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Dr. Shayna Sparling

@shaynagram.bsky.social

Assistant professor at UGuelph, pastry lover and applied social psychologist who studies social connection, identity-related stigma, and sexual health.

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Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · last mo.

Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"

INQYR@inqyr.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨🌈 THIS IS IT — ONLY 24 HOURS LEFT! 🌈🚨 The countdown is ON! Early Bird registration for Beyond Limits 2026 ends tomorrow! 🎤 Keynote by Dr. Ilan Meyer 📍 Toronto | 📅 October 2, 2026 🐦💨 Catch the Early Bird before it flies away — August 17 is your last chance to save! www.inqyr.org/beyond-limit...

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Dan Silverman@dmsilverman.bsky.social · last mo.

I‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality

Connor Ewing@cmewing.bsky.social · last mo.

University leadership: We stand ready to support our faculty as they confront the disruptions & uncertainty caused by AI. Faculty: Great! We'll need smaller class sizes, especially for incoming students and— University leadership: Lol, no. We meant like subscriptions to Claude.

Patrick Skeels@baslogic.bsky.social · last mo.

My 4yo daughter pretending to be me, sitting on the couch holding a dinner plate like a steering wheel: yeah I gotta drive all the way to work on a Saturday, cuz they need me to do more philosophy.

paolo@paolopalma.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A common mistakes I’ve seen quant researchers wading into intersectionality make is mistaking intersectionality as an interaction effect. I think I’m gonna start sending people this paper since it does a nice job explaining how intersectionality informs modeling choices doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Screenshot of article title “A tutorial for conducting intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA) by Clare Evan’s and colleagues Excerpt from article (1 of 2): Translating theory into methods, jointly considering the "double jeopardy" of two marginalized positionalities (Black and woman, for instance) would imply use of additive main effects to describe inequalities. However, this additive treatment would not capture what King called the multiplicative "multiple jeopardy" of being both Black and a woman (King, 1988). For instance, assessing risk of a health outcome additively based on race and gender (e.g., "Black" plus "woman" additive main effects) may not be enough to describe the prevalence of a particular health outcome among those who are Black and women, necessitating an additional multiplicative interaction term (Black × woman).Excerpt from article (2 of 2): Put simply, intersectionality is a framework that enables us to theorize about, and critique, social experiences (exposures) at particular intersections and the systems of oppression that create those experiences, while regression analyses that include interactions capture the effects of these experiences on particular outcomes. Thus, the effect of exposures may or may not result in statistically significant interaction effects. Failure to find statistically significant interaction effects says nothing about the validity of intersectionality-it neither proves nor disproves the existence of intersectional experiences. In this sense, intersectionality may be better thought of as a framework for analysis (e.g., how we structure our questions), rather than a testable theory.
Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 2mo ago

New blog post! Odds ratios are...a bit weird. Here I explain two problems (interpretation, non-collapsibility) and provide some simple recommendations for improved reporting. www.the100.ci/2026/07/30/r...

Reviewer notes: Odds ratios are really odd

When psychological researchers investigate binary outcomes, they routinely report odds ratios to quantify the strength of an effect or an association. This is quite understandable given that psycholog...

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Samantha Joel@datingdecisions.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We made an open repository of close relationships measures. Our goal is to catalogue all of the published self-report measures in relationship science. You can help us expand the database by suggesting measures you tend to use in your research, or by uploading your own measures! relascale.com

RelaScale - Psychological Measures and Constructs

RelaScale is a searchable database of psychological measures and constructs for relationship researchers.

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paolo@paolopalma.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I've recently been featured on a Postdoc Spotlight for @ctnplus.bsky.social. As people may know, I started off in social psychology studying anti-immigrant prejudice. This spotlight highlights how I've taken what I've learned to inform my work in public health, and particularly in HIV stigma.

Postdoc Spotlight: Paolo Palma | The CTN+

Dr. Paolo Palma joined the CTN+ in 2025 as a postdoctoral fellow. Grounded by a background in social psychology, he’s driven to understand the health impact of prejudice and discrimination, and how we...

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Dr. Shayna Sparling@shaynagram.bsky.social · 5mo ago

One of my intro stats students e-mailed me today because they were checking their work using Chat GPT. Chat told them why they got a question wrong and they wanted confirmation. I gently reminded them that Chat GPT is an LLM and not really meant to do math. Also, yes, it's explanation was wrong

Dr. Shayna Sparling@shaynagram.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My honours thesis student did such a great job presenting her work at our psychology thesis poster conference yesterday!! She took on a really challenging but really important project and I'm so proud for her!!

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