Tianfang Yang

Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official

The NIH has insisted there are no banned words

But, an analysis by @jeremymberg.bsky.social found over 700 hundred grants changed their titles from '24 to '25

Some see it as a small price to pay to keep their grant, but others are worried about what comes next

www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...

Interdisciplinary paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen now out in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on:
🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences
🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added

We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python

Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

Advance Accommodation Information Primarily for Early Career Researchers (PhD, post-doc): If you would like to receive advance information about a limited number of more affordable accommodation options available for the 22nd Europea...

Early career personality researchers coming to the Edinburgh ECP22: If you want to get a link to a slightly more affordable uni accommodation option later this year, leave your email here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?

Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely so all applicants can benefit 🤓.

And if you are a PI recruiting students, please don't forget to add your name!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The #NSFGRFP solicitation is out. Deadlines are pushed to Nov. 10, 12, 13, 14. However, 2ND-YEAR GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE NO LONGER ELIGIBLE. This is unfair to those who delayed applying or who withdrew last year due to missing letters (please contact me if this is you).
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

England’s oldest psychiatric hospital hosts exhibition of patient art Dead squirrels, haunted dreamscapes and anxious midnight thoughts: Bethlem’s new exhibition explores how patients have long wrestled with sleep and nightmares through art.

England’s oldest psychiatric hospital stages haunting new exhibition of patient art

www.euronews.com/culture/2025...

h/t @overdenken.bsky.social x

1/🧵 Even more nature-nurture for school performance in
@pnas.org! Nikolai Eftedal examined family resemblance in school performance in nearly 1 million students across their Norwegian relatives. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

My student's funding just got axed How the administration's attacks on science are hurting trainees

I posted this article about my student's grant cancellation this morning. A few minutes ago, I learned that another very talented student in my lab had their funding cancelled too. I'm heartbroken -- not just about my students, but the future of science.
darbysaxbe.substack.com/p/my-student...

We developed a short talk on Gen AI for our institute @die-bonn.de and developed "An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Academics working" paper (with @hunghvnguyen.bsky.social ). Useful for getting started, possibly teaching. #openscience #GenAI #ChatGPT #sociology osf.io/preprints/so...

Genetics and Social Sciences Conference 2025 - Department of Psychology Genetics and Social Sciences Conference 12–13th June 2025

In Oslo? We still have some seats left for our conference on Social Science and Genetics on the 12-13th June!

More info and registration: www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/...

@uio.no

While I was unfortunately unable to travel to Belgium for the conference, I have uploaded the recording+slides+code for my #SAA2025 talk on multilevel multiple imputation for EMA research here: osf.io/xjg24/files/...

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Of relevance, a new longitudinal paper shows that exerting more self-control at one point in the day predicts having *more* self-control at a later time, entirely opposite of what you would expect based on the depletion/strength model. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Come do a PhD with us (at the University of Melbourne) and our colleagues at KU Leuven!

The projects are in psych and metascience, evaluating the quality of evidence in various areas of psychology.

Please share with students who might be interested!

MAKING TACIT KNOWLEDGE OPEN – A Panel Discussion Series PART I: PRACTICES AND PRACTICALITIES OF PEER REVIEW (MAY 27, hybrid) Panel Members: Marlene Altenmüller (Social Psychology), Peter Edelsbrunner (Learning Sciences), Nathan Evans (Computational Modeling), Florian Pargent (Psychological Methods), Tobias Staudigl (Cognitive Neuropsychology), Charlotte Wittekind (Clinical Psychology) Most researchers spend a significant amount of time and effort on peer reviewing. However, there is large variability in peer reviewing practices and little guidance for early career researchers on the topic. For this panel discussion, we assemble experts from different fields of psychology When: May 27, 16:00-18:00 Where: Leopoldstr. 13, Room 3322 and via Zoom Zoom details: Meeting ID: 691 6996 4466; Passcode: 706322

Are you an Early Career Researcher and unsure about how to write a peer review? Or simply curious about how other people write theirs?

In our new panel discussion series at @lmu-osc.bsky.social we'll discuss peer reviewing practices - you can join online or in person!

#AcademicSky #metasci #EduSky