Today March 6 is the first day of early voting in Virginia for the redistricting referendum
All voters can cast ballots at their local election office and satellite locations in some places
Make your voice heard Virginia!
Link w more information below
www.elections.virginia.gov/casting-a-ba...
Elzevir name on the ceiling of the Library of Congress.
Go all the way to DC, and see this mf on the ceiling of the Library of Congress….
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
I’m old and have a lot less at stake than many people. If I get arrested, I won’t lose my pension. If I get shot, I’ll lose 10-20 years of arthritis getting worse and worse. I have no reason not to rouse a little rabble.
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
Psychophysiology
Social Influence
Social Psychology
Motivation and Emotion
Cultural Antropology
Many more! These shaped my research program 🥲 also took Physics of Star Trek for fun
Talk with your family, friends, colleagues about why empathy and kindness are important. Because active choices to not care are being rewarded, and empathy as an ideal is at stake. Advice to mind one's business is a recipe for a callous default that most of us wouldn't want our own kids to embody.
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger raises her right hand to be sworn in to office.
Her Excellency
The 75th Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia (and 2017 Emerge Virginia Signature Program alumna)
The Honorable Abigail D. Spanberger
@abigailspanberger.com #valeg #vagov
Oh, I should've just shared it separately so here you go! Allegedly one of the people asked to stand down is the Rector who appears to have helped lead a lot of the recent nonsense.
Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Bob Weir, the singer, songwriter, guitarist and co-founder of the Grateful Dead who for decades was one of the driving forces behind the revered band and their legacy, has died at age 78.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Small, tan, long-haired dog with a remarkable beard waking up.
Chewy has claimed our bed. He works very hard to protect us, and he needs his rest.
I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building.
Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.
The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.
I would choose it again without hesitation
I am so sorry. Our tweens love Gilmore Girls. And it started with with an amazing woman, who I love and like more than I knew was possible. The show is annoying, but I chose this 😂
Wtf?
You ever explain “candy cigarettes” aloud to a Gen Alpha person only to realize that you were an abused child?
No?
Oh, me neither then…
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester.
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
Taking 12yo for a treat for her bruised (not broken) finger
Me: she wants a caramel reuben crunch frap thing
12yo:
Me: so what makes it a reuben?
12yo: I said ribbon….
Me: they’re putting sauerkraut in your drink, kid
Nurse: what would you say your pain is?
Me:
12yo with likely broken finger: 6 or 7 *does 67 hand thing*
Me:
The "Make America Healthy Again" crowd is, once again, taking actions that harm Americans. Not only will this lead to higher rates of depression and suicidality for youth, it will impact those youth for the rest of their lives.
Trans youth deserve care
Attention EEG researchers: Check out this nice infographic promoting inclusivity in EEG research.
Created by the diversity and outreach student subcommittee of the Society for Psychophysiological Research [@therealspr.bsky.social]
Congrats, Tory! So well deserved!
“Research shows that professors like coffee mugs, t-shirts, and um… devotional candles?”
Happy birthday, friend!
Transparent and comprehensive statistical reporting is critical for ensuring the credibility, reproducibility, and interpretability of psychological research. This paper offers a structured set of guidelines for reporting statistical analyses in quantitative psychology, emphasizing clarity at both the planning and results stages. Drawing on established recommendations and emerging best practices, we outline key decisions related to hypothesis formulation, sample size justification, preregistration, outlier and missing data handling, statistical model specification, and the interpretation of inferential outcomes. We address considerations across frequentist and Bayesian frameworks and fixed as well as sequential research designs, including guidance on effect size reporting, equivalence testing, and the appropriate treatment of null results. To facilitate implementation of these recommendations, we provide the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology (TSRP) Checklist that researchers can use to systematically evaluate and improve their statistical reporting practices (https://osf.io/t2zpq/). In addition, we provide a curated list of freely available tools, packages, and functions that researchers can use to implement transparent reporting practices in their own analyses to bridge the gap between theory and practice. To illustrate the practical application of these principles, we provide a side-by-side comparison of insufficient versus best-practice reporting using a hypothetical cognitive psychology study. By adopting transparent reporting standards, researchers can improve the robustness of individual studies and facilitate cumulative scientific progress through more reliable meta-analyses and research syntheses.
Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉
As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
