The rapid proliferation of services powered by artificial intelligence, ranging from the genuinely useful to the frivolous to the unnecessary, has a common element: the need for vast amounts of electricity and water for the data centers that make them possible.

Nature Relatedness Usefully Links Well-Being, the Environment, and Sustainability. The title says it all. Check our our new brief review in Current Directions in Psychological Science (free to access). @hapassmore.bsky.social @sagepub.com journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Two new RCT articles out testing nature-based wellbeing interventions against the most popular Positive Psychology Intervention: 3 Good Things. In both studies, nature-based interventions boosted wb without spending more time in nature, & boosted unique aspects of wb. nmil.ca/pubs/article...

Looking to boost your wellbeing? We need regular people to participate in research aimed at testing simple wellbeing practices. Visit link for details: cue.secureresearch.ca/studies/EEIS

We started a company to provide enterprise-level support for open-source statistical software @jaspstats.bsky.social . Our website with the mission and offers just went online! Is your business paying large licensing fees for statistical software? Are you looking for a change? Check it out!

Hello world! We are a new company that provides support for organizations and industries who use the JASP open-source stats program. Check out our website www.jasp-services.com and our first blog post www.jasp-services.com/first-post/ Know companies using commercial stats software? Share this info!🙂

A fantastic piece by @caseycrownhart.bsky.social + ‪@jamesmodonnell.bsky.social‬ at @technologyreview.com On why the total lack of disclosure from tech companies means we have to rely on estimates - and even those conservative estimates are huge. Imagine what the actual numbers are.........

"I've not been using my brain as much....I’m worried about the impact of AI, but I’m not worried about the jobs, I’m worried about losing my mental sharpness." An excellent essay on the limits of AI coding. (Thanks to @mjcrockett.bsky.social for sending me this.) albertofortin.com/writing/codi...

New article - woo! (opensource) Passmore, H.-A., Lumber, R., Niemiec, R., & Sofen, L. I. (2025). Creating kinship with nature and boosting well-being: Testing two novel character strengths-based nature connectedness interventions. Journal of Happiness Studies, 26(71). doi.org/10.1007/s109...

Message from Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation to Danielle Smith - "Pack up your bag and go. You're not welcome here anymore" #cdnpoli

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Changing the narrative on testing… @katyburgess.bsky.social on why retrieval is key to learning. #exams #revision www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

It's bonkers that in academic science we spend hours obsessing over the wording of a paper, but often only one person has seen the code that produced the results! 2/N

Microsoft is spending about 6x the annual budget of the entire NSF on building more server farms.

Emotions can be driven by our gut. Early evidence suggesting aggression may originate in the liver. More evidence of #BrainGut connection. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We have SO many greats events in the next week or two! Sign up for the next #ClimateCafe to get a taste! www.eventbrite.com/e/1302336075...

I’m really looking forward to this. Please join me.

Researchers have been pointing out that these systems are probably “bags of heuristics” from the very beginning but pointing it out early literally cost some of them their jobs.

Intuitive finding but important one for urban greening programmes: “… adding greenspace in areas with the least nature yielded 1·4–1·7… times greater health benefits than uniform increases; adding greenspace to areas with the densest populations yielded 2·7 times greater health benefits”

Let’s protect Ontario’s bike lanes in this provincial election. Call on all parties to #ReverseBill212! @GreenpeaceCA act.gp/3WLGdrw

I don’t know which academic needs to hear this but yes you should absolutely email other academics just to tell them you enjoyed their article/book/chapter. Just do it. Don’t overthink it. Hello So-and-so, just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed ‘Title’. Hope you’re well. Best, You. Done.

I am hiring a PhD student on the meaningful interpretation of effect sizes as part of my VICI funded project. This is a 4 year paid position in a welcoming and collaborative environment. Find out more or apply at www.tue.nl/werken-bij-t...

I have been accused many times of caring more about entertaining students than educating them - it's so demonstrably false as to be laughable but I could never get past not recognising that everyone's job is easier and learning happens more successfully... 1/2 #AcademicSky

One of the most frequent questions I get is how to measure pro-environmental behaviors. I always reply: what is the research question? Finally, someone has provided a flowchart to help. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Florian Lange, 2025: Measurement approaches in climate action research 1/2

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

An astronomy professor colleague of mine once relayed trying to explain to his students why it was important that they actually write their class reports themselves. “The point is not to teach ME about neutron stars,” he said.

Anyone traveling to the US needs to read not at this Link but so the other reports of people being detained.

Super excited about tomorrow's (March 7) talk by Andrew Napier on Exploring Life Crafting as a Pathway to Meaning. Still time to register!! ippanetwork.org/events/upcom...

@morganpeace.bsky.social Hi Morgan. I would love to connect with you about your research on nature connectedness and meaning in life. If you could email me that would be fantastic. [email protected] My website is https:// nmil.ca

Prime Minister Trudeau speaking to Americans: "This is a choice that, yes, will harm Canadians, but beyond that, it will have real consequences for you, the American people. ... It will put your jobs at risk. ... It will raise costs for you, including food at the grocery store... Live on the CBC:

Who would have guessed that open access and open science non-profits such as @archive.org and @cos.io are useful just in case your government want to delete scientific data? And yet, here we are.

Authors, if you see this, it’s a sign to post the first line of your book. OK, but a weird day for this one in 🇨🇦: "Imagine you wake up to a new day, have a small breakfast, and then open your web browser to see the headline “Government begins adjusting tax policy to maximize happiness.”

Another media interview this morning - live on CBC "The Current"! Its wonderful the attention noticing nature is getting for boosting well-being. lnkd.in/ddEJsCZx

Excited to be on CBC news discussing my research! www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

I kept changing my mind which Carter cartoon i should go with. Here's all three.

I can so relate: 😀 ”Too many times I have rediscovered ’my most original ideas’ in pages of books that I have read five or ten years ago, underlined, with my enthusiastic, but forgotten, comments in the margin.” We stand on shoulders of giants - although we often forget which shoulders!

Did you miss out on today's Climate Cafe? Sign up for the next on January 6th! www.climatepsychology.us/climate-cafe...

New preprint: “Three-Sided Testing to Establish Practical Significance: A Tutorial” (osf.io/preprints/ps...) with @FitzgeraldJack_, proposing an upgraded version of the TOST equivalence test 🧵

In celebration of SIPS's 10th annual meeting, please join us for a virtual warm-up event on December 18, 2024! Early reformers will discuss challenges and improvements in psychological science. Find out more and register: improvingpsych.org/sips-2025-pr...

And emotionally, the greatest trick was to stoke individual guilt instead of collective rage.

Hi! Looking for a job in Forensic Psychology? Well, you're in luck! Come work with us! carleton.ca/deputyprovos...

In our new article, we aim to demonstrate that the currently dominant understanding of well-being is inherently Western and to highlight that non-Western cultures may conceptualize well-being differently. Open access article: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Super interesting article by Mohsen Josheanloo and Dan Weijers on Ideal personhood through the ages: tracing the genealogy of the modern concepts of wellbeing www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

“Before he has even taken office, Trump has faced down two of the country’s most prominent newspapers, inducing them to back off longstanding, well-reasoned editorial opposition. That is terrifying.” open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...