Progress Bar reviews"Why Federal Funding of Science" and begins a look at the question of how to improve decisions on how to distribute it. Watch this space! open.substack.com/pub/kristine... #metascience

I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

Working on a principled way to describe the sample size, N, in #science papers. Will be attempting to prove Holmes' theorem over the next few years. Feedback welcome 🙏 #stats

'Spontaneous public response to a marauding knife attack on the London underground: Sociality, coordination and a repertoire of actions evidenced by CCTV footage' Now 'In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by @altmetric.com' bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The full #SPSP2026 schedule is live! Explore research presentations, networking events for all career stages, and professional development sessions. Start planning your Chicago experience today: https://ow.ly/IBJI50XT9zS

The 2026 Presidential Symposium at #SPSP2026 will feature Eran Halperin on doing research amid atrocity and Rebecca Covarrubias witness and resistance in higher education. 🧪

Come #SPSP2026 in Chicago! Over 2,275 have registered for the main meeting (a bit up from the previous year); more than 2,000 for preconferences. It's the largest convention of social and personality psychologists in the world, teeming with new research & ideas. spsp.org/events/annua...

A worthwhile review of a less-than-credible statistic to “detect” biased reporting of results. There’s no shortcuts for these difficult analyses.

MAGA discovers the effects of cuts on science. 🧪

It’s not a panacea. It’s not even an improvement. en.ara.cat/science-tech... #metascience

Please consider participating in or sharing the recruitment advertisement for our new study, which is focused on understanding body image in bisexual women. The link is in the alt text.

Wow!

An Introduction To Forensic Metascience by James Heathers #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/field%20specific.html#an-introduction-to-forensic-metascience

More Feyerabend, being sensibly anarchic about the unproven “rules of good science” being forced upon us.

I’ve been reading Jeremy Bentham on the Panopticon—the circular prison where authorities can see what all the prisoners are doing (the prisoners cannot tell when they’re being monitored). The point of openness is —> surveillance, a hallmark of distrust. It is **designed** to be demotivating.

Paul Feyerabend, Against Method. Prescriptions about how science MUST be done? Simply a bad, authoritarian idea. And based on the history of science, not good for scientific progress. #metasci

I know that #JamesDobson has died, and people have feelings, including ill will. But I want to point you toward Sojourners magazine, which is an excellent antidote to the authoritarian approach to narrow, disapproving Christianity. sojo.net/articles/sor...

I have some good news, and some bad news.

Shai Davidai has pissed a lot of people off, but he’s also been a very productive and interesting social psychologist. It really does seem he’s been pushed out of Columbia for showing up and speaking, which is a reasonable expectation for a professor. www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...

Looking forward to the seminar after this, where Brian Wansink will present on best practices in data management

I know Chicago winter is a huge departure from our usual SPSP locations, but Chicago is worth it!!! There’s so much good food here! Come hang out!

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

"Reporting critical-effect-size values can. . . underscore how the distinction between a significant & nonsignificant result is not determined solely by the presence/absence of a true effect but also by sample size and complexity of the analysis." #metascience journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The Perspectives on Psych Science Editor has published a provocative editorial. The journal \site has erased the previous editor from history, jumping the editor prior to him. I realize his departure was controversial, but the erasure isn't very transparent. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Engaging with art helps us think in abstract ways, new study says www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/newsree...

Thrilled to have won @nature.com 2025 #ScientistAtWork photo competition! 🧪🐳📷 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Something to brighten up your Friday😊April's images of the month features a tattooed tardigrade, dazzling auroras and some super-trippy maths illustrations. By me in @nature.com www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Academic friends, if your NSF grants have been terminated by the administration, FABBS is hosting a webinar Friday about appealing the decisions. It's important that as many people appeal as possible to show we're not accepting this targeting of science. Link to the webinar registration is below.

This short blog post about NC elections is worth it.

Sending lots of support to the NSF and NIH program officers who have been serving the science community in so many ways. Thank you 🙏

The #1 thing faculty can do now is what we're best at--teaching students and doing research. The long game is undergraduate education, and we must play it. Teaching is partly for making good citizens, and this is our duty.

A few years ago, seeing democracy threatened, I wrote a short essay on how science promotes democracy, as a civil institution, as a path to knowledge, as an alternative voice about reality. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

When I was a kid, current events were things that happened elsewhere, far off and never touching our little Republican spot tucked away on the Michigan tundra. Something seems up.

Looking for reviewers for this paper I am editing for PCI RR, but it has been difficult to get a second reviewer. If this is in your area and you would like to support PCI RR please reach out!

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

It was Trump's Tariff-able, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

Attention metascience & AI enthusiasts: SSHRC is offering $140K/2yr postdoc fellowships, and I'd be happy to sponsor someone to work in my lab at UofT. If you're interested in how AI might transform scientific practice (for better or worse), apply by April 8. Let's question everything together.

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

Oh.

Chud got his shit rocked by a retired professor in her 70s.

humiliation HOF first ballot

Been hearing concerns about holding SPSP conventions in the USA in the near future. Must acknowledge this reality. 1. It is quite difficult & VERY expensive to move a conference in a 5-yr window. The number of moving parts is legion.

Great thread about the current situation, and who we are.