Delighted to share that the Open Research Games Portal by @forrt.bsky.social is now live! You can browse #Games4Research and #OpenScience and add your pedagogical feedback, even add your own #research games. forrt.org/games/ #GameBasedLearning #GameStudies #acadmicSky #eduSky

I am following a few group discussions about financial burden of single people, then this study about the coupled world. Brutal. "Credit Scores Are the New Dating Currency More than half of respondents say a high credit score actually makes someone more attractive." studyfinds.org/ready-is-you...

🎉 Thrilled to share — @nscorralfrias.bsky.social, @rimamrahal.bsky.social, @flavioazevedo.bsky.social and @almajeftic.bsky.social received the International Bridge‑Building Award from @spspnews.bsky.social. Together they will develop an open social psychology textbook: spsp.org/membership/a...

SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

For Italian speakers... Interview with Stefania Paolini from @durhampsych.bsky.social on the sense of belonging of multilingual communities in Australia. #SocialPsyc

Want to help with autism research? The Social Experiences of Loneliness of Autistic Adults (SELA) Project at the AJ Drexel Autism Institute is forming a Community Council of autistic adults (ages 18–35) to help guide a 5-year study on loneliness and social connection. Info in flyer and alt-text.

Several ECRs asked me how to get over the anxiety of presenting. What are your tips? For me, it never goes away but gets better with practices, so I always try to prepare in advance. Also, I tend to ramble when nervous so when I am up there, my goal is to make the point and finish that sentence 😅

At some point you might want to write your own geom_* for ggplot2. Here's an instruction booklet: evamaerey.github.io/ggplot2-exte... #rstats

Suggestions for podcasts? I like science, especially psychology, public health, and research methods. Thanks!

People on X are having a melt down, but here it’s nothing but celebration! 🥳

Interested in doing a PhD at the intersection of human and machine cognition? ✨ I'm recruiting students for Fall 2026! ✨ Topics of interest include pragmatics, metacognition, reasoning, & interpretability (in humans and AI). Check out JHU's mentoring program (due 11/15) for help with your SoP 👇

On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com

ABRIR team led by the amazing @alelazic.bsky.social developed workshop plan that aims to strenghten DEI in #OpenScience- by reversing who gets to teach and who learns. We’re getting ready to pilot it! Special thanks to @orca-open.bsky.social for financial support.

Just found out it is going to be a cocktail event 🤵🏻‍♀️ and there will be not just academics. I asked a colleague if I need business cards. We both are not sure but I thought it’d save me some explaining what I do. Got this from Canva. And had my nails done! 💅 Now I just need to figure out what to wear…

Analyzing experience sampling data from 408 adolescents, this study shows that the emotion regulation strategies reappraisal, reflection, social sharing, & expressive suppression are related to momentary self-esteem level & variability. @larissa-wieczorek.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I did a photoshoot of nature today to use for @thesolitudelab.bsky.social. Some photos look very close to the fall in New England, but the trees here don’t quite turn red and yellow as much.

A lot of being Brit is about waiting. It takes so long to book a driving test that there are apps to scan constantly for cancelations and snatch you the spots. UK is the only I know that you can pay extra💰 for visa to be approved in a day. There is like the whole industry monetizing on waiting here.

There still seems to be a lot of confusion about significance testing in psych. No, p-values *don’t* become useless at large N. This flawed point also used to be framed as "too much power". But power isn't the problem – it's 1) unbalanced error rates and 2) the (lack of a) SESOI. 1/ >

5% is quite a lot if you think about it. Huge N gives you the luxury to reduce alpha by a lot and still keep very high power. E.g., alpha = 0.5% (0.005) would give you 98.8% power for the same effect (in a t-test). The best balance depends on the cost of each error type, see tinyurl.com/yut35b3u >

"I had the sense that in a world where our time wasn’t so dominated by jobs & screens & economic survival, this is the kind of work that would be the most obvious to spend our time doing. Not taking care of a baby, necessarily, but finding ways to take care of each other. It felt obvious & natural"

Join APS on November 5 for a free workshop on science writing and storytelling. Learn tips for engaging and accessible science communication and make sure to bring your questions! #SciComm #AcademicSky https://instats.org/seminar/science-writing-and-storytelling

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Are you interested in ✨ registered reports, ✨ open data, ✨ replications, and ✨ diversity science? If the answer is yes, then you should join us for the online SIPS@SPSP Preconference on February 24, 2026! The registration is open, and discount codes are available. More 👇

Some @theguardian.com coverage! Women use exclamation marks 3x more than men—not from extra joy, but to avoid sounding unfriendly 😬 Online, neutrality reads as hostility, so warmth is outsourced to punctuation!! BUT it boosts likability and can hurt credibility www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Maldives eliminates mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B. No babies were born with HIV or syphilis in 2022–23, and hepatitis B has vanished among children. The WHO is calling it a “triple elimination,” the world’s first of its kind. buff.ly/lH7h3BW #ShareGoodNewsToo

We're hiring! @univie.ac.at is seeking a TT Assistant Professor in the Psychology of Digitalization. If your work is about automation, AI, or immersive technology (e.g., VR) in the context of work and organizations (broadly defined), we’d love to hear from you. 👇

PsyArXiv can deliver preprint posting and reading services to its users at no charge thanks to the generous support of member institutions! Let's give them a round of applause for their support and encourage others to follow suit!👏👏👏 buff.ly/QjJZpgn

If you can, support and contribute to @wikipedia.org, do it. donate.wikimedia.org

A bit of news. I was nominated for the #Vietnam International Awards for ongoing work to build a research centre in Ho Chi Minh (more on that later). I am not finalist but feel honored enough to attend the ceremony on Nov 8 in London alongside many innovative people that are working to give back.

Enjoy this talk. What I love is that it addresses the “elephant in the room” when it comes to adolescence without focusing too much on it. This way there is no debate whether it matters, but the point is that it matters very little. Instead, the take away refocuses people toward what matters more 👌.

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the University of Belgrade Founded in 1808 by Dositej Obradović, who was not only the education minister in revolutionary Serbia, but also an important cultural figure in Serbia If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Are you a Norway-based early career researcher who has demonstrated a clear commitment to open science practices? Apply for the 2025 NORRN open science award! ⬇️

I love seeing things like this when you can tell the original author of the scale was obviously annoyed about his scales being used in ways that he did not intend...and also by the emails. And I love that Carver's department let him leave these notes on the website. www.psy.miami.edu/faculty/ccar...

Maybe I lack creativity or am out of wacky ideas but it is safe to say whatever constructs we need to study, there is prolly already a scale to measure them. I spent the last 2 days looking for scales, even ones I think shouldn’t be measured with self-reports, I found them. There are just so many…

Most people don’t follow weather news about faraway places but this is a cataclysmic event about to happen. We’re talking millions of people affected and displaced. Think biblical floods, think biggest storm in years. @hotosm.org are we already planning an urgent #HOTOSM project? Better start now.

I will be reviewing graduate student applications in the Social Psychology Area at Miami University for the 2025–2026 application cycle (Ph.D. start date: Fall 2026). Learn more about the Affective Science & Psychophysiology Lab and how to apply on the “Join Us” tab at www.darwinguevarra.com

makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

Interesting new special issue in Psychological Assessment. Edited by Kristin Naragon-Gainey and @kstanton.bsky.social Here's their overview paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... And here's our contribution, which will win us no friends: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Currently recovering from my second travel this term. 2 more to go, 1 to London and 1 to Estonia to visit @kaitlynmwerner.bsky.social & her research group 😊. I am catching up on my journal editing. I’d like to say thank you to everyone who has responded to my invite, whether you can review or not!

I just learned about a program that mentors HS students, including those in Global South, to do research that may result in journal pubs (non-profit with APC). The hook is that those pubs can be used to apply to uni, usually Ivys in US. This is a nice concept but curious what you think? #AcademicSky

I am hiring PhD candidates to study the psychology of attention & technology use at @tilburg-university.bsky.social. We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits. tiu.nu/22989

1/ Alright, this one’s been sitting in my drawer for a year now, after @mcxfrank.bsky.social and I got turned down for a public commentary. But before I forget about it completely, here’s the preprint: Can we harvest insights for rice theory from two state farms in China? osf.io/preprints/ps...

8/ So, rice theory is a cool idea. But we’re not so sure these two farms give us a clean causal test. Thanks for reading! And now… I’m craving rice snacks. Strongly recommend these, 10/10 🍘 (It says Milk but it's 56% rice)

🚨 I’ll be joining Psychological Science as an Associate Editor starting next month. People at, or near, my intersection of psych genetics, clinical psych, psychological Epidemiology should consider the journal for your best work! (read the EiCs editorial on the journal policies/goals below)

2) Are you editor-in-chief at a traditional journal? Sign your journal up as PCI Friendly! There are no downsides -- you can choose the category that's right for your journal and retain all editorial independence. Read more about it here: peercommunityin.org/pci-friendly... 4/6

1) If you have editing experience in any subdiscipline of Psychology, you can serve as a recommender for PCI Psych. We value rigorous and open scholarship, and recommenders get to choose which papers they handle, how many (including zero!), and when. psych.peercommunityin.org/help/become_... 2/6

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Can the human sciences exist w/out the human? Proposals for using AI as human research subjects suggest yes. But @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I respond with, ‘not so fast.’ In fact, silicon subjects say more about the problems of the research paradigm than the promises of AI. 🚨New article, thread 1/

Maybe clearer norms would reduce burden to increase willingness to review?