In the 1950’s, Skinner launched an ill-fated business selling temperature-controlled “Air Cribs”!

A very rare hybrid songbird has been identified in Pennsylvania — a cross between the rose-breasted grosbeak and brightly-colored scarlet tanager. n.pr/3CvXauK

Are you interested in ideology, morality, political psych, implicit and explicit measures, or individual differences? We are releasing a massive dataset (>280k sessions) with dozens of individual difference measures, implicit and explicit measures. 1/ docs.google.com/document/d/12j…

Very excited that Sarah Fisher got us on the board collecting data this week with our first Ashland University participants in the semantic priming Psychological Science Accelerator project! I'm looking forward to getting back into student-Chris-mode to run some data collection sessions of my own🤓

Please don't make me do this again. If Cheddar Man has *any* single living descendant then he is the ancestor of LITERALLY EVERYONE ON EARTH. Not metaphorically, or conceptually, but actually mathematically. All humans. Everyone. みんな. Tout le monde. 每个人. katoa. हर कोई.

So Dr Adam Rutherford is receiving a lot of skepticism about his tweet saying that if Cheddar Man has any genealogical ancestors today, he is the common ancestor of all present-day humans. Adam is correct about this — I think this is such a cool finding, so I'll explain it below.

⚠️New paper at Nature Human Behaviour⚠️ Can posed smiles make people feel happier? In a global adversarial collaboration, we found overwhelming support for this controversial hypothesis. But we couldnt resolve one thing: concerns about a popular pen-in-mouth smiling task. 🧵

A rare snow leopard roaming on Mount Everest at 18,000ft, photo published in The Times and The Sunday Times today by Kittiya Pawlowski. What a shot!

The €200,000 Institutional #EinsteinFoundationAward2022 goes to Psychological Science Accelerator Nicholas Coles, PhD. The network brings together scientists from over 70 countries and has been making key contributions to the democratization and diversification of psychological research. Congratulations!

Huge congrats to an amazing international initiative

The PSACR Data Paper is now published at Scientific Data by Dr. Erin Buchanan et al. - this paper represents the final paper from the project and details the full dataset available for reuse. nature.com/articles/s4159…

A little non-academic writing of mine on climbing partnerships and helping a friend move far, far away. open.substack.com/pub/chrischart…

Some hobby writing about riding my bike a lot :) chrischartier.substack.com/p/riding-aroun…

Jasmin Paris Jasmin Paris finished loop five of the #BM100 in 59:58:21.

The 2024 Barkley Marathons has ended. There are five finishers. #BM100

Today, my term as director of the Psychological Science Accelerator — one of the largest collaborative communities in psychology — ends. Working w/ Psychological Science Accelerator was very hard work. But it was incredibly meaningful. 🧵on the past 3 years and the future of big team science