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#GoTeam! 🙏 @standupforscience.bsky.social pulls every lever www.statnews.com/2026/03/06/s... @statnews.com "...we think people care about science. We think people care about biomedical innovation." "We think that people care about not getting polio. Like, it’s really simple. That’s our strategy."

Contribute to open science! Collabra: Psychology needs a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026. Repost please! forms.gle/DgM3484SuLVD...

It's amazing people will claim "Canada and the USA have the same culture" and then on something as fundamental as "do you trust your fellow citizens to be good" we are further apart than any other two countries

Thank you, @aniloza.bsky.social for covering @standupforscience.bsky.social since it's inception! www.statnews.com/2026/03/06/s...

Hi everyone! Collabra: Psychology needs a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026. forms.gle/DgM3484SuLVD...

Yep.

Substance Use Patterns from Late Childhood to Mid-Adolescence: Updates on the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study: https://osf.io/eh8ba

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

@kjhealy.co has a new version of his data visualization book coming out and 1) you’d be a fool not to get it especially if you do R stuff 2) it’s gonna be even more beautiful than the first one, which is truly lovely book 3) he put the ENTIRE content on his website for free, you lucky so-and-so

editing some writing atm...

Now hiring at @ucddublin.bsky.social in #psychology ✅ Postdoc: search job ref 019423 here: my.corehr.com/pls/ucdrecru... ✅ 4-year fully funded PhD, details: www.ucd.ie/graduatestud... Part of @helpingkidslab.bsky.social Funded by @erc.europa.eu ERC Consolidator Award www.ucd.ie/research/new...

Have you ever submitted a manuscript to Collabra: Psychology, SIPS’s official journal? If you have 5-10 minutes, we’d love to hear your thoughts about where Collabra should go next! buff.ly/1rj92gz All responses are anonymous.

One more week!!! We're proud to be sponsoring @affectscience.bsky.social for a second consecutive year. Like and repost this for a chance to use Inclivio for ✨free✨ for your next EMA project!

Hannah Ritchie has built a fun little tool where you can compare energy usage of various products and activities. This is super helpful imho, because it's so hard to develop intuitions even just about the scales involved here. hannahritchie.substack.com/p/does-that-...

I'm disappointed and saddened tonight by the Algonquin College Board of Governors' decision to cut 30 critically important programs. Programs that led to employment, that built our community, that made our economy stronger. This goes way beyond Mr. Ford's "basket weaving" quip.

Later school start times are the one extremely evidence-based change that’s likely to dramatically improve kids’ and teens’ well-being but because it’s so inconvenient for adults it’s quickly dismissed

Also if your primary concern about the permanent time change is kids walking to school in the dark I present to you years of research showing school should start later in the day www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha... ewa.org/data-researc... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Actually, Doug Ford, basket‑weaving is innovative and in‑demand

This is consistent with earlier psychometric work that suggests 5-7 is the best response scale options, but good to see that the finding holds up in contemporary research. Also, good to see that labeling scales whether anchored or not has little impact on findings. academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

“What we’re simply endorsing is Trump’s sort of new obsession with becoming an imperial power,” says former foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy. “That’s the worst kind of situation for Canada.” www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...

"We have been here before, and once knew better. In 2003, Canada refused to join the American invasion of Iraq because there was no Security Council resolution, and the case for war rested on preventing a hypothetical future WMD threat. Today...we are embracing the very doctrine we used to reject."

ORIGINAL SIN comes out on Tuesday! If you’re in the US & want a signed copy, order from Black Pearl Books in the next week. Just be sure to note that you want it signed (& any instructions about the inscription) in the order notes at checkout. shop.blackpearlbookstore.com/item/ymASTSS...

A few weeks ago you’ve heard about nmax as the insurance policy for sample size planning on @quantitude.bsky.social Today we’re excited to launch the nmax Shiny app. Sample size planning with nmax can now be done in just a few button clicks! 🚀 yifeng-quant.shinyapps.io/nmax/

Care to revise your statement of support on behalf of our country, @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social ?

Anyone willing to confidentially share their successful 2025 VICI application docs with me? Thanks gang.

If I want to wash a mug at work I have to do it in the bathroom

The other day the president of NYU declared Jonathan Haidt the most influential academic in America. That might be true. If it is, we are really screwed. newrepublic.com/article/1903...

My amazing colleague at Carleton, Jo-Anne LeFevre, has been a leader for decades in understanding children’s numeracy:

Could not agree more: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/cb0fda6...

Good comparison

Great new paper led by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, highlight the need to collect qualitative data in ESM / EMA research. #PsychSciSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

School psychology scholars: we have a job opening. We are Canadian and very nice humans. You can contact me for more info. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

Per protocol analysis strikes again! Folks, if you randomize but then don‘t analyze some of the people who got randomized (maybe because they didn’t adhere to instructions, maybe because they dropped out), randomization will no longer do all the heavy causal inference lifting.

Aside from the bonkers horse analogy, this argument belies an unfortunately common perspective that the reason why teachers and professors assign homework is because it somehow benefits us for that work to get done.

"In the interest of time I should agree with you. But that would just not be me." -every faculty meeting I've been to

Blanket social media bans are a blunt instrument with no evidence of effectiveness in reducing harm. We should focus on the content rather than the medium.

New post! "Valuing the Process vs. the Product in Research," in which I try to describe some of the tensions around using GenAI/LLMs in scientific research, and why it can be so difficult to have productive conversations on the topic. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/valuing-th...

Maybe science organizations don’t want to play outside game. FINE. 1. Apologize to your people for not responding well & 2. Support some activists who are doing the dirty work you can’t be bothered to do. Not a SINGLE science org or society has donated to @standupforscience.bsky.social

The fundamental flaw with @holdenthorp.bsky.social’s argument is thinking that organizations and people can only do one thing at a time (even though he is really close to acknowledging it!) Let’s break it down, bc I’m tired of this. 🧵 (cred: @ianlmorgan.bsky.social)

This isn't scholarship—it's mimicry. Not science—a performance. When the "writer" understands syntactic patterns but not the underlying meaning, the product loses its soul. Sure, it's in APA format. But under the hood? Slop. Scientific writing isn't just ritual. It's where true creativity resides.

I've paid for upgraded models. I've used careful prompts to ask for "deep research" on areas of literature. And AI, as of yet, does not do lit reviews better. (I'd never use it for peer review.) It lacks access to important lit. And when I've asked it to review my own material, it produces...(1/2)

Looking sharp (or fuzzy), tomorrow…

I love the smell of peer review discourse in the morning

🥌 FINAL DAY 🥌 My final fun fact: Curling is the perfect sport to learn *as an adult*. You can get quite good in a short amount of time. Canadians, sign up for learn to curl at your local club. Elsewhere, national sites can point you in the right direction: www.usacurling.org/intro-to-cur...

THANK YOU.

My research lab is accepting a doctoral student to start Fall ‘26. I wasn’t initially searching, but funds opened up. www.tcufaces.com for details on our work. www.psychology.tcu.edu for program deets. Please contact me after submitting application so I can pull for rapid review. Please share!

…and now a gold medal for the men’s team, composed of mostly guys in their 40s! Many happy families today 🇨🇦🥇

🥌 DAY FIFTEEN 🥌 Unlike many other sports, Curling's best athletes are adults in their mid-to-late 30s with families and careers. Team Homan careers include graphic design, psychotherapy, and university finance. 3/4 of the team went back to being moms minutes after winning bronze. 🇨🇦🥉

🥌 DAY FOURTEEN 🥌 You might notice Olympic commentators discussing whether "the double" is "there" or not. In order to remove two opponent rocks from play - a double - they have to be misaligned and ideally close-ish together. Below, the double is "there" on Sheet A but not Sheet B.