My collaborator Vassiki Chauhan just published a compelling article about sexual harassment in academia. She shares a vision for solutions, with an emphasis on collective bargaining. issues.org/end-sexual-har…

I love having such inspiring colleagues here at Barnard!

Chomsky & friends on the new chatbots: "It is at once comic and tragic... that so much money and attention should be concentrated on so little a thing — something so trivial when contrasted with the human mind." nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opi…

cool stuff!

All NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal imaging-neuroscience.org This comes with great regret, and a huge amount of thought and discussion- please read announcement to get more details.

At #VSS2023, Mentoring Envisioned (FoVea+@SparkSociety+Visibility Alex White) is trying a new way to build our near-peer mentoring community, called Mentoring Envisioned-Insights (ME-Insights). You can sign up to be a mentor, mentee, or both! forms.gle/aDnPHGSpSH5iE6… 1/n

Hey VSS Meeting! "Visibility" is tonight at the end of the reception dinner. Visibility is a social gathering for LGBTQ+ scientists & friends. All are welcome. Join us in the garden courtyard. visionsciences.org/2023-visibilit…

Two Barnard Vision Lab posters happening VSS Meeting right now: Hemifield asymmetries in crowding (presented by undergrad Anishka Yerabothu) and some surprising task effects on VWFA activity (by Vassiki Chauhan) visionsciences.org/presentation/?…; visionsciences.org/presentation/?…

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

As we speak, scientisists across the country (including myself) are trying to to take care of simple administrative tasks related to the grants that we have recieved from the National Institutes of Health... 1/n

The NIH and NSF make America great. Cutting their funding and randomly firing their staff is not smart for the economy. "In fiscal year 2023, every $1 of NIH funding generated approximately $2.46 of economic activity." Other facts here: nih.gov/about-nih/what…

Inspiring message from a scientist who has been through worse: "The best “fuck you” to fascists? Thriving. Publish that paper. Build that collaboration. Laugh with labmates. Science outlives dictators" reddit.com/r/labrats/comm…