New publication alert! After four years of analysis, synthesis, and careful writing, I am pleased to announce a brand-new article, “Desistance”: A Multimethod Review of the Literature on Gender Identity Variability in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth (1) 🧵 psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

not to gatekeep catholicism but the reason jd vance can't be catholic is he lacks the ability to feel guilt which is like 50% of the vibe (the other 50% is stained glass and relics)

not to be reviewer 2 but if you argue Newsom is both a hater and an asshole then these should be represented as separate axes and not ends on a single dimension

Reading this headline while applying for multiple jobs abroad, as the Canadian government invests money to attract tenured American professors while providing no money to retain Canadian-trained PhDs

The first few articles in this collection are now published, including ours. I look forward to reading all. Our piece is not open access because of the ridiculous fees but the preprint linked at the end of the quoted thread (will link again below) is the accepted version of our commentary.

You should take note when analysts are sephiroth posting and the Pope is telling you to call your representatives.

#AcademicSky Meta-analysis on media portrayals of minority groups. Finding equal sized effects for positive & negative portrayals. And little moderation.

Even if nothing happens tonight, the President of the United States of America has already threatened to use the Armed Forces to end a civilization in order to secure policy and regime change. That ketchup doesn't go back in the bottle.

We further conceptualize ‘algorithmic bias’ as a novel form of implicit prejudice—in which human prejudices are 'laundered' via the opacity of AI—and introduce the idea of a computational level of prejudice that interacts with systemic and individual levels of analysis.

i'm gonna be brave and say immigration attitudes

New paper, out this week in PLOS One, suggests that most close relationship self-report measures are primarily capturing relationship quality 🧵 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

sometimes I feel so far behind on my writing career but I try to tell myself ok whatever I'm like one google doc away from being where I want to be

Ok so in grad school (or undergrad) I was taught to just compute an average score for participants in a scale if they complete at least X% of items (like 70-80%?). Is there like...a rationale to that or is it vibe-based?

I'd take this call to leave Bluesky, a place I already don't like posting at in an academic capacity, more seriously from someone who wasn't actively posting on Twitter.

If anyone can drop a link I'd like to read this, but blaming this on "the left's" stance on illegal vs legal immigration doesn't really explain the global right-wing shift in anti-immigrant attitudes and...

can you all keep your controversial opinions on the NYT so i can at least read it through a university subscription

This makes sense if you think that being born to immigrant parents is an unforgivable sin that not even patriotic martyrdom could ever atone for. And that’s how these people and their families will be treated once they’re in as well. Despicable.

Hey, @mark-carney.bsky.social, there's DECADES of high-quality research documenting the value of public spaces as public health determinants. (And you appreciate Value(s), don't you??) Toronto's lakefront should be a resource for ALL Torontonians and visitors to Toronto, not just people on planes.

if it wasn't for economists we'd never have 'feeling integers'

“Our results suggest that increased education is not the main fertility barrier in contemporary Norway. Instead, falling birth rates, particularly among lower educated groups, are driving the fertility decline for both genders”

We’ve gone from “the groups” must be cut out to actually the “coasts” can be ignored and everyday they’re hurtling faster and faster towards “well who else could the minorities vote for” as an explicit argument in this push for white reconciliation.

How do memories of wartime violence affect post-war inter-group attitudes? Dino Hadzic shows war memory activation increases hostility toward out-group members, especially among those who experienced violence firsthand. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/YYghH81 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #polsci

lmao how does a university reach its google workspace storage cap 😭

Fascinating new study about men’s friendships. There’s a lot of evidence here that the “male loneliness crisis” is actually a white, wealthy man problem. Other men are building friendships with similar depth to women’s friendships.

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

This is gonna happen to a LOT of colleges if we’re gonna be real about it and academics have been banging that drum ever since this started

I think it's simultaneously this and the fact that many enthusiasts seem to have a narrow sense of what job tasks are/can look like. There's a lot of "you don't understand what AI can do" coming at some of us and a legitimate response is "you don't understand what I can do, and need to, in my job."

canadian streaming services are so unserious bc wym this english-language show is only available dubbed in french with no english subtitles

NIH Fellowship awards for FY2025 by race drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/n...

I wrote a thread, and then saw a spelling mistake so now I'm just going to consider if it's worth writing a paper about it instead

I do think he's telling the truth about having no introspection because if he did he might've paused to think that saying "introspection was invented in the 1920s" is wrong

me when my fellowship ends

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

everything got worse when it became possible to be publicly cool online

i swear i'm done

From a colleague, earlier today, during a department talk

We can't measure attitudes directly...instead we use self-reports surveys. However, we use multiple items so we can cover the breadth and depth of these attitudes and we use statistical techniques to tell us how much of the variance in responses is due to the 'underlying construct'

trying to explain psychometrics in lay terms, especially in the context of attitudes and beliefs, really does sound like i'm just trying to interpret random sticks and stones inside a cup

What's with all the job postings that used to be "contract lecturer" being called an "assistant professor" with 1-2 years limited term

“Because our incentive system doesn’t care about accumulating knowledge. It only prioritizes novel contributions. In a world where novel contributions (read findings) are the capital of the land, there is absolutely no utility in building on others’ work or your own work for that matter.”

Before I drag, I want to know if they're like a qual researcher or a quant researcher who wanted to do sentiment analysis or something

What does it mean for culture to “shape” cognition? In our new TiCS paper, @benjaminpitt.bsky.social & I offer a typology of four possible effects: culture can Privilege one cognitive process over others, Prune out disfavored ones, Produce new ones, or have no effect. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

imagined interaction interventions sounds fake until you remember how many people make up a guy to get mad at online

writing a section in a grant about psychometrics and latent variables and then just citing Kline bc that's the textbook I learned stuff from

From the article: "The revised language, Mr. Skaggs said, was 'one of the main things' that made him change his mind about vaccines." State sponsored misinformation is NOT health neutral.