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Jennifer Tackett @jnfrltackett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Very excited for this review with Michael Hallquist on adolescent personality pathology, a critically understudied topic that has only become moreso in recent years as seen by booming publication rates for depression and anxiety - PD lines at the bottom www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Bill Chopik @chops310.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm giving an overview presentation of what my lab does and I think this meme accurately captures it.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...

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Jenny Bryan @jennybryan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

👉 "But in this new era, we must delete code even harder, because if we don’t constantly remove complexity, we are going to drown in generated kudzu slop that overtakes codebases." 🌿

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 02/09/2026

New post: we need to be deleting more code. vickiboykis.com/2026/09/01/b...

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Michèle Nuijten @michelenuijten.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Very proud of my PhD student @cas-goos.bsky.social, whose very hard work on measurement (reporting) quality in psychology has now been published in PLoS One! A finding that stuck with me is that reliability is much more often reported if the recalculated reliability was nice and high 👀

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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New dependent-effect-size-friendly meta-analysis R package just dropped! Check it out! 👇

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 28/08/2026

1/43 Ok folks, after much teasing and anticipation, I'm THRILLED to share our new paper in Annual Review of Clinical Psychology. Not gonna lie: I'm proud of this one, and I hope it makes an impact on the field (so please share!). A thread 🧵👇

To Be a Mental Disorder: Revisiting Behavioral Addictions
Joshua B. Grubbs, * Nicholas C. Borgogna, Beáta Bőthe, Hyoun S. Kim, Rory A. Pfund, Shane W. Kraus

Manuscript to appear in the 2027 edition of Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, this preprint may not
exactly represent the final printed copy.

Grubbs, J.B., Borgogna, N.C., Bőthe, Beáta, Kim, H.S., Pfund, R.A., & Kraus, S.W. (2027) To Be a Mental Disorder: Revisiting Behavioral Addictions. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology. 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-061225-045608

Behavioral addictions have been recognized in various forms for centuries, yet only three—Gambling Disorder, Gaming Disorder, and Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder—are currently included in formal diagnostic systems. In the past decade, research on these conditions has expanded dramatically in both volume and methodological rigor, drawing on longitudinal, neurobiological, and cross-cultural designs and evolving into a truly global science. Even so, the field remains beset by unresolved controversies. Chief among these is a persistent tendency to import substance use disorder concepts—tolerance, withdrawal, and dependence—that lack conceptual and empirical support when applied to behavior. Related challenges concern the over-pathologizing of normal engagement and a reliance on confirmatory, self-report measurement of uncertain validity. We argue that advancing the field requires sustained funding, theory grounded in the disorders themselves, objective and intensive-longitudinal methods, greater diversity, and public health and regulatory attention to increasingly technological environments.

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Kristin Jankowsky @krijanko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

When you answer "I often don't know who I really am" – which time frame are you thinking of? PD diagnoses require symptoms lasting 2+ years, but common questionnaires specify no time frame at all. We tested whether that matters: 🧵 osf.io/zdbmc with @jzpsych.bsky.social and @uschroeders.bsky.social

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 28/08/2026

I give my students Dennett's "Higher-order truths about chmess" to habituate them to the idea that not all questions are equal, and there is chaff to be separated from wheat link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Many projects in contemporary philosophy are artifactual puzzles of no abiding significance, but it is treacherously easy for graduate students to be lured into devoting their careers to them, so advice is proffered on how to avoid this trap.

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Tom Hardwicke @tomhardwicke.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Send your best work to Psychological Science! Four special issue calls: 1. Descriptive Research in Psychological Science www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... 2. Advancing Psychological Science Using Large Language Models www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 11/08/2026

I wrote a post about the emergence of AI-native students who do their research using GenAI tools. I think that there are some real risks to job prospects and the likely changes in their fields.

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Steve Kambouris @steve-kambouris.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Further to this: the news about OSF is the perfect time to recommend @re3data.bsky.social, the Registry of Research Data Repositories - you can search for potential repositories for your data, and filter the results by a vast number of repo features (e.g., does the repo offer versioning or not)

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Home | re3data.org

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Machine Psychometrics for Artificial Agents: osf.io/up3ye

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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If you do #dyadic data analysis of any kind, consider filling out our survey; we'd love to learn what y'all are doing with your dyadic data!

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McKell Jorgensen-Wells @mjorgwells.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I'm starting my dissertation research on the use of / barriers to dyadic data analysis in relationships research! If you've used dyadic data in your research, I'd love for you to take my and @johnsakaluk.bsky.social‘s survey: uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_.... Thank you!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 04/08/2026

Days after a WNBA team co-ownwer was suspended for confronting anti-trans activists courtside, Cheryl Reeve of the Minnesota Lynx wore a "Trans Kids Belong" shirt while facing down Sophie Cunningham's team, the Fever. The Lynx won 108-100. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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WNBA Coach Cheryl Reeve Wore “Trans Kids Belong” While Beating Sophie Cunningham’s Team

The crowd was equally indignant, reportedly booing whenever Cunningham touched the ball.

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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

McGill social psych is now officially hiring at the assistant prof level, hooray Happy to chat with anyone about the position mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

priorsense R package has now JOSS paper "priorsense: Efficient prior and likelihood sensitivity checks for Bayesian models in R" you can cite, too doi.org/10.21105/jos... with Noa Kallioinen, Topi Paananen, and @paulbuerkner.com priorsense achieved also a gold badge from @ropensci.org review!

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priorsense: Efficient prior and likelihood sensitivity checks for Bayesian models in R

Kallioinen et al., (2026). priorsense: Efficient prior and likelihood sensitivity checks for Bayesian models in R. Journal of Open Source Software, 11(123), 11036, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.11036

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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Apropos of nothing, anyone interested in joining a "software* in social/personality psychology"-themed SPSP submission? *could be R/python packages, dashboards, web-based or mobile apps, etc.,

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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Social/Personality Psych people: what are some of your favourite research software products/papers that have come out in the last ~5 years?

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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A small 🧵 about frustrations and opportunities w/ open-source research software for the social sciences: Came across a new paper in a top methods journal, explaining/demo'ing a new R package. Sounded v. cool, so was excited to dig in. What I found was largely a mess...

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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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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Turns out empirically derived phenotypes (data-driven symptom sets) nested within traditional mental disorders can help reduce diagnostic heterogeneity! We learned so much cool and interesting stuff in this study. I could talk (/post) about it all day, but here’s a few highlights (🧵)

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Hannah R Snyder @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

And now as semesters end, a reminder that this hack works for grade grubbing emails as well. Select, send, forget (reading first is optional). Here's mine:

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Beautiful piece by Awais. Money quote below. My one concern is that many psychiatrists do not in fact mean what Awais means when they say "you have ADHD". They mean it in exactly the same way one says "you have liver cancer". And it's very harmful for mental health science and practice.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/05/2026

Trevor Project released its annual LGBTQ youth mental health report. The results are shocking. 40% of trans youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.

Key findings from The 2025 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People include:

36% of LGBTQ+ young people seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, including 40% of transgender and nonbinary young people.
1 in 10 LGBTQ+ young people attempted suicide in the past year.
44% of LGBTQ+ young people who wanted mental health care in the past year were not able to get it.
90% of LGBTQ+ young people said recent anti-LGBTQ+ laws, policies and debates caused them stress or anxiety.
LGBTQ+ young people of color attempted suicide at higher rates than their White peers, and nearly a third (32%) also experienced racial or ethnic discrimination, in addition to anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination.
Transgender and nonbinary young people who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.
Over half (59%) of LGBTQ+ young people ages 13-17 experienced bullying in the past year, and those who did reported significantly higher rates of attempting suicide in the past year than their peers.
LGBTQ+ young people who reported living in very accepting communities attempted suicide at less than a third of the rate of those who reported living in very unaccepting communities.

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Noah Pevie @noahpevie.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

📖: Erlick, E. (2025).Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850-1950. Beacon Press. searchworks.stanford.edu/view/in00000... 📖: Heyam, K. (2024). Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender. Hachette UK. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dr-ki... Oop! No “n” to Heyam! Sorry about that!

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Before gender : lost stories from trans history, 1850-1950 in SearchWorks catalog

Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more.

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Noah Pevie @noahpevie.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Whenever you hear talk about the “recency”of trans, gender-diverse, or gender-variant existence (wholly unfounded, see Erlick, 2025; Heyman, 2024), remember that THE premier institute studying gender diversity was purposefully destroyed, making it easier for political smucks to spread misinformation

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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Are we still posting our raw datasets now that they're being farmed for genAI-written papers? I'm starting to feel differently now sharing data before I'm totally done with my own research questions...

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

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Dan McNeish @dmcneish.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

New paper— everyone is collecting intensive longitudinal data but recent review studies report that less than half of studies consider measurement/psychometrics. The paper covers a few foundational psychometric methods for ILD and provides a shiny app to apply them link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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A primer on intensive longitudinal psychometrics - Behavior Research Methods

Many intensive longitudinal studies are interested in topics that are not always amenable to direct physical measurement and instead are often theorized as latent constructs (e.g., affect, emotion, mo...

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Jonathan M. Fawcett @jmfawcet.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Congrats to former NeuroFog lab member @noahpevie.bsky.social - I know he's been working on this one for a long time! Good to finally see it out :)

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Noah Pevie @noahpevie.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

On the personal side, it's been so fun deep diving into the small but beautifully interdisciplinary T4T academic literature. If anyone wants to talk T4T, I'm all ears, so please reach out! Also happy to hear any feedback on the pre-print! ✨ (END) #t4t #transfortrans

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Noah Pevie @noahpevie.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

And while exclusive attraction or interest in other trans people was definitely true for some of our participants, it wasn’t the ONLY way people understood their T4T attraction. This, and other ways trans people made meaning of their T4T attraction, is discussed further in the pre-print. (3)

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Noah Pevie @noahpevie.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

We use qualitative content analysis to explore what meaning (if any) trans people assign to their T4T attraction. And (gasp) meanings varied! This was interesting since T4T has a common connotation meaning exclusive attraction to or interest in other trans people. (2)

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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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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I always learn a lot from reading @victorerikray.bsky.social’s work. Because of that, @povertyscholar.bsky.social and I were thrilled to have him on Futures Forum to help us make sense of the current moment. You can listen to our conversation here: equitablefutures.cornell.edu/reading-the-...

Futures Forum podcast with Jamila Michener, Neil Lewis Jr, and Victor Ray

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Postdoc available! There are two T32 positions at Minnesota focusing on developmental psychopathology, with a large selection of potential mentors. I could serve as primary mentor for someone interested in intersections with metascience and/or diversity. Apply now! drive.google.com/file/d/18SoO...

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Let me recommend grabbing a cup of tea & reading this really thoughtful piece from the inimitable @hogg.bsky.social on moderating AI/LLM use in astrophysics. 🔭 "the real question we face is not ... how we do astrophysics. It is the question of why we do astrophysics." 📖: arxiv.org/pdf/2602.10181

A screenshot of text from a paper that reads:

One idea or rule of thumb is perhaps that we should or could interact with an LLM only in the same ways that we would interact with a non-coauthor colleague. You might ask your colleague for help finding something in the literature, but you wouldn’t ask your non-coauthor colleague to write the introduction of the paper you are writing. You might ask your colleague to help speed up your code, but you wouldn’t
ask your colleague to write your code. Another idea is that, given our respect for our readers, we shouldn’t ask them to engage with something that took way less time to write than to read. I like these ideas; maybe they could evolve into conventions or community-supported best practices.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/04/2026

1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care. The judge also blocked "any similar policy." Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats

The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.

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Sacha Epskamp @sachaepskamp.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

After 150 years of boring wooden Galton boards, I finally fixed it! Now with lasers, bazookas, bombs, pinball bumpers, and extremely serious sci-fi hamsters. 🎯 EXTREME GALTON 👇 sachaepskamp.com/extreme_galton

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 20/04/2026

I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026: Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.org

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ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL

Introducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries.

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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The preprint is now available: osf.io/preprints/ps... Thanks to the PsyArXiv moderators for their speedy review! Freely available to any who want to read about the many ways in which the oft-cited literature on desistance spectacularly fails to support the claim of widespread desistance

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Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · 16/02/2026

Check out our preprint: "What Pilot Studies Can (and Cannot) Do for Validity in Psychological Research" Great job @yashvin.bsky.social and @mbneff.bsky.social for leading! doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Dr. Catherine Wall @catherinesjwall.com · 14/04/2026

The desistance rates generated from these studies are not functionally usable for informing policy or practice. From a quantitative perspective, the data are incoherent. From a contextual perspective, the underlying assumptions are indefensible (21)

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Dr. Catherine Wall @catherinesjwall.com · 14/04/2026

This literature is so small and imprecise that one can essentially pick whatever number they want and find it within a prediction interval; this is not what scientists expect from literatures with strong evidential signal. (12)

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Dr. Catherine Wall @catherinesjwall.com · 14/04/2026

We were astounded to find that meta-analytic prediction intervals from original sample of 11 articles supported ridiculously wide ranges of desistance (37% - 100%) and persistence (0% - 80%). The range for both expands to 0% - 100% (and beyond) when the new articles are included. (11)

Table 2 from the article demonstrates a wide range of possible desistance and persistence rates

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Q. McLamore @ghawinriver.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I am so happy that this has finally seen the light of day. On the one hand, it seems an obvious answer to an obvious question, but it needed to be done. And I'm never gonna start harping on the bit about the Spice Girls. Ever.

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