Sarah Barber

Don't miss the Early Bird registration for SARMAC XV 2025! Reduced registration fee ends April 1st @sarmac2025.bsky.social // mailchi.mp/1af0b0c00a6e...

Re-examining the effect of inoculation messages on anti-vaccine conspiracy attitudes: A conceptual replication of Banas et al (2023): http://osf.io/d3x9p_v1/

Heatmap of NIH diversity supplements per state. From NIH Reporter.

In another detrimental turn of events, #diversity supplements on NIH grants are no longer a thing as of today - grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Right now, ~$65M goes to 750+ projects / people doing to #ScientificResearch in 45 of 50 states.

#academicSky #publicHealth #medSky 1/n

Can’t wait to read this!

When I was job seeking as a postdoc, someone at Psychonomics tried giving me job advice. After listening to what I do, he said I wasn’t getting job offers because I’m not really a cognitive psychologist. He suggested I apply to social psyc jobs instead.

I’m scheduled to sit on an NIH panel in Feb. I just received an email from the study section chair confirming that Feb meetings are all still scheduled and we should continue completing our reviews.

Bad luck for me that my own grant was due to be reviewed 1/31.

a man from schitt 's creek says he 's feeling this like deep aching sense of dread ALT: a man from schitt 's creek says he 's feeling this like deep aching sense of dread

In retrospect, getting large numbers of anxious academics to join one small social media platform en masse was a mistake

Lab door decorated as a gingerbread house

Feeling the holiday spirit at the GSU Cognition & Aging Lab.
#holidaydecorations #labdecor

YES!!!!! Or at the very least just let me upload my letter without doing so many individual ratings!

A letter of reference that simply reads: “Jacob (redacted last name) is an adequate student”

December 1st—time to finish submitting a million reference letters. While I’d never write a one-liner calling a student "adequate," it’s tough to say more when you barely know them. Thankfully had much more to say for mine this year. Wishing all applicants the best of luck! #academicsky #psyscisky

Only one more day to submit abstracts for SARMAC 2025!

People get caught up in outrage and hit share without checking the facts. Interesting new study from @klonick.bsky.social @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social

If you’re enjoying #psynom24, come join us for SARMAC 2025 in Ireland in June! Abstract deadline December 1st sarmac2025.org

Announcement for workshop: Encouraging future scientists, supporting undergraduates at Psychonomics. Fri Nov 22 from noon- 1:30pm in the Lyceum Complex (5th floor)

If you know undergraduate students attending Psychonomics, please encourage them to attend this workshop on Friday at noon. I will be one of the panel speakers, and we are discussing grad school applications and succeeding in grad school. #psynom24

Boarding my flight for Psychonomics now. Looking forward to seeing many of you soon!
#psynom24

My questions as very similar to Larisa’s, although this thread is inspiring me to ask more specifically about how to turn questions into research designs!

I’m doing prescreening this year and it’s been so helpful! One example: I thought someone had a great record but was concerned about fit - they were so specific about future plans but in ways that didn’t seem to 100% align with me. Talking to them I saw the overlap & can imagine how they’d fit.

Angela Gutchess is now on Bluesky. @angelagutchess.bsky.social

Angela directs the Aging, Culture, & Cognition Lab at Brandeis.

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

Syllabi Policies for AI Generative Tools

Just created my first syllabus that includes a policy on AI assistance. This resource was super helpful: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

What do we know about overconfidence and misinformation? New review from Rapp & Withall www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thanks @irahyman.bsky.social! It was Jessica’s first talk and she did such a great job! The paper is here if you are interested:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Heading out to SF for #psynom23 today! My first time back (in person) at Psychonomics since 2019. Looking forward to seeing many of you there!

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Happy to share we are hiring! We are recruiting for a postdoctoral fellow and three (!) full-time project assistants to start next year! Please consider joining our growing team!
Postdoctoral Fellow: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
Project Assistants: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Fact-checker warning labels are effective even for those who distrust fact-checkers: http://osf.io/t2pmb/

Great opportunity for undergrad students at universities without PhD programs. Funding provided for them to do summer research at Emory, and online workshops in fall and spring.

Interesting! Looking at the bits of poster I can see, I wonder what would happen if people were asked more specially about how boring they think their stories are. Someone may think they can tell an interesting story but also think they are a pretty boring person overall (or vice versa).

Last year my grad student (the fabulous Jessica Udry) received one of these awards. This allowed her to visit @lkfazio.bsky.social & Lisa gave her VERY helpful advice on her dissertation proposal ideas. Highly recommend this for any junior scientist whose research fits their call.

(To be clear, I’m not an organizer of the awards, just an enthusiastic supporter of SRNDNA. Of the three co-directors, I believe only Duke Han is on Bluesky, and he may be able to answer questions if people have them. @sdukehan.bsky.social )

Info here: srndna.utdallas.edu/awards/

Applications due Dec 15.