Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966), “At Close of Day” (1941), oil on board, 33 x 38.1 cm.

Love this, love this. This kind of subtle light is so hard to capture in paint and it’s so well done here. Scrumptious.

Changes in Google Scholar that worry me: 1: Advertising search via AI on the homepage. 2: The surge in Academia.edu article hosting, a platform that is heavily invested in venture capital and huge corporations.

One thing I’m unsure about with using AI to perform biology/medicine work is, how is it trained? I think there’s a benefit to using massive data to help discover things quickly, but if we’re training it to look at it the same things we do the same way, are we not just replicating our blind spots?

PSY student researcher Rachael Blanchard has conducted a lit review synthesizing over 20 scholarly articles on psychiatric interviews & psychosocial assessments for @hrcowan.bsky.social's lab. Recently, she received a PURI Award to build upon her work. Full Q&A: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/... 💚

Miss you, Mister. I hope there are so many dinner plates and butter dishes for you to steal from in kitty heaven. Thank you for being the absolute best.

🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3

Every time I get into an argument about discrimination against women in the workplace, I end up in the same tired spiral. No, it’s not about achieving 50/50 m/f ratios in every career field. It’s about THIS kind of harassment no longer being a part of the experience for any woman in any field.

Congrats to MSU grad student Anna Benedict on being named to Notre Dame’s prestigious Domer Dozen—which recognizes the top 12 outstanding young alumni! See how Anna is changing the conversation around serious mental illness through research and storytelling: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/... 💚

Congrats to MSU graduate student Bailey Rann on receiving a 2025 J. Frank Yates Student Travel Award from @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social! Get to know Bailey more here: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

Congrats to MSU graduate student @abbycassario.bsky.social on being awarded a 2025 Student Publication Prize from @spspnews.bsky.social! Full story here: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

Lansing area friends - families in the Greater Lansing area struggling without SNAP. The Greater Lansing food bank needs your help to feed our community. Please consider donating! greaterlansingfoodbank.org/donate

A reminder that I’m accepting applications for PhD students!

Today ICE and federal agents detained a man at 26 Federal Plaza during court recess, before he had the opportunity to have his hearing.

Meet Dr. Meltem Yucel, our new moral psychologist! Dr. Yucel has a passion for understanding why people behave the way they do. Her research focuses on how children and adults understand rules, group identity, & moral development. psychology.msu.edu/news-events/... @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social

Gender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison is currently hiring for a tenure-track position focused on gender/sexuality & AGING! We are an interdisciplinary department & welcome scholars across fields (humanities but also PSYCH, POP HEALTH, SOCIOLOGY, etc.) Deadline: Nov 11! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

The new journal Replication Research is now taking submissions. You can read the inaugural editorial on the journal website! #OpenScience #replication

My paper “Testing Theories of Threat, Individual Difference, and Ideology” is a winner of the Student Publication Award this year. I’m proud of this one, because it shows that if we ask interesting questions and use rigorous methods, we can contribute to ~science~ even when we’re wrong or 1/2 right!

This list of excellent SPSP awards includes @abbycassario.bsky.social’s paper on threat, personality, and ideology, one winner of the student publication award! 🎉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

nerds freely nerding in their nerd field is really lovely www.science.org/content/arti...

Parents of 0- to 12-year-olds, come do science with us! We run short, game-like studies with kids. We offer in-person and online options, flexible scheduling (weekdays & weekends), and sessions that are fun for children and easy for caregivers.

Exciting news from the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science--a joint effort to enhance open science training in clinical psychology! If you are interested, you can the papers mentioned in the email here: Van Til et al. osf.io/h34jg/files/... OSC paper (Lynam et al.) osf.io/preprints/ps...

✨✨ New paper out in JPSP! ✨✨ Despite rich theory on links between temperament and personality, they're rarely studied together. This has left major unaddressed questions. We tackled these questions by looking at how temperament and personality develop together from ages 10-26. Brief thread...

I assume it’s normal in academic writing to go from feeling happy and confident and on a roll to sick with anxiety and like what you’ve written might actually be the worst, with those 2 feelings on an endless loop?

Mood today youtu.be/lYZ9B7N6vHM?...

Rather than emphasizing derision when everyday people use AI, it seems the most prudent thing is to have compassion and guide people towards literacy. Don’t get me wrong - big companies, especially those in the creative art spaces, have no justifiable reason to be replacing human labor. But —

Liked my fit today enough to doodle it.

It turns out that it’s hard to write when you have the J.G. Wentworth opera jingle playing in your head on repeat.

When you strip away humanity

If we can bring back Air Bud we can bring back the goodest boy ever

When I was in undergrad I co-authored a cog psych paper on category sequence and note-taking effects on learning. Excited to share that it’s officially been published! 😄 link.springer.com/article/10.3...

What is happening in LA chills me to my core. The right-wing talk about and treat today’s immigrants worse than was dealt to my Irish ancestors. The POTUS has mobilized military force against the people, to round people up the way they rounded up my Japanese family.

Know your rights.

Fellas, is it woke to be a straight white womanizing hitman?

Absolutely no shade to Isabella Merced but I am slightly devastated that the big screen’s Hawkgirl isn’t a muscle mommy 😔

Local pan-poly-enby decides to dress up for Pride this year and realizes their wardrobe is 97% solid black.

I’ve decided that hell is waiting uncertainly for an increasingly delayed flight home where your dogs that you haven’t seen in two weeks are waiting for you.

Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that makeup that looks good in your bathroom will look like shit in your car.

My dogs know I’m leaving them. They’re acting somber and giving me the most baleful looks. I’m this close to saying “sorry, everyone, I can’t visit you.” 🥺

I am making a game this summer - the theme of the game jam is Bad Games. If you want to playtest my Bad Game when it’s complete, it’s going to be a tamogatchi-type. I’ve never made a game before and I’m excited to try something new!

To live with corgis is to understand the plight of Sisyphus. One may brush them for eternity and there would yet be undercoat to shed across every surface for all of time.

My roommate was surprised to find out that I like BABYMETAL, but I think it’s a pretty unsurprising evolution for someone who was super super into vocaloid music in the mid-2000s.

How it feels trying to introduce my friends to weird music

It’s an Epica kind of morning open.spotify.com/track/6JJMwY...

I don’t think it will be long before I’ll have seen more dandelions in one Michigan spring than my entire lifetime prior. It’s a dandelion explosion! Every day there’s more of them!

Looking back to some old sketches and appreciating them with new eyes. 2024 drained me dry of creativity. I want to get back in touch with this part of myself.

I wish that were me 🥺