With campus resentment growing over Trump’s university compact, Vanderbilt students and faculty rallied against Chancellor Daniel Diermeier underneath the brick clocktower of Kirkland Hall on Wednesday morning.

Introducing "COSSA 101: A Crash Course on the Federal Government"! 🎉 This series will provide easy info about the inner workings of the fed gov't and how they affect SBS research. Learn more & read our first brief: “What is a Government Shutdown?” ➡️ cossa.org/introducing-...

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arXiv CS clarifies its policy on narrative reviews: "The goal of the moderators of each category is to make sure the work being submitted is actually science, and that it is of potential interest to the scientific community." blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...

there have been big questions raised about the quality and reliability of the research suggesting that small nudges (like moving an entry field or asking people to tick a box) meaningfully affect behaviour

ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/... The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.

In short, the ANES data shows: 📉 Social media use is shrinking 💥 Twitter/X posting has moved ~50 points to the right 🧩 Platforms are splintering 🔊 Fewer people are talking — but those still talking are more politically extreme

Fun Halloween door decorations from the @um-src.bsky.social Nightmare on Survey Street theme

Submissions are open for @psychscience.bsky.social APS 2026 meeting in Barcelona. #APS26BCN Please watch the video to hear about all the new and exciting programming that will be available for the first Annual Convention to be in an international location!!

Warning: If you happen to be the parent of a child who loves baseball, this @jvl.bsky.social article might make you cry (To be clear, you should read it — whoever you are) www.thebulwark.com/p/why-we-fight

Call for Commentary articles at AMPPS! We recently accepted a "Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction: A Registered Report of Four Tests of Construal Level Theory" (osf.io/preprints/ps...) and are soliciting Commentary articles on this paper.

Survey Statistics: struggles with equivalent weights statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/07/s...

7 reasons to use Bayesian inference! statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/11/7...

Just came across this. Neither Freakonomics nor Sean Carroll has called yet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/08/26/a...

i know your grants don't fund it (mine didn't). i know your university doesn't give you credit for it (mine didn't). but that extra work you spend at the end of a research project packaging it up and making it a reusable tool? in the "real world" (lol, it's fake here too) we notice. thank you

David Weir, Ken Langa, Lindsay Kobayashi et al advocate for the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol as a structured & adaptable framework that prioritizes measurement precision and cultural relevance. HCAP's uniformity enables effective statistical harmonization myumi.ch/R3eED

Alpha School, which promises to educate kids using an "AI tutor" in two hours a day, is a budding national empire and a darling of the Trump administration. According to some parents who spoke to @wired.com for this investigation, it's had nightmarish effects on their kids.

✨ Join us! We're inviting expressions of interest from experts wishing to join our Scientific Advisory Network. This is an exciting opportunity to play a vital role in shaping the scientific direction of our longitudinal cohort studies. Deadline Monday, 17 November. Find out more: bit.ly/4o4qyiD

Academic Advisory Board of the Global Research Initiative on Open Science (GRIOS): Call for Applications www.grios.org/academic-adv...

With all the crazy news in the U.S. massive storms like this barely make the headlines. Hoping everyone in the path of this hurricane is safe.

The US Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database, formerly maintained by NOAA, has a new home at @climatecentral.org, with the latest available data through June 2025. Explore the data:

It is that time of year for Halloween costume inspiration. Our theme is "Nightmare on Survey Street." Anyone have any fun ideas for what you would wear for such a theme?

Changes in #family structure across the #LifeCourse can have lasting effects on parent–child relationships. Using @umpsid.bsky.social, @spattersearch.bsky.social & Paula Fomby find past and present family arrangements contribute to adult children's support of their parents myumi.ch/qZ9bE

Important contribution to the measurement of aging.

Lindsay Kobayashi, Ken Langa et al. share lessons from the HRS International Network of Surveys & HCAP on developing cross-national cognitive testing protocols for aging studies, guiding future research on comparability and validity in cross-national aging studies myumi.ch/XyDye

🧪Farah Ammous et al. found a higher genetic predisposition to specific insulin resistant (IR)-related type 2 diabetes subtypes, such as metabolic syndrome and mechanisms of IR mediated through obesity and lipodystrophy, is potentially involved in cognitive decline. myumi.ch/XyD83

The UM Board of Regents honored Kenneth M. Langa with a Distinguished University Professorship, who in turn honored A. Regula Herzog. Learn more about the impact Regula Herzog had on Ken Langa's career, research, and how he creates teams that do good work and have fun myumi.ch/8qj23

If you're attending the online APS Global Summit, don't miss our roundtable tomorrow with the first reports from our Leverhulme grant about the collective perception of nurses, soldiers, cops, underwater welders, etc. as heroes! www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/...

The Survey Research Center @umich.edu is one of the few that combines our science and data collection under one roof (or two since we are so big). This short chat gives you a sense of what the data collection arm of SRC does.

Ken Langa honored his mentor from @um-src.bsky.social Regula Herzog, by naming his Distinguished Professorship after her. It is an honor to have Ken and to have had the amazing Regula at the Survey Research Center @umich.edu

Incredibly important issues that we are working on at the University of Michigan Survey Research Center. We have multiple investigative teams working on the Future of Survey projects across all aspects of the survey lifecycle to make sure we stay on the cutting edge of survey science and methods.

Steve Heeringa, Ken Langa et al. examined the contributions of modifiable risk factors to cognitive impairment among Mexican American adults, finding strong associations with low educational attainment and cardiovascular comorbidities myumi.ch/rAmeZ

Micha Fischer, Roderick Little & @bradytwest.bsky.social investigate multiple imputation under missing not at random assumptions w/response indicators as covariates, finding in MNAR data scenarios, methods including RIs can improve performance for both analytic & descriptive inference myumi.ch/n19nk

Crowds cheered as elephants smashed pumpkins at the Oregon Zoo on Oct. 16 for the annual Squishing of the Squash event. According to the zoo, the yearly tradition dates back to 1999.

Here are two "I can't believe these are free" online stats texts books that cover both underlying principles and practical applications in R that I regularly refer to. Learning Statistics with R learningstatisticswithr.com Doing Meta-Analysis with R bookdown.org/MathiasHarre...

Conservatives ask: Why do we need to subsidize ACA plans so heavily? It’s a fair question! Part of the answer here, in my latest for @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/actual-hum...

Correction for multiple comparisons should be ubiquitous www.nature.com/articles/s41... 👍👏

We are hiring two tenure track assistant professors. spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/32914

Blog post: Ancestry and Education Indirect, direct, confounded and quasi-causal. I write about a preprint by Wang et al, in which they look for associations with genetic ancestry in an admixed Mexican population. They found genetic effects for height and Type-II diabetes, but not for education.

"But the big No is this: it is not an explanation of “What’s going on” with the genetics of IQ. Unless “What’s going on,” is “We don’t know what’s going on.”"

Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.

In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

Ironic or tragic? The Economics Nobel has just been awarded to those who showed the broad value of societal investment in science and innovation, at exactly the moment when the nation that has invested the most is in the process of dismantling its support… www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...

Research funders urged to drive culture shift on negative results. Reform needed to improve trust in science, patient care and training of AI, advocates say. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

📢WE'RE HIRING!📢 We're looking for a centre administrator to join our fantastic team! Role is for 3 days a week, with flexible hybrid working options. Interest in @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social's mission a bonus. 🕕Apply by 23.59 on 24th October 2025 Full details: tinyurl.com/5t586vuj Please share widely!

Psychologists: "We prefer to call it latent factor model"

"The results of the pre-registered approach were not statistically significant, so we changed the approach until we found that magic p<0.05"

please help us understand what population scientists are experiencing in the #shutdown @popassocamerica.bsky.social

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE