I'm pretty sure I just saw a crow peck an eagle on the tail. The eagles are getting bullied!

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I've noticed that a lot of American academic CVs will list professional society memberships. I've never considered doing this unless I was a committee member or did something useful. What's the reason for listing them otherwise - what's the upside for someone evaluating the CV?

Can't quite believe I'm writing this: Today, 150 African workers behind ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook voted to unionize at a landmark meeting in Nairobi. These AI workers are invisible, underpaid, and the backbone of the tech in all our pockets: time.com/6275995/chatgp…

Even the new Twitter can deliver when cool helpful people are on here. And while copyright libraries exist. Now I have a copy of this and a copy of the Halverson prehension paper this is based on. Just in case that information is helpful to anyone else on an academic hunt...

Enjoying some American pomp and circumstance today. Brass band playing Smells Like Team Spirit beats British choir singing Te Deum, sorry.

I listened to this today & it was nice to hear someone way more qualified than me articulate my view that people without children - like me! - benefit massively from childcare that others provide & pay for. My view is that it should be subsidised (also if provided by parents).

In fantastic bird news, there's a duck nesting in a huge planter outside my work building. The caretaker spotted her. Now I'm using the side door to avoid disturbing her because expectant mothers deserve a stress-free life.

Our project is now live on European Citizen Science. We encourage parents to think of themselves as citizen scientists and chroniclers of child development! Check it out: eu-citizen.science/project/403 UCD Research UCD Psychology

And while we all know some derivative writers, the ballpen works even without the uncredited written input of millions of people.

$5 billion for some dead monkeys and overblown claims. How much are actual BCI companies with feasible aims and real proof of concept worth, versus this Theranos-level crap?

Look at our power!!! Our strength in numbers will prevail over any attempts by UW Admin to isolate and threaten us. An injury to one, is an injury to all! #FairContractsUW #UWPostdocsRSEs #UWworksBCWeDo

This paper is In Press! Big thanks to everyone involved at all stages - those who designed & set up the study, the team who collected data for years, Adam Attaheri 💙 & Sinead Rocha-Thomas who kept me sane during analysis. And of course to the babies & parents! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…