Thalia Vrantsidis

Come join me at Mississippi State University! Our cognitive program is hiring (mstate-my.sharepoint.com/personal/jrm63…). Friendly colleagues doing cool science, easier access to grant money (state-specific pools), cute college town, affordable housing, no snow. What's not to love? Please share!

Editor registration opens in ONE WEEK on October 8! Help us level the playing field in psych PhD admissions. Complete the editor interest form and we will send you an email when registration opens: forms.gle/R8Lb1VE1UedMSt… #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

@OfosuEugene @betsylevyp @PrincetonSPIA Sad to miss you there but enjoy!!!

It's wild to read this paper with the perspective from @smreeteemehta and @lakens podcast on replication. I finished my PhD just as replication become a thing; it was eye-opening to hear about the pre-replication world of 2010(!). doi.org/10.1177/174569… nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/new-replicat…

I have flex in my funding to hire a postdoc and a full-time lab manager to start AY 2024-2025. I'm not sure if/when I'll make a formal job posting (it's complicated). If you or someone you know is potentially interested, please reach out via email for info!

The cost + environmental impact of academic conferences is atrocious! It's not enough to change our behavior as individuals, we need to make large scale change to have in impact. This app (t.co/103UZ9tRHt) can calculate the environmental impact of potential conference sites and allow you to find locations that dramatically reduce the environmental impact. Even if you don't care the slightest bit about reducing emissions, the app will still save your conference attendees hundreds of thousands of dollars and countless hours stuck in transit. Using the app can save thousands of people time, money, and stress, while reducing their emissions. For our annual Social and Personality Psychology Conference (4,000 people), the app estimates that meeting in Atlanta instead of Portland could have saved: -3.1 million miles round trip travel -$338,000 in airfare -20% of emissions (760 tCO2e), equivalent to growing 12,567 trees for 10 years Ask your organization to use it and please share it with anyone who might find it useful. If you can convince your conference to use this app, it will likely have a greater environmental impact than anything else you'll do in your life. The app was designed by @leorhackel

New paper with @TaniaLombrozo! Why do people only wonder “why?” about certain observations? Why do people only find certain explanations satisfying? We propose the “picky with a purpose” hypothesis. Thread below, paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…