@jb-is-psyched
This is my academic profile on Bluesky. I am a social psychologist and educator. I study aggression and authoritarianism. I am here to connect with fellow researchers as well as to highlight interesting (sometimes good, sometimes bad) research. He/Him
Good advice. Also, check in on us to make sure we don't feel like the zombie extras from "Shaun of the Dead". That switch to Daylight Saving Time can do a number on one's body.
Academic writers often feel uncomfortable but that’s often OK Here’s why patthomson.net/2026/03/08/g...
I'm in the US and I'm still trying to make sense of it. The short answer is it's complicated. American politics is just weird.
This article is making the rounds, and with good reason. It's a reminder that scientists, regardless their prominence, can just say no to those who claim to offer crazy stupid rich donations.
www.science.org/content/arti...
When I was a student, the Type A/B Behavioral Pattern was accepted as conventional wisdom, and it was applied to a number of behavioral outcomes, including aggression (my specialty area). Problem was that the initial findings did not hold up, and by the 1990s, it was clear there was no effect.
Also Type A/B Behavioral Pattern (Friedman & Rosenman). Tobacco industry used these merchants of doubt to its advantage and even funded some of their work, if I recall correctly. Independent longitudinal studies debunked the original claim made by Friedman & Rosenman.
How did these men know to stay away from Epstein? One googled him, one asked his mom for advice, and one actually listened to what Epstein said to him and quickly realized he was a witless misogynist.
It wasn't that hard, and every scientist who claims they didn't know is either lying or stupid.
"This bill doesn't make us safer. It makes our campus an unpredictable space where the threat of violence is always part of the curriculum."
Sharing is caring, I always say.
Bro, ICE is still here kidnapping people, now they’ve even got transit vans advertising fake companies.
These are the sorts of results that give me hope. This wasn't my district, but as someone who lives in Arkansas, any election in which the GOP's supermajority in the state assembly is chipped away at is a good election, especially for those of us who care about academic freedom.
Yes it was. As someone who was very optimistic about the internet as we knew it in the 1990s, I have come to the conclusion that much of what was accomplished amounted to we as humans finding new ways to hurt each other.
can you teach something at Texas A&M? just follow this flowchart.
www.chronicle.com/article/insi... via @jasperjsmith.bsky.social and @mzahneis.bsky.social
I can't say I am surprised, but it is still maddening to read.
WELL NOW, would you look at that?
A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
Spoiler alert:
The generative AI software works amazingly well and there aren't any glaring errors that would potentially risk patients' well-being in an OR or that at minimum really piss off nurses and surgeons. That's so totally the way it goes. /sarcasm
My wife and I have been watching season 2 of "The Pitt" together. One subplot this season is that an incoming attending physician in the ER wants the other Docs to use generative AI to make updating charts more efficient. Should I offer any spoilers?
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said the agency must restore public trust following the Covid-19 pandemic, shift its focus away from chronic disease and center its efforts on infectious-disease response.
I’m so tired of seeing this line about restoring trust repeated. Appreciation for public health reached a new high with the pandemic. The majority of people understand that science made *incredible* progress in a staggeringly small amount of time. The people who “lost trust” never did to begin with.
Yikes.
The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies.
If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?
You probably can’t personally stop the war in Iran today. Is there something you can do for your neighbors hiding from ice? For a trans person in Kansas? Any local aid orgs or rapid response networks? Phone banks? Anyone already doing good shit that just needs a hand?
Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on the official Copilot discord, then locks the server
lol
www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/m...
Of course.
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Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
I know the feeling.
While reviewing her Google Scholar profile to prepare a list of her publications, psychologist Maryam Farhang came across a paper she didn’t recognize.
The article included her name and affiliation, but shevhadn’t written or contributed to the paper in any way.
Just finished the Behind the Bastards episodes on the impact of Jeffrey Epstein. And like a takeway is that he started funding anti-trans research because he allegedly SA'd a trans girl (she was 16 at the time) who turned around and sued his ass for it and he was mad that she sued him.
After that retraction in 2018, I found a community of sorts who accepted me and gave me a second chance. I am still grateful to those of you who did. I've been doing my best to follow a better path since then. To take a line from Gil Scott-Heron's last LP, "I'm new here, again."
Or maybe it has been happening this whole time.