Clare Conry-Murray, Ph.D.
@cconrymurray.bsky.social
Associate Director of the Gender Equity Unit, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University; Past president of SIPS. The views and opinions expressed here are mine alone and do not represent the views of Johns Hopkins University.
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No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
December 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.
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BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
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December 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
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High-achieving adults rarely began as child prodigies www.newscientist.com/article/2509...
High-achieving adults rarely began as child prodigies
It's easy to assume that the most talented adults among us were once gifted children, but it turns out that talent during childhood is no guide to later success
www.newscientist.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
High-achieving adults rarely began as child prodigies www.newscientist.com/article/2509...
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Defend Public Health’s amicus brief for American Academy of Pediatrics et al. vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can be read at the link below if you have any interest.
Shout out to the incredible @doritreiss.bsky.social and all of the public health lawyers who are fighting for all of us.
Shout out to the incredible @doritreiss.bsky.social and all of the public health lawyers who are fighting for all of us.
Defend Public Health's Amicus Brief for American Academy of Pediatrics vs. RFK Jr. | Defend Public Health
Defend Public Health has filed an amicus brief in support of the lawsuit filed against RFK Jr. by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Public Health Association, and three other health org...
www.defendpublichealth.org
December 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Defend Public Health’s amicus brief for American Academy of Pediatrics et al. vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can be read at the link below if you have any interest.
Shout out to the incredible @doritreiss.bsky.social and all of the public health lawyers who are fighting for all of us.
Shout out to the incredible @doritreiss.bsky.social and all of the public health lawyers who are fighting for all of us.
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Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
December 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
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If science was a serious enterprise the minimum that would happen is that the journal would publish this response alongside the article (after it was peer reviewed) and the main article would point to it. It’s sad that we all know there’s 0 chance of that happening.
December 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
If science was a serious enterprise the minimum that would happen is that the journal would publish this response alongside the article (after it was peer reviewed) and the main article would point to it. It’s sad that we all know there’s 0 chance of that happening.
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One of the small pleasures of life is the cancelled meeting. It's like a 30-minute snow day.
December 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
One of the small pleasures of life is the cancelled meeting. It's like a 30-minute snow day.
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Huh I wonder if there were any other global events happening in in 2008. Guess we’ll never know.
December 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Huh I wonder if there were any other global events happening in in 2008. Guess we’ll never know.
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I think we can all agree that this is fake news.
December 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I think we can all agree that this is fake news.
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The Department of Psychology @uzh-ch.bsky.social has an open position for a tenured Lecturer (Research) «Psychological Data Management and -Stewardship»
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
#psychjobs
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#psychjobs
UZH: Lecturer Research «Psychological Data Management and -Stewardship»
The Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich invites applications for a tenured Lecturer Research position for «Psychological Data Management and -Stewardship». We are seeking an enthusias...
jobs.uzh.ch
December 15, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The Department of Psychology @uzh-ch.bsky.social has an open position for a tenured Lecturer (Research) «Psychological Data Management and -Stewardship»
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
#psychjobs
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
#psychjobs
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At Johns Hopkins, a once-robust diversity office has quietly withered, shrinking from 14 staffers to three, pausing programs for underrepresented scholars and restricting race-based initiatives on campus. The disappearing diversity programs at Hopkins:
www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
The disappearing diversity programs at Johns Hopkins University
Under Donald Trump, Johns Hopkins University has changed policies and scaled back its diversity office.
www.thebanner.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
At Johns Hopkins, a once-robust diversity office has quietly withered, shrinking from 14 staffers to three, pausing programs for underrepresented scholars and restricting race-based initiatives on campus. The disappearing diversity programs at Hopkins:
www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
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BREAKING:
The Indiana Senate just REJECTED the gerrymandered congressional map that Trump and his allies pressured Republicans to support.
The GOP-controlled chamber voted down the map, 31-19.
The Indiana Senate just REJECTED the gerrymandered congressional map that Trump and his allies pressured Republicans to support.
The GOP-controlled chamber voted down the map, 31-19.
December 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
BREAKING:
The Indiana Senate just REJECTED the gerrymandered congressional map that Trump and his allies pressured Republicans to support.
The GOP-controlled chamber voted down the map, 31-19.
The Indiana Senate just REJECTED the gerrymandered congressional map that Trump and his allies pressured Republicans to support.
The GOP-controlled chamber voted down the map, 31-19.
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Adversarial collaboration by @jordanaxt.bsky.social et al suggests implicit racial bias has a small (2.5%) additional effect on discriminatory behaviour, but explicit racial attitude predicts 45% of discrimination:
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TL;DR:🧵https://buff.ly/Cr0jLml
buff.ly/0ws4BAL
TL;DR:🧵https://buff.ly/Cr0jLml
December 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Adversarial collaboration by @jordanaxt.bsky.social et al suggests implicit racial bias has a small (2.5%) additional effect on discriminatory behaviour, but explicit racial attitude predicts 45% of discrimination:
buff.ly/0ws4BAL
TL;DR:🧵https://buff.ly/Cr0jLml
buff.ly/0ws4BAL
TL;DR:🧵https://buff.ly/Cr0jLml
Do open science practices differ in psychology vs public health? I moved from psychology to public health (social determinants, so still very psychology-relevant), and I'm wondering if others have noticed a difference in these fields in terms of documentation, prereg, open access publishing, etc.
December 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Do open science practices differ in psychology vs public health? I moved from psychology to public health (social determinants, so still very psychology-relevant), and I'm wondering if others have noticed a difference in these fields in terms of documentation, prereg, open access publishing, etc.
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Working on this with Fabian and Regina was an extremely inspiring and thought-provoking experience. Motivated reasoning is such a fascinating and consequential psychological phenomenon! 👇🏼
Motivated reasoning is a well-understood phenomenon - or is it?
In a new paper just published at @collabrapsychology.bsky.social we discuss three known unknowns.
doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Here is a 🧵
In a new paper just published at @collabrapsychology.bsky.social we discuss three known unknowns.
doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Here is a 🧵
Known Unknowns in Motivated Reasoning: A Closer Look at Three Open Questions
Motivated reasoning denotes the phenomenon that individuals are more likely to arrive at conclusions that they want to arrive at. Properly understanding this phenomenon requires at least three things:...
doi.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Working on this with Fabian and Regina was an extremely inspiring and thought-provoking experience. Motivated reasoning is such a fascinating and consequential psychological phenomenon! 👇🏼
Can the word "data" be singular in some cases? If so, when?
December 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Can the word "data" be singular in some cases? If so, when?
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New in Proceedings B, led by Jaspreet Singh: "Comparing expert assessments of research quality between the Global North and East Africa"
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
We found that Kenyan assessors were more optimistic about the quality of 80 papers than were Global North assessors 1/
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
We found that Kenyan assessors were more optimistic about the quality of 80 papers than were Global North assessors 1/
December 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
New in Proceedings B, led by Jaspreet Singh: "Comparing expert assessments of research quality between the Global North and East Africa"
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
We found that Kenyan assessors were more optimistic about the quality of 80 papers than were Global North assessors 1/
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
We found that Kenyan assessors were more optimistic about the quality of 80 papers than were Global North assessors 1/
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🆕 The first published Comments in The Lancet Regional Health - Africa are now available online!
Topics include cholera, global health architecture, Ebola, & artificial intelligence.
Read the Comments & find out more about the new journal: spkl.io/63329AgQkW
Topics include cholera, global health architecture, Ebola, & artificial intelligence.
Read the Comments & find out more about the new journal: spkl.io/63329AgQkW
December 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🆕 The first published Comments in The Lancet Regional Health - Africa are now available online!
Topics include cholera, global health architecture, Ebola, & artificial intelligence.
Read the Comments & find out more about the new journal: spkl.io/63329AgQkW
Topics include cholera, global health architecture, Ebola, & artificial intelligence.
Read the Comments & find out more about the new journal: spkl.io/63329AgQkW
I just spent a long time writing an email with detailed feedback in Outlook. After sending it, I got a message saying "the email could not be sent." Only a very, very old draft is saved in Outlook.
December 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I just spent a long time writing an email with detailed feedback in Outlook. After sending it, I got a message saying "the email could not be sent." Only a very, very old draft is saved in Outlook.
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It's notable that, even in an article critical of RFK Jr., the reporter hedges, saying "There’s no good evidence of serious, widespread harm from the vaccine" rather than just "vaccines are safe." RFK Jr. has made a career of exploiting the ambiguity of the former.
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-anti-v...
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-anti-v...
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
www.thebulwark.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
It's notable that, even in an article critical of RFK Jr., the reporter hedges, saying "There’s no good evidence of serious, widespread harm from the vaccine" rather than just "vaccines are safe." RFK Jr. has made a career of exploiting the ambiguity of the former.
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-anti-v...
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-anti-v...
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Despite Prepublication Peer Review being a core part of science, training materials for it are sparse. This open source guide is very valuable for ECRs!
ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/
ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/
ECR Reviewers Platform
ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io
December 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Despite Prepublication Peer Review being a core part of science, training materials for it are sparse. This open source guide is very valuable for ECRs!
ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/
ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/
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I would love to see the for-profit publishing industry taken down in my lifetime.
We give our work away for free and then buy it back again. Madness.
We give our work away for free and then buy it back again. Madness.
November 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I would love to see the for-profit publishing industry taken down in my lifetime.
We give our work away for free and then buy it back again. Madness.
We give our work away for free and then buy it back again. Madness.
References in online articles should let you see the reference and open it without losing your place in the original article.
November 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
References in online articles should let you see the reference and open it without losing your place in the original article.
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NYT isn’t worth reading because they are in the bag for Trump
November 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
NYT isn’t worth reading because they are in the bag for Trump