Proud mentor moment 🥲 #uwprep2025 #yaysahana can't believe 10 weeks is done already!!!!

New #PSPB research shows we have moderate insight into how our life satisfaction changes over time. People focus more on present than past, and on circumstances over feelings when evaluating their life journey. Read more: ow.ly/xVGw50VbUIq

Procrastination or productivity? both start with a p 😈

Benjamin Douglas@bendouglas.bsky.social · last yr.

Procrastinating on a textbook chapter about gamification by doing my Duolingo

So proud of all of my RAs and collaborators for their amazing work at SPSP! 🎉 Here are some snapshots of a few of my RAs as well as my grad student @bendouglas.bsky.social and lab manager @kamila-redd18.bsky.social presenting their work at #SPSP2025.

Had a great time at #SPSP2025! So lovely to meet new people and connect with old mentors and friends. And I learned so much from the amazing research talks and posters! Looking forward to next year :)

🚨 SQIP 2025 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 🚨 Deadline extended to Feb 14! Join on July 18-19 at Marquette University for “Into the Future With Qualitative Methods.” Keynotes: Alex Gillespie & Stephanie Fryberg. Students, faculty & researchers—submit your work! 📢 #SQIP2025 #QualitativeResearch #SQIP

New research by @joecimpian.bsky.social and IDS affiliate @drmcquillan.bsky.social suggests that stress around sexual identity might contribute to increased risks of suicide among teen girls. theconversation.com/teen-girls-a...

Teen girls are facing an increased risk of suicide − and stress related to sexual identity might be contributing to it

While more young people openly identify as LGBQ, many still face substantial challenges that can contribute to a greater prevalence of mental health concerns.

theconversation.com

Happy Black History Month!

I created a R script to see how many times one of those words came up in my recent NSF grant submission. The answer was 355 (!) times. Laughing but crying. Mostly crying. Here's the code if you want to try it on your grant: github.com/calvinklai/d...

dei-words-nsf-count/dei-words-nsf-count.R at main · calvinklai/dei-words-nsf-count

Counting number of DEI words https://bsky.app/profile/darbysaxbe.bsky.social/post/3lhcvn4hxwk2o - calvinklai/dei-words-nsf-count

github.com

Darby Saxbe@darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Just called my representatives in Congress and the Senate and reminded them to support funding federal grants. It took 5 minutes You can do it too: www.senate.gov/senators/sen... www.house.gov/representati...

HUGE congratulations are in order to Ohio Wesleyan's newest Battling Bishop! Such great news for a well-deserving researcher. Thank you, Ben, for being such a wonderful collaborator and student over the years. 🎉🎉

Benjamin Douglas@bendouglas.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am unbelievably excited to share that starting in fall of 2025, I will be an assistant professor of psychology at Ohio Wesleyan University!