I’m admitting 1–2 Ph.D. students to join my lab in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at CU Boulder, starting Fall 2026. We study person perception, stereotyping and prejudice, and intervention science. Application info: www.colorado.edu/psych-neuro/... Lab info: www.svmlab.org

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... #socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob #psycjobs #psychology 1/n

Me just realizing our Fall term starts in a week..

If you can't be bothered to read, why are trying to be a scientist. Baffling...

"To the degree that these tools are saving time and energy, I am not seeing researchers reinvest those savings into developing a deeper understanding of their subject matter, making connections to new ideas, or otherwise investing in advancing their current skillset." Wonderful essay.

My latest piece, on apprenticeship, artificial intelligence, and intrinsic motivation. Handcrafted from the heart. Please, share and enjoy. open.substack.com/pub/robchave...

Cognitive Dissonance: When you rename it "Department of War", while pouting that you deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

A lady at the coffee shop this morning asked me if the gray in my hair was real or if I dyed it that way to look cool... ⚰️

After 5 years, I finally carved out time to turn this blog post on FDR (markallenthornton.com/blog/fdr-pro...) into a manuscript. The preprint features a much broader range of simulations showing how FDR promotes confounds, and how this effect compounds with publication bias: osf.io/preprints/ps...

If this is like brain imaging, in a few years it will mean people with a genuine interest in these topics will be doing harder work with fewer rewards while being left to clean up the mess of social psychology trend-chasers & careerists looking for a magic methodological shortcut that doesn't exist.

New policy: if you want to complain about PsyArxiv (a free service that didn’t exist 15 years ago), you must sign up to be a moderator.

We’re searching for a Developmental Neuroscientist! Building on UO’s rich tradition in the field, we’re excited to welcome the next scientist to carry it forward.

Lest we let PsyArXiv become full of more stuff like this...

The dearth of reviewers for papers often overlooks the expertise of lesser-known ECRs. If you know an ECR with expertise in neuroimaging, individual differences, and/or social cognition who is interested in reviewer experience for Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, please reach out to me!

In advance of next year's (likely dire) job market, here are the 2024-2025 numbers from the psych job wiki: the overall number of tenure-track job listings in psychology and neuroscience fell slightly, from 860 to 822 (this doesn't include canceled searches, which are often not properly reported).

I often hear the Thomas Insel quote about not moving the needle on mental health from the NIH ... I hear much less about the APA being a waterboarding-sanctioning relic of a different era who also hasn't moved that needle in any meaningful way. www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/u...

The finest of lines divide the hypercapitalist influencer grifting of LinkedIn from the bigoted troll-bots of Xitter.

Latest paper is finally out today! This paper originally started as a project with one of my former undergrads while I was in grad school. I am especially fond of this paper because it's all about Hawaii, and I got to incorporate a lot of historical frameworks. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/XRQWC...

Life in US academia this year..

The AI hype makes doing science so much more difficult. Fighting its nonsense takes time away from doing science and its uncritical adoption hollows out our scientific processes and deskills scientists on a massive scale.

Excited to ✨share✨ that our paper on ✨sharing✨ is published! Across 3 studies that build on one another, we show that perceived alignment with one's peers increases the likelihood of information sharing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In the latest episode of #UndertheCortex, Robert Chavez from @uoregon.bsky.social shared that our brains use two systems to encode people (allocentric and egocentric), and these systems help us organize social memory and navigate our relationships with others.

"I don't want to be a curmudgeon! I like tech and I just want to do tech stuff without constantly having to call bullshit on AI nonsense... It's exhausting to deal with credulous magical thinking from decision-makers who should know better." www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is-...

It was fun talking to folks at @psychscience.bsky.social Under the Cortex podcast about our recent paper on person knowledge reference frames, their brain mechanisms, and my general approach to our science. Red hot interdisciplinary action! open.spotify.com/episode/0YIp...

"When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning." deplet.ing/the-copilot-...

I didn't know her, but I loved her writing and thinking. RIP. helendecruz.substack.com/p/on-playing...

Ragtag 1980s mestizaje family in Socorro, New Mexico...

11yo Daughter: Light joke tailored to my interests. Pure, clever sweetness. 8yo Son: Our cat peeing on a hippo (my favorite animal) who is also peeing while they both eat lettuce. Unhinged chaotic sweetness. ❤️❤️

"Career planning" is a laughable phrase, now. How do you PLAN for a career that may or may not even exist when you complete your degree? I'm cheeky about "just wanting to do my damn research", but it's true... and the grief gets heavy. /4

Our article on perinatal self-injurious thoughts & behaviors is out today! We found that the odds of engaging in self-injurious behavior were 256% higher at 7 months postpartum relative to 3rd trimester of pregnancy, even after accounting for three risk factors. doi.org/10.1111/sltb...

Grades are in...

He is also a top shelf douche and "'How to buy my book', by ___ PhD" grifter.

I used to like to joke that I was a 3rd amendment one-issue voter and 3rd amendment absolutist, because it was so ridiculously dumb and absurd. These mother fuckers are genuinely ruining everything..

📣 Latest from the lab: Performance of deep-learning-based approaches to improve polygenic scores www.nature.com/articles/s41... Its thought deep learning will substantially improve PGS but the reality is MANY have tried but no/little gain has been seen so far. Here we report our negative results.

You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...

"Metaphorical brain talk" is a seductive habit that I see everywhere. I feel strongly it creates more confusion than clarity, even when invoked for causes that are just (e.g., neurodiversity). If we want to talk about brain things, we have to take the brain seriously. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bridging ideas from disparate areas is challenging. This paper has been through the multi-round peer review wringer unsuccessfully for a couple of years at several outlets now, and we are starting to think it may never be officially published.  But we like the ideas here, and maybe you might too..

super excited that the first paper from my PhD is now out! we develop a "philosophical toolkit" for computational cognitive modeling & use it to conceptually re-analyze a long-standing debate about evidence accumulation models of decision making 🧠📈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to share the DIMS Dashboard—a tool for displaying multimodal, extracted time series alongside the original video source! It’s designed to support and inspire a richer qualitative–quantitative research cycle. Huge thanks to my amazing collaborators and mentors who made this possible! 🙌

Still looking for interesting mid-life crisis suggestions... (my tattoo sleeve idea turned out to be expensive and pedestrian).

Wedged between haphazardly glued together sequel/prequel parameters and the touchy loaded guns of fandom nonsense, #Andor emerges as the best series in all of Star Wars... by far. Period.

RFK jr is a memetic cordycep, making the public's view on every healthcare issue just a zombie-ant climbing to the top of the tree to die and infect the next one.

I understand..

I feel so honored to be President-Elect of @sansmeeting.bsky.social. These are dark times for science, but together we are stronger. With President @dfareri.bsky.social, I look forward to advocating for science, bringing together our community, and finding a path forward.

I love SANS, this year was no exception. Happy to get to see @dfearagon.bsky.social present a slice of the stuff we've been working on, and catch up with some of my favorite people. I'm already looking forward to next year. #SANS2025

Finally, @markthornton.bsky.social reveals his true self.... (as well as a very balanced argument about the use of AI/deep-learning in psychology and neuroscience) #SANS2025

Beats by Rob™️, finally headed to Chicago... Excited for #SANS2025

OA here 📖: drive.google.com/file/d/1d2Pc...

OA here 📖: drive.google.com/file/d/1d2Pc...

Looks great!!