I learned yesterday from a student of her professor who refuses to move their scheduled exam during the eclipse, where we have totality here locally - and damn, if this is what you are doing in your one wild and precious life…
Today, my term as director of the Psychological Science Accelerator — one of the largest collaborative communities in psychology — ends. Working w/ @psysciacc.bsky.social was very hard work. But it was incredibly meaningful. 🧵on the past 3 years and the future of big team science
Three-quarters of teens say it often or sometimes makes them feel happy (74%) or peaceful (72%) when they don’t have their smartphone. These positive emotions are much more common than negative feelings, like anxiety or loneliness.
😔 A new study by Hadavand et al. finds that it takes on average 25 months from submission to acceptance in economics (compared to 13 in psychology and 6 in the hard sciences). pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
🚨WP🚨 We test 9 online samples and find clear tradeoffs between attentiveness and representativeness - which sample is best depends on research q and priorities. For social/political qs I rec Bovitz/Lucid, for complex designs I rec Cloud/Prolific osf.io/preprints/ps...
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