June 1st:

Happy Filipino Heritage Month

How do immigration threat perceptions relate to policy preferences and political behaviour? @J.Dennison shows that threat perceptions are multidimensional, driven by threat sensitivity and migrant cues, shaping policy preferences and influencing behaviour indirectly. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

guy who makes the backrooms in pokopia

Obligatory nod to the paper @sociologylauren.bsky.social and I wrote on the demographic differences in how people define concepts such as racism, sexism, and classism. In short, lots of disagreement on whether intentionality, power, and equality in treatment or outcome matter.

I feel like people who say this are unaware of the many other signals about their position in the hierarchy like…being over twice the staff’s age or being the one signing reference letters

This is why I keep saying that the attacks on American science are attacks on global science because another country is not stepping up to fill the void. China may decide to do so eventually but so far hasn’t indicated that it will.

postdocs really be like “hey i have acquired over half a million in grant funds and fellowships can i have an entry level research job”

opening bsky after having submitted a job app to read posts about the destruction of academia

And even if they weren't, US spending on academic R&D is more than 3x as much as the second-highest spender. The entire EU combined only spends ~25% more than the US despite having more than double the population. Nobody's swooping in to pick up the tab ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb2023...

And again, it's not that any of us, as faculty, staff, graduate students, or undergraduates, expected to win. It's that we expected our leaders to fight instead of putting their heads in the sand, or worse, actively collaborating.

we need to skip past woke 2.0 and go straight to woke MAX

It’s times like this where I need to remind myself not to think about how the right wing grifters in social psych are reacting

“What we are seeing is a coordinated and well-resourced effort to roll back trans people’s rights and reshape public debate.” New research maps, for the first time, the rapid rise of ‘gender critical’ organisations alongside high volumes of anti-trans media coverage.

one of the more annoying developments in 2026 is navigating how to ask senior collaborators not to use AI when giving feedback on a manuscript

This made me think of how my current institute makes it incredibly difficult to even collaborate across universities *in* Canada

Our new pub is out! We argue that any future scholarship on the politics of inequality should center the people. We call this the PUBLIC framework (Pluralistic methods, UnBiased perspectives, Local dynamics, Intersectional understanding, & Critical of power). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Question for #psych #stats people: Let's say we measure a construct (e.g., "A") using one questionnaire ("b") at some time points, and another questionnaire ("c") at another time point. Is there a way to test if they're measuring the same construct and is comparable (e.g., measurement invariance?)

“we need mental health funding that isn’t consumed with the latest fad (genetics, machine learning, the microbiome, or whatever). Mental health is an incredibly complex problem that needs attention at many different levels”

found interesting results

I can't be the only one who hears this, right? #statsmeme

@isibb.bsky.social 💀💀💀

learning they’re cancelling a white person for making ube ice cream on twitter

They need their own Google scholar. Perhaps “Quackademics” ?

Apropos of nothing does anyone know if there’s a secret cult of nuns working on genetically engineering their messiah

❌ Graphic design is my passion ✅ Graphic design is my divine calling

You make fun of horoscope girlies ⭐️ but then you let a pile of linear algebra tell you what to do….

1/ New @Nature! We study how powerful institutions shape the information environment for LLMs. Commercial LLM training is opaque, so we trace a path from state-coordinated media -> training data -> model responses.

I tried to take bluesky off my phone to be productive but unfortunately bluesky also exists on my laptop where I work

I come from an immigrant family that doesn’t trust the dishwasher and you expect me to use AI?

hi, poasting expert here! this is not funny, poasters only do this when they're in extreme distress.

I hate how vibe coding refers to using AI to code bc I wanna say I vibe write, but I mean going to a nice cafe or creating other nice spaces with the right vibe to promote writing productivity

lotta scientists waking up Catholic today

Journal had so much trouble finding a second reviewer they just decided to give our paper an R&R based on a single review, and I’m grateful for this, but it’s rough out there 😭

And there are people who use AI for therapy…

Here’s the article btw: Cheng, Myra, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Sunny Yu, Dyllan Han, and Dan Jurafsky. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, no. 6792 (2026): eaec8352.

If you can help, please do. And please listen to trans folk and give the support they state is going to be most helpful. If you’re giving to orgs, listen to trans folk and give to the orgs they state are actually helping. If you can’t give financial support share and boost stories.

Looking forward to see many of you at #APS26BCN this week! I'm extra excited to hear about the amazing research of Kendra Wyant (Wisconsin), Paula Philippi (Wuppertal), and @eikofried.bsky.social (Leiden) in our symposium on Saturday at 10:30 in Room 123; their talks are going to be ✨spectacular✨

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

I keep forgetting that when the Canadian government did their LGBT purge they also tried to make a gaydar with the most homophobic name imaginable ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

My only contribution to the X vs bsky discourse is that if you enjoy X so much, why are you on here trying to get people to go back and giving advice on how to not get targeted by alt-right trolls or Nazis? Just go enjoy X and let people who want to avoid alt right trolls and Nazis avoid them

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

On panelView, and why we should always look at our data first.. yiqingxu.substack.com/p/plot-your-...

There is a position for a Postdoc (3+3 years) in my lab. If you are interested in studying goals, self-regulation, self-control, motivation, personality, well-being, personality development, and/or intra-individual variability with me, here is more information jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/0...

I’d like to add something else to this convo: many of people who qualify for permanent residency in the United States would no longer qualify if they went home — because their existing visa is on the basis of refugee status (fear of home) or a job they’d lose. Like it’s absurd at every level.

you think the arxiv preprint ban is unfair because you shouldn't be expected to read everything you or your collaborators cite, I think its unfair because sometimes zotero doesn't update the metadata properly and i'm a little baby and shouldn't be expected to check ): we are not the same

Is “causal mediation decomposition” just a fancy name for a regular mediation when you don’t want to argue about using cross-sectional data

I mention this because NHANES has sadly become a magnet for low-value studies journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Me when I play mad libs