This is why they’re deleting studies

Wow. Imagine being this DA and having a slam dunk case that would earn you national recognition...only to do...whatever led to this. Not what I expected lol.

Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates. For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim. “Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”

Almost every single HBCU is under a bomb threat There have been almost no announcements about civil discourse and safety regarding the students there.

UPDATE - it is not just VSU. It appears Virginia HBCU's are being threatened systematically. www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...

Virginia State University is currently on a full campus lockdown over a threat of violence to the university. I've done all the things - closed the lab and confirmed everyone is safe. But this is horrible. Luckily I'm home sick today but many are sheltered in place. This feels awful.

Wow SPSS added this awful highlighting feature to EVERY ANALYSIS OUTPUT with no way to turn it off. Why would anyone want or need this feature? So obnoxious. Every time I have to peek back at SPSS for something I am so glad R exists and is free lol.

CHICAGO…

If you ask me to work in Google Docs, consider yourself an opp

Worthwhile (and moving) read on strategies for continuing to do important research under threat. hrdag.substack.com/p/scatter-an...

Permission to treat Reviewer 2 as hostile your Editorship?

Man I don't even know what this means but I long for this kind of minor misreporting being a big scandal in the states. Accuracy standards? Sign me up.

🚨New Paper Alert🚨 Just published in AJCP - one of my students and I (along with an awesome team of collaborators) explored the ostensible impact of historic redlining practices on contemporary violence exposure risk of adolescents living in those communities. Data and code here: osf.io/ekxmf/

We can now replace eyes with teeth. Sometimes I get why science scares people who don't understand it (but also this is so fucking cool). www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

My wife and I got together and decided life was just too easy with a toddler. It was like really nbd and too easy. We're in the middle of potty training and we're just like "double it!!!" This is all a joke except the doubling it part: our son Merle West is due 2/20/26! 😎🎉😁💪(🫩😮‍💨)

I gave chatGPT the wiring schematic for a range hood I was installing - I wanted to see what kind of advice it would give about wiring it. I gave it a very specific scenario about what I was seeing and asked it how to proceed. The instructions it gave me would have almost definitely caused a fire.

My daughter is officially able to count to 10. To celebrate her advanced numeracy I gave her her first lecture on the general linear model!

One of the clearest examples I've seen of the need for politicians to lead the polls rather than follow them. People's opinions on policy are *highly* malleable in response to different messaging frames.

My wife and I live in a split home: she is a Mets fan and I am a Braves fan. But my wife is also on every social media platform that I am...except BlueSky, making it my only safe space to say: DAMN Y'ALL LOST 5 TIMES CONSECTUTIVELY TO THE BRAVES? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE WHEN Y'ALL'RE SO MUCH BETTER?

Roughly 28% of sports/exercise research effects replicate in a first ever attempt to quantify the replication crisis in this field. Welcome to the party pal(s)! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Really cool/important work on measure proliferation. I wonder what this might look like if you just examined slight variations to existing scales (e.g., short versions, "new" scales that borrow items from others).

Ms. Rachel over here teaching my daughter every box has a surprise present for her in it. Now instead of "Daddy" my name is "OPEN OPEN OPEN HELP ME HELP ME OPEN"

Follow the money.

SPACEBALLS 2: THE SEARCH FOR MORE MONEY!

Sometimes I read over papers that cite my work out of interest. I just read one that cited my 2024 JoPY paper as like...the source of the 1992 Buss-Perry aggression questionnaire. They never even cited Buss & Perry, 1992...its right there in the title! Don't cite me for this! 😭

Is it still open science if only like half of the analysis code is available? Asking for another author I'm annoyed with.

IDK who needs to hear this (these authors, I guess) but there is ZERO chance they actually found that the Tangney BSCS and Buss-Perry AQ correlate at r = - .96. Would love to see the scatterplots.

Has anyone looked into what kind of deal the Cars made with the devil to have like 5 of the best pop rock songs ever written on their first album? I mean every song is a banger on their ST but there are so many timeless singles. Its too much for one album.

This is what starting a new paper is like

Has anyone ever noticed that the SUPPS-P items in Cyders et al., 2014 have the wrong reverse coding scheme? For example 3/4 of the lack of premeditation items are marked as reversed but *none* of them should be when using OG anchors. I wonder how many papers have used that scoring...

Anyone know why my view-only OSF links aren't showing my project pre-registrations anymore? @cos.io ?

The scientists at NOAA/NWS save lives and do more than earn their keep. We stand up for them! @standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience2025

VSU joins the small group of HBCUs with R2 status! Very proud to have been a part of this effort and achievement

This is middle school level data wrangling. Why do columns have different units...why are there two columns with different names but the same data? I thought these guys were good at coding or something. This screams "I can barely use a GUI".

"Men don't get flowers enough so psi chi wanted to bring you some!" Sometimes we don't deserve how good our students are 😭

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

This is a war on all science. We need to organize.

"female" but not "male" is pretty telling. This means basically all human subjects research.

My daughter is in the middle of her first language explosion. That means as a father and a psychologist I have to stop cursing every time my g*****mn foot hits on of the f****ng baby gates. Which is EVERY F****NG DAY.

Man my next lab meeting is going to be fucked up. Damn.

Evidently a google AI product is creating synthetic versions of mass shooters that are apparently seeking conversations with real users... I don't even have the words...Oh wait yeah I do - what the fuck?!

This is dope - never knew this one existed!

Since US politics has completely devolved into simple antagonism I'm going to hop on that gravy train and run a campaign with only one policy position: whoopin that ass. Every debate I just throw the mic and square up during opening statements. West 2028 - get that ass whooped!

VertexWiseR: A package for simplified vertex-wise analyses of whole-brain and hippocampal surfaces in R direct.mit.edu/imag/article... (I'm selfishly interested in this... so posting it here as a personal reminder... also it looks cool for #Freesurfer analyses in R)

Taught my undergrads about the Cialdini vs. Batson debates around altruism today. They proceeded to argue with each other, informally hashing out basically all the arguments presented in the flurry of papers from this era without having read any of them. I'm so proud!

R users: is anyone aware of resources for teaching a blind student to use R? Im already working with beepr and BrailleR but was wondering if there might be other packages/resources?

One of my favourite examples of, "hey, we should properly evaluate if this popular intervention works" was a trial of infant simulator program in teens that found that randomisation to caring for a fake baby was associated with *increased* pregnancies www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

for developmental scientists who are education- and/or industry-adjacent, these two postdocs at Sesame Workshop seem *really* cool. 3-yr appointments, $75K salary, hybrid & NYC-based careers.jobscore.com/careers/sesa... careers.jobscore.com/careers/sesa... #psychscisky #neuroskyence #devsci

Walked my first grad student through submitting their first first-authored paper today. Feels pretty good! 😎