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Adrienne Wood
@adriennewood.bsky.social
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Social Psychology. Emotion, interpersonal behavior, conversation, social networks. I'm a dabbler, so if you love poorly-made arts and crafts or amateur improv, I'm your gal! https://emotionbehavior.com (Opinions are my own, not my employer's)
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Ok but they're still each eating, on average, a bit less than HALF A BAGUETTE a day
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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We have a super exciting half-day planned for the Emotion Preconference at #SPSP2026. We'd love to see you there!!
Invited speakers for the SPSP 2026 Emotion preconference are: Elisa Baek, Belinda Campos, Hillary Elfenbein, Shigehiro Oishi, Jennifer MacCormack, and Brian Parkinson.
October 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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It worked!!! UVA rejects the compact, joining the other 4 universities that stood for academic freedom in the face of coercion!!!
October 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Hundreds of UVA faculty, staff, and students showed up to fight for academic freedom and demand that UVA rejects Trump's Compact!
October 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Faculty, students, and staff everywhere should be proactively demanding that their universities reject Trump's Compact, which has now been offered to ALL universities. Make it clear to your administration what the costs of this compact will be.

www.chronicle.com/article/dart...
Quoted article reads: "Kornbluth’s rejection of the current compact, Mitchell said, may have dashed hopes within the White House that the administration could secure agreements from its initial nine invitees. “My guess is that they decided, rather than to wait for a victory that’s not going to come, they sort of opened the invitation now.” News of a broader swath of institutions signing on could dominate headlines, he said, and “outweigh the defeat that they’re likely to suffer at the hands of the nine.” Lynn C. Pasquerella, president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, said she sees the open invitation as “an effort to see how much collective will there is to accede to the wishes of the president in this case.”"
October 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Poster that says "Do not sign, do not fold" Rally against the compact at the Rotunda, noon, October 17th
October 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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This student journalist for the Cav Daily nails it. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
If it seems that this Compact is merely a formal declaration of the culture war the Trump administration has waged for the past year, or even the terms of peace, do not be deceived. By putting all of the administration’s demands into writing, and very subjective writing at that, the Trump administration has grounds to revoke federal funding whenever they view the University in violation of the Compact. This is not a legally binding document — there is no protection for the University if the issuer fails to hold up their side of the bargain. Federal funding is not guaranteed here, as it is reliant on an extremely movable goalpost. Giving in now will be held over the University for years to come, and likely over whomever the new University president is.
October 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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The evaluation of whether we're adherent will be done via a vibes-based poll of faculty, staff, and students.
The leadership of an academic institution is directly responsible for its strategy, success, and adherence to legal and governmental requirements. On an annual basis the university’s President, Provost, and Head of Admissions shall be required to certify the University’s adherence to the principles contained herein. The university annually shall conduct, or hire an external party to conduct, an independent, good faith, empirically rigorous, and anonymous poll of its faculty, students, and staff, providing them the opportunity to evaluate the university’s performance against this compact. The results of such surveys shall be made public and available on the university’s website. Adherence to this agreement shall be subject to review by the Department of Justice. Universities found to have willfully or negligently violated this agreement shall lose access to the benefits of this agreement for a period of no less than 1 year. Subsequent violations of this agreement shall result in a loss of access to the benefits of this agreement for no less than 2 years. Further, upon determination of any violations, all monies advanced by the U.S. government during the year of any violation shall be returned to the U.S. government. Finally, any private contributions to the university during the year(s) in which such violation occurred shall be returned to the grantor upon the request of the grantor.
October 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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I'm surprised this one won't be a dealbreaker for well-endowed UVA
Too many young adults have become saddled with life-altering debt that has affected, among other things, their ability to have a family or purchase a home. Universities have a duty to control their costs, including by eliminating unnecessary administrative staff, reducing tuition burdens, engaging in transparent accounting and regular auditing for misuse of funds, and cutting unnecessary costs. Signatories acknowledge that universities that receive federal funds have a duty to reduce administrative costs as far as reasonably possible and streamline or eliminate academic programs that fail to serve students. Towards this end, signatories to this compact commit to freezing the effective tuition rates charged to American students for the next five years. Further, universities poorly equip students when they fail to inform them about likely life earnings for students’ chosen majors or admit students without the skills or support needed to succeed. Universities shall publicly post statistics about average earnings from graduates in each academic program and shall refund tuition to students who drop out during the first academic term of their undergraduate studies. Signatories shall responsibly deploy their endowments to the public good. Any university with an endowment exceeding $2 million per undergraduate student will not charge tuition for admitted students pursuing hard science programs (with exceptions, as desired, for families of substantial means).
October 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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And of course, this wouldn't be complete without an anti-trans statement that lacks both humanity and an understanding of human biology
Students shall be treated as individuals and not on the basis of their immutable characteristics, with due exceptions for sex-based privacy, safety, and fairness. Women’s equality requires single-sex spaces, such as bathrooms and locker rooms, and fair competition, such as in sports. Institutions commit to defining and otherwise interpreting “male,” “female,” “woman,” and “man” according to reproductive function and biological processes. Otherwise, immutable characteristics, particularly race, do not permit unequal treatment, including in grading as well as access to buildings, spaces, scholarships, programming, and other university resources.
October 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Throw in some anti-grade-inflation text so we have even more cudgels for hitting undesirable departments
Signatories commit to grade integrity and the use of defensible standards for whether students are achieving their goals, with each grade reflecting the quality, breadth, and depth of the student’s achievement. Signatories acknowledge that a grade must not be inflated, or deflated, for any non-academic reason, but only rigorously reflect the demonstrated mastery of a subject that the grade purports to represent. Signatories will use public accountability mechanisms to demonstrate their commitment to grade integrity, such as publishing grade distribution dashboards with multiyear trendlines, public statements that explain student outcomes and any unusual upward trends, and comparisons with peer institutions.
October 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Clear destruction of academic freedom (and probably 1A): All university employees will "abstain from actions or speech relating to societal and political events". What are my colleagues in, say, political science supposed to teach??
Signatories shall maintain institutional neutrality at all levels of their administration. This requires policies that all university employees, in their capacity as university representatives, will abstain from actions or speech relating to societal and political events except in cases in which external events have a direct impact upon the university.
October 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Every department must incorporate a "broad spectrum of viewpoints"
Signatories commit to rigorous, good faith, empirical assessment of a broad spectrum of viewpoints among faculty, students, and staff at all levels and to sharing the results of such assessments with the public; and to seek such a broad spectrum of viewpoints not just in the university as a whole, but within every field, department, school, and teaching unit....
October 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Any department that is seen to "belittle" conservative ideas will be abolished
...Truth-seeking is a core function of institutions of higher education. Fulfilling this mission requires maintaining a vibrant marketplace of ideas where different views can be explored, debated, and challenged. Therefore, signatories to this compact commit themselves to fostering a vibrant marketplace of ideas on campus. A vibrant marketplace of ideas requires an intellectually open campus environment, with a broad spectrum of ideological viewpoints present and no single ideology dominant, both along political and other relevant lines. Signatories commit themselves to revising governance structures as necessary to create such an environment, including but not limited to transforming or abolishing institutional units that purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas. Given the importance of academic freedom to the marketplace of ideas, signatories shall adopt a policy protecting academic freedom in classrooms, teaching, research, and scholarship. ...
October 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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We're now accepting data blitz and poster abstracts for @spspnews.bsky.social Emotion Preconference (Feb 26 in Chicago)! We've got an exciting lineup of invited speakers, including a themed panel on emotions in groups. Abstract portal closes October 23. spsp.org/events/annua...
The SPSP Annual Emotion Preconference is on Feb 26, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. Speaker lineup: Elisa Baek, Belinda Campos, Hillary Elfenbein, Shigehiro Oishi, Jennifer MacCormack, Brian Parkinson. No accepting data blitz and poster submissions!
September 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Just the VA governor's office warning state employees that freedom of speech doesn't apply to them, including "outside the office"
September 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Also I'm still thinking about this line from @kimacquaviva.bsky.social like 5 times a day. May we all have such giant ovaries in the face of authoritarianism 🔥🔥🔥
Quote from Prof. Kim Acquaviva in a story by the Cavalier Daily, which reads, “Since you’re an attorney who negotiates high stakes deals professionally, fumbling this ball must be embarrassing. It also must make you wonder where things went wrong – the same question we’re wondering, too.”
July 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Thought-provoking piece by @mastroianni.bsky.social arguing that science is a "strong link" problem: we should care less about how much bad science happens and care more about how much good science is allowed to happen.

www.experimental-history.com/p/repost-sci...
Two Gaussian distributions; the one labeled "strong link" has the right-hand outliers (the "good" outliers) highlighted along with the caption, "these outliers matter a lot, I want more!" The other distribution is labeled "weak link" and has the left-hand outliers (the "bad" outliers) highlighted along with the caption, "these outliers matter a lot, get rid of them!"
February 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Exquisite table from the manual for my new milk heater/frother. Saving as inspiration for my next grant proposal
January 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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I impulsively ordered "I Think You Should Leave" Christmas tree ornaments from an Instagram ad, then the seller accidentally cc-ed 180 customers in an email. We instantly united over our intersectional identities as people who like Tim Robinson and don't have safe internet purchasing habits. Help.
December 11, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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My 11-month-old may be a contender for Meanest Mug in psychology bsky. Behold, his daycare photos. Look out, @joshuagrubbsphd.bsky.social
A baby giving the dead-eyed stare of one who has seen many things.
December 6, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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Introducing the "User Interface from Hell" Layout by Liason Letters, designed to distract you from how much you hate the tedious meaninglessness of evaluation scales for grad school recommendations!
just the dumbest Likert scale label layout you've ever seen
December 2, 2024 at 1:48 AM
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Two of my favorite bits are about logical flow and the reader always being "right". Slow clap.
You also shouldn’t expect readers to connect any dots on their own. Maybe they genuinely can’t; maybe they could in principle but are just not paying that much attention when reading your paper.[4] So, just carefully lay out all the points but then also spell out how they come together. Those who could have done so on their own still enjoy the intellectual satisfaction of being able to check their solution against yours. Again, this should be done in a non-condescending manner, so avoid anything along the lines of “as can be clearly seen”, “obviously”, “of course”, and, of course, never ever: “This is left as an exercise for the reader” (Figure 1). Feedback is life, feedback is love And love hurts, but sometimes it’s a good hurt. If you can convince others to read your stuff and tell you what they think about it, that’s tremendously helpful. The general idea here is that the reader is never wrong, even if they are literally wrong. They may have barely skimmed what you wrote, missed central pieces of information that you clearly provided in the manuscript, gotten all worked up because what you wrote relates to one of their hobby horses, and then missed the central take-home message although you explicitly spelled it out. But the average reader later on probably won’t pay more attention, won’t have better working memory, and won’t have fewer hobby horses. If anything, the average reader later on will exert less mental effort and extend less goodwill than anybody who volunteers to provide feedback. So, if they got something wrong because they only skimmed what you wrote, maybe you can make your text more skimmable by ensuring that the important stuff is communicated through subheadings and attractive display pieces (boxes, figures, tables). If they couldn’t follow along because they missed something you said in an earlier part of the manuscript, maybe you can add some pointers or a tiny repetition to refresh their memory. If they got worked up because they took something wrongly, maybe you can adjust your writing to pre-empt misunderstanding and bad feelings. In general, don’t expect readers to fix things (unless they are co-authors); their job is just to provide hints for you to work with.
December 1, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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Who needs a compost bin when you have a 10 month old to eat your banana peels
December 1, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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Headed to SPSP in February? Don't miss the Emotion preconference! Our lineup includes @elisekalo.bsky.social and Bonnie Le, as well as a panel discussion about the use of AI for emotional support, featuring @inzlicht.bsky.social, @anatperry.bsky.social, and Desmond Ong.

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September 27, 2024 at 7:35 PM