I'm sure that if we scientists remain "apolitical" that this campaign of scientific censorship will stop, right...right?

I'm generally averse to left-wing hypocracy-porn But in this instance, I don't think the takeaway is that radical centrists are hypocrites on free speech The lesson is instead that the moral panic over "left-wing cancel culture" is and always was a reactionary propaganda campaign 1/2

What is happening at public universities in Red states will not stop at public universities in Red states. The Authoritarians want speech codes, blacklists, and loyalty oaths for all in academia.

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Living in Europe, the one thing I find difficult to convey to Europeans is just how completely incompetent and feckless the Democratic Party Leadership is at doing politics.

We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position at CIMCyC (Granada, Spain) to work on the psychology of dis(mis)information. Apply before 26th September. Nice city, great environment ☺️ Please share! 🔃 cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati... #socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob #PhDJob

*nodding and pointing upward sagely*

Maybe it's time the media put to rest the decade-long moral panic over "left-wing cancel culture" and start seeing f*cking reality for what it is?

From the @aaup.org: www.aaup.org/news/academi...

Is this the "left-wing cancel culture" we've heard so much about?

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

It's *almost* as if Kennedy personally profits from people who don't trust real medicine and science and instead get sucked into the scam-filled world of "alternative" medicines The man is a professional con-artists in an administration run by professional con-artists

Looking for help from #psychology and #survey folks who study #politics and use Prolific to collect data What is the maximum for # of GOP participants one can plausibly get? According to the prescreen there's 10-12k GOP/leaners, but of course what's realistic for uptake is much lower. Thank you!

We are about a month away from releasing a complete refresh of the OSF user interface. The team has been working on this for a very long time, and we are very excited to be able to share it soon. A preview picture:

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

More state-backed speech codes from the "DEI is destroying academic freedom" crowd 🖕

Extremely proud of this very thorough and informative Handbook for conducting both Replications and Reproductions! What an amazing team of experts and so much insight into one place! Go @forrt.bsky.social , go 🚀

Umberto Eco's 8th property of fascism: the enemy is at the same time too strong and too weak.

Paper on the problems of using LLMs as replacements for human participants journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Maybe some in the "hard" sciences should read a little more "soft" science and history to learn that trying to appease authoritarians will not save them Also, f*ck you if you'd so easily throw your colleagues to the wolves just to protect your little academic fiefdom 🖕🖕🖕 #solidarity

Universities often serve as "anchor institutions" that deeply affect the character of their communities. In a new paper, we estimate how (and when) the establishment of a college influences local political and civic life. 🧵 osf.io/preprints/so...

I said what I said: "Professors are considering leaving Columbia because of the settlement, said Jacoby and Dixon-Román. 'It’s very demoralizing to teach in a university that’s, from my perspective, acceding to authoritarian demands,' Jacoby said." www.chronicle.com/article/colu...

A friendly reminder that the leadership of Columbia University are traitors to everything that academic freedom stands for

Is this the "left-wing cancel culture" we keep hearing about on college campuses? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Waking up on a Monday morning to a minor revision

Yo! I'm looking for examples of good political science articles that theoretically or engage with space/context/place. Can you help me out?

Spoke to @katieyoder.bsky.social about the very disturbing development of the Trump administration disappearing climate reports and data, taking climate denial to an unseen level grist.org/language/tru...

We're hiring! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30219 The Cornell Department of Communication is hiring an Assistant Professor in Science, Environment, and Risk Communication! Applications received by September 15, 2025, will be given full consideration.

In their new paper, our colleague Isabel Pacheco (+Ellen van der Werff+Linda Steg) introduces the Systemic Change through Citizen Action (SCCA) framework: actions individuals can take to promote systemic changes towards more #sustainability & #circularity: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵:

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

There's a growing body of research on "generalized prejudice," given the high correlation between prejudices And what unifies these people? A belief in social hierarchy. If one likes social hierarchy, they tend to dislike all groups low on the hierarchy (women, immigrants, LGBTQ people, etc.)

Help me find a paper! I think it came out 5-10 years ago, and it showed that academic psychologists (or maybe social scientists) had trouble interpreting complex statistical interactions, and couldn't explain a 4-way interaction. 1/2 #openscience #psychology #metascience #statistics

In the fallout of James Ryan resigning from UVA, @sivav.bsky.social provides a clear argument of what higher ed is facing & why capitulation will not save you. newrepublic.com/article/1973...

The Trump administration just established a precedent that they can pick and choose who leads higher Ed institutions. An authoritarian government deepens its reach into higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

#SIPS2025 was a phenomenal conference! It sets the bar for great people and a worthwhile, productive time.

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

I wrote an article ("The Weather Amplifier") about the phenomenon of resonant amplification of the jet stream & impact of climate change six years ago in @sciam.bsky.social (for the physics nerds, there's a discussion of the tie-in with quantum mechanics): www.scientificamerican.com/article/drou...

van Rooij, I., & Guest, O. (2025). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Dehumanization in media, clear as day. This is a single screen shot from today, two headlines from The Guardian For the humanized group, 15 killed in a "unrelenting" and "devasting" attack with an identified actor For the dehumanized group, just 51 killed. No moral language, no identified actor

Every person involved in this decision should lose their job

When I tell people in the Netherlands (where I live) that car culture in the US is truly *idealogical*, in every sense of the word, this is what I mean. Like firearms, not even the killing of children will shake our political system's centering of driver-convenience over literally everything else.

I can't stress enough how wrong and disingenuous the most recent wave of COVID revisionism is. The *only period* when Democratic counties had higher death rates was April-May 2020. From June 2020 onwards, Republican laxity and denialism were the most powerful force driving deaths.

There's no way to sugarcoat what the loss of transferability does to renewable energy project finance. My latest: www.spglobal.com/market-intel... 🔌💡

"For 142 years, the merit-based civil service survived because both parties recognized that functional government requires professional expertise. That consensus is dead. We're watching the transformation of public servants into party servants, of a government of laws into a government of loyalty."

Shame on MIT. I remember when I first got there I was blown away by the students and proud to work there in spite of its problems. Then after Epstein I didn’t even want to go, and now they’re banning their class president from commencement for opposition to genocide. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it" by Colette Delawalla (@cdelawalla.bsky.social), Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann and Brian Nosek for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

With everything that's going on, I haven't been sharing much about our research. But, today, I'm happy to share that @jennrichler.bsky.social wrote about our papers on "Double Standards in Judging Collective Action" for @natrevpsychol.nature.com! rdcu.be/enhkl

This is shameful. The UNC Board of Trustees fails to vote on all tenure cases in Arts & Sciences, holding faculty in limbo without any explanation or timeline. This affects both assistant profs up for tenure and new tenured hires. www.chronicle.com/article/at-c...