Ted Schwaba
@tedmond.bsky.social
psych professor, MSU. personality and environments and genes and the tangle all between! Also music opinions! tedmond.net
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.
Research | Personality Across Development Lab
Current Research Topics Leadership Emergence and Development Tackett, J. L., Reardon, K. W., Fast, N. J., Johnson, L., Kang, S. K., Lang, J....
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Can one minute daily audio recordings replace long symptom surveys? Very excited about our new paper addressing this question! @aidangcw.bsky.social @vizecolin.bsky.social et al. Short 🧵 below...
Scalable, context-sensitive psychiatric assessment with large language models and brief diaries | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Scalable, context-sensitive psychiatric assessment with large language models and brief diaries - Volume 56
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New meta by @peterhaehner.bsky.social et al (I'm a little middle author) on individual differences in personality change across the lifespan (229 studies, N = 230k) 10.1037/bul0000525 Cool finding (imo): For all Big Five, variance in change is greatest in youth, declining through young adulthood!
🆕 New pre-print! osf.io/preprints/ps... Are you satisfied with your life because you are satisfied with your friends, health, job, etc.? Or is it actually the other way around: are some people generally satisfied with their life and, because of this, satisfied with their friends, health, job, etc.?
OSF
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Read my interview with @vox.com about #Gossip with our neighbors. The funny part is that I gossiped about this piece *with* my neighbors too 👂
MSU Psychology@msupsychology.bsky.social · 4w agoWhat are some best practices for gossiping with neighbors? @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social and other researchers talked with Vox about how to ensure neighbor relationships stay productive, what to do when things go awry, and more. www.vox.com/advice/49400...
New Preprint 📖 with @rogierk.bsky.social on 🔥 Does wildfire pollution affect cognitive and brain development? We merged data sources to answer this question in ~9000 children! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci
What happens when war breaks out in the middle of a survey? On Feb 28, the U.S. and Israel launched airstrikes against Iran, as our global research team was conducting fieldwork. In several countries, views of the national economic situation worsened throughout our survey period.
www.nature.com/articles/s41... THIS IS COOL
Genome-wide association studies of infant and toddler temperament in European and multi-ancestry populations - Nature Human Behaviour
A genome-wide association study of infant and toddler temperament in up to 78,000 infants found new genetic loci. Infant and toddler temperament showed significant single-nucleotide polymorphism herit...
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astounding it wasn't 9-0 on birthright citizenship. The constitution could not be clearer!
Twitter is going kind of crazy about crime and genetics right now (What's new?). My next post is a deep dive into a paper behind a widespread claim that brutal execution in Medieval Europe selected for reduced aggression, allowing civilization to develop. The title says it all, really.
Capital punishment is not a breeding program
No, medieval execution didn't "genetically pacify" Europe
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New JPSP registered report + coordinated data analysis led by Tiko Yoneda: identical models across 11 aging cohorts (N=175,070; 18 countries). Loneliness—not simply social isolation—was more robustly associated with cognitive impairment and mortality risk psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...
APA PsycNet
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Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite
The main point is that decisions about timescale are substantive theoretical commitments rather than methodological details, and they determine what kinds of change a study can detect and what inferences it can support. But there are a few central messages that flesh this out... 2/
“The “strongest risk factor” is not the form most related to harm. It is the form least redundant with whatever else is in the model.”
Kristoffer Magnusson@rpsychologist.com · last mo.New interactive blog! "Why Adjusted Regression Coefficients Are Less Descriptive Than They Look" rpsychologist.com/descriptive-...
Anyways, if you are at BGA, come to the Family Methods section this afternoon You'll hear about a project on assortative mating, still missing heritability, and non-additivity with @hfsunde.bsky.social @sbruins.bsky.social @profsimonfisher.bsky.social and other stellar bskyless co-authors
Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. https://scim.ag/4xY2KCm
Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say
Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year
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Shared by a curator who is working on the WWII American Soldier survey project
1/9 🚨 BREAKING OUT OF STEALTH MODE 🚨 Multivariate GWAS in Genomic SEM now runs on a laptop! New preprint + package update: a closed-form analytic solution makes multivariate GWAS ~800× faster, cutting runtimes from hours on HPC clusters to minutes on a personal computer.
The Predator Emerges
ALT: The Predator Emerges
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ALRIGHT EVERYONE HERE IS THE OFFICIAL SUFS GUIDE TO LEAVING PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE OMB-2026-0034 PROPOSED RULE: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-advocacy/the-sufs-guide-to-writing-public-comments (share with all your friends!)
The SUFS Guide to Writing Public Comments — Your Site Title
Written by: Cole Donovan, Director of Policy and Advocacy and Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO
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You can slow progress, but you cannot stop it and the leadership of NIH who stand in the way of progress in biomedical research will one day realize just how quickly they will fade into irrelevance once they lose their weak grasp on power. 18/N
There's a cottage industry built around offering advice to young men for money, and and all of it is bad, what young men really need is to buy a cheap bicycle and bike tools so you can fix it and ride it 10-20 miles every day while listening to Moby Dick as an audiobook
The censorship at TTU is so bad that my someone above me, outside my discipline is intersting himself into my students training without my consent, insisting he is required to do so because of the 'policy'. @standupforscience.net
PLEASE SHARE: Serious request for a future scientific collaboration. Do I know any historians/sociologists who works with, or love working with historic ego documents. Diaries, letters, notes, etc. Especially those that describe real, or wished for, romantic partners/interests? email me, DM me!
