"This year ICML, one of the big machine learning conferences, is offering authors a choice: opt-in to a permissive policy about generative AI use in reviewing, or go the purist route, where your reviewers can’t use it at all, and you can’t use it at all for your own reviews either."

Great set of studies showing that 5-7 year old children already show a tendency to go against evidence and agree with their ingroup, and largely do so to signal affiliation (loyalty? gain status? avoid rejection?) - fascinating work on early peer influence mechanisms!

“The illusion that a scientist has a valid and complete explanation tends to be magnified when the data is well described by mathematical and computer simulation models due to the precision of such models, and their ability to predict well; prediction does not imply causality...”

In 2009, I began two Associate Editor positions. In 12 hours, I am officially done with my term as Clinical Psychological Science Editor-in-Chief. Tomorrow I will not be a journal editor for the first time in 16 years. Wow.

Glad to see the conversation continues to grow and data speak to the enormous class bias that is built into bans on standardized testing, which end up only exacerbating them more. x.com/garrytan/sta...

This is a great paper on scale norming that also presents a really nice discussion of how people come up with their responses to surveys, and how that can change over time. One read of it has me wanting to put it into my assessment syllabus already.

I've enjoyed reading various definitions of slop, the word of the year according to Merriam-Webster. But they all focus on its attributes, which misses the resignation to a cynical instrumentality that I think explains why many people find slop repulsive

All I want for Christmas is... published nonsignificant findings and more Registered Reports? www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

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

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...

[hands someone my beer] Hear me out guys: "Many Adversaries"

Thanks to @farleycenternu.bsky.social for this great write-up of my Psychology of Entrepreneurial Leaders course! Half psych, half entrep, loads of personality science, and students from every college on campus - teaching doesn't get more fun than this. farley.northwestern.edu/news-events/...

The Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) is advertising a tenure track junior professor of psychological metascience position in Trier, Gemany. Job ad linked below.

Bonkers. What are we even doing here? The whole system needs an overhaul.

Homemade chicken noodle soup with pumpkin buttermilk biscuits. All the warmings, please.

Best of both worlds: publish as a preprint before the holidays! You get to share it but people don’t get swamped by review requests! In related news, stay tuned for a few preprints from my lab in the next week!

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)!

Excited to share a Registered Report in J. of Personality looking at the “perils of partialing” – led by the Bluesky-less Leigha Rose with @drlynam.bsky.social and me. (1) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New #RegisteredReport: The Efficacy of Attentional Bias Modification for Anxiety: A Registered Replication doi.org/10.1525/coll...

In case you have missed Simine Vazire's excellent webinar yesterday, here is the link to watch it online: youtu.be/_vb1CNwC3CM Thanks again @simine.com for staying up so late and thanks to the audience for the great questions!

Fadeout of cognitive training remains one of the more replicable findings in psychology in this preregistered study of 300 preschool children. Well-done study with a 4 year follow up. The language gains either faded or the control group caught up. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

When you assign too many Science of Personality podcasts in your course and students start sending you their Spotify Wrapped results 🤓😂

Go Paige and go UMD! Open Science Impact awards for graduate students!!

The first article recommended by @psych.peercommunityin.org is now published in PCJ!!

Not so fast: The effect of review blinding on prestige bias was not statistically significant (diff-in-diff “marginal” and upon closer inspection likely influenced by outliers)

Go, Eli!

My time as Editor of AMPPS is coming to an end-- here are some parting thoughts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... .

Check out the intro video for the Insitute for Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being - we are so excited for all there is to come! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEyy...

PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!

I've always liked the theory that academia is a mechanism to keep smart but economically unproductive people out of the workforce so we don't slow down the normies with our "actually wait a minute it is more complicated than that"

Did you know that PCI is now endorsed by 35 societies and networks? Recently, the German Psychological Society has joined as one of our newest supporters! 🙏 www.dgps.de/en/about-dgps/

A short letter I wrote was published in today’s @nytimes.com . With so much public discussion about AI and consciousness, I wanted to emphasize that the real transformation may be happening in us, not the machines. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o... #AI #Consciousness #CognitiveScience

Y'all. N>3,800. !!!!!!! Goodness gracious.

Sage webinar on Registered Reports (RRs/RRRs)! I'm excited to participate, and if you have any curiosity about writing a RR or reviewing a RR, please consider joining the webinar. Spread the word-- thanks! @psychscience.bsky.social

Re-upping since we're just over a week away from the deadline to apply to the TT asst prof position in our clinical area at Vanderbilt! Please consider applying if you're on the job market! RTs appreciated.

Want to support PCI Psychology? You can register for an account to make it easier for recommenders to find you and invite you as a reviewer! Register here psych.peercommunityin.org/default/user... and carefully fill out the "Areas of Expertise" box. #PsychSciSky #SciPub

How does self-esteem impact children in the classroom? BOLD sat down with Eddie Brummelman, Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, to find out. @kidlab.bsky.social

A reminder that I’m accepting applications for PhD students!

This paper is 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Very compelling evidence that the extensive covariance of diverse psychopathology is not an artifact of cross-sectional factor analysis. They show extensive "co-morbidity" across generations and within-person, over time. doi.org/10.1037/abn0...

I’m not sure there’s ever been a city that takes my breath away like Toronto does. #the416

Man...this guy played on SO many dates, lived and breathed jazz, was NEVER satisfied to be one of the all-time greats but always kept looking for the next step up & out & into the music...we will not see the likes of Jack DeJohnette again soon. Deep gratitude for a lifetime of dedication to the art

If you are on the job market this fall, listen to this! The tips here are great for everyone, not just for quant folks. I have a couple of additional comments:

Exciting news from the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science--a joint effort to enhance open science training in clinical psychology! If you are interested, you can the papers mentioned in the email here: Van Til et al. osf.io/h34jg/files/... OSC paper (Lynam et al.) osf.io/preprints/ps...

PCI Psychology is open for submissions! Did you know that you can easily submit your recommended preprint to any of the 20+ PCI Psych friendly journals? See all friendly journals here: psych.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_fr... #PsychSciSky #SciPub

Editorial leadership teams for APA journals are seeking nominations for editorial fellowship positions for early-career psychologists (ECPs). Nomination deadline: November 1, 2025. Qualifications, responsibilities, and how-to-apply here: https://bit.ly/46jRIKK #Psychology #PsychSciSky

Apropos of recent open science conversations - this paper is an awesome primer for grad students and faculty who want to learn more: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

We have a new preprint out - continuing to try and move the needle on improving research in clinical psych

There's a really nice new study using phone data from Americans who relocated from one city to another to look at the effect of walkable environments on physical activity. E.g., people move TO New York and walk more, they move FROM New York and walk less www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Any tips on good resources for students interested in pursuing their PhD in I/O? I know of great options for clinical psych and am guessing something like this exists for I/O? @foswald.bsky.social @larsujohnson.bsky.social @marcuscrede.bsky.social

Any tips on good resources for students interested in pursuing their PhD in I/O? I know of great options for clinical psych and am guessing something like this exists for I/O? @foswald.bsky.social @larsujohnson.bsky.social @marcuscrede.bsky.social