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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 ⬇️

I can’t remember where I heard this (maybe somewhere obvious) but I tell students the product of the masters is not their thesis, it’s them and their abilities.

I bet Santa only gets minor revisions 🎄🎅😉

Grading is finished, I'm not caught up on my writing, but I did make gingerbread cupcakes with cream cheese frosting 🎄

Assistant or Associate Professor (Canada Research Chair) in Healthy and Inclusive Work, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1715853...

Meanwhile @paolopalma.bsky.social and I do this all the time 👀😂

It’s one of the most important and underrated dating skills: Being able to end a relationship kindly, gently, and without drama. Here’s what to say (with explanations why you’re saying it and strategies if things don’t go well). open.substack.com/pub/psycholo...

We had our last SCWASH lab meeting of the semester and celebrated by reviewing our accomplishments from the past semester, setting goals for next semester, and building a gingerbread village together!

Ready for your next travel adventure? Join me and Sexual Health Alliance in Paris and/or Amsterdam this spring for an immersive and unforgettable study abroad trip! https://www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/2025/11/13/study-abroad-with-me-in-paris-and-amsterdam/

Canada’s updated PrEP and PEP guideline strengthens our prevention efforts. It centres accessibility, equity, and clear communication, reflecting what communities have needed for years. My new blog explores why this matters. #UequalsU #PLHIVLeadersNOW #HIVPrevention

I made a bunch of Die Hard references in my lab meeting today and, judging by the blank looks I got, either my lab members don't know the move well (or at all!?) or I'm not as funny as I think I am. Either way 😬

Literally me right now as I realize I now have to grade the papers I assigned for my grad seminar this semester. 😭

Thrilled to talk with @neilbedi.bsky.social for this excellent deep dive into an emerging and alarming form of gambling www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We absolutely will not be doing Elf on the Shelf in my house - just looking at the set ups other parents are doing makes me feel empathetic stress!

I wrote a reference letter for a grad student's funding application today and sent them a copy to look at. I loooooved when mentors did that for me and I'm so happy to carry on the tradition of letting trainees read something that pumps them up.

I wrote a reference letter for a grad student's funding application today and sent them a copy to look at. I loooooved when mentors did that for me and I'm so happy to carry on the tradition of letting trainees read something that pumps them up.

Seeing IQ discourse on here It is predictably bad

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky New paper interesting (minority labels over-represented in both positive & negative news) But I give special hats off to this cute, but very meaningful, intergroup image ❤️ Each alien had two majority attributes, & one minority. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

My wife has been HIV+ for 34 years. She’s alive today b/c work of activists who destigmatized the virus, pushed medical science to adapt & find ways to treat it, & advocated for gov health programs that helped fund her care. The current U.S. regime may want to go back in time, but we won’t let them.