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drpiggyphd.bsky.social
aka Dr. Piggy • Assistant Professor of Psychology at Morgan State University • previously Northwestern University • they/she 🏳️‍🌈• 🇵🇷🇲🇽🇺🇸 • I study games/esports, social identity, skill acquisition, emotion regulation, digital health
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submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Trump Tracker: Firings, lawsuits, and U.S. science in chaos | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Submitted a paper involving health disparities earlier this week and no, I did not edit out “forbidden” terms. #DoNotObeyInAdvance #DEIBelongsInHealth

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This was my first scientific publication. So happy when I see it discussed. I hope that we can find ways to keep doing important work like this.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 25 days ago • 1328 comments

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

submitted 27 days ago • 603 comments

Here it is. SSBMRank concludes with the 10 best Melee players of 2024! Who will be #1? Find out through the link below, and thanks again to The Yard for supporting SSBMRank 2024! start.gg/SSBMRank

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

...check up on yo strong friends...

submitted 30 days ago • 185 comments

The chaotic ass emails we are getting at work! Universities are not okayyyyyy.

submitted 30 days ago • 104 comments

As an NIH postdoc, led the development of an app for symptom monitoring that patients with cancer can use during treatment to identify changes early. Still undergoing usability testing and not publicly available. But pretty cool :)

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Is anybody else using the self-care app Finch? The gamification has got me and I’d like more friends 💚

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

I submitted a grant application to the Olympics today 😊 Wouldn’t that be the coolest thing to say? That you got funded by the Olympics?? It’s a big win for me personally bc I started writing it while cleaning out my deceased mother’s house & finished it my first week of teaching a new semester. 💪🏼

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Cheating on an exam by memorizing everything the professor taught in advance so I can easily answer all the questions

submitted 35 days ago • 343 comments

Bueno, familia, I am excited to announce that a revised paperback edition of Puerto Rico: A National History will be out on June 3rd with @princetonupress.bsky.social and it has a new cover!!! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

AOC 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 37 days ago • 774 comments

ICYMI I wrote a long feature about the business side of esports and how Overwatch is trying to rebuild their pro scene from scratch.

submitted 42 days ago • 5 comments

Want to get editing experience? If you have a PhD & are a member of a group that’s historically underrepresented in editorial roles, apply for a 1 yr editorial fellowship at one of APS’s journals (including Psych Science)! Deadline 7 Feb. Please share! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

submitted 47 days ago • 9 comments

~*Dr. Piggy’s 2025 Media Thread*~ Did this a few years ago and it gave me some cool data, so I’m doing it again. I post each time I finish any kind of media. I expect TV, video games, & nonfiction books to dominate this year. Let’s go!

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

submitted 74 days ago • 187 comments

Snoop Dogg at the Game Awards is giving me LIFE omg

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

What is arousal, anyway? And why do we continue to use it when we don't have a precise definition? This new paper from @sethpollak.bsky.social rightly pokes the elephant in the room 👇 Arousal May Not Be Anything to Get Excited About journals.sagepub.com/share/B3YNHW... #psychology #neuroskyence

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments

🚨🚨 Out TODAY in Psych Bulletin!! 🚨🚨 After 5 long years, the NSF meta-analysis I led on children's gender stereotypes about STEM and verbal abilities just came out today in Psych Bulletin!! In the words of great cultural critic Stefon, it has everything... doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

submitted 81 days ago • 5 comments

Strongly recommend this paper!! I reviewed this and it blew my mind. I think about this paper all the time.

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments