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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This year I decided to read + rate all the Shakespeare plays (don't tell my HS teachers but I had never read/seen a Shakespeare before!). After just finishing (read in semi-random order), here are the results~

My highest rated plays were Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra, both of which were perfect 10s. The lowest-rated was Pericles, a 1. Overall, his plays improved in score with year, and comedies and tragedies were higher-rated than histories.

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Ammon Perkes @alltheperkes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The complexity of group interactions seems to overrule the consistency of individual behavior to create group-level developmental patterns that are highly unpredictable over longer timescales.

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Ammon Perkes @alltheperkes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🐟🚨 Fish paper alert! 🚨🐟 You might already know that individuals are unique, even when they’re genetically identical clones raised in identical environments. But what about groups? Groups of clones are distinct from birth, but (unlike individuals) those differences do not predict later behavior!

authors.elsevier.com

Group-level phenotypes are idiosyncratic yet unpredictable over development in a clonal fish

Behavioral differences among groups can have profound impacts on individual fitness,1 yet how group-level phenotypes arise and change during developme…

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Amanda J. Wright @ajwright.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Since our paper on the Changing How I Live Life (CHILL) Study is now out in Psychological Science (doi.org/10.1177/0956...), here's a LONG overdue post on the intervention work we've been doing the past few years! Have you ever wanted to change one of your personality traits?

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Institute for Behavioral Genetics (IBG) @ibg.colorado.edu · 23/09/2026

IBG at CU Boulder is hiring 2-3 tenure-track faculty (junior or senior) in statistical genetics, twin/family designs, and computational work. A chance to help shape IBG for decades. Starts fall 2027. More info: colorado.edu/ibg/. Apply by Oct 15. Please repost!

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Thomas Talhelm @thomastalhelm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🚨 It's published! 🚨 This is the big one. 100 cultures, 12,000 people, 108 researchers. Why people (and our most-used surveys) get collectivism wrong and how to fix it. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.nature.com

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Bill Chopik @chops310.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hi, I'd like to apply for the lifetime achievement award. Although my chronological age would seemingly render me ineligible, my biological age? Firmly in the eligibility window. How old do I feel (subjective age)? I'm at death's door. Thank you for your consideration

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Amanda J. Wright @ajwright.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’m recruiting a PhD student to come work with me in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Texas A&M University! Application cycle: 2027-2028 Application deadline: December 1 Application details & admissions: artsci.tamu.edu/psychologica... Lab website: www.wrightpersonalitylab.com

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Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Excited to share new work with @jeremyfreese.bsky.social. We investigate whether the genetic risk of depression predicts how people are evaluated in social interactions. People with higher depression PGI were perceived as less competent (cognitively, physically and socially). doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Our big Big Five GWAS, out today! Personality Genomics is extremely hot in 2026.

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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🚨& 🧵 Our new Nature paper is out! Across 46 cohorts and up to 1.14M people per Big Five trait, we do GWAS and ask how robust, generalizable and consequential the genetic signals underlying personality really are. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Albasoup @albasoup.itch.io · 29/08/2026

Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection

A backrooms-ass room with a twilight sky and trees seemingly imposed over it in a dream-like fashion (it's the reflection of the window)

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Aylwyn Scally @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I would still completely reject the social, political and economic conclusions that hereditarians draw. There is no reason for us to structure our society and ethics in ways that reinforce supposed biological inequalities, rather than in ways which ignore or even mitigate them.

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Something worth noticing is that the letter in support of the suspension of Cofnas from Ghent University has 353 signatures from G(h)ent Conversely, the letter against the suspension has a grand total of 14 signatures from G(h)ent

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 18/08/2026

I'm not smart enough to figure out what is wrong with this study, but I am smart enough to know that popular streaming album releases increasing traffic fatalities by 15% in one day is an implausibly large effect.

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“I was asked not to mention the Times at all. I’m choosing not to honor that norm, b/c silence abt how accountability journalism gets suppressed is itself a form of suppression.” Read the back story of how @nytimes.com and @thebulwark.com killed @adambonica.bsky.social’s piece. What a mf badass.

data4democracy.substack.com

With Fear and Favor

Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.

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vincentholst.bsky.social @vincentholst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In 2023, @nature.com published 'Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time', receiving world-wide media attention. Our Matters Arising, published after a 32 month delay (more on that soon), shows that the reported decline can largely be attributed to dataset artefacts. 🧵

The average CD_5 index per year for Web of Science. The original Park et al. decline (top curve) becomes essentially flat (bottom curve) when removing papers with CD_5=1. Those papers largely correspond to dataset artefacts.

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Joniada Agalliu @joniadaagalliu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Excited to share that our paper with @mhennecke.bsky.social was published yesterday! We asked: How well do others really know our self-control? Turns out, surprisingly well - but it depends on what they’re judging, the life domain, and how close they are to us. doi.org/10.1016/j.jr...

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Jennifer Tackett @jnfrltackett.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'm excited to announce that I will be reviewing graduate student applications for Fall 2027 admissions! I review applications in both the Personality, Development, and Health and the Clinical Science (Weinberg) programs.

sites.northwestern.edu

Research | Personality Across Development Lab

Current Research Topics Leadership Emergence and Development Tackett, J. L., Reardon, K. W., Fast, N. J., Johnson, L., Kang, S. K., Lang, J....

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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

New meta by @peterhaehner.bsky.social et al (I'm a little middle author) on individual differences in personality change across the lifespan (229 studies, N = 230k) 10.1037/bul0000525 Cool finding (imo): For all Big Five, variance in change is greatest in youth, declining through young adulthood!

Individual differences in change for each of the Big Five across ages 0 to 80. The trend for each trait is that individual differences in change are decreasing with age.

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Dirk Pelt @dirkpelt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

🆕 New pre-print! osf.io/preprints/ps... Are you satisfied with your life because you are satisfied with your friends, health, job, etc.? Or is it actually the other way around: are some people generally satisfied with their life and, because of this, satisfied with their friends, health, job, etc.?

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Meltem Yucel @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Read my interview with @vox.com about #Gossip with our neighbors. The funny part is that I gossiped about this piece *with* my neighbors too 👂

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Nicholas Judd @njudd.com · 03/07/2026

New Preprint 📖 with @rogierk.bsky.social on 🔥 Does wildfire pollution affect cognitive and brain development? We merged data sources to answer this question in ~9000 children! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci

A day of extensive wildfire pollution (Sep 18th 2020)

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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 02/07/2026

What happens when war breaks out in the middle of a survey? On Feb 28, the U.S. and Israel launched airstrikes against Iran, as our global research team was conducting fieldwork. In several countries, views of the national economic situation worsened throughout our survey period.

Chart showing positive views of the national economy went down as time passed in some countries surveyed in spring 2026.

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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

astounding it wasn't 9-0 on birthright citizenship. The constitution could not be clearer!

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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Twitter is going kind of crazy about crime and genetics right now (What's new?). My next post is a deep dive into a paper behind a widespread claim that brutal execution in Medieval Europe selected for reduced aggression, allowing civilization to develop. The title says it all, really.

sequencesandconsequences.substack.com

Capital punishment is not a breeding program

No, medieval execution didn't "genetically pacify" Europe

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Anthony D. Ong @anthonyong.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

New JPSP registered report + coordinated data analysis led by Tiko Yoneda: identical models across 11 aging cohorts (N=175,070; 18 countries). Loneliness—not simply social isolation—was more robustly associated with cognitive impairment and mortality risk psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

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APA PsycNet

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The main point is that decisions about timescale are substantive theoretical commitments rather than methodological details, and they determine what kinds of change a study can detect and what inferences it can support. But there are a few central messages that flesh this out... 2/

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Ben Ambridge @ambridge.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

“The “strongest risk factor” is not the form most related to harm. It is the form least redundant with whatever else is in the model.”

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Giacomo Bignardi @giacomobignardi.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Anyways, if you are at BGA, come to the Family Methods section this afternoon You'll hear about a project on assortative mating, still missing heritability, and non-additivity with @hfsunde.bsky.social @sbruins.bsky.social @profsimonfisher.bsky.social and other stellar bskyless co-authors

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Science Magazine @science.org · 22/06/2026

Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. scim.ag/4xY2KCm

science.org

Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say

Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year

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Kathleen Weldon @kathleenweldon.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Shared by a curator who is working on the WWII American Soldier survey project

Survey question: Do you get a kick out of giving a snappy salute?
987 Yes very much
137 Yes, a little
70, No, not particularly
56, No, none at all

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jdelafuente.bsky.social @jdelafuente.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

1/9 🚨 BREAKING OUT OF STEALTH MODE 🚨 Multivariate GWAS in Genomic SEM now runs on a laptop! New preprint + package update: a closed-form analytic solution makes multivariate GWAS ~800× faster, cutting runtimes from hours on HPC clusters to minutes on a personal computer.

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The Predator Emerges

ALT: The Predator Emerges

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Thierry Ennui @heisenbergkamp.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

(A) incredible and (B) an excuse to post this

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

ALRIGHT EVERYONE HERE IS THE OFFICIAL SUFS GUIDE TO LEAVING PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE OMB-2026-0034 PROPOSED RULE: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-advocacy/the-sufs-guide-to-writing-public-comments (share with all your friends!)

standupforscience.foundation

The SUFS Guide to Writing Public Comments — Your Site Title

Written by: Cole Donovan, Director of Policy and Advocacy and Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/06/2026

This is fantastic news.

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J. Brendan Ritchie @jbrendanritchie.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

You can slow progress, but you cannot stop it and the leadership of NIH who stand in the way of progress in biomedical research will one day realize just how quickly they will fade into irrelevance once they lose their weak grasp on power. 18/N

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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 27/05/2026

I can't be the only one who hears this, right? #statsmeme

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don't want to code, the researchers who don't want to research, and the lawyers that don't want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful Al is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs' outputs tend to be people with low standards.

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Baseball by BSmile @bsmile.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Today In 1993: Texas #Rangers outfielder Jose Canseco has a fly ball bounce off his head and over the wall for a home run at Cleveland Stadium in one of the all-time greatest #baseball bloopers! #Funny #MLB #History

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

There's a cottage industry built around offering advice to young men for money, and and all of it is bad, what young men really need is to buy a cheap bicycle and bike tools so you can fix it and ride it 10-20 miles every day while listening to Moby Dick as an audiobook

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