Maureen Craig

ISPP Small Grants are back for 2026! 💡 $50k total available; request up to $5k for research or network/workshop projects. Open to current ISPP members. Proposals due Dec 1, 2025. Selection uses a lottery among proposals that meet all criteria. Apply: ispp.org/funding/smal...

Very cool work!

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Family friendly waiting room for participants

Family friendly waiting room, picture shows children's play area

Room for Research Assistants

Come join the Moral Minds Lab as a grad student at MSU! Brand-new lab equipped for child & adult testing, with motivated undergrads in a happy department. 🤩

Learn more: www.moralmindslab.com/join-our-tea...

(P.S. @tedmond.bsky.social is also taking a student!) @msupsychology.bsky.social

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Screenshot from Reddit. User is zensnapple, posting 6 months ago. Thread says "How to turn off Google AI Overview in Chrome SOLVED Open Chrome and put chrome://settings/searchEngines in the search box. A tab will open which brings you to Search Engine > Manage Search Engines and Site Search. Click on the Add button by the Site Search update. A box will open. Fill in the form with the following: Name: AI Free Web Shortcut: @web URL: {google:baseURL}search?q=%s&udm=14 You’ll now see AI Free Web in the list of search engines. Click on the three stacked dots on the right side of AI Free Web on the list. Select Make Default. From now on, google functions pretty much like it did back when it was good. Good luck out there."

A while ago, we started a #FixItFriday tradition. We keep a running list - large & small, digital & analog, anything broken or annoying - and work on it together.

Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...

Yep, that was my read too!

Well deserved recognition!

1. I have spent a lot of time recently sending invitations for people to review papers, and this process works extremely differently from what I imagined when I was a student. Wanted to write out how I do it in case that's helpful for you all as you submit papers.
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky

If for no other reason, you should read our new paper on mixed methods in psychology because we managed to get limecat in there. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Congrats, Bill! As long as the dad-jokes keep coming I’m happy for you :)

That’s what I aim to be — “not in [her] prime, but still a source of joy” 😂

You’ll note that I’m not first author on that one 😉

@jaricheson.bsky.social and I discussed this *so much* in the process of writing our first papers! They are different terms and we went with intra- to better highlight the possibility of a common ingroup identity. But I’ve seen both used across the literature. 🤷‍♀️

UNC-Chapel Hill Has Delayed Tenure Votes in Most Departments This Spring UNC-Chapel Hill trustees didn't approve tenure cases outside of health-related schools at the last two meetings.

Some UNC-Chapel Hill faculty say they are concerned about a recent Board of Trustees decision—or, rather, non-decision—on faculty tenure and promotion cases.

www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

Thanks for the shout-out Gordon! And, fun-fact: this paper idea was sparked by a question from @evaspietri.bsky.social during a sabbatical brownbag talk at CU-Boulder, which is unfortunate for me because it reinforces that I should keep giving talks 😅

Amidst all the posts about how NSF funds the basic science that (eventually) leads to marketable products, its role in funding data infrastructure is getting lost.

The GSS (1972), ANES (late 1960s), and PSID (1968) are rounding error in the discretionary budget but vital national resources.

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🚨 “We just need to recognize that we’re all citizens of this country.” –– Politicians + citizens often stress a shared national identity when trying to bridge racial, partisan, or other group divides.

@stysyropoulos.bsky.social & I show why such “shared” identities are doomed to fail.

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The application link is now live again 🥳, after a bit of a delay from some new HR approval requirements. Please tell any fabulous post-bacs or graduating seniors to submit their applications by *May 16* for priority consideration -- I will start looking at apps after that date.

screenshot of semantic distance R package information

New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit

Congrats! 🥳

Update 4/4: the application portal is offline (it says "the deadline is passed", which is not true) while we fill out some additional Duke admin forms. Hoping to be back up in a few days, but don't worry, I'll move the timeline for reviewing applications, depending on when we get back online!

Ok, yes confirmed!

I'd expect so, but let me double-check with HR to confirm

Apply by 4/15 for full consideration!

The first stage only requires submitting a 1-page cover letter, CV, and the name and contact information for 1 reference (letters will be requested of short-list candidates).

We just posted the job ad for my lab manager position, with a fall 2025 start date. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29867

Please share with any conscientious, motivated post-bacs or graduating seniors who are looking to build their research skills before applying to grad school.

Usually happens over the summer (June-ish). Importantly, you don’t have to be a member to attend/present at the conference. They changed that a few years ago!

Congratulations to the newest class of APS Rising Stars ⭐! www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...

discovr: a package of interactive tutorials | discovr Statistics education

Probably no-one except me uses my R tutorials in their teaching, but if you do, I'm re-writing them over the next 6-9 months. My goal is to streamline them based on 5 years of using them in class, but if you have (polite) requests/suggestsions let me have them. www.discovr.rocks/discovr/

We’ll miss you around the department (and at trivia 🤓)!