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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 2d

Realized I should update that this is now ungated. Everyone can now read, without subscription, the article that one reader described as having "about as close to a plot twist as one will ever see in a review essay." (I loved that comment, which has been making me smile since I read it.)

Three Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States

Everyone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg...

www.doi.org

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ISPP @polpsyispp.bsky.social · 7d

ISPP Small Grants are back for 2026! 💡 $50k total available; request up to $5k for research or network/workshop projects. Open to current ISPP members. Proposals due Dec 1, 2025. Selection uses a lottery among proposals that meet all criteria. Apply: ispp.org/funding/smal...

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Maureen Craig @mocraig.bsky.social · 12d

Very cool work!

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 12d

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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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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Tiffany Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social · 16d

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Assistant Professor

jobs.colorado.edu

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · Jul 25

A while ago, we started a #FixItFriday tradition. We keep a running list - large & small, digital & analog, anything broken or annoying - and work on it together.

Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...

Screenshot from Reddit. User is zensnapple, posting 6 months ago.
Thread says
"How to turn off Google AI Overview in Chrome SOLVED
Open Chrome and put chrome://settings/searchEngines in the search box.
A tab will open which brings you to Search Engine > Manage Search Engines and Site Search.
Click on the Add button by the Site Search update. A box will open. Fill in the form with the following:
Name: AI Free Web
Shortcut: @web
URL: {google:baseURL}search?q=%s&udm=14
You’ll now see AI Free Web in the list of search engines.
Click on the three stacked dots on the right side of AI Free Web on the list. Select Make Default.
From now on, google functions pretty much like it did back when it was good. Good luck out there."

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Maureen Craig @mocraig.bsky.social · Jul 18

Yep, that was my read too!

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Maureen Craig @mocraig.bsky.social · Jul 10

Well deserved recognition!

Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · Jul 10

She is far too un-self-promoting to do this herself, so I'm shouting out *THE* Elizabeth Page-Gould (@page-gould.bsky.social) for winning the SESP Career Trajectory Award!

Liz is the reason they had to invent the high-warmth/high competence quadrant. She is such a gem and so damn deserving of this.

Elizabeth Page-Gould recognized with Career Trajectory Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology

The Society for Experimental Social Psychology has recognized Elizabeth Page-Gould with a Career Trajectory Award in recognition of uniquely creative and influential scholarly productivity.

www.psych.utoronto.ca

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · Jun 25

1. I have spent a lot of time recently sending invitations for people to review papers, and this process works extremely differently from what I imagined when I was a student. Wanted to write out how I do it in case that's helpful for you all as you submit papers.
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · Jun 24

If for no other reason, you should read our new paper on mixed methods in psychology because we managed to get limecat in there. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

an image showing the different ways one can assess how funny limecat is. no matter how you do it, you will find that it is very funny indeed.

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Maureen Craig @mocraig.bsky.social · Jun 24

Congrats, Bill! As long as the dad-jokes keep coming I’m happy for you :)

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Maureen Craig @mocraig.bsky.social · Jun 23

That’s what I aim to be — “not in [her] prime, but still a source of joy” 😂

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Maureen Craig @mocraig.bsky.social · Jun 5

You’ll note that I’m not first author on that one 😉

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Maureen Craig @mocraig.bsky.social · Jun 5

@jaricheson.bsky.social and I discussed this *so much* in the process of writing our first papers! They are different terms and we went with intra- to better highlight the possibility of a common ingroup identity. But I’ve seen both used across the literature. 🤷‍♀️

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The Assembly @theassemblync.bsky.social · May 29

Some UNC-Chapel Hill faculty say they are concerned about a recent Board of Trustees decision—or, rather, non-decision—on faculty tenure and promotion cases.

www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

UNC-Chapel Hill Has Delayed Tenure Votes in Most Departments This Spring

UNC-Chapel Hill trustees didn't approve tenure cases outside of health-related schools at the last two meetings.

www.theassemblync.com

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Maureen Craig @mocraig.bsky.social · May 19

Thanks for the shout-out Gordon! And, fun-fact: this paper idea was sparked by a question from @evaspietri.bsky.social during a sabbatical brownbag talk at CU-Boulder, which is unfortunate for me because it reinforces that I should keep giving talks 😅

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · May 14

Amidst all the posts about how NSF funds the basic science that (eventually) leads to marketable products, its role in funding data infrastructure is getting lost.

The GSS (1972), ANES (late 1960s), and PSID (1968) are rounding error in the discretionary budget but vital national resources.

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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · May 12

🚨 “We just need to recognize that we’re all citizens of this country.” –– Politicians + citizens often stress a shared national identity when trying to bridge racial, partisan, or other group divides.

@stysyropoulos.bsky.social & I show why such “shared” identities are doomed to fail.

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Maureen Craig @mocraig.bsky.social · May 7

The application link is now live again 🥳, after a bit of a delay from some new HR approval requirements. Please tell any fabulous post-bacs or graduating seniors to submit their applications by *May 16* for priority consideration -- I will start looking at apps after that date.

Maureen Craig @mocraig.bsky.social · Apr 1

We just posted the job ad for my lab manager position, with a fall 2025 start date. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29867

Please share with any conscientious, motivated post-bacs or graduating seniors who are looking to build their research skills before applying to grad school.

Duke University, Psychology and Neuroscience

Job #AJO29867, Associate in Research, Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US

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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · Apr 19

New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit

screenshot of semantic distance R package information

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Maureen Craig @mocraig.bsky.social · Apr 7

Congrats! 🥳

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Maureen Craig @mocraig.bsky.social · Apr 4

Update 4/4: the application portal is offline (it says "the deadline is passed", which is not true) while we fill out some additional Duke admin forms. Hoping to be back up in a few days, but don't worry, I'll move the timeline for reviewing applications, depending on when we get back online!

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Maureen Craig @mocraig.bsky.social · Apr 1

Ok, yes confirmed!

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Maureen Craig @mocraig.bsky.social · Apr 1

I'd expect so, but let me double-check with HR to confirm

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