Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966), “At Close of Day” (1941), oil on board, 33 x 38.1 cm.

Love this, love this. This kind of subtle light is so hard to capture in paint and it’s so well done here. Scrumptious.

Unfortunately it’s fake.

The slow pace of the peer review process is designed to ensure credibility and quality. It does not always succeed in its goals, but making papers available for immediate reading without review and bypassing these systems could have dire consequences for the integrity of future science.

Academia.edu also features a testimonial that worries me: “If I publish in a journal, it takes 2 years to come out, and 17 people read it. If I upload to Academia, 100 people read the paper in the first week.”
Hugh Richmond
University of California, Berkeley, English, Professor Emeritus

The promise of free PDFs is nice but I am skeptical of the direction literature search may take and what corporate investment may mean for publications in the future.

Changes in Google Scholar that worry me:
1: Advertising search via AI on the homepage. 2: The surge in Academia.edu article hosting, a platform that is heavily invested in venture capital and huge corporations.

One thing I’m unsure about with using AI to perform biology/medicine work is, how is it trained? I think there’s a benefit to using massive data to help discover things quickly, but if we’re training it to look at it the same things we do the same way, are we not just replicating our blind spots?

Rachael Blanchard stands in front of the water and cliffside city in Italy. The text introduces her as a psychology major, student researcher, PURI awardee, The Challenge at MSU participant, and that she studied abroad.

A headshot of Rachael Blanchard. The text says: “I’m assisting with the development of an interview for serious mental illness that assesses social and role functioning, well-being, and symptoms across development. This research topic is important to me because the lived experience of people with serious mental illness is often underrepresented in psychological research.”

Rachael Blanchard stands by her research poster at the Undergraduate Research Forum. Her quote says: “I’ve been surprised by how long and detailed the research process is, from obtaining IRB approval to pilot testing, participant recruitment, data collection, analysis, and writing up the results. It’s given me a deep appreciation for the time and effort that goes into producing quality research.”

PSY student researcher Rachael Blanchard has conducted a lit review synthesizing over 20 scholarly articles on psychiatric interviews & psychosocial assessments for @hrcowan.bsky.social's lab. Recently, she received a PURI Award to build upon her work.

Full Q&A: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/... 💚

Miss you, Mister. I hope there are so many dinner plates and butter dishes for you to steal from in kitty heaven. Thank you for being the absolute best.

Stagnating at around 1% or below vs declining from 80% are pretty different things. The graph seems like a comparison meant to evoke a reaction based on visual scale. What does China look like today when the scales are matched?

🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨
Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3

All I think this can mean for “AI therapy” is that you’ll have worksheets like medicine.umich.edu/sites/defaul... that can talk back to you to an extent. Which is helpful, sure! But extremely limited.

Also, it seems critical to acknowledge that BA is just one very small subset of therapy modalities. MFTs, LPCs, LCSWs, and clinical PhDs learn more. You can do BA alone without help, but the human touch is part of what makes it effective. For someone who needs more than just BA, you need expertise.

I’m a little perplexed by this take. The paper never clarified who the specialists are, so I’m not sure why PhD clinicians are being named here. They go to school for 5-7 years to learn both practice and how to be researchers - a very different skillset than therapy administration alone.

Every time I get into an argument about discrimination against women in the workplace, I end up in the same tired spiral. No, it’s not about achieving 50/50 m/f ratios in every career field. It’s about THIS kind of harassment no longer being a part of the experience for any woman in any field.

A studio headshot of Anna Benedict. At the bottom is a green bar with the Spartan logo.

A green graphic with a quote from MSU grad student Anna Benedict: The folks whom I've worked with are used to being silenced and ostracized, and they are heavily stigmatized by media which labels them as ‘crazy’ and ‘dangerous.’ In the public eye as well as in research and healthcare, this frequently leaves little room for centering their humanity, their right to autonomy, their ability to recover, their ability to give back to their communities, and their ability to live meaningful lives despite their illness. This orientation on strengths is a vital missing piece that I’m excited to explore.

Congrats to MSU grad student Anna Benedict on being named to Notre Dame’s prestigious Domer Dozen—which recognizes the top 12 outstanding young alumni!

See how Anna is changing the conversation around serious mental illness through research and storytelling: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/... 💚

This is horrifying

Kenya was showing me some social cog work that seems to suggest these groupings depend on the presence of other types of detectable affiliations. Age seemed like a weaker grouping, maybe because everyone ages. In the case of Mario, maybe we sort it as “character” as an affiliation before age?

I would be better at flossing and going to the dentist generally if they still gave me dinosaur stickers and pencils when I was done with my appointment.

I want to read more about this; any paper recommendations?

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A green graphic with this quote attributed to Bailey Rann: The brain is incredible, and I love the passion and detailed nature of all those within the CCN program as we work to uncover the underlying reasoning and processes that most humans take for granted like processing rhythms in our environment and attending to different objects.

Congrats to MSU graduate student Bailey Rann on receiving a 2025 J. Frank Yates Student Travel Award from @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social!

Get to know Bailey more here:
psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

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A green graphic with a quote attributed to Abby Cassario. The MSU Department of Psychology logo is at the bottom.

Congrats to MSU graduate student @abbycassario.bsky.social on being awarded a 2025 Student Publication Prize from @spspnews.bsky.social!

Full story here: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

Empty Bowls - The Greater Lansing Food Bank Leading the fight against hunger in mid-Michigan since 1981.

If you like getting something in return for your cash, you can get an awesome handmade bowl next week (Nov 12) Tickets are $35. Tour the facility, get cool pottery: greaterlansingfoodbank.org/give/events/...

Lansing area friends - families in the Greater Lansing area struggling without SNAP. The Greater Lansing food bank needs your help to feed our community. Please consider donating!

greaterlansingfoodbank.org/donate

A reminder that I’m accepting applications for PhD students!

Today ICE and federal agents detained a man at 26 Federal Plaza during court recess, before he had the opportunity to have his hearing.

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A dark green graphic introducing Dr. Meltem Yucel's research interests, her Moral Minds Lab, and why she wanted to work at Michigan State.

Three photos of the Moral Minds Lab space. This lab explores morality across different stages of life and in cultures around the world. In the bottom right corner is moralmindslab.com

Meet Dr. Meltem Yucel, our new moral psychologist!

Dr. Yucel has a passion for understanding why people behave the way they do. Her research focuses on how children and adults understand rules, group identity, & moral development.

psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social

Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

Gender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison is currently hiring for a tenure-track position focused on gender/sexuality & AGING! We are an interdisciplinary department & welcome scholars across fields (humanities but also PSYCH, POP HEALTH, SOCIOLOGY, etc.) Deadline: Nov 11! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...