🆕 These new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope images show the Cranium Nebula using two instruments that reveal enhanced details of its brain‑like appearance. 🧠🧪🔭 🔗 esawebb.org/news/weic2605/ @science.esa.int @stsci.edu

**Postdoc position in human category learning** @thecharleywu.bsky.social, Frank Jäkel and I are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to lead a joint project on human category learning at the Centre for Cognitive Science @tuda.bsky.social. www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...

Looking sharp (or fuzzy), tomorrow…

Me? I'm just happy to be here #rstats

The language I'm working on, T, a reproducibility- and pipeline-first DSL for Data Science, has now a basic packaging system. Say hello to `hello_t`, the very first package for T! github.com/b-rodrigues/...

Theoretical physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer died #OTD in 1972. She shared the 1963 #Nobel Prize in Physics (w/Wigner & Jensen) "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure." She was the second woman to win a Nobel in #physics. (Who was the first?) #WomenInSTEM

Do y'all know of any RCTs (or other randomized experiments) with an interesting nominal* outcome? *In this case, I'm not including binary or ordinal outcomes as "nominal." Rather, here I'm looking for 3+ unordered categories.

How strong is the threat to academic freedom? If you are a publishing psychologist, please help us get a better understanding of the threats due to external pressure and self-censorship in the publication process by taking our 5-10 min anonymous survey: t1p.de/t1qof Results will be shared here!

This is particularly weird because most of Open Science boils down to: just be honest. Write down in your paper what you actually did. Seems a rather low bar for any science, but apparently pointing this out touches upon a very sensitive issue for some fellow academics.

Scientists: if you have pursued/secured philanthropic funding in the wake of federal research funding cuts, I want to talk to you. Reposts appreciated!

If you're doing something with AI coding for open-science and meta-research, I'd be happy to talk more. Please do reach out to me at [email protected]

poor bee GOLD_07, whose embarrassing mistake has been immortalised in a way beyond his comprehension

Live look in at my code somehow not throwing any errors in prod

@authentisci.bsky.social is the most exciting tech I've seen in months. Problem: People are unsure of the reliability of science news. Solution: Users click through a browser extension to nominate articles for review by relevant, active experts. authentisci.com/dashboard

One of the promised benefits of #GenAI is personalizing instruction to meet individual learners' needs. But what exactly is personalization and how can we do it most effectively? Well, fortunately @mattbernacki.bsky.social and colleagues have edited a Handbook with the latest insights. Check it out!

NEW PUBLICATION “How the Media Cordon Sanitaire Crumbles: Lessons from Germany” now out in @prxjournal.bsky.social 🔓 doi.org/10.1080/2474736X.2026.2621808 I’m very happy that this paper is out – this project is particularly important to me.

Inventor Margaret Knight was born #OTD in 1838. She invented a machine that automatically cut, folded & glued flat-bottomed paper bags which enabled the mass production of paper bags (previously done by hand). #WomenInSTEM One of her machinists filed for a patent first. What did Knight do? (1/2)

Making use of #feedback is *tough*. But with the right knowledge, skills & tools, learners are empowered to get more value from the feedback they get. So we created www.feedbackempowertools.com, with free resources for educators and learners. Check it out & share! @kieranballoo.bsky.social #edusky

In case you ever wondered how edtech companies, academic publishers, and big AI corporations, as well as HE institutions, make money out of your academic work, here's our new paper starting to unpack the assetization of academic content

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

Dear colleagues - we want to better understand perceptions of data fraud and its detection and need your support! Are you currently a #researcher in #psych (or related fields) working with #data? Perfect - please respond to & share this short study (7min): sosci.rlp.net/detection/?r... Thank you!! 🫶

Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...

My most popular map ever, Educational Attainment in America, gets a fresh look for 2026: - Updated to the 2024 ACS - MapLibre via R's mapgl with built-in interactivity - OpenFreeMap basemap, Cloudflare-hosted PMTiles (blazing fast!) Explore your city: personal.tcu.edu/kylewalker/m...

Proud advisor moment. Check out my student, Emily Zohar's, new paper (her first first-authored paper) on how norms shape how effort. Yes, when we see hard workers around us, we work harder. But...when we see lazy people around us, we also work harder. Check it out! psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Compositional data (proportions that sum to 1) behave in ways standard models aren’t built for I walk through why Dirichlet regression is often the right tool & what extra insight it gives using a real ex of eyetracking #Dirichlet #r #brms #guide #eyetracking open.substack.com/pub/mzlotean...

Daphne Jackson #Nuclear #physicist & 1st UK female physics professor. "Imagine a society that would allow Marie Curie to stack shelves in a supermarket simply because she took a career break for family reasons". @wes1919.bsky.social President d #OTD 8 Feb 1991 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_...

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

"Politicians should condemn financialization as not only harmful but also absurd. That will lose them support from several very rich donors but gain them support from many more constituents. Same goes for university leaders." [Gift link]

Ask yourself: -Do you see your values being represented and practiced by these people? -Are they in alignment with you, and in the type of life you want to be leading? -Will joining this group help push you to become the person you want to be?

Psychology needs a… revolution www.bps.org.uk/psychologist... @maddipow.bsky.social @richardwiseman.bsky.social @joakimsundh.bsky.social @jamiecummins.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social @margaritap.bsky.social and others…

It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the current pace of change in technology. A useful counterpoint: There are STILL organizations using ArcMap for their GIS even though ArcGIS Pro has been out for over a decade. Technology moves fast; capacity for adoption, not always.

Daisy Turner died #OTD in 1988 at age 104. Daughter of freed slaves, she became famous late in life for her oral recordings of her family's history. An amazing storyteller, here she recounts stories about her father, born a slave on a Virginia plantation: exchange.prx.org/series/16101...#OTD#BHM

Note that this in itself is a well-replicated finding. At least a dozen studies show that when researchers replicate qualitative research, or re-analyze it, they come to basically identical themes. There is nothing special about qualitative research with respect to replicability.

#OTD in 2020, engineer and astronaut Christina Koch returned to Earth after 328 days, 13 hours, and 58 minutes in space--the record for longest continuous time in #space by a woman. #WomenInSTEM #AstronautEnvy 🚀

Hi folks! We are conducting a meta-analysis examining the relationship between different facets of gender or gender-related essentialism and prejudice against transgender people. Therefore, we are requesting your unpublished data to include in the meta-analysis! The inclusion criteria are: 🧵

NEW STUDY! @juliahusar.bsky.social and I have a grant to build trans health and wellbeing tech, and we need input from other trans women and transfems to make sure it serves us all well. This is research BY transfems FOR transfems and we're inviting y'all to be part of it. Also, we're paying!

Folks outside SF/F don't know that Asimov was a sexual harasser because while he was alive fandom thought it was cute (up to and including Asimov being invited to give a lecture on "The Power of Positive Posterior Pinching" at Worldcon, which he, wisely, declined). daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...

🚀 dashboardr is out! An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax. Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included). 📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/ Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨

🧵 New WP with @kaimiele.bsky.social. We document 2 unsettling patterns in mental health care: 1) despite universal coverage, few individuals with mental illness receive guideline-consistent treatment, and 2) the more severe the illness, the lower the treatment uptake & the longer the wait times. 1/n

Half of the United States' population lives in these 144 counties. Explore: walkerke-county-popu...

I wrote a blog for the Meta-Research Center expressing my infinite frustration about not getting data. What else is new, you might think? Well, I added an extra layer of annoyance directed at the journals who do NOTHING to enforce promised data sharing. metaresearch.nl/blog/2026/2/...

I reviewed an earlier version of this paper. I think it's interesting, because you can tell by reading it that evolutionary psychology still lacks a loyal opposition and a healthy error culture. It's a defensive paper, targeted at people who believe evolution stops at the neck, YouTubers, _others_

In a recent talk, I explained how our social identities shape our thoughts, emotions, and actions. I discuss how social identity can help us understand many challenges, including political conflict, misinformation, climate change, and threats to democracy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXHS...

#OTD in 1995, astronaut Eileen Collins became the first female pilot of a NASA space shuttle. She piloted the Space Shuttle Discovery during mission STS-63, a mission that included the first-ever rendezvous between a US space shuttle & the Russian space station Mir. #WomenInSTEM #AstronautEnvy 🚀

At long last @zotero.org has an Android app!

1/9 New blog is live! This is part 2 of a series—last time we looked at the Dunning-Kruger effect, now we are digging in to Implicit vs Explicit attitudes and the Implicit Association Test. To start, of course we need a good meme... haines-lab.com/post/part-2-...

New draft: "Decline effects, statistical artifacts, and a meta-analytic paradox". In this manuscript I show how a common practice in meta-analysis (eg the 2015 Open Science Collaboration) creates artifactual signatures of poor scientific behavior. PDF: raw.githubusercontent.com/richarddmore... 1/x

Distributed energy is harder to map than centralized infrastructure, but cutting-edge AI tools can help. Shown: identifying rooftop solar panels in a suburban neighborhood with Mapbox imagery, Meta's SAM3. Useful for utilities, grid planners, and solar prospecting.

One of the ongoing, more redeeming qualities of social media is its ability, when properly structured, to bubble up the joyous creativity of everyday people.