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Razia Sahi @raziasahi.bsky.social · 8h

Managing emotions is not easy - we often get by with a little help. In the NEW Social Interaction and Emotion Lab at Rutgers-Newark, we’ll study how social interactions regulate emotion using experiments, naturalistic data, and multi-modal approaches. ✨ Now recruiting! ✨🙌 Learn more: raziasahi.com

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Nick Byrd, Ph.D. @byrdnick.com · 4d

🤬 “Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request. … Results replicate those found elsewhere: data is generally not available upon request, and promissory Data Availability Statements are typically not adhered to.”

#openScience #philSci #ethics #psych

Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 4d

My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

LnuOpen | Meta-Psychology

open.lnu.se

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 4d

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

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Chris Dabbs, Ph.D. @dabbspsych.bsky.social · 5d

I took a no-LLM policy in my class this semester, and explained why to my students. One of them *thanked me* for the policy and another commented that it was the push they needed to swear off AI the rest of the year. Just working with what I can control 🙂

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 7d

📣Just announced: Personality and Social Psychology Review has published a Special Issue focused on elevating theoretical perspectives from non-Western societies in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

Learn more: ow.ly/6Z1O50X4Uug

New PSPR Special Issue Highlights Personality and Social Psychological Theory from the Majority World

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Benjamin Swerdlow @baswerdlow.bsky.social · 6d

If you're using Excel, though, I might suggest making different life choices

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Benjamin Swerdlow @baswerdlow.bsky.social · 6d

If you're doing your analyses by hand, then it should be even easier to show your work!

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Benjamin Swerdlow @baswerdlow.bsky.social · 6d

Calls to mind that Pew data on the % of respondents who claimed to be licensed to operate a nuclear submarine

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Julia Strand @juliafstrand.bsky.social · 8d

Hi all! I'm on sabbatical this year and have bandwidth to zoom into lab meetings to talk about open science in cog psych and speech research and/or how to implement practices that reduce research errors! (www.carleton.edu/perception-l...).

Email me if that sounds fun to you too!

Error Tight - Carleton College

No one is immune from making mistakes. However, it is possible to set up our labs and research systems in ways that reduce the likelihood that we will make mistakes…

www.carleton.edu

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 9d

Researchers at LSBU are recruiting trans and gender nonconforming people (aged 18–24) to take part in in-person "photovoice" workshops into young trans people's experiences of community and inclusive social spaces. Email the researcher at [email protected] to express interest.

#TransResearch

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Research participants wanted for a creative photovoice study on young trans adults' experiences of community and inclusive social spaces

Who can take part?
You can take part if you are:
- Aged 18–24
- Identify as trans, non-binary or gender nonconforming
- A UK resident

What would I need to do?
Participat in a creative photography research project
- Take 5–10 photos illustrating your experiences of community and inclusive social spaces
Take part in a full-day in-person storytelling workshop using the photos and stories about your own life

What are the benefits?
You will gain:
- £70 shopping voucher
- The opportunity to have your voice and experiences heard
- The chance to contribute to research highlighting trans community

How do I take part?
Scan the QR code or follow the link below to read the study details and complete the consent form.
https://tinyurl.com/trans-photo-lsbu
QR code

Questions?
Email the researcher at nate.rae@lsbu.ac.uk for more information.

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 9d

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 9d

30% drop year over year!

Amid visa restrictions, international freshmen enrollment plummets at UW-Madison

This year’s number of international freshmen is the lowest recorded since at least 2015.

www.jsonline.com

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Benjamin Swerdlow @baswerdlow.bsky.social · 9d

Aha, this is super useful! Thank you!

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 10d

So exhausting..

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 13d

Tomorrow, 1-2 PM ET: Join Dr. Emily Dix from Lake Forest College as she presents her research on racial bias recognition as part of our PUI Invited Research Talk Series, highlighting scholars from Primarily Undergrad Institutions.

Register: ow.ly/JxWp50X2cV9

Announcement for a virtual research talk by Emily Dix from Lake Forest College on racial bias denial, scheduled for September 26, 1-2 PM ET.

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Benjamin Swerdlow @baswerdlow.bsky.social · 14d

Halvorson et al. (2021) should probably be required reading for folks working with binary and count data (@kevinmking.bsky.social )

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Making sense of some odd ratios: A tutorial and improvements to present practices in reporting and visualizing quantities of interest for binary and count outcome models

Generalized linear models (GLMs) such as logistic and Poisson regression are among the most common statistical methods for modeling binary and count outcomes. Though single-coefficient tests (odds rat...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Shannon Sauer-Zavala @shannonsauerzavala.bsky.social · 14d

👋🏻 I am so excited to announce that I'll be hiring a postdoc at the University of Kentucky!

We study mechanism-focused (e.g., personality traits), transdiagnostic treatment development and personalization.

ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/600...

More details in the 🧵 👇🏻

Psychology Post-Doctoral Scholar

The Treatment Innovation for Psychological Services (TIPS) Research Group in the Psychology department of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Kentucky, in Lexington, KY is seeking a fu...

ukjobs.uky.edu

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Dr. Stephanie N. Mullins-Sweatt @ssweatt.bsky.social · 15d

In addition to posting plants and puppies, I also mentor students interested in personality pathology. My lab is recruiting a graduate student in clinical or personality psychology for Fall 2026. So please send folks my way. Feel free to share! Thanks.

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Leonie Vogelsmeier @leonievogelsmeier.bsky.social · 16d

🚨 New preprint: We compared 13 methods for detecting momentary careless responding in the WARN-D data (206k+ obs.). Tutorials guide you through each method. The takeaway? Diverging results, inherent subjectivity (to varying degrees), and a clear need for further validation.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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osf.io

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 18d

Reading this unfortunately timely paper right now. Every sentence makes me want to cry.

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Impacts of Immigration Policies on Families | Annual Reviews

US immigration policies have profound impacts on immigrant families. In a robust field of study across disciplines, scholars have documented how the multi-layered, complex immigration regime opens and...

www.annualreviews.org

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 19d

Are you a woman in midlife (or older) who has struggled with an eating disorder as an adult? A new anthology, “This Is Not Your Mother’s Eating Disorder,”is looking for your story in the form of a personal essay!

You can read more about the anthology and submit your writing here!

Moksha

tinymedanthology.moksha.io

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 20d

CALL TO ACTION!

During one of our meetings this week with a House Dem, who shall remain nameless, the idea that "DEI research doesn't save anyone's life" was espoused.

My team was *flabbergasted* by this assertion.

PLEASE DROP YOUR PEER REVIEWED WORKS OF "DEI" SAVING LIVES HERE SO WE CAN SHARE!

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 21d

You asked for it! We delivered Quack-O-Grams to our members of Congress urging them to #ImpeachRFK, and get that Quack out of office!

There's still time for you to get in on this fluffy, feathery action: Send your own duck at zurl.co/W1ZnB and keep the momentum going! 🦆

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Colin Vize @vizecolin.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 Spread the word! We're (w/ @whitneyringwald.bsky.social & @aleksakaurin.bsky.social) organizing a special issue at PD:TRT focused on innovations for measuring context in ambulatory assessment studies of personality pathology. We'd love for you (yes, you) to submit a proposal (deadline Nov. 14th):

www.apa.org

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