I did it! I am now a tenured professor! Turns out I do belong after all! So grateful for everybody who supported me and pushed me all these years—from a small-town boy in post communist Bulgaria to a tenured professor @ Georgetown. Yabadabadoooo! Wow! Phew!

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1/ Check out our newest paper in PNAS-Nexus: Blocking mobile internet on smartphones improves sustained attention, mental health, and subjective well-being #DigitalDetox #MentalHealth https://buff.ly/3X6vojS

NIH to cut indirect cost rate to 15%.

Рецепта за по-добър живот: Среща с българина, който е „професор по щастие” https://buff.ly/3Eo9stW

Here is the list of #federalgrants that are on the cutting board even after the “pause”: www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

fascinating. never would have thought such a minor change would have such a huge effect bsky.app/profile/flor...

Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about. Here's mine: -How fields and norms co-evolve, such as 'transitional justice'. -How to theorize stupidity in IR.

Exciting Postdoc at Georgetown! Explore creativity & education using computational methods. 🧠💡 Dive into innovative research & contribute to groundbreaking projects. Start in 2024. Apply now: cng.georgetown.edu/people/join-... #Research #PostdocJobs cng.georgetown.edu/people/join-...

Super proud of my graduate student,Kibum Moon, for his innovative ideas and methods on #AI #chatgpt and creativity at #spsp2024!

If you’re still at SPS2024, we’d love to see you at the repliCATS workshop at 1pm. Please bring a laptop!

Here is my take on the age-old question whether money buys happiness on CBC Radio One! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Wondering how to maximize the benefits of technology without interfering with the wonder of face-to-face conversations at #SPSP2024 This blogpost explains: How social technology is influencing human connection and loneliness open.substack.com/pub/psychoft...

Rates of anxiety and depression are slightly higher for PhD students (5.1%) than those who left graduate school after their Masters (4.2%)--and this gap grows larger over years of the PhD. But it is still lower than other 20-39 year olds (6.1%) and the general population. jtag.se/pub/workingp...

Constantly striving to be the best doesn’t make you the top performer. A meta-analysis of 25,000 people found no relationship between performance & perfectionism. Instead, perfectionism is related to greater anxiety & depression. When we overdo it, we harm ourselves. www.wsj.com/health/welln...

On the frequency of diverse friend groups. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Hmm. Who knew!

Looking for a postdoc or visiting prof position? Reed is hiring! I did my undergrad at Reed, and loved it - heck I named my dog after the place! 😅 Review starts 2/2: apply.interfolio.com/139565

What is your communication style as a mentor/mentee? #academicchatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social

I highly recommend the Raising a Resilient Scientist (RRS) series by #NIH: A five-part series including lectures and discussion groups for mentors in the biomedical, behavioral, and social sciences. www.training.nih.gov/raising-a-re...

Going to #SPSP2024? Come to the GASP Mentorship Luncheon on Friday, February 9, 12:30 PM-1:30 PM PST. Sign up here: signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4EAB... GASP is the GLBTQ+ Alliance in Social and Personality Psychology. GASP events are open to all students, faculty, and other professionals.

The large majority in most fields (but not you, sociology) is in favor of preregistration. www.nature.com/articles/s41... The minority that debates it's usefulness mainly does this bad on low quality arguments (or, for a small group, on bad faith interpretations). >

You can now sign up for the first full-day workshop of the Paul Meehl Graduate School for Metascience on Meta-Analysis and Bias Detection, co-taught by Robbie van Aert and myself: paulmeehlschool.github.io/metaanalysis/ Workshops are free and open for anyone.

PART 2: Freakonomics "Can academic fraud be stopped?" More from @urisohn.bsky.social @simine.com Leif Nelson, and both Max Bazerman and @joesimmons.bsky.social providing the series with a call-to-action closing. freakonomics.com/podcast/can-...

🗓️ Join @briannosek.bsky.social and Jan-Ole Hesselberg for a webinar on Jan. 23 at 10 am ET. Tailored for funders, gain valuable insights into how Stiftelsen Dam uses the OSF to support its funded researchers and ensure that projects follow guidelines for transparency and openness. bit.ly/48ZSiN8

I imported 43 friends from Twitter to Bluesky

Going to #SPSP2024? Come to the GASP Mentorship Luncheon on Friday, February 9, 12:30 PM-1:30 PM PST. Sign up here: signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4EAB... GASP is the GLBTQ+ Alliance in Social and Personality Psychology. GASP events are open to all students, faculty, and other professionals.