Oh no. NSF Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program shuttered. This one leaves me winded. A good story from 2025 by @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social offers insight into what we are losing: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

At the Capitol again today trying to make inroads on the disastrous plans to kill social science at the NSF. Your turn. Call your reps. Tell them Congress must act to preserve funding for SBE. Seriously. Today.

GO BLUE 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀⛹️💙💛

"At an internal all-hands meeting on Friday, NSF leaders announced that they would dissolve the agency’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate based on the budget request, according to two NSF staff members who shared information anonymously in order to speak freely"

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

Thousands of GSA employees lost their jobs during last year's DOGE rampage. Now (surprise!) the agency is on a hiring spree. from @leahfeiger.bsky.social and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social

Also, while issues with selection bias in EHR data are known more widely, I am not sure everyone in the wider community of UK Biobank users are yet aware that selection bias can also complicate prospective cohort studies.

In this commentary, some of the SCORE organizers discuss the implications of the SCORE findings and the opportunity to develop scalable indicators of research trustworthiness, on many dimensions. Preprint on MetaArXiv: osf.io/preprints/me...

The Artemis II mission is the first time humans have headed to the moon since 1972. That year also marked the debut of The Godfather and the Egg McMuffin. n.pr/41KSuhI

Sadly, not an April Fool & also not surprising. “An analysis conducted by @nature.com in collaboration with Grounded AI suggests that at least tens of thousands of 2025 publications, including journal papers, books, & conference proceedings, probably contain invalid references generated by AI.” 🧪

NASA's Artemis II crew has successfully launched on a mission that will take it around the moon and back to Earth. Here's what to expect over their roughly 10-day journey. n.pr/4v5DlFl

In addition to the published articles, you can now access several preprints reporting SCORE outcomes including @srajtmajer.bsky.social et al reporting on the machine assessments and @fallonmody.bsky.social et al reporting on human assessments. They are all linked here: www.cos.io/score-evidence

Commentaries on SCORE papers from @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social, Jelte Wicherts, and @robbwiller.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding go.nature.com/4bZ9k0W

I wrote today about a big study on replication--and why it's so hard to know if a study will hold up or not. Gift link: nyti.ms/4sNu3MF

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

I've known @jayvanbavel.bsky.social and Dominic Packer for 20 years. Partly responsible for me ending up at UofT. They write one of the best psychology Substacks around. This week I'm republishing their piece on the bystander effect and why the Kitty Genovese story isn't what we thought.

Today, the SCORE program releases its primary results! 865 researchers examined research credibility across the social and behavioral sciences, publishing three papers in Nature + five preprints. 📑 Explore the papers: www.nature.com/colle... ℹ️ Read more about SCORE: www.cos.io/score

📱Text messaging is nearly universal, but its use for collecting survey data is still emerging. MPSDS researchers examine how the unique properties of text communication can improve interviewing and deliver timely, high-quality data. myumi.ch/9pd1E

This is a great opportunity to work with @umichstonecid.bsky.social‬. They produce cutting-edge research on social inequality and are a terrific group of researchers who seek to create a democratic and inclusive environment that communicates its research to a broad audience.

“What if it’s not the researchers who invent their data, but the much larger number who simply… massage their research designs and model specifications until the results look right?” blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

two teaching roles in Psychology at Auckland Uni, one of which will be focused on research methods. NZ$100K+ salary these roles are unusual in that they are permanent teaching-focused faculty roles

This is a *living* meta-analysis, which we describe in this recent piece rdcu.be/fajr0 Two updates are planned over the next 4 years

UKgov publishes new screen time guidance for under 5s 👨‍🍼 <2s: Avoid screens except shared activities 👶 2-5s: Try for less than 1hr a day 📱 Choose safe, slow-paced content 🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Lead by example 🛌 Have screen-free areas/times Glad to have contributed. Parent guidance and research report linked below.

In today’s @um-src.bsky.social Seminar Series, Alex Bell, Assistant Professor of Economics from Georgia State University presents research on “Pricing Job Amenities: A Practitioner's Manual”, based partly on @umpsid.bsky.social data.

I just looked up the submission dates for some of the NSF SBE-BCS programs, and only Cognitive Neuro had any posted. Does anyone know if the other SBE groups will be taking applications?

🎡 A team of UM SRC and UM Population Studies Center researchers investigated caregiving expectations and how they vary by relationship, respondent characteristics, and with the presence of dementia. Sarah Patterson Esther Friedman, Vicki A. Freedman, and PSC trainee Kelsi Caywood.

Exciting things coming 👀 Stay tuned!

Congratulations @psychscience.bsky.social Rising Stars!! We look forward to working with you and having you a part of the community at APS. Cheers!

We have a cool new logo celebrating 80 years of collecting data to understand the life course of our population including important transition times like adolescents and aging. Follow @um-src.bsky.social to keep up with all the data and science that we share to the community.

Join Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science for their 8th Annual Likert Symposium – AI for Better Social Science: Capabilities and Challenges with Survey Research More information: myumi.ch/jJ9nP Register: myumi.ch/n1dDV

Did you see that Realtor.com @rdcnews.bsky.social used analysis of #PSIDdata to show that “Homeownership Accelerates Generational Wealth?” Read the 2026 Generational Wealth and Housing report by Hannah Jones and Danielle Hale: www.realtor.com/research/202...

The application deadline is only a few is a few weeks away to join the #PSID Summer Workshop in Ann Arbor, MI June 15-19. Explore the core PSID interview, its special topics & supplemental studies. Get the details on this 5-day, in-person workshop & register by Wednesday, April 15: myumi.ch/QwRd3

We have a cool new logo celebrating 80 years of collecting data to understand the life course of our population including important transition times like adolescents and aging. Follow @um-src.bsky.social to keep up with all the data and science that we share to the community.

The answer is B. Living in an area with no primary food stores or neighborhoods with a low socioeconomic status is associated with an increase in the average intake of snacks and sweets among middle-aged and older adults. myumi.ch/kZrg1

This one goes out to all you #caregivers out there. New data out today from the @umich.edu National Poll on Healthy #Aging show just how many people over 50 who care for family/friends with health needs are 'working without a net' & not aware of supports: www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/c...

"...Bhattacharya added that new grants will soon start to roll out—money spent so far this fiscal year has been mostly for grant renewals. He also said the agency will be filling empty leadership positions..." Good news for NIH grants. www.science.org/content/arti...

🧪Exploring the genetic architecture of Alzheimer’s disease in South Asians, Zhao, Smith & team analyzed LASI-DAD data. They found MAPT plays a critical role in tau pathology, but the link does not seem to be fully driven by known risk haplotypes myumi.ch/E8jqe

ISR is accepting applications for a Social Science and Journalism Visiting Scholar for the 26-27 academic year. This opportunity connects research and journalism through collaboration with @umwallacehouse.bsky.social. Apply by April 15, 2026!

🎡 📅 Going to #PAA2026 in St. Louis? Mark your calendar for the ISR Reception: May 8, from 6-9. Institute for Social Research (ISR) - University of Michigan UM SRC ICPSR#PAA2026

📌 Who knows public opinion? @cgalina.bsky.social, Yanna Krupnikov, and John Barry Ryan ran surveys contemporaneously with the 2024 ANES @electionstudies.bsky.social asking individuals to estimate what the ANES would show are the opinions of Dems, Republicans, and the public as a whole. #MPSA2026

We would love to have your support for the new M-Panel at the University of Michigan Survey Research Center. This new panel will be a nationally representative web-only panel with an oversample of the state of Michigan. 🙏 giving.umich.edu/um/w/src-str...

Excited to be chairing this exciting National Academy Workshop in April. Agenda coming very soon! www.nationalacademies.org/projects/DBA...

NSF just got their federal funding and NIH is still waiting on distribution and all most of the fall reviews did not take place. Interpret the trends based on what has happened to delay funding. Congressional pressure on OMB to send monies to agencies as appropriated-is important.

Conventional systematic reviews can become outdated before they're even published. In our new @nathumbehav.nature.com piece, we discuss how living systematic reviews can help keep evidence current by continuously integrating new evidence. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The #PSID Summer Workshop is one month away! Join us at the ICPSR Summer Program in Ann Arbor, MI to explore the core #PSID interview, its special topics & supplemental studies. Get the details on this 5-day, in-person workshop & apply by 4/15: myumi.ch/QwRd3

I wish more people knew this. Power analysis should be based on the smallest effect size of interest. Not on a guess, or a hope. You also need to specify that effect to make your claim falsifiable, and to know when the effect is statistically significant, but practically irrelevant.

“Because our incentive system doesn’t care about accumulating knowledge. It only prioritizes novel contributions. In a world where novel contributions (read findings) are the capital of the land, there is absolutely no utility in building on others’ work or your own work for that matter.”