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Cedar Riener @criener.bsky.social · 6d

For my #psych profs, update to add to your availability heuristic slides

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 6d

What Americans Die from?

And what the media reports on...

Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

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Jamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · 12d

The Development and Validation of a Dimensional Childhood Adversity Measure journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Development and Validation of a Dimensional Childhood Adversity Measure - Angelina Pei-Tzu Tsai, Peter F. Halpin, Lucy Lurie, Meredith Gruhn, Maya Rosen, Donald H. Baucom, Michael B. Sarabosing, S...

Research on the developmental consequences of early adversity has grown rapidly, yet measures of childhood adversity have not kept pace with evolving theoretica...

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Allie Farrell @allisonkfarrell.bsky.social · 12d

My first year, a senior person who was giving a guest lecture asked me “Who is looking out for awards for you?” That was a good impetus to reach out to my mentors and ask them to nominate me. I am trying to remember to be that person for others now

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Allie Farrell @allisonkfarrell.bsky.social · 17d

Technoference (how tech gets in the way of building/maintaining in-person social ties) was a major emphasis pre-COVID. Since then, more work has examined benefits to virtual interaction, esp. for people who would otherwise be isolated, & I'm starting to see work comparing the two contexts directly

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Allie Farrell @allisonkfarrell.bsky.social · 17d

Some researchers refer to this as "social snacking"-- It feels good in the moment, but does not imbue the full benefits or social "nutrition" that in-person social interactions do

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 17d

Im begging the NYT to spend time talking to people who actually teach and work at universities. Especially ones that don't have billion dollar endowments.

My issues are AI use, crumbling infrastructure, vanishing staff, unfunded state mandates, a customer service model of education...

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Allie Farrell @allisonkfarrell.bsky.social · Sep 10

It's out!!🌶️🔥

Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · Sep 10

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025

Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 10

I once had a student explicitly argue that he was the customer to be catered to.

I explained that, if we *had* to use the customer framing, he wasn't the customer but the product. He was being given an education & then a degree that future employers would see value in.

My job? Quality control.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Sep 4

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪

From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm starting to look into how inflammation is being misused by MAHA types in a way that very much distracts from chronic illness-inflammation problems people actually have. If you're an academic, doctor, immunologist etc with thoughts on this, please be in touch at [email protected]

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Allie Farrell @allisonkfarrell.bsky.social · Aug 15

It's less personal, but it does get them moving around, talking to one another, and learning each others' names!

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Allie Farrell @allisonkfarrell.bsky.social · Aug 15

In Stress & Coping, I give each student a slip of paper with a different definition of stress and a bingo boards to complete with classmates' names based on their stress definitions, with objective ("mentions biological response") and subjective ("you think is a bad definition") squares to fill

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Allie Farrell @allisonkfarrell.bsky.social · Aug 15

I have a friend who opens some of his courses with Aron's fast friends paradigm, so they at least get to know one person in the class! He says sometimes he sees them end up choosing to sit next to one another all semester because of it🥰

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Aug 13

The First Lego League is a competition that schools from all over the place compete in. As part of the competition they need to consult with an expert. A lot of clubs use our program to make that connection.

This year's theme is archaeology. It's all-hands-on-deck for archaeologists.

Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is an official Skype a Scientist HQ Mayday Alert to all Archaeologists.

We've already gotten more requests for archaeologists than we have archaeologists. We have 38. We need a lot more than 38!

Dig yourself into this database, we NEED ya
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Sign Up

Skype a Scientist gives you the opportunity to connect with students and the public around the world.

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Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social · Aug 13

In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...

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Allie Farrell @allisonkfarrell.bsky.social · Aug 12

If we don't laugh, we cry

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Allie Farrell @allisonkfarrell.bsky.social · Aug 5

Maybe we can turn the merch into sandbags that conveniently follow all branding identity guidelines...

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · Jul 30

Psychologists & related fields: what is a big methods question that you believe remains somewhat unanswered & that you'd love to see adressed? There may be an opportunity for a large-scale meta-science project with many teams trying to figure out a question.

Any thoughts welcome! #psychscisky

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Allie Farrell @allisonkfarrell.bsky.social · Jul 30

A picture of Daniel Faraday's diary from Lost, with text reading "If anything goes wrong, these boxes will be my constant" instead of "Desmond Hume"

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Allie Farrell @allisonkfarrell.bsky.social · Jul 30

You leave the friends and the colleagues behind, but the boxes are always with you.

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Allie Farrell @allisonkfarrell.bsky.social · Jul 30

Much like faculty members never losing the impulse to seek out free food that they developed as grad students, I've found that settled faculty members struggle to overcome the drive to hoard high quality, good-sized boxes for future moves.

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · Jul 30

After nearly 2 years of debating and redrafting, the preprint is out:

Towards Next-Generation Stress Generation Research: Expert Consensus Methodological Guidelines

With a legit superstar team

Here’s how it could transform research on stress generation (& beyond) 🧵

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Jul 30

Towards Next-Generation Stress Generation Research: Expert Consensus Methodological Guidelines: https://osf.io/7nq92

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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · Jul 28

Bsky research friends! Does anyone have resources or examples of an F32 or K08 project that has proposed using existing data in addition to proposing a novel study? Any help is appreciated!

a woman is holding a yellow sticky note with help written on it

ALT: a woman is holding a yellow sticky note with help written on it

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Jul 28

New blog post! Calculating a correlation is easy enough. But let's say you calculated two of them and they happen to differ. What follows from that? Turns out there are too many moving parts for an easy answer.

www.the100.ci/2025/07/28/w...

What’s in a correlation?

Correlation may not imply causation, but let’s just ignore that for a second. Correlations are standardized effect size metrics and as such have some quirks by design. These are benign enough when you...

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Lauren Weinstock, PhD @lmweinstock.bsky.social · Jul 24

It's a bit off-cycle, but you never know who might be looking and when... Brown has a new T32 postdoctoral fellowship in child health equity! Applications are open now and will be reviewed on a rolling basis. More details can be found in the link below:

today.brown.edu/announcement...

Today@Brown

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