🚀 Announcing the Besample Dissertation Grant (N=3,000) If you’re a Ph.D. student in psychology, economics, sociology, political science, communication, or any related field, this is your chance to get full funding for testing your theory across cultures. Apply: study.besample.app/jfe/form/SV_...

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in @pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n

Want to help with autism research? The Social Experiences of Loneliness of Autistic Adults (SELA) Project at the AJ Drexel Autism Institute is forming a Community Council of autistic adults (ages 18–35) to help guide a 5-year study on loneliness and social connection. Info in flyer and alt-text.

was wondering why i felt so at peace and then realized i forgot to reinstall bluesky after i went through us border control 🤡

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

Contributing to the  lit on where to place moderators in an experiment (shoutouts 🧵), @tabithabonilla.bsky.social, Genni and I consider whether items measuring prejudice are subject to unique considerations. Does asking these questions pre-treatment affect the experiment? @psrm.bsky.social

Philly showin' up today

wow I wonder if the cops who lied about the sitting senator even though everything they did was on tape are also being less than honest about the presence of violent agitators at the protests in los angeles. they might even not have told the entire truth about other protests

Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How do experiences of discrimination shape beliefs about inter-minority solidarity, and how does it vary among Asian subgroups? Read on to find out! By Dr. Chyei Vinluan and @danielsanji.bsky.social

walked thru philly pride to get home and was forced to reckon with how im getting older. the last time i was at pride was three years ago, freshman year, and now i'm graduating?? time is so weird

Brand new paper in @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social from the @dukeidlab.bsky.social 🤩 We are among the first to test cross-culturally how Asian American and Chinese Nationals categorize racially ambiguous biracial faces!! #psychology

A lot of this "does the left have a model of masculinity"? hand-wringing assumes that there *is* a masculinity that's recognizable as such that is not reducible to an entitlement to dominate and rule over others. I'm not convinced!

every time i see someone talking abt the crisis of masculinity or w/e i feel the slightest shred of sympathy, and then i remember the cishet white men being centered in that complaint oh, you.. feel excluded from society? wow, what a unique phenomenon. surely no one has ever experienced this before

🚨🚨 Alarming NSF policy update By accepting an NSF award, an institution now must say it's: 1. Not engaging in boycotts of Israel (yes really) 2. Not advancing or promoting DEI in violation of anti-discrimination laws Announced via a footnote today: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/gc1-ma...

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

So…what does this all mean? A key feature of the original study was replicated: there was no significant difference in accuracy between autistic and non-autistic chains, indicating autistic people are not impaired in information sharing in same neurotype chains

40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood

@craiganthonyrs.bsky.social why aren't you at insar :o(

#AutINSAR A3: It seems like most researchers continue to place the burden of change on autistic people instead of building the capacity of communities and service systems to support autistic people in thriving. Very little seems to be meaningfully beneficial to us and people are profiting off it.

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com

NEW PUB ALERT!!! 🚨 My paper shows how East Asian women in relationships w White, Black, and South Asian men construct racialized masculinities in romantic contexts. I reveal how these processes can both challenge and reinforce gender and racial hierarchies #Sociology doi.org/10.1177/2332...

The average American has three friends

So thrilled that—after a 6 year hiatus—we will be hosting the #AutINSAR chat at #INSAR2025!. This discussion on autistic priorities for autism research will be held both IRL & here on BlueSky on Sat May 3rd, 12:45–1:45 PM Pacific time. 2019 AutINSAR summary: thinkingautismguide.com/2019/05/auti...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

Recently I attended a know your rights training for travel. If you are an immigrant (of any status) or someone who is vocal on Palestine here are some precautions: 1. Use burners/ leave electronics at home. 2. If you take them use a 15 digit passcode, harder to crack. 3. Do not unlock them 1/

🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵 On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE). The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases: "not subject to appeal"

United States Disappeared Tracker: 1214 and growing. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.

🚨 Not a drill: NSF GRFP results are NOW OUT!!!!! But...good news and bad news. 👍 I'm *thrilled* for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now. 👎 # of fellowships went down by 51% (1000 this year vs. 2036 last year) See here: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

I JUST GOT THE NSF GRFP???

Elementary school principals going where university presidents fear to tread...

This paper, "Guidelines for the Creation of Accessible Consent Materials and Procedures: Lessons from Research with Autistic People and People with Intellectual Disability" still has a free version, now available for example here: researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/publicati...

By a 5-4 vote, the justices allowed the administration to freeze millions of dollars in grant funding for diversity and instructional programs at public and private universities.

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

Terrific @science.org write-up of the Scandinavian Prison Project experiment in PA. So far, we've seen greater freedom and less violence for residents, and reduced stress, better health, and a greater sense of purpose for staff. science.org/content/arti...

the deep irony of being told "time is something you can't get back" by immigration officials that just wasted three hours of my time. starting off american citizenship with some good old hypocrisy i suppose

New comment by @faridanvari.bsky.social and friends arguing that psychology is fragmented into the study of too many constructs and measures with too few links. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

i don't think ill feel fully relaxed until i have citizenship under my actual name and gender

I wrote a piece for @sciam.bsky.social about why White parents should be talking to their kids about race and racism. It was so great to work with @megha.bsky.social on this piece! Please share! www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Been seeing an increase of useful terminology developing among academics to describe the right’s appropriation of these ideas: “inverted victimhood” “hijacked victimhood” “imitated victimhood” The challenge is getting media folks to do the power analysis around victimhood claims in real time

Theoretical physicist who also does research in humanities using critical theories. It’s interesting how when it comes down to it, no one is mad at quantum field theory being confusing — for physicists too — but they’re mad at humanists for also having analytic frameworks that take time to learn.

Accidents down 55% and injuries down 51% since nyc congestion pricing (!!!) www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/22/c...

My @uoppald.bsky.social student Harley Bruce led a paper with @kmunday.bsky.social and me on gender-affirming care for autistic transgender and non-binary adults. 👇 I fear the results of the German election today for immigrants, disabled, trans+ people, & more under attack from the far right. See 🧵

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

Loved this post from a postdoc who lived through the Bolsonaro years in Brazil: "The best 'fuck you' to fascists? Thriving. Publish that paper. Build that collaboration. Laugh with labmates. Science outlives dictators—but only if we stay in the fight." www.reddit.com/r/labrats/co...