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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 26/08/2026
Congratulations to the project “openESM,” which received🏆2026 SIPS commendation! openESM is a database of harmonized openly available experience sampling datasets. 🔗Project website: buff.ly/3Q5EwYt 🔗A preprint describing the project: buff.ly/iXcT6ZL
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openESM: Open Experience Sampling Method Database
<!DOCTYPE html> openESM: Open Experience Sampling Method Database A database of open experience sampling datasets openESM is a database of harmonized openly available experience sampling datasets.…
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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Developmentalist: Curious if the cup started out full and is emptying or started out empty and is filling.
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Maia L. Southwick @maia-southwick.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Read more about a new effort to support scientific research in California: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u... As a California-based researcher, you can demonstrate your support here: form.laborbase.org/252516272542...
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California’s $23 Billion Plan to Restore Federal Cuts to Scientific Research
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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I'm excited to announce a hybrid Expanding Empathy event on Political Divisions & Morality, next Friday April 25 from 11am-5pm EST, in person at Penn State & on Zoom. This event will bring together researchers in psychology, political science, communications, philosophy, sociology, anthropology. 1/n
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Political Divisions and Morality: An Interdisciplinary Conversation - Consortium on Moral Decision-Making
This event will bring together researchers in psychology, political science, communications, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology to discuss political divisions and moral decision-making. The event...
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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
✨Congratulations to our #SAS2025 diversity award winners!!✨
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stemEDify @stemedify.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
It's time! Registration is open for our very first public workshop series 🎉 Take a break from doomscrolling and join us for a Science Advocacy Crash Course (taught by @leslie-bern.bsky.social) on Feb. 13th, 17th, or 18th Learn more and register at stemedify.com and tell your friends!
A colorful graphic advertising the Science Advocacy Crash Course taught by Leslie Berntsen, Ph.D., Founder of stemEDify. It features two checkboxes with text that reads "Persuasively speak and write about science + social issues for wide audiences" and "Apply these skills to your classroom teaching. It also includes the logistical details: Multiple one-hour sessions, taking place online, on February 13th, 17th, and 18th starting at 1:00 PM EST // 10:00 AM PST, with registration details available at stemedify.com.
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The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Welcome to our Bluesky community! We're excited to connect, share updates, and engage with you. Follow us and be part of the conversation!
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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
King's College London launches the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets, in partnership with @wellcometrust.bsky.social / @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social, a free platform with over 1,600 datasets, to support mental health research worldwide. 🌍 Read more and learn how to access: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...
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King's launches the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets to support mental health research
Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London have launched a new free platform to allow people to discover hundreds of longitudinal mental hea...
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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
If you/ your students are interviewing for PhD psych programs in US (especially social psych), check out the resource page on my website. There are guides prepped by grad students + questions to ask faculty etc. Good luck! www.pbandjlab.com/resources
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The PB&J Lab - Resources
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UC Davis Psychology @ucdavispsych.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Stuck in the procrastination loop? 🌀 A new study by Yuko Munakata shares two ways to break free and finally get started on your projects. Time to stop putting it off! ⏰ #Research #Psychology #Procrastination #Science #UCdavis lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/self-society...
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Two Ways to Avoid the Procrastination Loop and Get Started on Anything
New research in psychology describes some of the factors that contribute to procrastination in both children and adults. Learn some tips on how we can build the motivation to get started on that last-...
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UC Davis Psychology @ucdavispsych.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Egocentrism might be the silent culprit blocking meaningful connections in your life. 😬 New research from Andy Todd sheds light on how it impacts relationships—time to break out of the ‘me’ bubble! 🧠 #SocialPyschology #Egocentrism #UCdavis lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/self-society...
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How to Keep Egocentrism from Blocking Real Connections with the People in Our Lives
Egocentrism is a way we go about understanding what others know, think and feel. As can be the case with holiday gifts, our assumptions might be completely wrong. Research from psychology provides ins...
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Ana Leal @alleal.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Does participating in collective action moralize one's attitudes over time, and if so, how? Happy to share that our paper is now out in JPSP! With Martijn van Zomeren, Roberto González, Ernestine Gordijn, Pia Carozzi, Michal Reifen Tagar, Belén Álvarez, Cristián Frigolett, and Eran Halperin. (1/9)
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Jonathan J. Park @jonathanpark.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
My first paper as an Assistant Professor at UC Davis is out in the journal SEM! In the paper, we introduce a continuous-time extension to the GIMME model implemented in OpenMx. It uses iterative tests of modification indices to construct group- and person-specific dynamic networks!
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Unsupervised Model Construction in Continuous-Time
Many of the advancements reconciling individual- and group-level results have occurred in the context of a discrete-time modeling framework. Discrete-time models are intuitive and offer relatively ...
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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
🚨New Preprint🚨 *Moral Stereotyping in Large Language Models* We show that LLMs are inaccurate in estimating the moral values of diverse cultures: LLMs stereotype cultures in predictable ways. Led by my star Ph.D. student, Aliah Zewail osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Shannon Klotz @shannonmklotz.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
What a great conference filled with great speakers and presenters! Erim and I were so happy to share our work examining the efficacy of multiple choice quizzes that allow for multiple attempts on student final course grades.
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Victoria Southgate @vhsouthgate.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Now published in Annual Review of Developmental Psychology. This is a review of what we know, and what we don't yet know. In it, I argue that the origins of our self-awareness must lie in interoception, and offer some thoughts on how social interactions might provide a mechanistic link in infancy.
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The Origins and Emergence of Self-Representation | Annual Reviews
Although a reflective self-awareness is often considered to be the pinnacle of human consciousness, it takes time to develop, and behaviors indicating a conceptual self-representation appear only towa...
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Leher Singh @lehersingh.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Excited to share a new paper offering guidance for demographic reporting for authors, editors, and reviewers in developmental research. An enjoyable collaboration with the MB Demographics group! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Tools of the Trade: A Guide to Sociodemographic Reporting for Researchers, Reviewers, and Editors
In recent years, psychological researchers have been heavily criticized for generalizing broadly from narrow samples, a concern that intersects with questions about the validity, reproducibility, r...
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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Good morning! Here's the first recording from the Moral Psychology Research Group/Consortium on Moral Decision-Making conference I hosted last month. Lisa Silvestri (Communications, Penn State) talked on peace & phronesis, in a panel on virtues. @ssripennstate.bsky.social bit.ly/3BbQ41Z
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Doing Peace Through Practical Wisdom
Moral Psychology Research Group 2024: Lisa Silvestri, associate teaching professor, communication arts and sciences, Penn State College of the Liberal Arts Hosted by Daryl Cameron Sponsored by: Penn State College of the Liberal Arts Penn State Rock Ethics Institute Penn State Social Science Research Institute The McCourtney Institute for Democracy Penn State Department of Philosophy Penn State Department of Psychology Penn State University Libraries
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Mitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Scientists don't have to be in academia to make a huge impact! Check out this new resource for details, salaries, etc on how to pick a career! #psychology #PsychSky #mentalhealth #PsychSciSky #Skychiatry #Neuroskyence #neuroimaging #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #ClinPsych www.apa.org/science/prog...
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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
It's Dec 1 and you want to finally start learning R? The R advent calendaR by @kiirsti.bsky.social is an excellent place to start. Do it now! #rstats kiirstio.wixsite.com/kowen/post/t...
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The 25 days of chRistmas: an R advent calendaR
Thank you for your interest in this advent calendar and learning R! R is a powerful tool for data analysis and visualization. At first, it can be really overwhelming, but after you pick up the basics,...
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UC Davis Psychology @ucdavispsych.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Is developing asthma early in life linked to outcomes beyond physical health? Research from Dr. Simona Ghetti’s lab finds that children with early onset asthma can also experience slowdowns in their memory development. #UCDavis #Psychology #devpsych #psychscisky www.ucdavis.edu/news/asthma-...
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Asthma May Place Children at Risk of Memory Difficulties, New Research Finds
Asthma is associated with memory difficulties in children, and early onset of asthma may exacerbate memory deficits, according to a new study from the University of California, Davis. The study, the f...
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Dr. Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo 🇧🇴🏳️‍🌈 @joscelinrocha.com · 15/11/2024
Are you a #devpsych scientist/trainee looking for a space to connect, collaborate, & share resources? 🧠✨ Join our Slack community focused on building connections & sharing resources to support each other in this dynamic field! ➡️ join.slack.com/t/traineesin... #psych #psychSciSky #academicSky
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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
A small starter pack of school/depts/institutes of psychology here on bluesky So... (1) Let me know if you run your dept account and I'll add you (2) Tell your dept social media people to leave the other place and come here instead. It's where the science is now 😊 Pls share go.bsky.app/FmgYgVj
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UC Davis Psychology @ucdavispsych.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Curious if rom-coms get love right? Tune into Love Factually, a new podcast from Paul Eastwick, Social and Personality Psychology faculty, as he breaks down the science behind relationships and what Hollywood gets wrong. #LoveFactually #UCDavis www.ucdavis.edu/magazine/do-...
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Do Rom-Coms Depict Realistic Relationships?
UC Davis psychology professor Paul Eastwick analyzes rom-coms in a new podcast.
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UC Davis Psychology @ucdavispsych.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Can a happy partner keep stress at bay? A new study from our very own Tiko Yoneda finds that happiness in a relationship is linked to lower stress hormone levels in older couples. #UCDavis #RelationshipScience www.ucdavis.edu/news/new-stu...
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New Study Finds Partner’s Happiness Linked to Lower Stress Hormone Levels in Older Couples
Having happy intimate partners might not only lift our moods, but it also helps us manage stress, especially as we age, according to new University of California, Davis, research.
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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Excited to announce that through the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making (moralconsortium.psu.edu), I will be hosting a special cross-over conference with the Moral Psychology Research Group (sites.google.com/view/mprg/home) this November! More details below... 1/n
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
🚨 Recruiting PhD Students 🚨 I am currently seeking motivated graduate students to join me in the Psych Dept at UC Davis in Fall 2025! I study how young adults narrate experiences with domains including race, ethnicity, and nationality in relation to psychological outcomes.
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PsychResearchList @psychresearchlist.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
PsychResearchList website just got a makeover with new resources! 🎉 Take a peek!👇 www.psychresearchlist.com
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Dr. Laura Elenbaas @drlauraelenbaas.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
My department, HDFS at Purdue, is hiring a quantitative methodologist! Assistant or associate level, any substantive focus within HDFS. Review begins Oct 31. Details and contact info for Qs in the link: careers.purdue.edu/job/Assistan... #statsky #devpsy #familysci
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Assistant/Associate Professor of HDFS
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
The process of applying for and getting into graduate school is far from a mystery. The key is knowing what to do to prepare and how to compile and submit a strong application. We wrote these 10 tips to help you get started: www.science.org/content/arti...
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Applying for a Ph.D.? These 10 tips can help you succeed
Our Letters to Young Scientists columnists offer their advice
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Margaret Echelbarger @bskybymidge.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
I’ve written a lot about the PhD experience, including the application process. Here’s a rundown of my thoughts with links to lots of resources for prospective PhDs: letstalkgradschool.substack.com/p/so-you-wan...
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So you want to get a PhD?
Our 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th, 50th, and 51st (!!) book winners are Nigel Jaffe (prospective PhD student), Monique Chantelle Aguirre, Nicole Buckley, Maddie Kushner, Randy Williams, and Catherine Xie (in...
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
Nominate a psych grad student to give a talk at Princeton, expenses paid! Nominate yourself or a colleague here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Priority given to non-ivy schools and students from diverse backgrounds
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Emerging Scholars in Psychological Science Speaker Nominations
Nominate yourself or another late-stage PhD student to speak at Princeton's Psychology Department this academic year (2024-2025). The Emerging Scholars in Psychological Science (ESPS) talk series in...
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Quantitude the Podcast @quantitude.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
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Center for Lifespan Psychology, MPI for Human Development @lipmpib.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
New paper by LIP colleagues @buchberger.bsky.social, @zoengo.bsky.social, Aaron Peikert, @brandmaier.bsky.social, & @markuswb.bsky.social out now! #Neuroskyence #PsychSciSky link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Estimating statistical power for structural equation models in developmental cognitive science: A tutorial in R - Behavior Research Methods
Determining the compositional structure and dimensionality of psychological constructs lies at the heart of many research questions in developmental science. Structural equation modeling (SEM) provide...
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Yuko Munakata @handle.invalid · 04/09/2024
We have TWO job searches @ucdavispsych.bsky.social! #psychjobs #Psychology
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William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
Want to get paid ($40)💰 for browsing Bluesky as you normally would? Explore new feeds designed by a research team at Northwestern University and report back on your experiences. Help shape the future of social media ranking algorithms 👀 🔗 Sign Up: tinyurl.com/nufeedstudy 💌 FAQ: bit.ly/bluesky-faq
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Brandon Woo @brandonwoo.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
I’m recruiting a PhD student to start Fall 2025! Anyone who’s passionate about cognitive development, social learning, and theory of mind is welcome to apply. Learn more here, along with general resources for people applying to psychology PhD programs: folk.psych.ucsb.edu/join-the-team
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UCSB FOLK PSYCH - JOIN THE TEAM
Join The Team You can read about some of the ongoing research themes here and about my approach to mentorship here. Team members will play active roles in shaping and advancing the research that we do...
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Dulce Wilkinson Westberg @dulcewestberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
Hello colleagues! I am prepping a course on Multicultural Psychology (first time!). Any must-read articles, books, or teaching materials on diverse perspectives? Please feel free to share!
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Yuko Munakata @handle.invalid · 26/08/2024
We're hiring! Assistant Professor of Developmental Psychology @ucdavispsych.bsky.social #DevPsychSky #psychjobs #Psychology recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06660
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Assistant Professor of Psychology - Developmental Psychology
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
Hey, developmentalists--come work with me! The University of Rochester Dept of Psychology is recruiting in the developmental area, with applications due 11/1. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer any questions about working here. apply.interfolio.com/152050
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Weverthon Machado @weverthon.com · 24/07/2024
📊When teaching or giving a talk, do you like presenting plots step by step, revealing e.g. one group at a time? This is often useful for walking through complex results. I made a R package that makes it extremely easy to do this! ggreveal: Reveal a ggplot incrementally #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2
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Reveal a ggplot incrementally
Provides functions that make it easy to reveal ggplot2 graphs incrementally. The functions take a ggplot2 object and return a list of plots showing data incrementally by panels, layers, groups, the va...
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 21/06/2024
Introducing LEVANTE, a project for measuring children's developmental and learning variability around the world! LEVANTE provides a measurement platform with data flowing to an open repository. In August, the Jacobs Foundation will make a call for proposals to use these tools! levante-network.org
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Homepage - Levante
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Kirsten Lesage @kirstenlesage.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
New report by my team at Pew!! We surveyed over 10,000 people in Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam. While relatively few adults say religion is very important in their lives or pray daily, many make offerings to ancestors and believe in god or unseen beings. pewrsr.ch/4b3IKkN
Bar charts showing the share of adults in five Asian publics who say they consider religion very important in their lives, pray daily, identify with a religion, offered food or drinks to an ancestor in the past year or believe in god or unseen beings. The chart shows that few East Asians consider religion very important in their lives, but many make offerings to ancestors and believe in god or unseen beings.
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Margaret Echelbarger @bskybymidge.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
Happy 5 Years to the #100DaysOfWriting community! We're currently in Rnd 13. Since Rnd 3, we've been tracking some #: We've hosted 1,731 weekly sessions attended by 16,818 writers, hosted 20 prof dev sessions, & are currently @ 288 members. Join us! tinyurl.com/100DaysRound13 🧪
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#100DaysOfWriting
Welcome to the #100DaysOfWriting Challenge! The purpose of this academic writing collective is to provide a virtual space for academic writers to support each other and to provide tools for creating...
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Anna Parenteau @aparenteau.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
Several of our lab members will be presenting at #APS24SF this week — can’t wait! Stop by our posters if you are interested in stress, social relationships, and adolescence!
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paolo @paolopalma.bsky.social · 13/05/2024
I don’t know if people here have seen this here but there is a new #psychjob wiki sites.google.com/view/psychjo... #SocialPsych #Psychology #PsySciSky
Screenshot of LinkedIn post by Amédee Marchand Martella: The Psych Job Wiki (a fantastic resource for finding positions in academia for psychology & educational psychology) is ending and as such, Alyssa Lawson and I have created a new site to keep the wiki going. For those of you (or anyone you know) who will be on the job market this coming academic year, looking for tenure track, non-tenure track, or postdoc positions, here is a link to the new wiki. Feel free to spread the word, use the wiki, and contribute.
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 13/04/2024
I just returned from NCME in Philadelphia and had a great time providing a training on Data Cleaning for Data Sharing Using R. The slides are available here if anyone is interested in this content. cghlewis.github.io/ncme-data-cl...
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Data Cleaning for Data Sharing Using R - Materials
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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
Here's the video for the second Expanding Empathy 2024 panel, with @lindaskitka.bsky.social @mattiwilks.bsky.social @evanwestra.bsky.social, for the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making. Check it out! Like and subscribe to Rock Ethics YouTube to enhance the reach. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6kk...
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Penn State's Expanding Empathy 2024: Moral Conviction, Norms, and the Moral Circle
Organized by Rock Ethics Institute senior research associate Daryl Cameron, this second panel discussion of the Expanding Empathy 2024 series focuses on Mora...
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