Samantha Joel

Come on now. We've all known since 2015 that the brain is a control panel managed by a lovable gang of personified emotions.

Our scale search machine got a major update! Now with 31% more scales, 21% more items, 58% more coverage of measures by use, and 100% more goth!

Instead of pouring all their resources into new features no one asked for (e.g., AI summaries that steal web traffic from the source info) maybe Google could focus on fixing features that people constantly use (e.g., stop the Google Scholar citation button from dropping ending page numbers)?

Funny consequence of having academic papers on romantic compatibility: I keep a folder for cold emails I get from self-identified founders in the Bay area wanting to make dating apps and asking me to "hop on a quick call". I'm averaging about one such email per week.

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we don't have time for another plague apocalypse. we already did that. we're on to robot apocalypse now, try to catch up. next in line is fungal apocalypse. please consult the schedule

Found it. I’ll encourage them to apply.

IARR is hosting a mini-conference in Brazil this summer! June 23-25. Who wants to go see amazing science and beaches and mountains with me?

Meta-science/methods improvement people: What are your favorite conferences?

I have a piece in today's @bangordailynews.bsky.social where I argue that we need to defend the broader goals of higher ed: developing engaged and worldly citizens who know how to think critically and are prepared for democratic self-government. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/09/24/o...

When we talk about how science is broken, maybe at least consider how a huge collaboration measured the ripples in spacetime resulting the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion light years away, as counterweight the guy who had to fake his data to show that people who procrastinate fall behind.

I do not want a Briefing or a summary Please just go away - a Haiku about AI

#BREAKING: Ontario Science Centre laying off entire science department

This matches my pet theory that people mostly answer questionnaires based on vibes, and so certain specific aspects about the phrasing matter very little.

As someone who had the misfortune of reading this McMaster review article during my comps (which focused on, among other things, top surgery & multi-level meta-analysis), here are responses from plastic surgeons discrediting the McMaster review article:

if spreadsheet people was ever meant as an insult, i am reclaiming it. my columns and rows are beautiful even if others don't see what i see within them

Huge congratulations to Emily and Dave for launching their aggression measures repository! AggreScale!! 🥳

This is how it's done. www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

Devastated to learn that academics use LinkedIn now.

The Metacheck team is busy building an improved version of the osf_download function (www.scienceverse.org/metacheck_bo... ). You will soon be able to use metacheck to download all files, wikis, and meta-data. You will also be able to upload everything to Zenodo.

Live look at me telling psychologists about Harvard dataverse after the OSF change email went out

A brave and tough call to make. It's hard to overstate how influential OSF has been on science in the past ~15 years. It's been such a staple that you'd almost forget how much cost, time, and effort it must be to keep going. Kudos to the OSF team for everything they've done.

Special issue at Psych Science on psychological science in the real world! Send us your best work looking at whether effects from the lab (or from theories) hold up in ecologically valid settings. Submission deadline: 15 January 2027 www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

My department is hiring 2 (TWO!) Tenure Track faculty in Developmental Psych and Biological Psych, to start Fall 2027. Deadlines 9/1 (Developmental) and 10/1 (Biological). More info here: www.carleton.edu/psychology/i.... Reach out with questions! carleton.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Carlet...

McGill social psych is now officially hiring at the assistant prof level, hooray Happy to chat with anyone about the position mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

AI is destroying the sources of knowledge that it's trained on, because real human experts no longer have the incentive to donate their time on platforms like Stack Overflow.

inspired by @russpoldrack.org's AI policy for his lab, last night I drafted up this AI policy and came up with an initial set of use case suggestions for my lab

I need someone to talk me out of rebranding my lab to the Social Assessments and Measures lab

We should ALL be protesting our premier at his cottage in a kayak. torontolife.com/city/protest...

I feel like "The conclusions of this paper are fully in line with the corresponding author's whole schtick so they really want them to be true" should count as a conflict of interest #phdsky

The funneling of public funds into for-profit companies has been devastating public infrastructure for decades. Now it's come for the NSF.

🚨University of Pennsylvania will be re-instating the GRE as a requirement for Psychology PhD admissions for the coming cycle 🚨

Deciding if a color palette is colorblind-friendly is a hard task. The goal of colorblindcheck is to provide tools to decide if the selected color palette is colorblind-friendly. to repo : buff.ly/rQryfEe site: buff.ly/pUMk0Cu

Apropos of nothing, anyone interested in joining a "software* in social/personality psychology"-themed SPSP submission? *could be R/python packages, dashboards, web-based or mobile apps, etc.,

New team science initiative just dropped! manyscale.org We're looking for collaborators to lead repositories of self-report measures in their own psychology subfields.

#psych content journals need sections for pure methods papers. Methods papers are put in methods journals read by methods people. But non-methods folk don't read those journals, so they miss the methodological insights/updates. Where are the content journals that eagerly publish methods papers?

Within the next year, we'll be looking for folks to help expand this website into "ManyScale". We want to help you use this code to make your own repository for your subfield. SelfScale, EmotoScale, PoliticoScale, etc. If that sounds exciting to you, please reach out!

Inspired by this wonderful repository, I've begun the process of making my own repository of published self/other-report measures in aggression science. It's incomplete but I hope it's a start to something useful to those who study human harm-doing. davidchester.weebly.com/aggression-s...

Social/Personality Psych people: what are some of your favourite research software products/papers that have come out in the last ~5 years?

Looks like this will be a super valuable resource for folks interested in relationship science across different disciplines. Very cool!

Every scholarly area needs a measure repository like this.