Cindy

Why is the Sixers broadcast so weird I hate it

My kid groaned out loud when they showed Bayes theorem

Sixers still ahead going into the 4th feels like winning the finals

A Bugs Life

Don’t I know it!

I was murdered

If he dies, he dies

Tom Brady the QB getting hit vs Tom Brady the announcer when someone else gets hit

More like the turd quarter amirite

Liking this skeet is not an endorsement

PLAY THE SONG

Call me Ishmael.

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

WINNERS WAVE. 👋

There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.

This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.

Generative AI is amazing at tasks where I am not qualified to judge the output.

“good news, we’ve created the playroom that tells kids whatever they want to hear and makes them not care about their parents from the seminal Ray Bradbury short story, Don’t Create the Playroom That Tells Kids Whatever They Want to Hear and Makes Them Not Care About Their Parents”

It’s the Trix rabbit all over again

1. Is this a one-off study or a replicated finding? 2. Is it cherry-picked or consistent? 3. Was the study big enough to be reliable? 4. Did it employ robust statistical methods? 5. How big is the effect size? (If there’s a statistical association, does it amount to a big risk or a small one?) 6. Is there any evidence for a causal link or is it just a correlation? 7. Could the correlation reflect some confounding factor? 8. How does this supposed factor sit in the context of other factors (especially genetic risk for autism, which is very highly heritable)?

When reporting on these kinds of claims, the media should ask:

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

Probably should’ve posted the Ai statement separately - not sure how it displays with the rest. It’s not so different from what I originally posted, but prefer people get the final version. Have at it & hope it’s useful to you in your classes. All on my site here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Thank you!

the thing about not liking sports is that you're wrong

If tonight is the last time we ever see this incarnation of NBA Countdown, I think we should appreciate that this version of it really was the single worst studio show of all time. I don't believe four people on television have ever had less chemistry with each other than this.

we heard it was #NationalBestFriendsDay

Registration for the Person Memory Meeting (Oct 13-16 in Lisbon, POR) is open! Info is here jacquelinemchen.wixsite.com/personmemory

the kitchen is undefeated when u need to go look at three incorrect clocks at the same time

i want you all to look at how it works when the Times *wants* a story at the forefront of the conversation.

then i want you to compare it to how they've addressed the destruction of the federal government and rising fascism.

Job alert 🚨

We’re hiring a full-time research staff assistant at Columbia starting Fall 2025! The position will focus on several topics in the lab, including the cognitive & neural mechanisms underlying dynamic social perception using fMRI & natural language processing.

Link: freemanlab.org/ra2025

We're hiring! The Shackman Lab is hiring a full-time postbac RA for the 2025-26 academic year. This is fabulous opportunity to learn, work, and play with us in the DMV before heading off to graduate school. shackmanlab.org/studycoordin...

SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

“The War on Science”

Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.

YALL, THE TITLE!!