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You can now watch Jeremy's excellent talk on the term "association" and what it's even supposed to be referring to on YouTube. Must watch if you're doing associational research! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKdC...

If you’ll be at the World Conferences on Research Integrity, consider joining our pres, “Friendly Ghosts?”. We’ll discuss authorship dilemmas when contributors decline. Tuesday, 11.15am, Stream G. Me, Jennifer Wright, and Michael Vincent #WCRI2026 #researchintegrity @wcrifoundation.bsky.social

I'm not going to provide details, so don't ask. Nevertheless: No, it is not OK to have one hallucinated cite. No, you can't delete that and expect me to take the rest of your work seriously. No, absolutely not. It should never ever happen.

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One of my intro stats students e-mailed me today because they were checking their work using Chat GPT. Chat told them why they got a question wrong and they wanted confirmation. I gently reminded them that Chat GPT is an LLM and not really meant to do math. Also, yes, it's explanation was wrong

My honours thesis student did such a great job presenting her work at our psychology thesis poster conference yesterday!! She took on a really challenging but really important project and I'm so proud for her!!

"On the one hand, you have an imaginative property beloved by millions, and on the other, there are actually existing trans people." 🎁 defector.com/its-time-to-...

I did my first reverse seared roast today and it turned out so great! Now, where does this go on my CV?

Great piece from Nutrition Action on using ChatGPT for advice on diet and health. #Nutrition #AI #PublicHealth

A matchmaking gift set that, tragically, sets you up with your own mother… called Oedipal Arrangement

In lab meeting next week, I'm going to talk to my students about time management. What are your hot tips for time management? What's something you wish you had learned earlier that improved the way you get your work done?

Not me over here using "find and replace" to remove fix all the spots where my fingers were on autopilot and I used a double space after a period! 🫠

I developed a paranoid habit of hitting control-S after every thought I type out while I'm writing - thanks to losing work several times on Word. I now find it unsettling NOT doing that while I write in a Google doc. 😬

This is a nuclear bomb to Ontario's democracy. The Ford government wants to obfuscate absolutely everything it does.

It's honestly blackpilled me a little how the last couple of years have revealed that so many people are just fundamentally averse to reading and writing and thinking as worthwhile human activities.

I dunno man, I think precipitously canceling people's funding caused a lot of damage to other people's careers and lives and reputations and maybe they should live with the blowback. They come from a media ecosystem that makes public lists of insufficiently bigoted professors.

The academic urge to eschew work-life balance when your partner is out of town.

Study promotion for a great PhD student! If you and/or your romantic partner are experiencing depressive symptoms, consider participating in this online study. Your participation can help researchers better understand romantic partner support. Open to couples of any gender or sexual orientation 🌈

I'm reading a paper from 2017 that uses the word "whilst" to an excessive degree and it's making me so annoyed with the review team. 😳

Cartel violence hit the popular tourist area of Puerto Vallarta on Sunday, cancelling flights in and out of the town. globalnews.ca/news/1170876...

Maybe of interest: The submission guidelines of Psychological Science now demand an explicit statement on measures taken to reduce the risk of AI-generated responses for all online studies! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Postdoc! 🚨🚨 Postdoc opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026). We study identity, group dynamics, language, & politics. Rolling review begins 3/14 Apply: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15806 Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇

PLEASE. Use "insert page break" instead of just hitting the return key a few times. 😭

This is really cool @cbcgem.bsky.social

Scott Galloway recently told Derek Thompson on his podcast that childbirth is “disgusting” and “unnatural” for dads. I’ve studied fathers' experience of childbirth in my lab for years, and I think Galloway is wrong. darbysaxbe.substack.com/p/scott-gall...

"I am special, I am immune to The Algorithm, it will not change me" you are not special and it will make you worse you should leave

We always joke about how it would be cool to see an amateur do all the events at the Olympics to show how talented the athletes really are... But DANG we cannot do this with the winter Olympics -some of these sports are so freaking dangerous! Do not send me down a bobsled track fam, I wanna live!

Sometimes reddit is an amazing resource. www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/co...

This year, get her what she really wants for Valentine's Day Vengeance

It's the anniversary of the Toronto Bathhouse Raids: Toronto Bathhouse Raids (1981) | The Canadian Encyclopedia share.google/oCFbObk5FvUY...

Tell me five classes you took in university (I'm going to assume undergrad): My list doesn't tell as clear a story, but... Neuroscience Neuropsychology Advanced Statistics & Research Methods Music and pop culture Classical Mythology Aaaand now I'm an applied social psychologist 🙃

My back deck, filling up with snow over 24 hrs 🫣❄️

I upgraded my phone and one of the most frustrating things is that an app I use regularly has apparently been discontinued and I can't get it for my new phone and I miss it. Technology is amazing and wild and annoying.

who did this

My Instagram algorithm is showing me a lot of things about how winter is a time to slow down to rest and restore. I fully agree with this, but I need someone to inform a) my toddler and b) my academic workload about this.

I finally finished season 2 of Peacemaker!

Speaking of #rstats, my buddy Joey Merrin and his colleagues recently published a paper in AMPPS/had an R package "CATAcode" accepted to CRAN. Looks like a banger set of resources to navigate those finicky "choose-all-that-apply" (CATA) survey questions! Check it out!

We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk link.springer.com/article/10.3... My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.

Pleased to share for those using #rstats for analyzing #dyadic data, that we released a major update of dySEM on CRAN (now ver. 1.4.1) *just* before the winter break. New functionality for scripting/outputting dyadic SEMs, along with (much) more test coverage! 🧵 cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

Want to come work in a great Psychology Department? Able to teach within Cognitive and/or Behavioral Neuroscience areas of expertise? Well, we have a spot you'll love full well here in Kansas! careers.k-state.edu/jobs/teachin... (Apps due by March 1, 2026)

“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health”

I really got used to my end of semester level of inbox activity. Grinding through my inbox today is grueling!! 😵‍💫

Hey, get that flu shot. Knowing folks who are catching this current flu and it's kicking them in the teeth -- the shot will, worst case scenario, prevent it from taking you to the hospital or the morgue. It might knock it out quicker for you or even help you duck catching it. (Mask up, too.)

It's been a very productive holiday break. I created a course outline for the new seminar I'm teaching this semester and my child taught himself how to skate in about 3 (non consecutive) days on the ice. My efforts are far less exciting or adorable.

for me, 2025 was a year full of days. 365 by my recollection. there were 12 months, and I did all of em. I expect much of the same in 2026. thank you for reading

I haven't opened my work email since the 23rd, but I did make a pretty awesome snowman today!

My paper on break-up chatbots came out today, just in time for you to bring it up as a debate topic at the Christmas dinner table. A podcast on this will come out after the holidays too. Article free to read below ⬇️