Bradley T. Hughes

Thanks Rob!

I’m teaching undergrad personality psych in the spring. Looking for suggestions for either a textbook or open source materials. What do you or would you use to teach personality science in 2026?

2 weeks in the US:
2 active shooter hoaxes at work (one including a 2-hour lockdown in my office)
1 bomb threat to local high school causing a 3-hour delay

2 years in Canada:
0 real or imagined threats of violence on campus or local schools

We need to do better.

the topic is: best things to do in Philly, with children aged 10 and 13, in late late July/early August

I am taking suggestions

Basic Income Pilot Project / Study results What does a universal basic income really achieve? Find the results of the first long-term German study here.

🇩🇪 3-year universal basic income (UBI) study, in which n=120 received UBI, n=1500 did not. Website is pretty neat, check it out for core findings.

www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en

Movie poster for Big Trouble in Little China

Afraid of the potential consequences, they do not want to step on crack

Opinion | Holy Water Couldn’t Save My Husband. MAHA Wouldn’t Have Either.

If you knew Mike (well first you’d be laughing because he was just so funny) you’d know he would be so pissed at these cuts to scientific research and the peddling of magic & mysticism to good people yearning for control. I hope he knows his story continues to matter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...

For my multilevel modeling students, I created a tutorial sharing all the main functions I use for data cleaning in R.

It took me maaaany years to figure out my cleaning workflow, so I wanted to share it with y'all in case I can save anyone else time :-)

sites.google.com/view/gabriel...

Small tree with cherry blossoms in front of old building at the University of Toronto

winter overstayed its welcome but finally some signs of spring in Toronto!

When you have billions of dollars and zero friends

Next stage of AI hallucinations for academics, emails requesting pdfs of imaginary papers

Like the CEO of McDonalds telling parents to cook their own burgers

What?! No Nolan Riemold?

Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholar - School of Information University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

We just launched an open search for postdocs at the @berkeleyischool.bsky.social in a bunch of areas (social informatics, climate informatics, communications, econ, behavioral science, literary theory, algorithmic justice), all mentored by different faculty: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04845

What a cool study design

In the Group Interaction and Perception of Others (GIPO) project, we collected data (N = 1,460) containing a large number of self- and informant-reported personality items and incentivized measures of prosocial and cheating behavior. Many participants (N = 699) also attended a laboratory session in which they interacted in groups of 7-9 individuals in two modified versions of the public goods game with punishment. During and after the public goods games, participants reported their perceptions, expectations, and evaluations of each other through round-robin ratings. Due to the extensive assessments of personality and incentivized social behavior included in the GIPO data, these data are suitable for investigating the links between personality traits and prosocial and cheating behavior. Furthermore, they can be analyzed to gain a fine-grained picture of the perceptions, expectations, and evaluations that precede or follow behavior in economic games. Finally, researchers might want to use the GIPO data to investigate the psychometric properties and in particular the validity of the personality measures we used. To facilitate use of the data, we made the anonymized GIPO data publicly available. Taken together, the GIPO data are a publicly available rich resource for investigating the links between personality and incentivized social behavior. Keywords: personality assessment, game theory, social dilemmas, social status, influence, likeability, trust, group dynamics

7 years ago, I received funding for a project on personality, incentivized prosocial behavior & social status in groups. Today, we've made the anonymized data publicly available. Researchers can now use it by citing the preprint/paper (no need to add anyone as a coauthor): doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off

Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

(Swarthmore logo - a building with some trees in front of it & the word Swarthmore - at the top) Healthy, Equitable and Responsive Democracy (HEARD) Initiative Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Supervisor: Daniel Laurison, Associate Professor of Sociology, Swarthmore College Position Length: 3 years Salary starts at: $65,000/year To Apply: bit.ly/HEARDpostdoc2025 Position Summary The post-doctoral research fellow will work with Daniel Laurison, Associate Professor of Sociology, to manage Swarthmore College’s Healthy, Equitable and Responsive Democracy (HEARD) Initiative. The mission of the Healthy Equitable and Responsive Democracy (HEARD) Initiative is to: 1. Connect faculty within and beyond Swarthmore whose research has the potential to improve the health, equity, and responsiveness of US democracy. 2. Support student-faculty research collaborations and student research on topics related to US democracy. 3. Communicate the results of HEARD-affiliated research to broader publics.

JOB!

Please share with your networks - I'm open to recent- and near-PhDs in Sociology or Poli Sci or adjacent disciplines, ideally with a research program that is in some way about the (goal/promise/ideal of) Healthy, Equitable and Responsive Democracy in the US.

Info: bit.ly/HEARDpostdoc2025

{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨

It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax.

This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types.

Check it out!

grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/

Are you interested in U.S. legislative history? Newly-available complete dataset on all persons serving as legislators in the 50 state houses between 1900 and 2016: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

dySEM package logo: two people holding colorful balloons in a fashion reminiscent of a latent variable model, with each letter of the package name in a different balloon

1. Happy to share that ver. 1.1.1 of the dySEM 📦 for #dyadic SEM in #rstats is officially available on CRAN: cran.r-project.org/web/packages....

Huge credit goes to @omarjcamanto.bsky.social ; Omar has led a large overhaul of the “outputters” based on feedback from our workshop at #IARR2024

Maybe. I also heard the rationale it is too windy for umbrellas. The people in Toronto also claim they do not need gloves because they have pockets.

But, I was looking for funny construct names rather than practical explanations :)

Localized extreme weather dominance displays (LEWDD): the tendency for people to eschew basic advances in technology to express ability to endure localized extreme weather conditions.

Name that psychological construct!

People in Eugene Oregon don’t use umbrellas. It is very rainy.

People in Toronto don’t wear gloves. It is very cold.

Other examples?

What should we call this? Acronyms encouraged

optional mandatory attendance! What a fantastic idea

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Did everything feel a bit more mathematical this morning? That's because 2025 is a perfect square ✅!

Yes, 2025 is 45² = (1+2+...+9)².

It's the first square year since 1936, and the next one is 2116.

But that's not all… read on ⬇️👀

I know a PhD student who wants to apply but is not a member of EASP. Who can/should they ask to sponsor membership?

SAPA-Project | Your Customized Personality Profile Report Your full report includes your scores on the 27 narrow traits of the SPI-27, your scores on the Big Five traits (the SPI-5), and your cognition score.

Maybe you are thinking of David Condon’s personality website. It has some great visualizations: www.sapa-project.org