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FIGURE 7: LIFECYCLE PROFILE: FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT AMONG PHD GRADUATES

FIGURE A3: SHARE OF PHDS WORKING AS PROFESSORS

FIGURE A5: TOTAL INCOME OVER THE LIFE CYCLE, BY HIGHEST DEGREE EARNED

TABLE B1: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS ON PHD COHORT: EARNINGS DURING THE PHD (BY GENDER, CITIZENSHIP, AND FIELD)

Is a #PhD worth it?

In data from #Canada, doctoral grads earned less at first because (A) they entered the job market later, but they surpassed others if they (B) got academic jobs and (B) kept them.

So a PhD's value is waning as B and C become harder.

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We’re hiring a tenure track assistant professor in our amazing Vassar cognitive science department! If you have any questions, let me know. I’ll be at Cog Sci in San Francisco all week if you’d like to chat in person

The word “Research” is doing way too much work. We need separate words for “creating new verifiable knowledge” and “looking shit up on the internet”

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Survey invitations often describe the topic of the survey. A simple, classic example of how this biases results: survey recruitment materials about bird watching led to higher estimates of the % of people who engage in bird-watching. doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

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MAYBE DON’T EMAIL ME AT THE WEEKEND, THEN.

Thinking today about how rich conservatives throw their money at 500 different people doing whatever they want and if 10 payoff they consider it money well spent while rich liberals will make you complete a 35 page proposal to hope to get $15k for certain prescribed activities.

Congrats, Bill!

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every year my lab does a re-read + edit of our Handbook, a documentation resource for how we do science

this year we also updated our Public Handbook, an open-access version for folks wanting to improve their own docs

it's at handbook-public.themusiclab.org and available for noncommercial re-use

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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.

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Social Psychology is calling for Special Issue proposals. We will be reviewing proposals on a rolling basis & foresee multiple Special Issues over the next year or more. For more information about what we are looking for, please see the call here:
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It’s because of collocation (ie convention). I’m natural language they occur far less frequently in that order so it sounds weird. Like saying pepper and salt or quiet and peace. Collocations are learned thru experience so many ESL speakers might not notice the difference

It’s a big inferno from a big ol turtle

but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine

The only thing that ages white men quicker than rage is failing to moisturize.

There isn’t much published on this yet. But you could disable copy-paste in the online survey. You could also add a ghost-prompt (honeypot). Eg, White text on white background to include Batman in the response. Flag all responses that include it. But all these methods aren’t validated

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Table 1 Summary Guidelines for Conducting Lab Experiments in Motivation and Emotion ___________________________________________________________________________ Pre-Manipulation Setup • Consider physical environment on the way to the lab room • Consider physical environment of lab room (e.g., cameras, mirror, room size, social) • Create a plausible cover story • Be mindful of the psychological state of participants at the start of experiment Experimenters/Confederates • Ensure consistency between multiple experimenters/confederates • Compare effect of multiple experimenters statistically • Keep appearance/clothing consistent • Be cognizant of informal/formal style of interacting • Note differences in physical attractiveness • Track emotion and personality variables of experimenters • Keep blind to condition Independent Variables (IVs) • Use a strong IV – aim for a psychological sledgehammer • Be careful that IV is not so strong that participants ignore DV • Ensure multiple IVs are similar in strength • Check effectiveness of manipulation and appreciate its complexity • Pre-test to insure IVs are the same psychologically in different times and places • Avoid experimenter demand • Avoid confounds Dependent Variables (DVs) • Create sensitive DVs • Consider challenges with self-reported effort • Consider challenges with self-reported emotion • Be aware that the order of presentation of variables might influence results • Pretest Applying Guidelines to Replications • Consider the benefits of conceptual replications for theory testing • Select studies for replication that have a reasonable chance of being replicated • Note that expectations of non-replication influence researchers and outcomes • Use exact original method when replicating a specific effect • Test correlations that logically follow from experimental hypotheses if possible • Insure participating labs in projects follow instructions of the study coordinators Data Management • Take steps to avoid errors i…

Very useful set of guidelines for conducting social psychology lab experiments by @eddiehj.bsky.social, @davidamodio.bsky.social, and colleagues.

Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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So when they work hard and get a bad grade, they i) think they performed better than indicated and ii) appeal to effort because, in their view, it IS valid evidence of performance.

These are interesting ideas. I'd bet on something like your first explanation. I feel like undergraduates may have strong priors about effort and performance being linked (probably because in high school they mostly are)...

This is really interesting. Cool stuff! But what about the countless emails I get from students who feel that the grade they received did not reflect the effort they put in? Is that a different circumstance where this process doesn’t apply?

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Dog looking indifferent

Everything the light touches, Lady, is our kingdom
Lady: meh

ANALYSIS: USC deliberately escalated ‘structural deficit’ A doubling debt and egregious management growth place blame on the university.

Incredible reporting from USC student journalists about how a ginned-up financial crisis is being used to crush faculty and staff power.

A book I will always recommend on this broader topic.

It soon will be May.