NEWSFLASH: US renews sanctions waiver for Russian oil. Late on Friday night – apparently to escape public notice – the Trump administration reversed their pledge, renewing lapsed sanctions waivers for Russian oil.

Teach neuroscience to undergraduates? Check out our "Implementing Open Neuroscience Teaching Tools" workshop! Join us on July 19 at North Central College to get hands-on practice with inquiry-based activities using real #OpenScience resources. 🔗 https://bit.ly/46A5j15 🧠📈 #iteachbio

Brutal night in Kyiv, Odesa, other Ukrainian cities pounded by Russian drone (and probably missile) attacks. 4 killed in Kyiv; 48 wounded; 8 killed in Odesa; 16 wounded.

a deep dive into many bad predictions, and a few good ones, and what they mean for thinking about future conflict

statement we just received from UMass on the Hampshire college closing: UMass will takeover handling Hampshire student records, and Hampshire students can transfer in to UMass without fees

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

BREAKING: Orbán defeated in Hungary after 16 years in power

53% of the votes in #Tisza likely is growing if correct we are in landslide territory. #Hungary votes

A first today - research poster presentation right next to a poutine station. More conferences ought to be in Montréal

🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences. Steps to counter this are in motion. If you - have an SBE proposal under review - serve on an SBE grant panel You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

There is no target, no matter how obviously unrelated to the war and civilian in nature, you couldn't justify hitting if you applied the White House metric of "could foment civil unrest." Children's hospitals, desalination plants, medicine factories, sewage systems... It's a blank check.

It's International Fact-Checking Day! Here's an old article from me about why we generally stink at fact-checking and the important role that professional fact-checkers serve in the information ecosystem. theconversation.com/why-you-stin...

Postdoctoral fellowship in developmental science at Wesleyan University. Joint in H. Barth & R. T. Dubar labs. Particular focus on undergrad research mentoring. 1 year, extendable to 2 years. Share and apply! wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

Job ad linked below: Postdoc, Wesleyan U, Psychology Dept, to work with me & Dr. Royette Dubar. I’ll be at CDS in Montreal for Qs from potential applicants. Please share! wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

#polisky the absolute decimation of the social sciences cc @professormusgrave.bsky.social @mcopelov.bsky.social

Decent crowd for No Kings Middletown (CT) #nokings

Unofficial for now, but we hope to recruit a developmental science postdoc soon to work at Wesleyan U with me (cognition + development) and Dr Royette Dubar (sleep & psychosocial adjustment, science of parenting). Particular focus on undergrad research mentoring. Keep an eye out for the official ad!

Apparently we’re just stealing it

Give your key defenses and fortress cities to Russia which has been unable to take them in 12 years of fighting, and then we who are acting to strengthen Russia will pretend to help you protect the rest of your country. This is shameful, rotten, and stinks of corruption.

I'm not sure if she's on Bsky, but Tamara Krawchenko and I just published a piece for The Conversation, related to the much longer essay I put on Medium yesterday, about the "NATO expansion" myth and the deportation & russification of Ukrainian children. theconversation.com/ukraines-sto...

I've seen a lot of demoralized posts (and emails) from people who didn't get into grad school this cycle. This was one of the worst cycles I've ever seen due to massive cuts to research funding, financial difficulties at universities, and technological disruptions.

Aid to Ukraine from 2022-2026 was a rounding error. We used more in the first two weeks of the Iran war than we provided in the 4 years of aid to Ukraine.

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In a large global study (N = 49,968, 68 countries) we found that the open-mindedness aspect of intellectual humility was the strongest predictor for rejecting conspiracy beliefs out of 17 potential individual difference measures. osf.io/preprints/ps...

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

“The world’s largest professional organization of writing educators disagrees with the notion that the rise of generative artificial intelligence in the classroom is unavoidable." www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Did you know that the spinning top is one of the most common forms of traditional play worldwide? Our research found tops to be nearly universal across human cultures. Wherever you come from, your ancestors probably spun tops. New preprint: Top of the World osf.io/preprints/so... Thread:

All of Ukraine on alert as Russia launches its latest Blitz air raid. Kyiv and oblast currently menaced by attack drones, and large numbers of cruise missiles have been launched - some from ground installations (Putin’s Tu-95 strategic bombers having technical issues?)

Checking in on Elbridge Colby who assured me the threat to Taiwan was so accute the US couldn't spare any weapons for Ukraine as his administration burns through a decade of missile production in a week to make snuff propoganda films.

What does it mean for culture to “shape” cognition? In our new TiCS paper, @benjaminpitt.bsky.social & I offer a typology of four possible effects: culture can Privilege one cognitive process over others, Prune out disfavored ones, Produce new ones, or have no effect. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Please consider attending and sharing our final webinar of the spring on Caregiving! Our panelists have all kinds of caregiving responsibilities from children to spouses to parents (and international). us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

1. Russia loves having a new excuse to continue the war. 2. Rising oil prices are a gift to Putin. 3. All-round negotiator Steve Witkoff says we can believe that nice Mr. Putin that he's not sharing intelligence with Iran. Gift link.

New postdoc position at Cornell! This is a bit of a unique one: It's a teaching postdoc focused on integrating active learning strategies into psychology courses (including one of my own). Should be a lot of fun! Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31738

Read our analysis of the video showing a US Tomahawk missile strike next to Girls’ School in Iran on February 28 here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

When you collect data online, are the results from humans or AI? In a project led by Booth PhD student Grace Zhang, we estimate the prevalence of AI agents on commonly used survey platforms: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

“Peace in Ukraine cannot be built on promises alone. It must begin with proof. Until Russia returns the children it has taken — and ends the systems designed to erase those who remain under occupation — no settlement can be considered credible, durable or just.” thehill.com/opinion/inte...

More on Hungary's detention of Ukrainian bank workers and vehicles. Ukraine's Foreign Min, Andrii Sybiha describing it as hostage taking and stealing money. The armoured cars contained ♦️$40 million ♦️€35 million ♦️9kg of gold

Bigger. Problem. Than. Anticipated. The first verified Shahed Drone attack on Ukraine was 1,270 days ago. Ukrainian numbers put the number of Shahed strike UAVs launched at them last year alone at over 32,000. Your brain, is it... not good? Do you have the bad brain? Sir? Sir?

So... A friend was supposed to give a PURELY SCIENTIFIC talk at NIH within the next couple of weeks and it was cancelled because of a "new process" where all speakers/talks have to be CLEARED BY A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.

Russia lost more territory than it gained in February for the first time since Ukraine's failed counteroffensive in 2023, according to independent Finnish open-source intelligence collective Black Bird Group.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10

my family plays this game, "you fell asleep at a talk, but have to ask a question at the end; what can you get away with?" it varies by field. e.g. mom, clinical/social: did you control for gender? dad, vision science: can't all this simply be explained by 'attention'?

Putin could end the war tomorrow

1/ New paper in Communications Psychology: Against Frictionless AI. Led by my student Emily Zohar and @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social. The argument: AI's greatest selling point is also its problem. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The UN General Assembly has adopted the resolution "Advancing a Comprehensive, Just and Lasting Peace in Ukraine." The resolution calls for an immediate ceasefire, respect for Ukraine’s territorial integrity, the exchange of prisoners of war, and the release of all unlawfully detained persons.

This is the fourth winter under missiles and bombs, in darkness and cold. And once again fascist Russia has failed to break Ukraine, no matter what it tried.

"silly" and no, it's not a war over territory