Happy Vaisakhi! Today marks the founding of the Khalsa — an enduring symbol of justice, equality, and seva.

Vaisakhi diyan lakh lakh vadhaiyan.

I was STUNNED that this model ended up being the winner. No Big 5, or Big 3, or Big Anything. Relationships measures capture positivity, layered on top of item-specific content. That's it.

It feels like we need to start developing new measures from square one.

Courtroom Science and Trans Youth - University of Toronto Press

My book Courtroom Science and Trans Youth is out TODAY, just in time for Trans Day of Visibility!

It’s about how courts treat science and scientific expertise in family law cases involving trans children, and how we need to do better and stop medicalizing and gatekeeping them.

Predicting relationship quality with itself? A single general factor captures most of the variance across 34 common relationship measures In relationship science, researchers have generated a wide array of constructs and corresponding self-report measures to characterize, explain, and predict relationship quality – the foremost studied ...

New paper, out this week in PLOS One, suggests that most close relationship self-report measures are primarily capturing relationship quality 🧵
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SCORE | Center for Open Science SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

Transgender health is health for all Care grows when we choose to share it—it doesn’t shrink.

Care grows when we choose to share it—it doesn’t shrink. #TheAcademicActivist #TransgenderDayOfVisibility

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The Supreme Court’s ruling that “conversion therapy” cannot be banned does not change the fact that the literature overwhelmingly shows that sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts cause serious, lasting harm to individuals exposed to such efforts.

Episode 487: How To Make Online Dating Work For You - Sex and Psychology How can you make dating apps work for you? Discover science-backed tips on attraction and finding better matches online.

We tend to put way too much weight on first impressions in dating. As @pauleastwick.bsky.social discusses in this episode, attraction isn’t always immediate. It often emerges over a few interactions. Sometimes, you just haven’t seen enough yet. www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/podcast...

Just had to share this gem of a voicemail about the polyamory discourse that we received this week. And to remind you that you too can leave us voice messages just like this via our website Savage.Love OR by calling us at (206)302-2064.

Call us with your questions, thoughts, or responses!

Has anyone written blog posts or research articles on racist tropes around IQ that seem to be (re)emerging in right wing circles?

I am teaching a neuropysch course and I think it's important to teach how to identify the insidious ways those arguments get presented.

Study promotion for a great PhD student!

If you and/or your romantic partner are experiencing depressive symptoms, consider participating in this online study. Your participation can help researchers better understand romantic partner support. Open to couples of any gender or sexual orientation 🌈

"Bonded by Evolution" book next to Mango the toy poodle.

We're all very excited around here to read @pauleastwick.bsky.social's new book!

Polyamory is about honesty, not an excuse to sleep around An anthropologist’s detailed research shows polyamorists focus on intimacy and honesty, not sleeping around

Where popular portrayals of polyamory most often miss the mark is in the idea that the practice is primarily about having sex with multiple partners. Polyamory is mostly about intimacy, not sex, and it has ethics at its core. www.scientificamerican.com/article/polyamory-isnt-a...

You never need to watch the video but you do need to know it was an execution

why I have trust issues

At least it wasn't 21-0 in the first half. Took till the 2nd half this time.

Large Language models pose an existential threat to online survey research www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

An AI can now evade a comprehensive suite of data quality checks, achieving a 99.8% pass rate on 6,000 trials of standard attention checks.

dySEM package logo of two gender/sex-ambiguous figures holding onto a collection of rainbow-coloured balloons in a fashion resembling an SEM path diagram

Pleased to share for those using #rstats for analyzing #dyadic data, that we released a major update of dySEM on CRAN (now ver. 1.4.1) *just* before the winter break.

New functionality for scripting/outputting dyadic SEMs, along with (much) more test coverage! 🧵

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Typical Steelers football. Boswell deserved to be bailed out.

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail

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Is social interaction a tradeoff of autonomy for belonging compared to being alone? New paper by phenom @elainehoan.bsky.social says yes if you're interacting with strangers, no if you're interacting with friends/family. With a romantic partner you gain in both. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Common method bias can lead to spurious correlations in relationship studies Nature Reviews Psychology - Common method bias can lead to spurious correlations in relationship studies

Nice coverage of our Pseudo project in Nature Reviews. @johnsakaluk.bsky.social @davekhera.bsky.social @helenaqin.bsky.social @sarahcestanton.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Is the idea that getting into a romantic relationship increases well-being a myth? A new MacLab paper says no. And I had so much to say about this work, I started a Substack: The Unromantic. Links for the paper and the Substack in replies.

ggplot2 4.0.0 A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

I'd feel more confident with the wet bandits.

For potential grad students: if you're interested in this kind of work on assessing and improving close relationships measures, our group just got a grant to do five more years of it. Join our team!

Our preprint for #dyadic SEM tutorial with {dySEM} is back up/available!

Thanks to @psyarxivbot.bsky.social team quickly retooling their approach (and the thankless work of the mods) to help sift the real from the slop!

Excellent paper alert!!!

I’ve watched Sam give two talks about this topic (once as a first year grad student which was extremely formative for my research trajectory). Very excited to see this in print!