Allie Farrell

Maybe we can turn the merch into sandbags that conveniently follow all branding identity guidelines...

Psychologists & related fields: what is a big methods question that you believe remains somewhat unanswered & that you'd love to see adressed? There may be an opportunity for a large-scale meta-science project with many teams trying to figure out a question.

Any thoughts welcome! #psychscisky

A picture of Daniel Faraday's diary from Lost, with text reading "If anything goes wrong, these boxes will be my constant" instead of "Desmond Hume"

You leave the friends and the colleagues behind, but the boxes are always with you.

Much like faculty members never losing the impulse to seek out free food that they developed as grad students, I've found that settled faculty members struggle to overcome the drive to hoard high quality, good-sized boxes for future moves.

After nearly 2 years of debating and redrafting, the preprint is out:

Towards Next-Generation Stress Generation Research: Expert Consensus Methodological Guidelines

With a legit superstar team

Here’s how it could transform research on stress generation (& beyond) 🧵

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Bsky research friends! Does anyone have resources or examples of an F32 or K08 project that has proposed using existing data in addition to proposing a novel study? Any help is appreciated!

What’s in a correlation? Correlation may not imply causation, but let’s just ignore that for a second. Correlations are standardized effect size metrics and as such have some quirks by design. These are benign enough when you...

New blog post! Calculating a correlation is easy enough. But let's say you calculated two of them and they happen to differ. What follows from that? Turns out there are too many moving parts for an easy answer.

www.the100.ci/2025/07/28/w...

It's a bit off-cycle, but you never know who might be looking and when... Brown has a new T32 postdoctoral fellowship in child health equity! Applications are open now and will be reviewed on a rolling basis. More details can be found in the link below:

today.brown.edu/announcement...

The Love Consortium Statistics Decision Tree launched today! Think of it like a choose-your-own adventure guide to help you identify the best analyses for your specific dataset and research question.

theloveconsortium.org/so/9fPWyVE6Z...

#DataScience #Statistics

Marital versus martial… I guess love IS a battlefield

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Very excited (w/ @omarjcamanto.bsky.social) to share our preprint tutorial for using our R 📦 dySEM for #dyadic data analysis with latent variables, in cross-sectional data sets.

This paper has been literal years in the making, and provides three distinct tutorials.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Seamless Interaction: Dyadic Audiovisual Motion Modeling and Large-Scale Dataset Human communication involves a complex interplay of verbal and nonverbal signals, essential for conveying meaning and achieving interpersonal goals. To develop socially intelligent AI technologies, it...

Seamless Interaction dataset with 4000+ hrs of face-to-face dyadic interactions! 🤯

Seems like it could be a game changer for studying embodied turn-taking & mutual adaptation complementary with CANDOR, etc...

arxiv.org/abs/2506.22554

A mountain of small things I live under its shadow. I suspect most of you do too. It is the great mountain of small things. Every year, it grows a little taller, a little more imposi

There are days when I remember there is this article that speaks so much to me. When I went into academia, I did not anticipate spending 4 days of my week filling out paperwork and responding to emails just to get my research going.

academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

On this July 4, liberate the field from cross-sectional “mediation analysis” - check out this new paper discussing an alternative. I bet it’s an instant classic. My sense is that folks continue bad practices bc they don’t know what else to do. This solves that

psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

What makes HBCD unique?
It’s not just big — it’s deep:

• Prenatal & infant brain imaging (MRI, EEG)

• Actigraphy (sleep/activity)

• Biospecimens

• Substance exposure, caregiver interaction, & environmental data

• Developmental assessments from 0–9 months and beyond!!

I'm putting together a new grad seminar on the psychology of social class/socioeconomic status for this fall. I'm interested in highlighting new work/ideas/topics in this growing field and would welcome any suggestions! (And please don't hesitate to suggest your own work.)

Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Oops! Vietnamese student applies to Miami University — shocked to be accepted into Ohio school All Valerie Do wanted was beaches in between classes, but instead she got the Midwest’s best: Corn.

nypost.com/2023/10/14/v...

#psy630

and honestly? screaming for cookies is a pretty mild reaction if you’ve been on a 6-8 year job interview, met or exceeded all the requirements for a permanent position, and are denied that job at the last minute.

we’re talking about folks’ jobs, jim. not cheap treats.

I hope at some point we can just enjoy Fridays again <3 NSF

see taskmaster also for examples of functional fixedness, common ground, mnemonics, and more to come .. (work in progress!)

taskmasterpsych.blogs.bucknell.edu

🚨ATTENTION MOMS🚨

Friday, May 30th at 3pm

Meet me outside of the CDC with your pregnant bellies, your babies, your toddlers, your strollers, your signs, and your baby gear.

We are standing up for science and vaccines!
@standupforscience.bsky.social

RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/moms-...

I forgot about this amazing visualization. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Tweet from Derek Thompson (@DKThomp on X) Fascinating @benthompson vision of the future of the Internet—i.e., "The Agentic Web" Scenario: Before I go to sleep, I tell ChatGPT “Plan my 5-year-old’s birthday next Saturday, budget $500. When you've made the reservation, email these 20 ppl a printable invitation to attend. Also my wife wants to go to England in mid-July. Find 5 plausible flights for the family and make several distinct itineraries. Finally, pls edit this work memo." When I go to sleep, the AI agent negotiates slots with two bowling alleys, buys a cake, emails printable invites, plans the trip, copy-edits, etc.

So, my takeaway here is that neither Derek nor Ben Thompson has EVER planned a kid's birthday party.

This kind of thing has to be done at least a month in advance. One week out, and there's no way you'll get an available bowling alley, let alone two. And no way more than two kids will show.

As Congress Debates Cutting Medicaid, a Major Study Shows It Saves Lives

"Poor adults who gained Medicaid coverage after the Affordable Care Act expanded access were 21 percent less likely to die during a given year than those not enrolled..."

when i've talked about my (zero-tolerance) AI policy in class, my students sometimes ask "isn't this a new tool like a calculator or a word processor?" let me tell you, my calculator doesn't give me the wrong fucking answer 48% of the time