🎓 Just received my Credentialed Evaluator (CE) designation from @evaluationcanada.ca! Proud to be one of only ~30 CEs in Quebec. Excited to continue advancing evidence-based evaluation in forensic psychology and community research. #Evaluation #ProfessionalDevelopment #ProgramEvaluation

Humane Canada is looking to connect with organizations and individuals that are studying, supporting or working with young people, particularly in online spaces. If you’re seeing signs of online radicalization, take the survey: qualtricsxmnxnww5vzq.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

📊 New research on femcels and sexual well-being with @alexandrazidenberg.bsky.social Femcels reported significantly: ⬇️ lower sexual esteem, satisfaction, and agency ⬆️ higher sexual preoccupation, anxiety, depression, and fear of sexual relationships doi.org/10.13140/RG....

🎉 Thrilled to announce our new paper in the Journal of Sex Research! "Exploring Sexual Attraction to Animals: A Qualitative Analysis of Zoophile Experiences" One of the largest qualitative studies on this topic, with 960 participants sharing their experiences. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Another preprint hot off the press 🔥 Interviews with 12 incels found that social exclusion, loneliness, and knowledge-seeking trigger incel identity adoption—NOT extremist ideology. doi.org/10.13140/RG....

New preprint 📑: @jessmaxwell.bsky.social, @alexandrazidenberg.bsky.social, Arthur Woods, and I found that fear of being single (FOBS) is associated with more dating anxiety, lower self-esteem, and greater depressive symptoms in an online dating context doi.org/10.13140/RG....

Nous recherchons des professionnels de la #SantéMentale pour participer à une étude sur les clients ayant un intérêt sexuel pour les animaux. Si vous êtes un professionnel de santé mentale/étudiant dans un programme clinique, veuillez participer ! pacificu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #psych

We are looking for #MentalHealth professionals to participate in a study looking at clients with a sexual interest in animals. If you are a mental health care professional or a student in a clinical program, please consider participating! pacificu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #Psych #SocialWork

There is very little evidence that criminal profiling works at all. However, television has made many of us far more confident in the process than is likely warranted. Listen to Dr. Alexandra Zidenberg on the newest episode of Mind Full wherever you get your podcasts. buff.ly/113s3RH

Our new study "Exploring motivations for using fantasy-themed and animal-shaped sex toys" is now published in Psychology & Sexuality. This is the first study of motivations behind non-traditional sex toy use. #PsychSciSky #SexToys #FantasyCreatures 50 free copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XSRU3...

👥 CONFÉRENCE 📌 La Zoophilie : Recherches Actuelles et Orientations Futures - Par Alexandra Zidenberg 📅 Mercredi 24 septembre 2025, de 11h45 à 13h 👉 La présentation sera en français 🔗 Détails et inscription : www.cicc-iccc.org/fr/evenement...

Dr. Alexandra Zidenberg from Université de Montréal joins Mind Full to talk about criminal profiling. How much does binge-watching TV enhance our ability to profile a suspect? Do true-crime podcasts skew our beliefs about the effectiveness of law enforcement? buff.ly/gYZyWpM

📢 Psychologists, psychological associates, trainees, and allies: Big changes proposed by CPBAO could erode psychologist registration standards in Ontario. I’ve partnered with Dr. Jenn Bossio to launch a petition in opposition. Sign & share: chng.it/6hKSNnJnkv #onpsych #ProtectOurProfession

My comment about open research and qualitative methods is out! I argue that open research needs to take seriously the notion that "rigour" looks different for different methods and can learn from qualitative traditions. It feels very apt to be at #QMIP2025 for this publication day rdcu.be/evEpk

🧵 THREAD: New research in Crime Scene from the Criminal Justice section of @canadianpsychology.bsky.social challenges what we think we know about crime TV and real-world #profiling skills cpa.ca/docs/File/Se... #Research #CriminalJustice #ForensicPsychology #MediaLiteracy #MilitaryPsychology

: 📢 Thrilled to share that our paper "Understanding the Psychological Profile of Children and Youth Engaging in Sexual Contact with Non-Human Animals: A Scoping Review" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse 🧠📄 #ChildProtection #Research #Psychology #OpenScience

Presenting some pretty cool cat research at #ISAZ2025 😸

Do you teach #selfcompassion or have completed #mindfulselfcompassion training? We’d love to hear from you! We are looking for #selfcompassionteachers to take part in an interview about your experiences. If you would like to participate, please see below. Please share! #MSC #selfcompassionresearch

"Awaiting Editor Decision"

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Well this is terrifying. Canada, please please vote. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

This is dumb and harmful and false for so many reasons, but I also feel the need to point out that there's literally a very popular show called "Love on the Spectrum" about autistic people dating...

The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) strongly recommends that academic staff travel to the US only if essential and necessary. www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

We're still recruiting women who identify as #Femcels for this study! #PinkPill #RedPill #BluePill #PurplePill #femcel #incel #women #woman #PsychSciSky

If you had a grant cancelled, consider submitting info about your terminated grant using this Google Form [Contact Scott Delaney with Qs on Signal (sdelaney.84)] docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Also, see @scott-delaney.bsky.social 's post below for the database of cancelled grants #defendresearch

New research by some fabulous students (and myself) explores correlates of multiple perpetrator rape proclivity in women. Click here for access (or let me know you want a copy): connect.springerpub.com/content/sgrv...

An absolutely brutal username assigned to me by a journal in CATS 😂 #Publishing #PsychSciSky #Academia

We're still recruiting women who identify as #Femcels for this study! #PinkPill #RedPill #BluePill #PurplePill #femcel #incel #women #woman #PsychSciSky

Do you identify as a #femcel ? You are invited to participate in our study. You will be asked to complete a survey on your mental health, attitudes, and experiences. If you would like to participate, click the following link: stfx.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #incel @brandonsparks.bsky.social

RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

The company behind more than a dozen dating apps, Match Group, has known for years about the abusive users on its platforms, but chooses to leave millions of people in the dark. Produced in partnership with the @pulitzercenter.bsky.social and @themarkup.org and copublished with @us.theguardian.com.

Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org

Woman who agrees with Doug Ford halting US liquor also needs that liquor to deal with fact she agrees with Doug Ford

The NIH Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office website has been taken down. LGBTQ+ people are disproportionately subjected to violence, discrimination & stigma, affecting their health outcomes. Ignoring these facts endangers us all. #MedSky #LGBT #LGBTQ #NIH #research #science

Excited to announce that our incel interview paper is now live in Current Psychology! Great job Chloe on a well-done dissertation link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We're still looking for participants for this study!

We are looking for individuals to participate in #research looking at how crime related media affects criminal profiling skills. If you like crime media, please consider participating! www.surveymonkey.com/r/JLWQV9M #survey #psychology #crimemedia #PsychSciSky

Another navy day #temperatureblanket

"At some point, you will be required to dress nicely for a formal dinner. They will say this is a chance for you to relax and enjoy yourself. You will suspect that this, too, is part of the game. You will not enjoy it."

Starting off the new year with a bang! 🎉

“The rebranding of shaken baby syndrome preserved the diagnosis and allowed it to live on with less scrutiny." www.propublica.org/article/shak...

Missed this back in April: “When will art institutions begin to pay respect to the legacies of our foremothers’ artistry? And when will we, as a culture, move beyond rigid hierarchies of value and celebrate domestic crafts in their own right?”

🚨NEW: Is Pierre Poilievre breaking conflict of interest rules? He recently lavished praise on the right-wing broligarchs at Shopify. But it turns out, just weeks before, his wife announced Shopify is supporting her project. Let's talk about it. SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com

This title speaks to my soul as someone who has been struggling (and occasionally succeeded) with publishing qualitative studies in psych 🙃

Please.

Really pleased to have this paper on qualitative researchers' experiences of peer review with @ginnybraun.bsky.social @janeemcallaghan.bsky.social @joannasemlyen.bsky.social out there - open access. We recruited lots of the contributors on the other place... psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Reading this fabulous paper on reporting qual research results by Braun and Clarke @ginnybraun.bsky.social @vicclarke.bsky.social and recommend you do too (it's also open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....