Germany being dispossessed of the ball with such ease over and over again is just embarrassing to watch. Like 8 year olds playing with the big boys.

I will never complain about my job again. I will never complain about my job again. I will never complain about my job again.

Scary stories about teens sell. The data tells a different story. After decades studying adolescent mental health, here's what I found: This isn't an anxious generation. It's a resilient one. Let's start treating them that way. go.ted.com/candiceodgers

I've been getting quite a lot of interview requests lately - often from people writing a book about something that I supposedly have expertise on. Some of these people are asking for multi-hour interviews. How do folks deal with this? Do you charge for your time?

Campbell, 1988, explaining why he disliked working in Chicago and almost considered leaving academia (which would have been a huge loss) due to the highly competitive environment and the idea you should write only brilliant papers.

What. A. Fucking. Asshole.

The algorithm is a little too predictable - engage with someone who is recovering from surgery and suddenly your feed is 50% surgery recovery posts from random strangers.

Web of Science makes it easy to calculate self-citation rates and the difference across researchers is nuts. I know of one person for whom self-citations are >20% of their total citations. For comparison, I'm at around 1%.

There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.

I feel like I've spent a huge chunk of my entire career paralyzed by the dishonesty and incompetence of a huge chunk of the "researchers" in my field - and disheartened by the apparent fact that almost no one seems to give a shit.

L - GOP Rep and MI senate candidate Mike Rogers actual photo from the campaign trail. R - Photo put out by staffer.

Curiously the same design will be used for the Trump Monument that is slated to replace the Lincoln Memorial.

Fascinating footage of a human white blood cell chasing a bacterium captured through a microscope. 📽️: David Rogers

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky I find it disingenuous for Zimbardo to claim "...the SPE was intended as an exploratory demonstration rather than an experiment in a classical sense..." I mean, he routinely calls it the Stanford Prison EXPERIMENT. Even in this quote he does it!

Wouldn't it be lovely if AI use was simply restricted to doing things that humans cannot do; not things that humans do more slowly or even less accurately but simply things that we cannot do.

Thys hath been shared recentlye by several folks on thys syte

Happy "Glorious 25th of May" to those who celebrate. I hope that you wore a sprig of lilac.

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

Who has two thumbs and was briefly confused about why he had trouble reading through his reading glasses, only to realize that he had put a second pair of readers on top of his first.

Was just informed by my uni that my salary is "not aligned with institutional benchmarks" and "not consistent with peers of similar role, rank, and performance". As a result I am getting a 0.8% salary increase.

Our rhubarb plants are going a little nuts. Anyone have favorite rhubarb recipes to share?

The next James Bond should be Gary Oldman in his Jackson Lamb persona.

I'm sick and goddamn tired of evil people claiming they're the only good ones because they have to have a book to tell them right from wrong, and since good people don't need such a book, they're evil. I'm sick and tired of hate filled thugs being upheld as beacons of virtue and decency. I'm tired.

Does this mean that Psych Science should retract the Cuddy et al. p-curve paper on power posing in which the authors declare "no conflict of interest" despite the first author making millions of dollars off of the claims made in the article? The article is, of course, deeply flawed in other ways.

I often rely on LLM summaries of meetings and other events or materials. But my eyes were opened by this insightful, stern critique of the methodology by which LLMs “summarize”: William Gleng, “LLM Summarizers Skip the Identification Step”: towardsdatascience.com/llm-summariz...

From now on, I'm going to write papers where I take an arbitrary performance metric, restrict the sample to top performers on that metric, and then hunt for negative correlations with everything else in the truncated sample. I'm at a business school, so this should be extremely lucrative.

There was a quote that said something like Black people worship a Jesus who knows what it's like to be lynched, while white people worship a Jesus who will forgive them for being part of a lynch mob.

The stuff you learn from reading dissertations: 1) you have to "groom" your data very carefully and 2) you really can only conduct logistic regression analysis if you first artificially dichotomize all of your independent variables. Yay for Science!

Remember kids - you can just fabricate your results because even if someone shows that they are fabricated you can just state that you don't have the original data anymore but that (pinky promise) the inferences don't change once you correct the fabrication.

Just when I thought that "research" could not get any dumber I learned that signature size is apparently a valid proxy for narcissism & that changes in signature size cause a change in narcissism. How does this nonsense get published and cited by >500 times? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Prestige bias is a major problem in academia: success in academia leads to other unfair advantages. Prestige bias is bigger in fields that are less scientific (eg., art, history). Fields where claims are more testable have lower prestige markers (eg math, physics). kurtishingl.com/files/PTTS_l...

Its 2026 and we still have journal editors talk about how 1) complying with APA formatting is really critical because it signals how serious you are as a scholar and 2) Open Science practices are not really critical as long as you disclose that you did not use Open Science practices.

Hard to believe that there are still so many college instructors assigning take-home exams that are vulnerable to AI-assisted completion. And no, lock-down browsers won't help one bit. All you are doing is punishing those students who are still being honest.

In France, if you want to build a home above a certain size, you’re legally required to use a licensed architect. Can you guess what that size is

NEW: We highlight 3 changes in measurement of religious “nones” & call for organizations that make these changes to study their effects. From Matthew Conrad & me. www.surveypractice.org/article/1595...

Bessent is the higher-order factor explaining the covariation between stupidity, evil, and insanity.

I lol'd at this.😆

An exasperated Jason Collins bangs the drum he’s been beating for 10 years over a pure zombie study. The original research suggesting a little disfluency in communication stimulates more analytical reasoning is a spectacular replication failure: buff.ly/VxIUvYr

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

📄Published Today in Nature: 500 researchers reproduced 100 studies across the social & behavioral sciences to assess their analytical robustness (led by @balazsaczel.bsky.social & @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social). Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Preprint: osf.io/preprints/me... TLDR: 1/11

Timeline of a correction: 1. 8 April 2025: I contact an APA journal editor to inform them of serious statistical impossibilities in two papers by the same authors. Impossibilities that can be verified on the back of a napkin in 2 minutes.

I can't stand real or wannabe kings but I do make one exception.

The favorite part of my job as a Psychology Professor at my institution is knowing that I earn slightly less than half the salary of an Assistant Professor in the Business School with 3 publications.

I've apparently reached the age where I can incur fairly painful back injuries by *checks notes* watching my daughter compete at a Taekwondo tournament.

Brilliant little game: get a google street view image and guess how that county voted in the last presidential election. I scored 740/1000. www.ballotguessr.com/play