Days after a WNBA team co-ownwer was suspended for confronting anti-trans activists courtside, Cheryl Reeve of the Minnesota Lynx wore a "Trans Kids Belong" shirt while facing down Sophie Cunningham's team, the Fever. The Lynx won 108-100. Subscribe to support our journalism.

WNBA Coach Cheryl Reeve Wore “Trans Kids Belong” While Beating Sophie Cunningham’s Team

The crowd was equally indignant, reportedly booing whenever Cunningham touched the ball.

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McGill social psych is now officially hiring at the assistant prof level, hooray Happy to chat with anyone about the position mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

priorsense R package has now JOSS paper "priorsense: Efficient prior and likelihood sensitivity checks for Bayesian models in R" you can cite, too doi.org/10.21105/jos... with Noa Kallioinen, Topi Paananen, and @paulbuerkner.com priorsense achieved also a gold badge from @ropensci.org review!

priorsense: Efficient prior and likelihood sensitivity checks for Bayesian models in R

Kallioinen et al., (2026). priorsense: Efficient prior and likelihood sensitivity checks for Bayesian models in R. Journal of Open Source Software, 11(123), 11036, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.11036

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Apropos of nothing, anyone interested in joining a "software* in social/personality psychology"-themed SPSP submission? *could be R/python packages, dashboards, web-based or mobile apps, etc.,

John Sakaluk@johnsakaluk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Social/Personality Psych people: what are some of your favourite research software products/papers that have come out in the last ~5 years?

Social/Personality Psych people: what are some of your favourite research software products/papers that have come out in the last ~5 years?

A small 🧵 about frustrations and opportunities w/ open-source research software for the social sciences: Came across a new paper in a top methods journal, explaining/demo'ing a new R package. Sounded v. cool, so was excited to dig in. What I found was largely a mess...

Will have more to say about the dySEM paper (w/ @omarjcamanto.bsky.social )/JOSS another time, but for, now, just struck--similar to doing my first Registered Report--in terms of how much I feel like this approach (not without tradeoffs) is a big improvement in terms of scientific value-allignment

Journal of Open Source Software@joss-openjournals.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Just published in JOSS: 'dySEM: An <em>R</em> Package for Dyadic Structural Equation Modeling with Latent Variables' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.10115

Turns out empirically derived phenotypes (data-driven symptom sets) nested within traditional mental disorders can help reduce diagnostic heterogeneity! We learned so much cool and interesting stuff in this study. I could talk (/post) about it all day, but here’s a few highlights (🧵)

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Empirically derived phenotypes can reduce diagnostic heterogeneity: https://osf.io/8wtqx

And now as semesters end, a reminder that this hack works for grade grubbing emails as well. Select, send, forget (reading first is optional). Here's mine:

Hannah R Snyder@hannahrsnyder.bsky.social · 2y ago

As semesters start and you find yourself repeatedly answering emails with the same questions from students, this is my annual reminder that you can make all your frequent responses email signatures and just select them from your signature list to respond. You're welcome. #academicsky

Beautiful piece by Awais. Money quote below. My one concern is that many psychiatrists do not in fact mean what Awais means when they say "you have ADHD". They mean it in exactly the same way one says "you have liver cancer". And it's very harmful for mental health science and practice.

Awais Aftab@awaisaftab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

When patients ask, “What disorder do I really ‘have’?” the honest answer is usually more interesting and messier than a single diagnostic label. I wrote for the @nytimes.com on what I wish people understood about diagnoses and the nature of mental health problems. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Trevor Project released its annual LGBTQ youth mental health report. The results are shocking. 40% of trans youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.

📖: Erlick, E. (2025).Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850-1950. Beacon Press. searchworks.stanford.edu/view/in00000... 📖: Heyam, K. (2024). Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender. Hachette UK. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dr-ki... Oop! No “n” to Heyam! Sorry about that!

Before gender : lost stories from trans history, 1850-1950 in SearchWorks catalog

Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more.

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Whenever you hear talk about the “recency”of trans, gender-diverse, or gender-variant existence (wholly unfounded, see Erlick, 2025; Heyman, 2024), remember that THE premier institute studying gender diversity was purposefully destroyed, making it easier for political smucks to spread misinformation

Matthew Hodson@matthewhodson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

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Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | 6 May 1933: Looting of the Institute of Sexology

On 6 May 1933, the Institute of Sexology, an academic foundation devoted to sexological research and the advocacy of homosexual rights, was broken into and occupied by Nazi-supporting youth. Several d...

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Matthew Hodson@matthewhodson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

Are we still posting our raw datasets now that they're being farmed for genAI-written papers? I'm starting to feel differently now sharing data before I'm totally done with my own research questions...

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

New paper— everyone is collecting intensive longitudinal data but recent review studies report that less than half of studies consider measurement/psychometrics. The paper covers a few foundational psychometric methods for ILD and provides a shiny app to apply them link.springer.com/article/10.3...

A primer on intensive longitudinal psychometrics - Behavior Research Methods

Many intensive longitudinal studies are interested in topics that are not always amenable to direct physical measurement and instead are often theorized as latent constructs (e.g., affect, emotion, mo...

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Congrats to former NeuroFog lab member @noahpevie.bsky.social - I know he's been working on this one for a long time! Good to finally see it out :)

Noah Pevie@noahpevie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

SO EXCITED to share this work (with the lovely @queersian.bsky.social, @cq-n.bsky.social, and @johnsakaluk.bsky.social) on trans-for-trans (T4T) attraction! In short, T4T is a label used by trans people to denote romantic/sexual attraction to other trans people. 📝: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵 (1)

On the personal side, it's been so fun deep diving into the small but beautifully interdisciplinary T4T academic literature. If anyone wants to talk T4T, I'm all ears, so please reach out! Also happy to hear any feedback on the pre-print! ✨ (END) #t4t #transfortrans

And while exclusive attraction or interest in other trans people was definitely true for some of our participants, it wasn’t the ONLY way people understood their T4T attraction. This, and other ways trans people made meaning of their T4T attraction, is discussed further in the pre-print. (3)

We use qualitative content analysis to explore what meaning (if any) trans people assign to their T4T attraction. And (gasp) meanings varied! This was interesting since T4T has a common connotation meaning exclusive attraction to or interest in other trans people. (2)

SO EXCITED to share this work (with the lovely @queersian.bsky.social, @cq-n.bsky.social, and @johnsakaluk.bsky.social) on trans-for-trans (T4T) attraction! In short, T4T is a label used by trans people to denote romantic/sexual attraction to other trans people. 📝: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵 (1)

I always learn a lot from reading @victorerikray.bsky.social’s work. Because of that, @povertyscholar.bsky.social and I were thrilled to have him on Futures Forum to help us make sense of the current moment. You can listen to our conversation here: equitablefutures.cornell.edu/reading-the-...

Postdoc available! There are two T32 positions at Minnesota focusing on developmental psychopathology, with a large selection of potential mentors. I could serve as primary mentor for someone interested in intersections with metascience and/or diversity. Apply now! drive.google.com/file/d/18SoO...

Let me recommend grabbing a cup of tea & reading this really thoughtful piece from the inimitable @hogg.bsky.social on moderating AI/LLM use in astrophysics. 🔭 "the real question we face is not ... how we do astrophysics. It is the question of why we do astrophysics." 📖: arxiv.org/pdf/2602.10181

Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 6mo ago

David Hogg has written a white paper on doing astrophysics in the age of LLMs. It looks to be thought-provoking. My initial reaction is that either LLMs will destroy the field or they will force a reckoning with and re-imagining of the current system that often prioritizes output over quality. 🧪

1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care. The judge also blocked "any similar policy." Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats

The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.

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After 150 years of boring wooden Galton boards, I finally fixed it! Now with lasers, bazookas, bombs, pinball bumpers, and extremely serious sci-fi hamsters. 🎯 EXTREME GALTON 👇 sachaepskamp.com/extreme_galton

I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026: Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.org

ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL

Introducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries.

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The preprint is now available: osf.io/preprints/ps... Thanks to the PsyArXiv moderators for their speedy review! Freely available to any who want to read about the many ways in which the oft-cited literature on desistance spectacularly fails to support the claim of widespread desistance

Dr. Catherine Wall@catherinesjwall.com · 4mo ago

New publication alert! After four years of analysis, synthesis, and careful writing, I am pleased to announce a brand-new article, “Desistance”: A Multimethod Review of the Literature on Gender Identity Variability in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth (1) 🧵 psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Check out our preprint: "What Pilot Studies Can (and Cannot) Do for Validity in Psychological Research" Great job @yashvin.bsky.social and @mbneff.bsky.social for leading! doi.org/10.31234/osf...