I feel like a lot is going on right now but Trump dismantling the NSF SBE feels like something we should talk about ifk
dcsociologicalsociety.org/news/13617821

Affective Forecasting Accuracy in Everyday Life - Affective Science Affective Science - People often predict how they might feel in the future, with varying degrees of accuracy. Such affective forecasts can centre around periods of time (e.g., tomorrow, next week)...

In work recently out in Affective Science we investigated how accurately people can forecast their emotions in everyday life. Study 1 focused on forecasts for specific time periods (tomorrow, next week). Study 2 focused on forecasts for daily unpleasant events. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Private money cannot replace public funding of science Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

"Private money cannot replace public funding of science"
Thank you @naomioreskes.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🧪 🌊 ⚒️ #scipol

Perspective:
Open-ended responses can improve ESM data by grounding it in real-world experiences and phenomena as they are experienced in everyday life. Handbooks and guidelines on ESM should include sections on collecting and analyzing open-ended text items.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience The Barnard Visua...

🚨Job alert! I'm recruiting a postdoc! If you want to study the time course of task-driven visual perception, please reach out! #neuroskyence #VisionScience #CogSci barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...

screenshot of my post

Big new blogpost!

My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.

--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Part 1: How do LLMs work? YouTube video by Andrew Perfors

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊

Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

It’s linked on our lab website if anyone wants to check it out! Along with several other papers by Alix MacVittie who is investigating all things subjective body awareness!

asplab.wixsite.com/research/cv

Pokémon Go is still a reliable standby for my 9yo who got into it with her (70+yo) grandma during the pandemic. The number of times having a Pokémon game/index on my phone has been a life saver is wild!

We are excited to announce our partnership with @inclivio.com's software for #SAS2026.
We’re counting down to the conference with a series of posts.
Enter a drawing for 3 EMA study licenses by liking (1 point) and reposting (3 points)!
#SAS #AffectiveScience #EMA #EmotionDynamics

Yup

a combination urgent care and taco bell

I'm at the combination

Black and white dog jumping and playing in the snow

Copper colored dog slinking miserably through the snow

Snow days are the best or the worst days, depending on which dog you ask 😅

** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Just heard from someone who had a 1% grant not funded through NIMH.

Why?

Perhaps no payline for 2026?

2025 all full up?

Unclear. But totally bonkers and indicative of the complete gutting of the NIH/NIMH senior and grants processing peeps.

The ones who remain are working so hard.

🫠

We’re hiring an assistant or associate professor to join our psychology department at the University of Illinois Chicago! We’re a vibrant research-active department in a great city, a diverse institution with a purpose-driven mission, and a fun place to work! #psychjobs

uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

#Psychjobs
My former institution Colby College is hiring a tenure track in intergroup relations, broadly defined & open to many psych areas (not just social). This is my replacement line. I truly enjoyed my time at Colby and it's a great dept! Happy to answer Qs if I can.
apply.interfolio.com/172552

They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.

I just posted the same video in response to this 😂 My partner and I reference this skit more often than I’d like to admit

youtu.be/MRh91b74zTU?...

Outdoor area rug with a navy blue and light gray checkered pattern. It is mostly dirty except for a clearly defined clean patch.

Dirty diving board with a pressure washer nozzle pointing at the edge of a clearly defined clean patch

About to quit my day job to take up pressure washing junk in my back yard full time…

Do Naturalistic Emotional Facial Expressions Catch Our Eye Like Posed Ones? We know that people tend to notice emotional faces—like smiling or angry expressions—more quickly than neutral ones. But most research showing this uses “posed” faces: actors in a lab deliberately sho...

Do naturalistic emotional facial expressions catch our eye like posed ones? 👀😀😠😐

This was my first, first author paper which was published in Emotion - Kudos have done a wonderful job of helping spread the world to a wider audience! #faces #affectsci 🧵1/ (Pls share!)
link.growkudos.com/1dybshxtam8

We got what I believe to be close to a "perfect" NSF score after our first submission--three "Excellent" reviews, highly competitive. The only minor weakness was that we could reduce our budget. It won't be funded. There is no path forward. I'm devastated.

Quite a long read, but super important - recognising the assumptions we make in psych research is something more of us should do🫣

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"What's real? A philosophy of science for social psychology."

By @lisafeldmanbarrett.com and @jtheriault.bsky.social

openpublishing.princeton.edu/read/what-s-...

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition. Best news? The HSP is now open-access—free to read, download, and share.

the-hsp.com

Inside the desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion Swathes of scientific data deletions are sweeping across US government websites – with decades of research at risk. Now, scientists are racing to save their work before it's lost.

"I have never seen anything like this in nearly 40 years of doing science," says Paul Bierman, a geomorphologist at the University of Vermont. "I think it's an unmitigated disaster."

www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Details : Postdoctoral Research Fellow (FEEL Lab) : The University of Melbourne Careers at The University of Melbourne

We're hiring a postdoc in the FEEL lab at the University of Melbourne. Deadline May 12: get in touch if you have questions! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...