Democratic women are disadvantaged in competitive district primaries, where party elites prioritize electability & view men as safer. Republican women are disadvantaged in safe district primaries, where elites & voters assume they are less conservative. www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.

I would like (re)establish a daily post here & it keeps eluding me. I jump right into each day & get swept away. Which is (mostly) quite lovely, as I get to do work that I enjoy. But I’m very much out of the loop! Today I’ve been listening to an NIH live cast on health behavior theory. #AcademicSky

"Increasingly, I wonder whether we will be able to do science here in the future." NIH employees I heard from say things are very grim over there, but they welcome the push for a "fighting CR" to rein Trump in — or a government shutdown if not.

"The Department of History invites applications for an assistant professor who will make enough leftist remarks to annoy conservative talk radio hosts but whose politics will ultimately support the neoliberal mission of the university."

I can’t believe medicine hasn’t come up with a better way to do mammograms. That is some primitive shit right there.

Happy Tuesday! And happy start to the new academic year for those who celebrate (or cry) - hope it’s off to a great start. I celebrated 2 years since heart surgery last week, with my longest run since then & day trips to the beach. Gonna be a wild month, but I’m grateful 🤓 #AcademicSky

The world is currently a living nightmare. But this helps ⏬ #AcademicSky

On a roll this month - so proud of our team’s new scoping review, focused on research methods in #WomensHealth and physical activity! @sbm.org Details ⏬ #DigitalHealth #SciComm

Our lab is starting a new study on dreaming 🚨GREAT NEWS!🚨: YOU may be eligible to participate! If interested, follow this link to a screening survey: furman.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #SleepPeeps #psychscisky #cogsci 🧠🟦

Sending military troops to police civilians undermines public trust, puts soldiers in legal and ethical jeopardy, and puts all of us at risk. If you’ve ever served in the military, join us and @commondefense.bsky.social to send a message to the Defense Department: No troops in our communities.

The new NIH grant review format and the iron law of unintended consequences drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/t...

The FDA's decision on estradiol is a significant step for women's health. Let's discuss what this means for hormone therapy and share our experiences. #HormoneTherapy #WomenSupportingWomen #HealthDiscussion

New preprint led by PhD student Anila Allmeta and with @drdaniarigo.bsky.social: We test which eating and physical activity behaviours are relatively easy for individuals to change to provide guidance for tailored interventions. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Happy Friday! I’m enjoying today’s cooler-weather running (5K🏃🏻‍♀️) & #acwri alongside @drtessthompson.bsky.social via Zoom 🤓 Busy day of grant & manuscript writing, meetings to discuss these, study prep, & finalizing course materials - weekly #HealthPsych for clinical Ph.D. students starts on 9/4.

Big, huge CONGRATULATIONS to my former student, Abby Hardy, on her first first-author publication! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #AcademicSky #HealthPsychology #BodyImage

📢 My team is looking for a few more women to help us understand experiences of the menstrual cycle & how it affects day-to-day activities. If you're not physically active & you menstruate, contact [email protected] or complete a short survey: tinyurl.com/yc3zm6wv #WomensHealth #DigitalHealth

Always a good day when @rowanchaselab.bsky.social can share new findings, particularly when they’re about #WomensHealth! Check out our new work on women’s momentary experiences of stress & pain (+ daily experiences of sleep quality), led by postdoc scholar @gsalvatore0923.bsky.social. #AcademicSky

Check out our new pre-print in which we argue something that might be obvious but doesn't seem to be obvious to everyone: Large Language Models (such as ChatGPT) do not simulate human psychology.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

Systematic reviewers have a 10.7% error rate when screening papers for potential inclusion. In other words, about 1 in 9 abstracts are categorised incorrectly (i.e., false inclusion or false exclusion). This really drives home the benefit of having at least two screeners

Cutting Medicaid can seem like an easy way to slash the budget. But, the costs can spread to all of us.

Happy Tuesday! My last few days in Wien were truly wonderful - great vegan food, viewing Klimt’s restored @univie.ac.at faculty paintings at the Belvedere (amazing), & swimming in the Danube with @drkathrynross.bsky.social @lauramkoenig.bsky.social! Hard to come back & looking forward to #SAA2025 🤓

Can’t believe it’s the last day of #ICBM2025! Love being back in Wien, mein glücklicher Ort ❤️‍🩹🌞 @lauramkoenig.bsky.social Interested in adolescent and/or young adult (AYA) health? Come see a whole session on this at 1:45 in HS02, including a coordinated analysis of 12,000 AYAs by yours truly 🤓

Do you have a journal manuscript or grant proposal that you'd like an extra pair of eyes on? I'd be happy to help! #freelance #academicWriting #academiceditor Note: Not in affiliation with my primary employment Find me: www.upwork.com/freelancers/... or www.fiverr.com/s/kL1Xb7L

If you enjoyed #ICBM2025 and use Ambulatory Assessment/ Ecological Momentary Assessment methods, consider planning another trip to Vienna next year: @ambulatory-assessment.org will meet here on 3-5 August 2026 #SAA2026. More info soon on univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/

Hormone replacement therapy can be a game-changer for many women. Let's support each other by sharing our experiences and what we've learned along the way. #HormoneHealth #WomenSupportingWomen #MenopauseJourney

Day 3 of #ICBM2025 is almost over. @drdaniarigo.bsky.social just presented the results of our coordinated analysis of six datasets to test for reactivity to the measurement of physical activity. #HPGVienna The study protocol is already available: www.researchprotocols.org/2025/1/e6743...

The amazing @drdaniarigo.bsky.social highlighting the specific (and important!) challenges that women in midlife face that prevent them from being physically active - and proposing an effective solution based on peer social support 👏 Stay tuned for the publication in Health Psychology! #ICBM2025

Kicking off Day 3 of #ICBM2025, which includes a lot of talking for me today 📣 Come to H02 to hear about partners for women’s activity promotion during midlife and then later, to H05 to hear about measurement reactivity. Vielen Dank to ISBM for these opportunities! #AcademicSky

These job ads have now been posted! 🎉 Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020 Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054 Please spread the word!

Some senior leadership reshuffles announced today at NIH. Head of peer review division Noni Byrnes is out after 25 years at the agency. Kate Klimczak, NIH's legislative policy director, is also out.

The most feedback I had from my recent presentation (zenodo.org/records/1564...) was around prompt injection and what that looks like with automated/"AI" peer review. Here's another example - asia.nikkei.com/business/tec... #scholcomms #skybrarians #academicsky #peerreview

Potential grad applicants: I'm hoping to take 1-2 new students this cycle! There's no need to email me in advance unless you have specific questions that aren't answered on the lab or psych department's website - everyone's applications will be considered equally. u.osu.edu/mattlab/2025...

So how are bigger research teams dealing with journals now saying we have to pay APCs (of several thousand dollars each) for ALL papers coming out of NIH-supported projects? Who has this kind of $$?!

First day of #ICBM2025 was so much fun! Cannot believe I got to present a poster under the restored Klimt-painted ceiling of Ceremonial Hall at @univie.ac.at 🤩 Or that I got to have breakfast with Sigmund Freud. Now listening to Annette Stanton’s keynote on CBPR; presentation-free day for me today.

After a day of rest to resolve jet-lag, my second Vienna adventure begins! Slowly and in style, with a 5k run, reading at a cafe, and a *vegan* croissant and latte. Amazing. If you’re at #ICBM2025 this evening, stop by poster 01.40 to hear about physical activity leaderboards 🤓 #DigitalHealth

My second Austrian 🇦🇹 adventure begins! Of many, I hope 🤓 (And polka dot travel game is on today!) Excited to attend #ICBM2025, to visit with @lauramkoenig.bsky.social, and to enjoy great vegan food and Austrian cafes. Can’t wait to get back to my happy place, even if it will be crazy hot 🥵 🔥

#ICYMI This is a huge relief. Not a done deal, nice to know that there is hope. It was always tough. But rn researchers earning 5th percentile scores aren’t getting funding & many valuable projects won’t happen. Keep up positive vibes, pressure, whatever you can spare to support funding science 🧬

Those held in President Trump's "Alligator Alcatraz" are being held in dangerous conditions with no regard for people's safety or humanity. This cruelty must end.

For #NutmegSky and others, my museum is hiring historic interpreters, living history interpreters, and a grants manager. Find out more at marktwainhouse.org/about/careers/

So looking forward to my first ICBM conference & returning to Vienna next week! Check out @rowanchaselab.bsky.social's schedule, including collaborations with #HPGVienna. Join to hear about #WomensHealth, #DigitalHealth, #AYAHealth, physical activity promotion, measurement. 🤓 #ICBM2025 #AcademicSky

PO just confirmed that our 5th percentile R01 is not getting funded. Past NCI Payline at 4 percent. Cant believe it.

Every evening I recall that I’d like to get back to regular posting, now that we have an area that’s not a hellscape. Been keeping my head down during a busy period. But I’m popping in to say I AM OFFICIALLY ON VACATION (first in a year), through next Tuesday. Disney and 5 y/o nephew, here I come! 😎

Do you use ChatGPT or another AI chatbot to get nutrition information or dietary advice? Help us pretest an upcoming study and upload the conversation (query and response) here: ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/... ➡️ the data will only be used for internal pretests and not in a publication! Thanks!

We're hiring! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30219 The Cornell Department of Communication is hiring an Assistant Professor in Science, Environment, and Risk Communication! Applications received by September 15, 2025, will be given full consideration.

"People who insert such hidden prompts into papers could be “trying to kind of weaponize the dishonesty of other people to get an easier ride”." What a time to do science. 🧪 #tiedetaivas #AcademicSky

It never ceases to amaze me how a quiet WFH day can refresh me and restore my drive. Particularly if it includes data analysis, #acwri, reading, and kittens 🤓 I even did laundry and cooked a healthy dinner! Need many more days like this before the end of August.

🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding. Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24. See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it. 🧵 1/3

Had a wonderful long weekend of rest over the holiday, including a full day at the beach for the first time this year. (The beach is one of my happy places and I don’t get to visit enough these days.) Reminded me that it is long past time for a real vacation - two weeks until Disney with my family 😎