Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

Saying goodbye to 2025 with one of our most important posts: INQYR's holiday pets! ❤️ Wishing you all a happy and safe New Year; we will see you in 2026! 🥂🎉

A sad but unsurprising study: bullying victimization is associated with more than double the odds of suicide attempts among sexual minority people.

LGBTQ+ well-being varies sharply worldwide in a global sample (N=82k). Structural and family homophobia strongly reduced well-being—especially for those facing economic precarity. Reducing homophobic stigma should be a public health priority. #SOGIData #LGBTQHealth

It is endlessly frustrating to see grifters get rewarded for manufacturing the same predictable outrage over and over. This poor trans TA has been made an example of and is being pushed out of her career for simply doing her job. So gross and cynical, UO decision makers should be ashamed.

Christmas dinner: success! 💪

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail

As @seanjwestwood.bsky.social's terrifying new PNAS article demonstrates, LLMs can now pass almost every attention check, mirror personas, stay consistent across pages, and systematically bias responses in the aggregate. So here’s a different angle: verify physical presence, not text.

Call for Proposals / Appel à propositions Deadline: 15 January, 2026 / Date limite: 15 janvier 2026 EN: https://ow.ly/W5Bj50XKtgB FR: https://ow.ly/QHoa50XKtgC

🌈🎓 GLO is a new mobile-based app presented by It Gets Better Canada that features an evidence-based curriculum developed by our very own PI Dr. Shelley Craig! Take an in-depth look at each module and read Shelley's full statement here: www.inqyr.org/glo-app 💜

"Remember that an AI girlfriend responding to your loneliness might just be a man in a Nairobi slum, wondering if he'll ever feel real love again" An important report here data-workers.org/wp-content/u...

#AcadLife #SOGIData #LGBTDemography #GenderStudies #translivesmatter

Stink bugs have problems too

Can chatting with AI sway your political beliefs? A new joint study from the Oxford Internet Institute and AI Security Institute (AISI) offers unprecedented insights into how conversational AI can exert influence over people’s political beliefs. Read more: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

PhDone ✅ 🥳 Thank you @daraghmcdermott.bsky.social, Dr Beth Jones & Prof. Rusi Jaspal for all your support! Shout to Professor Adam Bourne (La Trobe University, Melbourne) and Dr Blerina Kellezi (NTU Psychology) for making the viva so enjoyable! @ntupsychology.bsky.social

I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...

My latest article is now up on ASR. In it, we argue that the U.S. LGBTQ movement is in the midst of a widespread, conflictual process of generational turnover—with important implications for the future of the movement. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3

Far too little attention's given to this in research methods training. And since online surveys are now the default method - wrongly assumed to be quick, easy and cheap - we're in a big mess of our own making. Even if 'real people' respond, surveys are often so badly designed data is meaningless.

🏳️‍⚧️✨ It’s Transgender Awareness Week! All week we’re sharing research that uplifts and centres trans identities. Today we’re highlighting Neuro-Queeriosity, a study exploring mental wellness among Gender and Neuro Minority (GNM) people in Canada. 🌈🎓 #AcademicSky

Go do this important work with @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social !!

I'm very pleased to be hosting this roundtable discussion about LGBTQ+ Peer Support on December 2, 9-11am AEDT, in-person and online. Featuring wonderful discussants including @shubhakayastha.bsky.social @joel.queercomputer.com @t-odonell.bsky.social and more! events.humanitix.com/lgbtq-peer-s...

-- Call for Papers -- Special issue on "Intersectionality in Social Psychology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications" in the British Journal of Social Psychology. Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2025

Our new UK study about protective & risk factors in preventing suicide among LGBTQ+ youth is now out! 🌈 We surveyed 9,666 LGBTQ+ youth (13-24), identifying top predictors of suicidality: LGBTQ+ victimisation, conversion therapy, food insecurity, non-affirming school climate doi.org/10.1080/0020...

𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐆𝐁𝐓𝐐+ 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 — 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬. Federal funding is vanishing, but the need is not. We are launching a new fund to continue life-saving suicide prevention and mental health research at SDSU. Support our work by donating now. 👉 givenow.sdsu.edu/lgbtq-mental...

The kids are not alright. Longitudinal research shows that rates of mental health distress among LGBTQ+ youth have increased since 2023, that they're less able to access mental health care, and that nearly 1/4 have been threatened with conversion therapy. www.latimes.com/science/stor...

"Silicon samples" - using LLMs to generate fake survey responses instead of recruiting humans. Sounds efficient until you realize small model tweaks completely flip your results. Shortcuts in research usually aren't.

Happy International Pronouns Day! 💖 INQYR’s LEVEL UP! study shows how pronoun options in games like The Sims 4 & Monster Prom help LGBTQ+ youth feel seen, connected, & affirmed in their identities. 🌈🎓 #InternationalPronounsDay #LGBTQGaming #PronounsMatter #LGBTQyouth

Ugh... This study has existed for decades, providing valuable health data for all sorts of topics and publications. This is just more awful news. 🛟😷 Sociology medsky

Many thanks to Andy for inviting me to Hong Kong Baptist University to introduce their students to Media Psychology and present my work. It was truly amazing to engage with students and discus how social media impacts their well-being.

Coming out is a personal choice that shouldn’t feel pressured. Digital spaces can offer queer and trans youth connection, learning, and resilience to make coming out feel safer. You are a valid part of the community, no matter where you are on your coming out journey. ❤️ #NationalComingOutDay 🌈🎓

ISTN-3 Grads Rory O'Brien and Eli Verdugo were involved in this timely new work exploring the unique experiences of being young, queer, and in care. Check out the open-access book at the link below!

Big congrats to @kaitrindoll.bsky.social !!

New paper! "Reviewing Research on Transgender and Nonbinary People in Social Psychology: Insights and Future Research Directions" With the magical @kirameans.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

NEW: The latest story from the 18,000+ emails in Jeffrey Epstein’s Yahoo inbox: beyond his ties to the elite, a quieter circle proved crucial as state and federal investigations began. Insane reporting from @suryamattu.com, Max Abelson, and team. Free link:

Full story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New! Did you know gaming can improve your mental health? Watch @nballou.bsky.social @mentalhealthoii.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk explaining how gaming can lift your mood in this new film from BBC Bitesize. #gaming bit.ly/4pEKWYQ

This is so interesting! Meanwhile I and many others are trying to figure out ways to keep bots OUT. I wonder about the implications of using silicon samples particularly in these anti-science times and what stereotypes about marginalized groups are implicit in these samples.

#FIFSW Professors Shelley Craig and Micheal Shier have received 2024-2025 Teaching Awards for creating supportive and innovative learning environments for social work students: socialwork.utoronto.ca/news/how-two... #SocialWork #UofT #SocialWorkTransforms

Really exciting findings - yet more evidence to show that the AFFIRM intervention works! The article is open access, check it out!

In the constant battle to resist the flood of AI generated junk, one recurring red flag is papers that devolve into long lists of bullet points and ideas in outline form. These are easy for LLMs to generate and it requires effort to turn them into prose, effort some authors do not expend.

Expert Explains Why, Essentially, You’re Fucked

So... I did some analysis of grants that did receive noncompetitive renewals. In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed. Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph... 1/4

I wrote a piece for the Guardian games newsletter this week on my PhD research into preserving play experiences, and why I think that the most archaeological games are those that that actually make you *think* like one 🏺 www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...

✨ New Publication Alert! ✨ Very grateful to be invited to contribute to this manuscript describing the process of implementing curriculum reform in social work education, and am so glad to see it out! Lots to learn in this one, but here are the top 3: 🧵 #AcademicSky #EduSky #SocialWork

This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.

The use of AI to make fake scenarios of being persecuted would be hilarious if it wasn't so dangerous

This is the definition of a failed social media platform.

With alt text Cc: Canadian 2SLGBTQ+ researchers, especially in Alberta and the west!