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Simon Lolliot (he/him) @simonlolliot.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hi All! A reminder that we're looking for our next colleague to join us in a tenure-track teaching position in the Psychology Department at UBC! See the job ad below. We'd love to hear from you!

#sotl #educationalleadership #teachinginhighered #SoTLcommunity #psychologyjobs #highered #academicjobs

UBC Psychology @ubcpsych.bsky.social · Aug 1

Join our department! We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Teaching (Tenure-track), located at UBC's Vancouver campus, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2026. Apply by Oct 1, 2025. Learn more & apply: psych.ubc.ca/jobs. Please share!

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · Aug 3

This Peter Baker joint does catalog Trump's lies and censorship, but headline and text tie themselves in journo-cliched linguistic knots to avoid that direct judgment. He's not "underscoring a tendency." He's not an "echo" of an "authoritarian playbook." He is a dictator.

News Analysis

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook
In firing the head of the agency that collects employment statistics, the president underscored his tendency to suppress facts he doesn’t like and promote his own version of reality.

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Simon Lolliot (he/him) @simonlolliot.bsky.social · Aug 1

Come be our colleague! Tenure track position with a focus on educational leadership!

UBC Psychology @ubcpsych.bsky.social · Aug 1

Join our department! We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Teaching (Tenure-track), located at UBC's Vancouver campus, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2026. Apply by Oct 1, 2025. Learn more & apply: psych.ubc.ca/jobs. Please share!

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UBC Psychology @ubcpsych.bsky.social · Aug 1

Join our department! We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Teaching (Tenure-track), located at UBC's Vancouver campus, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2026. Apply by Oct 1, 2025. Learn more & apply: psych.ubc.ca/jobs. Please share!

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Simon Lolliot (he/him) @simonlolliot.bsky.social · Jul 11

Rock. Star!!

Thoroughly well deserved!

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Kiley Hamlin @jkileyhamlin.bsky.social · Jul 8

New paper! Here (in Nature Communications) we (Ale Geraci, Luca Surian, Lucia Gabriella Tina, & I; work led/run by Ale) show that 5-day-old newborns selectively attend to two distinct forms of prosocial over antisocial action: approaching versus avoiding and helping versus hindering.
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Human newborns spontaneously attend to prosocial interactions

Nature Communications - Abilities to distinguish between prosocial and antisocial actions are crucial for sustaining cooperative systems. Here, the authors show that human newborns with just 5 days...

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Calvin Lai @calvinklai.bsky.social · Jun 4

Paper w/ @tcarpenter.bsky.social & @alexgoedderz.bsky.social at PSPB!🚨 The standard IAT is only 5 min long. We found that making the IAT longer by taking it multiple times greatly improves predictive validity. 🧵below, with practical advice about how to run IATs!

LINK: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Simon Lolliot (he/him) @simonlolliot.bsky.social · May 27

Amazing @reimtime.bsky.social ! Congrats!!

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JK Flake @jkflake.bsky.social · May 26

Robustness analysis is going to be a big part of the future of how we think about evidence synthesis and rigor - exciting new journal where you can turn your blog posts of other ways the analyses could have been done into papers! Excited to see some submissions come in!

Journal of Robustness Reports @robustnessreports.bsky.social · Apr 17

We are live!

Introducing the "Journal of Robustness Reports" – a Diamond Open-Access journal dedicated to publishing short reanalyses of empirical findings.

Check out our website and blog post about the journal:
🌐 scipost.org/JRobustRep
📄 www.bayesianspectacles.org/introducing-...

[Editorial: Introducing the Journal of Robustness Reports]

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Simon Lolliot (he/him) @simonlolliot.bsky.social · May 23

Typo maybe? The confidence intervals are both negative...

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Simon Lolliot (he/him) @simonlolliot.bsky.social · May 20

I just read up on Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen...

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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · Apr 18

📢 I'm offering a 1-hour seminar, "Understanding Suicide to Prevent Suicide," through the Zur Institute. It's just $25, and you get a CE credit! If you're interested, I'd love to see you there -- or feel free to share.

Register: www.zurinstitute.com/webinars/und...

#SuicidePrevention #MentalHealth

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Simon Lolliot (he/him) @simonlolliot.bsky.social · Apr 17

If you're interested in how to make interactive videos, you can watch our tutorial, here: : shorturl.at/JVlQz

Also be sure to check out our H5P Symposium website for other helpful tools, tips, talks, and resources: shorturl.at/qGvwZ

Creating Interactive H5P Videos

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Simon Lolliot (he/him) @simonlolliot.bsky.social · Apr 17

Some good news: I've been awarded the Killam Teaching Prize (shorturl.at/plp3Q) and, with the incomparable Dr. Kayli Johnson, received an H5P Award (shorturl.at/3FBT3) for our interactive video on how to make interactive videos. I am honoured to be in the company of such inspiring colleagues!

Meet the Arts recipients of the Killam Teaching Prize and Graduate Teaching Assistant Award - Faculty of Arts

Congratulations to the six Arts faculty members who have received the 2024-25 Killam Teaching Prize and the three Arts Graduate Teaching Assistants recognized with the Killam Graduate Teaching Assista...

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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · Apr 8

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Apr 7

Climate Terminology Does Not Matter

Across tens of thousands of participants in two large-scale experiments, we found that labeling climate change in different ways had no effect on their stated willingness to act.
jayvanbavellab.substack.com/p/climate-te...

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Climate Terminology Does Not Matter

Our new paper finds that swapping out one climate term for another does not meaningfully change people’s stated commitment to fight climate change

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · Apr 2

In this commentary, I argue that student-based teaching evaluations are problematic bc

✳️ systematic biases (e.g., racism, sexism)
✳️ poor construct validity
✳️ undermine standards and learning

We should evaluate teaching as seriously as we do research. Or don't do teaching evaluations.

Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · Apr 2

It is time to abandon student evaluations of teaching

Comment by Gordon Hodson (@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social)

Web: go.nature.com/4jfAzXo
PDF: rdcu.be/ef9y5

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Mar 5

In a new paper we analyzed 43,932 randomized news headlines and found causal evidence in support of the out-group animosity hypothesis:

Negativity about out-groups boosted engagement by 14.1%, compared to just 1.6% for negativity about in-groups.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Simon Lolliot (he/him) @simonlolliot.bsky.social · Mar 1

Hi all. I'm relatively new to Bluesky. I could use some old fashioned help like a #FollowFriday! (Please!)

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Senator Ben Ray Luján @lujan.senate.gov · Feb 25

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The administration just deleted information & resources from its website on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women & violence against Indigenous women.

To the families of missing or murdered women: you will never be erased.

Linking resources below, please share:

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) - Native Hope

We’re facing a crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) in the United States. Here's what you need to know about it.

www.nativehope.org

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Simon Lolliot (he/him) @simonlolliot.bsky.social · Feb 21

Marmite is the best!

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Simon Lolliot (he/him) @simonlolliot.bsky.social · Feb 21

4.8 - yikes! #earthquake #bc

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Simon Lolliot (he/him) @simonlolliot.bsky.social · Feb 21

Anyone else in Vancouver feel the earthquake?

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Simon Lolliot (he/him) @simonlolliot.bsky.social · Feb 21

Not so much the art work but the band and single's name fits...

Make them suffer - Doomswitch

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Mikaela Spruill @spruill.bsky.social · Feb 17

Check out the amazing line up of speakers for the inaugural Critical Perspectives in Psychology Preconference! If you are going to #SPSP2025 you don’t want to miss this!!

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