APS 2013- Top Tweets, Moments, and Advice

The Association for Psychological Science (APS) had its 25th birthday in Washington, DC this weekend. And to celebrate they pulled out all the stops including a flash mob, a fancy hotel across from the zoo, a concert, a huge line up of top notch invited speakers, and APS branded merchandise.

APS also was the first conference this author has ever visited that successfully and widely got attendees to use twitter. This allowed both science and general advice on research to go public immediately. At Indecision Blog, we love how the internet opens up scientific communication, so we were excited by how Internet-heavy APS was this year.

Below we have aggregated the top moments, pieces of advice, and general tweets from #APS2013DC. We recommend you go through the #APS2013DC on twitter itself but given the number of tweets we warn you that is quite an undertaking. So start off with our summary below.

Advice and Thoughts on Research Process

'I don't really read journals any more, I just follow other scholars on Twitter' – Jason Priem #aps2013dc

— Jason Buhle (@jasonbuhle) May 25, 2013

#aps2013dc @BobbiePoPS "I don't want to manage my career, I want to do my career." "If you're doing your job, networking will come."

— Catherine Rawn (@cdrawn) May 25, 2013

The way to have more interesting questions….read beyond your field! – J. Richard Hackman #aps2013dc

— Kate (@Kate_Sos) May 25, 2013

https://twitter.com/matingmind/status/338295229620834306

https://twitter.com/matingmind/status/338281255214936067

.@uri_sohn: evaluate researchers on the quality of their best papers, not the quantity of papers #aps2013dc

— APS (@PsychScience) May 24, 2013

D.Strayer: About 2.5% (probably not you) are "supertaskers" who actually excel at multitasking #aps2013dc

— Worth TLC (@WorthPsychTLC) May 24, 2013

Kahneman: Sample sizes often too small to yield reliable results…this is, in my mind, a real problem #aps2013dc

— APS (@PsychScience) May 24, 2013

Which cooperative game to use? There are so many. Use ALL of them. #aps2013dc #alexpeysakhovich

— Nicholas Michalak (@nmmichalak) May 26, 2013

T.Conner: Reviews of smartphone apps useful in behavioral science research http://t.co/6AUHOF7t14 – #aps2013dc

— Sue Frantz (@Sue_Frantz) May 25, 2013

Funny and Witty Tweets

https://twitter.com/matingmind/status/338442968874770432

"Beth Loftus is my Justin Bieber" – Dr. Butler #aps2013dc #butlerlove #fangirling

— Alessandra Rabellino (@AleeAleessandra) May 25, 2013

"Our genes are the piano keys of our lives and the pianist is our social environment…" John Cacioppo #aps2013dc

— Brandon Sousa (@Dr_S0us) May 25, 2013

#susanfiske: the animals we pity also seem to be the animals we eat for dinner #aps2013dc

— Nicholas Michalak (@nmmichalak) May 25, 2013

https://twitter.com/matingmind/status/338036756748316672

Rule of good conferences: arrive early and get free breakfast and coffee! #APS2013DC @ Washington… http://t.co/QA6BmV8a6z

— Brian Brandler (@brianjb) May 26, 2013

@matingmind @jasonpriem “Twitter replacing peer review as filter #aps2013dc”: but serious limits on user agency: http://t.co/g9dkB8Xt0j

— Tim McCormick (@tmccormick) May 26, 2013

Stanley Milgram's actual shock generator here at #aps2013dc in Washington DC! pic.twitter.com/6MloFl1Yfr

— Michael Carmichael (@MDCarmichael) May 25, 2013

Our #aps2013dc shirts for our poster session. Very fab & part of our tradition at the conference! http://t.co/0eEa3lCBiO

— Karen Freberg, Ph.D. (@kfreberg) May 26, 2013

The Actual Science

The APS website did a fantastic job of summarizing many talks, moments, and even posting videos on their Daily Observation blog. Check out all the entries between May 23rd and May 26th. You can even watch the entire Molecules and Mind address.

Also make sure to just search #APS2013DC for the top tweets about the science.

Here are a few of our random favorites.

@HoneyBuddha RT @cdrawn: #aps2013dc Vohs: $prime don't want to work w others unless reminded of (cont) http://t.co/KQJ57D33OE

— Bill Goldstein (@WMGoldstein100) May 26, 2013

https://twitter.com/matingmind/status/337998372889849856

JBartz: Social effects of oxytocin in humans not a main effect but an interaction – strong person & context dependency #aps2013dc #oxytocin

— Sarah Rose Cavanagh (@SaRoseCav) May 25, 2013

#aps2013dc Hertwig: is there a connection between peoples search behavior and memory constraints? Yes

— Margareta Friman (@FrimanSAMOT) May 26, 2013

Contribute

Did you hear a piece of advice at APS we missed? Was there a great talk people should make sure to check out either via the Daily Observation blog or a paper? Was there a new interesting perspective you gained from the conference? Do you want to share your poster or slides to promote your research? Tell us in the comments and be sure to include any applicable links.

Also amen to this tweet praising APS’s biggest live tweeter:

Thank you @matingmind for live tweeting #aps2013dc

— Peter McGraw (@PeterMcGraw) May 26, 2013

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