my partner and Heated Rivalry: a summary

💫 Now in PSPR: We theorize a strength-based solidarity framework, wherein members of different marginalized groups recognize common identity-conscious strengths (e.g., community strength, resilience) and work to improve each other's lived experiences. 1/6 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

i can't believe one of the greatest sports romances this year came from stucky / hockey RPF

"Researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers..." Pro-death administration.

adversarial collaboration? oh you mean a heated rivalry?

I'm glad I decided to go to therapy to build skills to help me manage ruminating about things like this

where are all my haters at

I swear to fucking god mozilla, *everyone hates this idea*. Do NOT succumb to The Fear & the Monetization Disease. You don't need to have a "modern AI browser", at all, ever. You need to be th comany that respects user privacy, meaningful consent, & choice; the one w/ The Browser That Fucking Works

Given the discourse, I’m reminded of this classic paper that’s still influential among sociologists of race and ethnicity. It argues that prejudice arises from a relative sense of “group position” when one group believes resources are their perogative. Jobs are the paradigmatic example.

 Crenshaw is no more responsible for the appropriation of her work than Dr. King is for conservatives taking his “content of their character” quote out of context. The responsible parties are bad actors hoping to undermine clear thinking about the causes and consequences of discrimination.

its called dummy coding because i can't figure out another one

i believe people when they say linux has gotten better in the last few years. what i'm skeptical of is that linux Guys have improved. i will not use an OS where i'm at high risk of someone calling me stupid for not liking some aspect of the experience. i must be allowed to hate the computer

what it feels like checking up with finance to see if they've processed your conference reimbursement that's worth an entire paycheck before they leave for the holidays

Now in press at Topics in Cognitive Science! We review children's understanding of different kinds of visual media across contexts, and argue that this work has important implications for childhood learning and assessment tools @cogscisociety.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

So, an agency that wants to run ads for gambling funded Australia’s (terrible, misguided, authoritarian) campaign to ban teens from social media because now the government is abandoning a plan to ban gambling ads citing the age verification law as a rationale www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/12/p...

this fact is the definitive judgment on kirk's life

A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...

i was talking to my therapist yesterday about how i caught myself getting mad at someone i didn't like because i imagined they did something they didn't do, and a lot more people need to reflect on that

When it comes down to it, our “I told you so”s in the camps are really gonna slap.

Labubu’s were in the bible you should open one sometime

This @psychologytoday.com piece by @rossgwhite.com explores what fuels dehumanization, citing past work by Francesca Prati, Richard Crisp, & Monica Rubini showing that counter-stereotype exposure reduces prejudice and helps re‑humanize others. 🧠💙 www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

"we want to draw attention to a troubling trend in the promotion of #OpenScience: the leaking of standards relevant only to quantitative research to all paradigms"

Every time birthright citizenship comes up, I think about my dissertation on anti-immigrant attitudes and the feedback I got from the (now openly) maple MAGA grad student who said that "no one would seriously think like this" lol

look, if you are going to offer Google Gemini for students, and the AI assistant pops up randomly and says stuff like "help improve your reports" then I don't think you can get mad that the students are using AI

Every few weeks Doug Ford does something that makes life in Ontario appreciably worse and makes me think "maybe I will apply for jobs in the U.S." and then go on bluesky and think "maybe not"

🚨new article🚨 "Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive 🧵Thread🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

first baseball, now hockey...i'm in my sports fan era

It's World AIDS Day! I feel incredibly privileged to be able to do the work I do and make a small contribution to the lives of people from some of the communities most impacted by HIV. I've learned so much from being part of this work! share.google/PoVhVbNltKE4...

📣 Excited to share new work led by @anneleh.bsky.social and Star Hartley in @spssi.bsky.social's Journal of Social issues! We report studies w/ indigenous iTaukei and Indo-Fijians (displaced under colonial rule) investigating how each reasons about equal rights and democratic governance in Fiji.

Now published in @cmaj.ca: a 2025 update to Canadian guidelines on HIV PrEP and PEP.  Led by CTN+’s Dr. Darrell Tan, these guidelines include 31 recommendations and 10 good practice statements to support clinical decision making, developed by experts from across Canada.    👉  https://bit.ly/3MyNfNG

It's becoming increasingly clear that many of these events are orchestrated (either a-priori or post-hoc) to target trans people and generate widespread outrage. We all could benefit from the @onthemedia.bsky.social Breaking News Consumer handbook: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

i've listened to the muppets parody version of the Wicked soundtrack more than i care to admit

Sometimes I review something so bad, and the person is so resistant to feedback, that I say "sure, let it move forward so you can deal with the reputational damage" and I wonder if that's what happened here

The only stage musicals I've seen either involved singing cats (Lion King) or took place in a fairytale world where the protagonist was ostracized for being green (Shrek)

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playing the game where the university says they won't reimburse something so i add yet another item i didn't bother asking to be reimbursed for because it goes over the limit of my travel funds

Does anyone have an example of examining contrasts using emmeans for multinomial regressions with an interaction term? #psych #stats

Going to therapy to learn better emotional regulation strategies for when you have to deal with administrative issues in academia

It's Transgender Day of Remembrance! Our trans friends face unique barriers to accessing safe and affirming healthcare, but we can do better: Caring for Trans and gender-diverse people - Community-Based Research Centre share.google/e4gEXkMeu5nt...

maybe the real good deeds were the ones we punished along the way

I think we could fully fund a couple grad student if we had a nickel for every person who is racist and does mesearch studying racists.

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

AI is so useful, iMessage just summarized a text and made a 17-word text a 10-word summary and completely telling me the opposite of what was said

This—on my former university, department, and advisor—is harrowing but required reading for all social psychologists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

When will Adobe Acrobat Reader have their version of instagram stories

I feel like we have this conversation every few months and then we also talk about the benefits of within-person designs and then we're back to doing whatever

look, i'm not even reading my own emails

I'm back! In this experiment we had 39 participants choose between 8 different PhD programs which varied in terms of region, application materials, prestige, and fees. Importantly, two of the programs had a GRE requirement and two were equivalent but did not: