URL for IDIC submissions: link.springer.com/journal/44504

Please share with colleagues: The new Psychonomics journal, Individual Differences in Cognition, is accepting submissions! Please send us your empirical, measurement, & stats-methods research in all areas of cognition, including lab, daily-life, & applied work. www.psychonomic.org/general/cust...

Jay Bhattacharya just censored a study that was about to be published cuz it showed the effectiveness of COVID vaccines, contradicting everything that his MAHA movement believes in He pulled it from the journal it was going to be published in (MMWR) But he gets to lecture us on, um, integrity 🙃

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

When I worked to keep science denial out of schools, I worked with leaders at NAS to create resources so the public could understand why not everyone claiming there’s a debate deserves equal scientific credence. We don’t “teach the controversy.” I’m happy to connect you with NAS staff who get this.

Reform and destruction are two different things @katymilkman.bsky.social. NASEM bringing a wolf in sheep’s clothing into the pasture to lecture scientists about all our fraud while he is THE KEY PERSON SYSTEMATICALLY DISMANTLING THE NIH signals to me that NASEM is compromised.

This is Fitz and June. Fitz just got here and thinks this place is pretty great. June was here first and thinks it's time to return Fitz. 13/10 for both (TT: muester)

Don't skip! Post you in another country. 📍Kyoto, Japan (too long ago!)

The Scandal of. Woody Brown Upward Bound skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/th...

Collabra: Psychology is seeking a new senior editor for the clinical section and new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested in either of these positions and you believe you are qualified, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026! forms.gle/DgM3484SuLVD...

First, stop it. We are <constantly> looking in the mirror & if you haven’t done any of the trainings or gone to any of the talks/meeting about that, I can’t help you. Second, we don’t have time. We’re constantly meeting about how to survive as 25% of our budget is illegally cut off by the fascists.

The article's existence negates its own argument. The fact that the easiest way for an academic to land an opinion piece in The Chronicle or Inside Higher Ed is by offering contrarian takes about how awful academia is suggests a strong desire to look in the mirror.

Again, if you want explain why trust in universities has declined in the last decade, & you don't benchmark that decline against contemporaneous declines in trust in <every other societal institution> in 🇺🇸, then you cannot identify variables internal to universities as the main or sole explanations.

I’ve never experienced misophonia before but I’m listening to an Iron & Wine album with headphones and it’s starting to freak me out.

"The University of California system, the California State system, the City University of New York — these are the institutions actually educating America’s workforce, actually moving first-generation students into the middle class, actually delivering on higher education’s democratic promise."

In NYT today, Frank Bruni tells the inspiring story of Woody Brown, a minimally-speaking autistic man who got an MFA at Columbia and then put out a best-selling novel. "How much do we overlook in people," he asks, " ... by making overly hasty judgments?" A very good question. (1 / 2)

Uncritical acceptance of facilitated communication is back, yet again. Watch an online video of Woody "communicating," & note it's impossible to be a 1-finger typist without looking at the keyboard (among other obvious problems).

We’re hiring! Interested in conducting research on cognitive control, multitasking and aging with @gethinhughes.bsky.social, @sarahdepue.bsky.social and me? We are looking for a PhD candidate to join our lab @cogtex.bsky.social at KU Leuven. RTs much appreciated! www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

My deep condolences to @benjaminjriley.bsky.social, whose story is featured in the Times today. “There’s nothing I can do to change the past, of course. But I can for damn sure keep working to raise the consciousness of others.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/w...

"Correlation doesn’t want you to know that because if you know that, you won’t click on fearmongering headlines like the Times piece 'Experts Warn Office Workers to Stop Gossiping Amid Surge in Water Cooler Deaths.'"

There's a reason I highlighted Texas A&M in my column series on the Red Scares. Yet, they remain a member of the AAU in good standing. Sharing with the text of the resignation letter in the alt

In the same lane:

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

It’s World Homeopathy Awareness Week. The less aware of it you are, the more good it will do you.

She's really going all in on "everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."

Can you imagine how many people approved it before publishing? Shameful.

Hey @natureportfolio.nature.com is this some sort of joke?? Please act ASAP. This is an abomination! 👇How the hell did this ever pass peer review, editorial processes??? doi.org/10.1038/s415...

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

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]

Recently, in teaching about confirmation bias, I've 1st played a round w/them of Wason's number-rule game & then we watch this video together. Students overwhelmingly fall into a confirmatory mindset & report finding the game/video eye-opening. Consider trying it out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKA4...

Remember to be wary, as today is the only day of the year that incorrect or misleading information is posted on the internet.

So the Washington Post has a mostly glowing story this morning about a new "custom" AI chatbot being used in business schools called CAiSEY. Turns out, you can trial it yourself if you want! Won't you join me for a short thread as I relay my user experience this morning? (Story linked)

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

I hope no one needs an MRI this year. The world's largest producer of liquified helium is in Qatar and is shut off. We just got a notice that our supply for the year will be at least cut in half. No one could have predicted this (unless they thought about it).

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

i will rename your school AND give it a new slogan for a bargain rate of $12 million dollars

OK, can somebody ask Jonathan Haidt why the first citation in the second endnote in his "World Happiness Report" chapter about the evils of social media is an irrelevant article, and why the second is a Substack post that doesn't link to a study? files.worldhappiness.report/WHR26_Ch03.pdf

Someone went to the trouble of creating 5 fake OSF accounts today, linking to 5 fake ORCID accounts, and generating 5 fake papers to submit to SocArXiv, with fake author and emails. Dude, if you are reading this, I hope you get the help you need (or a better job).

Broke: dollar bills Woke:

You know it’s going to be a banger

It's been 39 days since Steve Tisch's 440 appearances in the Epstein files came to light, and he's still the Exec Vice President & Chairman of the Board of the NY Giants.

This is really where shockingly uncritical tech advocates like Kevin Roose are being key-jangled by the tech companies. You could do the same test for real vs fake rolexs on the general population, and similarly fail to acknowledge the power of the fake comes from copying the real

Both of the options here are human writers. The first option is unprocessed human writing and the second option is human writing run through a language model to reproduce the same outputs with different words If it couldn't have existed without training data, it isn't creating anything at all.

Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co

Recently, van der Stigchel and colleagues posted a provocative commentary suggesting that we should be wary of bots in online behavioral data collection (🧵by @cstrauch.bsky.social here: bsky.app/profile/cstr...). But should we? Here is my response letter osf.io/preprints/ps.... 1/5

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In utterly DELIGHTFUL news, Adwait Paliwal, the desi techbro behind the cheatbot Einstein AI which claimed it could log into Canvas and do/turn in your assignments for you has been forced to take down his website. He'll likely be back, and there are others like him in abundance, sadly.

"Your h-index will thank you" 😂 The professor's answer to students using Einstein has arrived www.professorfeynman.com