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📝 Collecting signatures for @stopsb1oh.bsky.social at the Columbus Actors Theatre’s free production of Emma last night in Schiller Park! Let me know if you want to sign and can’t make it to other events

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Franklin County, Ohio #stopsb1oh Where to sign the petition:

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NEW: The Trump administration said their research did not "enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness." Thousands of scientists disagreed. We heard from +150 researchers impacted by the NIH grant terminations on what is being lost in the cuts. 🧵👇 projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

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Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers!

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Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

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📋 I’ve got SB1 referendum petition forms! If you’re a registered voter in Ohio & want to put SB1 to a vote in November, let me know and I’ll get you one to sign 📝🙌

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🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

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Home recording of the invited talk I gave at APS last week. I discuss inferential problems that can arise from linear models and statistical control, offer sets as an alternative means for aggregating information, and provide examples from an ongoing study in my lab. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olab...

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They made it really easy. Do it!

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Shoutout to @abctstudentsig.bsky.social & Chair @francesghart.bsky.social for a rewarding & enriching FREE student research symposium today! 🤩 Honored @abct-ppdsig.bsky.social could be a part of it.

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The other bright spot of #APS25DC was getting to visit the mind-blowing & powerful National Museum of African American History & Culture. It seemed timely and I hadn’t been! They do an amazing job highlighting how much of the US was built by slaves & how our current ideas of race developed. 💯

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Sonya Mishra shows how, when women’s gains are framed as increasing their power (control of resources), men are less likely to support them & more likely to worry they’ll be disadvantaged compared to when women’s gains are framed as increasing their status. Women show no differences. 🚻 #APS25DC

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There's still plenty of time to register! Join us next Saturday (May 31) for an exciting day of student research - and don't miss our keynote and professional development panel! Register here through May 30! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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To better communicate science, we should: Use appropriate metaphors, analogies, & examples Talk in narratives Remember we read 3 words, then, if interesting, 30 words, then, if still intrigued, 300 words Start with the main point ➡️ narrative ➡️ takeaway point #APS25DC

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Whitney Whitted looked at how different aspects of social media impacted mental health. People were more likely to endorse a dx when info was framed as a dx (vs a resilience framing) They didn’t distinguish expert credentials from posters’ lived experiences & info helped many feel understood!

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@lluaces.bsky.social shows a stronger within-person effect of reappraisal than expressive suppression predicting session-to-session reductions in distress across two 6-week guided self-help studies of mindfulness & behavioral treatments! #APS25DC

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At @psychscience.bsky.social, @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social shows how basic reinforcement learning with affective content and distractors naturally leads to repetitive negative thinking, at least over ~200,000 trials before it can get corrected. That’s a lot of thought records! #APS25DC

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So, no young person lives with their grandma, works in a hospital, or is the girlfriend of a 73-year old retired coach We don’t live in age-segregated pods. If your goal is to protect high-risk groups, protecting people under 65 is part of the strategy

submitted 38 days ago • 11 comments

Join us behind the scenes, tomorrow…

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Warm summer evenings call for naps on cool windowsills

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[email protected] Buckeyes 🌰! We only have 43 days to collect 250k signatures to hold a referendum on SB1. We need all the help we can get (thanks to the AG & legislature for making referenda so hard) To volunteer or donate (to buy petition booklets) see & share: ohsb1petition.com

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It was such a fun surprise to see @natehaines.bsky.social’s congratulations video at Jay Myung’s retirement party this weekend 🥳

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Insane is exactly the phrase I would have used! ‘This is insane:’ New NIH policy on funding foreign scientists stirs outrage www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments

Hard pass (as in "no", not "pass it")

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"[The U.S. attorney] should not ask for information and they should not be trying to encourage them to publish different types of editorials or change their editorial practices based on what a U.S. attorney feels is appropriate."

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🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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This week’s main story is about the budget and staffing cuts being made to public health agencies in the U.S. under RFK Jr.’s leadership, how those cuts will impact all of us, and some foolproof ideas for what scientists can do in the absence of totally superfluous stuff like, y’know, centrifuges.

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Columbus absolutely showed up at today’s protest! ✊🏻🇺🇸🌰 And @youngstownstate.bsky.social’s faculty’s SB1 referendum movement did a great job gathering signatures: ohsb1petition.com/sign-the-pet...

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There's nothing like a great talk from @centerstat.org & UNC's Dan Bauer on the cool plotting benefits but statistical and interpretational drawbacks of non-linear interactions! (topped off with a sneaky Taylor Swift reference 😏)

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🧪 Most cognitive-behavior treatments for mood & anxiety, including the Unified Protocol (UP), lead to similar outcomes for people from different racial/ethnic backgrounds. But are the processes of change the same? We (Alex Urs, @shannonsauerzavala.bsky.social, & Tom Adams) investigated. 🧵

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