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Thinking about #SIPS2026. Is there already a compilation of free empirical research tools? I'm thinking of tools that would help researchers in LMICs in particular.

Once again, I implore media outlets to stop saying these are CDC decisions. These are changes being made unilaterally by RFK Jr. against the expert advice of CDC scientists. I note that RFK Jr. no longer recommends flu vaccine for kids in the midst of a horrible influenza year.

📣 Registration for both online and in-person SIPS 2026 is officially open!!!📣 SIPS 2026 is an action-oriented meeting aimed at improving psychological science. The conference sessions will focus on: ✨Initiating and conducting projects, ✨Learning new skills, ✨Discussing new ideas.

Trans Philadelphians are outraged after a South Street boutique received a warning from the FDA for selling breast binders. Plus, survivors of the Bristol nursing home say they smelled gas for hours.

Amid federal funding cuts- and often controversial changes in guidance, 15 state and territorial leaders have come together to create the Governor’s Public Health Alliance. Here’s what to know about the new coalition. ja.ma/4smyVbH

More than 1 billion women and children were exposed to violence worldwide in 2023. On our first cover of 2026, a Comment highlights the urgent need for preventive measures to address this crucial public health priority and save lives. Read this & more: spkl.io/63322Alsfi

Out! ♻️Buying shit before texting the group chat or your local buy nothing 🚿 Shower gel. Grow up! Get a bar of soap! 👹Fucking labubus, or anything else in a blind box, Jesus Christ 👠 making me, personally, wear anything but my favorite sneakers Agreed?? Agreed.

Over 200 attempts in 2025 by the Trump administration to censor universities, judges, media, etc. Let’s hope for less censorship in 2026 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

High-achieving adults rarely began as child prodigies www.newscientist.com/article/2509...

Defend Public Health’s amicus brief for American Academy of Pediatrics et al. vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can be read at the link below if you have any interest. Shout out to the incredible @doritreiss.bsky.social and all of the public health lawyers who are fighting for all of us.

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

If science was a serious enterprise the minimum that would happen is that the journal would publish this response alongside the article (after it was peer reviewed) and the main article would point to it. It’s sad that we all know there’s 0 chance of that happening.

One of the small pleasures of life is the cancelled meeting. It's like a 30-minute snow day.

Huh I wonder if there were any other global events happening in in 2008. Guess we’ll never know.

I think we can all agree that this is fake news.

The Department of Psychology @uzh-ch.bsky.social has an open position for a tenured Lecturer (Research) «Psychological Data Management and -Stewardship» jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... #psychjobs

At Johns Hopkins, a once-robust diversity office has quietly withered, shrinking from 14 staffers to three, pausing programs for underrepresented scholars and restricting race-based initiatives on campus. The disappearing diversity programs at Hopkins: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

Hey #rstats and #stats people, does anyone know of any references that explain the hazards of trying to run or interpret models with all combinations of many predictors? (i.e., including multiple 2-way and 3-way interactions)

BREAKING: The Indiana Senate just REJECTED the gerrymandered congressional map that Trump and his allies pressured Republicans to support. The GOP-controlled chamber voted down the map, 31-19.

Adversarial collaboration by @jordanaxt.bsky.social et al suggests implicit racial bias has a small (2.5%) additional effect on discriminatory behaviour, but explicit racial attitude predicts 45% of discrimination: buff.ly/0ws4BAL TL;DR:🧵https://buff.ly/Cr0jLml

Do open science practices differ in psychology vs public health? I moved from psychology to public health (social determinants, so still very psychology-relevant), and I'm wondering if others have noticed a difference in these fields in terms of documentation, prereg, open access publishing, etc.

Working on this with Fabian and Regina was an extremely inspiring and thought-provoking experience. Motivated reasoning is such a fascinating and consequential psychological phenomenon! 👇🏼

Can the word "data" be singular in some cases? If so, when?

New in Proceedings B, led by Jaspreet Singh: "Comparing expert assessments of research quality between the Global North and East Africa" royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article... We found that Kenyan assessors were more optimistic about the quality of 80 papers than were Global North assessors 1/

🆕 The first published Comments in The Lancet Regional Health - Africa are now available online! Topics include cholera, global health architecture, Ebola, & artificial intelligence. Read the Comments & find out more about the new journal: spkl.io/63329AgQkW

I just spent a long time writing an email with detailed feedback in Outlook. After sending it, I got a message saying "the email could not be sent." Only a very, very old draft is saved in Outlook.

It's notable that, even in an article critical of RFK Jr., the reporter hedges, saying "There’s no good evidence of serious, widespread harm from the vaccine" rather than just "vaccines are safe." RFK Jr. has made a career of exploiting the ambiguity of the former. www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-anti-v...

Despite Prepublication Peer Review being a core part of science, training materials for it are sparse. This open source guide is very valuable for ECRs! ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/

I would love to see the for-profit publishing industry taken down in my lifetime. We give our work away for free and then buy it back again. Madness.

References in online articles should let you see the reference and open it without losing your place in the original article.

NYT isn’t worth reading because they are in the bag for Trump

This is how you write a headline reporting on misinformation.

How much statistical sleight of hand can you spot in this paragraph on the new CDC website, which is now littered with muddled and flawed claims about vaccines and autism? www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe... 🧵

"Multiple men have remained in senior roles at Oxford for months or years after allegations of sexual misconduct emerged against them, Bloomberg found in a nine-month investigation based on interviews with almost 50 people as well as documents and other records."

NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.

Is salami slicing bad even for early career researchers? If so, why?

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Evidence suggests the Russian secret services appears to have ordered the blowing up of a railway line in Poland over the weekend, a Polish government spokesman said.

Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position. Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i... We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.

How do you feel about single-item scales?

Old person problem: My problem with emojis is that they're so small I can't see what I'm selecting, and I'm always afraid I will select a mean face when I just want a smiley.

calling all #AI haters (complimentary): I participated in a project evaluating LLM-supported math tutoring and would love some criticism/references/whatever you've got that might influence follow-up projects. technical report here (abstract in picture): storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med...

Great news: Johns Hopkins makes tuition free for most undergraduate students. ($200k/year or less is about 85% of American households.) hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/13/j...

I just had a reply guy use AI to hallucinate a fake study citation to “prove” I was wrong. And a whole bunch of onlookers liked his response, probably assuming the fake study was real. Because that’s the way the Internet is now.

Do you use attention checks in online surveys? Why or why not?