#AcademicSky Anyone else cringe when we do this ("job-pocalypse") to words?

#AcademicSky "Nearly three-quarters of young adults [in] recent KPMG Canada survey said they use gen AI for their work, up from 59 per cent last year. … 57 per cent of them worry they're cheating when using AI.... 66 per cent believe they're learning less" (👈!!) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Dyslexia expert says student reading levels are now so low... ... that it's challenging/difficult to diagnose dyslexia among those students needing diagnosis Let that sink in. We REALLY need to up our game and teach kids reading skills. You know, like we used to. www.apa.org/news/podcast...

Journalists/bloggers, if you're covering a paper or report, PLEASE link to the source or at least name it. When I read a newspaper or blog that says a "new report finds....." but doesn't provide the source, I ask..... ... How are you any different from the guy at the bar or coffee shop?

#AcademicSky Republican opposition to CRT (developmental perspective) 👇

#AcademicSky And we expect bullseyes for each one, btw

#AcademicSky I'm fully prepared to detox. Let me know when I can pick up the Nobel hardware. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #MetaScience New study in AMPPS: Clinical psychologists favour statistically significant results. (presumably true in all fields, I'd say. Bias against null findings) journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

@elijfinkel.bsky.social & I are recruiting a postdoc in the #LitowitzCenter for Enlightened Disagreement at Northwestern University. We seek research excellence regarding navigating conflict. Application deadline: Nov. 17. Salary: ~$80k. facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjQzNw==

Excited that this one is live and doubly excited that I've already been able to replicate the majority of the findings in NESARC wave 1 (GAD & MDD) and wave 2 (PTSD). If anyone knows of any publicly available data sets with *DSM-5* PTSD, please let me know!! psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

When people say they're "torn", have "mixed feelings", about group or topic... .... don't always take them at their word. Ps higher in subjective ambivalence toward gay people scored higher in gay male aversion (r = .41) & lower in gay rights support (r = -.42). dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈 You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky Know of a good graphic, for use in teaching, to show the idea underlying age-period-cohort (APC) effects? Please share!

Nothing like an obituary tribute to a woman.... ... like a picture of her with a man, taking up 50-50 of the photo (in fact, we see more of his face than her face)

Cool new study by @joelleforestier.bsky.social @page-gould.bsky.social & Alison Chasteen Can social media contact reduce prejudice? #PrejudiceResearch psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Spread the word: I'm looking to recruit a PhD student for Fall 2026 to @ucsb.bsky.social! Reach out if you are applying this cycle and hoping to study infant and child social cognition, specifically expectations about friendship and/or groups. Bonus: live in paradise! And.. 1/3

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky Recent study highlights #EMPATHY as important factor in reducing prejudice. More important than social norms etc. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If the #Nobel Peace Prize was worth a damn, they'd now award it to Jane Goodall. Few people have worked that hard or passionately for peace, love, empathy.

RIP Jane Goodall, who has died at 91. She was a gentle disrupter who reshaped how we understand our place in nature. Her research with chimpanzees revolutionized science, and her boundless optimism touched the world. buff.ly/5Hwx3Z7 🌎🩺

Critics frame speeding cameras as "cash grabs" that don't increase safety Mayor of Hamilton, however, draws on data: Speed cameras work SO WELL that revenues from fines are DOWN substantially (bc people aren't speeding as much). Some tax grab! Data, eh? Who knew! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This looks interesting, but I'm not sure it's asking the correct question ("Have we solved the replication crisis?") I don't think we'll agree on yes-no, not now or ever. Real question is: are we doing better science now? And better science must be a perpetual goal. Not a set destination.

Jane Goodall has died. She was truly a beacon of light in this world. I had the good fortune of seeing her speak shortly before COVID arrived. She showed such warmth, compassion, integrity, and intelligence. Jane, the animals thank you for your selfless work. www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

If you're looking to do a PhD on a timely subject, I'm on the advisory board of a cool new project; "When Lies Take Root: Investigating the Impact of Misinformation on Those at Risk" at the top-ranked Amsterdam School of Communication Research/ Do share & apply: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

#AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing Appeasing Reviewer #2 so that you can move along.

Feeling grateful the address I delivered upon receiving the Lewin Memorial Award has just been published in the September 2025 issue of Journal of Social Issues! It appears as an open access article, for any and all who may be interested: spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky Riddle me this: Why do online-only journals (e.g., AMPPS) have Word/PDF supplement files that one has to obtain *separately* from the manuscript? I mean, it's all online! Why not publish paper as a single pdf? (ms + supplement). Even if supplement remains unformatted

#AcademicSky #PhDLife Cross-national graduate student survey finds 43% (overall) experience discrimination/harassment as part of their studies www.nature.com/articles/d41... My Ask #1: check in with your students. They okay? My Ask #2: check yourself. Are you causing their problems?

#AcademicSky #PhDLife #AcademicChatter What PhD students should do when their advisor asks them to conduct some newfangled analysis 👇

United States academic landscape got you down? Apply to join my lab at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada! I’m planning to accept a graduate student in Clinical Psychology. Additional information: https://www.uregina.ca/academics/programs/arts/master-phd-clinical-psychology.html

Politicians/governments are now PAYING your social media influencers to bend messages their way www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... This means: people DRAWN to social media to avoid official or state "bias"....end up with it in a more subtle, indirect form. Did you think Power would sit on sidelines?

Does anyone know of any *panel* data that has a question asking people to compare their *subjective* SES to that of their parents? I’m using some WVS/EVS data with an item like this right now but the repeated cross sectional design is… less than ideal for my specific question

#AcademicSky My laptop acted up today Projected my speaker notes to audience, and showed me what they should see! HELP! Is there a fix? (I feel that people will tell me this is impossible. But it happened)

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky Even psychologists get amazed when non-human animals can do things that are essential to survival (and thus NOT surprising!), like categorizing stimuli. Our error? Humans truly overestimate our uniqueness in animal kingdom. www.scientificamerican.com/article/dogs...

Important! The new OSF design is coming on Saturday, October 4th. OSF will be down for several hours that day to deploy it. More information: www.cos.io/blog/coming-...

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky Timely new RI-CLPM study Finds more evidence of authoritarianism ==> conspiracy theories (than the converse) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky Meta-analysis finds negative relation between age and conspiracy beliefs (r = -.05). Small. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... But.... how much of the relation is likely curvilinear, on top of this? (I'm envisioning U-shaped) Any data on this potential?

Study finds, worryingly, people unconvinced by expert opinions/norms on vaccination 👇 That is, failure to fight misinformation

#AcademicSky Social Psychologists: did someone just drop the gloves??

#AcademicSky Did democracy save lives during #COVID pandemic? Empirical answer: you bet it did (i.e., lower mortality) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #PolSciSky Any recommendations for scales relevant to ✳️ nationalism ✳️ patriotism That are widely accepted in psychology and/or political science?

Apply to work at the psych program at @bardcollege.bsky.social with me! I love it here and would be happy to answer any questions you have. Review starts 10/1. www.bard.edu/humanresourc...

#AcademicSky Love the advice overall. Gotta say, my bingo card didn't have ** modelling healthy life-career balance *** at the top, but I very much believe it ought to be. (we too often model "work all the time". Me included. It's unhealthy) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#AcademicSky Ever worry that Susie = AI?

#AcademicSky Kids, your brain NEEDS to work out. Park the AI and work your own (metaphorical) muscles

Interesting new study on friendships across political divide journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... In our research (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), relationship satisfaction was an important moderator of cross-political-divide relationship outcomes.

#AcademicSky Not read @lindatropp.bsky.social 's new #ERSP article yet, but even the title excites me. Getting us to reaffirm our commitment to the public good. How could that advice be bad? To regain lost public trust, the public good *should* be in mind www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

"Progress in theorising means treating our theories as works in progress in need of continuous improvement, and this sometimes also means having to kill one’s darlings." Martijn van Zomeren and @ayseuskul.bsky.social introduce the ERSP special issue on theorizing in social psychology. #SocialPsyc

How many PhDs does it take...

#AcademicSky Brock University's annual grape stomp (we're in wine country, don't you know?) I'm lecturing this week on #disgust. It's important to remember that disgust can also be FUN, and can induce BONDING (our research often shows ingroup-pull from disgust reactions).