Gabrielle N. Pfund
@gabriellepfund.bsky.social
Asst Prof in HDFS @ Auburn | Postdoc @ Northwestern | PhD @ WashU | purpose development & measurement / how they connect to cognitive health, well-being, & social relationships in daily life & over time (sometimes thru a personality psych lens) | she/her 🏳️🌈
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The ERROR project recruits independent experts to recheck social sciences papers’ data, statistics, methodology, code; now the project plans to publish the reviews in a new peer-reviewed journal. science.org/content/arti... @dalmeet.bsky.social @science.org #reproducibility
Offering scientists cash to spot errors in published papers doesn’t work
The ERROR project tried enticing reviewers with payments. Now, it’s launching a journal—and promising papers as rewards
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It is deeply stupid that this is happening. Not to mention entirely avoidable.
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 9mo agoAcademics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
Update: the lack of date is *not* normal & *is* a bad sign :')
Gabrielle N. Pfund@gabriellepfund.bsky.social · 5mo agoUuuhhh is it normal for the NSF Social Psychology grant not to have a deadline listed? I'm still new to the ins and outs of grant apps so this could be totally normal--it's just hard to know with *waves hands vaguely in all directions*. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
"The third No Kings protests were an unmistakable display of political force..." "Two-thirds of participants live in suburban, small town or rural areas, a 40% increase over last time in protesters from outside big cities..." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Red flare for Trump: 'No Kings' rallies a show of political force
With a Revolutionary-era slogan, the protests had an historic geographical reach across the country. What does that mean for November?
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I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 6mo agoNSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2
A great idea for those of use that can’t physically march.
Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 5mo agoWe removed the barriers and created an accessible space because resistance is for everyone, everywhere. The *official* No Kings Accessible Rally will be a virtual event to protect our health, defend our democracy, and say NO KINGS. Details: zurl.co/TXWd7 #NoKings #NoKings3 #Democracy #NK3VR
Apparently, every 3 years, I write a purpose theory paper! In 2020, I wrote about how purpose fits into personality psych. In 2023, I wrote about if/how purpose meets Allport's criteria for a trait. In 2026, I'm excited to share a paper on purpose as a state! www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) The State of State Purpose: What We Know and Need to Know About Purpose in Daily Life
PDF | This review summarizes the current state of the state purpose literature. I begin this article by describing what purpose is and the benefits of... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...
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Uuuhhh is it normal for the NSF Social Psychology grant not to have a deadline listed? I'm still new to the ins and outs of grant apps so this could be totally normal--it's just hard to know with *waves hands vaguely in all directions*. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Social Psychology
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“The uprising within DLR Group isn’t the only example of workers pushing back on their employers’ business dealings with ICE—but it may be one of the more successful ones.”
Top architecture firm won’t design more ICE prisons after employees revolt
They thought their firm focused on humane design. Then they learned of the private detention center contract.
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Trump’s own counterterrorism chief has resigned over the Iran war. Joseph Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, wrote in a letter addressed directly to Donald Trump that Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States
“I think what ICE is doing is the worst thing America has probably done since the internment camps during World War II.” One of the nation's top "justice facility" architecture firms will no longer work on ICE detention centers or deportation facilities after its employees staged a revolt.
Top architecture firm won’t design more ICE prisons after employees revolt
They thought their firm focused on humane design. Then they learned of the private detention center contract.
motherjones.com
the misery of catching up on emails after a week away :')
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Nobody ever: Journal: *rejects manuscript* We care about your opinion! Please fill out this brief survey telling us about your experience with our journal!!!
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
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I recently learned about the app 5 Calls. By putting in your address and select an issue you care about, it provides you the number of your representatives and a script on an issue. Calling is one of the best way to make our voices heard. It took me two mins to call both my senators.
I am happy to report that everyone is right and that teaching a course the second time around *is* 10x easier* *fingers crossed I don't regret saying this later in the semester
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The government is saying that violence rules. That snatching foreign leaders and territories, and shooting US citizens in their cars at point blank range, is justified. That resistance is not only futile, it is dangerous. They can say these things. But they cannot force us to believe them.
New in PN: Renee Good's killer can and must be prosecuted "There’s no path to justice that runs through this administration or the federal courts. Hell, Trump will probably give the shooter a medal, and would certainly give him a pardon. But there is a path to justice that runs through Minnesota."
Renee Good's killer can and must be prosecuted
Doing nothing is not an option.
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New paper in Dev Psych with @emily-willroth.bsky.social & Tammy English! Momentary sense of purpose is higher & stabler in older adults than young adults--regardless of cognitive status. Though these fluctuations differ, what predicts them is fairly consistent. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
130,000 Alabamans are about to lose their health insurance as a direct result of the “One big beautiful bill”, and a Florida man is tweeting like it’s some kind of win. If you live in the state, call Sen. Tuberville and tell him what’s on your mind: 202-224-3121
1. This weekend, far-right group Lets Go Washington announced that it had collected enough signatures to get a trans sports ban on the ballot in the state. The bill includes genital inspection provisions. It is one of the first to go forward in a blue state. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Trans Sports Ban With Genital Inspections Gains Enough Signatures To Appear On Washington State Ballot
The initiative collected 400,000 signatures, and will be one of the first major attempts to get an anti-trans law onto the ballot in a state that has dubbed itself a "refuge" for transgender people.
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1. The federal government has just attempted to enact a national trans youth care ban. A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide. It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months. Our latest story here:
Nationwide Trans Youth Care Ban Imminent As Trump Admin Announces "Nuclear Option" Federal Rule
The new federal rule formalizes previous threats to hospitals to pull Medicaid funding, and represents a significant legal stretch by this administration.
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*in Mariah Carey voice* All I want for Christmas iiiIiiiiIiiiiis…. For you not to send me any review requests until after the new year!
Journal: you are at max word count—do not make your manuscript longer. Every reviewer ever: can you please add X, Y, & Z?