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Recently, the @easystats.bsky.social team (a mix of academics and former academics) discussed the challenges faced by those transitioning from #psychology #academia to data-related jobs, as well as some advantages they have that they might not be aware of. Here's what we came up with 🧵: 1/

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Excited to see this now out in the world! We identify a computational basis for how persistent underconfidence is maintained in the face of intact performance, finding that it is grounded in impaired updating of global self-beliefs from local metacognition www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/N

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Recently proposed U.S. policies including cuts to NIH funding, keyword censorship of grants, withdrawal of information from the public, and mass layoffs of employees in federal agencies threaten the integrity of science and well-being of people throughout the world.

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

Vergeßt nicht, daß ein jedes Volk diejenige Regierung verdient, die es erträgt! Don't forget that every people deserve the government they can tolerate! ‎אל תשכחו, כל עם מקבל את השלטון אותו הוא מוכן לסבול! Source: The White Rose / Weißen Rose

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Are you an coming to SPSP and want to learn about finding self-funded postdocs? Sign up for my mentoring session on Friday at 12:30! Note the content is evolving, and I will cover postdocing outside of the US www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D44A8... @spspnews.bsky.social #SPSP2025 #socialpsyc

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

📢 New Publication! Over 5 days of learning about ingroup and outgroup members, we found that contact eliminated racial bias in recall of person-knowledge Open access link below #SocialPsyc #Psychology #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧪

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Come work with us!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 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

Psychology Job Alert Associate Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Oxford Applications due 13th March 2025 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky #PhDSky

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

The commissars have arrived open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Make sure to submit your abstract and join us in Chemnitz this June!🎉 👉🏼 www.soscisurvey.de/EASPintersec... #SocialPsyc

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

submitted 28 days ago • 57 comments

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

submitted 28 days ago • 166 comments

Good scheme by @elife.bsky.social Classification is always tricky but sharing this info seems very valuable (especially together with the reviewer evals)

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

OMG. A standalone, GitHub-supported, seriously upgraded version of SPM is coming to town. Can’t wait!

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Discover the #TISP Dataset now out in #ScientificData! The open access dataset includes responses from 71,922 people in 68 countries on their perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes. 🌍🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

As an exercise in keeping some positivity, here are some things that happened this week: - a lab member got an interview for a prestigious fellowship - a lab member won a different great fellowship - a manuscript passed desk in a fab journal - we figured out how to respond to a tough R&R for a RR

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

2025 is starting with a blast in so many places. On a side note, I have not heard about the situation in #Serbia until today. So yay BlueSky!

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

informal announcement: we'll be doing a cluster hire of faculty in theoretical/computational neuroscience in the coming year(s). a senior/mid-career person could be selected to bring in 2-3 more ppl of their choosing (subject to committee approval), or we could otherwise hire together a group 1/

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

Holly Molly. This is escalating very quickly. Authoritarian playbook in full speed.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

1/5. I just finished re-reading King's "The Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement"--a speech he gave at the American Psychological Association in 1967. I revisit this speech every few years; much of it remains relevant. A few notable sections... www.apa.org/topics/equit...

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments

If you/ your students are interviewing for PhD psych programs in US (especially social psych), check out the resource page on my website. There are guides prepped by grad students + questions to ask faculty etc. Good luck! www.pbandjlab.com/resources

submitted 41 days ago • 3 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

Yay for some areas making progress for a more responsible approach to how we do our science! I hope more and more people will join in developing a coherent framework. Here’s our modest attempt to facilitate the discussion journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Are there any papers that come to mind on intergroup contact between Greeks and Turks? #PrejudiceResearch #socpsyc

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

Happy New Year, everyone! 🎉How about some new science to consider for your research and classes? 📰Here is the January 2025 issue!! #psychology #socialpsychology @spspnews.bsky.social @easpinfo.bsky.social @improvingpsych.org @psychscience.bsky.social @apajournals.bsky.social

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

My department at the University of New Hampshire is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology! Come join us! #socialpsyc #psychology

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

📢 Help spread the word! UNH is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology with a specialization in social cognition. Review of applications starts on January 20th! jobs.usnh.edu/postings/63725 Come work with me in New Hampshire!!

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Excited to share this perspective with @yaelniv.bsky.social about how schemas might be learned and instantiated via reinforcement learning, latent cause inference, and dimensionality reduction, and what's the medial prefrontal cortex might be doing for all of these www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 52 days ago • 7 comments

With 17 days to go until the US takeover by the new Trump (or Musk?) administration, I thought it might be worthwhile to share a number of recent papers published by our team that counter arguments that have been leveled against misinformation research. 1/n

submitted 56 days ago • 13 comments

🚨 New Paper alert! 🚨 Koch, Dotsch, Imhoff, Unkelbach, & @hansalves.bsky.social (2025). Ideological beliefs as cues to exploitation-exploration [email protected] . https://buff.ly/4gGQsoW This paper has a long story to it. Sorry, but I will not spare you.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

New year, new face (database)

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