Janet Frick

Janet Frick

@jfrickuga.bsky.social

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UGA Psychology prof, PI of UGA Infant Lab. Higher Ed, developmental science, prenatal dev. Mom to two UGA students. Views not my employer (obvs).

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I found the perfect place to wear my new “Leave trans kids alone” shirt from @strictscrutiny.bsky.social Crooked Media 🏳️‍⚧️ #BalmoralHotel #Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This is a great read (especially for folks who study “healthy behaviors”) on how challenging it is to overcome our preexisting biases even in scientific research.

It’s so funny how every study shows that ice cream is good for you but this makes scientists mad so they don’t talk about it web.archive.org/web/20240122...

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Many undergraduate #psychology courses fail to ensure students fully understand research design and analysis. An international team of psychological scientists have recommended some systemic steps to remedy that.

Scientists Propose Upgrades to Research-Methods Education for Psychology Studentswww.psychologicalscience.org Many undergraduate psychology courses fail to ensure students fully understand research design and analysis. An international team of psychological scientists have recommended some systemic steps to r...

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This is a witch hunt targeted primarily at scholars of color who study race. Chris Rufo now going after Christina Cross for "plagiarism" - his go-to example is *descriptions of data that are similar.* There are only so many ways you can describe data!

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I am going to repeat something I have said before: for at least 20 years, faculty have warned administrators about bad faith political attacks & administrators have been very slow to respond. This makes me angry.

The accusations against Claudine Gay were absolute garbage, but they worked, so of course this is continuing. College administrators need to PROTECT THEIR FACULTY from bad-faith, politically motivated, bullshit accusations.

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Great to see interest in our research on prenatal stress lability and infant negative affect in @infantstudies.bsky.social #TopDownloadedArticle onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Tomorrow will be a shameful day in Georgia, as our state poisons to death a man with an IQ of 68. It will be Georgia’s first execution in 4 years. I wrote to the clemency board pleading with them not to take this shameful action. abcnews.go.com/US/georgia-b...

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Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text. “In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “

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The reason we need to keep talking about this is that it’s not about him being a hypocrite. It’s about the fact that a major social media platform has turned into a propaganda arm of the fascist right and that freedom of speech and press is under attack on this platform and beyond.

Twitter is nuking every single post that mentions the name Hans Kristian Graebener, even in quotes. Everyone that posts it is getting hit. I've never seen sitewide censorship like this done specifically on behalf of a neo nazi.

Why I will always vividly remember March 12, 2020. “Happy” four year anniversary of the day it all fell apart, while I was secretly having colon cancer surgery at Piedmont Athens Regional. Your friendly regular reminder to get your colonoscopies, people!

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Just a reminder, this is the source for the plagiarism accusations against Claudine Gay, whom NY Times reporters treated as a good faith actor

nothing to see here, just chris rufo’s henchman telling the scottish prime minister humza yousaf that his blood is impure.

All of my academic and writer colleagues should read this excellent essay!

I haven’t posted here in a while but I wanted to share my story of how I made a place for myself in academia, now in Science www.science.org/content/arti... #ScienceWorkingLife #AcademicChatter #ScienceTwitter

How I made a place for myself in academia—by focusing on my writingwww.science.org Writing is “a testament to my journey from an uncertain immigrant feeling like an outsider in academia to a confident researcher,” this professor writes

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Mollie’s family begged Republicans and the media not to demagogue around her murder because the family reviled such racism. But of course the GOP didn’t honor their request.

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Google apparently had to release a "verbatim" setting so that you can get decent search results. I tested it and it does seem to help lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-...

How to Make Google Show You the Good Search Results Againlifehacker.com Off-target search results are getting more and more common, and we can only lay part of the blame on the results being cluttered with AI-generated junk and human-generated SEO-bait. I don’t have a fix...

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Pls repost! Now hiring for our research program at FIU in Miami: Sleep and neurodevelopment in youth with, or at risk for, anxiety and depression in adolescence. Please reach out: [email protected] Clinical psychologist/scientist Data Analyst Research Coordinator Research Assistants Post-doc

Tough day on UGA campus today, but the vigil at Tate Plaza was so heartwarming and moving. Congratulations to the students who led this time of remembrance, for your heartfelt comments about your beloved friends Laken and Wyatt. 💔💔

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Imagine holding that Colorado acted appropriately, but it should still be overturned because other states will act inappropriately.

So proud of my grad school mentor @johncolombo.bsky.social for receiving this prestigious research award. He has been awarded one of 4 Higuchi-KU Endowment Research Achievement Awards—the state higher education system’s most prestigious recognition for scholarly excellence. loom.ly/J0x-fQ0 #psychsky

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Check out the latest #PIBBS examining facets of the behavioral and brain sciences including healthy habits, diverse populations, visual impairment, perception, and more! Featuring articles with open access: journals.sagepub.com/toc/bbsa/10/2

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REBLOGGING THIS AS A BURNT-OUT FORMER LIBRARY WORKER IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE I'M SCREAMING. Seriously, the library can't keep being your daycare, shelter, food bank, vaccine clinic, be-all end-all for everything. We need more free 3rd spaces.

The library being "the last real third space" isn't a reason to keep adding new responsibilities to the library; it is a reason to create more third spaces.

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Just recorded a long episode of “Is This Democracy” with @lilymasonphd.bsky.social on Claudine Gay, the rightwing campaign against higher education, and why the mainstream media is so eagerly joining the reactionary crusade against diversity and pluralism. No holds barred in this one.

Highly concerning report from the AAUP alleging that a tenured faculty member was suspended from all academic responsibilities at Indiana University for spring and summer, without following their own well established due process disciplinary procedures. 😬 aaup.sitehost.iu.edu/reports/ExCo...

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Universities subject students to ghastly automated suspicion scoring all the time - and in my experience, as here, the bibliography and direct quotes are mostly what get flagged. Turnitin's a mistrust machine, now weaponized against educators too www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The Plagiarism War Has Begunwww.theatlantic.com Claudine Gay was taken down by a politically motivated investigation. Would the same approach work for any academic?

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A new preprint reveals the results of a first-of-a-kind “longitudinal, quasi-experimental study of 165 deplatforming events targeted at 101 influencers.” It finds that deplatforming works in reducing overall online attention paid to norm-violating figures. www.techpolicy.press/deplatformin...

Deplatforming Reduces Overall Attention to Online Figures, Says Longitudinal Study of 101 Influencer...www.techpolicy.press A first of its kind study from researchers at EPFL Switzerland and Rutgers scholars yields new insight into deplatforming.

Students: could you send me a copy of the syllabus? Me:

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January 6 broke the media by revealing just how broken the media is. One of my most important essays (I didn’t write the headline), from the New Republic in 2021:

The Capitol Riot Killed “Both Sides” Journalismnewrepublic.com Trump’s acquittal notwithstanding, these violent events have forever changed the way Beltway reporters should do their jobs.

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This piece about how a radical art collective planted subversive props in 3 years' worth of Melrose Place episodes (and made Aaron Spelling look very stupid) has quite simply changed my life

One of the Most Audacious Pranks in History Was Hidden in a Hit TV Show for Years. Not Everyone Foun...slate.com Abortion activism, anti-gun propaganda, and HIV awareness, smuggled onto prime time.

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This is the CV of the new Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Things are bleak in higher ed, friends. www.wral.com/story/unc-na...

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The @nytimes.com has 4 reporters covering Ivy League boardroom gossip that impacts less than 1% of the college students in the US; meanwhile, they've done just 1 story on the Cal State strikes.