brookemacnamara.bsky.social
Assoc. Professor, research straddles cognitive, I-O, and social psychology. Interested in variance in performance--skill acquisition, expertise, and achievement--and people's beliefs about success.
👤 Joined on 11 November 2023
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@brookemacnamara.bsky.socialMinute 25.34 to jump to the part where you're told how to make yourself less valuable to Meta (advertising makes up 98% of their revenue). Change your settings so that facebook & instagram cannot profit as much from your data any more: Simple steps here: johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com
Show Postin the coffee shop listening to a dad explain photosynthesis to a kid (3-4yrs). I can tell he’s a scientist because when the kid said “really?” He then hedged for a full minute like he was responding to reviewer #2
Show PostEarlier today, I accidentally found old photos that I thought I'd lost forever. What a surprise! Here's a group photo taken 30 yrs ago at the 1994 WM conference in Cambridge, UK. You see many familiar faces (Baddeley, Hitch, Logie, Cowan, Engle, Ericsson..). I'm in the 2nd row wearing a teal shirt.
Show PostI may just be weird, but I find the final stage of making small edits and cuts and get a grant under the page limit extremely soothing and satisfying. Every paragraph is a puzzle and every partial line eliminated is a little victory. Maybe doing this for other people's grants should be a side-gig?
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