I've got a new blog post on cognitive offloading. Storing our memories outside our heads. Googling things rather than trusting our knowledge. And a few words on the costs of using AI in terms of learning, ownership of ideas, and feelings of self-efficacy. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ment...

I spent the past semester building interactive teaching apps with AI-assisted coding. I used my personal website to share them with my students, but that makes them hard to find for other educators. So I built Galvoro — galvoro.app

I also created a version of the 'guess the correlation' game. Students always enjoyed it, but the original website (with fun retro design) started to require a google account login. So I created my own version. Play it here: lakens.github.io/statistical_...

New paper🎈: Lessons Learned from Big Team Science Projects in Cognitive Science in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... We share practical, experience-based strategies for running large-scale collaborations - from project structure to ethics, funding, & AI use.

we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...

New article out exploring great ape name recognition! We find partial evidence that zoo-living chimps & bonobos know each other's names 👀 Huge thanks to Animal Behavior and Cognition (a great open-access journal) & co-authors for your collaboration!🎉🐵 unsvr1.com/web/abc/work...

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

📣 Faculty line in cognitive psychology in my department at Western Washington University. We just, finally, received permission to search. Details will be posted in early January. But hey, I just want to get this out so people will be watching. Nice place and university. I’ve liked it.

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

The misplaced optimism of the academic who appends .FINAL to their latest document

The ManyTones project is looking for several lead positions. See poster for details. 📢📣✨ Get involved! 🎉🤝🌟

“It’s not that traditional liberal arts is out of step with student demand. Instead, it’s out of step with the priorities values desires of a powerful board of trustees with no apparent commitment to liberal education, an administrative class.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

People asked me often over the years... now it's over but finally sharing it: Course manual — including readings, instructions on how to write essays and give presentations — for the course AI as a Science that I taught from 2020/21 to 2024/25 in the School of AI. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

They're forcing us to DIY the parts of society best managed by government: from disaster preparedness to education and public health. Because DIY saves billionaires a few bucks. And because DIY is so cognitively taxing that we can't strategize to fight them and can only fight each other for scraps.

Session Submission and registration is now open for BTSCON2025! bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/ @abrir.bsky.social @psysciacc.bsky.social @manybabies.org

Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science! The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

📣🧪 $25k grants for those who: 1. are working on research on STEM and education (including AI and CS, graduate education and MSIs, and scholarship that aims to reduce inequality), and 2. have had a recently terminated or cancelled grant from NSF. Early-career scholars prioritized

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully. You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers. Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

"Applications from US scientists seeking career opportunities in neighbouring Canada increased by 41% between January and March 2025 compared with the same period in 2024. By contrast, applications from Canadian researchers for jobs in the United States dropped by 13%" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My dog has discovered the fidget spinner...

Hi friends, the Spark Society's NSF funding has been terminated. We are dedicated to continuing our work and hope we can rely on you for support.

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

Calling all researchers, conservationists, & habitat biologists! We’re collecting insights from users for grants/reports. How does Birds of the World impact your work? That is, what do you use BOW for, and what does it provide that other resources cannot? DM or email [email protected] - TIA!

This is completely fucked up. I know everything is fucked up, but THIS is why universities need to stand up and fight, not cave like Columbia did. NOTHING will satisfy them, and all the capitulation just leads to more demands and humiliation.

Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

I wish reading the news felt less like binge watching the final season of a long running series that’s been a major part of your life for decades.

Adult great apes show enhanced memory for social events phys.org/news/2025-02...

Going to #spsp2025? Curious to see the first release of the results of a big team science test of stereotype threat theory on Black college students involving 2,513 participants? Then you may want to check out the following talk, presented by my co-lead Valerie Taylor on Friday, 3:15pm, 21 February

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

Umberto Eco put together a now-famous list of 14 attributes of fascistic states. I'm going to discuss each of them in hopes this helps ppl understand that fascism is not just a buzzword. We're going to go through these by theme, so strap in. 🧵

Extremely disappointed to see HHMI decide to kill their Inclusive Excellence program, including terminating the current IE3 awards to over a hundred institutions effective this year in the middle of a 6-year grant. I was hoping HHMI (and other private funders) would continue to lead the way.

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

Want to get editing experience? If you have a PhD & are a member of a group that’s historically underrepresented in editorial roles, apply for a 1 yr editorial fellowship at one of APS’s journals (including Psych Science)! Deadline 7 Feb. Please share! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

**We are recruiting** Seeking a postdoc to work on a Wellcome-funded cohort study focusing on social-cognitive processing in typically developing children and adolescents (aged 8-18 years) and children and adolescents with 22q11.1 deletion syndrome. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49291/

What better first post than an annoucment that my lab is recruiting a PhD student! The deadline for the PhD program in Applied Cognitive and Brain Sciences at Drexel University is 12/1 - join us in fabulous Philadelphia!

Here's a fun way to encourage students to always look at their data. A few years ago, I wrote a script that converts a black and white png to data and plots it.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #936,358! Elder certified, 😂

Coming to the 2024 meeting of the @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social in NYC? If so, please join the @sparksociety.bsky.social for our annual preconference meeting on Thursday (11/21). We will discuss ideas of race-neutrality in cognitive psychology.  register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Psychonomics 24 is a great place to meet old friends and make new ones. Come network and socialize with the Spark Society and maybe sing a song or two. Nov 22 8pm near the conference hotel. Space is limited so please register. A drink or two is on us! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Curtis Phills and I are hiring a full-time lab manager here at the University of Oregon, where we are co-leading the C-squared Lab. If you are interested in stereotypes, prejudice, diversity, and social cognition, please apply! Job ad here: tinyurl.com/c2labmanager

Our free BTS proposal workshops are every Thursday at 10 EDT until September 19th. All sessions are recorded and slides uploaded to our OSF page. https://osf.io/g86nq/ You can find the zoom link by scanning the QR code, found on the OSF, or shooting us a message!

Less than a week left for submissions! Make sure you get working on those abstracts 💚