Im begging the NYT to spend time talking to people who actually teach and work at universities. Especially ones that don't have billion dollar endowments. My issues are AI use, crumbling infrastructure, vanishing staff, unfunded state mandates, a customer service model of education...

It's out!!🌶️🔥

I once had a student explicitly argue that he was the customer to be catered to. I explained that, if we *had* to use the customer framing, he wasn't the customer but the product. He was being given an education & then a degree that future employers would see value in. My job? Quality control.

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

I'm starting to look into how inflammation is being misused by MAHA types in a way that very much distracts from chronic illness-inflammation problems people actually have. If you're an academic, doctor, immunologist etc with thoughts on this, please be in touch at [email protected]

The First Lego League is a competition that schools from all over the place compete in. As part of the competition they need to consult with an expert. A lot of clubs use our program to make that connection. This year's theme is archaeology. It's all-hands-on-deck for archaeologists.

In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...

Psychologists & related fields: what is a big methods question that you believe remains somewhat unanswered & that you'd love to see adressed? There may be an opportunity for a large-scale meta-science project with many teams trying to figure out a question. Any thoughts welcome! #psychscisky

After nearly 2 years of debating and redrafting, the preprint is out: Towards Next-Generation Stress Generation Research: Expert Consensus Methodological Guidelines With a legit superstar team Here’s how it could transform research on stress generation (& beyond) 🧵

Bsky research friends! Does anyone have resources or examples of an F32 or K08 project that has proposed using existing data in addition to proposing a novel study? Any help is appreciated!

New blog post! Calculating a correlation is easy enough. But let's say you calculated two of them and they happen to differ. What follows from that? Turns out there are too many moving parts for an easy answer. www.the100.ci/2025/07/28/w...

It's a bit off-cycle, but you never know who might be looking and when... Brown has a new T32 postdoctoral fellowship in child health equity! Applications are open now and will be reviewed on a rolling basis. More details can be found in the link below: today.brown.edu/announcement...

The Love Consortium Statistics Decision Tree launched today! Think of it like a choose-your-own adventure guide to help you identify the best analyses for your specific dataset and research question. theloveconsortium.org/so/9fPWyVE6Z... #DataScience #Statistics

🧵 Very excited (w/ @omarjcamanto.bsky.social) to share our preprint tutorial for using our R 📦 dySEM for #dyadic data analysis with latent variables, in cross-sectional data sets. This paper has been literal years in the making, and provides three distinct tutorials. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Seamless Interaction dataset with 4000+ hrs of face-to-face dyadic interactions! 🤯 Seems like it could be a game changer for studying embodied turn-taking & mutual adaptation complementary with CANDOR, etc... arxiv.org/abs/2506.22554

There are days when I remember there is this article that speaks so much to me. When I went into academia, I did not anticipate spending 4 days of my week filling out paperwork and responding to emails just to get my research going. academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

On this July 4, liberate the field from cross-sectional “mediation analysis” - check out this new paper discussing an alternative. I bet it’s an instant classic. My sense is that folks continue bad practices bc they don’t know what else to do. This solves that psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

What makes HBCD unique? It’s not just big — it’s deep: • Prenatal & infant brain imaging (MRI, EEG) • Actigraphy (sleep/activity) • Biospecimens • Substance exposure, caregiver interaction, & environmental data • Developmental assessments from 0–9 months and beyond!!

I'm putting together a new grad seminar on the psychology of social class/socioeconomic status for this fall. I'm interested in highlighting new work/ideas/topics in this growing field and would welcome any suggestions! (And please don't hesitate to suggest your own work.)

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

and honestly? screaming for cookies is a pretty mild reaction if you’ve been on a 6-8 year job interview, met or exceeded all the requirements for a permanent position, and are denied that job at the last minute. we’re talking about folks’ jobs, jim. not cheap treats.

I hope at some point we can just enjoy Fridays again <3 NSF

see taskmaster also for examples of functional fixedness, common ground, mnemonics, and more to come .. (work in progress!) taskmasterpsych.blogs.bucknell.edu

🚨ATTENTION MOMS🚨 Friday, May 30th at 3pm Meet me outside of the CDC with your pregnant bellies, your babies, your toddlers, your strollers, your signs, and your baby gear. We are standing up for science and vaccines! @standupforscience.bsky.social RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/moms-...

I forgot about this amazing visualization. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

So, my takeaway here is that neither Derek nor Ben Thompson has EVER planned a kid's birthday party. This kind of thing has to be done at least a month in advance. One week out, and there's no way you'll get an available bowling alley, let alone two. And no way more than two kids will show.

"Poor adults who gained Medicaid coverage after the Affordable Care Act expanded access were 21 percent less likely to die during a given year than those not enrolled..."

when i've talked about my (zero-tolerance) AI policy in class, my students sometimes ask "isn't this a new tool like a calculator or a word processor?" let me tell you, my calculator doesn't give me the wrong fucking answer 48% of the time

Has anyone here ever used an external IRB? I'm in a thorny IRB situation (due to jurisdiction rather than anything I'm proposing) and am looking at Advarra, NorthStar, etc. Hearing about any positive or negative experiences would be appreciated!

Please help: Do you know a baby, less than 12 months old, who can walk? We are trying to complete a project, 7 years in the works. And all we need are 3 infants who are less than a year old and can walk, to do a short online looking-time study. 🆘

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

Strangers chatted once a week for 6 weeks and as they became closer, their self-reported emotions were *less* aligned after conversations. Fits with recent work (by @sebospeer.bsky.social @dianatamir.bsky.social et al) suggesting friends are free to explore and diverge

Update: the owlet is now on the ground, doing Owl Stuff

SRC & @rcgd-isr.bsky.social researchers, Jacqui Smith, Richard Gonzalez, et al. examined the impact of spouses' shared multisystem biological risk on individual risk & if this risk predicts future limitations & mortality, underscoring the critical role of shared context btwn spouses myumi.ch/Z223y

Just published: US scientists who received renewals from the NIH over the past four decades produced more novel research than those who didn’t, study finds You can then imagine what happens when scientists are shut out of renewals by Trump's NIH Article by the talented @humbertobasilio.bsky.social

Cleansing the timeline with video from the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden.

I spend a lot of time disparaging those who are failing us in this moment - but today I want to shine a light on all of those who are helping to make the threats to science and universities legible for other scientists and the public🧪 1/

1/6. One thing I’ve often found interesting in research on perceptions of health disparities is the frequency with which the perspectives of the communities that bear the brunt of those disparities are omitted. In our latest @commhsp.bsky.social paper, we highlight what gets lost when that happens.

🧪 PRACTICAL tip for NSF PIs with terminated grants: You're entitled to recover more closeout costs than a DOGE-fueled NSF may lead you to believe. ➡️ Do this NOW: Send fed reg 2 CFR 200.472 on allowable "termination costs" to your sponsored research office: www.ecfr.gov/current/titl... 1/8 🧵

Hey if your NSF grant has suddenly been frozen and want to chat about what that means, Signal is davelevitan.26 and you can remain anonymous

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What are the current recommendations for online multilevel modeling tutorials?

The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences? This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.

Early- to mid-career health equity researchers: Rapid Response Research awards are specifically intended to support racial or Indigenous health equity research interrupted by federal funding shifts. www.evidenceforaction.org/funding/rapi...

GenAI is basically the microwave oven of writing. Sure it can heat up some leftovers but no one is going to a microwave restaurant and your kids will grow up and make fun of you for how much you relied on it to make bland ass food

Many fields use video coding + interrater reliability. But: how reliable are those reliability tests? No standards exist for sample size, clip choice, or metrics - a blind spot. We present BRAVO—a first workflow to improve reliability by restricting coders DOF. [Paper is OA] #Reproducibility