“An Epic Research study published on Friday analyzing electronic health records found that gambling disorder diagnoses have risen more than 60 percent since 2018 in states that have legalized sports betting. The largest increase came from young people, aged 18 to 29, whose rate more than doubled.”

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 4mo ago

Meta sure sounds eager to get young people hooked on online gambling

Glitter and temporary rainbow tattoos on my skin are bringing up lovely memories of Pride weekend. Pride is, as it always seems to be, joyful and a little chaotic, and very, very welcome right now 🌈 Happy Pride!

My dog regularly (and thankfully) reminds me to stop and pay attention. There’s some great stuff out there I’d likely otherwise miss.

Reminder: when authors observe Cohen's d = 4, no they didn't. Article now retracted: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Critique: osf.io/preprints/ps... Blog on plausibility of effect sizes: trustworthy.scientific.claims/posts/if-res...

RETRACTED ARTICLE: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis - Humanities and Social Sciences Communication...

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - RETRACTED ARTICLE: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a...

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Why worry whether a case has merit when you can screw your enemies just with an indictment?

Ron Lieber@ronlieber.bsky.social · 6mo ago

BREAKING: Fidelity won't let customers donate to the SPLC anymore via their charitable gift/donor-advised funds, citing Trump admin indictment of SPLC. No response yet from Schwab, Vanguard... but soon. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/b...

Think this is mindfulness? You’ve got it wrong. An Oxford clinical professor and a meditation expert tell Anna Maxted how to do it right — and help chronic depression

Think this is mindfulness? You’ve got it wrong

An Oxford clinical professor and a meditation expert tell Anna Maxted how to do it right — and help chronic depression

bit.ly

Did Trump’s 2024 re-election make it okay to be openly prejudiced? New work from @chriscrandall.bsky.social suggests it did. The more negatively Trump spoke about a group, the more okay it became to express prejudice (and the more prejudiced people were) towards that group after the election.

A regime driven by the desire to create social media content for their hardcore fans on the extreme Right. It is an immensely dangerous situation. But I don't think this cruel spectacle is an effective way to consolidate authoritarian rule.

Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"But more fundamentally, ICE is violence-prone because its main purpose has become theatrical. Under present leadership, ICE is less a law-enforcement agency than it is a content creator."

some parents, esp white parents, fail to answer their children's questions about race or provide colorblind messages ("race is not important"). but are these effective? 🗣️ we find they aren't! structural explanations seem to be more constructive (1/5) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How Colorblind and Structural Messages Affect Children's Reasoning About Novel Group Disparities

Children experience a variety of messages about racial–ethnic socialization from their parents, teachers, and other sources, who might not answer children's questions about race, or might explicitly...

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These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."

So yeah, this is fundamentally about trans people and that cannot be elided, but the ways in which junior faculty are targeted and disposed of, while academic jobs are increasingly precarized, and political grandstanders seek to influence academic governance are fucking terrifying for everyone.

A couple of decades ago, I went to Oxford University to interview for a postdoc-type position with Miles Hewstone. At the time - and for years afterward - I was disappointed I didn’t get the position. Now, I realize how lucky I was.

Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"Miles Hewstone no longer holds the honorific title of Emeritus Fellow at New College, which is part of Oxford. He has resigned as a fellow of the British Academy, a respected body that promotes humanities and social sciences." archive.is/2025.11.28-1...

According to psychology research, people can abruptly shift left when there is a "threat event" to health care access or threats from pollution and disaster, in a similar manner that the majority went hawkish after 9/11. Anger drives it. This is a rare event that upends the game board of politics.

Geoff Garin@geoffgarin.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The new NBC national survey shows the Democratic advantage in the generic congressional trial heat growing since March from +1 to +8. The Republican advantage on the economy has essentially disappeared - dropping from 21 points in September 2023 to just 1 point now.

“Universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 12mo ago

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

This whole thread. “Oh no, someone might eat food!” Good. That’s good. “They might buy something they like.” Cool. “They might get a treat!” Also cool.

grimm 🎃@mugrimm.bsky.social · 12mo ago

There's something deeply disturbing about EBT/SNAP hate to me. Like just truly bone blanching shit.

Turns out I could start a food pantry for students in our department by just asking if we could start a food pantry for students in our department 🤷🏻‍♀️💕 Talked with 3 students this week who are losing SNAP benefits. I’m sure there are many more 😢

It is great that small businesses and local organizations are stepping up to fill gaps in food access while SNAP is frozen, but every story masks a systemic and humiliating failure of the US Government to support its most vulnerable citizens. The GoFundMe-ification of social services makes me sick.

High Quality Research Rarely Informs Classroom Practice. Why? www.edweek.org/leadership/o...

High Quality Research Rarely Informs Classroom Practice. Why? (Opinion)

The connection between education research, policy, and practice is broken. Here’s what it would take to fix it.

edweek.org

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

One of my favorite studies to teach about: Dr. Anne Becker’s work in Fiji, exploring the introduction of Western television for young girls’ body image and eating behaviors (it’s bad) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12042229/

More Americans are biting their tongues, not because they don’t care, but because they’re afraid to speak. From DEI to the war in Gaza, people are more afraid to speak their minds now than during the Red Scare, according to a political scientist who has been conducting surveys. buff.ly/Ls2m7mv

Self-censorship and the ‘spiral of silence’: Why Americans are less likely to publicly voice their opinions on political issues

Nearly half of Americans say they feel less free to speak their minds.

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"Psychology is meant to study humans, not patterns at the output of biased statistical models." It baffles me this needs to be said, but here we are. There are already viral studies from respected scientists suggesting we can learn something about human cognition from LLMs. Scary & disgraceful.

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · last yr.

🌟 New preprint 🌟, by @olivia.science and me: 📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧪

Is Belief in Conspiracies Theories More Prevalent Among Republicans and Conservatives? A recent article in @polbehavior.bsky.social ‬by Enders, Farhart, Miller, Uscinski, Saunders, and Drochon finds the answer is no: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #polisky 🧵(1/7)

Are Republicans and Conservatives More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories? - Political Behavior

A sizable literature tracing back to Richard Hofstadter’s The Paranoid Style (1964) argues that Republicans and conservatives are more likely to believe conspiracy theories than Democrats and liberals...

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From the abstract: “When seeing classrooms with stereotypically masculine (vs. neutral) objects, women perceived less safety, which predicted less engagement, interest, and intentions to recruit others.“

Lora Park @lorapark.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper out from the Self & Motivation Lab on Safety and Threat in the Environment Perceptions (STEP). The STEP scale assesses people's overall, gut-level impressions of any given space and uniquely predicts engagement, interest, & desire to recruit others journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ending Medicaid in order to build concentration camps. I feel, as always, there should be some kind of nonstop barrage of ads across America, every Democrat on every platform saying something like “Republicans want to end Medicaid in words to build concentration camps.”

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.

Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · last yr.

BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.

Incredible: 0% of studies funded by the meat industry have found a link between red meat and cardiovascular ill-health. 73% of studies *not* funded by the meat industry have found a link. www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

Is red meat bad for your heart? Studies leave plenty to chew over

Scientists analyse industry-sponsored research on red meat and heart health

thetimes.com

HAPPY PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈 Under Trump, research using terms like “Trans,” “LGBTQ,” & “Gender identity” is being defunded. These terms reflect real people who deserve science that includes them. Stand with us to protect LGBTQ+ science from political erasure. grant-watch.us/nih-data.html @rcmedphys.bsky.social

A widespread view in psychology is that most cognitive processes are unconscious. In a new paper, I argue that many of these processes may evade consciousness for the same reason the "invisible gorilla" did: People fail to pay attention to them. 🧵 direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Invisible Gorillas in the Mind: Internal Inattentional Blindness and the Prospect of Introspection Training

Abstract. Much of high-level cognition appears inaccessible to consciousness. Countless studies have revealed mental processes—like those underlying our choices, beliefs, judgments, intuitions, etc.—w...

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