Rounding out 2025 with a new publication in Psychological Science! @psychscience.bsky.social What psychological factor predicts having better physical health, greater happiness, being stereotyped positively, and voting conservatively?

Ever wondered whether we could map personality profiles as we do with genetic or brain data? We applied a similar method to explore similarities and differences of NEO PI profiles in our fresh-out paper. Here’s what we found 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I wrote about the bizarre case of Herasight, the embryo selection company going all in on eugenics.

1/4 Thrilled to be sharing new work published today in Nature describing the third wave of results from the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. This reflects a massive group effort to examine shared and unique genetic signal across >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hi all, thanks to everyone who reposted. I am still seeking guest lecturers. Please reach out if you are willing or can recommend someone who would be a good fit. I appreciate your help!

Want to make nice graphs with me, starting next year? I'm hiring for a position at the University of Witten/Herdecke. uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/61280592...

This is a big part of why basically every archaeologist who gets asked "when in the past would you want to have been alive?" will answer "the present please and thank you"

I named my fists Kahneman and Tversky because I’m gonna make your losses loom larger than your gains

Blog post: A Missing Heritability Update. Three legs and other problems. I follow up on the recent excellent post on the subject by @sashagusevposts.bsky.social. ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/missing-he...

www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe... Whoever was forced to write this at the CDC doesn't know a thing about science or making sense of evidence. How frustrating and sad.

It's time for my annual reminder that Thanksgiving will (likely) be more meaningful than you think 🦃

We've updated a paper on the 3-year, $1000/month U.S. guaranteed income study. New results, in 3 figures: 🧵 1) Subjective well-being significantly improved in the treatment group in year 1, but there were no significant differences between the treatment & control group after that. 1/

Opinion: The Smashing Pumpkins are currently the most influential rock band in the world -- and maybe the most underrated (in that people think they were good, but they were *GREAT*)

Another reminder that if you got students who wanna do a social psych PhD focusing on identities (specifically Asian, Latine, MENA Americans), I’m recruiting! I’m hustling hard here so pls send people my way 😅 see website for details www.pbandjlab.com

Cool! I do remember attending a session in ECP21 were this paper (doi.org/10.1038/ncom...) was discussed, cool stuff! Would you think that stocasticity might be the key factor here? And could it actually be a source of variability behind individual differences in humans?

came across a fun article on personality in C. Elegans "Even when they are genetically identical and reared in the same environment, different individuals exhibit behavioral differences that are stable over long periods" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The latest podcast is with psychologist and openness to experiences expert Ted Schwaba, who walks me through this mysterious, awe-inspiring (literally) personality trait substack.com/home/post/p-...

What's the social psych term for "a group that one feels compelled to sort a person into?" Like, whenever I meet a person, my brain automatically tries to answer "what is their gender?" -- it's very hard for me to consider a person sans gender.

Out now at PSPR: our love letter to the personality trait of Openness! Amber Thalmayer and I identify and (try to) explain the many ways that openness/intellect is the weirdest & WEIRDest of the Big Five. (Big improvements over the old preprint! thx reviewers) journals.sagepub.com/eprint/HBGXT...

a couple years ago i contracted with one of subway's ad agencies for a small rotating sandwiches collab that ultimately they decided not to publish and i never did anything with. today feels like a good day to post one of them. here's my favorite subway sandwich, the veggie delight

1/ 🚨New paper in Nature Genetics Genetic factors are associated with the educational fields people study, from arts to engineering. Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... FAQ: www.thehastingscenter.org/genomic-find...

On my calendar today I have scheduled "zoom GWAS" for 1pm. Current me has no idea what this refers to, there's no zoom link, no other guests, nothing in my last month of emails provides a clue. SO I'm just going to anxiously await an email at 1:05pm that says "where are you?" SORRY to whomever!

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

Interdisciplinary paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.... Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on: 🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences 🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added

New release of PowerLMM.js! Browser-based power analysis for longitudinal models with dropout. Now includes: - Power analysis summary report - Reproducible & shareable configs (URL/JSON) - Calculations validated against R - Hypothesis region visualization powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were. The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.

Has conscientiousness really been in a free fall since 2014? A question that made us blog again: Has conscientiousness really been in a free fall since 2014?* floggingpvalues.blog/2025/10/22/h...

☀️To all Master’s & PhD students: Join the Summer School of Personality Science 2026 (July 15–19, Edinburgh) for a week of research training, mentoring & networking in personality psychology. Template: osf.io/76ej2/files/... Apply Nov 2-20: www.conftool.org/ssps2026 #SSPS #eapp

Here is another way to put the paradox. If you ask, "If I had different genes, would my personality be different?" Then the answer is, "Probably, yes." If you ask, "If I had THESE genes, what would my personality be like?", the answer is, "We don't have any idea."

When do machine learning models actually outperform standard polygenic scores? 🤔 In our new preprint, we benchmark how non-additive genetic effects (i.e, dominance deviations) shape polygenic prediction across simulated and UK Biobank traits. 👉 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/6

This is a fairly technical but highly relevant paper on how we can model complex systems at various levels of detail without losing causal content. Think gas: instead of tracking every molecule, we can focus on big-picture properties like temperature and pressure. www.auai.org/uai2017/proc...

@jfealy.bsky.social, Joesphine Fealy, investigated how genetics were associated with personality trait develolent after stressful life events. Find out more in our upcoming newsletter and on our Instagram!

You can find a #NoKingsDay event near you at nokings.org/#map. Join your neighbors and friends. Stand up for what actually makes America great. This Saturday. Everywhere.

New from @ent3c.bsky.social in The Atlantic -- 7 years (!) after Charles Murray made a bet with us that we'd "understand IQ genetically" by 2025, Eric describes how far we still are--and might always be--from that goal www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

I was wondering why this photo felt familiar and then I realized my profile pic is just me cosplaying as this flower

Trump's "university compact" is blatantly transphobic and deeply evil stuff. Any university that agrees to this kneels to fascism.

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society 22% in 2022 47% in 2025 No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

Non-paywalled link to my commentary on @vw1234.bsky.social and colleagues new paper in @nature.com rdcu.be/eI2NG

If you're teaching about lifespan personality development, and you want to include Bleidorn + colleagues (2022) meta-analysis, I made some prettier plots than the ones in our paper. (Y axis is cohen's d) (Alternately, if you've never read our paper, check out these plots!)

2015: the CLPM is misspecified, it doesn't account for stable traits, use the RI-CLPM! 2025: the RI-CLPM is misspecified, it doesn't account for linear decay over time, use the ARTS! (But actually, given how stable everything is, maybe just don't estimate cross-lagged models in adults)

Submissions are now open for 22nd European Conference on Personality (Edinburgh, 2026); deadline 7/12/25. Keynote speakers and pre-conference workshops have also been confirmed. www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

The largest study on late life virginity, based on >400k individuals, out now in @pnas.org Open access link: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Shoutout to shared first author @laurawesseldijk.bsky.social ❤️ Thread below 👇🏽

I wrote a little note on awards for diversity and science: mwkraus.medium.com/a-note-on-aw...

Proud to share our new @nber working paper on how genetics shape the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status in the Netherlands. 🧵(1/8) www.nber.org/papers/w34208

Looking for recs on a novel (any genre) where, when you read it, you kept thinking "dang this author has a LOT of fun ideas"

Simon Wood, the GOAT of generalized additive models & creator of the mgcv #rstats package, has an Annual Review of Statistics essay on GAMs, available open access #statssky #mlsky www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Major new paper by finds implicit measures like the IAT are no better than asking people directly about their biases. After decades of avoiding self-reports, turns out our sophisticated replacement tools work no better than what we abandoned. New post!

New paper out at the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! We examined unconditional & event-related changes in pathological vs normal-range personality using 4 metrics to compare their developmental links, how these vary with life events, and whether unique effects emerge across metrics

this whole "we have to be super private about our salaries" nonsense does nothing but protect the wealthy and privileged by helping hide income and wealth disparities. It's also, fucking annoying.