The Welling Research Lab

Participation is voluntary & will take ~18-24 min. If you have Qs about this study, you may contact US-based researcher Lisa Welling (welling@oakland.edu). For Qs on your rights as a participant in research, you may contact the OU IRB, 248-370-2762. Your time & participation are greatly appreciated!

If you agree to participate in this study, you will be asked to perform the following:
1. Provide demographics information (e.g., age, gender, sexual orientation)
2. Answer questionnaires about your self-esteem, values, social media use, body image, and how you feel about sugar relationships.

You are invited to participate in an online research study. This study is for adults who are 18 years of age or older. It is part of an international collaboration across multiple countries. The purpose of this study is to investigate psychological correlates of openness to sugar relationships.
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You are invited to participate in an online research study for cisgender adults (18+ years) who are either primarily heterosexual or asexual (i.e., do not experience sexual attraction). It takes about 30 minutes. Click on the link for more info!

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🚨Job alert in Psyc! 🚨

Northumbria is hiring ⭐Vice Chancellor Fellows ⭐!

- Assistant Profs, with 3 years for research focus
- then transition to regular role

Check out it out here: work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...

Are you here in Atlantic City? Or zoomBES?

When the #HBES2025 talks are done, margaritas are on the menu!

Congratulations to @ksheetz.bsky.social for absolutely crushing her first HBES talk! Well done!

The WEBS networking event was a terrific success! Many thanks to @ksheetz.bsky.social for organizing it!

If you’re at #HBES2025 make sure you come to the WEBS networking event at the Byrdcage!

Some of the OU crew at the #HBES2025 welcome reception!

Happy to have been re-elected for a third term as the HBES secretary/archivist! Looking forward to serving the society for another 2 years!

Michael Platt is kicking off #HBES2025 after a great introduction by Coren Apicella!

Image of 2025 convocation at Oakland University.

Congratulation to this year’s graduates! Special shout out to lab honors student Jennifer Ognjaonvski, and RAs Caroline Hanna and Heather Serra!

Congratulations to lab PhD student Katherine Sheetz on successfully passing her comprehensive exam! Wonderful job, Kat!

Academic community concerned as international student visas continue to be revoked nationwide Orven Mallari is the Secretary of the Graduate Employees Organization at the University of Michigan. He knows of six international students who've had their student visas revoked.

One of OU’s international students has inexplicably had their visa revoked.

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Congratulations to lab EMBARK student Silvana Iskandar, who received the Reviewer’s Choice Abstract Award at the OU Graduate Student Research Conference! Great work, Silvana!

Many thanks to the student who nominated me for the Order of the Golden Plume, which is an order “dedicated to the timeless and passionate commitment to student success!” I’m very touched! ❤️

Trump administration axes more than $125M in LGBTQ health funding, upending research field The administration’s cancellation of hundreds of grants is dismantling the LGBTQ-focused research field, built out of nothing over a quarter century.

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With thanks to everyone who provided advice! Here's the session I did today for our final year students on using social media for professional reasons as well as sharing your dissertation as a pre-print.

Slides available at osf.io/paxds

#AcademicSky

It’s official! The 3rd FOSSIL—FlyOver State Scientists Integrating Evolution—Conference will be held in Manhattan, KS at Kansas State University on August 15-16th, 2025. More news and website updates coming soon! Stay tuned!

HBES has released a statement with regard to recent US funding changes that are affecting HBES members. See our statement here: www.hbes.com/hbes-executi...

Congratulations to lab PhD student Jenna Lunge on accepting a full time faculty position at UM-Flint, starting in Fall 2025! Well done, Jenna!

Participation in this study is completely voluntary and will take approximately 30 minutes to complete. If you have any questions about the nature of the study, you may contact the researcher Jennifer Ognjanovski by email (ognjanovski@oakland.edu). Your time & participation are greatly appreciated!

1. Demographics information (e.g., age, assigned sex at birth, gender identity, sexual orientation,);
2. Sexual risk-taking;
3. Motives for using Tinder.

The purpose is to understand factors that relate to mate selection in an online dating context. If you agree to participate in this study, you will be asked to complete an online dating task accepting or rejecting 20 different Tinder profiles and to complete questionnaires on the following:

You are invited to participate in an online research study for single cisgender women who are 18 years of age or older and are primarily attracted to men.

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CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.