Job alert! 📣 The UCCS Aging Center, our psychology training clinic serving older adults and their families, is seeking a full time Director. Follow the link for more info and please share with any potential candidates! cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

🚨 Now out in Psych Science 🚨 We report an adversarial collaboration (with @donandrewmoore.bsky.social) testing whether overconfidence is genuinely a trait The paper was led by Jabin Binnendyk & Sophia Li (who is fantastic and on the job market!) Free copy here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/7JIYS...

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

Psychologists, what are your favorite (open) data sets for teaching multilevel modelling? I have a lot of observational examples, would love a therapy RCT with varying effects for therapists or some such.

Canadian job 👀 🇨🇦 ‼️ Second search this year! Our Dept of Psychology is hiring again, this time at the assoc/full level, for a prestigious, endowed position. Focus is social/affective neuroscience in any area (clinical, social, cog, or dev). Apply by Jan 30! Reposts, pls www.queensu.ca/psychology/n...

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...

While teaching a course on Item Response Theory this semester, I created a Shiny app for visualizing some polytomous item response models: falkcarl.shinyapps.io/polytomous/ This is an initial draft, so comments/questions/suggestions are welcome! #Psychometrics #RShiny #IRT

I'm adding this resource to my grad writing class lecture on peer review. This is excellent work, and it is something that we needed for a while. Many ECRs are thrown into the deep end with peer review, and this is a good tool to help them.

Despite Prepublication Peer Review being a core part of science, training materials for it are sparse. This open source guide is very valuable for ECRs! ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/

The point that I tried to make earlier. This is what gerrymandering looked like. Nashville was all one district not that long ago.

For those watching TN-7 special election results, remember that this is a gerrymandered district. Nashville used to have a safe Dem seat, but it was redistricted and split into thirds. The fact that it wasn't called immediately when polls closed is a big deal.

Excited to see these studies (finally) published in Scientific Reports! 🚨 S1: More social media users perceived themselves as addicted than met clinical addiction criteria. S2: Increasing perceived addiction hurt perceived control over use and increased self-blame for overuse. Thread below... 🧵

This is the third time in as many weeks that I saw something like this on Bay--bus blocking the crosswalk and part of the intersection. We need bus lanes, especially in this traffic. #Autowa

I gave a workshop about using social media to faculty at the UT Austin. Here are some tips: -Stay in your lane (share what you know) -Avoid fights -Use plain language -Including clear visuals -Follow quality accounts -Leverage trends -Have some fun -Embrace your natural workflow

I'm excited to share that I’ll be reviewing PhD applications this cycle for students interested in working with me starting Summer/Fall 2026. I’m especially looking for applicants excited about research on trust/persuasion, responses to historical harm, addressing inequality, and/or mindsets.

I am hoping to recruit a graduate student for next year. That person would help conduct research on leadership, individual differences, and methodological skullduggery. Please forward to any potentially interested students.

periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides

We are looking for folks to help beta test our new mobile apps! This is your chance to do the EMA study you've been dreaming up for free! You can reach out to me on Bluesky or email at [email protected] if you're interested!

Two @spspnews.bsky.social committees unite for a global conversation on publishing! Friday, Nov 14 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET Do you publish in social and personality journals? Have Qs or stories to share? Curious abt the latest resources and opportunities? Join us! community.spsp.org/events/NNh2R...

Call for applications NOW OPEN We are offering four grants valued at $2500.00 each for equity deserving psychology student affiliates, and two grants valued at $2500.00 each for Black psychology student affiliates. Deadline January 19th. More details:

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.

New York City!!!

I want Ottawa Charge fans to understand that if Lansdowne 2.0 goes through as-is, there’s a genuine threat that we’ll lose our women’s hockey team. This would be devastating to our city, and to all the women + girls who have found hope and community in the PWHL. ottawacitizen.com/opinion/pwhl...

We shall see how this all ends, but I feel that this is already one of the most bizarre World Series games that I have ever seen.

In my personality class this morning, I was covering a bunch of cognitive topics , including field independence. I gave a few examples, including Where's Waldo. *Student raises hand* Me: Yes? Student: I actually found Waldo near Southam Hall this morning. The joys of teaching on Halloween. 😅

To the person who decided to play New Order "Blue Monday" as we went to commercial, I tip my hat on the appropriate music choice for the World Series tonight.

Well, those thinking the Dodgers would sweep the World Series are realizing quickly not to underestimate the Blue Jays. The way this game has gone indicates to me thst it should be an exciting series.

No causal and arguably no meaningful relationship between smartphone use and mental health. Objective use, not self reported use, and that’s the key. When you ask someone how much time they spend doing a tech activity, you are asking about their vibes. Objective indicators tell another story.

I'm glad we had some frogs turn up in Ottawa today: ottawacitizen.com/news/no-tyra...

I lived in St. Marys, Georgia for 8 years, and left after high school. The county has been conservative, and still is, voting for Trump by 67%. And yet, even in this red county, there was a No Kings protest at the St. Marys waterfront (& also in June). Not a huge crowd, but decent for a small town.

The framing around 'stricter age restrictions' feels disproportionate considering the magnitude of the effects. I ran some rough calculations: Cohen's d ≈ 0.059 and 0.114 for the group comparisons on the cognitive composite measure.

Over the last 3 years I've been collecting resources to share with people interested in data freelancing. I've recently compiled those resources in a GitHub Repository. If you are interested in data freelancing, these resources may help you navigate that transition. github.com/Cghlewis/fre...

Honestly? That would be amazing.

Cheers to that. 🥛

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Open-rank faculty positions in Artificial Intelligence in Education and Organizations at Vanderbilt University. The faculty will work within our new college of connected computing and one of the five departments in Peabody College (including psychology!) jobs.chronicle.com/job/37894746...

We're looking for an experimental psychologist in Witten. Contact me if you have questions about the job (I'm not on the commission, so can talk freely :-) uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/59638545...

UNC is hiring in Quantitative Psychology! Assistant Professor (tenure-track). Please share widely! Find details here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

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!)

✨✨ New paper out in JPSP! ✨✨ Despite rich theory on links between temperament and personality, they're rarely studied together. This has left major unaddressed questions. We tackled these questions by looking at how temperament and personality develop together from ages 10-26. Brief thread...

Interested in models used to estimate lagged effects in panel data? We (@rebiweidmann.bsky.social, Hyewon Yang) have a new paper looking at patterns of stability and their implications for bias and model choice: osf.io/preprints/ps... [1/x]

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

I'm looking for a PhD student to do some trailblazing at the frontier of personality genomics and lifespan gene-environment transactions (start Fall 2026)! If you want to work with me: psychology.msu.edu/graduatestud... (PS @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social is taking a student too, in moral psych/dev!)

We are still looking for participants, so please continue to share this flyer with any Carleton students (undergraduate or graduate). The flyer with the ALT text is the second post in the original post.

ATTN Carleton University undergrad and grad students! My master's student is trying to recruit people for her thesis project. Please share this widely and consider participating if you are willing! Thanks! @carleton.ca

I just witnessed the aftermath of (yet another) cyclist getting hit by a driver turning right, this time at Elgin and Lisgar. Grateful to all of the helpful witnesses, paramedics, fire and police who rushed to the scene. But this needs to end, we need Vision Zero now.

Yeah, I know. Saving this one for my writing class..... 😂

I enjoy going to Ottawa Bluesfest, but you certainly can tell the crowd dynamics can change drastically each evening. For example, Hozier played last night and The Pixies played tonight. I enjoyed both bands, but as you might imagine, the age difference was between these crowds was quite different.

Beyond a video game context, the idea that accessibility is a form of cheating is pervasive (even in academia). Some people still claim reading audiobooks does not count (even though it does). As noted in this video, an optional feature that you don't like might be designed for other people in mind.