Cognitive neuroscientist, runs a sleep lab. Studying sleep, dreaming, memory and rest. Uses EEG, interested in open science, women in STEM. 🧠📈😴 Frustrated with the higher-education industrial complex. Luddite-adjacent. #AAUP. Views are my own.
Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴
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"Bexorg has studied more than 700 brains while working closely with ethicists to ensure that the brains cannot regain consciousness."
There's zero possibility a brain in a jar can "know what's happening to [it]". But this still doesn't seem like the BEST idea.
They own the world. We just work here.
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Shared governance continues to burn in the South.
This seems illegal.
#Sociology friends: Do you have any former undergrad student (or yourself) who turned a BA thesis (or other undergrad work) into a peer-reviewed publication? I'm thinking about putting together a bibliography of peer-reviewed studies that started as undergraduate research👩🎓 #teaching #undergraduates
Follow-up question: Does anyone know of any undergraduate research using either comparative-historical method or experimental method that was later published in a peer-reviewed journal? Recommendations for published undergrad work using other methods are also appreciated 🙂 #sociology #teaching
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AAUP-TNS condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent firings of full-time faculty and staff across the university. To be clear, they were not let go on the basis of job performance.
Read our full statement here 👇
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I ❤️newly invented illusions.
Sounds like shared governance is collapsing at The New School.
Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴
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June 1, 2026 Condemnation of Mass Firings AAUP-TNS condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent firings of full-time faculty, as well as unclear numbers of staff, across the university. These...
AAUP-TNS condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent firings of full-time faculty and staff across the university. To be clear, they were not let go on the basis of job performance.
Read our full statement here 👇
docs.google.com/document/u/1...
@aaup.org
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”
June 1, 2026 Condemnation of Mass Firings AAUP-TNS condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent firings of full-time faculty, as well as unclear numbers of staff, across the university. These...
