I'm hoping to recruit one grad student for 2026-27, in the developmental science area!

"driver's licences are often used as proof of age in many locations, the government would have to demonstrate how any benefit of having that information included on a driver's licence would outweigh the privacy risks” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If you need a little hope this morning - the current tween trend involves decorating clothespins with affirming messages, then clipping them on friends' backpacks when they're not looking. Here are a few that my 11-year-old decorated this weekend ❤️

The best time for media, government and employers to actually understand social media and how it can be gamed by bad-faith actors and false outrage was a decade ago. The next best time is right now. Unbelievable how stupidly some of them are responding to blatant hateful opportunism right now.

Come join us at UBC, and flex your pedagogical vision!

Not today, Satan.

Two toddlers are among nearly 150 Canadians held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody this year, data show From @saramojtehedz.bsky.social, Kathryn Blaze Baum, @mahima-singh.bsky.social, @janicedickson.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Join our department! We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Teaching (Tenure-track), located at UBC's Vancouver campus, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2026. Apply by Oct 1, 2025. Learn more & apply: psych.ubc.ca/jobs. Please share!

It takes only a few minutes & and you can choose other. I used to work in the federal government. These consultations are important and submissions do get read. Plus the opposition and journalists can request to see the results, so even if the government ignores the public will, it'll still get out.

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

Twin Cities: I have a friend with two children (early teens) who is trying to escape a toxic (maybe even abusive) household. She needs to rent 3 bedrooms ASAP. If anyone has that kind of space for rent, please shoot me a DM. Reposts greatly appreciated!!

Skyline cleanse. Sound up 🥲

Wow, I’ve just found a Bluesky channel that lets you see only posts with links to scientific papers and get a feed that focuses on the science discussions around them. This is transformative!

Welcome to your personalized Paper Skygest, a curated feed showing posts from your network. 📌 To pin this feed, select the pin icon at the top right of the feed. When you pin it, you'll see it up above here! ➡️ Follow this account for Skygest updates!

So attacked right now

Meta’s track record on privacy was already spotty, but the newest web-to-app trick is particularly brazen. Here’s what to do next.

Members of our Department at Convocation yesterday to celebrate and support of Science graduates! Jennifer Passey, Sandra Wiebe, Lauren Guillette, Sandra Ziolkowski, Wendy Hoglund

I just want a global 'turn all 'ai' off everywhere, categorically, no exceptions unless I individually approve them in triplicate' setting for all my devices

Duolingo right now: youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...

We were hoping that this letter to @bsky.app could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first. You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

To quote @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social among many: if we can free one, we can free them all.

This was one of the things that made me glad I attended #SRCD2025

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.

Was not expecting to open the main CBC page this morning and see this! In today’s climate, I feel our message is even more relevant than even just a few months ago when the interview was recorded. www.cbc.ca @christelvaneck.bsky.social @lydiamessling.bsky.social

"What emerges is a more intimate picture of Öztürk and how a child development researcher charged with no crime ended up in a crowded cell in Louisiana." www.propublica.org/article/rume...

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

Danielle Smith will spend bags of cash travelling to the US to get her fangirl on... She'll use a childrens medication shortage as a crisis to throw taxpayers dollars into an abyss... But popsicles for kids fighting cancer? That's just too much money. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

I am calling on all #devpsyc colleagues to condemn & speak out about the abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk by the US govt on March 25, 2025. She is a developmental psychology graduate. #childpsyc #developmentalpsyc #lifespanpsyc #acadmicsky #childrenandyouth @srcdorg.bsky.social @issbd.bsky.social

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

Check to see how much you "helped" train Meta's large language model 🤬

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

I know the world is on fire, but can you help a girl graduate? She needs way more people to fill out her dissertation survey. You can fill it out if you're Black/AA and have ever been in grad school! If not, you can help by sharing! #BlackSky #AcademicSky #PhDLife #Blackademics #MedSky #Academia

How do different brain cell types connect with each other? We're mapping every brain cell to learn more. In this video from our #ElectronMicroscopy team, we see just how complex brain cells can be! #BrainAwarenessWeek

BREAKING: Mexican Cartels abandon Canada after being forced to conduct business in both English and French

In September in Geneva we applauded a major milestone in the effort to eradicate measles and rubella viruses from the face of the earth. Today an unvaccinated child has died of measles in the country where the vaccine was developed. This is not greatness.

Psychology Starter Packs Mega-thread of 68 psychology-related starter packs! Click on this post and scroll up! ☝️ #AcademicSky #PhDSky 🧪

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

Is the communications pause that's been imposed on the US government's health agencies affecting you? @statnews.com would love to hear about it. Please let us know. www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...

Reminder. Words matter. Words like "fascism." Fascism is a political system in which a group or single leader rules from an anti-democratic far right ideology of nationalism, militarism, a distaste for cultural liberalism, and a belief in an elite societal hierarchy. Use your words well.

Women: You are invited to participate in a study of how identity characteristics influence women’s experiences of bias at work. Fill out the brief survey here: amy-diehl.com/study (And please repost and share this link).

This is a really nice review of the career of a tremendous scientist and wonderful person who will be greatly missed

Just a reminder that on Bluesky we are the algorithm. If you like something, promote it, or it won't be seen

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

if you live in LA and are or might be evacuating: take a cellphone video of you walking around your place, going over all of your belongings, it's admissible when trying to get insurance payouts for it

How does one write in a world that accepts a genocide?

I am enraged by the media, doctors, and politicians who are sane washing RFK Jr and claiming some common ground. Common ground only exists when there are genuinely good intentions, but anti science grifters are not presenting good faith arguments. There is no common ground, only a slippery slope.

Editorial by @andyribner.bsky.social and me introducing the special issue on environmental influences on early executive function development in IBAD. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interesting...