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Max Primbs

@maxprimbs.bsky.social
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PhD Student, Radboud University (Netherlands). Researching how social and cultural environments shape attitudes. Big Team Science & Statistics enthusiast.

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New paper! Despite qualitative researchers claiming that generalizability is not a goal, their published work does indeed contain generalizable claims. We document this and provide recommendations for how all researchers can better calibrate their generalizability claims. doi.org/10.1177/2515...
article header for, "Qualitative Researchers Can and Do Generalize: Generalizability Claims in Qualitative Psychological Research". Metascience!
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I am sad to share that Project Implicit, my first non-profit and foundation of my career, is closing. The IAT website will continue, managed by the next generation of leaders in implicit bias research. Here's the statement I posted to LinkedIn. It didn't vibe right as a bsky thread.
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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 ‼️ new paper ‼️ 🚨 With political scientist Nathan Chan, we used the latest 2024 and 2020 CMPS to look at why Asians and Latinos (the 2 largest immigrant groups in US) might support deportation policies. Out now in Political Psychology! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Working hard to belong: Meritocratic ideology and deportation sentiments among Latino and Asian Americans
Why do some Latino and Asian Americans support conservative policies that may discriminate against them? Elaborating on system justification theory, we argue that ideologies such as meritocracy perpe...
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Matt Makel @mattmakel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I made a mistake. And because of that mistake, I no longer have confidence that results that I reported in several research papers are an accurate reflection of replication rates. 1/
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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Interested in doing a postdoc with me & @dgrand.bsky.social? Consider applying to Cornell's Klarman Fellowship: as.cornell.edu/research/kla... It involves a competitive internal application process, but it's 3 years of funding @$80k/year Please email me/Dave if you're interested! Oct 15th deadline
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Klarman Fellowships
The Klarman Fellowships in the College of Arts & Sciences provide postdoctoral opportunities to early-career scholars of outstanding talent, initiative and promise. Among the most selective of its kin...
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Social Cognition @socog-guilford.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Prior research has cast doubt on the validity of implicit measures, finding small correlations amongst indirect measures of racial bias. However, these measures vary systematically on key procedural aspects. 🧵👇 Open thread below:
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Max Primbs @maxprimbs.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
We moved the deadline to August 15th! Last chance to submit your work and be part of our special issue!
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #PrejudiceResearch Important new meta-analysis by Friehs et al on longitudinal intergroup contact relations www.nature.com/articles/s44... Traditional CLPM find longitudinal effects. Methods that parse between- from within-person effects find mostly between-person
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A comparative multi-method re-analysis of the longitudinal evidence for causal intergroup contact effects on attitudes - Communications Psychology
Re-analysis of 31 published longitudinal datasets shows that intergroup contact improves outgroup attitudes only in traditional CLPM models. Recent alternatives (FF-CLPM, RI-CLPM) find no signifi...
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...
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Assistant Professor in Metascience
Personal type: Scientific staff
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Max Primbs @maxprimbs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A few weeks ago I defended my PhD at Radboud University and on September 1st I'll start my dream postdoc at Kellogg School of Management / Northwestern in Chicago. If I know anyone in or around Chicago, let me know 🙈
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Max Primbs @maxprimbs.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Exciting opportunity to work on historical psychology!
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dupsychdept.bsky.social @dupsychdept.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🎉 Congrats to Dr. Heidi Vuletich on being named a 2026 Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science! A well-deserved recognition of her impactful research and future contributions 👏 #DUPsychology #RisingStar
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Max Primbs @maxprimbs.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Do I know anyone who's attending AOM in Philly this year?
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Max Primbs @maxprimbs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Minimize survival bias, you must.
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Sajedeh Rasti @sajedehra.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
What happens when researchers coordinate instead of compete? Our recent Nature World View article reflects on the experience of the Netherlands Metascience Coalition and what it might mean for the way we organize research. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Don’t compete, collaborate: why collective funding applications are the future
Scientists with disparate expertise writing grants together can identify knowledge gaps and drive progress — but systems must change to incentivize them.
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Max Primbs @maxprimbs.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Are there any other words for marginal effects I could use for a psychological audience? We keep getting pushback about the term (despite explaining what we mean by marginal effects) and it's becoming extremely annoying.
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
My PhD Sajedeh Rasti has published a World View piece in Nature today: "Don’t compete, collaborate: why collective funding applications are the future" www.nature.com/articles/d41... She discusses how she successfully brought together a team of meta-scientists to collaboratively apply for funding.
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Don’t compete, collaborate: why collective funding applications are the future
Scientists with disparate expertise writing grants together can identify knowledge gaps and drive progress — but systems must change to incentivize them.
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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 05/06/2026
If you have access to any the following stats software, would you be willing to run some chi squared tests on a handful of simulated datasets and send me results? I need to verify that that my R implementation of what other software does is correct. - Stata - SAS - StatXact - SPSS DM me :)
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Keith Maddox @maddblackprof.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Please Amplify: Social Cognition is inviting letters of intent for the upcoming special issue on Bias of Crowds model, edited by Keith Payne, Heidi Vuletich, Max Primbs, and Jimmy Calanchini. Due July 15: bit.ly/3R9e8KB
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Call for Papers 10 Years Bias of Crowds.docx
Call for Papers Special Issue: 10 Years of Bias of Crowds – Reflections and Future Directions Deadline for Letters of Intent: July 15th, 2026 Letters of Intent: https://bit.ly/4dkWMSl Guest Editors...
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William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
✨New paper out @nature.com ✨ For 8 weeks around the 2024 US election, we randomly assigned 2,000 people to use social media algos we built ourselves. Do engagement-based algorithms amplify intergroup, moral & emotional (IME) content—and does that distort how we see political norms? 🧵🔗 👇
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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Our 7th cohort of summer psychology interns arrives in June! summerpsych.com/interns
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Interns & Alumni — the Summer Internship
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Maik Hamjediers @mhamjediers.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Do waitresses receive the same occupational prestige as waiters? Using German gendered occupational titles, we find that feminine job titles receive slightly lower prestige than masculine ones, especially among male-domindated occupations. Out now in Social Forces. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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Max Primbs @maxprimbs.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
@keithpayne.bsky.social, @jimmycalanchini.bsky.social, Heidi Vuletich and I are co-editing a new Social Cognition special issue titled "10 Years of Bias of Crowds – Reflections and Future Directions". Deadline for letters of intent is July 15th. bit.ly/3R9e8KB
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Max Primbs @maxprimbs.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Pretty map crew assemble! (And please don't forget that many of these concerns also apply to regional psychology).
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Protzko @protzko.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Teaching DAGs sounds easy, until students actually have to make one themselves. A new tutorial lays out simple steps to make it clear and easy for students to understand. Draw process, selection, outcome, confounds. From Nathan J. Quimpo & Peter M. Steiner files.osf.io/v1/resources... #psych
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 06/05/2026
A student from the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences Cameroon reached out to me -- he's writing his thesis on estimating the causal effect of insecticide-treated net use on malaria infections & has nobody in his immediate network who could provide a quick sanity check on his methodology.>
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Kitten in Tree Needs Help!
Alt: Kitten in Tree Needs Help!
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Dan Oh (DongWon) | 오동원 @ohdanieldw.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I'll be recruiting PhD students (2027 entry) and a postdoc to join the lab at Berkeley. Interests: • continuous person perception in interactive contexts • impression management and its biases • social perception in digital spaces Get in touch if there's overlap. Very excited for this next chapter!
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 30/04/2026
They're looking for people with strong quant skills (psych/sociology/related fields) to work on subjective well-being across the lifecourse at Uni Lausanne! 1 PhD position + 1 Postdoc position career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree... career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
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Opportunités de carrière : PhD Position in Subjective Well-Being Across the Life Course (22762)
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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I want to defend punching down in academia. Scratch that. I want to defend punching, full stop. Up, down, sideways. The norm against critiquing junior scholars publicly comes from a good place but breaks something fundamental about how science works. New essay. open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...
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Science Doesn't Care Who You Are
A few months ago I sat in the audience for a PhD student’s talk that was, well, not great.
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Riana Brown @rrrianabrown.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
My lab (u.osu.edu/spal/) and Ken Fujita’s lab (u.osu.edu/fujita/) at OSU are hiring a joint lab manager (a full-time postgraduate researcher) to start this summer! Come work in two incredibly fun labs in a thriving social psychology department. Application and more information soon to come!
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #PostDoc #SocialPsychology My collaborator Rose Meleady is advertising a postdoc position Requires expertise in intergroup contact/ESM studies vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/21... Rose is excellent -- high competence, high warmth. You'd won't find a better advisor!
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Senior Research Associate (RA2386) in University of East Anglia | UEA
View details and apply for this Senior Research Associate (RA2386) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Social Sciences School of Psychology Senior Research Associate Ref: RA2386 ...
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Miguel Silan @miguelsilan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Bluesky folks! Popping in here for a hot minute, I'm trying to look for this particular blog post before (by Thomas? Tom?) it used to be posted on twitter. Basically the main claim is: X is X because target population Y said so (I think his example here was the concept of a game). Ring any bells?
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Max Primbs @maxprimbs.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Does anyone know if SESP does individual talks? Or do they only have symposia?
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
We are inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in a collaborative meta-science project on the effectiveness of data and code sharing policies in research-performing organizations. www.tue.nl/en/working-a...
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Postdoc In Meta-science
Personal type: Scientific staff
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Travis Lim @travislim.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
New paper out in JPSP with @erichehman.bsky.social! We asked: What is the framework underlying our impressions of environments? Our large bottom-up study shows that people pay attention to 4 factors. We’re calling it the Environment Impressions Model: doi.org/10.1037/pspa...
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Max Primbs @maxprimbs.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I'm looking for US county-level well-being data by race. Does anyone have any leads?
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Max Primbs @maxprimbs.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Cats for everyone!
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Found a really nice Dutch grant for turning our WARN-D pipeline that forecasts depression onset for young adults into an actionable system for people at risk. Grant requires a Dutch tech partner, preferably with an existing app that can be adapted to ours needs. Any interest? Please get in touch.
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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Do I know any USC (University of Southern California) staff, faculty, or students? I have a special library request that requires a current affiliation. Thank you ~
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Mary C. Murphy @marycmurphy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Today Dominic Packer & @jayvanbavel.bsky.social republished @minzlicht.bsky.social's post about "The Downfall of Stereotype Threat" in their widely-read The Power Of Us newsletter. I felt a certain way about that & the evidence presented there & thought I'd respond:
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The Report of Stereotype Threat's Demise Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
And why I'm feeling a certain way about it
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Nicholas A. Coles, PhD @nicholascoles.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
‼️ Postdoc recruitment Want to help build and understand the future of scientific collaboration? We are seeking a postdoc in computational meta‑science. 📍 UF (Gainesville, FL) 💰 $55–60k (1-3 years) 🧠 High intellectual agency 📅 Deadline March 10 Send us your idea. Details attached!
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch New by @maxprimbs.bsky.social et al. Still trying to get my head around the findings, a bit of a head-scratcher I love this type of research question & research design, so I'll be sure to dig in.
We find that regions with more Ku Klux Klan activity in the 1920s show higher levels of modern White Supremacist activity but, unexpectedly, lower levels of modern implicit and explicit racial bias
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Tara E. Jenson @tejenson.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
hey @pwgtennant.bsky.social - thanks for your delightful talk at BU today on "Have DAGs Fulfilled their Promise in Epidemiology and Health Research?" One of my fav bits:
4-panel cartoon of 2 people and a dog:
Panel 1: Person in green shirt looks apprehensively at the dog and asks the person in blue shirt "Does your dog bite?"
Panel 2: Person in blue shirt replies "No, but it can hurt you in other ways."
Panel 3: in an apparent demonstration of how the dog can hurt you without biting, the dog says to the green shirted person: "Just because you can draw a DAG does not mean that the relationships depicted are causal."
Panel 4: the green shirted person is crying while the blue shirted person and dog look on.
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Ashwini Ashokkumar @ashwinia.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Postdoc! 🚨🚨 Postdoc opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026). We study identity, group dynamics, language, & politics. Rolling review begins 3/14 Apply: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15806 Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Ashwini Ashokkumar’s lab at the Department of Psychology at Harvard University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position to start in Summer 2026. The lab conducts research on social ...
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
#AcademicSky I spend 1/2 my time asking people to peer review more, & other 1/2 complaining that filthy rich publishers should pay for our labour These aren't incompatible complaints Scientists DO need to review more (especially if publishing) Publishers DO need to pay reviewers
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 13/02/2026
New blog post about the age-period-cohort identification problem! In which, for the first time ever, I ask "What's the mechanism?" and also suggest that sometimes you may actually *not* be interested in causal inference. www.the100.ci/2026/02/13/o...
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One approach to the age-period-cohort problem: Just don’t.
Just to cause yourself more problems, you seek for something. But there is no need for you to seek anything. You have plenty, and you have just enough problems. Shunryū Suzuki in a 1971 talk A ...
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Emma Templeton @emmatempleton.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I will be hiring a full-time pre-doctoral Research Professional to work with me at Chicago Booth. Know someone interested in studying conversation and connection? Please help spread the word! More details, including application instructions, are here: www.chicagobooth.edu/-/media/facu...
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