Heather Urry

stumbled on a set of incredible 1970s illustrations in some government reports, so had to spend a day collecting them into a website to share with my friends on the computer: nickseaver.net/paperwork

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

What's the best place to order hex stickers??

“At least within the paradigm studied, a tendency to prioritize tasks seen as urgent can lead to suboptimal decision-making, even when the urgency is illusory.”

Convert a Qualtrics survey description into a PDF report showing all the branches, questions, and answers options. Hugely convenient for appending to a paper. (From @datacolada.bsky.social) datacolada.org/140

Why is Psych Science doing a bunch of special issues? We want to get more submissions on these topics! Authors may not submit papers on these topics because they don’t see many examples in our journal. Hopefully special issues can help! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.

Another special issue at Psych Science! We invite “submissions that advance the field through critical appraisal of articles previously published by Psychological Science” Please share! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

fave new demonstration of survey items being really not that bad at tracking carefully-measured cognitive things: in 900,000 participants, a 5-item "how good are you at music" self-report (the colours) very directly tracks a 20min adaptive test of music perception ability (the x-axis)

Send your best work to PCI Psychology (psych.peercommunityin.org) where it will receive high quality & open peer review free of commercial interference. We review a variety of article types from a wide range of psychological topics (psych.peercommunityin.org/help/help_ge...).

Please RT! 18-20 February 2027, Brixen, Italian Alps Are you an early career researchers in psychology, neuroscience and related fields? Come and present your work at the 15th Cogntive Science Arena! www.cogsciarena.eu The full call for contibutions is here! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Still upset about that highly cited paper in Psych Science you consider deeply flawed? Now is your time to shine ✨

I am pleased to announce the launch of our new diamond open access journal Psychology Across Development (accepting submissions starting today!). We are a lifespan developmental journal. (1/3) escholarship.org/uc/psycdev

Special Issue Call for Submissions: "Appraising the Foundations of Psychological Science" www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... Edited by @heatherurry.io @tombeckers.bsky.social

oTree AI is now available to psychology researchers **free of charge**: www.otree.org/psych (oTree is the main software used in behavioral econ experiments; now it can run psych experiments also). #PsychSciSky

When marital relations get tough… (•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) ... Ben Folds

We have a slew of special issue calls open at Psychological Science. One in particular that I’d like to draw your attention to, initiated by the marvellous @heatherurry.io and co-edited by me […]

webrarian is a new R package. It turns a folder of R scripts and data into a static website where R runs in the visitor's browser, with no compute server and nothing to install. blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/posts/introd... #rstats #webr #webassembly

How much of a risk are LLM-generated bots for online behavioral experiments? We present results of an entirely natural language prompt-generated agent, capable of absolving any of the 26 experiments we tested it on. Most tasks are passed with data that can pass as human osf.io/preprints/ps... (1/)

Come join me in the Emotions in Context Lab at the University of Kansas! I will be taking PhD students in Fall 2027.

More tips and tricks in this blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/five-gg...

📜 Out in Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics Most bereaved people adapt over time. Why do some stay stuck in grief? We tested whether how loss is remembered shapes grief symptoms over the first 18 months of bereavement w/Franziska Lechner-Meichsner, Anke Ehlers & Kirsten Smith doi.org/10.1159/0005...

Metadata matters! If you submit a preprint to PsyArXiv, to ensure smooth acceptance, don't forget to fill out the metadata correctly. Below you will find a few tips, but detailed guidelines are at 👉 buff.ly/Tcd8vIc #PsychSciSky

Love this - help a professor out? (Not me.)

You can use rel() to specify the size of individual elements relative to the base size. Means if you increase the base size, then you don't need to readjust sizes of each individual element again

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

❇️ I've updated Data Skills for Reproducible Research to v6.1. The Iteration & Functions chapter has been split in two and I've added some material on unit testing. It's a living textbook, so please submit issues if you find a mistake or something unclear. psyteachr.github.io/reprores-v6/...

So abstracts are open for 2027 in San Diego for @affectscience.bsky.social I'm seriously considering an overseas trip to attend. I have some cool results using children and naturalistic faces that I need to set free! society-for-affective-science.org/abstracts/ #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

10/11 In sum, we found a manipulable circuit for top-down control of the heart. We think it's a piece of the foundation for understanding how cognition and emotion shape the body, and a possible target for therapies that restore healthy brain–heart coupling.

🎯 What should we expect from behavior change interventions? Growing evidence suggests that most behavior change interventions have small effects on behavior. I regularly hear fellow behavioral scientists understandably feeling discouraged by this. But should we be discouraged? Not necessarily.🧵

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

1/6 What happens when you tell an AI browser: “Fill out this survey”? It fills out the survey. In our new study, led by @rtopinkova.bsky.social, we tested three consumer-facing agentic browsers without lengthy prompts, custom code, or technical fine-tuning.

Pacific Rim is now available on Prime