Yanna Weisberg
@yannaweisberg.bsky.social
Personality psychologist studying interpersonal behavior and then some. Mom, powerlifter, daydreamer, and sometimes banjo player.
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I DON'T NEED TO SAVE TIME.
I AM HERE SPECIFICALLY TO READ THE LONG DOCUMENT.
STOP OPTIMIZING ME.
I AM HERE SPECIFICALLY TO READ THE LONG DOCUMENT.
STOP OPTIMIZING ME.
October 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I DON'T NEED TO SAVE TIME.
I AM HERE SPECIFICALLY TO READ THE LONG DOCUMENT.
STOP OPTIMIZING ME.
I AM HERE SPECIFICALLY TO READ THE LONG DOCUMENT.
STOP OPTIMIZING ME.
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We’ve just published another video on HiTOP that tries to flesh out a bit more how the framework can be helpful in research: youtu.be/q0jOi_Nl1yo
We hope it’s useful, and are keen to hear any feedback
Thanks again so much to @tashtc.bsky.social for all of her hard work creating this video series ✨
We hope it’s useful, and are keen to hear any feedback
Thanks again so much to @tashtc.bsky.social for all of her hard work creating this video series ✨
Using HiTOP in Research
YouTube video by HiTOP
youtu.be
October 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
We’ve just published another video on HiTOP that tries to flesh out a bit more how the framework can be helpful in research: youtu.be/q0jOi_Nl1yo
We hope it’s useful, and are keen to hear any feedback
Thanks again so much to @tashtc.bsky.social for all of her hard work creating this video series ✨
We hope it’s useful, and are keen to hear any feedback
Thanks again so much to @tashtc.bsky.social for all of her hard work creating this video series ✨
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Wrote for @psyche.co about disinhibition – the trait that brings chaos and frustration, but can also (sometimes) spark charm and boldness. Check it out!
The trait that makes some people so frustrating – and alluring psyche.co/ideas/the-tr... By @jananmost.bsky.social for @psyche.co Conscientiousness is constantly touted as a virtue, so what’s life like for people with the opposite trait – disinhibition?
October 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Wrote for @psyche.co about disinhibition – the trait that brings chaos and frustration, but can also (sometimes) spark charm and boldness. Check it out!
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Taylor Swift singing about peer review
October 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Taylor Swift singing about peer review
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I love this so much. Well done Fred. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid
Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I love this so much. Well done Fred. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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As an aside, "Excellence" must be the single-most overused, empty, boilerplate word used in academic bureaucracy and it's typically a stand-in for "We don't know what we want so you should do everything".
Admin email from university: "Share your ideas: Help shape operational excellence at U of I"
Soliciting ideas for how to improve operational processes.
Except...
The form doesn't work—the form created by the Operational Excellence team.
Yeah.
Soliciting ideas for how to improve operational processes.
Except...
The form doesn't work—the form created by the Operational Excellence team.
Yeah.
October 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
As an aside, "Excellence" must be the single-most overused, empty, boilerplate word used in academic bureaucracy and it's typically a stand-in for "We don't know what we want so you should do everything".
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I'm reviewing applications for the University of Washington's PhD program this fall.
Applicants interested in the Clinical Psychology, Social-Personality (emphasis on personality), or Quantitative programs are welcome to apply.
More information here: sites.google.com/uw.edu/radla...
Applicants interested in the Clinical Psychology, Social-Personality (emphasis on personality), or Quantitative programs are welcome to apply.
More information here: sites.google.com/uw.edu/radla...
RADLab - Graduate Applicants
Is the RADLab a good fit for my career goals?
Our lab is very research oriented. Our primary goal is to train doctoral students to make outstanding, substantive, and meaningful contributions to the sc...
sites.google.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I'm reviewing applications for the University of Washington's PhD program this fall.
Applicants interested in the Clinical Psychology, Social-Personality (emphasis on personality), or Quantitative programs are welcome to apply.
More information here: sites.google.com/uw.edu/radla...
Applicants interested in the Clinical Psychology, Social-Personality (emphasis on personality), or Quantitative programs are welcome to apply.
More information here: sites.google.com/uw.edu/radla...
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@pci-regreports.bsky.social -- look at us go!
APS's journal AMPPS has accepted its first manuscript through a collaboration with a nonprofit that offers decentralized, community-driven peer review. @dsbarra.bsky.social
AMPPS Accepts First Manuscript From Innovative Peer Review System
The APS journal Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science has accepted its first manuscript through a collaboration with a nonprofit that offers decentralized, community-driven peer review.
www.psychologicalscience.org
August 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
@pci-regreports.bsky.social -- look at us go!
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Public universities are a gift from the American people to the American people. We're dedicated to educating our citizens and making our states and thus our country a better place for all of us.
It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
July 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Public universities are a gift from the American people to the American people. We're dedicated to educating our citizens and making our states and thus our country a better place for all of us.
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We’ve just launched the HiTOP Teaching Hub—a space to collect and share materials for teaching dimensional models.
If you have anything you're willing to share, please contact @kathleenwreardon.bsky.social or @miriforbes.bsky.social
Here's what we have so far: www.hitop-system.org/hitop-teachi...
If you have anything you're willing to share, please contact @kathleenwreardon.bsky.social or @miriforbes.bsky.social
Here's what we have so far: www.hitop-system.org/hitop-teachi...
HiTOP Teaching Hub
Information about HiTOP self-report measures, including HiTOP-PRO, the harmful substance use module, and B-HiTOP
www.hitop-system.org
June 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
We’ve just launched the HiTOP Teaching Hub—a space to collect and share materials for teaching dimensional models.
If you have anything you're willing to share, please contact @kathleenwreardon.bsky.social or @miriforbes.bsky.social
Here's what we have so far: www.hitop-system.org/hitop-teachi...
If you have anything you're willing to share, please contact @kathleenwreardon.bsky.social or @miriforbes.bsky.social
Here's what we have so far: www.hitop-system.org/hitop-teachi...
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I'm an Associate Editor at Current Directions in Psychological Science and I have a new Special Issue call on Intergroup Allyship. Proposal submissions are due by July 18. Please share widely!
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Call for Manuscript Proposals: Special Issue on Intergroup Allyship
Current Directions in Psychological ScienceEditor: Dr. Sylvia PerryIntergroup allyship–referring to actions taken to support, advocate for, or stand in solidarity with members of marginalized groups b...
www.psychologicalscience.org
June 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I'm an Associate Editor at Current Directions in Psychological Science and I have a new Special Issue call on Intergroup Allyship. Proposal submissions are due by July 18. Please share widely!
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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If you teach cognitive psychology or related topics & are willing to share your favorite teaching resources (e.g., demos, videos), please reply to/quote this post, tag me in a new post, or send me email. I'll compile them, share the list, & keep updating it this summer. Let's inspire each other!
I teach an undergrad cognitive psychology class. I've been thinking about assembling useful teaching resources (demos, videos, etc.) from other cogpsy instructors & sharing them in a single place. If there's enough interest here, I'll make a separate post & ask you to share your favorite materials.
May 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
If you teach cognitive psychology or related topics & are willing to share your favorite teaching resources (e.g., demos, videos), please reply to/quote this post, tag me in a new post, or send me email. I'll compile them, share the list, & keep updating it this summer. Let's inspire each other!
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Bridging ideas from disparate areas is challenging. This paper has been through the multi-round peer review wringer unsuccessfully for a couple of years at several outlets now, and we are starting to think it may never be officially published.
But we like the ideas here, and maybe you might too..
But we like the ideas here, and maybe you might too..
The Role of Meta-Perception in Self-Esteem and Implications for Mental Health: https://osf.io/jfh59
May 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Bridging ideas from disparate areas is challenging. This paper has been through the multi-round peer review wringer unsuccessfully for a couple of years at several outlets now, and we are starting to think it may never be officially published.
But we like the ideas here, and maybe you might too..
But we like the ideas here, and maybe you might too..
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I assume each prospective pope had to submit a preaching statement, leadership statement, cover letter, CV, recommendation letters from three different bishops...
You guys, a conclave of old cardinals can decide on a POPE faster than an academic search committee can decide on the four people we're bringing to campus for an assistant professor search.
May 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I assume each prospective pope had to submit a preaching statement, leadership statement, cover letter, CV, recommendation letters from three different bishops...
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This let-them-fail approach just grades students on their knowledge of academia's hidden curriculum. And risks perpetuating inequities.
Instead I'd say: spend time in *every* course teaching students to write effectively in that field and give them opportunities for low-stakes practice and feedback
Instead I'd say: spend time in *every* course teaching students to write effectively in that field and give them opportunities for low-stakes practice and feedback
I have a simple solution to this. Grade students entirely by means of three hour hand-written exams in a big hall with no computers. If they all fail because they never learned to write without AI, sucks to be them
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
May 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
This let-them-fail approach just grades students on their knowledge of academia's hidden curriculum. And risks perpetuating inequities.
Instead I'd say: spend time in *every* course teaching students to write effectively in that field and give them opportunities for low-stakes practice and feedback
Instead I'd say: spend time in *every* course teaching students to write effectively in that field and give them opportunities for low-stakes practice and feedback
It's time to make that video of Mister Rogers testifying go viral again, isn't it?
In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.
Trump orders end to federal funding for NPR and PBS
In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.
www.npr.org
May 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
It's time to make that video of Mister Rogers testifying go viral again, isn't it?
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😂Every once in a while, I get a student who says Beefaroni instead of Bonferroni on an assignment and it never fails to make my entire week so much better #teachstats #PsychSciSky
a man is laying on a bed using a laptop and says i 'm
Alt: a man (David Rose from Schitt's Creek) is laying on a bed using a laptop and says i 'm obssessed with this
media.tenor.com
May 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
😂Every once in a while, I get a student who says Beefaroni instead of Bonferroni on an assignment and it never fails to make my entire week so much better #teachstats #PsychSciSky
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Want to support organized peer review of preprints in psychology? Sign up to become a reviewer or recommender (associate editor) of PCI Psychology here: psych.peercommunityin.org/default/user...
April 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Want to support organized peer review of preprints in psychology? Sign up to become a reviewer or recommender (associate editor) of PCI Psychology here: psych.peercommunityin.org/default/user...
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I really dislike the trend on this site where people mock Hegseth for having a drinking problem. It is stigmatizing.
We can be scornful of fascists without also stigmatizing problems that lots of people struggle with.
We should mock him for being an incompetent bootlicker. Isn't that enough?
We can be scornful of fascists without also stigmatizing problems that lots of people struggle with.
We should mock him for being an incompetent bootlicker. Isn't that enough?
April 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I really dislike the trend on this site where people mock Hegseth for having a drinking problem. It is stigmatizing.
We can be scornful of fascists without also stigmatizing problems that lots of people struggle with.
We should mock him for being an incompetent bootlicker. Isn't that enough?
We can be scornful of fascists without also stigmatizing problems that lots of people struggle with.
We should mock him for being an incompetent bootlicker. Isn't that enough?
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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...
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OA here 📖:
drive.google.com/file/d/1d2Pc...
drive.google.com/file/d/1d2Pc...
April 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
OA here 📖:
drive.google.com/file/d/1d2Pc...
drive.google.com/file/d/1d2Pc...
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So I put this slide up in class today and the projector broke.
Seems about right.
Seems about right.
April 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
So I put this slide up in class today and the projector broke.
Seems about right.
Seems about right.
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Hear me out, psychologists are the OG vibe coders. Picking factors by squinting at scree plots, naming latent variables on instinct, fitting SEMs based on celestial drawings, and publishing without a care.
The number of researchers in psychology who run "fancy" statistical analyses without having a clue about what they are doing is really disturbing. The fact that editors and reviewers - the supposed experts on these matters - don't pick up on this stuff is even worse. Psychology is hopelessly broken.
April 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Hear me out, psychologists are the OG vibe coders. Picking factors by squinting at scree plots, naming latent variables on instinct, fitting SEMs based on celestial drawings, and publishing without a care.
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“Across the nine years of data analyzed, tenure-track faculty salaries have not once exceeded the rate of inflation... This essentially means that—in real dollars—they have received salary decreases for the past decade.”
"Adjusting for inflation, tenure-track faculty are now paid 10.2 % less than before Covid... While 'median pay increases for most higher education employees in 2024–25 remained strong, they have dropped...” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t... #edsky #highered
Most Higher Ed Workers Still Paid Less Than Before Pandemic
Although raises for most higher education employees last academic year beat inflation, most are still effectively earning less than they were in 2019–20, according to new salary survey data released M...
www.insidehighered.com
April 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
“Across the nine years of data analyzed, tenure-track faculty salaries have not once exceeded the rate of inflation... This essentially means that—in real dollars—they have received salary decreases for the past decade.”