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Fred Duong

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researcher at More in Common US | emotions • morality • political psych | fuhred.com

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Xavier Marquez @marquezxavier.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
New version of my R package {democracyData} available: github.com/xmarquez/dem...
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GitHub - xmarquez/democracyData: Access and manipulate most standard scholarly measures of democracy
Access and manipulate most standard scholarly measures of democracy - xmarquez/democracyData
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 05/03/2026
We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country. The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...
Chart showing in many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good.
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
i love data, me too meme
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Fred Duong @fuhred.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
What Americans Think of Words like “Democracy” and “Authoritarianism” In These Times. We recently tested how civic terms landed in today's political climate with a large sample (N=5,393) of Americans. Read more at open.substack.com/pub/moreinco...
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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I started making this R package 6 years ago. I finally have it in a state I'm happy with, thanks to Claude Code #Rstats github.com/MattCowgill/...
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
dplyr 1.2.0 was released last week and since I use {dplyr} a lot in my work, I wanted to take some time to try some of the new functions. This post provides some supplemental examples of the new functions, beyond what is provided in the new Posit materials. #rstats cghlewis.com/blog/dplyr_u...
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Trying out dplyr 1.2.0 | Crystal Lewis
Updating existing dplyr code in my workflow with new dplyr updates
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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
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dplyr 1.2.0
dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Trust in others and institutions predicts subjective well-being and vice versa. This makes me even more attuned to the costs of people and systems that undermine trust. The decay of trust as a public health issue. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/bul0...
Screenshot of the title page of an article published in the journal "Psychological Bulletin" titled: "Trust and Subjective Well-Being Across the Lifespan: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations."
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/01/2026
I know, I get that there are formatting standards, etc. etc. but there has got to be a better way of communicating results in a world where scientific publishing is primarily digital than what's happening in this paragraph...
During the initial 36 weeks of tirzepatide treatment, participants’ weight decreased and cardiometabolic parameters improved. After withdrawal of tirzepatide, from week 36 to week 88, the mean change in waist circumference increased by weight regain category (<25% weight regain, 0.8 cm; 95% CI, −1.0 to 2.6; 25% to <50%, 5.4 cm; 95% CI, 4.0-6.8; 50% to <75%, 10.1 cm; 95% CI, 8.9-11.3; ≥75%, 14.7 cm; 95% CI, 12.7-16.7; P < .001), as did systolic blood pressure (6.8 mm Hg [95% CI, 3.9-9.7], 7.3 mm Hg [95% CI, 4.8-9.8], 9.6 mm Hg [95% CI, 7.1-12.1], and 10.4 mm Hg [95% CI, 8.0-12.8], respectively; P = .002), non–high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (−0.4% [95% CI, −7.3 to 6.5], 1.6% [95% CI, −2.3 to 5.5], 8.4% [95% CI, 3.9-12.9], and 10.8% [95% CI, 5.3-16.3], respectively), hemoglobin A1c (0.14% [95% CI, 0.06-0.22], 0.15% [95% CI, 0.09-0.21], 0.27% [95% CI, 0.21-0.33], and 0.35% [95% CI, 0.29-0.41], respectively; P < .001), and fasting insulin (−4.0% [95% CI, −20.7 to 12.7], 15.4% [95% CI, 2.3-28.5], 46.2% [95% CI, 29.5-62.9], and 26.3% [95% CI, 9.6-43.0], respectively).
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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
🚨 Now out in Psych Science 🚨 We report an adversarial collaboration (with @donandrewmoore.bsky.social) testing whether overconfidence is genuinely a trait The paper was led by Jabin Binnendyk & Sophia Li (who is fantastic and on the job market!) Free copy here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/7JIYS...
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Elizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
eh, It wasn't that high up... and 4-year-olds can take it. 😜 But if you're looking for other good moments in the paper... I also recommend reading the acknowledgments closely.
The acknowledgment section of a paper stating that the construction crew at Rutgers drilled a hole in the lab and dumped several pounds of concrete on the stimuli
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Fred Duong @fuhred.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
love spotting new and fun ways how researchers show group differences. here is one from Walker et al., 2025 showing transparent, overlayed density plots with circled data labels for the mean doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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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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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs
Bar plot showing the number of psychology jobs posted each year by area. There are major dips in 2020 due to covid, and in 2025 (now).
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 25/08/2025
Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...
Models as Prediction Machines: How to Convert Confusing Coefficients into Clear Quantities

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Psychological researchers usually make sense of regression models by interpreting coefficient estimates directly. This works well enough for simple linear models, but is more challenging for more complex models with, for example, categorical variables, interactions, non-linearities, and hierarchical structures. Here, we introduce an alternative approach to making sense of statistical models. The central idea is to abstract away from the mechanics of estimation, and to treat models as “counterfactual prediction machines,” which are subsequently queried to estimate quantities and conduct tests that matter substantively. This workflow is model-agnostic; it can be applied in a consistent fashion to draw causal or descriptive inference from a wide range of models. We illustrate how to implement this workflow with the marginaleffects package, which supports over 100 different classes of models in R and Python, and present two worked examples. These examples show how the workflow can be applied across designs (e.g., observational study, randomized experiment) to answer different research questions (e.g., associations, causal effects, effect heterogeneity) while facing various challenges (e.g., controlling for confounders in a flexible manner, modelling ordinal outcomes, and interpreting non-linear models).
Figure illustrating model predictions. On the X-axis the predictor, annual gross income in Euro. On the Y-axis the outcome, predicted life satisfaction. A solid line marks the curve of predictions on which individual data points are marked as model-implied outcomes at incomes of interest. Comparing two such predictions gives us a comparison. We can also fit a tangent to the line of predictions, which illustrates the slope at any given point of the curve.A figure illustrating various ways to include age as a predictor in a model. On the x-axis age (predictor), on the y-axis the outcome (model-implied importance of friends, including confidence intervals).

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1. age as a categorical predictor, resultings in the predictions bouncing around a lot with wide confidence intervals
2. age as a linear predictor, which forces a straight line through the data points that has a very tight confidence band and
3. age splines, which lies somewhere in between as it smoothly follows the data but has more uncertainty than the straight line.
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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Paper on effortful leisure led by @aidanvcampbell.bsky.social with @minzlicht.bsky.social and myself now out! (www.nature.com/articles/s44...). Effort is aversive and often avoided, yet here we find effortful tasks and activities are also more meaningful, and effortful leisure is no less enjoyable.
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Effortful leisure is a source of meaning in everyday life - Communications Psychology
Five studies, including experiments and experience-sampling, show effortful leisure feels more meaningful than less effortful leisure while maintaining enjoyment. Results suggest effortful leisure can...
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
emotion wheel starting with "joy, fear, anger" in the center and then lapsing into gibberish
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 08/05/2025
Majorities of adults in most countries surveyed say that animals can have spirits or spiritual energies, including: - 83% of adults in Hindu-majority India - 81% in Muslim-majority Turkey - 76% in Christian-majority Argentina, and - 70% in Jewish-majority Israel. www.pewresearch.org/...
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Believing in Spirits and Life After Death Is Common Around the World
Belief in an afterlife, God and spirits in nature is widespread globally. Older adults are more likely than younger adults to believe in God. Pew Research Center.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
While everyone gets mad about college students using AI...I am extremely curious about this very vague survey cite in the NY Mag story
"In January 2023, just two months after OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a survey of 1,000 college students found that nearly 90 percent of them had used the chatbot to help with homework assignments. "
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More in Common US @moreincommonus.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Today is #EarthDay a day for Americans to come together to protect and celebrate nature. Despite the divisiveness of contemporary climate debates, Americans agree: protecting nature is important. (1/3)
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Brian Schaffner @bfschaffner.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
did young voters support Trump in 2024? this is a notoriously difficult group to poll but the major election surveys indicate that Trump lost among all but young white men. tufts-pol.medium.com/have-young-v...
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Have young voters really abandoned the Democrats?
by Caroline Soler, Brian Schaffner, and Stephen Ansolabehere
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Climate Terminology Does Not Matter Across tens of thousands of participants in two large-scale experiments, we found that labeling climate change in different ways had no effect on their stated willingness to act. jayvanbavellab.substack.com/p/climate-te... via @dgoldwert.bsky.social
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Climate Terminology Does Not Matter
Our new paper finds that swapping out one climate term for another does not meaningfully change people’s stated commitment to fight climate change
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 02/04/2025
dataviz is my passion
a scatterplot of 500,000 points that is basically a black rectangle
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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 27/03/2025
I was curious to see how academic articles in (Political) Communication and Political Science are being shared on X vs. Bluesky. I find: In 2024, academic articles in our field seem to be clearly more shared on X. But by 2025, Bluesky is catching up fast. Short 🧵 1/n
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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Elon Musk recently claimed that "empathy is the fundamental weakness of western civilization", pushing us towards "civilizational suicide". I recently wrote a piece in Broadview Magazine explaining why I disagree: broadview.org/elon-musk-em... #empathy #scicomm
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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Received news that my paper with @minzlicht.bsky.social was accepted at Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin🥳. In it, we examine how trait measures of empathy predict everyday state empathy, and what this teaches us about how we measure and experience empathy: osf.io/preprints/ps... #empathy
Shows two overlapping distributions of compassion, empathy efficacy, emotion sharing, personal distress, and perspective taking. On the left, those low in Single Item Trait Empathy, who don't consider themselves an empathic person, are lower in all but distress. On the right, those high in SITE who think of themselves as empathic have right-shifted distributions of empathy, but not distress. Underscores that lay conceptions of empathy tend not to include personal distress as a key component.
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Linda Tropp @lindatropp.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Happy to share this new piece on bridging differences in the US, just published in @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social and inspired by the report on #socialconnection recently released by @moreincommonus.bsky.social #bridging #intergroupcontact thefulcrum.us/bridging-com...
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Want to Bridge Divides? You’re Not Alone—Most Americans Do Too
Americans are exhausted—by our divisions, our politics, and a media landscape that thrives on tearing us apart. When asked to envision our ideal future, Americans say they want to connect and be unite...
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Fred Duong @fuhred.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Americans want to connect across lines of difference (race/ethnicity, class, religion, politics) but lack the opportunity. New huge research on social connection (2-year study of >6,000 Americans, national, regional, quant + qual). Happy to play a role on this project and celebrate its launch!
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Brett Murphy @brettmurpsych.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
@fuhred.bsky.social deserves all the credit for this ShinyApp 👏 see our paper at doi.org/10.1177/2515...
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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Are you a Southeast Asian social-personality psychologist attending #SPSP2025 in Denver? We are getting together on Thursday 2/20, 7pm local time at Hyatt Regency’s Assembly Hall Bar! RSVP on the Whova app in the meetup section (or just come through)! SEASAPP is back for our 5th year reunion!!
An invite for Southeast Asian Social and Personality Psychologists gathering at SPSP conference in Denver. Detail: 2/20/25, 7pm at Assembly Hall Bar in Hyatt Regency
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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Coming to @spspnews.bsky.social? Interested in LGBTQ+ people, health psychology, or both? Come to our ✨timely✨ symposium on Social Psychological Insights into LGBTQ+ health! See work from me plus @paolopalma.bsky.social, @drmikeytrujillo.bsky.social, and @catherinesjwall.bsky.social!
A graphic showing the symposium title “Social Psychological Insights into LGBTQ+ Health”, from 11AM to 12:10PM on Saturday, Feb 22.
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Fred Duong @fuhred.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
free QR generator for your conference materials! just used this and it worked great. gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#r... #spsp2025
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Fred Duong @fuhred.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
if you're interested in public opinion research with a focus on social cohesion and fighting polarization using a social, political, and moral psychology lens, please give my organization @moreincommonus.bsky.social a follow!
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Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 10/11/2024
The global shift to democracy for this week's #TidyTuesday Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz
A centered stacked bar chart showing the evolution of political systems worldwide from 1950 to 2020. The visualization uses a color scheme of blues for democracies (Parliamentary, Semi-Presidential, and Presidential) and reds for dictatorships (Civilian, Military, and Royal). The chart reveals a shift in global governance: in 1950, there were 39 democracies and 52 dictatorships, but by 2020, democracies had become dominant with 116 democratic nations compared to 76 dictatorships. Parliamentary democracies (dark blue) show steady growth, while royal dictatorships (light salmon) decline over time. The most dramatic changes occur around 1990, coinciding with the end of the Cold War, when there's a notable surge in democratic systems.
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Fred Duong @fuhred.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
Excited to share a new report I helped lead as a research fellow at More in Common on Americans' attitudes towards generative AI! You can check it out here: moreincommonus.com/publication/betw… (1/8)
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Every so often I'm reminded that a few of my tweets were included in a scientific paper and I'm still not exactly sure how I feel about that. trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Stephen Wild @stephenjwild.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
pivot_wider() pivot_longer() #stats
Obama with wide handsObama holding his hands close together
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Fred Duong @fuhred.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
anyone know of a crosstab function that uses weights and can output only percentages? #rstats
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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
Pro-Harris advertising is much more effective than anti-Trump advertising. The best ads are normal Democratic issue ads: www.slowboring.com/p/whats-bett...
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
It is really striking to me how some university leaders have managed to keep their cool and ended the Gaza encampments peacefully through dialogue and others have just needlessly escalated. dailynorthwestern.com/2024/04/29/c...
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BREAKING: Administrators, student demonstrators reach agreement to end encampment on Deering Meadow
Student demonstrators wrapped up negotiations with the University Monday after five days of demonstrations. The University will engage in a number of steps to support Palestinian students and protest ...
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Farid Anvari @faridanvari.bsky.social · 16/04/2024
My wife has family in Gaza, brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews. I don’t need to tell you how bad things are, and they’re the lucky ones. We want to try to help get them out. Please, if you can, donate and/or share this gofundme link; no amount is too small. gofund.me/6356721f
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Help my family evacuate from Gaza, organized by Jana Anvari
Hello kind people of the world, I am asking for your help in bringing my family to s… Jana Anvari needs your support for Help my family evacuate from Gaza
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Fred Duong @fuhred.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
i have a 12 year old Brother printer, an older model than the one in the article, that is still going strong. i still print academic articles 😭
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Fred Duong @fuhred.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
has anyone seen have an example of a figure that is actually a table with figures inside? i want to something like summarytools::dfSummary(), but i've never really seen it in an article. mostly i see either a table or a figure, but not a hybrid.
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ana gantman @anagantman.bsky.social · 04/04/2024
what are the rules for? cooperation, right? but history and increasing psych evidence tell us that rules can be used to oppress & dominate. @jowylie.bsky.social and i argue for these twin functions of official codified rules and their enforcement osf.io/preprints/ps... #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky
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paolo @paolopalma.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
For context, this isn't me taking his statement out of context. He EXPLICITLY states that social contagion (via social media) explains gender dysphoria in girls: twitter.com/RealSaavedra...
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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
I'm hiring a full-time lab manager to join me at Pitt starting late summer 2024. Come study intergroup relations, stigma, and interventions with me! Please circulate widely and feel free to reach out if you have any questions! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
About 2/3rds of Americans would prefer "people- oriented" jobs, with just one-third preferring "things-oriented" jobs Which is inverse to the availability of such jobs...People's work interests and their availability often do not align osf.io/preprints/ps...
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