Be like Daniel. Have your New Years resolution be to tell any NYTimes “journalists” who approach you to eat a metaphorical dick

ACADEMIC JOBS IN CANADA -- please share and repost www.uottawa.ca/research-inn... #PSYCHSCISKY #neuroskyence #neurojobs

My first registered replication report, study on the illusory truth effect, and study published in PB&R with @lkfazio.bsky.social ‼️Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... Previous research found that the illusory truth effect was smaller for conspiracy statements than for trivia statements...

Project Implicit is a research nonprofit behind tools millions use to understand bias. Like many public science orgs, sustaining this work has become increasingly difficult. We are at risk of closing without additional support. Help protect this impt work by donating here: 4agc.com/donate/impli...

Student Success | Belonging in College Isn’t Just Nice—It Can Boost Graduation Rates Survey data from more than 21,000 students shows that even small gains in sense of belonging can increase their chances of graduation. https://bit.ly/4q3RRuh #EDUSky #HigherEd

For the "data scientists" out there who are throwing things at machines (e.g., LLMs) and trying to extract "insights," I recommend (re)reading this piece: "Data is therefore only as useful as its quality and the skills of the person wielding it." qz.com/1664575/is-d...

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Harvard has removed a resident dean -- a Black lecturer in psychology -- for writing posts critical of Trump and law enforcement www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

A 600ish word essay appears in Vogue. www.vogue.com/article/hope...

As I and others have written, algorithmic wage discrimination combined with the myth of “independent contracting” allows platform companies to use “desperation scores” to determine how little to pay drivers. www.reddit.com/r/confession...

There have been no good reasons for staying on Twitter for years now, but at this point you will have to follow up any of your remaining excuses with “…and I don’t care about the child pornography.”

Unlike other NYC mayors with delusions of grandeur, Mamdani need not be pulled towards national ambitions (and the inherent, imperial actions which often accompany them) lithub.com/why-its-a-go...

Rural America is often talked about as if it’s one place with one story. It isn’t. Rural demographers break down 6 commonly-held myths about rural America, and why getting them wrong has real consequences (thread) ⬇️ buff.ly/q9pGEtI

As of today, I am a FULL professor. I do not care much for occupational status markers. Still, it is not lost on me that only 2% of full professors are Black women. This goes beyond personal accomplishment. It is a responsibility to do as much as I can for others. That is exactly what I aim to do.

Classroom interventions have limited effects on undergraduates' domain-level motivation in STEM: A meta-analysis of 19 field studies: https://osf.io/g3p68

Before the end of this year, I’m glad to share a short perspective/policy piece, recently out with @joshcjackson.bsky.social , Zhao Wang, and @williambrady.bsky.social: “Large AI Models Have a Prioritization Problem: Policy Implications and Solutions.”

Latino voters are often treated as a single bloc. Our new paper led by Mercedes Muñoz surveys Mexican and Cuban Americans, finding higher traditionalism, machismo, and income predicts voting for Trump over Harris. Latino voters are not a monolith. spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Editors are so sneaky nowadays with personalized messages in their review requests... and it totally works on me 😂

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

Glad to see the conversation continues to grow and data speak to the enormous class bias that is built into bans on standardized testing, which end up only exacerbating them more. x.com/garrytan/sta...

Meta-analysis finds that social norms messaging (telling people what others do or think they should do) has no effect on improving health behaviors once publication bias is accounted for. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Mayor Pete is Smart and Elizabeth Warren is Unlikable?", @meredithconroy.bsky.social & co-authors investigate gender differences of warmth coverage of Democratic primary candidates by the media. 🌟 Available #OpenAccess 🌟 gendersky polisky buff.ly/T7T5a7U

2025 recapped

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On a bitterly cold Sunday, Adriana Rivera left to reunite with her deported husband in Michoacán. Theirs had been a story, at one time, of hope and American aspiration. Her friends who are still here are selling the last of the eggs she sold for a living. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...

APS is pleased to offer two financial assistance programs to help defray costs for APS members attending #APS26BCN.   Learn more about the Family Care and Travel Assistance Programs Apply by 22 January https://www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/2026-aps-annual-convention/financial-assistance

I’m hiring a predoctoral fellow for the 2026-2027 AY with possibility of a second year. This is a great position for someone interested in pursuing a Ph.D. or who wants more hands-on experience doing research. Please apply/share! Happy to answer questions! tobin.yale.edu/opportunitie...

💫 Now in PSPR: We theorize a strength-based solidarity framework, wherein members of different marginalized groups recognize common identity-conscious strengths (e.g., community strength, resilience) and work to improve each other's lived experiences. 1/6 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very | Protest | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

There’s something in here about how after Jesus was born, Joseph fled with Jesus and Mary to Egypt under the cover of night…for ~4 years until Herod died.

Happy holidays to everyone who's in solitude today. You get to decide what this post-solstice 24 hours is like! You could mourn or reflect, give gratitude or binge-watch, join your chosen family or cozy up with your animals. You may not be surrounded by people, but a lot of us are in the same place.

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In the past week, I've seen stories of AI: - being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students - calling innocent people sex offenders - shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars - emitting more CO2 than New York City What the fuck are we even doing?

I'm currently working on a novel and at the end of an average day, I'm wiped out. The sheer amount of analysis, synthesis, making of connections, layering of prose, deepening of characterization, supplemental research... all the mental work is intense and exhilarating. Which is just to say, fuck AI.

Ramaswamy, taking a bold stance against bigotry, which he had supported as a party member before realizing the racism also included him.

My book, Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing includes lots of stories from the history of the Antelope Valley. Since its nearly the end of Zappadan, I figured I'd share one about this AV original, Frank Zappa.

If it is wrong to watch the latest episode of Heated Rivalry first thing in the morning, then I don't want to be right

An underappreciated benefit of the Zoom era is the female side chat in the meetings where the men won’t stop interrupting us

not good at all, and the trend does not appear to be limited to younger cohorts (whose political evaluations you would generally expect to be more labile due to lower attitude crystallization at that period of the life cycler)

For civilians: an academic dept typically has to out maneuver other depts to get a tenure line! I tell grad students applying to red state jobs to indicate that they are familiar with & would be happy spending a decade or more there. A single sentence has moved them to the top of a pile. 1/

✅Grades submitted ✅Journal reviews completed ✅Student committees served ✅Emails responded ✅Vacation started

New post-doc position working with me in a new lab at @snfagora.bsky.social ! It's one year appointment, renewable for up to 5 years. The position includes data analysis and independent research, mentorship of lab members, and participation in SNF Agora Institute life. apply.interfolio.com/178796

We gave Jay Bhattacharya an opportunity to clarify his vaccine stance: does he REALLY believe that the vaccine is worse than the disease? Instead, he launched into a defense of MAHA as the future of scientific inquiry, and never really gave us a straight answer... @repauchincloss.bsky.social

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