Do I have any Canadian authors following me? I have a tax question about when to declare the income earned from royalties. Canucks only though.

As usual, a bunch of of these predictions are exactly or essentially come true, with a few bananas that didn’t pan out. Happy new year!

12 months ago, I had no idea who Colette was. What she and her team have accomplished in the last year — to stand up and fight for American science — is truly phenomenal. Science has made all of our lives better. Stand up for it. Support what she and her team are doing — however you can.

Happy New Year everyone!

Here are my top 6 reads from 2025! I read 34 books this year, mostly novels. Complete list from Goodreads in the next post.

Tag yourself, friends! Colette needs us for something!

ALRIGHT! WHERE ARE MY CANADIAN SCIENTISTS?!

🎆🎇🎆2025 HEADLINE OF THE YEAR🎆🎇🎆 🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆GRAND FINAL🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆 After a seeding round and three rounds of voting, we have our finalists: Top seed Pretty Obvious will be facing off against 3rd seed Police Are Scrambling. A reminder of how we got here:

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Today Is A Good Day To Dine

Now I understand everything

Happy phase two of December, everybody!

Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth. www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery

I wanted to answer a few common questions about our @standupforscience.bsky.social petitions! People get the heebeejeebee's about the fact that we collect data, I would like to address concerns. 1. We do NOT sell *or* share our data. Period. EVER. 2. We collect addresses to use for activism...

🎄 Hope you’ve got all your presents ready 💝 Google search interest shows a stable pattern: 🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve 🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier #MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁 📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024) #dataviz #ggplot2

Canada re: the U.S.

After another annual re-watch, I’ve concluded that “Spirited” is most definitely my favourite holiday movie and I’m not sorry one bit 🎄

Maybe this will replace panic over kids using too much social media

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

Honored to be appointed by @governor.ca.gov to work towards a safer and smarter internet for all of California’s children. A massive thanks to the Governor and First Partner's offices for making child online safety and countering image-based abuse a priority for the year ahead.

Whoo boy I watched the leaked CEGOT segment from 60 minutes. That was A Lot.

I'm going to do a WRITING SPRINT! Starts in 16 minutes at the top of the hour. 1 hour of focused work on any task. You can jump in if you want!

I was expecting a quaint story about an old lady who liked nature so much she worked in the park till she died. This absolute lion of a human being *started* at the park service at age 84, after an entire lifetime of impressive community and social justice work. <we’re_not_worthy.gif>

McGill is hiring scholars from outside Canada! The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) Program is designed to attract world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges. Review of applications begins 1/16/26. www.mcgill.ca/research/res...

For any non-Canadian researchers out there, our government recently pumped a ton of cash to try and attract international researchers to Canada. So if you're looking for a change, timing could be good! Our university is hiring 30 international ppl, but you'll see similar things all over Canada

This thread, up and down, is a constant theme for me. Wrote a whole article about it. Please let master’s students do a project that matches their level of training 🙏

The number 1 movie when you were ten years old will define your 2026 😬

Assistant or Associate Professor (Canada Research Chair) in Healthy and Inclusive Work, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1715853...

Not working in Canada but want to? Canada (U. Of British Columbia) wants you. research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...

Hey out there to all my mid-to-late career colleagues, do you want to come work at Carleton? Our government is pushing hard to recruit international talent right now. Posting below, and a few details about how I love where I work 1/7

Our university press team asked me a few questions in regards to the new chair on Mental Health & Data Science. I sketch a bit of a vision on the importance of transdisciplinary work, and some obstacles to overcome. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

I've used Lavaan almost every (work)day for 15 years, but this open source labour of love has never received proper institutional support. I'm delighted to be a small part of an 1.5M OpenScienceNL award, led by Jorgensen, to completely revamp and futureproof Lavaan www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...

If only adults could pay attention to something other than teenagers’ phones…

You remember that Nature Aging paper about how multilingualism protects against accelerated aging? Well…

Ha! I got a shout out 😊 This post brought to you by: Relentless nostalgia for postdoctoral fellowship years and by Full professors with too much time on their hands

Children Helping Science is a platform that lets researchers conduct studies online with kids. Incredibly important resource for psychological science. An anonymous donor is matching contributions up to 100K through the end of the year - please consider supporting this high-value system if you can!

That’s a good cheese sauce. Departmental potluck here I come 🧀

The gift that keeps on giving, tomorrow…

APA and the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood announce publishing partnership 🚨 Read the press release and learn about APA's newest journal, Applied Studies in Emerging Adulthood! https://bit.ly/48MV61B #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

This, and I’m 100% serious. True family bonding activity

As an editor, let me say my strong preference is that if you have good work that fits in my journal's scope, PLEASE keep submitting it over the holidays. We'll get it to it and hopefully give it a good home!

Friendly holiday reminder that people rush to submit before the holidays and declined reviews get even worse than usual. And editors want to enjoy holiday time, too. Patience and grace to all (and to all a good night)!

Hey #rstats and #stats people, does anyone know of any references that explain the hazards of trying to run or interpret models with all combinations of many predictors? (i.e., including multiple 2-way and 3-way interactions)

Scientists at Canadian institutions have long punched well above our weight despite low and stagnant funding. Spending a billion dollars on external recruitment while science here is starving is exactly what Harper got wrong about supporting research excellence in Canada.

Kids’ favourite ornament this year, courtesy of Little Red Barn designs

While teaching a course on Item Response Theory this semester, I created a Shiny app for visualizing some polytomous item response models: falkcarl.shinyapps.io/polytomous/ This is an initial draft, so comments/questions/suggestions are welcome! #Psychometrics #RShiny #IRT

Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

Queen's University in Kingston is hiring a Queen's University National Scholar (QNS) Senior Faculty Position in Social and/or Affective Neuroscience, Department of Psychology Closing date: 2026/01/30 CPA Career Ads and Resources page: cpa.ca/careers/