For the first time since 2005, Illinois men’s basketball team has reached the Final Four. A 71-59 win against Iowa in the NCAA Tournament’s South Region final earned the Illini (28-8) a trip to Indianapolis.
A picture of Homer Simpson sitting on the couch. He is drinking a beer and waving a little flag that says “TV Sports”. He is smiling and seems content.
dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited!
- `filter_out()` for dropping rows
- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools
These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!
tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
🚨🚨wake up the pope 🚨🚨
Gov. Evers decorates a mug
Gov. Evers holds up Wisconsin mug
Gov. Evers poses for a group photo with staff and owners of Rowe Pottery.
It was amazing to visit Rowe Pottery to take a tour, meet their pottery artists, and hear about how this 50-year-old business has continued to grow and thrive in the Cambridge community. I even got to decorate a mug!
[wakes up] “I’m sorry, what”
Bears beat the Packers 22-16
Pope Leo holding up a Da Pope jersey
Chicago >>>
Indiana’s Senate has voted AGAINST the GOP gerrymander that’d have locked in a 9-0 map.
This keeps the 7-2 map in place, saving two Democratic seats heading into 2026.
The vote failed big, 19/31.
The MAJORITY of the GOP senators opposed it!
They sent JD Vance to Indiana and they were like never do that to us again
My awesome department is in search of a new social psychologist! Please help spread the word.
www.carthage.edu/live/news/56...
The next installment of our NSF-funded OPAM workshop series will feature Dr Jason Tsukahara (of the University of Miami) presenting his workshop on researching individual differences (on December 9th). Visit the website (opamconference.com) to register for the free Zoom session.
Andrew R. A. Conway
Michael J. Kane
PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!
i never judge before all the facts are in but my working hypothesis is these people are morons
Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the beloved chaplain for the Loyola Chicago men's basketball team who became an international celebrity during their 2018 Final Four run, has died. n.pr/4h16TNw
Excited to have this preprint out into the world!
jersey says TAMPA JR
you mean st. petersburg?
Our new paper, “A neural compass in the human brain during naturalistic human navigation” is out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! First-author @zhenganglu.bsky.social led the charge, with Josh Julian and collaborator @gkaguirre.com.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
An office door sign for “Adam Barnas”. Ball State’s institutional icon, Beneficence (“Benny”), is depicted in the top left of the sign.
(Official) first day at the big boy job
*”New Noise” by Refused on repeat*
The Psychonomic Society is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Graduate Travel Award. These prestigious awards honor exceptional graduate student members who will showcase their research at the 2025 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA. Learn more here: bit.ly/4mz8AUe
Make sure to stop by the Wisconsin State Fair and pick up a cream puff...or two...or three...now through August 10th!
:((
2025 jon: well i have some good news. nin is still making kind of cool sounding songs
2005 jon: badass
2025 jon: yeah its for a disney movie thats why. they made it for a disney movie. nine inch nails made their best sounding stuff in 20 years for disney. dont ask about any other future stuff btw
🚨 Reminder: 1 week left to apply for the SRNDNA Daily Life Sampling Workshop!
Application Deadline: 🗓️ July 18, 2025 🗓️
🗓️ 1-day workshop on Oct. 6, 2025
📍 Brandeis University
🧠 Theoretical lectures and hands-on tutorials
More information: srndna.utdallas.edu/srndna-events/
Happy to share my first-ever pre-print !!!! 🚨 on the representational geometry across similarity properties using behavioral judgments, fMRI, and AI/CNNs models 🚨 !! 1/n🧵 preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
