📢 ***Call for papers at Psychological Science (APS)*** Dr Roni Porat and I are editing a special issue, "From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World.” Please see the detailed call here (www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...) and send us your best work!

I'm excited to announce that I will be reviewing graduate student applications for Fall 2027 admissions! I review applications in both the Personality, Development, and Health and the Clinical Science (Weinberg) programs.

Psychological Science is running a special issue on "Advancing Psychological Science using Large Language Models", co-edited by me and @ruben.the100.ci. Check out the calls for submissions below! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

I have found a great new #stats teaching hack to find new open datasets for teaching. I've been going to the Collabra: Psychology journal website, and typing in an analysis type (e.g., logistic regression) into the search bar. Both quick and high-quality data! online.ucpress.edu/collabra

Really glad to see this work out in PNEC - it turns out we can use tear fluid 👁️💧 to measure cortisol stress reactivity in humans using a relatively simple and established analysis pipeline! #neuroscience #Neuroskyence #cogpsyc #AffectSci #psychscisky

Tear fluid cortisol as a marker of acute stress reactivity: A validation study against salivary measures

Assessing the activation of major stress axes is fundamental to stress research. While saliva and blood are well-established ways for quantifying stre…

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Are you ready to shape the future of psychological science? SIPS Executive Committee nominations are still open!🗳️ We are electing 3 seats for 2027–2030: 🔹 Graduate Student or Post-doc 🔹 Faculty (or equivalent) outside the US/Canada 🔹 Faculty or equivalent career stage, including “alt-ac” positions

SIPS Executive Committee Nominations 2026

We are currently soliciting nominations for the Executive Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science. Any member may be nominated, and self-nominations are welcome. SIPS…

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Been enjoying time in the Sierra Nevada. Lots of hiking and exploring and just a little bit of beer.

Help!!! Drop some journals that will accept a stats/methods commentary piece aimed at cog scientists. I would like diamond OA but will consider other journals as well.

#statstab #574 When the Mean is Misleading: a Guide to Ordered Regression for Meaningfully Modeling Ordinal Outcomes Thoughts: The "it's fine to analyse likert/ordinal data with t-test" camp is not doing themselves any favours #ordinal #likert #probit #regression link.springer.com/article/10.1...

When the Mean is Misleading: a Guide to Ordered Regression for Meaningfully Modeling Ordinal Outcomes - Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Objectives We demonstrate the utility of ordered regression models for analyzing ordinal outcomes frequently encountered in criminology, comparing their predictive accuracy and estimation against conv...

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The good news is that someone else now gets to join this amazing team! If you're keen to help develop RegCheck, I'd strongly encourage you to apply. Working with @jamiecummins.bsky.social and @malte.the100.ci is reason enough to apply! jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science - Universität Bern

Universität Bern is looking for PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science

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New website is live, including a new blog post :). I respond to the call by @psychscience.bsky.social asking how we can improve APS conferences. eiko-fried.com/blog/in-pers...

In-person conferences in 2026: yay or nay? | Eiko Fried

Some ideas on improving conferences so they are worth the financial, time, and ecological investments.

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Most of the statistical tests you learned in stats class — t-test, ANOVA, correlation — are actually special cases of a single thing: linear regression. Ch 7 of Experimentology argues that thinking in models, not tests, is more flexible and a better foundation for theory. 🧵 experimentology.io

Representativeness and response validity across nine opt-in online samples

Representativeness and response validity across nine opt-in online samples

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 22 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02438-zStagnaro et al. compare nine opt-in participant samples on measures of response validity, representativeness and professionalism. They find substantial variation across samples and offer guidance for choosing samples based on the research question.

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We're proud to introduce Brainbow, a new Slack workspace for LGBTQIA+ people in neuroscience worldwide. Brainbow aims to provide a safe space, even for those in the closet (emails & names are optional). It also includes channels for communities within the LGBTQIA+ umbrella (eg, trans/non-binary) 1/2

Join Brainbow on Slack

Slack is a new way to communicate with your team. It’s faster, better organized, and more secure than email.

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New preprint! AI agents have shown impressive scientific automation capabilities. Can we apply them to psychology research, *including* human data collection? We introduce auto-psych, a framework that proposes cognitive models and uses them to design and run human experiments. 1/

New post! "Making Sense of Replications (and Some Nonsense about the Replication Crisis)," in which I suggest a journal club reading list of new papers on replication, and push back on claims that the replication crisis is fake. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/making-sen...

Making Sense of Replications (and Some Nonsense about the Replication Crisis)

It’s hard to overstate just how much the culture around replication in science has changed over the past 15 years.

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New interactive blog! "Why Adjusted Regression Coefficients Are Less Descriptive Than They Look" rpsychologist.com/descriptive-...

Proud that @dfg.de will fund CORE, our scientific network for open and reproducible research on emotion regulation. Thanks to my Co-Applicant Dr. Valerie Jentsch and our wonderful network members! 💫

A new paper by @dominiquemakowski.bsky.social, @mattansb.msbstats.info, me and colleagues just out! We show how to choose informative priors in Bayesian regression models using a systematic simulation study and a practical step-by-step tutorial in #Rstats and #Stan! doi.org/10.3389/fpsy... >

The day a child is born is the most dangerous day of life. After birth, a child’s risk of dying declines rapidly across their first year. Risks continue to decline over the next few years, but suddenly rise again during adolescence. Finally, in adulthood, the chances of dying grow exponentially.

Just passed the most existential door

#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky Since there is no polling option here (👀 @bsky.app ) How many of u were aware that while PsyArXiv is (& always will be) free to end users, @improvingpsych.org incurs annual costs for the technology that hosts the service, including user technical support and DOI minting?

Using headers at the start of your code files provides a helpful introduction to your project. One way you can standardize this information is through code snippets in R! Once the snippet is created and named ("header" in this case), just enter the name and press tab and voila!

Have you seen MATILDA (matilda.fss.uu.nl)? Which stands for Measurement, Analysis & Theory for Intensive Longitudinal Data. MATILDA is a website with educational articles that help researchers align theory, measurement, and analysis when studying processes using intensive longitudinal data.

The third edition of the Open Handbook of Experience Sampling Methodology is out! The book includes 14 chapters that cover all aspects of designing, running, and analyzing the data from an ESM/EMA study. The book is freely available here: www.kuleuven.be/samenwerking...

I just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted. Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵

The programme for the King's Open Research Summer School 2026 is now here! Free, open to everyone, and available both in-person and online. Register: tinyurl.com/3wbx9tmr

This study of four cohorts of French schoolchildren shows that the gender gap in math (girls falling behind) begins essentially immediately as soon as kids start school. They use the natural variation in kids' ages at school start to show that it's school entry, not age, that triggers the change.

Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade - Nature

Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...

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Compendium: kiante-fernandez.github.io/webcam-eyetr... Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... We welcome feedback, especially from researchers concerned about AI agents in their data or anyone who tries the tools out. (7/7)

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Head of School - School of Psychology

Full time, fixed term for 5 years with the successful candidate being offered a professorial appointment in an appropriate discipline in the school and will retain that position at the conclusion of t...

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