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Josephine Fealy

@jfealy.bsky.social
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Heyo, I’m Jo. PhD Student studying personality psychology at MSU. General busy bee. I really like moths. They/Them 🏳️‍🌈 💛🤍💜🖤 💜♾️ 🌈🦋

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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The largest personality GWAS yet is out! A tremendous effort led by my advisor @tedmond.bsky.social Check it out!
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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Week 4 of miniature bird art and it's getting crowded. Which is your favourite?
A collection of a variety of bird species in a minimalistic style
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MSU Psychology @msupsychology.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Congratulations to Dr. Abigail Cassario on earning a PhD in Psychology! 🎓 Dr. Cassario’s research area is Social/Personality with a dissertation titled “Falling Short? Testing the Casual Effect of Downward Mobility on Populist Support.” Congrats again, Dr. Cassario! We wish you all the best! 💚🤍
Congratulations to Dr. Abigail Cassario on earning her PhD in Psychology!Dr. Abigail Cassario’s dissertation is titled “Do experiences of downward socioeconomic mobility increase support for populism?” This dissertation advances the literature by implementing research designs that more directly confront challenges to inferring causality. Dr. Cassario has accepted a postdoctoral researcher position at the the University of Illinois Chicago.
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Deeply disgusted by the email I received from @datacamp.bsky.social today. I can’t even begin to explain how offensive this is.
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I often feel anxious about how long it takes me to produce work, but I now have a new frame of reference for worst performance. I ordered a single t-shirt as a gift for someone. Time from order to delivery: 611 days. As long as I’m doing better than @bungiestore.bungie.net I guess I’m doing okay! 💀
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MSU Psychology @msupsychology.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Please join us in welcoming two incoming graduate students to the social-personality research area: Brooke Cote and Austin Zeng! We’re thrilled to have you join us! 💚🤍 Learn more about Brooke and Austin here: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...
Meet the incoming social/personality PhD Students!

A headshot of Brooke Cote, new MSU Psychology graduate student.


A headshot of Austin Zeng, new MSU Psychology graduate student.
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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966), “At Close of Day” (1941), oil on board, 33 x 38.1 cm.
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Love this, love this. This kind of subtle light is so hard to capture in paint and it’s so well done here. Scrumptious.
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Changes in Google Scholar that worry me: 1: Advertising search via AI on the homepage. 2: The surge in Academia.edu article hosting, a platform that is heavily invested in venture capital and huge corporations.
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
One thing I’m unsure about with using AI to perform biology/medicine work is, how is it trained? I think there’s a benefit to using massive data to help discover things quickly, but if we’re training it to look at it the same things we do the same way, are we not just replicating our blind spots?
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MSU Psychology @msupsychology.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
PSY student researcher Rachael Blanchard has conducted a lit review synthesizing over 20 scholarly articles on psychiatric interviews & psychosocial assessments for @hrcowan.bsky.social's lab. Recently, she received a PURI Award to build upon her work. Full Q&A: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/... 💚
Rachael Blanchard stands in front of the water and cliffside city in Italy. The text introduces her as a psychology major, student researcher, PURI awardee, The Challenge at MSU participant, and that she studied abroad.


A headshot of Rachael Blanchard. The text says: “I’m assisting with the development of an interview for serious mental illness that assesses social and role functioning, well-being, and symptoms across development. This research topic is important to me because the lived experience of people with serious mental illness is often underrepresented in psychological research.”


Rachael Blanchard stands by her research poster at the Undergraduate Research Forum. Her quote says: “I’ve been surprised by how long and detailed the research process is, from obtaining IRB approval to pilot testing, participant recruitment, data collection, analysis, and writing up the results. It’s given me a deep appreciation for the time and effort that goes into producing quality research.”
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Miss you, Mister. I hope there are so many dinner plates and butter dishes for you to steal from in kitty heaven. Thank you for being the absolute best.
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Björn E. Hommel @bjoernhommel.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Every time I get into an argument about discrimination against women in the workplace, I end up in the same tired spiral. No, it’s not about achieving 50/50 m/f ratios in every career field. It’s about THIS kind of harassment no longer being a part of the experience for any woman in any field.
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MSU Psychology @msupsychology.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Congrats to MSU grad student Anna Benedict on being named to Notre Dame’s prestigious Domer Dozen—which recognizes the top 12 outstanding young alumni! See how Anna is changing the conversation around serious mental illness through research and storytelling: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/... 💚
A studio headshot of Anna Benedict. At the bottom is a green bar with the Spartan logo.


A green graphic with a quote from MSU grad student Anna Benedict: The folks whom I've worked with are used to being silenced and ostracized, and they are heavily stigmatized by media which labels them as ‘crazy’ and ‘dangerous.’ In the public eye as well as in research and healthcare, this frequently leaves little room for centering their humanity, their right to autonomy, their ability to recover, their ability to give back to their communities, and their ability to live meaningful lives despite their illness. This orientation on strengths is a vital missing piece that I’m excited to explore.
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MSU Psychology @msupsychology.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Congrats to MSU graduate student Bailey Rann on receiving a 2025 J. Frank Yates Student Travel Award from @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social! Get to know Bailey more here: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...
A photo of Bailey Rann wearing a brown sweater while standing outside with her arms crossed. At the bottom of the photo is a green Spartan head.


A green graphic with this quote attributed to Bailey Rann: The brain is incredible, and I love the passion and detailed nature of all those within the CCN program as we work to uncover the underlying reasoning and processes that most humans take for granted like processing rhythms in our environment and attending to different objects.
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MSU Psychology @msupsychology.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Congrats to MSU graduate student @abbycassario.bsky.social on being awarded a 2025 Student Publication Prize from @spspnews.bsky.social! Full story here: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...
A studio portrait of Abby Cassario with a green background and a Spartan logo at the bottom.


A green graphic with a quote attributed to Abby Cassario. The MSU Department of Psychology logo is at the bottom.
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Lansing area friends - families in the Greater Lansing area struggling without SNAP. The Greater Lansing food bank needs your help to feed our community. Please consider donating! greaterlansingfoodbank.org/donate
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Verifying…
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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A reminder that I’m accepting applications for PhD students!
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Madison Swart @madisonswart.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Today ICE and federal agents detained a man at 26 Federal Plaza during court recess, before he had the opportunity to have his hearing.
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MSU Psychology @msupsychology.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Meet Dr. Meltem Yucel, our new moral psychologist! Dr. Yucel has a passion for understanding why people behave the way they do. Her research focuses on how children and adults understand rules, group identity, & moral development. psychology.msu.edu/news-events/... @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social
A dark green background with a cutout photo of Meltem Yucel. The text says “Meet Dr. Meltem Yucel, MSU's New Moral Psychology Researcher"A dark green graphic introducing Dr. Meltem Yucel's research interests, her Moral Minds Lab, and why she wanted to work at Michigan State.

Three photos of the Moral Minds Lab space. This lab explores morality across different stages of life and in cultures around the world. In the bottom right corner is moralmindslab.com
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Dr. Sara B. Chadwick @sarabchadwick.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Gender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison is currently hiring for a tenure-track position focused on gender/sexuality & AGING! We are an interdisciplinary department & welcome scholars across fields (humanities but also PSYCH, POP HEALTH, SOCIOLOGY, etc.) Deadline: Nov 11! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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Crystal Steltenpohl @cnsyoung.com · 20/10/2025
The new journal Replication Research is now taking submissions. You can read the inaugural editorial on the journal website! #OpenScience #replication
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A Community Model for Rigorous and Inclusive Scholarship: Inaugural Editorial of Replication Research (R2) | Replication Research
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Abby Cassario @abbycassario.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
My paper “Testing Theories of Threat, Individual Difference, and Ideology” is a winner of the Student Publication Award this year. I’m proud of this one, because it shows that if we ask interesting questions and use rigorous methods, we can contribute to ~science~ even when we’re wrong or 1/2 right!
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
This list of excellent SPSP awards includes @abbycassario.bsky.social’s paper on threat, personality, and ideology, one winner of the student publication award! 🎉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Testing Theories of Threat, Individual Difference, and Ideology: Little Evidence of Personality-Based Individual Differences in Ideological Responses to Threat - Abigail L. Cassario, Mark J. Brandt, 2...
Recent attempts to establish the veracity of the conservative shift hypothesis have failed to find supportive evidence. Instead, this work yields inconsistent r...
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
nerds freely nerding in their nerd field is really lovely www.science.org/content/arti...
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These ‘ghost flowers’ thrive without photosynthesis. One scientist is learning how
Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu studies plants that steal carbon and nutrients from soil fungi
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Meltem Yucel @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Parents of 0- to 12-year-olds, come do science with us! We run short, game-like studies with kids. We offer in-person and online options, flexible scheduling (weekdays & weekends), and sessions that are fun for children and easy for caregivers.
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Moral Minds Lab - CHILDatabase Signup
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Don Lynam @drlynam.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Exciting news from the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science--a joint effort to enhance open science training in clinical psychology! If you are interested, you can the papers mentioned in the email here: Van Til et al. osf.io/h34jg/files/... OSC paper (Lynam et al.) osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
✨✨ New paper out in JPSP! ✨✨ Despite rich theory on links between temperament and personality, they're rarely studied together. This has left major unaddressed questions. We tackled these questions by looking at how temperament and personality develop together from ages 10-26. Brief thread...
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I assume it’s normal in academic writing to go from feeling happy and confident and on a roll to sick with anxiety and like what you’ve written might actually be the worst, with those 2 feelings on an endless loop?
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Mood today youtu.be/lYZ9B7N6vHM?...
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I've been better
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Rather than emphasizing derision when everyday people use AI, it seems the most prudent thing is to have compassion and guide people towards literacy. Don’t get me wrong - big companies, especially those in the creative art spaces, have no justifiable reason to be replacing human labor. But —
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Liked my fit today enough to doodle it.
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
It turns out that it’s hard to write when you have the J.G. Wentworth opera jingle playing in your head on repeat.
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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
When you strip away humanity
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
When I was in undergrad I co-authored a cog psych paper on category sequence and note-taking effects on learning. Excited to share that it’s officially been published! 😄 link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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How note-taking and note-using affects the benefit of interleaving over blocking - Memory & Cognition
Interleaving items from different categories is often better for learning than blocking items by category, but research on the interleaving effect has neglected situations in which people can take not...
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wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
What is happening in LA chills me to my core. The right-wing talk about and treat today’s immigrants worse than was dealt to my Irish ancestors. The POTUS has mobilized military force against the people, to round people up the way they rounded up my Japanese family.
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voiceofobrien.bsky.social @voiceofobrien.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Know your rights.
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Fellas, is it woke to be a straight white womanizing hitman?
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Absolutely no shade to Isabella Merced but I am slightly devastated that the big screen’s Hawkgirl isn’t a muscle mommy 😔
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Local pan-poly-enby decides to dress up for Pride this year and realizes their wardrobe is 97% solid black.
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I’ve decided that hell is waiting uncertainly for an increasingly delayed flight home where your dogs that you haven’t seen in two weeks are waiting for you.
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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that makeup that looks good in your bathroom will look like shit in your car.
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
My dogs know I’m leaving them. They’re acting somber and giving me the most baleful looks. I’m this close to saying “sorry, everyone, I can’t visit you.” 🥺
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I am making a game this summer - the theme of the game jam is Bad Games. If you want to playtest my Bad Game when it’s complete, it’s going to be a tamogatchi-type. I’ve never made a game before and I’m excited to try something new!
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Josephine Fealy @jfealy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
To live with corgis is to understand the plight of Sisyphus. One may brush them for eternity and there would yet be undercoat to shed across every surface for all of time.
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