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Andrew Beer

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Chris Martin @chrismartin76.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Should I avoid using matrix questions in Qualtrics? It's discouraging me from using them, but they're so compact, so there's less scrolling for the participant. Thoughts? #personalitypsych #socialpsych #Qualtrics
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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
New paper! Accepted at Perspectives on Psychological Science. A textbook finding in infant psychology is that newborns - within ~1 hour of birth - visually track a simplified 'three blob' facelike stimulus further than its inverted control (see picture). This suggested inborn knowledge of faces!
a simplified facelike stimulus consisting of three blobs for eyes and mouth on a head-shaped background, and its non-facelike control stimulus with the blobs inverted upside down.
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Matthias Mehl @mehlmr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Social/Personality Psychology. Come join our vibrant group of area and department faculty and the beautiful Sonoran Desert. If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Assistant Professor, Social & Personality Psychology (T/TE)
Maintain an active research program with extramural funding.Teach courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels and contribute to mentoring student...
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Andrew Beer @andrewbeer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Michael from The Good Place: It's Devastating
Alt: Michael from The Good Place: It's Devastating
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Cam Hostinar, Ph.D. @camhostinar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I am pleased to announce the launch of our new diamond open access journal Psychology Across Development (accepting submissions starting today!). We are a lifespan developmental journal. (1/3) escholarship.org/uc/psycdev
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Heather Urry @heatherurry.io · 03/10/2026
Psychology people: If you haven't seen them yet, check out these upcoming special issues at Psychological Science. Submissions invited.
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Upcoming <i>Psychological Science</i> Special Issues
Psychological Science is seeking submissions for the following special issues:Advancing Psychological Science Using Large Language ModelsFrom Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real WorldCenter...
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European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP) @eapp-official.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🏆 Congratulations to this year's recipients of the inaugural European Journal of Personality Best Paper Award! Peter Haehner @peterhaehner.bsky.social and colleagues are recognized for their paper "Life events and personality trait change: A coordinated data analysis." More below.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 28/09/2026
I’m looking into the literature on the effects of marriage on well-being 👀 if you have any favorite studies, please let me know! My main interest is on the causal inference side of things, but I’ll take anything that is interesting 😋
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Please Don't Use AI for Reviews" -- by @ffassnacht.bsky.social (repost from LinkedIN)
This goes out to everyone but particularly also to early stage researchers: 

Please do not use AI if you get invited for review papers for a scientific journal. There are several critical problems related to this: 1. It is not allowed to upload unpublished work to LMMs (copyright problems) 2. Be aware - editors will in 98% of the cases know that you used AI and it leaves a very bad impression on you 3. Be aware that editors would be perfectly capable to ask a LLM themselves if they would be interested AI's opinion. 4. An AI-review will force the editor to invite another reviewer and delay the process heavily. 5. Trust in your own capabilities - conducting reviews is actually also a good way to learn. Even a statement like "I cannot follow your thoughts in this section" may be helpful advice to the authors to improve their work. AI will not give such advice and is typically also not great at spotting problems in the experimental set-up.

So please - if you do not have the time to really review a manuscript or you are not capable of reviewing the manuscript adequately, just decline the invitation. Thanks!

AI-free artwork created in MS paint.
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European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP) @eapp-official.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📎 New Research in European Journal of Personality Authors: Hoff, Chu, @foswald.bsky.social & others Read the full article: doi.org/10.1177/0890... #PersonalityPsychology #EJP #EAPP
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Boy is this something I should have done years ago... but finally revamping my first-year undergrad methods to start from - @nickchk.com's theeffectbook.net - @dingdingpeng.the100.ci's 2018 AMPPS piece journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Let's go
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Adi Wiezel, Ph.D. @awiezel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Excited to share that PsyPost recently invited me as an outside expert to comment on interesting new research examining whether leaders’ facial characteristics are associated with their likelihood of initiating international conflict. Read the article here: www.psypost.org/the-shape-of... (1/2)
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One measurable feature of a leader's face predicted whether they'd start a military conflict in their first year in office — across 1,761 leaders and six decades
A sweeping new study of world leaders spanning six decades finds that those with wider facial proportions are slightly more likely to initiate military action, particularly during their first few years in office.
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Julia Strand @juliafstrand.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New preprint with @violetsarebrown.bsky.social: "Measuring Up: Accessible Approaches for Improving Measurement Practices in Psychological Science." The aim of the paper is to reduce barriers to entry to doing measurement work in Psychology. #schmeasurement osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"(...) no computationally tractable account exists to date for substantive and domain-general cognitive capacities (...) Moreover, there is no good reason to believe that such tractable accounts will be forthcoming via machine learning or otherwise" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Combining Psychology With Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - Iris van Rooij, Olivia Guest, 2026
The current AI hype cycle combined with psychology’s various crises make for a perfect storm. Psychology, on the one hand, has a history of weak theoretical fou...
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Andrew Beer @andrewbeer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I noticed that we’ve moved away from actual nameplates, too But you know, we need more subadmins and stuff They do not pay for themselves
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
lovers of books are advised that archipelago is publishing a volume of Julio Cortazar's letters in November archipelagobooks.org/book/from-ju...
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From Julio: Selected Letters of Julio Cortázar Volume I (1937 - 1966) - Archipelago Books
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Andrew Beer @andrewbeer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Got a new Mazda a couple years ago, still knobs and buttons, I love it
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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🚨& 🧵 Our new Nature paper is out! Across 46 cohorts and up to 1.14M people per Big Five trait, we do GWAS and ask how robust, generalizable and consequential the genetic signals underlying personality really are. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 28/08/2026
I am currently recruiting for a 2-year postdoc/research fellow role at the University of Auckland here in New Zealand, focusing on auditory perception, hearing, and music in older adults, including people with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias ~NZ$100k/yr, flexible start date, please apply!
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Postdoc in The Music Lab // Expression of interest
Note. The below text is a general overview of the sorts of postdocs we often recruit. We are currently recruiting candidates for a 2-year position focusing on auditory perception in aging populations,...
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simine vazire @simine.com · 28/08/2026
Psych Science (the journal) is broader than you might think! Do you do descriptive research? Or research w/ underrepresented populations or cultural frameworks? Or research on AI/LLMs for psych? Or research testing lab findings in the real world? We have a special issue for that!
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Urban Spartanburg @urbanspartanburg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Awful. Vote them out.
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Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center @maisrc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
MAISRC’s Quantitative Ecologist Alex Bajcz has created ggplotplus, an accessibility component for ggplot2, to produce graphs for posters, presentations, papers, and exploration. Especially helpful for ggplot2 users with limited time, energy, or experience. github.com/MAISRC/ggplo...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 24/08/2026
Wild that this shit is still going on -- university administrators just plowing money into AI, with no particular vision or goal, against the wishes of most professors & students, even as money is desperately needed for other things.
sfgate.com
Calif. colleges bought everyone ChatGPT. No one knows what to do with it.
California professors say they are left improvising as the CSU partners with OpenAI.
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Beth Clarke @bethclarke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I’m hiring a PhD student to work with me on metascience in psychology at @zpid.bsky.social! The position is very open - could cover a wide range of topics/themes 🤸🏻‍♀️✨ If you have questions, please reach out! Applications are open until October 1st. leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/en/job/fyjwt...
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PhD in Psychological Meta-Science (m/f/d)
Become part of the open science movement The Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID) in Trier (Germany) is an internationally recognized research-based psychology service center located in...
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
the 10 presidents in Inside Higher Ed’s analysis who earned the most from outside board service in 2025.
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Andrew Beer @andrewbeer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Any truth to the rumor that the title of that song came to him after preparing a batch of mackerel nigiri sans gloves?
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...
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Which Data Repository Should You Use?
The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.
cos.io
OSF Changes | Center for Open Science
We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...
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simine vazire @simine.com · 10/08/2026
Special issue at Psych Science on psychological science in the real world! Send us your best work looking at whether effects from the lab (or from theories) hold up in ecologically valid settings. Submission deadline: 15 January 2027 www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
psychologicalscience.org
Special Issue Call for Submissions: “From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World”
Editors: Roni Porat and Vishnu SreekumarPsychological Science invites submissions presenting innovative research that brings psychological science “into the wild,” whether to strengthen its ecological...
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simine vazire @simine.com · 10/08/2026
Special issue at Psych Science on psychology research using LLMs Theoretical & methodological work welcome. Read the full call for important info about what we’re looking for! Submission deadline: 15 March 2027 (15 October 2026 for Registered Reports) www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
psychologicalscience.org
Special Issue Call for Submissions: “Advancing Psychological Science Using Large Language Models”
Editors: Jamie Cummins and Ruben C. ArslanPsychological Science invites submissions for a special issue on psychological science involving large language models. We welcome theoretically and empirical...
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Andrew Beer @andrewbeer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Try @gilliansocial.bsky.social ‘s recent book on talking to strangers!
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Want to join the newest methodological wave of analyzing the growing amount of audio and text data? Consider registering for Oscar Kjell's course next week (8/11-8/13) on using R for language based analysis: smart-workshops.com/lang-r-info
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Human Language in R Information — SMaRT Workshops
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Jennifer Tackett @jnfrltackett.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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.
sites.northwestern.edu
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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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Are temperament and personality the same thing? Check out our new preprint tackling this question. Led by the incomparable @kaileylawson.bsky.social, with @rebeccatheshiner.bsky.social, bsky-less Rick Robins This was such a fun one to work on with this team!
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Andrew Beer @andrewbeer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Lol’d
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Andrew Beer @andrewbeer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Omg yes; upon reading this series I was furious no one even bothered an attempt It’s all right there!!
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Anne Scheel @annemscheel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
New preprint w/ Leo Tiokhin & @lakens.bsky.social! Registered Reports (RRs) are great for science b/c publication is guaranteed before results are known, reducing publication bias & QRPs. This feature supposedly also makes them great for *scientists*. But is that really true? 1/ tinyurl.com/4sy993rr
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Career incentives make Registered Reports unattractive under realistic academic conditions
Registered Reports are a publication format designed to reduce publication bias by guaranteeing publication before results are known. This guarantee is considered attractive in the prevailing ‘publish...
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Andrew Beer @andrewbeer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Unfortunately, mine is basically the same. I might call it humility, but whatever the label I’ve never been afraid to look dumb or fail. I’ll never be the best at anything, but I won’t get better by pretending to have knowledge or abilities I lack. Asking questions is part of this.
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The Melody Chamber @themelodychamber.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
💫Released on this day 1998💥 #recordingstudiosky #musicsky #recordingsky #musicchallenge #musicmoments #musicthread #musicproduction #onthisday #nowspinning #vinylsky #vinylrecords #postpunk #indiepop #britpop #newwave #punk #synthpop
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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 18/07/2026
And so after a very brief hiatus, version 0.7.0 of "learning statistics with R" exists. Full rebuild in quarto, stylistic fixes, "epilogues from 2026" to comment on how the world changed since original publication, and as an added bonus, no longer misgenders the author learningstatisticswithr.com
learningstatisticswithr.com
Learning Statistics with R
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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A dig-site archive. 603 entries. Specimens, fragments, remains. Fossils, jokes, hidden paths, field notes. Start anywhere. jtierney.net
A white poster-style image for “WHERE TO FIND ME IN THE AFTERLIFE.” Large black serif text appears above a colorful fictional geological map labeled “The Incarnate Continents,” with grid lines, a legend, and black circular Roman-numeral markers across the map.
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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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!
Individual differences in change for each of the Big Five across ages 0 to 80. The trend for each trait is that individual differences in change are decreasing with age.
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Daniel Heck @danielheck.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Our article introducing the #openESM database for experience samling data, led by @bsiepe.bsky.social, has now been published 🎉 Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.3... openESM interactive website: openesmdata.org GitHub repository: github.com/openesm-proj...
openESM logo
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Chris Martin @chrismartin76.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Is anyone doing work on using LLMs a coach for volitional trait change?
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Don Lynam @drlynam.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
New paper (open access) from M. Packer West, Vera Du, @kaelavantil.bsky.social, @jdmiller.bsky.social, and me. We used the TPM model to organize a meta-analysis on the relation between psychopathy and sexual agression (117 samples, > 41,000 participants). 1/2 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Relation Between Psychopathy and Sexual Aggression: A Meta‐Analysis
Objective Psychopathy is a multifaceted, hierarchical construct that has been linked to aggression and antisocial behavior. The triarchic model of psychopathy comprises three underlying, distinct tr...
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We're developing alternative ways to shorten questionnaires, given psychology's questionable focus on inter-item correlations. We are looking for datasets: - clinical (mental health) - contains diagnosis - contains long form - contains short form Steep requirements, but maybe someone knows smth?
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Sean Mackinnon @seanpmackinnon.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The AI doom is strong in university teaching. Just resist. Fight. Keep trying new shit and sometimes something will stick, you'll reach some minority of students. I don't care if I am on the losing side of the AI war on education, I'll get a few students to learn something despite everything.
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