Bradley T. Hughes
@bradleyhughes.bsky.social
Asst prof at Villanova | PhD University of Oregon
Hierarchies, Impressions, Inequality, Personality
Hierarchies, Impressions, Inequality, Personality
I’m teaching undergrad personality psych in the spring. Looking for suggestions for either a textbook or open source materials. What do you or would you use to teach personality science in 2026?
October 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I’m teaching undergrad personality psych in the spring. Looking for suggestions for either a textbook or open source materials. What do you or would you use to teach personality science in 2026?
2 weeks in the US:
2 active shooter hoaxes at work (one including a 2-hour lockdown in my office)
1 bomb threat to local high school causing a 3-hour delay
2 years in Canada:
0 real or imagined threats of violence on campus or local schools
We need to do better.
2 active shooter hoaxes at work (one including a 2-hour lockdown in my office)
1 bomb threat to local high school causing a 3-hour delay
2 years in Canada:
0 real or imagined threats of violence on campus or local schools
We need to do better.
August 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
2 weeks in the US:
2 active shooter hoaxes at work (one including a 2-hour lockdown in my office)
1 bomb threat to local high school causing a 3-hour delay
2 years in Canada:
0 real or imagined threats of violence on campus or local schools
We need to do better.
2 active shooter hoaxes at work (one including a 2-hour lockdown in my office)
1 bomb threat to local high school causing a 3-hour delay
2 years in Canada:
0 real or imagined threats of violence on campus or local schools
We need to do better.
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the topic is: best things to do in Philly, with children aged 10 and 13, in late late July/early August
I am taking suggestions
I am taking suggestions
July 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
the topic is: best things to do in Philly, with children aged 10 and 13, in late late July/early August
I am taking suggestions
I am taking suggestions
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🇩🇪 3-year universal basic income (UBI) study, in which n=120 received UBI, n=1500 did not. Website is pretty neat, check it out for core findings.
www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en
www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en
Basic Income Pilot Project / Study results
What does a universal basic income really achieve? Find the results of the first long-term German study here.
www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de
July 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
🇩🇪 3-year universal basic income (UBI) study, in which n=120 received UBI, n=1500 did not. Website is pretty neat, check it out for core findings.
www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en
www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en
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If you knew Mike (well first you’d be laughing because he was just so funny) you’d know he would be so pissed at these cuts to scientific research and the peddling of magic & mysticism to good people yearning for control. I hope he knows his story continues to matter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...
Opinion | Holy Water Couldn’t Save My Husband. MAHA Wouldn’t Have Either.
www.nytimes.com
June 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
If you knew Mike (well first you’d be laughing because he was just so funny) you’d know he would be so pissed at these cuts to scientific research and the peddling of magic & mysticism to good people yearning for control. I hope he knows his story continues to matter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...
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For my multilevel modeling students, I created a tutorial sharing all the main functions I use for data cleaning in R.
It took me maaaany years to figure out my cleaning workflow, so I wanted to share it with y'all in case I can save anyone else time :-)
sites.google.com/view/gabriel...
It took me maaaany years to figure out my cleaning workflow, so I wanted to share it with y'all in case I can save anyone else time :-)
sites.google.com/view/gabriel...
April 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
For my multilevel modeling students, I created a tutorial sharing all the main functions I use for data cleaning in R.
It took me maaaany years to figure out my cleaning workflow, so I wanted to share it with y'all in case I can save anyone else time :-)
sites.google.com/view/gabriel...
It took me maaaany years to figure out my cleaning workflow, so I wanted to share it with y'all in case I can save anyone else time :-)
sites.google.com/view/gabriel...
winter overstayed its welcome but finally some signs of spring in Toronto!
May 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
winter overstayed its welcome but finally some signs of spring in Toronto!
When you have billions of dollars and zero friends
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)
May 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
When you have billions of dollars and zero friends
Next stage of AI hallucinations for academics, emails requesting pdfs of imaginary papers
May 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Next stage of AI hallucinations for academics, emails requesting pdfs of imaginary papers
Like the CEO of McDonalds telling parents to cook their own burgers
This is insane advice. For most “do your own research” means consult an LLM.
99% AREN’T ABLE to do research on vaccines, because they don’t have background knowledge & skills.
Research≠Google search 😡https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/kennedy-vaccines-research.html?searchResultPosition=1
99% AREN’T ABLE to do research on vaccines, because they don’t have background knowledge & skills.
Research≠Google search 😡https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/kennedy-vaccines-research.html?searchResultPosition=1
Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines
In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.
www.nytimes.com
May 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Like the CEO of McDonalds telling parents to cook their own burgers
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We just launched an open search for postdocs at the @berkeleyischool.bsky.social in a bunch of areas (social informatics, climate informatics, communications, econ, behavioral science, literary theory, algorithmic justice), all mentored by different faculty: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04845
Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholar - School of Information
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
March 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
We just launched an open search for postdocs at the @berkeleyischool.bsky.social in a bunch of areas (social informatics, climate informatics, communications, econ, behavioral science, literary theory, algorithmic justice), all mentored by different faculty: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04845
What a cool study design
Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for.
In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
March 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
What a cool study design
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7 years ago, I received funding for a project on personality, incentivized prosocial behavior & social status in groups. Today, we've made the anonymized data publicly available. Researchers can now use it by citing the preprint/paper (no need to add anyone as a coauthor): doi.org/10.31234/osf...
March 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
7 years ago, I received funding for a project on personality, incentivized prosocial behavior & social status in groups. Today, we've made the anonymized data publicly available. Researchers can now use it by citing the preprint/paper (no need to add anyone as a coauthor): doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off
www.sfchronicle.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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JOB!
Please share with your networks - I'm open to recent- and near-PhDs in Sociology or Poli Sci or adjacent disciplines, ideally with a research program that is in some way about the (goal/promise/ideal of) Healthy, Equitable and Responsive Democracy in the US.
Info: bit.ly/HEARDpostdoc2025
Please share with your networks - I'm open to recent- and near-PhDs in Sociology or Poli Sci or adjacent disciplines, ideally with a research program that is in some way about the (goal/promise/ideal of) Healthy, Equitable and Responsive Democracy in the US.
Info: bit.ly/HEARDpostdoc2025
February 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
JOB!
Please share with your networks - I'm open to recent- and near-PhDs in Sociology or Poli Sci or adjacent disciplines, ideally with a research program that is in some way about the (goal/promise/ideal of) Healthy, Equitable and Responsive Democracy in the US.
Info: bit.ly/HEARDpostdoc2025
Please share with your networks - I'm open to recent- and near-PhDs in Sociology or Poli Sci or adjacent disciplines, ideally with a research program that is in some way about the (goal/promise/ideal of) Healthy, Equitable and Responsive Democracy in the US.
Info: bit.ly/HEARDpostdoc2025
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{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨
It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax.
This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types.
Check it out!
grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/
It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax.
This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types.
Check it out!
grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/
February 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨
It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax.
This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types.
Check it out!
grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/
It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax.
This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types.
Check it out!
grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/
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Are you interested in U.S. legislative history? Newly-available complete dataset on all persons serving as legislators in the 50 state houses between 1900 and 2016: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
dataverse.harvard.edu
January 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Are you interested in U.S. legislative history? Newly-available complete dataset on all persons serving as legislators in the 50 state houses between 1900 and 2016: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
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1. Happy to share that ver. 1.1.1 of the dySEM 📦 for #dyadic SEM in #rstats is officially available on CRAN: cran.r-project.org/web/packages....
Huge credit goes to @omarjcamanto.bsky.social ; Omar has led a large overhaul of the “outputters” based on feedback from our workshop at #IARR2024
Huge credit goes to @omarjcamanto.bsky.social ; Omar has led a large overhaul of the “outputters” based on feedback from our workshop at #IARR2024
January 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
1. Happy to share that ver. 1.1.1 of the dySEM 📦 for #dyadic SEM in #rstats is officially available on CRAN: cran.r-project.org/web/packages....
Huge credit goes to @omarjcamanto.bsky.social ; Omar has led a large overhaul of the “outputters” based on feedback from our workshop at #IARR2024
Huge credit goes to @omarjcamanto.bsky.social ; Omar has led a large overhaul of the “outputters” based on feedback from our workshop at #IARR2024
Name that psychological construct!
People in Eugene Oregon don’t use umbrellas. It is very rainy.
People in Toronto don’t wear gloves. It is very cold.
Other examples?
What should we call this? Acronyms encouraged
People in Eugene Oregon don’t use umbrellas. It is very rainy.
People in Toronto don’t wear gloves. It is very cold.
Other examples?
What should we call this? Acronyms encouraged
January 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Name that psychological construct!
People in Eugene Oregon don’t use umbrellas. It is very rainy.
People in Toronto don’t wear gloves. It is very cold.
Other examples?
What should we call this? Acronyms encouraged
People in Eugene Oregon don’t use umbrellas. It is very rainy.
People in Toronto don’t wear gloves. It is very cold.
Other examples?
What should we call this? Acronyms encouraged
optional mandatory attendance! What a fantastic idea
Attendance policy - attendance is THE best predictor of course grades and GPA. But students don't like mandatory attendance policies. Possible solution - optional mandatory attendance. 3/
January 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
optional mandatory attendance! What a fantastic idea
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Did everything feel a bit more mathematical this morning? That's because 2025 is a perfect square ✅!
Yes, 2025 is 45² = (1+2+...+9)².
It's the first square year since 1936, and the next one is 2116.
But that's not all… read on ⬇️👀
Yes, 2025 is 45² = (1+2+...+9)².
It's the first square year since 1936, and the next one is 2116.
But that's not all… read on ⬇️👀
a penguin is holding a pink flag that says i 'm so excited 2025
ALT: a penguin is holding a pink flag that says i 'm so excited 2025
media.tenor.com
January 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Did everything feel a bit more mathematical this morning? That's because 2025 is a perfect square ✅!
Yes, 2025 is 45² = (1+2+...+9)².
It's the first square year since 1936, and the next one is 2116.
But that's not all… read on ⬇️👀
Yes, 2025 is 45² = (1+2+...+9)².
It's the first square year since 1936, and the next one is 2116.
But that's not all… read on ⬇️👀
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Low-income students have been a ridiculously tiny share of elite college enrollment for a century
November 18, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Low-income students have been a ridiculously tiny share of elite college enrollment for a century
Job market question.
What font do you like for research and other statements?
#academicjobmarket #academia
What font do you like for research and other statements?
#academicjobmarket #academia
August 24, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Job market question.
What font do you like for research and other statements?
#academicjobmarket #academia
What font do you like for research and other statements?
#academicjobmarket #academia