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Multimethod Affect and Cognition lab (MAClab)@maclab-brain.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We’re hiring!🔬The MAClab at Texas A&M is looking for a lab manager to join our team in College Station. If you’re organized, passionate about research, and interested in emotion and the brain, we want to hear from you! 🔗Apply at the link in our bio! #PsychSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #AcademicSky

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

Had the opportunity to watch and coach some amazing competitors yesterday. Awesome performances by some awesome humans! And a really fun day. #bjj #jiujitsu

Mood in minneapolis right now

I’m back on Threads again. Want to give it another try? I’ve found Bluesky on the quiet side, I won’t support Twitter/X, and supposedly last month Threads had more activity than Twitter/X. Academic Threads seems pretty quiet still, but … if you join maybe we can change that?

Harsh but… Qual researchers: qualitative research isn’t meant to be generalizable, and concepts like reliability and replication are positivist (or something) Me confidently: you want me to put stock in unreliable measurement of non-generalizable information that will never be replicated?

I often think about the immigrants ICE is rounding up and how 99% of them have worked harder at their jobs than any of these operator cosplayers ever have or ever will.

👏Footage from London shows the moment activists removed the Islamic Republic’s flag from the Iranian embassy balcony and raised the Lion and Sun flag instead.

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Sarah Ramani on Instagram: "Tehran, Saturday, January 10, 2026. This is our revolution. We are standing. “See us — we are here, in the heart of darkness, without internet, without connection.” Be ou...

71K likes, 3,019 comments - sarahrmni on January 10, 2026: "Tehran, Saturday, January 10, 2026. This is our revolution. We are standing. “See us — we are here, in the heart of darkness, without inter...

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A lot not going well in the world, but should the Iranian people take back control of their country from religious extremists, that would be a good thing.

MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🇮🇷 Protest in Tehran, Iran.

I told my daughter to hide her Star of David in public. I hate myself for it. But I did it anyway. A letter to my non-Jewish friends. open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...

The Good Jew

My life changed irrevocably two years ago.

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1000 times yes.

Kevin M. King@kevinmking.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Every time I talked to other people with my complaints about behavioral task measures of impulsivity, I heard "Oh yeah, we tried those in our last data collection and we couldn't find anything." I heard it so many times. And the bullshitters convince the rest of us we're doing it wrong somehow.

The world is watching Iran. Dozens killed. Thousands detained. And yet people keep marching — for dignity, for economic survival, for a future they can recognize. Their courage deserves more than silence.

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

Hello friends! I am partnering with the Zur Institute to offer a 3-hour training on January 16 (CE credits available) titled: "Understanding Suicide to Prevent Suicide: A Deeper Dive". Please consider joining or spreading the word. Would love to see you there! www.zurinstitute.com/webinars/und...

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Hard agree. In both academics and politics it often feels like folks disagree with their projection of what you’re saying. Often the disagreement with their projection is vehement.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 8mo ago

It's important to understand what we're (dis)agreeing with when we (dis)agree. This is a real skill. I worry it's atrophying. I also shared a bit with @willgervais.com when he asked me about it for his students. I think it's especially important to teach junior people how to engage with ideas.

So much of complicated statistics (latent class/profile stuff, SEM, network analysis) seems optimized for publishing in ‘top’ journals without meaningfully improving knowledge.

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 8mo ago

Some days ago a student struggling with her master’s thesis e-mailed me, asking me about partial least squares structural equation modeling. I told her I can only tell her not to do that, and then she sent more details.>

Oh Philip Rivers. He’s awesome, and I’m rooting for him, but that looked like an old man who fell and needed a moment or two to get back up.

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block

Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...

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Read this NYT piece by Sam Kriss about AI's distinctive writing style - especially "It's not X - it's Y" - and then look at this horror of an AI-generated article, which uses all the tropes he identifies, over and over again. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?

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Megan Greenwell@greenwell.bsky.social · 8mo ago

So non-prestige regional magazines are just fully AI-generated now, huh? This is a profile of a band that does not include: -any quotes from the members -the titles of any of their songs -any details about them or their music -the members’ full names lmao

Two key trends in this small & exciting study: 1) Replicability may be improving, 2) Replicability of a study was unrelated to use of transparency indicators. This pattern echoes Klonsky (2025), which suggests the most critical reform is knowing “if we publish fragile findings, we will be found out”

Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"Replication rates are higher than experts predicted and p-hacking is much less common than we expected!" replications.clearerthinking.org/three-surpri...

I named my fists Social and Psychology because they’ll give you a beating that won’t ever be replicated. (Too soon?)

Brian Nosek@briannosek.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I named my fists Greenwald and Banaji because you won't even be aware of what hit you.

Congratulations Dr. Mikayla Pachkowski!! 🎉 🎈

A gunman tried to silence my wife in an extreme act of political violence. Now, Trump has called for my execution because he didn’t like what I had to say. Gabby and I know, when others try to silence you, you must keep speaking out — and that’s exactly what we’re going to do.

I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution. Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.

Yeah...what René said!

René Mõttus @renemottus.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Why aren't some of the strongest personality neuroscience papers getting widely cited?

Once more, with feeling: Jew hatred antedates modern constructions of wh*teness by literally thousands of years. It's cannot be understood or effectively countered solely in terms of contemporary racial politics.

Phoebe Maltz Bovy@phoebebovy.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It seems like it may have been a mistake to conceptualize antisemitism as a subset of white supremacy, when there is consensus among many people who are *and aren't* white supremacists that Jews are the cause of all problems.