All the more reason for universities to stand strong - the public recognizes this is a rotten deal My message to Vanderbilt and all univs - "it is essential to reject the entire idea of trading away institutional, faculty and student freedoms for government benefits" bsky.app/profile/lkfa...

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The worry here is that Meta has sent @cos.io and researchers on a years-long goose chase to identify harm, without providing the exact data they would need to find it. The risk is that the study turns out goose-eggs (nulls) owing to design bias, and Meta can cite that as evidence everything is OK.

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story. "The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust. From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad." I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Proud of my Vanderbilt colleagues for making it clear that our university should reject the proposed "Compact". As I state below - this deal is a devil's bargain and should be rejected in all forms. (And yay to MIT for their clear rejection today!) www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

New from me and @brendannyhan.bsky.social Why Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence" is a devil's bargain and should be rejected in all forms www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Psychology has a generalizability problem and it is harmful at multiple levels for the science. This stems from a few issues. There is no training in how to effectively create a sampling strategy in order to generalize.

What Psychology doesn’t understand about sampling and selection bias-hurts our science and what we can offer to our communities from our science. This paper tries to provide some way to address some of these concerns.

Is this truly a no? Dartmouth clearly won't sign the version sent on Oct 1st. (I don't think any uni will). But it's vital that universities reject this approach in totality, not start a negotiation for better terms. To me, that statement leaves the door open for signing a "better" deal.

Does anyone use #RedCap for child participant database management? If so, would you be willing to share screenshots etc. of what your user interface looks like or share the template, whichever is easier. #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #devpsyc #AcademicSky #cogsci

Had missed this absolutely brilliant paper. They take a widely used social media addiction scale & replace 'social media' with 'friends'. The resulting scale has great psychometric properties & 69% of people have friend addictions. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

"The only Constitutional rights upon which we can depend are those we extend to the weakest and most reviled among us."

OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

While I had been using rainbow parentheses for a while, I only recently found out about rainbow indentation thanks to @ijlyttle.bsky.social and @3mmarand.bsky.social 🌈 #rstats

The President of Texas A&M fired a lecturer & removed a dept. chair + Dean of the College because a class addressed gender. And he was still forced to resign a week later. Capitulation buys nothing, so may as well go down swinging. Really wish our institutions of higher ed could learn the lesson.

former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

New people are signing our open letter almost everyday, and it is so heartening to see. Especially good to see familiar names sign. openletter.earth/open-letter-...

A nonprofit wants to turn Willa’s Books & Vinyl, a bookstore dedicated to Black history in Kansas City, Missouri, into a public archive. Founder Willa Robinson wants young Black readers to see themselves in what they read, and she fears that such books will be banned.

Parents are uncertain about what to believe when it comes to false claims about vaccines and measles. While relatively few parents believe the false claim that the MMR vaccine can cause autism, nearly half say they don’t know enough to say. https://on.kff.org/4nqSlZG

See this is one of those solutions that makes inherent sense, but I guarantee the way it'll be implemented won't be anything approaching meta-cognition. It'll just generate the probability that the answer in their training sets included any confidence qualifiers which =/= actual discernment.

I'm looking for a part-time research assistant to help research and fact-check long form YouTube videos, with an emphasis on climate misinformation campaigns. If you or someone you know would be a good fit, please check out this form! Applications close on 26/9. forms.gle/mpyzcdjwv63C...

We often hear from reviewers: "what about demand effects?" So we developed a method to eliminate them. Something weird happened during testing: We couldn’t detect demand effects in the first place! (1/8)

The Pitt was a fantastic show. But Andor was far and away the best television show of the year. Glad it got the writing recognition (there maybe hasn't been a better written show since Deadwood), but the fact that it didn't have any acting nominations, let alone winners, is preposterous.

Every $1.00 spent on research generates $2.50 in economic returns. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's. If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too. It's just a question of political will.

Other people: there's no way that'll fit under the word limit Academics:

He's exploiting what sociologists call the availability heuristic: the more people hear about something, the more common they assume it to be. If he can spew vaccine skepticism all over the airwaves, then he can create the perception that such skepticism is more widespread than it is. 1/

1: Crowdsourcing #academia help. TL;DR: we wrote a paper on reactions to the 2025 executive orders but it's gotten rejected several times and we're looking for an appropriate venue for it. @claudialugo.bsky.social @egv.bsky.social @drjennyzd.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

Honored to receive the Chancellor's Award for Research for this co-authored paper on the psychology of misinformation. It was really affirming to receive recognition for this research while the field is under attack and misinfo grants are being cancelled. 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s44...

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.

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!

This is excellent!

New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...

This is so nerdy - I love it!

Bill Watterson is alive to see the word "Calvinball" used in Supreme Court opinions, which might make Bill Watterson the most consequential living writer of fiction in the English language.

Media is healing-- this and Wired's surge following their recent investigative and insightful reporting give me hope. People want good sources of news and critique.

Essentially my thinking is that even if it turns out there is value for students and staff in embedding LLMs throughout the university curriculum, I do not believe that those pushing this kind of hasty and universal adoption have the knowledge (of AI or of education) to have made those calls.

If this is helpful for anyone going on the social psych tenure track job market in US, here are my Colby (in 2018) and UIC (2023) statements: osf.io/ef7s3/files/... My lab website has links to other people's materials. Of course the markets were very different back then. www.pbandjlab.com/resources

The gradual inclusion of truth about the experience of slavery in American museums has been one of the most deeply researched and considered and consequential developments in public history over the last half century. Enraging we have to defend it in this way.

Gotta give it to them, this sounds very Boston. In the good way.

Looking for books on how to study more effectively (so you actually remember the information) or how to tweak your teaching so students remember what you've taught? Lots of great resources from cognitive scientists below and in replies to the original post. Add on with your other favs.

An existential problem with automation is that it makes it far cheaper to produce new things than to fix them when they break. Which eliminates "good" jobs and substantially increases both resource consumption and waste. Take, for example, our lawnmower blade, which got badly bent on a rock... 1/

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

Key insight from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on AI When we read a summary we know that it's not interactive or relational like learning from a human. Interacting with generative AI feels relational but isn't. People don't yet know how to interact with that type of source and it leads them astray.

This is not only funny — I would contend that it reveals a lot about the way plot works (i.e., by constantly thwarting human communication in order to produce disaster).

See here for thorough and clear arguments for replacing "learning styles instruction" with instruction of learning strategies. Educators: teach content via multiple modalities. Learners: you don't have a single style; instead, learn to be adaptable in how you learn. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky