Michelle Greene

What the hell is wrong with these weirdos? #Palantir #AIBros

🚨Job alert: be my colleague!🚨 Barnard College is hiring someone at the intersection of Cognitive Science and Computer Science. Please share and reach out if you have questions! barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

Experiencing this at all stages of the publication pipeline: * As an editor who asks 25+ people before securing two peer reviewers. * As a reviewer fielding 7-10 new requests per week. * An an author who has waited ~4 months for reviewers. AI is DDOS on actual scientific progress.

I cannot. Can we really not be bothered to read and write?

Pictorial cues to depth create a nice effect on this cabbage (found of Facebook)

This. 100% this. Both speaking truth to nonsense, and the inevitable BS stream that comes from it.

The @genentech.bsky.social #CareerDevelopment Award for Emerging Vision Scientists offers $100,000 for early-career investigators to launch novel research projects, and provides an @arvoinfo.bsky.social mentor for career guidance. Apply by Oct. 1. https://bit.ly/4gQNgt7 #VisionResearch

Alright folks, if you're in the States make plans to vote in person now, because the fascists are at it again.

The umps got this one right! Cedanne! #RedSox

I updated my gen-AI classroom policy for this semester. I hate being a cop in the classroom, so I'm trying to present my data-driven reasons in a way that might increase buy-in. Suggestions welcome! mrgreene09.github.io/IntroStatsFa...

Friday's synagogue attacker was a Republican Zionist antisemite (yes, extremely redundant) who disdained Reform Jews for being "fake." forward.com/news/845474/...

thanks Daniel for this v useful guide.

So excited to read this one!

….so far

I'm going back to in-class exams this semester, which are harder to schedule, less intellectually rigorous, slower to grade, harder to secure, more prone to error, harder to provide disability acommodations for, and use up a lot more paper than online exams. AI makes everything worse.

The Neuroscience Department at UC Berkeley is hiring an Asst Professor in Computational Neuro. All areas of computational/theoretical neuro are welcome. Deadline Oct 30. Join our neuroscience community! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446 #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs

Got an absurd book review request: 16 chapters, 121k words, 15-day turnaround. For $25 in book credits from the publisher. Seriously? It would take 8 hours for a first read. Whole review, if carefully considered, twice that. Sorry, my time is worth more than $1.56/hr.

Admirable clarity @science.org

You gotta hand it to OpenAI, billing this as a *partnership* between OpenAI & Hugging Face when what actually happened was Hugging Face finding out that OpenAI was using a bunch of bots to exploit security vulnerabilities. Talk about good marketing or whatever you want to call it, by OpenAI.

WhY DoN't MoRe YouTh PrOteSt?!?!?

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Dear colleagues, PLEASE submit a comment against OMB's proposed rule. Elizabeth wrote great guide on drafting a comment. To submit it, go to www.regulations.gov/search and search for OMB-2026-0034. It will take time & effort to write a good comment, but a worthwhile effort to save our profession.

You know that adage about when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail? **#AI is screwdriver.** We have no idea what the screws are, but people in power think it's a hammer, maybe even the whole toolbox. And we're all … screwed.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating scientific output, but risks narrowing inquiry, weakening judgement and undermining how scientists are trained go.nature.com/3RiE5HN

Barnard Visual Cognition Lab at #VSS2026!

I find the late 2000s to be a really interesting time in cognitive neuroscience. Is this because: a. It was a genuinely interesting time (beginnings of decoding, encoding, RSA; methodological fixes). b. I imprinted on grad school era papers, just as people imprint on songs from high school c. ?

Meet “ASU Atomic,” a subscription platform that claims to offer customized learning modules for fee-paying users. None of the ASU faculty whose course materials were harvested for the module I generated were aware that their image, lectures, lessons, or other teaching materials are being used.

🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences. Steps to counter this are in motion. If you - have an SBE proposal under review - serve on an SBE grant panel You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2

It’s a shame that my students’ generation doesn’t know the joy of getting to the stage of friendship when you’re allowed to flip through your buddy’s music collection and bond over the obscure and/or cringe music you both love.