A few years old, but this is a fascinating article about how a well-debunked method to teach reading may be at the root of American’s poor reading comprehension www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Rate your score on Factor Fexcectorn. Well done, Scientific Reports. pubpeer.com/publications...

“The articles in AMPPS offer, month in and month out, the invitation to practice aligning your values, intentions, and actions to do less scientific harm and reach for the methodological ceiling” Grateful to @dsbarra.bsky.social for continuing what @profsimons.bsky.social & co started at AMPPS!

Andy Conway and I are honored to serve as inaugural co-Editors of this new Psychonomics journal, focused on the rigorous study of individual differences in cognition. Please spread the word to potentially interested colleagues; we hope that you will send us your best relevant work!

I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵

The real issue, IMO, is neither education nor tools. It’s that the numbers don’t matter. We quantify reality with numbers that don’t matter. It’s hard to care about 7 ooglebliks plus or minus 2 ooglebliks if nobody gives a fuck what an oogleblik is

I hope to have time soon to write a little thread on this, but for now here's the PsyArXiv link to a new preprint from our lab on the construct validity of probed mind-blanking reports. Chandni Lal will be presenting this work as a poster at the upcoming Psychonomics meeting.

I can’t take much more of this Giants defense. Couldn’t be softer.

Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...

Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR

The Snocaps album is banger after banger. What a Halloween treat!

"AI returns to the university as part of a broad effort to further corporatize universities, vocationalize higher-education instruction, and diminish both research and research-based pedagogy."

Parcels has delivered what I think is my favorite Tiny Desk Concert of 2025. I hadn't heard of them before, but what's not to like with lovely 3- and 4-part harmonies along with chill disco-y and funky grooves? I need to look into their catalog. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUjQ...

We have a new tutorial out in Social Cog methods issue, a resampling tool we made in R that basically tells you when some average is "stable" and can be used to guide data collection or test hypotheses related to variance. Quick explanation here 1/n guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...

thrilled to share our preprint on false memories in naturalistic recollection! Distinct paths to false memory revealed in hundreds of narrative recalls paper: doi.org/10.31234/osf... w/ phoebehc.bsky.social (co-first) Vy A. Vo @davidpoeppel.bsky.social @toddgureckis.bsky.social thread below 👇

Let someone hit a 70-yarder for the record books, and then the following season please raise and narrow the uprights so that 50-yarders are rare again.

More than halfway thru the semester of playing 20th century albums by women(+), 1970-99, before classes. So far, so good. In-progress Spotify playlist with the selected in-class tracks here: open.spotify.com/playlist/4Bm...

All-time social media graphic from ESPN

Attending Psychonomics in Denver? Consider arriving early enough to join the 2nd mtg of the Symposium for Individual Differences (SIDIC) on Thurs. Registration is open thru 10/31 & we've got a great program planned, with a keynote by @amiyake.bsky.social caliberlab.wixsite.com/sidic2025/pr...

Attending Psychonomics in Denver? Consider arriving early enough to join the 2nd mtg of the Symposium for Individual Differences (SIDIC) on Thurs. Registration is open thru 10/31 & we've got a great program planned, with a keynote by @amiyake.bsky.social caliberlab.wixsite.com/sidic2025/pr...

Hey, I wrote a big thing about The Cars, a great American band, in conjunction with a new biography. www.theringer.com/2025/10/01/m...

A landmark new study in JAMA Pediatrics shows the HPV vaccine is doing exactly what it promised & more. 17yrs after rollout, adolescent vaccination has slashed HPV infxns not only among those vaccinated but also those unvaccinated, showing powerful herd protection. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

What if there is a tech device that will substantially decrease your risk of dementia? My new blog post. And yes, I have started using this device. (Hearing aids. Hearing loss is strongly associated with dementia risk. Hearing aids solve things.) www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ment...

My weekly newsletter is now live. Please consider subscribing for links to my writing/pods, as well as newsletter-exclusive things. It's free! stevenhyden.substack.com/p/the-bland-...

I reviewed the new Wednesday joint www.pastemagazine.com/music/wednes...

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

Can’t remember the last time I joyously jumped up during a Giants game. Felt good!

Bad coaching on both of TN‘s last drives. too conservative after the fumble and too greedy before the field goal attempt

Today North Carolina issued statewide standing orders to allow pharmacies across the state to provide COVID-19 vaccines to high-risk adults over 18, including everyone over 65, without a prescription.

This is epic.

Bandcamp offering a cool new feature: Playlists based on purchased items that also incentivize listeners to purchase artists' work: bandcamp.com/about_playli...

Hey everyone, I'm hoping to get some sense from academics on what kind of financial support (if any) they get from their university/college employers for conference travel. Please chime in and repost if willing.

This year’s Giants team might finally be the one to have me tap out before the season’s up.

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

Today's Bandcamp Friday purchases (1/2): -The Tubs "Cotton Crown" ; thetubs.bandcamp.com/album/cotton... -Plains "I Walked With You A Ways" ; plainsband.bandcamp.com/album/i-walk...

Happy Bandcamp Friday! Support some of the artists you enjoy. bandcamp.com

First game of the season and I have to watch the two teams I hate more than any other.

Excited to present this great essay by Ashanty Rosario, a talented young journalist who attends Newtown High School in Queens, about how she's experienced the arrival of AI in the classroom. "These programs have destroyed much of what tied us together as students."

No drum solo should ever extend beyond 10-15 seconds.

Reminder that there are multiple vaccines already out there that reduce your kids' chances of multiple types of cancers (and some people want you to believe this is bad!) www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/6-vaccines...

The long term data on hepatitis B vaccination shows it reduces the incidence of liver cancer by 84% and death from liver disease by 70%. This comes from a large cluster RCT in which entire towns were randomly selected to give the hepatitis B vaccine to all newborns.

Moderna vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 2/2

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2

Tour de force review on “Economics of Attention” by Loewenstein just published in J Econ Lit @aeajournals.bsky.social #behavioraleconomics

This thread about the gibberish that GPT5 will spew takes an unexpected turn as we learn about LLMs optimizing to satisfy the rating systems of other LLMs. Weird and worrying especially when we think about the use of these tools in education.

realistic Star Trek

Isn't "Chatfishing" just as ethically problematic as catfishing? Isn't it simply wrong that people are purposely led to believe that their conversations with generative AI are communications with an empathetic intelligence?

With streaming listeners quitting Spotify over its CEO’s $700M investment in AI military tech, Apple has launched a free tool for users to transfer playlists to its platform