We are getting ready to launch the National Survey Panel at the Survey Research Center at ISR. We are hoping to provide an avenue to keep rigorous scientific survey research available to the community. #realvoices,#respectedresearch @um-src.bsky.social

Vale Garry Sobers. The first game of cricket I saw (aged 10) was a Sheffield Shield match at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1964. Sobers scored a sublime hundred. Not sure I've seen anything to match it since. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

Sir Garry Sobers, West Indies cricketing great, dies aged 89

Sir Garry Sobers, who has died aged 89, was an undisputed cricketing great and is widely regarded as the sport’s greatest all-rounder

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📣 Nominations for the SIPS Executive Committee positions are now open! Any SIPS member may be nominated, and self-nominations are welcome. 🗳️ Executive Committee members will be elected by a vote of the Society membership. Nominations close on August 23! #PsychSciSky #OpenScience

Interested in doing a postdoc with me in Auckland, New Zealand? 🇳🇿 See info below on a competitive award opportunity, and please spread the word!

Worthy, because he is just enough of an idiot to say this.

Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺@maxbrockbank.com · 4w ago

Early morning press conference at the Whitehouse.

I'm hiring! I am currently establishing my new Research Group for Personality Psychology at Ulm University and am looking for a motivated researcher to join the team starting October 1, 2026 (or by arrangement). 🧵👇 (1/4) 🔗 Full description and details: stellenangebote.uni-ulm.de/jobposting/a...

Akademische/r Beschäftigte/n (m/w/d) - Abt. Persönlichkeitspsychologie - Referenz-Nr. 26091

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I 🤎 this depiction. The ancestors are telling us something.

Findings from our longitudinal Kia Tīmata Pai RCT are out. They show benefits of the Enrich oral language intervention in early child care centres (N=136) for children's (N = 1431) oral language and self regulation relative to active control from ages 1 to 3. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Kia Tīmata Pai Randomized Controlled Trial: ENRICH Early Childhood Teacher Training Improves Toddlers’ Oral Language and Self‐Regulation

Children's oral language and self-regulation skills are critical for healthy development and life trajectories. ENRICH is a preventive intervention developed for early childhood teachers to enhance .....

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Depressing summary of how basic science research funding has been flushed down the toilet here in Aotearoa NZ.

Nicola Gaston@nicgaston.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#marsdenshmarsden I guess 🪦

In case it wasn’t extremely obviously why I and many colleagues here (those still allowed to enter) haven’t been to US conferences in the past 2 years. Friends, please stay safe at the upcoming @improvingpsych.org and @hitop-system.bsky.social conferences.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2mo ago

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

Felon broke the Washington Monument reflecting pool, which was called the reflecting pool for a reason and was designed to reflect the Washington Monument. Now it resembles a cheap motel swimming pool and only reflects his stupidity and ignorance.

Come join us in Wellington, Aotearoa for the annual conference of the Association for Interdisciplinary Metascience and Open Science. Submissions open now, registration will open soon.

AIMOS@aimosinc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The submission portal for #AIMOS2026 is now open. Submit your lightning talks, discussion groups hackathons, and workshops now. www.aimos2026.org/submit

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Collabra: Psychology, the official journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, seeks applications for Editor-in-Chief! The SIPS Publications Committee encourages editors with innovative ideas about how Collabra: Psychology can best accomplish its mission to apply.

I love this potential explanation for why she can't attend: "She ... did not want a bar of the usual abusive welcoming committee of vaccine lunatics... Such is the heat she still attracts from die-hard Covid opponents who didn’t die in lockdown thanks to government policy that Ardern put in place."

Ardern wins People's Choice book award

The ex-PM wins the People's Choice ahead of tonight's Ockham awards, and a Kaipara library wins the Greatest Book Prize of All Times

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Speaking of crazy d values, this reminds me of this feature I was thinking about adding to the forest() function in metafor. #Rstats #MetaAnalysis

#nzpol One year on from the Government’s wrecking of pay equity, we’re taking the fight to the global stage.

Complaint taken to UN over 'shameful' changes to pay equity scheme

A group of organisations is asking the United Nations to investigate if the changes amount to systemic discrimination against women.

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Right?

The last thing someone who dances like this needs is a ballroom.

unrelenting

my thoughts on that fireside chat between Jay Bhattacharya and Emily Oster deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/04/that... #NASEM #NIH #CDC #replication #innovation #COVID

Level B/C (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) continuing position, open area, available at our School of Psychology at the University of Sydney 🐨 usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...

Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Psychology

1 full-time continuing position available, located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Psychology Opportunity to contribute to research and teaching in a world leading Psychology department Base...

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It goes without saying that these women are all disgusting and incompetent but how Patel and Hegseth keep their jobs is beyond me. Well, not beyond me -- misogyny is the name of the game with this regime.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial

Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

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Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot

The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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The Program for Online #SIPS2026 is now available online! Let's meet online May 6-7 for exciting hackathons, unconferences, and workshops! Check out the program preview here 👇️ buff.ly/Ezzyql9

SIPS 2026 – Online May 6-7 || DC June 8-10, 2026

Browse the SIPS 2026 online and in-person programs!

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