at 5, naps regularly. Focused on his upcoming vacation, does the crossword during faculty meetings. papers in press at Nature and Science 5/n

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OK, so how can you try this out? here are a few simple options. (a) if you have active noise-cancelling headphones with a pass-thru (a "hear the flight attendant" button), try it. the headphones' internal mics will pick up your voice and feed it into your mix automatically. 13/

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some personal news: I am very pleased to report that I have caught up, work-wise, to where I was planning on being in roughly mid-August

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Manuscript Central, the portal that, famously, nobody can ever log into on the first try, is adding two-step verification. what could possibly go wrong?!

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roses are red violets sublime

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that thing is called an "in-ear monitor", a term for an expensive headphone. Taylor is using it to *monitor* the sound of her own voice and guitar, and probably the sound of everything else in her performance — background vocals, other musicians, maybe a click track, etc. 2/

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i dunno who needs to hear this but sham job postings (i.e. "searches" that are in name only bc the job is intended for a specific candidate) are cruel and they are especially cruel to tenuously employed applicants

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3 years

I think what people without little kids don't have a handle on — or people who had little kids at one point and don't really remember — is the pervasive, deep, utter chaos that is life with little kids

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4 years

my own view is that bc our job is to communicate with our voices, it's a good idea to think a little bit about the technology involved in doing so. I think it can make our students' and our own lives better in 2020 academia. anyway hope this helps! 17/17

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(c) when you know what you sound like in real time, you can use the mic as a tool, not just a passive instrument. radio hosts do this all the time. e.g., you can lean into your mic to make your voice more "present" to emphasize a point. 10/

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Angela Martin: editorial assistant who returns your paper without review because it didn't conform to APA style. 4/n

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just for fun, and bc everyone here is asleep (so it’s actually quiet), I recorded myself reading a bit of this thread to show what a good mic sounds like with live monitoring. for reality’s sake I did a single take without editing, recorded via Zoom w/ no audio processing.

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scientists: we are cold empiricists who will not be swayed by shallow, magical thinking also scientists: paper submitted, fingers crossed!!!

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I am recruiting 2-3 students at the MSc or PhD level to figure out wtf is going on with music in human minds if that's not exciting enough, btw you also get to live and work in new zealand!! 🇳🇿 scholarships available, apply at

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has anybody done this one yet

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parents of twitter, what is your superpower? mine is very symmetrical swaddles at 4am

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For anyone feeling dejected about their NSF postdoc rejection: my year, I was scathingly and quite rudely trashed by two reviewers who felt the proposed work was neither interesting nor feasible 😬 I published it in Science three yrs later 🤷‍♂️ Hang in there, fellow rejectees! 👍

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that means that the sounds her microphone are picking up — her own voice — is getting piped back into her ears in real time. this is ubiquitous in professional recording environments, and not just music. here's legendary NPR newscaster Carl Kasell with his mic and monitors. 3/

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I am anonymous R2 on a paper that I like. the paper does not cite me and there's no reason it should. anonymous R1 is telling the authors to cite me and chastising them for not having cited me. how do i tell the authors I am not R1 without disclosing that I am R2

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@_kenny_joseph please refer to the OP which clearly specified 'wrong answers only'

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Nobody: Academics: My research is barely related to current events, but I decided to put together a thread linking my research to current events anyway 1/n

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i got my second shot and then Science desk rejected my paper. really makes you think

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(b) videoconferencing is more pleasant, because you can hear how you sound *relative to other speakers*, to a greater extent than without monitoring. (n.b. this is complicated by features like automatic leveling, but we'll leave that for another day) 9/

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tenure dossiers in 2005 / junior faculty job talks in 2020 / PhD applications in 2021:

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when my kid includes "please?" with a request, I grant it like 98% of the time. when he doesn't it's closer to 40% thus it'd be rational to just always ask for stuff with "please". yet he does not so I guess I'm just wondering: did the behaviourists have any children?

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(d) [most speculative] this might improve the social aspects of videoconferencing because you can exert much more fine-grained control over the sound of your voice — something you do in everyday conversation without thinking about it, but which is painfully missing from vc. 11/

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another reason to post salary ranges for academic jobs is to combat the public misconception that academics make a lot of money (lol)

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I was about to submit a review and was presented with this dialog. A great idea at any time and a particularly great idea right now.

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me, a reviewer: wtf I have so many reviews to do how could I possibly accept another invite me, an editor: wtf it is impossible to find reviewers me, an author: wtf why is my paper still 'in review' me: 🙃🙃🙃

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aaaand @Harvard is starting the process of shutting down all research labs for #COVID19

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we just had a paper accepted at a great journal with three reviewers, all critical but super constructive, in two rounds of review, in a reasonable timeframe be like these reviewers, everyone! don't gatekeep, indicate preferences but don't impose them, improve the science !

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Phyllis Lapin-Vance: Gem of any department, solid supervisor, well-liked. low-key has an h-index of 75. Fiesty when necessary. 2/n

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did a review for $400 today; can confirm it is more fun than doing a review for $0 I guess that's a point in @jamesheathers 's column

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(b) if you have a Yeti or other USB mic with a direct headphone output, use that headphone out to monitor your own voice. Set the mic as your audio device for both input/output and give it a try. (n.b. you may need to adjust levels to make this work well) 14/

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re psychologists putting "we are the first to—" in papers: (1) doing a thing first is not evidence that the thing was good or interesting (2) settle down, you didn't cure cancer (3) come to think of it you probably weren't even the first

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(c) if your dept is paying, or really really love your students, or are just an audio nerd, you can get a more serious mic like my lab's hilariously large Electro-Voice RE20 (i know, i know) & run it through a DAC with hardware monitoring, as in an actual recording studio. 15/

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a friend interviewed today for a faculty job in a wonderful dept. he said "I think my talk went well but I flubbed one question" I said "I remember every question I ever flubbed on every interview. even when I got the offer. they haunt you" this is true of everybody, right?

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my grandmother, a dressmaker, survived Auschwitz by telling them she was an electrician, and then by teaching herself how to actually be an electrician

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Please tell me one fascinating thing about one of your grandparents.

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the NIH, stoned, designing the grant review system: "ok ok ok so we'll give a score btwn 10 and 90. 10 is obviously the best. if you get higher (worse) than like 50, then you suck enough that we won't even talk about it. oh & you can have a percentile rank too. sometimes not tho"

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in professional recording environments each performer has their own "mix". sometimes the crew/sound techs set these up in a rehearsal or sound check. other times each performer has their own mixing board that they use themselves to customize what they hear. 4/

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publishing companies get scientists to produce content for them for free while charging exorbitant subscription fees to the universities who employ the scientists so that the scientists can read each other's content

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