The largest personality GWAS yet is out! A tremendous effort led by my advisor @tedmond.bsky.social Check it out!

Nature@nature.com · last mo.

Nature research paper: Robust inference and correlates from genetic associations with personality go.nature.com/3UTkobb

Week 4 of miniature bird art and it's getting crowded. Which is your favourite?

Congratulations to Dr. Abigail Cassario on earning a PhD in Psychology! 🎓 Dr. Cassario’s research area is Social/Personality with a dissertation titled “Falling Short? Testing the Casual Effect of Downward Mobility on Populist Support.” Congrats again, Dr. Cassario! We wish you all the best! 💚🤍

Deeply disgusted by the email I received from @datacamp.bsky.social today. I can’t even begin to explain how offensive this is.

I often feel anxious about how long it takes me to produce work, but I now have a new frame of reference for worst performance. I ordered a single t-shirt as a gift for someone. Time from order to delivery: 611 days. As long as I’m doing better than @bungiestore.bungie.net I guess I’m doing okay! 💀

Please join us in welcoming two incoming graduate students to the social-personality research area: Brooke Cote and Austin Zeng! We’re thrilled to have you join us! 💚🤍 Learn more about Brooke and Austin here: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966), “At Close of Day” (1941), oil on board, 33 x 38.1 cm.

Love this, love this. This kind of subtle light is so hard to capture in paint and it’s so well done here. Scrumptious.

Wallace Polsom@wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966), “Hill Top Farm, Winter” (1949), oil on masonite, 39.4 x 34.3 cm.

Changes in Google Scholar that worry me: 1: Advertising search via AI on the homepage. 2: The surge in Academia.edu article hosting, a platform that is heavily invested in venture capital and huge corporations.

One thing I’m unsure about with using AI to perform biology/medicine work is, how is it trained? I think there’s a benefit to using massive data to help discover things quickly, but if we’re training it to look at it the same things we do the same way, are we not just replicating our blind spots?

PSY student researcher Rachael Blanchard has conducted a lit review synthesizing over 20 scholarly articles on psychiatric interviews & psychosocial assessments for @hrcowan.bsky.social's lab. Recently, she received a PURI Award to build upon her work. Full Q&A: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/... 💚

Miss you, Mister. I hope there are so many dinner plates and butter dishes for you to steal from in kitty heaven. Thank you for being the absolute best.

🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3

Every time I get into an argument about discrimination against women in the workplace, I end up in the same tired spiral. No, it’s not about achieving 50/50 m/f ratios in every career field. It’s about THIS kind of harassment no longer being a part of the experience for any woman in any field.

Juliet Turner@juliet-turner.bsky.social · 11mo ago

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Congrats to MSU grad student Anna Benedict on being named to Notre Dame’s prestigious Domer Dozen—which recognizes the top 12 outstanding young alumni! See how Anna is changing the conversation around serious mental illness through research and storytelling: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/... 💚

Congrats to MSU graduate student Bailey Rann on receiving a 2025 J. Frank Yates Student Travel Award from @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social! Get to know Bailey more here: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

Congrats to MSU graduate student @abbycassario.bsky.social on being awarded a 2025 Student Publication Prize from @spspnews.bsky.social! Full story here: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

Lansing area friends - families in the Greater Lansing area struggling without SNAP. The Greater Lansing food bank needs your help to feed our community. Please consider donating! greaterlansingfoodbank.org/donate

A reminder that I’m accepting applications for PhD students!

Whitney Ringwald@whitneyringwald.bsky.social · last yr.

✨✨ I will be reviewing applications for the University of Minnesota psychology PhD program this fall! Information for potential applicants can be found on my lab website: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu/join-lab Please spread the word!

Today ICE and federal agents detained a man at 26 Federal Plaza during court recess, before he had the opportunity to have his hearing.

Meet Dr. Meltem Yucel, our new moral psychologist! Dr. Yucel has a passion for understanding why people behave the way they do. Her research focuses on how children and adults understand rules, group identity, & moral development. psychology.msu.edu/news-events/... @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social

Gender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison is currently hiring for a tenure-track position focused on gender/sexuality & AGING! We are an interdisciplinary department & welcome scholars across fields (humanities but also PSYCH, POP HEALTH, SOCIOLOGY, etc.) Deadline: Nov 11! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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The new journal Replication Research is now taking submissions. You can read the inaugural editorial on the journal website! #OpenScience #replication

My paper “Testing Theories of Threat, Individual Difference, and Ideology” is a winner of the Student Publication Award this year. I’m proud of this one, because it shows that if we ask interesting questions and use rigorous methods, we can contribute to ~science~ even when we’re wrong or 1/2 right!

Society for Personality and Social Psychology@spspnews.bsky.social · 12mo ago

SPSP is thrilled to announce the winners of our 2025 Student Awards! Congratulations to the recipients of our Heritage Dissertation Research Prize, Jenessa Shapiro Graduate Research Award, and Student Publication Prize. Learn more: ow.ly/ok5c50Xe7gW

This list of excellent SPSP awards includes @abbycassario.bsky.social’s paper on threat, personality, and ideology, one winner of the student publication award! 🎉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Testing Theories of Threat, Individual Difference, and Ideology: Little Evidence of Personality-Based Individual Differences in Ideological Responses to Threat - Abigail L. Cassario, Mark J. Brandt, 2...

Recent attempts to establish the veracity of the conservative shift hypothesis have failed to find supportive evidence. Instead, this work yields inconsistent r...

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology@spspnews.bsky.social · 12mo ago

SPSP is thrilled to announce the winners of our 2025 Student Awards! Congratulations to the recipients of our Heritage Dissertation Research Prize, Jenessa Shapiro Graduate Research Award, and Student Publication Prize. Learn more: ow.ly/ok5c50Xe7gW

nerds freely nerding in their nerd field is really lovely www.science.org/content/arti...

These ‘ghost flowers’ thrive without photosynthesis. One scientist is learning how

Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu studies plants that steal carbon and nutrients from soil fungi

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Parents of 0- to 12-year-olds, come do science with us! We run short, game-like studies with kids. We offer in-person and online options, flexible scheduling (weekdays & weekends), and sessions that are fun for children and easy for caregivers.

Exciting news from the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science--a joint effort to enhance open science training in clinical psychology! If you are interested, you can the papers mentioned in the email here: Van Til et al. osf.io/h34jg/files/... OSC paper (Lynam et al.) osf.io/preprints/ps...

✨✨ New paper out in JPSP! ✨✨ Despite rich theory on links between temperament and personality, they're rarely studied together. This has left major unaddressed questions. We tackled these questions by looking at how temperament and personality develop together from ages 10-26. Brief thread...