lol. "please note that APF is not able to offer feedback on individual applications."

just got rejected for a grant from an application that I forgot I had sent in. it was submitted that long ago.

This book coming out in early 2026 looks interesting.

I guess you Winsome, lose some

Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!

Look at how ratings of Israeli restaurants in the U.S. declined as Israel’s ground invasion in Gaza intensified.

lol; as statistical power goes up, effect sizes go down

be safe, hoos.

Interesting. "Grokipedia’s generation process elaborates on existing material...rather than producing substantively new or more rigorously sourced knowledge" "[Grokipedia] mirrors Wikipedia’s informational scope but... favor[s] narrative expansion over citation-based verification"

Interesting results from Germany shows that the political content consumed on TikTok tends to skew conservative.

"Expanded access to legal cannabis has not worsened respiratory health overall"

Academics: on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the most confident and 1 being the least confident... ... how confident are you that you can accurately detect AI usage in the manuscripts you review?

Want to decrease abortions? Make contraceptives free.

Elon Musk's involvement in politics really hurt Tesla sales. "Without the Musk partisan effect, Tesla sales between October 2022 and April 2025 would have been 67-83% higher, equivalent to 1-1.26 million more vehicles."

9. The answer is 9.

I'm organizing a conference section. ≈160 authors submitted papers. Bet you can't guess how many of them volunteered to be discussants.

Who would want to take on the role of UVA’s President with this agreement hanging around their neck?

This doesn't seem like a very good deal.

re. UVA's agreement with the Trump administration, this seems important. Can the government still bring an enforcement action against UVA alleging civil rights violations? Yes.

In response to anti-DEI legislation in the states, universities have started to hire more white male faculty. This increase starts before bills are signed into law. Universities appear to be anticipating anti-DEI legislation and preemptively hiring more white men.

Can you guess what happened when Denmark doubled the amount of parental leave parents could take? ... ... ... Intimate partner violence declined as a direct result.

BREAKING: wars devastate economies.

Homeless shelters reduce crime. "Our findings suggest that shelter functions as a public good with high social benefits." www.nber.org/papers/w34376

Wolves FTW! "Wolves reduce the share of animal [vehicle] collisions by 38 percent, reducing risk to human life and property." www.nber.org/papers/w34377

"Our findings indicate that having an extra child is linked to a decrease in women’s longevity by approximately 5 months." "Men, on the other hand, experience smaller and insignificant reductions in longevity of about 3.3 months."

New work on school cell phone bans just dropped. "Bans...led to a[n] ... increase in student suspensions in the short-term ... but disciplinary actions began to dissipate after the first year." "We find significant improvements in student test scores in the second year of the ban."

BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.

🚨 out at @apsrjournal.bsky.social 🚨 ➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation ➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India ➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months ➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms hopeful findings👇🏽

#1: select on the DV

But how can I make the Nobel about me?

This is your periodic reminder that you can add coffee stains to your LaTeX documents.

Bonkers

Academics: In your discipline, are author names usually listed alphabetically? {Reply with your field/discipline!}

New APSR sure to spark discussion argues: Confederate monuments actually reduced violence against Black people historically & that their recent removals have increased anti-Black hate crimes Monuments "act as a substitute for performative violence in constructing a white supremacist social order"

It’s unconscionable that lifesaving medical care is so expensive that we’re forced to platforms like GoFundMe to help kids survive. Regardless, if you have the desire and the means, would you consider donating to help a 6 year old family member’s battle with leukemia?

New paper led by @drlynam.bsky.social on the need for more training in and engagement with open science practices in clinical psych programs. It has been difficult to make progress due to a variety of barriers, including students working in labs uninterested or hostile to these approaches.

Perhaps one way to evaluate the quality of a research article is to assess its teachability. Is the article clear about its identifying assumptions? Does it lay out the results clearly? Does it engage with its limitations transparently?

After the heinous shooting at an LDS chapel in Michigan over the weekend, a member of the church set up a fund for the shooter's wife and children. It's raised $150k so far. Deeply moving.

Increasing the minimum wage decreases poverty and food insufficiency.

In Belgium, high speed internet increased mental health-related insurance claims.

If you have the bandwidth and know any “Mormons”, today has been especially difficult for them. Just a thought.

The median college student is willing to pay just under $3k to attend a college where the share of students with opposing political views is 10 percentage points lower.

I’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data… —Top Public Worry: Corruption —Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption —Top fear: Corruption —What one word would you use to describe American government?: “Corrupt” It’s almost like voters are trying to tell us something.

TIL some journals call desk rejections “summarily rejecting.” Sounds like they're executing manuscripts.

Reducing access to abortions ... - increases families' economic hardship, - increases families' debt, - increases income inequality, - increases housing insecurity, and - increases financially motivated crime rates.

The pretty draft is now online. Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...