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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Join us at this year’s Sustainability Preconference at #SPSP2027. Submissions to present are open until October 8th!

Join us at the SPSP sustainability Preconference. Applications are open until October 8. Please apply at spsp.org.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world. It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.

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Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 03/04/2026

Fifty research lab shuttered. Countless decades-old experiments and scientific records lost. Thousands of forest scientists and experts essentially forced into retirement. The destruction of science on a massive scale.

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

🌎🌎🌎 👇👇👇 When you register for #SPSP2026, sign up to attend the Sustainability preconference! More info about the precon: tinyurl.com/3a8awt23 Register here: tinyurl.com/8e75wsnz

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Don’t forget to register to join us at the #SPSP2026 Sustainability Preconference! We have an exciting lineup of speakers, panelists, and posters around our theme: Integrating Science, Community, and Policy for Sustainable Change. @spspnews.bsky.social

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Dustin Haraden @dustinharaden.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Been working to create more accessible tools for getting started with R for psychologists. GitHub Pages has been a great tool for allowing me to do this (dharaden.github.io/psyc640/). Aiming to create another site for a broader audience and would love suggestions!

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PSYC 640: Graduate Statistics – PSYC 640 - Graduate Statistics

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky We all know: humans are very social animals But this study helps to quantify that premise. (even things we "know" to be true need to be shown to be empirically true) People prefer doing almost ALL activities with others (vs alone). journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Tidus is judging everyone who hasn’t paid the cat tax today.

Cat sitting on mantle stares in judgement at you

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Has there ever existed a person who has a “to read” pile who has actually finished that pile before adding to it? Or is it the case that if you have such a pile, it is prohibited by some law of nature for it to ever go down to zero?

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Well, it's official. We just received notice that all authors on the Sixth National Climate Assessment have just been released from their roles. The NCA is a vital, Congressionally mandated resource for our nation as we prepare for the impacts of climate change. This is a huge loss.

NCA6 Update
April 28, 2025
Dear NCA6 Participants,

Thank you for your participation in the 6th National Climate Assessment. At this time, the scope of the NCA6 is currently being reevaluated in accordance with the Global Change Research Act of 1990. We are now releasing all current assessment participants from their roles. As plans develop for the assessment, there may be future opportunities to contribute or engage.

Thank you for your service.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/04/2025

The NSF has stopped funding research into disinformation, a disinformation researcher highlighted why this is such a bad idea: “We know false information is out there, we know it spreads widely, and it’s important for people’s health and for democracy to understand what we can do about it.”

motherjones.com

Government cancels disinformation grants in disinformation-filled statement

The National Science Foundation said the studies "could be used to infringe on" speech rights.

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

So sorry to hear this Franki. You and your team deserve so much better than how you are being treated.

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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 21/04/2025

My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.

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NSF Award Search: Award # 2240343 - Constructing Credible Knowledge and Expertise in Air Pollution Regulation and Monitoring: The Problem of Quantification Lock

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Maddy Jalbert @maddyjalbert.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

🧪 DOGE is reporting cancelling 402 NSF grants today. And let's recap: this is for awards that NSF has **ALREADY** judged as aligned with its mission in law, which includes broadening participation in STEM. It bears repeating: the law supersedes exec orders. For more: www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

Great work by
@NSF
canceling 402 wasteful DEI grants ($233M in savings), including $1M for “Antiracist Teacher Leadership for Statewide Transformation”.

See the NSF update below. Grant awards will be based on merit, competition, equal opportunity, and excellence.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 19/04/2025

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.

We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks.

We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA

WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential.

These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84).

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!

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Climate Psychology Alliance of North America @climatena.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

As FEMA gets cut and the climate crisis escalates, the need for climate related disaster mental health will only intensify! Join us for our inaugural series! www.climatepsychology.us/cpa-workshop...

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Hey SPSP members! 👋 Proposed U.S. federal budget cuts would significantly impact psychology funding and research. We just published an Advocacy Alert with actionable steps you can take today. Check out the link for ways to make your voice heard: spsp.org/news/spsp-n...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach. www.tsunami.gov

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Two preconferences, one poster, one symposium, many events, and more reunions than I can count. #SPSP2025 is a wrap and I am so grateful for the reconnection. Until next year!

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

5) @psycheddiego.bsky.social extended interdependence research by surveying Mayangna participants to examine how shared fate impacts their cooperation. The more positive stake & shared fate in relationships, the more people tended to cooperate. #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

4) Ryan Dobson conducted a longitudinal progesterone study to re-examine the social support vigilance hypothesis. Between women fluctuations in P were predictive of vigilance but within woman fluctuations were not. #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

3) Sierra Peters tested competing predictions about sexual desire. Within subject fluctuations in desire for partners predicted greater desire for alternatives (& vice versa). Priming desire for alternatives increased desire for partners, but not vice versa. #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

2) Susan Chen examined how different life history correlates are related to youth gang involvement. Such an interesting study of an under-considered population! #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Last, some highlights from the #EPatSPSP2025 datablitzes: 1) A seriously cool talk by @wnmerrell.bsky.social about how we infer clustered (patchy) resource distribution based on an area’s hierarchicalness (& vice versa). Who knew lobstering could be so socially complex?! #SPSP2025

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Yay! I’m glad the metaphor did your point justice.

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Yes. Women tend to infer gossipiness at higher rates than men, may have their information sharing perceived more as gossip, and may sometimes suffer likability penalities for gossiping. However, context matters. (3/3) @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Gossip has many useful functions from info spreading to norm enforcement. Men & women tend to info share at similar rates. But are there gendered differences in what we perceive as gossip, & our social perceptions of gossipers? Does context matter? (2/3) @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social #EPatSPSP2025

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Last but certainly not least in our fantastic invited lineup, @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social dazzled us with work on gendered perceptions of gossip. (1/3) #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Not a researcher who uses LLM currently, but this context is so helpful to consider for future collaborations and beyond!

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

More formal modeling, in tandem with verbal theorizing, can increase the rigor and transparency of our science. @dconroybeam.bsky.social kindly offered some theory and reasoning templates to help us out! (5/5) #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

For example, we can more readily quantify jealousy in a given situation if we make some formal priors while setting up our theory (see example) (4/5) @dconroybeam.bsky.social #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

One solution? Express theories via formal mathmatical modeling. Formalizing specific predicted values allows us to more accurately compare, test, and update our assumptions than just making broad, directional verbal predictions (3/5) @dconroybeam.bsky.social #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

EPs tend to be good at generating verbal hypotheses. One problem with verbal theorizing though is that it’s like playing a game of telephone.. perception of hypothetical constructs varies across researchers & generates noise (2/5) #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025 @dconroybeam.bsky.social

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

@dconroybeam.bsky.social gave all of us the talk we needed to hear about ways to improve our work through more formal theoretical modeling. Clear testable predictions are just as important to field replicability as good methods and analysis! (1/5) #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025 #InDanWeTrust

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Jessica D Ayers @jessicadayers.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Biggest take away: Will is awesome. Archeozoology is FANTASTIC. the use of genome studies & his work on horse bones show us how science should be done. Plus the gene culture coevolution leading to the adoption of horse use as opposed to other pack animals 🔥

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Will is an archaeozoologist who uses a variety of field methods to tackle this Q. His work suggests horses were domesticated more recently than we once thought & the transition to using tamed horses spread rapidly across cultures. I can’t wait to read his book! (3/3) #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Horses were one of our oldest preferred food sources, but they have since become central friends in many cultures and we build slightly murderous but beloved airport statues of them. How and when did this switch happen? (2/3) #SPSP2025 #EPatSPSP2025

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Will Taylor discussed how the emergence of our partnership with horses revolutionized human history (1/3) #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025

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Jessica D Ayers @jessicadayers.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Biggest take away: people say letting others borrow their phone is costly and won’t do it, but then in the field observations THEY ACTUALLY DO IT! Mind the (behavior) gap, it is real! @norabalboa.bsky.social

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Cost was the dominantly replicated factor across in person and hypothetical helping contexts, but other factors may still matter if measured differently. Thanks for the transparent assessment of the challenges with different social psych research methods @norabalboa.bsky.social! (3/3) #EPatSPSP2025

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

@norabalboa.bsky.social conducted a field study that manipulated cost & reciprocation likelihood, then conducted a series of hypothetical scenario studies to examine whether field conditions could be replicated… (2/3) #EPatSPSP2025

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Marjorie Prokosch @mlprokosch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I’m back at it today with more #EPatSPSP2025 recaps. @norabalboa.bsky.social gave a talk about the challenges of trying to overcome the hypothetical situation-real world behavior gap, in the context of prosocial behavior (1/3) #SPSP2025

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