Hormuz has that MAIN CHARACTER ENERGY "Heavy rainfall on Hormuz Island washes iron oxide rich soil into the sea, turning the coastline blood red." x.com/Rainmaker197...

National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year. So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝

Why it’s good to make your data openly available reason #42: Authors emailed saying they need some stats not reported in our manuscript (shame on us) for their meta-analysis. Wrote back essentially right away saying here’s the OSF link. Done!

These two books contain the sum total of all human knowledge

We'll, it's now 2026 (👴🏻) and for absolutely no reason I've updated those materials to also demo analysis of factorial designs w/ #marginaleffects (with a huge thanks to @vincentab.bsky.social for making this possible by accommodating my requests!)

Very excited to share a new textbook I am working on (led by Louis Teitelbaum). It's called Data Science for Psychology: Natural Language, and it covers text analysis and social media research w/ example code in R ds4psych.com #css #rstats

New preprint out today (osf.io/preprints/ps...). We tested whether AI agents are actually infiltrating online surveys. Spoiler alert: they aren't Thread 🧵 [1/9]

jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

Talking to some undergrads tomorrow about the why no one actually pays us to type model.fit() and asked them ahead of time to submit answers to a "trivially easy" data problem Fun to see the results come it, wild to know how many business run with a not dissimilar fog of war

Interesting new bot-detection strategy in online samples: academic.oup.com/jcr/advance-...

1/ NEW in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology — our first review of a decade+ of research on understanding & predicting cultural change, with Michael Varnum. This one is personal. A thread on what we found, what surprised us, and how two kids reading Asimov ended up here. 🧵

New paper in PNAS! When the mind wanders, it often drifts to the body. We call this "body-wandering". These thoughts are often negative, but are associated with reduced ADHD & depression symptoms, driven by a distinct interoceptive-allostatic brain signature. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520822123

My little blog just surpassed one million views. That is a whole lot for a niche blog dedicated to the teaching of statistics. And the teaching of statistics in a way that highlights statistical literacy, contemporary issues, and funny stuff. Stats to enrage and delight and explain. 1/n

🧪👩🏽‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬🍎 Hey New England area scientists!! I encourage you to register for the SACNAS Regional Gathering that will take place @bostoncollege.bsky.social on Saturday April 11th. All students and academics are welcome! Hope to see you there!! 👇🏽 blogs.umb.edu/newenglandsa... @sacnas.bsky.social

📣 The 2026 SMaRT Workshops schedule is officially LIVE — with workshops covering SEM, MLM, dyadic methods, time series, machine learning, clinical trials design, and more. STATS NERD SUMMER is HERE. Come learn something. 🧑‍🎓 smart-workshops.com/workshops Please share and RP🙏 More info 👇 1/n

New: Wikipedia has officially banned AI-generated content. After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of LLMs, volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

1/8 New preprint alert! How are signals from the heart encoded in the brain? What could be the functional implications of cardioception? We found that neurons in the posterior insular cortex are precisely tuned to heartbeats, and that this cardio-insular coupling supports emotion coding in mice.

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server. 🔗 ziptbl.com It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved. Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data: ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...

4. There's a still living giant tortoise named Jonathan who is older than the U.S.-Mexico border! Here's a picture of him. He was born on December 4th, 1832.

And so it begins...

A new edition of Chun & Most's Cognition textbook — out now! Our 2nd edition updates our coverage and explores the evolving role of cognitive psychology in today’s world — all while aiming to help students love the field as much as we do. Request an exam e-copy here: pages.oup.com/he/us/cognit...

Resharing again! I'm looking for a postdoc with experience or interests in longitudinal data collection OR analysis: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132

In work recently out in Affective Science we investigated how accurately people can forecast their emotions in everyday life. Study 1 focused on forecasts for specific time periods (tomorrow, next week). Study 2 focused on forecasts for daily unpleasant events. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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When you collect data online, are the results from humans or AI? In a project led by Booth PhD student Grace Zhang, we estimate the prevalence of AI agents on commonly used survey platforms: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

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The collected edition of a show about a man with crippling OCD...

I keep talking about estimands and people usually politely nod and say "yes, of course, research questions needs to be articulated clearly." But actually I think I might have to make my demand more explicit: Actually spell out the (factual or counterfactual) variables and worlds you're contrasting!

If this turns out as described, this is massive news. www.fastcompany.com/91503415/byd...

‼️ Postdoc recruitment Want to help build and understand the future of scientific collaboration? We are seeking a postdoc in computational meta‑science. 📍 UF (Gainesville, FL) 💰 $55–60k (1-3 years) 🧠 High intellectual agency 📅 Deadline March 10 Send us your idea. Details attached!

I really like this chart: terminology for cause vs describe vs predict.

We’re hiring!🔬The MAClab at Texas A&M is looking for a lab manager to join our team in College Station. If you’re organized, passionate about research, and interested in emotion and the brain, we want to hear from you! 🔗Apply at the link in our bio! #PsychSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #AcademicSky

Today I am excited to introduce respyra - an open-source Python toolbox for respiratory tracking experiments in interoception research! Now on PyPI (pip install respyra) with a preprint on PsyArXiv: osf.io/preprints/ps... GitHub: github.com/embodied-com...

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Scientists: for a new story, I have one big question—> What is a “good day” in the lab? I’m looking for epic examples of the best day ever to general criteria for what constitutes a “good day” compared to a nothing-burger day. Ping me if you have examples to share! Re-posts appreciated!

You need to bring in the same toolkit as in studies that try to establish causality without randomization. I know it sounds unfair, but I don’t make the rules. These situations are instances of post-treatment bias, if you want to read up on it as a psychologist:

T32 Postdoc position in developmental psychopathology at UMN Institute of Child Development! There are many excellent primary mentors available, as well as an even better set of secondary mentors to choose from (including me). See link for details, due April 1. drive.google.com/file/d/18SoO...

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

Recent work has shown how vulnerable online survey research is to LLMs. Motivated by this, we examined our online Posner cueing data from Prolific. It's concerning. We now must carefully consider when (or whether?) online behavioral data can be trusted. see our comment: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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New paper, on a worrying trend in meta-science: the practice of anonymising datasets on, e.g., published articles. We argue that this is at odds with norms established in research synthesis, explore arguments for anonymisation, provide counterpoints, and demonstrate implications and epistemic costs.

hello friends! does anyone know of open data of an RL task (single- mult-armed bandit tasks) that also list (a variable) ITI per trial in humans? #computationalcognitivescience #computationalpsychiatry

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Nominate a Project for a SIPS Award! 🏆 Help us recognize contributions to improving psychological science! 💡 SIPS Awards honor impactful projects—not individuals—because collective work drives progress. 🌍✨

I just whipped up this little #QuartoPub site last week that demonstrates how I teach p-values/hyp-testing through simulation both with live OJS and with #rstats, and I think it's super neat! It has examples for diff-in-means, diff-in-props, and regression slopes nullworlds.andrewheiss.com #statsky

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail