📢 Apply to our (2-year) research fellowships at @iast.fr Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France. Deadline: November 15, 2025. www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Spent a few lovely days at the Matterhorn Symposium in Brig 🇨🇭, where I presented joint work with @mkasper.bsky.social and others on biased institutions. Next stop: Kassel for #DPPD25 and a talk on our new scale for HEXACO personality states.

Come to Scotland, everybody!

Buonasera Milano

This fall I will have a blind student in my coding class for the first time. Do any other instructors or visually impaired coders have advice beyond making sure my book has useful alt-text for the images? #rstats #accessibility Class book: psyteachr.github.io/reprores-v5/

First Cooperation Colloquium of the semester! Doruk İriş @dorukiris.bsky.social: Normative expectations of reciprocal negotiators Friday Sep 12, 14:00 UTC+2 (Vienna) / 8 am NYC Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

A paper straight out of a feminist sci-fi novel

Are you doing research on impression formation, face perception, personality judgment, or related topics? Then you might be interested in joining our collaborative study! Follow the link for more information: tilburgss.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky

Friends and colleagues in the Berlin area: Next week (8-12 Sep) I will be visiting the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung (WZB) (Berlin Social Science Centre) @wzb.bsky.social Let me know if you'd like to meet for a coffee / drink / currywurst

I'll be giving talks 3 days in a row in 3 different Danish cities later this month. If you're in Aarhus, Copenhagen, or Odense and want to listen to me yap, well, I'll be there.

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Off to Vienna 🇦🇹 on this lovely Dundee morning

A poet on measurement

I hate to say it, but this is why at this point, I ignore anything published in low-quality mega journals. It's not just Frontiers and MDPI, it's also Sci Rep, Humanities and Social Science Communications, Plos One, etc. This is *obvious* nonsense -- this should never have gotten past the editors.

Completely nonsensical article in @natureportfolio.nature.com Humanities and Social Sciences Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Authors Anser, Ali, and Javid had another paper retracted for manipulated peer review: doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

I will be travelling tomorrow (29th) to Florence for SPUDM #spudm #spudm25, and heading to Lucca the next day. If you also arrive early, happy to meet up!

Trade offer? Extortion by the seagull mafia?

Just participants in a replication game in Tilburg. Good fun if you enjoy muckraking and very helpful for improving your own code documentation.

⚡ Autumn 2025 Cooperation Colloquia ⚡ We are excited to announce the next run of Cooperation Colloquia. With @talbotmandrews.bsky.social, @setayeshradkani.bsky.social, @kris-smith.bsky.social, @alexmesoudi.com, & more. Every second Friday, 15:00 CE(S)T Sign up here: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption. Details here: PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7... Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...

Missed this last month: Scientific Reports actually retracted an article because a mediation analysis violated causality assumptions retractionwatch.com/2025/07/11/r...

Trying to revive the old Twitter thing: @qinyuxiao.bsky.social and I just got to Tilburg for TIBER -- anybody else already in town?

📣 Call to all disgust nerds out there: Join our interdisciplinary conference on 'Disgust across borders'! 🗓️ Dec 4 & 5 📍Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse @iast.fr 💡Four fantastic keynotes, roundtables, & more Submit your abstracts and register by *August 31* here: forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...

I’ve been staying at St Andrews, Scotland for the past week, enjoying the beautiful town & nature and discussions on science. Thanks a ton @simoncolumbus.bsky.social for hosting me and the fantastic full-course dinner - Simon turned out to also be an amazing cook!

✨ The IAS Seminar Series returns for the Fall 2025 semester with a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS

📣 New registered report in @nathumbehav.nature.com with Ivan Soraperra, @jonathanschulz.bsky.social, and Shaul Shalvi: rdcu.be/eAcMA With data from 7,978 participants in 20 countries, we find that information about negative externalities promotes prosociality, especially in guilt-prone individuals.

For the last few weeks, Cecilie Strandsbjerg from @cphsodas.bsky.social visited me at St Andrews as part of a project on developing new personality scales for experience sampling studies. To round off the visit, we went for a coastal hike with @qinyuxiao.bsky.social, who's visiting from Vienna.

So pleased and proud to share this work. I started trying to think clearly about authority punishment in 2018. This new paper with Setayesh Radkani is the first fruit of that labour. Why so much struggle? See thread. 1/17

I wrote about my recent experiences taking care of my 3-year-old, Sheila Heti's "Motherhood", and the discourse around polygenic embryo selection: kathrynpaigeharden.substack.com/p/openness-t...

The incentives are stacked against being honest about future research. If researchers have sound ideas for what further research is needed, they will want to use them, especially in a grant-driven world. I say: let's give up the pretence and abandon discussion sections altogether.

Before they go on the shelves: all physical books I've acquired since I last had access to my library two years ago.

🚨Out in PNAS🚨 with @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social & @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social Punishment, even when intended to teach norms and change minds for the good, may backfire. Our computational cognitive model explains why! Paper: tinyurl.com/yc7fs4x7 News: tinyurl.com/3h3446wu 🧵

Dear universities, I am begging you to stop requiring letters of recommendation for master's programmes. You and I both know you don't read them, so stop asking for them. Instead, have applicants list a name and get in touch if it's a borderline case. Signed, Everyone.

🧵1/ 🚨 New article out! How robust is the psychology of social class? Together with Nicolas Sommet and ‪@frederiqueautin.bsky.social‬, we conducted large-scale replications of 35 hypotheses across four countries. Published in Nature Human Behaviour: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm reviewing a paper in which the authors have clearly fabricated parts of their results. If I simply point this out in my comments and recommend rejection I fear that the authors will simply fix the way that I could detect this and submit their fabricated results elsewhere. Ideas on what to do?

In case I can reach the @quarto.org and #rstats and windows users driven mad by the inability to render files when stored on dropbox (there must be billions of you right?), here's an Rstudio add-on that uses temp files instead: github.com/cdriveraus/Q...

I've started feeding the sparrows outside my window. It's like leaving cash outside a business for the mafia to find.

Eine Liberalisierung des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitsmarktes, würde Deutschland wesentlich besser tun, als das ständige Herumdoktern und Verschlimmbessern durch gesetzliche Regelungen, was derzeit stattfindet.

“Well, you can certainly be human in your philosophy writing, but you have to earn it, and you have to get the signaling right.” True not just about philosophy. Lovely essay about academic writing from @add-hawk.bsky.social: dailynous.com/2025/07/15/b...

Cecilie Strandsbjerg @cphsodas.bsky.social and I have a short review of recent research on personality states out in Current Opinion in Psychology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Anyone got any reading tips for blogs or papers on a) generalizability theory with brms b) G theory + IRT (I have Choi's 2017 dissertation)?

"Je ontvangt dit bericht omdat je eerder een ticket kocht voor Nusantara Beat of voor Jungle By Night, Altın Gün, EUT of Pom" En plots mis ik Amsterdam. Geweldige band, trouwens. Gino Groeneveld on drums.

📣 We are excited (or should we say disgusted?) to announce the conference 'Disgust across borders' at IAST! @iast.fr 🗓️ Join us on Dec 4 & 5 for two days full of disgust research across species and disciplines. Registration and abstract submission are open (until Aug 31): forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...

💥New postdoc position! 💥 Join us to explore how people learn from each other—and how that drives cultural evolution. Run experiments, build computational models & collaborate across Europe w. @lucasmolleman.bsky.social 📍 Stockholm More info: shorturl.at/CY4wk

An idea for expedited reviews: Show me your abstract and I'll send you the @dingdingpeng.the100.ci paper you should've read before you started your project.

Application deadline is July 15th! Get in touch if you’re curious to apply! 📧☺️

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, but you tell me it's a sea otter -- should I give your manuscript a pass because at least you studied an aquatic animal?

I will not submit to journals which don't accept LaTeX files. I will not submit to journals which don't accept LaTeX files. I will not submit to journals which don't accept LaTeX files. I will not submit to journals which don't accept LaTeX files. I will not submit to journals which don't accept Lat

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.