People overseas love their kids just as much as you love yours. Your kids aren’t more special just because they were born on US soil

“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984

This is some of the most vile shit I can imagine, picking up parents while they drop off their kids (who are US citizens) at school. #ICEOUT of Ypsilanti, Michigan and the rest of the US. 😡 PASS SB508, 509 and 510. www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

This one is resonating today. #Andor

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

What the USA has done is absolutely disgraceful. Time for a boycot of US products, especially tech, and for the population in the USA to instigate a change in leadership in their own country.

A gangster state at home, a rogue state abroad: and entirely because Congress and the Supreme Court have abdicated their proper constitutional roles.

Two great questions about deaths due to preventable environmental contamination: When is a death a murder? And: When do repeated, preventable harms become corporate crimes?

New in cognitive psychology 👉 "Impaired Performance in Noise: Disentangling Listening Effort From the Irrelevant Speech Effect." #RegisteredReport from @jannawennberg.bsky.social, @naseemdh.com, @violetsarebrown.bsky.social, and @juliafstrand.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/coll...

The "smartphones/social media" discourse suffers from some amazing historical amnesia. There was no 2008 financial crisis and no global pandemic starting in 2020, it's all SCREENS SCREENS SCREENS. Major world events? Just the backdrop against which SCREENS happened.

the internet has decided that em-dashes are a hallmark of llm writing, which is *extremely* annoying to me, as someone who uses em-dashes all the time. dear internet please consider the possibility that LLMs use em-dashes a lot because they're, like, good

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Ex Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro faced justice much too quickly. by Merrick Garland

Really interesting and relevant work!!! Super excited to see this published.

The world's most prestigious university fails the Lando test: "University officials...concluded months ago that even if they prevailed in their court fight against the government, a deal could help Harvard to avoid more troubles over the course of Mr. Trump’s term." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

I'm raising funds again for a very recent cancer survivor and kidney transplant patient struggling to pay for basic necessities as he recovers. Please consider donating to help him get back on his feet - any amount is highly appreciated! www.gofundme.com/f/help-lamee...

"The Defense Department...announced last week it would cease sharing the imagery with NOAA and NASA." This sort of data siloing, often b/c military organizations don't want to share their toys w/ civilian agencies, is a hallmark of authoritarian states. It's also impeding global wildfire response.

I started a new thing at Carleton College! It highlights the breadth of a liberal arts education, reminds students that faculty don't know EVERYTHING, and is loads of fun! In "Guess Lectures," faculty give 7-minute talks using someone else’s slides from an unrelated discipline, sight unseen.

During April 2020 (aka the toilet paper and Tiger King era of lockdown), @naseemdh.com, @violetsarebrown.bsky.social, @juliafstrand.bsky.social, and I decided to submit a registered report for an in-person project. 5 years and 1 in-principle acceptance later, we have submitted Stage 2!!

Anyone recommend a good and flexible tutorial for GIS plotting/analysis in R? Assuming no functional GIS knowledge, but advanced R knowledge. If it matters, data are not in shapefiles but .csv files of polygon coordinates. Thanks :)

Deadline extended! We are taking submissions to ISJR 2025 in Seattle Washington until March 15th! isjr.org/conference for conference details tiny.cc/ISJR2025 for the submission portal!

🙃 love to see a president and board of trustees show their true colors by preempting any legislation with immediate cuts to anything DEI… www.thelantern.com/2025/02/ohio...

Carleton College runs pilot for five years, looks at results, decides, hey, test optional works just like everyone said it would. No film at 11. www.carleton.edu/news/stories...

Calling all SALAAM members attending SPSP! We have a meetup planned for 8pm on Friday (2/21) at the convention center after the receptions (Room 501). Food will be provided! Please fill out this RSVP so we can order the right amount of food. Hope to see you soon! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I know this post will likely no longer be relevant in 3 months, but anyone have current thoughts/tips/pointers for AI-based qualitative coding? Looking for the good, the bad, and the ugly (everything from IRB to climate impacts to speed to accuracy...)!

Teaching an undergrad course on the psychology of environmental problems this fall where one day is dedicated to Heuristics and Biases. Anyone have good reading recommendations for heuristics and biases that replicate well?

My wife has family in Gaza, brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews. I don’t need to tell you how bad things are, and they’re the lucky ones. We want to try to help get them out. Please, if you can, donate and/or share this gofundme link; no amount is too small. gofund.me/6356721f

Exciting to see this level of support, but I'd love to see it even stronger in higher ranks of academia! Still collecting signatures, and signatures are anonymous to the public. Thank you to those in positions of power who have already signed <3

We are sharing a letter that we have collectively written addressing the SPSP leadership and its committees regarding the Islamophobic poster approved for presentation at the 2024 annual SPSP convention in San Diego. #IamSALAAM docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Looking for thoughts from seasoned authors/editors: I got a review request that addressed me as "Dr." (don't have a PhD yet). I declined for fit reasons, but should that in the future be a red flag to avoid reviewing for that particular journal, or is everything just an auto-filled form email now?

“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands,” Bourdain wrote in “A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines,” his 2001 memoir.

pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/FadeEadeh Still need money for Gaza's children now that there will be a temporary ceasefire @jinxungoh.bsky.social won’t shut up about it and neither will I!

Still needing donations on behalf of Gaza’s children: pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/FadeEadeh?fb...

I'm teaching an senior-level undergrad course on Interventions for Pro-Environmental Behavior! I have previous syllabi but take a stance against making students buy any textbooks. any recs for open-source (applied) social-psych based texts that can compliment relevant journal articles?

One of the best pieces of news this week! Can’t wait to see @simine.com’s work as EIC. News like this gives me hope that replicable, reproducible, transparent, and rigorous science is becoming the norm.

Another new preprint with @juliafstrand.bsky.social and co-authors! psyarxiv.com/bpzug/