Certain news these days make me sad and angry. I prefer to direct those negative energies into pursuing what aligns with my values; it's always been my best way to cope. In the future, aside from my research, you will see me post more about our activities to promote psychological science in Vietnam.

Reading Hasok Chang's Realism for Realistic People, I enjoy his concept of operational coherence (roughly, aim-oriented coordination of epistemic, or other, activities). It gives me a new perspective of replication studies as conceived in the reform movement. They're operationally incoherent...

Kids these days don’t follow the basics of first email communication. They go straight to asking for things and I am here thinking “who are you and why me?” the basics👇!

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: https://youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s

I am recovering from a socially intense week but yesterday this came as pleasant surprise: colleagues at Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya sent me this podcast "Assaborir la #solitud" mentioning my work, in Catalan! You can listen to it on Youtube: youtu.be/gAwazJRXtcs?...

We’re searching for TWO tenure-track cognitive neuroscientists here in the Wesleyan University Psychology Department! Apply here wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers

Excited to finally have my first paper officially published! "How Do Psychology Journals Handle Postpublication Critique?" is now online with AMPPS. Huge thanks to my supervisors @tomhardwicke.bsky.social and @simine.com and co-authors @bethclarke.bsky.social, N Moodie, S Schiavone, and R Thibault ☺️

Queen's University is hiring a Psychologist Closing date: 2025/10/15 CPA Career Ads and Resources page: cpa.ca/careers/

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

👋 We are running an online roundtable at #APSGlobal on 22 OCT at 5PM EDT. Come join @gmacdonalduoft.bsky.social @ygirme.bsky.social and me to discuss: "Solitude and Singlehood: Balancing the Need for Autonomy and Social Connection" Early-bird registration due in 1 week! #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

#Academic publication space is changing so rapidly I am playing catch up. Besides the traditional outlets that I was exposed to during #phd - where I publish because my seniors published there, there are now platforms that are kinda like journals??? Helpful list: peercommunityin.org/2019/05/21/d...

Myers-Briggs test is bullshit. Has no predictive validity, extremely poor psychometric properties, was designed by two people with no training in psychology, statistics, or measurement theory, creates dichotomies of continuous measures, and is based on Jungian archetype theory which isn't science.

#Academic publication space is changing so rapidly I am playing catch up. Besides the traditional outlets that I was exposed to during #phd - where I publish because my seniors published there, there are now platforms that are kinda like journals??? Helpful list: peercommunityin.org/2019/05/21/d...

Re-advertisement: #HPGVienna @univie.ac.at is hiring! We are looking for a PhD-level researcher excited about all things EMA to join us as Senior Scientist/ Lab Manager as soon as possible. Position is initially for 4.25 years & part-time (50% FTE) (more info in 🧵). jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

The coverage of Nepal protest on tiktok is gold 👌 TL;DR They toppled the corrupted regime and voted for new leadership, Nepal’s first female prime minister, via Discord. Too good.

1. Media coverage of a new paper by @ryantomm.bsky.social w @brandonforys.com, @dr-stan.bsky.social et al. Building on Stan’s rodent work, Ryan found that > depression levels were associated w reduced capacity to learn to actively button-press to avoid a nasty sound www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

The world has been quite loud this week. Past couple days I contemplated whether to rename my blog post: “Are we becoming more anti-social or are we just tired of your shit” Wanted to do this before but my institution was sharing it on their social media so…😅🤔 www.solitude-lab.com/post/are-we-...

Excited to be a part of what should be a very interesting roundtable.

For potential grad students: if you're interested in this kind of work on assessing and improving close relationships measures, our group just got a grant to do five more years of it. Join our team!

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Hey #openscience people, what is the point of journal asking for preprint doi at the point of submission? I am aware they won’t pass it on to reviewers and I don’t think it undermines the review process. But is it so that they can connect the published paper with the preprint somehow?

👋 We are running an online roundtable at #APSGlobal on 22 OCT at 5PM EDT. Come join @gmacdonalduoft.bsky.social @ygirme.bsky.social and me to discuss: "Solitude and Singlehood: Balancing the Need for Autonomy and Social Connection" Early-bird registration due in 1 week! #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Lately I have been formatting manuscripts with tables and figures added into the texts (it's a pain), rather than in separate files or all at the end. I like to think this would make it easier for reviewers; does anyone have objections, or forever hold your peace?

I need a #mathematician to help with a project. Ideally UK-based. I've emailed a few folks in my uni, but none replied... Anyone interested? My need is nonlinear modelling of brain and muscle signals, optimisation, decomposition. Anyone?

I lived in US for 16 years, first in Dayton Ohio where all the old American people came to me saying “I am so sorry” when they learned I am Vietnamese lol. Then moved to Cali for college and Rochester NY for grad school. There are a lot that I miss there, esp the food, especially the biscuits omg 🤤

Imagine you have Big 5 personality scores from over 300,000 people. You designate the scores in the "mean +/- 0.25 SDs" range for each trait (~20%) as the average range. QUESTION: How many people in this >300K sample do you think fall in the average range for ALL 5 TRAITS? What's your answer?

Following on this thought, I also think about a comment I saw a few months ago (maybe from @deevybee.bsky.social) , that men now don’t have a good man role model, considering the loud ones are mostly kinda..🙄🍊. But just curious, who would be the Taylor Swift (eg, succesful, giving) for men nowadays?

I live in NE of England and go to the gym regularly. Because my research circles around solitude, isolation, and social withdrawal, I like to watch the people at the weight section, most of whom are men. I believe there is mental health crisis among men; I wonder how much the gym helps them cope?

We're hiring TWO social psychologists (one health, one any area of social) at U of Utah! Pls share widely, and reach out if you have any questions! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/186...

My new essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. Why is understanding emotion so challenging? The debates around what counts as an "emotion" shed insight. These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them. www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

Hey #UKHE See below👇 So if I teach that one semester don’t expect me to hang after faculty meetings. I just want to go home to sniff my dogs.

New research finds that people prefer to advise others to engage in more tasks to benefit their mental health, rather than dial their activities back to create breathing room: www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...

Join our team at In-Mind: We are looking for 2 new editors and 3-4 people for our social media team!

Teenagers are especially sensitive to loneliness, new #research has found. But when social reconnection isn’t possible, this can drive them to seeking harmful rewards like alcohol or drugs. Study by @campsydept.bsky.social @sjblakemore.bsky.social @livia-tomova.bsky.social#research https://bit.ly/464WGKS

⚠️ PsyArXiv is updating its policies in light of a higher volume of low quality submissions and our recent switch to a pre-moderation workflow. Read more about this change here 👉 (buff.ly/8jhqRJu ) and see our updated policies here 👉 (is.gd/paxpolicy ).

A few practical pros that I use AI, not necessarily for science, but just to make it easier for me to be a scientist in this time and age where scientists are expected to do much more than just SCIENCE! Read more below 👇

bioRxiv bat signal. We had a huge influx of submissions around Labor Day and now have a backlog. If any affiliates are available to screen, we'd be eternally grateful!

Our paper is out 🎉 🥳 @durham-university.bsky.social Our 1st pub of 3-year #ESRC project "Solitude as Opportunities for Rest in Everyday Life", with contributions from our postdoc & RAs Delali Konu, Deborah Tetteh, Pearl Tshimbalanga, Julie Weissová, and Mingyao Xiong (on LinkedIn) Please RT post👇

Found this old drawing book, which I haven’t touched in a long time…it’s Rapunzel. To this day this is still one of my favorite Disney animations, if not the most favorite.

Tenure-Track Quant Psyc job opening at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Areas of interest are pretty broad (SEM, multilevel, or psychometrics), the deadline to apply is coming up soon (Sept 15) if you're interested! careers.nau.edu/jobs/assista...

📣 🚨 Yale Psychology has 3 searches this year! Links below: Quantitative link: apply.interfolio.com/171903 Social link: apply.interfolio.com/171989 Clinical link: apply.interfolio.com/171970

This is a good read “Political action is the main venue to fight back. But taking care of ourselves also matters. Feeling bad some of the time about the state of the world is part of being a connected human. Feeling good some of the time is part of our resistance” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A new ‪study shows new mothers only have about an hour of their waking day for rest, leading to stress, loneliness and emotional exhaustion. www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/... @thuyvytnguyen.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social

Our paper is out 🎉 🥳 @durham-university.bsky.social Our 1st pub of 3-year #ESRC project "Solitude as Opportunities for Rest in Everyday Life", with contributions from our postdoc & RAs Delali Konu, Deborah Tetteh, Pearl Tshimbalanga, Julie Weissová, and Mingyao Xiong (on LinkedIn) Please RT post👇

🤔 Can people with dementia participate in intensive experience sampling studies via smartphone? 🧐Yes, they can! Even with high-frequency sampling schemes (8 times / day)! Work from @lauradewitte.bsky.social in npj Dementia: doi.org/10.1038/s444...

Oh wow 😮

The psych job market isn’t dead! Join us at UIC!!! We are looking for a clinical psychologist (assistant or associate level)!! Chicago is simply the best, and the department is incredibly lovely! I’m not on search committee, but as the “newest” hire, I’m happy to talk about my experience thus far!

We’re hiring an assistant or associate professor to join our psychology department at the University of Illinois Chicago! We’re a vibrant research-active department in a great city, a diverse institution with a purpose-driven mission, and a fun place to work! #psychjobs uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...