🧠 Applying to Psychology PhD programs? Join @UVA's virtual panel April 14 at 12:30PM! Current faculty & PhD students will share tips on choosing programs & creating competitive applications. All welcome, especially those from underrepresented groups. Register via QR code! #PsychPhD #GradSchool

The Metascience Alliance is launching at #Metascience2025! This new cross-sector network is building collaboration to better understand & improve the research system. We want your input! Here's how to get involved (🧵)

This is a response to Erik Parens' excellent review of my book, that I published at ELSIhub.org. I thought I would reproduce it on my Substack. Erik's essay is linked, so you can read that too. Scientific Dualisms.

Check out this new paper from my lab in which we find that memory states are influenced by congruency across consecutive memory judgments.

Check out the Quant Psych Area of UVA's Gilmer Hall in the video below: x.com/PsychologyUV...

Congratulations to the UVA Psychology Professors awarded with the 2024 Distinguished Researcher Award (Dr. Steve Boker), and the 2024 Research Excellence Award (Dr. Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social).

@uvapsychology.bsky.social Psych 4420 at UVA visit to the Biomedical Imaging Center. #UVA #MRI #PET #CT

I both of my @uvapsychology.bsky.social Brain Mapping undergraduate courses in 2024, ~50 students, there were only two males. I think that is amazing.

Game-changer for the development of new questionnaires, surveys, assessment items, using a combination of Large Language Models and Network Psychometrics.

Optimization of the landscape of LLM embeddings using Dynamic Exploratory Graph Analysis. Problem: How can the accuracy of LLM embeddings be improved when they are used to map concepts/traits using text data? Read below for a wild and interesting simulation study...

Check out the new paper of Dr. Nicole Long (@dorsolateralpfc.bsky.social): "Top-Down Task Goals Induce the Retrieval State".

Our department's team is joining BlueSky: Check out and follow Dr. Mariana Teles, the Director of the Cognitive Science Program in the Department of Psychology. She focuses on cognitive science-based interventions aimed at enhancing students' learning and cognitive aging!

This senior role will drive COS's metascience research including assessing the state of research practice, evaluating the effectiveness of interventions to improve research practice, and delivering insights to the community and COS's departments to improve what's working and stop doing what isn't.

Our Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology, Dr. Eric Turkheimer (@ent3c.bsky.social) just released his new book: "Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate". A must read...

At our Department, we have a very strong Quantitative Methods Program. Now there's a starter pack of Quant Methods here, so you can easily follow accounts interested in the field.

Hello, World (of Psychology)!

The University of Virginia Department of Psychology is HIRING an assistant professor in Human Neuroscience!! apply.interfolio.com/130439 Please share widely! 1/2 #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence 🧠💻