Tianfang Yang

One of the highlights of SPSP is our annual Reed College “Reedie” reunion…love reminiscing with old classmates and meeting new Reed social psychologists 🦉

#SPSP2026

OMG thank you Perline!!

Best deep dish pizza in town? #SPSP2026

Are you living a good life? Take this quiz to find out. Now is a good time to reflect on the life you’re leading — and what you want out of it.

Are you leading a (mostly) happy life, a meaningful life, or a psychologically rich life? Take this fun quiz at the Washington Post and find out!

www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/int...?

Parental Influence on Children’s Educational Achievements: Analysing Direct and Indirect Genetic Effects through Trio-GCTA Educational achievement is a key predictor of later-life outcomes, including financial security, social mobility, health, and mortality. Knowing its familial determinants, such as genetic predispositi...

1/11 New @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social led by @ESSGNetwork PhD student @qiyuanpeng.bsky.social : Parental influence on children’s educational achievement using Trio-GCTA. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by ICE Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said federal immigration agents pulled over her son on Saturday and asked him to prove his citizenship.

BREAKING: Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by immigration agents and asked to prove his citizenship.

The BGA public outreach committee, Psychiatric Genomics Consortium outreach committee and IBANGS have joined forces for the webinar "scientifically accurate & ethically responsible science communication" with J9 Austin, Nicholas Clifton, Ziada Ayorech and Robbee Wedow; scan the QR code to sign up 📷

New paper out in Evolution & Human Behavior! Do people agree on what the ideal partner personality looks like, or is it just a reflection of their own traits? And do people care more about politics than the big five?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Faculty at OHSU, UIowa, UCSF, UW–Madison, and VCU: Your next amazing mentee could be one 10‑minute conversation away. PROPEL Virtual Matchmaking Event is Jan 30: 9–1 PT. Faculty registration deadline extended to 5pm PT on Wed Dec 10: propelscholars.org/matchmaking-...

Two positions as either PhD or postdoctoral fellow on health determinants of education Do you want to research how health influences school performance and leads to intergenerational inequality? We have two vacant 3-year positions as a PhD fellow or postdoctoral research fellow in the p...

Who wants to join us in Oslo to study how health influences educational underperformance? We are hiring PhDs postdocs candidates for our funded project. We will follow children from birth to emerging adulthood, using behavioural genetic methods and large datasets 945000.webcruiter.no/Main/Recruit...

Epistemic injustice in psychiatric research and practice This paper offers an overview of the philosophical work on epistemic injustices as it relates to psychiatry. After describing the development of epistemic injustice studies, we survey the existing ...

On #WorldPhilosophyDay2025 we share some highlights: most cited paper in the last three years is by Kidd, Spencer & Carel: Epistemic injustice in psychiatric research and practice. Read it open access: doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky

For those submitting a symposium to the ECP22 (deadline soon!): I added details to the submission instructions.

www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission

Gaza: Study Reveals Unprecedented Losses of Life & Life Expectancy
Researchers from MPIDR & the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) investigated the impact of the conflict in Gaza on mortality. Life expectancy 2024 fell to nearly half the level expected without the war. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/GazaLE

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...