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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 5d

Trump's "university compact" is blatantly transphobic and deeply evil stuff. Any university that agrees to this kneels to fascism.

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 5d

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society

22% in 2022
47% in 2025

No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports

Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.

www.pewresearch.org

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Elliot Tucker-Drob @tuckerdrob.bsky.social · 6d

Non-paywalled link to my commentary on @vw1234.bsky.social and colleagues new paper in @nature.com rdcu.be/eI2NG

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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 8d

Truly, one of the most heartening findings I've ever encountered!

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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 8d

...And here's conscientiousness. Sorry, conscientiousness. Bluesky only allows 4 images per post.

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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 8d

If you're teaching about lifespan personality development, and you want to include Bleidorn + colleagues (2022) meta-analysis, I made some prettier plots than the ones in our paper. (Y axis is cohen's d)

(Alternately, if you've never read our paper, check out these plots!)

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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 14d

Calvinball rule is an amazing term!

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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 18d

2015: the CLPM is misspecified, it doesn't account for stable traits, use the RI-CLPM!

2025: the RI-CLPM is misspecified, it doesn't account for linear decay over time, use the ARTS!

(But actually, given how stable everything is, maybe just don't estimate cross-lagged models in adults)

Rich Lucas @richlucas.bsky.social · 18d

It turns out it's very common. Here are the plots of stability over increasingly long lags for about 400 variables from a large panel study. For anything less than almost perfect short-term stability, stability coefficients should reach an asymptote long before 22 years; very few do [10/x]

Actual stability coefficients across increasingly long lags for over 400 variables. Most stabilities decline slowly without ever reaching an asymptote.

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René Mõttus @renemottus.bsky.social · 19d

Submissions are now open for 22nd European Conference on Personality (Edinburgh, 2026); deadline 7/12/25.
Keynote speakers and pre-conference workshops have also been confirmed.
www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission

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The Onion @theonion.com · 20d

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...

theonion.com

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Abdel Abdellaoui @dr-appie.bsky.social · 21d

The largest study on late life virginity, based on >400k individuals, out now in @pnas.org

Open access link: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Shoutout to shared first author @laurawesseldijk.bsky.social ❤️

Thread below 👇🏽

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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 21d

I wrote a little note on awards for diversity and science:
mwkraus.medium.com/a-note-on-aw...

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Sjoerd van Alten @sjoerdalten.bsky.social · 23d

Proud to share our new @nber working paper on how genetics shape the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status in the Netherlands. 🧵(1/8)

www.nber.org/papers/w34208

A Chip Off the Old Block? Genetics and the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 25d

New to me! Thank you!

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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you!!

Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 25d

Thanks! I've heard his name a million times, but never actually checked him out, so I think this has convinced me to finally give in (and probably enjoy!)

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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 25d

Looking for recs on a novel (any genre) where, when you read it, you kept thinking "dang this author has a LOT of fun ideas"

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Adam L @lauretig.bsky.social · 28d

Simon Wood, the GOAT of generalized additive models & creator of the mgcv #rstats package, has an Annual Review of Statistics essay on GAMs, available open access #statssky #mlsky

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

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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 27d

Major new paper by finds implicit measures like the IAT are no better than asking people directly about their biases. After decades of avoiding self-reports, turns out our sophisticated replacement tools work no better than what we abandoned. New post!

The Great Implicit Bias Bamboozle

Where were you when you first learned about implicit bias?

open.substack.com

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Amanda J. Wright @ajwright.bsky.social · Sep 5

New paper out at the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science!

We examined unconditional & event-related changes in pathological vs normal-range personality using 4 metrics to compare their developmental links, how these vary with life events, and whether unique effects emerge across metrics

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trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · Sep 6

this whole "we have to be super private about our salaries" nonsense does nothing but protect the wealthy and privileged
by helping hide income and wealth disparities.

It's also, fucking annoying.

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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you! As you could probably guess by the author list, it took a whole village to raise that paper.

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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · Sep 3

(One of the best/weirdest songs of all time!)

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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm looking for a PhD student to do some trailblazing at the frontier of personality genomics and lifespan gene-environment transactions (start Fall 2026)! If you want to work with me: psychology.msu.edu/graduatestud...
(PS @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social is taking a student too, in moral psych/dev!)

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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · Aug 23

oooooooh this is cool. I'm surprised by the density plots for neuroticism & intelligence in fig 2, which stand out for their lack of skew -- any speculation why this might be?

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