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

Imagine going to the gym and thinking "lifting this heavy weight is hard, so lifting it is not making me stronger." Not how it works, right? Yet that's, in essence, how many students view mental effort and learning. Let's help students embrace mental effort. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

This comment is the brief spiritual successor to our preprint (linked below) in which we argue much ado within debates over causal effects of social media stems from failing to account for the assumptions required by RCTs. arxiv.org/abs/2505.09254

This Perspective is accompanied by a Correspondence by @jbakcoleman.bsky.social which argues that randomized controlled trials cannot identify social media’s causal effects 🚨FREE 🚨web access (with registration): go.nature.com/4o8tSJN PDF: rdcu.be/eyaDT

This is fabulous! Great ideas for any type of science communication 🧪

One, of many, quotes from this article that stood out to me "....we can train people to manage data, but unless there are career rewards or requirements for doing so, it won’t easily spread."

The dirty secret about causal inference is that the strongest assumptions are related to what you do not include. Unfortunately, it can be really hard to notice things that are not included.

It was an honor to attend the institute this year and learn from a diverse array of experts how we can research the interplay between humans and media environments. I cannot wait to apply these new perspectives to my current and future work!

Are folks getting their NSF reinstated today? Some people said they received them back today, and I am trying to figure out how widespread this is.

This article does a nice job describing the dos & do-not-dos of media comparison research. People wishing to compare e.g., ChatGPT v. traditional instruction would be wise to review the "Background on Technology in Education" section. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1007/s106...

👇👇👇 yes!! Lots of work explaining why this particular college is the best, very little about why the university sector as a whole is useful for society

Many articles are written to be published, not to be read. I propose this new badge to help me know when to save my breath.

A major step in the right direction: thanks to all the researchers who shared news and the team at grant-watch.us (from @noamross.net & @scott-delaney.bsky.social and beyond) for their work to draw public attention to large-scale terminations.... www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/n...

Ok, @ryanenos.bsky.social and @stevelevitsky.bsky.social were able to calmly explain what I was failing to articulate earlier this week. Today's must read on why capitulating to authoritarian extortion is very very bad (and won't stop the attacks). Stay 💪 Harvard www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

If reliable information is behind paywalls, the vast majority of people will never have access to it. They will have easy access to unreliable info and disinfo. But they won’t see anything other than headlines from reliable sources (and headlines are often misleading).