Kate A. Ratliff
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Kate A. Ratliff
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Social Psychologist | Likes Birds and Dogs and Books and Tennis | Eldest Millennial | Waterloo, Ontario 🍁

Psychology 37%
Political science 23%

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Clean blankets and sleeping bags are desperately needed at the 100 Victoria Street North encampment in Kitchener. Please drop off donations at the table at the front of the encampment.

Okay but only if we define stuck as “sitting next to the wall while the men throw up their hands as if they couldn’t possibly bend down and pick it up with minimal effort” 😂
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

East of Eden is the only book I regularly re-read!

God I wish we had Steinbeck right now.

Data are from August. Would be super interesting to see what they look like now!
In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025
Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...
journals.sagepub.com

Psych friends: Does anyone have an undergrad lecture (slides, notes, activities) on theory-building and/or generating hypotheses? If so, willing to share?

Her Ben Crump sponsorship is my favorite thing about the U.S. Open.

The longer you look at it the more absurdist it gets 😂

Dear Canadians: Where is this “the cottage” that all of you are going to next week and how do I get there?

I can, Max. Send me an email to remind me? Having read a few Dutch letters, this is a good idea 😂

My 10yo is reading it now and loves it! And also thinks it’s super cool we live in the same town.

What a blast of joy in these terrible times to see Venus Williams out there on the court ❤️🎾

I’ve just moved to KW and so far have been really happy with the bike-riding situation so far 🚴‍♀️
Graduate students who have an offer to study in the US but are reconsidering or have been denied entry or current grad students who want to leave, then consider coming to Western University in Canada. Our University just launched a US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Program : grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...
US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award
Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.
grad.uwo.ca

So sad :(

It’s a hard question to answer bc you don’t know what you might be missing! But we are currently having mail forwarded from FL to Ontario and at least some things are arriving.

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Bluesky hive mind - has anyone ever forwarded US mail to Canada, and how was the experience? Did things arrive in anything like a timely manner?

The UF Provost just announced the ten new Distinguished Professors, one of the highest honors at the university and one that comes with a 9% pay raise 🐊 Want to know how many of the ten are women? A whopping…. None.
If you’ve got a badge and a gun but think your actions are shameful enough to need a mask, you should quit.

Can someone in Canada please tell me how you watch WTA matches? 🎾 TSN+ is only showing ATP live. Tennis Channel+ doesn't work outside of the U.S. HELP?!

Thank you!

LOL a thin veneer sitting on a lot of old stats textbooks.

Here it is, the sum total of the (physical) things I am taking with me after 12+ years at the University of Florida. Today, I mourn. Tomorrow, onward!

I’m just so sad for UF 💔
I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it
What Are People Still Doing on X?
Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout
www.theatlantic.com

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I feel grateful and fortunate to have international students in my lab, as well as numerous international collaborators and colleagues. You all make my science better. It pains me to think of the anxiety this causes all of you. I hope that universities come together and fight for what is right.

Thank you!