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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 1d

Why do some ideas spread widely, while others fail to catch on?

Our new review paper on the PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRALITY is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social (it was led by @steverathje.bsky.social)

Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 1d

Great piece in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social on why AI won't solve the loneliness epidemic:

"presenting AI as a scalable solution to the loneliness epidemic risks overlooking the structural and societal roots of the problem and may allow us to abdicate our responsibility as a society."

Can AI really help solve the loneliness epidemic?

Advances in artificial intelligence offer an enticing solution to a global problem: perhaps interacting with large language models (LLMs) can help all…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Dana Miller-Cotto @damcotto.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 New publication! Our registered report in Journal of Educational Psychology examines whether common executive function (EF) tasks demonstrated measurement invariance across racial/ethnic groups. Spoiler: they don’t. ⚠️
doi.org/10.1037/edu0...

APA PsycNet

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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 4d

cool paper extracting spatial distance from Turkish youtube videos, concludes people walk closer to their ingroup (on sidewalks etc), non religious men avoid religious women

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Jennifer Tackett @jnfrltackett.bsky.social · 6d

We have a new preprint out - continuing to try and move the needle on improving research in clinical psych

Josh Miller @jdmiller.bsky.social · 6d

New paper led by @drlynam.bsky.social on the need for more training in and engagement with open science practices in clinical psych programs. It has been difficult to make progress due to a variety of barriers, including students working in labs uninterested or hostile to these approaches.

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 7d

The Open Science Movement and Clinical Psychology Training: Rigorous Science is Transparent Science: https://osf.io/s46wd

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Violeta J. Rodriguez, PhD, MSEd @vjrp.bsky.social · 8d

So proud to share our paper on Academic Brokering with brilliant #LatinaScholars. 🌟 Grateful to @dllabarrie.bsky.social for leading the way & to Amanda Perozo Garcia, Michelle Perez, and @thaniagalvanphd.bsky.social for making this project come to fruition. 💜

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Navigating Academic Brokering: Enhancing Belongingness in Scientific Training Programs

As more psychologists engage with marginalized communities for research, the lack of diversity in the academic workforce and inadequate cultural sensitivity training often leads to relying on trainee...

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Sarah Yip @yiplab.bsky.social · 11d

New paper from @annierhcheng.bsky.social

using data from IMAGEN and ABCD she identifies distinct signatures of impulsivity and negative affect in youth that uniquely overlap with a neuromarker of risky alcohol use

#development #equifinality #abcd #connectome

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Impulsivity and neuroticism share distinct functional connectivity signatures with alcohol-use risk in youth - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - Impulsivity and neuroticism share distinct functional connectivity signatures with alcohol-use risk in youth

www.nature.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12d

Lawlessness is contagious. It is spreading throughout Trump's Justice Department. This is what authoritarianism looks like. It's most potent enemy is the rule of law.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12d

BREAKING NYT:

Trump just fired a U.S. attorney who insisted on following a court order.

Michele Beckwith, the top federal prosecutor in Sacramento, was fired hours after she reminded a Border Patrol chief to abide by court-ordered restrictions on immigration raids.

Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order

www.nytimes.com

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 12d

Oppressive and contemptuous of law: "the July 15 firing of Ms. Beckwith occurred less than six hours after she told Mr. Bovino, the Border Patrol chief in charge of the Southern California raids, that a court order prevented him from arresting people without probable cause."

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12d

BREAKING NYT:

Trump just fired a U.S. attorney who insisted on following a court order.

Michele Beckwith, the top federal prosecutor in Sacramento, was fired hours after she reminded a Border Patrol chief to abide by court-ordered restrictions on immigration raids.

Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Elizabeth Santos @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social · 12d

2nd year grad students are no longer eligible to apply. Currently enrolled grad students must be in their first year, whether in a MS, BS-MS, or Ph.D.

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Kosta Boskovic @kostaboskovic.bsky.social · 12d

Extremely disappointing decision from the NSF today to exclude second-year graduate students from eligibility for the GRFP. I and many other second-year grads purposely held off from applying in our first year to be able to do so now...

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Martha W. Alibali @marthaalibali.bsky.social · 12d

Very disappointed on behalf of all the second-year graduate students (including one from my group) who could have applied last year, but who waited until this fall, based on the rule that you can only apply once!

Kosta Boskovic @kostaboskovic.bsky.social · 12d

Extremely disappointing decision from the NSF today to exclude second-year graduate students from eligibility for the GRFP. I and many other second-year grads purposely held off from applying in our first year to be able to do so now...

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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 13d

The first act of the next president should be to abolish ICE.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · 13d

Hey #SRP2025! Curious about how context shapes impulsive action and inaction in daily life? Come chat with me about our findings!

🗓️ Tonight (Thurs), 7-9pm
📍 Poster T72, The Topography of Momentary Impulsivity: Context Matters

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Meltem Yucel @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social · 13d

Come join the Moral Minds Lab as a grad student at MSU! Brand-new lab equipped for child & adult testing, with motivated undergrads in a happy department. 🤩

Learn more: www.moralmindslab.com/join-our-tea...

(P.S. @tedmond.bsky.social is also taking a student!) @msupsychology.bsky.social

Family friendly waiting room for participants

Family friendly waiting room, picture shows children's play area

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14d

@karenattiah.bsky.social's should get as much attention as Kimmel's and is easily as important.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14d

Karen Attiah, a Washington Post opinion writer fired this month for her social media posts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, has filed a grievance arguing that she should have been allowed to share her views on news events under the company’s labor agreement and social media policy.

Karen Attiah Says Firing by Washington Post Violated Labor Agreement

The company fired Karen Attiah this month for her social media posts related to Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 18d

Putin never invaded Poland, Estonia, and Romania when Joe Biden was president.

CNN @cnn.com · 18d

BREAKING: Poland scrambles jets as Russia launches massive aerial assault on Ukraine, hours after NATO intercepted three Russian jets over Estonia's airspace. https://cnn.it/3W0jhUk

Ukrainian air defense fires at Russian drones above Kyiv during overnight during mass drone and missile strikes on Ukraine early Saturday. | Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images

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Juan Del Toro, PhD @drjuandeltoro.bsky.social · 23d

Just my two cents! 😅

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Juan Del Toro, PhD @drjuandeltoro.bsky.social · 23d

I know very little of the data. They sound cross sectional? If so, then I don’t know if the null result could be attributable to unmeasured environmental confounds, so a daily diary or co twin could offer something closer to the truth. I don’t think science is about being right/wrong but rather when

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Juan Del Toro, PhD @drjuandeltoro.bsky.social · 23d

Let’s not forget that the association between two constructs may depend on sample and context 🙃

Perhaps no one is wrong is here 😅

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 23d

Everyday we get more evidence that the most revered organizations in America are willing to help re-segregate daily life. Today, I woke up to the Washington Post and Harvard-organizations ostensibly committed to "truth"-(continuing) to help re-segregation along.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23d

“Harvard quietly ended its Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program in May — shuttering a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply … The UMRP was not involved in making admissions decisions.”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson

By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.

www.thecrimson.com

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Juan Del Toro, PhD @drjuandeltoro.bsky.social · 28d

So how do we get a lawyer or judge to act on this immediately?

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U.S. Department of Education Ends Funding to Racially Discriminatory Discretionary Grant Programs at Minority-Serving Institutions

Today, the Department announced that it will end discretionary funding to several Minority-Serving Institutions grant programs that discriminate by conferring government benefits exclusively to instit...

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Lydia Emery @lydiaemery.bsky.social · Apr 14

Excited to share a new paper in Current Directions on the theme of merging in close relationships, with @emmamcgorray.bsky.social, @erinhughes.bsky.social , and @abdoe.bsky.social! In the paper, we discuss merging in the domains of selves, goals, processing, and reality. tinyurl.com/ynbedzys (1/4)

Title page of the paper "Merging in Close Relationships"

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Selin Zeytinoglu @selinzeytinoglu.bsky.social · 29d

Excited to announce that I started as an Assistant Professor at Tulane’s Psychology Department! Made it to the beautiful New Orleans & enjoying the oak trees! Recruiting PhD students through the Brain, Cognition & Dev Science area (deadline Dec 1). Please share widely & contact me with questions!

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 29d

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI).

Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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