The International Social Cognition Network (ISCON) is pleased to announce Dr. April Bailey as the 2025 winner of the Early Career Award! Dr. Bailey is a Lecturer of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. She earned her B.A. from Colgate University and her PhD in 2019 from Yale University.

Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

Apply to work at the psych program at @bardcollege.bsky.social with me! I love it here and would be happy to answer any questions you have. Review starts 10/1. www.bard.edu/humanresourc...

Forms of Psychological Bias Against Transgender Women and Men and People with Nonbinary Gender Identities -- now online at Personality and Social Psychology Review. Main article: doi.org/10.1177/1088... Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #SocialPsychology #IntergroupBias #Transgender #Nonbinary

A new piece - well, almost a whole book! - by our team, reflecting more than a decade of work.

Wanted to share a handy little resource with you all (especially those in dev psych) — my lab & I made a "journal submission cheat sheet" that summarizes article types, word limits, & other requirements for the journals we typically submit to. Link below 👇🏼 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

🚨This article is finally out! psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Echoing what @eriknook.bsky.social said - you will not regret taking on this truly stellar NSF recipient!

🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨 If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way. 🗓 Application review begins April 15 ⏰ Final deadline is April 25 📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP

NEW—Mahmoud Khalil's wife: "I was born & raised in the Midwest. My parents came here from Syria…They believed living in the US would bring a sense of safety & stability. But here I am…weeks before I’m due to give birth to our first child…I feel more unsafe & unstable than I have in my entire life."

seriously PIs, talk to your contacts at NIH, NSF, etc. they're trying to help this morning I chatted with the SRO of my cancelled study section, she's already working to reschedule it I thanked her for making it work, & just said it meant a lot to me that SROs, POs, etc are keeping science going

I was honored this week to give my first talk (of hopefully many) at #SPSP2025 🏳️‍⚧️ Growing Together: Trans Joy & Relationships 🏳️‍⚧️ A quick thread 🧵 👇

We've created a tracker that covers all executive orders affecting LGBTQ folks along with federal and state legislation. We're at 334 anti-LGBTQ bills. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Credit @alli.gay @erininthemorning.com @evanurquhart.bsky.social @miralazine.bsky.social @lizsaila.bsky.social

Here's the pretty journal version. For a paper about names, it seems appropriate that my full first name is shown. I've always abbreviated part of my first name as X. in my pubs, but it was nice to see my full first name in the proof so I kept it this time. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

🚨 New article, now online! 🚨 Really proud of this one! In this article, we demonstrate that the way in which identity centrality is conceptualised (either as identity importance or identity salience) matters for mental ill-health outcomes for LGBTQ+ individuals! doi.org/10.1037/sgd0...

The Department of Psychology at Lehigh University invites applications for a Teaching Assistant Professor position in psychology! Be part of our faculty team! For more info: facultyjobs.lehigh.edu/node/1129

Sally’s amazing! Apply to work with her!

Researching identity safety cues? Submit to our Special Issue call at Journal of Social Issues, "Identity Safety Cues in Context: Advancing the Role of Group Status, Interpersonal Dynamics, and Systemic Events in Identity Safety Cues" - due Dec. 31st! spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

I am hoping to recruit a Ph.D. student to join our Social Injustice and Social Change research group at UC Santa Barbara in Fall 2025! You can more information about the position, about our team, and about our research on our website. sisc.psych.ucsb.edu/posts/recrui...

I'm hiring two part-time, paid research assistants! Must be fluent in Spanish and able to work in the UK. Please share with your networks. Ideal for UK post-baccs looking for more research experience to supplement MSc work, other RA work etc. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

New paper led by the magical @statwood.bsky.social ! We discuss how anti-trans rhetoric often draws on essentialism & benevolent sexism, which are associated with worse outcomes for cisgender women - the group anti-trans folks allegedly try to protect. spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check out Princeton Psych's Visiting Internship for Ph.D. Students Program designed specifically for students who: - don't have summer funding - have approval of their home advisors - are seeking an outside internship Details here: t.co/Z2AYoL4y3a #PsychSciSky #CogSci #DevSci #socialpsyc

The longer I’m in academia the stranger it seems that there’s no Q&A with the rabbi after their sermon! (Are there any synagogues that do this?)