"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

So this is what Douglas Adams meant when he wrote that 42 was the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

The Journal of Management has known about clear results fabrication in one of their most influential papers for almost 15 years. They even admitted that the results were impossible but then gave the paper an award. Yay science!!

Expert opinion. youtu.be/7t1pfVn6kPM?...

I know at least one university that needs to hear this: Please don't evaluate faculty on whether or not they are presenting at professional conferences if you expect faculty to pay out of pocket to attend professional conferences.

In the spirit of designs to test mediation, I might also recommend these two articles academic.oup.com/jrsssa/artic... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

This gets at something important that is in danger of being lost not only in the AI conversation but in any efficiency-focused, assembly-line model of academia. A lot of the best scholarship needs wayward paths. It's time-intensive, unpredictable, odd. The process is what produces the knowledge.

The "auto-dubbed" version of German ski commentary is just horrifically awful and hilarious. Is there absolutely no quality control here? youtu.be/tixgRrKThwo?...

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

A little too accurate.

Asking once again that researchers spend even half as much time thinking about design, sampling, and measurement as they do tinkering with their favorite R package to analyze and present their results.

New paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

This is bonkers.

Yes, Jared Diamond was wrong. Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived. And they were nothing like "primitive" phys.org/news/2025-11...

I've emigrated twice in my life - once as a kid and once as a young adult. Now I find myself vaguely considering a third such move. People who've been through that process (and moved or stayed), how did you make this kind of decision? What factors did you consider or wish you had considered?

Supply chains are completely insane. Here I am, in a small town in central Iowa in November, and I can buy a perfectly ripe Pomegranate for $1 at a store that is a block away from my house.

One of the giants of social psychology was a serial sexual harasser. This new report reveals how Miles Hewstone touched, bullied, and sexual harassed numerous women during his 18 years at the University of Oxford. It's amazing how often bullying and sexual harassment go together in academia.

At some point Harvard will surely figure out if they just keep hiring awful people or if they also turn previously non-awful people into awful people.

Observational data? ✅ Nonsensical moderated mediation model? ✅ Complete absence of open science practices? ✅ Sample size of 44? ✅ impossible standard deviations? ✅ Publication in management journal? ✅ Exorbitant salary to all involved? ✅

#AcademicSky Using PISA data, analysis shows that: ✳️ traditional teaching methods (lecturing, memorization & repetition of tasks) ==> better math learning. ✳️ "Innovative" teaching ==> worse math learning. Effects amplified among low SES kids. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Like, you can’t just be e-mailing the most famous sex offender in the world about how you intend to use your professional position to make a woman have sex with you, & then keep that professional position, right?" QTNA by @elienyc.bsky.social

R - how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways. I hate thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach ...

I am hoping to recruit a graduate student for next year. That person would help conduct research on leadership, individual differences, and methodological skullduggery. Please forward to any potentially interested students.

I’ve been out of fucks for a very long time but if you’re not quite there… give this article a read! “Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore” www.blog.lifebranches.com/p/aging-out-...

It's been more than 7 months since I alerted an APA editor to serious statistical impossibilities and discrepancies in papers published in their journal by the same set of authors. How can it take 7 months to "investigate" something that can be confirmed on the back of napkin in 5 minutes?

I appreciate the intention but I really wish that faculty paid much less attention to these personal statements. You have no idea who wrote them (esp. in the age of LLMs) and applicants for whom English is not their primary language may be stellar but not be able to ace these types of nuances.

Ouch

I have the mathematical ability of a marmot and yet my Erdös number is apparently 4.

This. Most "high impact factor" journals publish some absolute BS nonsense and "low impact factor" journals publish stellar stuff. If you want to base your evaluations of an article on citations (please don't) then base it on the citations that the article garners - not on those of other paper.

RIP Daniel Naroditsky.

Go home APA - you are drunk. Just got an e-mail from an APA journal reminding me that my review was due on 25th October and that it is now -5 days late.

I've learnt far too late that the secret to being a "successful" academic is making one finding or phenomenon your entire identity and then just cudgeling that thing to death for the next 40 years. Ideally you should be able to report at least 100 p-hacked 2x2 ANOVAs.

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

PROCESS mediation analysis shows ....

Power posing boosts testosterone.

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

I am so pissed that these companies - who must have known about this shit - did not pull their products off the shelves.

For those regularly baking with Casava flour please be aware that many/most commercially available flours appear to be massively contaminated with lead. More than 20 times the recommended daily limit in even a quarter cup. www.foodandwine.com/lead-contami...

Why is this not getting more attention in my academic feeds. A professor got doxed and death-threats, tried to leave the US, and is not being allowed to. Connect the dots.

Only very serious management scholars get to conduct an experiment that shows no difference between the treatment and control group and then report that the treatment had an effect because of "mediation" ™.

United States academic landscape got you down? Apply to join my lab at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada! I’m planning to accept a graduate student in Clinical Psychology. Additional information: https://www.uregina.ca/academics/programs/arts/master-phd-clinical-psychology.html

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district. The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps." www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

I sure hope that all those psychology academics making fun of the causal claims made by Trump et al about the Tylenol - Autism observational data will stop reporting mediation analyses based on observational data. I'm not holding my breath.

Consider this your annual reminder that Cosmic Crisp is King/Queen of apple varietals.

Who could have imagined that a guy who uses the moniker “Ka$h” would take over the FBI and shut down the bribery investigations of his buddies?

Happy to report that I was able to get a Covid shot in Iowa without any problem.

Does anyone know if the International Cognitive Ability Resource is still active? I've been hoping to get access to some of their resources but have not heard back after applying a week ago. If not, is there another resource for open-source cognitive ability assessment that someone can point me to?

Nuts. I immediately deleted my profile.