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Jenny Saffran @jennysaffran.bsky.social · 8h

Is preschoolers' word learning affected by positive/negative (simulated) classroom vibes and/or individual peers' affect? The answer may surprise you - it surprised us! New paper based on Courtney Snoberger's Honors thesis and mentored by Ellie Breitfeld. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Positive Peer Groups Support Preschoolers’ Word Learning

Children learn language from their social partners, and differences in the behavior of these social partners can influence language learning outcomes. The literature largely focuses on adult caregive...

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simine vazire @simine.com · 07/10/2026

Another special issue at Psych Science! We invite “submissions that advance the field through critical appraisal of articles previously published by Psychological Science” Please share! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

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Special Issue Call for Submissions: “Appraising the Foundations of Psychological Science”

Editors: Tom Beckers and Heather UrryOne way a journal can earn its reputation for quality is to take active steps to vet the articles that appear within its pages after publication. To that end, Psyc...

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Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🚨Exciting project alert!!🚨 Are you interested in data and code sharing in Ecology and Evolution? @eivimeycook.bsky.social and I are running a hackathon to quantify data and code availability and sharing quality across 90 society journals, and looking for people who want to be involved.

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm recruiting a grad student at Florida this fall! If you find boredom interesting, and psychological richness weirdly compelling, consider applying! Pumpkin carving & rock painting skills a bonus. Applications due 12/1, see website for details: www.erinwestgate.com/join-the-lab...

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Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cool paper by @deutchmanpaul.bsky.social showing that descriptive norms influence children’s beliefs about injunctive norms Will definitely be citing this in some of our upcoming work showing similar patterns among adults when testing real-world behavior www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think it is set so that if you request access I can grant it. Usually takes me under 24 hours to approve the request

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Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah I reported it as spam and moved on

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Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I got an email today from an LLM (identified as such in the email) saying it checked my lab notebook (kept publicly on my website and updated weekly) Told me I had a confound in a study. I did not; the email was simply a waste of my time

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 ‼️ new paper ‼️ 🚨 With political scientist Nathan Chan, we used the latest 2024 and 2020 CMPS to look at why Asians and Latinos (the 2 largest immigrant groups in US) might support deportation policies. Out now in Political Psychology! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Working hard to belong: Meritocratic ideology and deportation sentiments among Latino and Asian Americans

Why do some Latino and Asian Americans support conservative policies that may discriminate against them? Elaborating on system justification theory, we argue that ideologies such as meritocracy perpe...

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Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anyone have access to the following reference? I've struck out. Hunter, M. A., & Ames, E. W. (1988). A multifactor model of infant preferences for novel and familiar stimuli. Advances in Infancy Research, 5, 69–95.

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Ryan Carpenter @rwcarpenterphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm reviewing applications for Notre Dame's clinical psych PhD program this fall! If you like daily-life processes, studying drugs, and talking about pizza, consider applying! Lab website: spiel-lab.nd.edu

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Studying Processes in Everyday Life (SPIEL) Lab

Explore the Studying Processes in Everyday Life Lab at Notre Dame! We study real-time behaviors using mobile devices like smartphones. Research alcohol, substance use, pain, and more.

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Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Glad we can help! One of those tools that you build out of necessity

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Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here is the OSF link with a preprint and all our materials Shout out to my 3 undergraduate co-authors who helped conceptualize the project, develop our tool, and test its efficacy Note this work is not yet published osf.io/9qhbp/overvi...

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Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ll set up a preprint tomorrow and link it

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Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not to self-promote but my lab has been developing a very basic tool to track mouse movements in surveys. Our paper is under review, but I’d be happy to share the tool with you (or anyone else who is interested)

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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I expect to recruit a PhD student this cycle! The Control and Decision Making Lab at WashU studies control, effort, and decision making, combining behavioral experiments with modeling and neuroimaging. If that sounds cool, check out our work: cdmlab.wustl.edu. How to apply: psych.washu.edu/apply

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Control and Decision Making Lab

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Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It’s great when peer review does what it’s supposed to!

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Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Got a paper rejected last week, but honestly the reviews were quite thoughtful and will make this piece better in the long run. Shout out to those anonymous reviewers and thank you if you were one of them!

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I see everyone is posting about their labs taking PhD students with pretty AI made posters. So here's mine made with Paint because I'm a luddite. See lab website for details www.pbandjlab.com

a poorly drawn poster made in Paint with words saying "PB & J Lab is looking 4 new PhD student!! Apply!!"

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Dr. Sarah Gaither @sarahegaither.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📣 I’m considering PhD students for Fall 2027! We study how our identities shape the way we see ourselves, how others see us, and how we interact across group boundaries. Our work spans race, gender, multiracial experiences, and intergroup contact with kids and adults. sites.duke.edu/dukeidlab/

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Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Curious about Zenodo as an OSF Project alternative? Here's a short video to get you started: File Uploads, Communities, and generating links for Anonymous Peer Review. youtu.be/jW84PxuJTMw

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Getting Started with Zenodo (transitioning from OSF Projects)

YouTube video by AMANDA MONTOYA

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Biyu Jade He @biyuhe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

📣 My lab at NYU currently has two open post-doc positions. We are interested in understanding perception, thinking, and hallucinations. We employ a range of cutting-edge techniques in human neuroscience (e.g., 7T fMRI, MEG, iEEG/DES) and computational approaches (e.g., DNN modeling).

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Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Every time I lecture about self-esteem, I show a slide with a book shelf and a thought bubble reading “I’m a great shelf.” I then make a joke about shelf-esteem It never gets a laugh. I will not change the slide.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 01/09/2026

The emissions scenarios underlying the next generation of climate model runs that will be featured in the upcoming IPCC 7th Assessment Report are officially out! I have a big new explainer over at Carbon Brief taking an in-depth look at what they mean and whats changed: www.carbonbrief.org/...

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

*Sharing for our department’s trainees* 🧠 Looking for insight on applying to PhD programs in psychology? ✨ Apply by Sep 21st to Stanford Psychology's 10th annual Paths to a Psychology PhD info session/workshop to have all of your questions answered! 📝 Application: forms.gle/4nujgDd3W2tx...

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Paths to a Psychology Ph.D.: An Information Session and Workshop

Join Stanford Psychology graduate students, research assistants, and faculty for a free one-day virtual information session and workshop on applying to research positions and Ph.D. programs in psychol...

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Rebecca Peretz-Lange @rebeccaperetzlange.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We're hiring! Clinical Psychologists, come work in this beautiful building with me at Vassar! Please repost!

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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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Maddy Frumkin (she/her) @maddyfrumkin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We got an NIH grant (😱) and we're hiring a postdoc (🥳)! The successful candidate will work on a 5-year, NIH-funded project focused on leveraging multimodal digital health data to improve understanding, prediction, and treatment of postoperative pain. Please share widely!

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/08/2026

Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Psychological Science invites submissions that advance psychological science through careful description of psychological phenomena. Psychological research often focuses on explaining and predicting phenomena before we have a sufficiently detailed understanding of them. It can be difficult to build strong theories on incomplete empirical foundations of the phenomena themselves. Careful descriptive research helps establish shared empirical reference points developed around well-characterized phenomena. As such, descriptive research contributes to psychological science both by improving our understanding of the phenomena themselves and by providing a stronger foundation for future theory-building, explanation, and prediction.

We are interested in manuscripts that:

Deepen our understanding of psychological phenomena, including what they look like, how they vary, and how they unfold;
Draw on a variety of sources of evidence and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches; research conducted in naturalistic settings; intensive, longitudinal, or small-sample designs; and open or large-scale datasets;
Provide necessary context for interpreting what is being described, including who is represented in the data, the settings and circumstances in which phenomena occur, and the broader social contexts in which they are situated; and/or
Make a substantive contribution to psychological science through the quality, depth, or significance of the description provided.
The deadline for submitting regular manuscripts is April 15, 2027. Registered Reports will also be considered. The deadline for submitting Stage 1 Registered Reports is November 15, 2026. Authors should indicate in the “Comments to Editor” box during submission that the manuscript is intended for the “Descriptive Research in Psychological Science” special issue.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Fellow Texans: verify that your voter registration hasn't been suspended without your knowledge. I just double-checked mine following a link in the article; it took all of 1 minute. Make sure your voice can be heard in November.

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Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I mean, they sort of do it themselves, but you can certainly help

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Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Make sure the dinos fight each other before you eat them. It affects the taste

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Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I know the news cycle is fast and there’s a ton going on in the world that’s terrible, but I am still thinking about the horrible tragedy of Jason Arday’s death and the racism that lead to it

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Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I don’t remember who, but a few days ago someone posted on here with a very similar issue Seems like it might be more common than one would expect

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Krista Dalton @kristadalton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Denison University is hiring a Religious Studies scholar trained in the Islam subfield! Please encourage folks that you know to apply. I am the search chair and happy to answer any questions. apply.interfolio.com/188984

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Rebecca Peretz-Lange @rebeccaperetzlange.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Vassar's Dept of Psychological Science is hiring an Assistant Prof (tenure-track) specializing in clinical psych or psychopathology. Come join me in the beautiful Hudson Valley! 🍁🍃🍎 vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Vassar... Please repost!! 🔁

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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...

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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...

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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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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.

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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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Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Omg we were there this weekend and idk if we saw this exact thing but, a lot of stuff had an AI look in general Fortunately the live animals remain live animals

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Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I have certain days of my week that are focused on course prep, others focused on writing and research I teach a 3-3 teaching load (at least one class every day) I’ve been productive in my writing and what helped me was getting comfortable writing for 30 minutes at a time

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🔺Psychology Job 🔺 Assistant Professor in Psychology (Grade 8) at Durham Uni to support our new MSc Psychology (Conversion) You should use computational approaches, incl machine learning and artificial intelligence Closing date 30th Aug Please share! #Psychology #AcademicSky #PhDSky More info 👇

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Assistant Professor (Research %26 Education)

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Have you ever #preregistered a #psychometric evaluation of a measure? We’re looking for examples! Shameless self-promotion encouraged! Or if you found one you really liked as an example, send it my way! #OpenScience #measurement

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Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

If anyone wants slides or other resources for teaching stats to undergrads using the general linear model, that is my entire stats class Happy to share materials/teaching tips based on my experience

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Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This really is an excellent paper. Incredibly informative and an instant addition to my methods class

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Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I submitted my comments yesterday. Please consider submitting yours too!

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