Here's a question for academic psychologists - have you ever applied something you read in a psychology journal in your everyday life?

Neuroscientist Brenda Milner turns an incredible 108 years old today! In the 1950s she uncovered the role the hippocampus plays in consolidating memories, and in the 1970s she published her seminal studies of speech lateralization. Wishing her all the best today! tinyurl.com/3am8syhf #WomenInSTEM

Building a Kingdom in the Brain’s Unfashionable District: Brenda Milner’s Century of Neuropsychology

There are scales and metrics you use to evaluate the lives of most neuropsychologists, and then there are those you have to invent in order to speak with any degree of justice about people like Brenda...

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Louisa Gag was devoted to making city streets safer for everyone. Her death this week, as she rode her bicycle on those streets, is reminding many that more progress is necessary to prevent tragedies. https://bit.ly/4vZpPmP

Pride was born as a riot, and has always been an act of defiance. During my life, I survived an internment camp. I came out at 68. I've watched rights get won and now watch them being rolled back. Yet I'm still here, still proud, and still holding Brad's hand.

I just submitted a comment on the proposed new OMB rule, which is very dangerous fo rUS science. I urge you to consider doing the same. You can do so very easily at this web page: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/164... A short comment is fine but write in your own words. More info follows..

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Stand up for Science

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Powerful piece from two former NIH staffers www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

The 3-Pronged Attack on Scientific Communication (opinion)

At the NIH, political appointees exercise extensive control over scientific communication, and research on health communication is under siege.

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I really do think that we need to expunge the blanket claim that science is apolitical to make progress. Science the process? Perhaps you could argue; Science the people, the goals, sociology of? The whole point is to uplift people via knowledge. That we ought to invest in uplifting is political.

Robert Fletcher@fletcherecology.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“There are so many students, so gifted and earnest, who go into research because they want to help the world. And they are marching toward a future that looks nothing like what I had hoped for them.” As a mentor, I think about this daily. www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

Why does this happen? Two candidate mechanisms: 1) AI resets your reference point for how long things "should" take. Unaided work suddenly feels harder than it actually is, -- a kind of hedonic adaptation. 2) AI removes the productive struggle through which you learn what you're capable of.

A report for university chancellors and presidents concerned about the state of academic scholarship: Statistical thinking is postmodern.

The Objective Pursuit of Knowledge

Why statistical thinking is postmodern.

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Making time for a dynamic attentional priority map Sage E.P. Boettcher ∙ Gwenllian C. Williams ∙ Jeremy M. Wolfe ∙ Nir Shalev www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Making time for a dynamic attentional priority map

Attentional priority is typically conceived as a static spatial map, despite attention operating in a continuously changing world. We propose a dynamic priority map and outline the core demands and ke...

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Someone should get up and read out loud what Dave Eggers said on NPR in response.

Did you know you can search for R packages by what they do, as opposed to just their names? Look! 👉🏼 rwarehouse.netlify.app @kylieainslie.bsky.social made The Warehouse for just this purpose. Send it to a new R programmer today ❤️ because it's the resource we all wish we'd had at some point #rstats

Good news everyone 🥳 Our (w @vincentab.bsky.social) primer on models as prediction machines (with the marginaleffects package) is finally officially published!> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Models as Prediction Machines: How to Convert Confusing Coefficients Into Clear Quantities - Julia M. Rohrer, Vincent Arel-Bundock, 2026

Psychological researchers usually make sense of regression models by interpreting coefficient estimates directly. This works well enough for simple linear model...

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Zotero is my emergency contact

"Science is not simply a sequence of tasks that can be optimized....The scientific system thrives on inefficiency: redundant efforts, failed attempts, and divergent paths. These are not costs to be eliminated but sources of discovery." Excellent essay! ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Progression without progress

Progress in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to advance scientific discovery has made it increasingly realistic to envision automated “end-to-end science” (ETES) systems: integrated pipelines t...

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Reviewing a paper, and it is so nice that the Metacheck R package we made allows me to download all OSF Files by just typing: metacheck::osf_file_download("2w123") (not the actual repo). All files are downloaded, maintaining the folder structure, without any hassle.

Today was my AHA moment. Did u know that R Markdown can cite all packages for u when you knit the document? And it only requires two lines of code. Silly me - I was citing every package manually. Thank you @mklingelhoeferj.bsky.social for teaching me so many cool things today! @improvingpsych.org

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)@improvingpsych.org · 3mo ago

Beyond engaging in discussion during #SIPS2026, you can also gain valuable skills! Join us for the exciting workshops taking place during #SIPS2026 Online May 6-7! Full #SIPS2026 Program 👉 pretalx.com/sips2026-onl...

Hi @helenajambor.bsky.social ! I'm helping curate an opt-in awesome list of R-Ladies community blogs, and I came across yours via the R-Ladies directory. I've drafted a PR adding it: github.com/rladies/awes... Have a quick look and just reply here with a "yes" or "no thanks" Thanks!

GitHub - rladies/awesome-rladies-creations: Curated list of RLadies+ community blogs, YouTube channels, and R packages

Curated list of RLadies+ community blogs, YouTube channels, and R packages - rladies/awesome-rladies-creations

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Second, as @timothysnyder.bsky.social noted, we need to think about the risk on both sides. Refusing to comply comes with risk of retaliation. But complying comes with the risk of losing the fight if all go heads down AND the risk of undermining the institution’s integrity & mission.

"I do not think one can assess a writer’s motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject-matter will be determined by the age he lives in... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape" Orwell 1946

”given the Cartesian legacy of the cognitive sciences, computers are looked at with veneration as soon as they produce well-formed output (Weizenbaum, 1976)”

Jeff Greene@jeffgreene.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's important to read strong critiques of AI and @olivia.science writes some of the strongest. In this one, she re-centers the humans who create #GenAI systems & proposes a way to demystify AI, showing its similarities to other technologies (and its problematic differences). doi.org/10.3390/bs16...

The good people of Massachusetts - mostly retirees - have been protesting at the ICE facility in Burlington every week for the past year, by the hundreds. #resist #iceout

The research is freaking cool. But please, please, journalists and influencers, absorb this sentence: "Functional emotions...do not imply that LLMs have any subjective experience of emotions." We're moving into unfamiliar territory, and it's so important that we think clearly about it.

WIRED@wired.com · 4mo ago

Researchers at the company found representations inside of Claude that perform functions similar to human feelings.

Among the atrocities and contradictions, SBE is the NSF directorate that funds the brain and mind research relevant to NSF’s new AI-focused priorities. Make it make sense appears to be expecting too much (sigh).

Pam Davis-Kean, PhD@umpamdk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

Once again it is time to contract your representatives: The FY27 budget request for NSF (see nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...) would get rid of the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.

“men at once become fascinated by any extension of themselves in any material other than themselves.”

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"I still feel the shock of something new and strange when I reveal myself to these systems. I think the young will allow themselves to be known to their A.I.s in ways that will make their elders shudder." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

Slack is bad for thinking todd.gureckislab.org/2026/03/19/s...

I'm beyond excited for tomorrow's Data Science Lab with @davisvaughan.bsky.social! dplyr 1.2.0 is now out. There are many new functions in this release, and you will see them in action, live. You won't want to `filter_out()` this info 😉 Join us, we can't `replace_*` you 🧡 pos.it/dslab