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Professor of Psychology at Wesleyan U. Tentatively using this to post mostly-science content .. no promises. Still on Ukraine X/Twitter.
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My 11-year-old captured this image of a meteor against the aurora in CT last night.

green and pink aurora with shooting star streak
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Hany Farid is an expert on digital forensics .. and a long list of other things. Here is his new user-friendly short talk on political uses of fakes (and false accusations of faking). www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVWR...

Digital forensic expert breaks down political deepfakes | Academic Review
Digital forensic expert breaks down political deepfakes | Academic Review

YouTube video by UC Berkeley

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It's official release day for my textbook today! I have to be honest that it's both exciting and a little nerve-wracking to have this out in the world for other people to read, but I really hope folks enjoy it and try doing some of this stuff in the classroom. www.routledge.com/Practical-Vi...

Practical Vision Science: Learning Through Experimentation
Practical Vision Science: Learning Through Experimentation

This workbook provides a collection of experiments and observations that use physical materials (rather than digital displays or resources) to reveal fundamental properties of the human visual system....

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We have reached Peak Reviewer 2. This is a genuine review of our paper on food poverty and mental health in children and young people. MINDSPONGE THEORY

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PsychResearchList website just got a makeover with new resources! 🎉 Take a peek!👇 www.psychresearchlist.com

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"Multisensory and visual distractions affected children’s working memory equally, no matter their age." Nora Turoman tells Annie Brookman-Byrne how different types of distraction affect children’s learning. @noraplethora.bsky.social#WorkingMemory#Learningbold.expert/the-cognitiv...

The cognitive psychologist linking sensory perception and children’s learning
The cognitive psychologist linking sensory perception and children’s learning

Nora Turoman is investigating how distractions impact children’s working memory

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Since we're talking about proper word choice when communicating science to non-scientists, here's my list of some examples of "kinda-jargon." Jargon is when your non-scientist audience has never heard the word before. Kinda-jargon is they've heard it but in a very different context. #SciComm 🧪

A table showing some commonly used scientific words that mean different things to different audiences
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Hilary Barth
@hilarybarth.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology at Wesleyan U. Tentatively using this to post mostly-science content .. no promises. Still on Ukraine X/Twitter.
293 followers146 following103 posts