Bro was buried with the most boring part of the Iliad, like 6 pages of naming captains and the towns. There's an interactive map of the passage, for shared obsession: ships.lib.virginia.edu/neatline/sho...
New preprint!
Prefrontal brain-to-brain synchrony during human group hunting: Evidence from fNIRS hyperscanning
Heroic work from @emre-yavuz-21.bsky.social and team
fNIRS & minecraft combined to reveal PFC synchrony during human group hunting
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New work w/ Zach Kelso and @madeleinecsnyder.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Our negative results on classical conditioning in planarian flatworms. This was surprising, given the long history of work (including sensational findings of memory transfer and retention through decapitation).
Bar chart of survey responses from about 1,000 UK adults in 2022 where most respondents rate a range of common farming practices for chickens, cows and pigs as "not acceptable," highlighting a gap between public concern for farm animals and current practices. Data source: Bryant Research (2022). License: CC BY.
In a world that often feels deeply polarized, it is rare to find a topic where almost everyone agrees. The treatment of farm animals is one of them.
Surveys across many countries show that a strong majority of people, regardless of their diet, oppose common practices in animal agriculture.
New pre-print alert! How do children learn magnitude words like "long" and "high", which often denote multiple domains? With @urvi.bsky.social and @drbarner.bsky.social, we find that children start with narrow meanings restricted to the labeled domain, before analogically extending
osf.io/ucxra_v1
Mr. Darcy, diligently at work on his dive gear guard duties
Witnessing a Loved One’s Wrongdoing: What Would You Do?
@spspnews.bsky.social blog on our recent paper: spsp.org/news/charact...
#socialpsyc #PsychSciSky
two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management
The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.
Just gave a seminar on causal inference in which students had to draw graphs which involved the observation that nausea during pregnancy seems to be a positive sign of a healthy pregnancy.
Afterwards a student thanked me for the seminar and wished me lots of nausea going forward 😭😭😭
Florida is SO DRY that wildlifes have started breaking out….three brushfires in Gainesville last night, parts of the city were evacuated before they could get them under control. We need rain.
Forget tenure or h-index. I have reached the true mark of academic prestige. This academic term I teach in a classroom where I can control the temperature.
A huge bush in someone's front garden cut into the shape of a blue whale complete with water spurting from head.
THIS.
Is a work of art.
My 12yo regularly asks me “my teacher is having us do X, is this a real thing that actually helps?”
And I regularly talk through the research with her
So far we’ve had to talk about learning styles, growth mindset, and grit
But those are mostly psychology’s garbage seeping into education
Butterfly nail attempt at Fanning Springs State Park (Mooncat Flight of the Monarchs)
Celebrating the twenty million native milkweed we bought at the Florida Museum native plant sale on Friday, plus the end of data collection for our scuba study!
Thinking about this more, the 2 and 3 year bans are real career killers… who’d hire a tenure track candidate, or an (associate) professor that has one of those hanging around their necks?
Fins, masks, BCs, data collection laptop, coffee, let’s go! At Fanning Springs State Park.
FINAL day of data collection on our NSF study examining whether people scuba diving for the first time correctly anticipate how meaningful such a novel experience will be 🤿
Bc I see this recent "triple blind" psilocybin study discussed again, pls keep in mind that this was essentially an open label study (86% in 25mg group correctly guessed their group allocation), with all the validity problems that come with open label studies.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Weird day today with no meetings because the NSF SBE panel I would have been serving on was canceled.
Sense of community and adaptive capacity: Insights from the 2019/2020 Australian ‘Black Summer’ bushfires The escalating threat of climate-related disasters is challenging vulnerable communities to adapt across the world. This study examined the relationship between people's sense of community (as assessed by perceived cohesion and identification) and their perceptions of adaptive capacity, along with the role that their willingness to include all stakeholders may play in moderating this relationship. Geo-targeted surveys were used to collect data from 363 participants affected by the 2019/2020 ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires in Australia. We found that increased community cohesion and identification were linked to greater perceived adaptive capacity, along with evidence that these relationships may depend upon attitudes towards accommodating diverse stakeholder interests, such that more positive attitudes strengthened some of these associations while less positive attitudes attenuated them. These findings highlight the fundamental social underpinnings of collective adaptative capacity for communities responding to the threat of future climate-related disasters.
Analysis of people affected by the 2019/2020 ‘Black Summer’ bushfires in Australia finds that a stronger sense of community cohesion and identification is linked to greater perceived adaptive capacity to engage in responses that reduce risks and maximise recovery.
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
This project was so fun to work on with this stellar team!! It also has some cool age-related findings: older children think that people should make objects they don't like more accessible to others, but that liked objects should be protected from others by putting them in a hard-to-reach place!
A split bar chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Americans are most likely to say T. Rex is their favorite dinosaur, but many don't have a favorite." The chart has the sub-headline: "Which of the following is your favorite dinosaur? (%)." The chart has the note: "Note: "Other" includes responses of archaeopteryx, spinosaurus, plesiosaur, ankylosaurus, allosaurus, parasaurolophus, dilophosaurus, diplodocus, iguanadon, and pachycephalosaurus, as well as responses of "other." We know pterodactyls and plesiosaurs aren't dinosaurs. Opinion about dinosaurs comes from the question, "How much do you like or dislike dinosaurs?""
A shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur.
And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops).
Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...
Three wonderful books about sexuality and relationships have come out in the last few months, and I wanted to share them here:
1. You Could Be Having Better Sex - Dr. Nicole McNichols
2. Bonded by Evolution - Dr. Paul Eastwick (note: title is misleading)
3. The Intimate Animal - Dr. Justin Garcia
not many people know this, but Barilla has a line of 3D printed pasta it sells mostly to the fine dining industry. I don't want the pasta. I want the pasta printer
I consider Dr. Foa’s exposure therapy work among the most profound achievements in clinical psychology.
Her work has saved so, so many lives. She led a big life.
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/h...
Everyone should hear this: it is ALWAYS a privilege and a treat for professors to hear from former students and trainees. I love to hear what you have been up to since you were in my lab, class, whatever.
THEY PLAYED THIS CLIP BEFORE CLASS
Re-upping my CPR first aid training…
Group of students in a lecture hall with a banner urging action against proposed NSF funding cuts by SPSP.
The proposed FY2027 budget calls for eliminating NSF's SBE Directorate, which funds 63% of U.S. academic research in social + psychological sciences.
SPSP has put together a member action guide with three steps you can take to help advocate for our field.
Start here: https://ow.ly/WIgx50YJU5e
New paper out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: we apply linguistic tools to sperm whale vowels.
The result: sperm whale vowels do not just look like human vowels. They also behave like them.
We found several parallels. Like in Latin, whales have short and long vowels.
"colleges going out of business" was not a thing I grew up knowing was a possibility. To Massachusetts kids, universities were immutable, unchangingly permanent, like the post office or whatever
This is really sad, Hampshire was weird and Good
