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A driving assumption behind the admin's proposed restrictions on grants & aid seems to be that any use of "DEI" signals a political agenda that is antithetical to conducting good research. Let's unpack that. Why would DEI language be used in a grant?

Prior work argues employees benefit from passionate teammates because passion is contagious—it spreads easily from one employee to the next. In a new paper ASQ Journal, we find that's not quite the full story... 1/8 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Tonight I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n

New paper online! Despite a competitive world, we find children and adults view social resources like love and trust as renewable and non-zero-sum. Recognizing renewability reduces zero-sum belief, offering hope for a world where we can thrive together.😀journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19…

Top 10 ways American Science can survive the 15% indirect cap: 1.Breed special transgenic mice that can run for days in tiny hamster wheel turbines to keep lights on 2.Get athletic program staff to donate 1% of their salaries to research thus raising 100 billion dollars a year.

📢 New Paper! 📢 Oscar Wilde famously said, “There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” But is that really the case? 1/4

Are you doing #EMA research and wonder how to go about it? In recent work we've adressed some open questions and challenges, here is a brief summary of papers and materials. 🧵

Two common findings from sleep research are that 1) short sleep durations predict worse health outcomes, and 2) people from some cultures sleep much less than those from others. Do people from cultures with short sleep durations have worse health outcomes? 🧵

I'm fascinated by these 3 money beliefs: 1. "We must buy a house" 2. "We must pay for our kids' college" 3. "We must buy a bigger SUV & bigger house since we just had kids" What’s special about these specific beliefs is that they are (1) very costly and (2) totally unexamined.

🧵 I finished reading Thibault Le Texier's book, Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment: History of a Lie. This is the most thorough treatment of the real history behind the Stanford Prison Experiment. Buckle up for a doozy of a thread! ⬇️👇

Timeline's feeling down. Thread of good news. At every age, the incidence of dementia is down. As a society, people are no longer suffering dementia nearly as often!

Are you interested in research experience before applying to PhD programs? Or just want to learn more about cognitive science? Consider joining my lab as a lab manager (joint w/the Griffiths Lab). We will begin reviewing applications one week from today: cognition.princeton.edu/news/2025/open…

🔆Announcement time!🔆In Spring 2026, I will be joining the NYU Psych department as an Assistant Professor! My lab will study the computational cognitive science of moral judgment and how we can use that knowledge to build AI systems that are safe and aligned with human values.

The Well-Being and Morality Lab is hiring a 1-year post-bacc starting in July/August 2025 to conduct research on social interactions and well-being! Please spread the word. I will do an initial review of applications on April 25. wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External…

We hosted an excellent panel on pursuing non-academic jobs for PHDs in psychology at NYU last week. We invited 4 alumni from our program who have left academia after completing their PHD (two left tenure-track academic jobs) and have since found exciting jobs in industry. Our

Excited to share a new paper in Current Directions on the theme of merging in close relationships, with Emma, Erin Hughes, and Abdo Elnakouri! In the paper, we discuss merging in the domains of selves, goals, processing, and reality. tinyurl.com/ynbedzys (1/4)

Not that I can focus very well right now, but I still try. So here is the summer writing goals worksheet for those who use it. docs.google.com/document/d/1wZ… #Productivity The Lot Planner

Deadline TODAY to apply to Psychedelic Science Postdoctoral Fellowship at Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Research Center w/me & Sandeep Nayak. Dual degrees (MD/PhD) preferred–but all excellent candidates considered. Salary is low and work is hard, but opportunity to conduct novel & rigorous science extraordinary.

Anthropic's CEO claims AI hallucinates less than humans. Bold statement. So I decided to test it by feeding the same FAKE theories to ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to see which one calls me out first. The results shocked me 🧵

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.