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Devinder Khera

@davekhera.bsky.social
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Ph.D. Candidate @ Western University | Close Relationships & Sexuality | 🇨🇦 🇮🇳

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/07/2026
A few words on the passing of South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, who spent the last ten years of his life eagerly helping Donald Trump in his quest to destroy American democracy. youtu.be/z4HMequIiiY
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What is there to say about Lindsay Graham?
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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Psychologists should found “participant island,” where we strand a large representative sample of people who must complete our tasks to earn airdrops of food and water. If you’re really good you get to temporarily board the Neuroimaging yacht
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
We should pay peer reviewers Paying reviewers led to faster decisions—an average of 5.5 working days vs 38 days for unpaid reviews And review quality improved (judged by handling editors) Reviewers who delivered a good peer review in 4 days were paid $290 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
love to my trans friends. fuck SCOTUS.
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Emma McGorray @emmamcgorray.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Have you wanted to make your samples more diverse or your methods more inclusive, but felt unsure how to take steps in that direction? We've built a resource website (psychgrail.com) to help!
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
New team science initiative just dropped! manyscale.org We're looking for collaborators to lead repositories of self-report measures in their own psychology subfields.
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ManyScale - A Home for Psychological Measures and Constructs
ManyScale will be a network of repositories for self-report measures in psychology.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Within the next year, we'll be looking for folks to help expand this website into "ManyScale". We want to help you use this code to make your own repository for your subfield. SelfScale, EmotoScale, PoliticoScale, etc. If that sounds exciting to you, please reach out!
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We made an open repository of close relationships measures. Our goal is to catalogue all of the published self-report measures in relationship science. You can help us expand the database by suggesting measures you tend to use in your research, or by uploading your own measures! relascale.com
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RelaScale - Psychological Measures and Constructs
RelaScale is a searchable database of psychological measures and constructs for relationship researchers.
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Journal of Open Source Software @joss-openjournals.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Just published in JOSS: 'dySEM: An <em>R</em> Package for Dyadic Structural Equation Modeling with Latent Variables' doi.org/10.21105/joss.10115
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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Will have more to say about the dySEM paper (w/ @omarjcamanto.bsky.social )/JOSS another time, but for, now, just struck--similar to doing my first Registered Report--in terms of how much I feel like this approach (not without tradeoffs) is a big improvement in terms of scientific value-allignment
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Lorne Campbell @lornejcampbell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
New replication paper is out in Meta-Psychology "Reality Television Shows Focusing on Sexual Relationships and College Students’ Engagement in One-Night Stands: A Replication Report". Shout out to lead author and senior grad student Somer Schaffer. Open access: open.lnu.se/index.php/me...
Image of a quote. Text of quote: "This means that the association could equally reflect that individuals with more permissive attitudes
and behaviors are drawn to sexual relationship-focused
reality programming. Thus, while the pattern is robust
across samples, it challenges the causal interpretation
offered by the original authors and highlights the need
for longitudinal or experimental research to clarify directionality.
Misinterpreting these relationships as causal could
reinforce moral panic or lead to oversimplified policy
responses. In light of this, the original argument by Fogel
and Kovalenko (2013) for public health interventions
aimed at limiting reality TV exposure may be misguided.
A more constructive approach would emphasize
media literacy, open sexual communication, and the
promotion of informed, safe sexual choices rather than
censorship or restriction."
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Devinder Khera @davekhera.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I 100% agree. I have bought all the books with Andy Serkis narrating and have not been disappointed. My daughter is now obsessed with them on audible.
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
It’s true: not all men use sexual force. But 95.1% of men in a recent, anonymous survey of men between the ages of 18 and 34 reported having recently used at least one strategy to get a woman to have sex who they knew did not want sex and had not consented. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Noah Pevie @noahpevie.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
SO EXCITED to share this work (with the lovely @queersian.bsky.social, @cq-n.bsky.social, and @johnsakaluk.bsky.social) on trans-for-trans (T4T) attraction! In short, T4T is a label used by trans people to denote romantic/sexual attraction to other trans people. 📝: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵 (1)
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OSF
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Happy Vaisakhi! Today marks the founding of the Khalsa — an enduring symbol of justice, equality, and seva. Vaisakhi diyan lakh lakh vadhaiyan.
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Paul Eastwick @pauleastwick.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I was STUNNED that this model ended up being the winner. No Big 5, or Big 3, or Big Anything. Relationships measures capture positivity, layered on top of item-specific content. That's it. It feels like we need to start developing new measures from square one.
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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
My book Courtroom Science and Trans Youth is out TODAY, just in time for Trans Day of Visibility! It’s about how courts treat science and scientific expertise in family law cases involving trans children, and how we need to do better and stop medicalizing and gatekeeping them.
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Courtroom Science and Trans Youth - University of Toronto Press
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
New paper, out this week in PLOS One, suggests that most close relationship self-report measures are primarily capturing relationship quality 🧵 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Predicting relationship quality with itself? A single general factor captures most of the variance across 34 common relationship measures
In relationship science, researchers have generated a wide array of constructs and corresponding self-report measures to characterize, explain, and predict relationship quality – the foremost studied ...
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.
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SCORE | Center for Open Science
SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The Supreme Court’s ruling that “conversion therapy” cannot be banned does not change the fact that the literature overwhelmingly shows that sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts cause serious, lasting harm to individuals exposed to such efforts.
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Justin Lehmiller @justinlehmiller.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
We tend to put way too much weight on first impressions in dating. As @pauleastwick.bsky.social discusses in this episode, attraction isn’t always immediate. It often emerges over a few interactions. Sometimes, you just haven’t seen enough yet. www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/podcast...
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Episode 487: How To Make Online Dating Work For You - Sex and Psychology
How can you make dating apps work for you? Discover science-backed tips on attraction and finding better matches online.
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Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Just had to share this gem of a voicemail about the polyamory discourse that we received this week. And to remind you that you too can leave us voice messages just like this via our website Savage.Love OR by calling us at (206)302-2064. Call us with your questions, thoughts, or responses!
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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Has anyone written blog posts or research articles on racist tropes around IQ that seem to be (re)emerging in right wing circles? I am teaching a neuropysch course and I think it's important to teach how to identify the insidious ways those arguments get presented.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Study promotion for a great PhD student! If you and/or your romantic partner are experiencing depressive symptoms, consider participating in this online study. Your participation can help researchers better understand romantic partner support. Open to couples of any gender or sexual orientation 🌈
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We're all very excited around here to read @pauleastwick.bsky.social's new book!
"Bonded by Evolution" book next to Mango the toy poodle.
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Justin Lehmiller @justinlehmiller.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Where popular portrayals of polyamory most often miss the mark is in the idea that the practice is primarily about having sex with multiple partners. Polyamory is mostly about intimacy, not sex, and it has ethics at its core. www.scientificamerican.com/article/…
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Polyamory is about honesty, not an excuse to sleep around
An anthropologist’s detailed research shows polyamorists focus on intimacy and honesty, not sleeping around
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 24/01/2026
You never need to watch the video but you do need to know it was an execution
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
why I have trust issues
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Devinder Khera @davekhera.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
At least it wasn't 21-0 in the first half. Took till the 2nd half this time.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Large Language models pose an existential threat to online survey research www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... An AI can now evade a comprehensive suite of data quality checks, achieving a 99.8% pass rate on 6,000 trials of standard attention checks.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Pleased to share for those using #rstats for analyzing #dyadic data, that we released a major update of dySEM on CRAN (now ver. 1.4.1) *just* before the winter break. New functionality for scripting/outputting dyadic SEMs, along with (much) more test coverage! 🧵 cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
dySEM package logo of two gender/sex-ambiguous figures holding onto a collection of rainbow-coloured balloons in a fashion resembling an SEM path diagram
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Devinder Khera @davekhera.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Typical Steelers football. Boswell deserved to be bailed out.
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Sean Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail
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Geoff MacDonald 🇨🇦 @gmacdonalduoft.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Is social interaction a tradeoff of autonomy for belonging compared to being alone? New paper by phenom @elainehoan.bsky.social says yes if you're interacting with strangers, no if you're interacting with friends/family. With a romantic partner you gain in both. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Nice coverage of our Pseudo project in Nature Reviews. @johnsakaluk.bsky.social @davekhera.bsky.social @helenaqin.bsky.social @sarahcestanton.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Common method bias can lead to spurious correlations in relationship studies
Nature Reviews Psychology - Common method bias can lead to spurious correlations in relationship studies
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
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Geoff MacDonald 🇨🇦 @gmacdonalduoft.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Is the idea that getting into a romantic relationship increases well-being a myth? A new MacLab paper says no. And I had so much to say about this work, I started a Substack: The Unromantic. Links for the paper and the Substack in replies.
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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 11/09/2025
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
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ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
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Devinder Khera @davekhera.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I'd feel more confident with the wet bandits.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
For potential grad students: if you're interested in this kind of work on assessing and improving close relationships measures, our group just got a grant to do five more years of it. Join our team!
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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Our preprint for #dyadic SEM tutorial with {dySEM} is back up/available! Thanks to @psyarxivbot.bsky.social team quickly retooling their approach (and the thankless work of the mods) to help sift the real from the slop!
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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Excellent paper alert!!!
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Wyatt T. Brown @brownwt.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I’ve watched Sam give two talks about this topic (once as a first year grad student which was extremely formative for my research trajectory). Very excited to see this in print!
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Devinder Khera @davekhera.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Helena's qualitative work for this was so amazing. Participants summed up sentiment override and their use of global evaluations for us really nicely.
Despite the unclear meaning of the items, many participants tried to rate them by drawing on information about their own romantic relationships. A total of 88.89% of participants referenced their own relationships in response to at least one item, and many of these responses (41.46%) drew on global, usually positive feelings about the relationship. For example, when asked to justify a rating to the snowdrop item, a participant wrote, “I love the person I am in a relationship with. 7 was the highest number I could choose to indicate how much I love them.” In response to the umbra item, another wrote, “I wasn’t sure what umbra meant. But I appreciate everything that comes with my relationship, so I clicked ‘agree.’”
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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 10/09/2025
This is schmeasurement's Dead Salmon fMRI study: A cautionary tale of how standard research practices can produce misleading results. I love it. Immediately putting it on my reading lists.
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Allie Farrell @allisonkfarrell.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
It's out!!🌶️🔥
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Shoutout to my talented coauthors @johnsakaluk.bsky.social, James Kim, @davekhera.bsky.social, Helena Qin and @sarahcestanton.bsky.social.
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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
When considering the moving to UWO, the opportunity to have Sam as a colleague in SPDP, and work with her, was a huge draw. And I'll never forget how agitated her award-winning address--where she first laid these ideas out--left the audience. Incredibly proud to see this work out and play a role.
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
From this paper: (Holy Cow! Reminds me also of how Bullshit Receptivity items can glom together!)
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