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Diego Reinero, Ph.D. @diegoreinero.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Excited to announce the full-day Moral Psychology pre-conference at #SPSP2026!

We sold out last year, and with this year’s incredible speaker lineup, we expect the same.

Submit your poster or data blitz abstract by Oct. 23! spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p... There’s a best poster award!

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported

About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.

www.pewresearch.org

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Rob Sica @robsica.bsky.social · 5d

"In countries with multiparty systems or less polarized media ecosystems than the U.S., ideological and partisan gaps in self‐reported trust in science are typically substantially weaker than in the U.S., if they exist at all... not a stable characteristic of conservativism"

Are There Ideological Differences in Science Denial?

Debates about issues such anthropomorphic climate change have raised alarm that there may be systematic differences in liberals’ and conservatives’ tr…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 6d

The "compact" is a threat, with the administration explicitly stating that it plans to disfavor universities that don't sign in areas from foreign student visas, student loans, federal contracts as well as grants, and even tax [501(c)(3)] status.

It's a maximalist plan of 1st Amendment violation.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Statistical Horizons @stathorizons.bsky.social · 20d

Learn to create and publish a professional, data-focused website in “Create an Online Presence with Quarto Websites” on October 16-17, with @andrew.heiss.phd‬! Discover how to use #Quarto to build a variety of websites like personal portfolios, research compendiums, and interactive dashboards.

Quarto Websites | Online Seminar | Code Horizons

This online course taught by Andrew Heiss, Ph.D., teaches you how to use Quarto to build a variety of data-focused websites.

codehorizons.com

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Kirstan Brodie @kirstanbrodie.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations! Looking forward to reading the paper!

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Jean Luo @jeanieluo.bsky.social · 5d

Very excited to share that my first paper, with Peter Mende-Siedlecki and @leorhackel.bsky.social, is out now in @commspsychol.nature.com! ☺️

Can getting more rewards make you feel more skilled, even if your performance doesn't change?

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Rewards bias self-evaluations of ability - Communications Psychology

People often receive rewards for good performance, but what happens when rewards do not reflect ability? Two behavioral studies suggest that rewards can impact how we evaluate our own ability, above and beyond the impact of actual performance.

www.nature.com

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 5d

Cool new study by @joelleforestier.bsky.social @page-gould.bsky.social & Alison Chasteen

Can social media contact reduce prejudice?

#PrejudiceResearch

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 6d

What's a life well-lived? Researchers looked at 38 MILLION obituaries over 30 years to study virtue.

Among the fascinating results, this one is chilling:

After the pandemic, benevolence dropped in popularity and never recovered. In its place, tradition as a virtue experienced a popularity surge.🧪

An exploration of basic human values in 38 million obituaries over 30 years | PNAS

How societies remember the dead can reveal what people value in life. We analyzed 38 million obituaries from the United States to examine how perso...

www.pnas.org

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 6d

Spread the word: I'm looking to recruit a PhD student for Fall 2026 to @ucsb.bsky.social! Reach out if you are applying this cycle and hoping to study infant and child social cognition, specifically expectations about friendship and/or groups. Bonus: live in paradise! And.. 1/3

UCSB Campus. Meadow in the foreground with Storke Tower and mountains in the distance

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Kirstan Brodie @kirstanbrodie.bsky.social · 6d

A last-of-the-season plum torte for your troubles

A plum torte in a blue baking dish ready to go in the oven

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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 15d

Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Kirstan Brodie @kirstanbrodie.bsky.social · 6d

Hauntmetric?

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 6d

Bridging individual-level and system-level approaches to advance psychology-based diversity initiatives

Review by Joyce C. He, Benjamin B. Keller & Sonia K. Kang

Web: go.nature.com/3ISa2mg
PDF: rdcu.be/eJbnh

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 7d

📣 Calling 2nd-year grad students and their mentors:

You just abruptly lost the ability to apply for the NSF grad research fellowship.

Join ~900 others (and growing!) in signing @omfishient.bsky.social's petition to reverse that.

[Or reshare this petition if you're not directly impacted]

Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition

laurenkuehne.github.io

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Garvin Brod @garvinbrod.bsky.social · 7d

You can learn better by making your own predictions than by watching someone else's predictions, even if they are the same as yours. New computational approach to show the benefits of active/generative learning developed together with the fabulous @ebonawitz.bsky.social rdcu.be/eILdR

Do it yourself: discerning the effects of self-directed activity on conceptual learning

npj Science of Learning - Do it yourself: discerning the effects of self-directed activity on conceptual learning

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 7d

"Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 7d

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 7d

The neural control & computation lab is recruiting!

If you're interested in using large-scale neural population recordings to study how the brain learns to produce complex and flexible behaviours, please get in touch.

www.ncclab.ca

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Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social · 7d

"For everyday arguments prior beliefs play a larger role on perceived argument quality than argument quality itself"

📢New paper from: Calvin Deans-Browne & Henrik Singmann @singmann.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

For everyday arguments prior beliefs play a larger role on perceived argument quality than argument quality itself

Not all arguments are equally convincing, and whilst a given argument may be persuasive to some people, it is often seen as inadequate by others. We a…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · 8d

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-...

NIH awarded 37 percent fewer neuroscience-related grants in 2025 than in past years

But the agency has spent nearly its entire budget for this fiscal year, which ends tomorrow.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Steve Rathje @steverathje.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 New preprint 🚨

Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions.

Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased!

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Karen Campbell 🇨🇦 @karampbell.bsky.social · 8d

The brain represents the world around us as a series of neural states - stable patterns of activity that change as we move from one event to the next.

New paper by @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social showing that neural states get longer as people age. #PsychSciSky

nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08792-4

Temporal dedifferentiation of neural states with age during naturalistic viewing - Communications Biology

Movie fMRI data reveals age-related lengthening of neural states in visual and prefrontal regions, reflecting reduced temporal differentiation while preserved alignment with perceived events suggests stable coarse event segmentation.

www.nature.com

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Thùy Vy T Nguyễn @thuyvytnguyen.bsky.social · 9d

Excited to share my new preprint. My work focuses on solitude, but I am not one to advocate for a "solitude theory"; psych has too many theories so one less would be good. So, what I did the past 2 yrs is talking to people, reading work outside of my literature, essentially to shop for a framework 🧵

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David V. Smith @dvsmith.bsky.social · 9d

New work led by @mattmattoni.bsky.social

“Overall, results suggest that BOLD activation to reward tasks, and likely other fMRI tasks, is more appropriate for within-person study than between-person study, highlighting a need for intensive longitudinal neuroimaging designs.”

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 10d

Precision Imaging for Intraindividual Investigation of the Reward Response https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.26.678878v1

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