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Retired psychologist in Ontario... Editor in Chief of the journal Personality and Individual Differences, and author of textbooks on individual differences . Previous president of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID).
Do please consider signing this... how can a university threaten to fire an entire research group because they focus on basic (rather than applied) research?
Gavin BuckinghamThe Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Businessman who sold land for Kushner resort in Albania suspected of faking the deeds www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Businessman who sold land for Kushner resort in Albania suspected of faking the deedsResidents of the village of Zvernec near the project have been contesting Artur Shehu's claim on the land in court cases that date back more than a decade.www.reuters.com
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Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵
The bonfire of the humanities150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental scienceswww.technosphere.earth
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Selecting an effect size for power analysis is hard. Many researchers fall back on Cohen's thresholds, but they have no empirical basis and vary wildly by field. Our new paper offers a better option: field-specific effect size distributions built from meta-analytic data doi.org/10.3758/s134...
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This is VERY serious -please read.
Don MoynihanYou should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling. In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...