Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

Added a new extra credit question for my Cognition in the Real World seminar exam - "My favorite reading was ________ because ________." Very fun to see what stuck out to students and the then pass along the kudos to the authors.

Hormuz has that MAIN CHARACTER ENERGY

"Heavy rainfall on Hormuz Island washes iron oxide rich soil into the sea, turning the coastline blood red."
x.com/Rainmaker197...

National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year.
So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝

Why it’s good to make your data openly available reason #42:

Authors emailed saying they need some stats not reported in our manuscript (shame on us) for their meta-analysis.

Wrote back essentially right away saying here’s the OSF link.

Done!

Cc: @sarosecav.bsky.social

You could’ve paid some random at the top to pose with you but I’ll grant benefit of the doubt on that last pic 😅 Looks like a nice day for a hike!

These two books contain the sum total of all human knowledge

GitHub - mattansb/Analysis-of-Factorial-Designs-foR-Psychologists: Lesson files used in the Analysis of Factorial Designs for Psychologists. Lesson files used in the Analysis of Factorial Designs for Psychologists. - mattansb/Analysis-of-Factorial-Designs-foR-Psychologists

We'll, it's now 2026 (👴🏻) and for absolutely no reason I've updated those materials to also demo analysis of factorial designs w/ #marginaleffects

(with a huge thanks to @vincentab.bsky.social for making this possible by accommodating my requests!)

Very excited to share a new textbook I am working on (led by Louis Teitelbaum). It's called Data Science for Psychology: Natural Language, and it covers text analysis and social media research w/ example code in R ds4psych.com #css #rstats

It’s the Men’s NCAA championship. Worth specifying.

New preprint out today (osf.io/preprints/ps...). We tested whether AI agents are actually infiltrating online surveys.

Spoiler alert: they aren't

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The planet Jupiter with its cloud bands seen in shades of pink, rusty red, blue, and purple. The Great Red Spot is a deep navy blue, surrounded by bands and swirls of pink, and light blue.

Hubble's ultraviolet view of Jupiter shows the planet in hues of pink and blue.

jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

Talking to some undergrads tomorrow about the why no one actually pays us to type model.fit() and asked them ahead of time to submit answers to a "trivially easy" data problem

Fun to see the results come it, wild to know how many business run with a not dissimilar fog of war

Interesting new bot-detection strategy in online samples:

academic.oup.com/jcr/advance-...

1/ NEW in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology — our first review of a decade+ of research on understanding & predicting cultural change, with Michael Varnum.
This one is personal. A thread on what we found, what surprised us, and how two kids reading Asimov ended up here. 🧵

Graphical abstract showing four panels. Panel 1: a person in an MRI scanner with blue cognitive thought bubbles drifting from their head and pink body thought bubbles from their torso, with organs glowing inside. Panel 2: blue bubbles for cognitive items (Self, Words, Focus, Images, Future, Past) are larger than pink bubbles for body items (Breathing, Movement, Stomach, Heart, Skin, Bladder), with arrows showing body thoughts link to more negative and less positive emotion. Panel 3: physiological traces (EGG, ECG, respiratory) show higher arousal with body-wandering; a bar chart shows cognitive items (Past, Future, Repetitive, Vivid) correlate with more ADHD and depression symptoms while body items (Breath, Stomach, Skin, Heart) correlate with fewer. Panel 4: medial brain with thalamus, somatomotor cortex, and interoceptive regions highlighted, plus a chord diagram showing connectivity between these three regions.

New paper in PNAS! When the mind wanders, it often drifts to the body. We call this "body-wandering". These thoughts are often negative, but are associated with reduced ADHD & depression symptoms, driven by a distinct interoceptive-allostatic brain signature. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520822123

One of the logs for the website "Not awful and boring ideas for teaching statistics"

My little blog just surpassed one million views. That is a whole lot for a niche blog dedicated to the teaching of statistics. And the teaching of statistics in a way that highlights statistical literacy, contemporary issues, and funny stuff. Stats to enrage and delight and explain. 1/n

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Hey New England area scientists!! I encourage you to register for the SACNAS Regional Gathering that will take place @bostoncollege.bsky.social on Saturday April 11th. All students and academics are welcome! Hope to see you there!!
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blogs.umb.edu/newenglandsa...

@sacnas.bsky.social

📣 The 2026 SMaRT Workshops schedule is officially LIVE — with workshops covering SEM, MLM, dyadic methods, time series, machine learning, clinical trials design, and more.

STATS NERD SUMMER is HERE.

Come learn something. 🧑‍🎓

smart-workshops.com/workshops

Please share and RP🙏

More info 👇

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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

New: Wikipedia has officially banned AI-generated content. After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of LLMs, volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia

www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing.

Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service:

cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

1/8 New preprint alert!

How are signals from the heart encoded in the brain?
What could be the functional implications of cardioception?

We found that neurons in the posterior insular cortex are precisely tuned to heartbeats, and that this cardio-insular coupling supports emotion coding in mice.

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server.

🔗 ziptbl.com

It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved.

Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data:
ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...

A portrait of Jonathan, an incredibly old tortoise.

4. There's a still living giant tortoise named Jonathan who is older than the U.S.-Mexico border! Here's a picture of him. He was born on December 4th, 1832.

Cc: @sarosecav.bsky.social

And so it begins...

Same, in every respect!