@clauslamm.bsky.social & I contributed to a global study that analyzed 21 million trials across 30 languages, revealing semantic priming [SP] as a robust cognitive mechanism across cultures and writing systems. Lead by @aggieerin.bsky.social and @slewis5920.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Action Editors in Social Psych: What's your record for the most number of folks declining to review a manuscript? Mine's 39.

It occurs to me that it feels a little self-serving that the only people who have coherent ideologies are we, the smug elites who define what makes an ideology coherent.

Immigration agents shot and killed a man driving AWAY from a traffic stop — not towards them, as they initially claimed chicagoreader.com/news/ice-sho...

Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to -17 in our tracker, the worst of his second term www.economist.com/interactive/...

I've been clear with students in my classes about my opposition to use of generative AI for writing or substituting for reading an actual text, but I think I'm going to need to talk with thesis and MA students about it as well. How are you all handling these conversations?

One of the great omissions from my high school history class was that the sit-in movement to end desegregation started in Greensboro, a 45 minute drive from where I lived. www.wunc.org/race-class-c...

"Typically, people are able to self-attest to a condition and receive a vaccine without showing proof... you should be able to self-report a condition and receive your vaccine." Lotta people on prednisone for all sorts of reasons... just sayin'...

Exciting new research for those of us who are interested in identity during transitions! This study really drills into the compatibility of new identities with old identities, and the impact on well-being.

Can someone make a short, looping video that's someone yelling "Oh my God, put in your damn headphones, you uncouth water buffalo!!" that you could bookmark and audibly play in these situations?

Check out our new pre-print in which we argue something that might be obvious but doesn't seem to be obvious to everyone: Large Language Models (such as ChatGPT) do not simulate human psychology.

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

🚨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

News coverage of Saturday's march in opposition to BBB Medicaid cuts co-organized by The People's Lobby (my political home!) and SEIU (my union!) abc7chicago.com/post/protest...

We got a new HVAC system this year, and the original quote inluded a "smart" thermostat. We were like "Can we just get a normal thermostat...?" and I genuinely think that's one of the best homeowner decisions we've made.

Something scary is that Republicans have clearly been damn good at whipping votes. Both times that monstrosity got exactly what it needed to pass, and the appointed mavericks got to performatively vote against it.

Just kinda feels to me like the Federal government is dead, right? What's the point of a union, anyway?

So nakedly the Supreme Court cannot defend attacks to birthright citizenship, but they're building up the power of the President to say "Who's going to stop me?" What pack of miserable human beings.

Each time a remotely progressive candidate wins office in the US, the rich declare they're going to leave town. What do they actually do? Nothing. A 2016 study found only 0.04% of millionaires move in a given year due to tax increases. Rich people talk to feel important. Please properly tax them.

A true work of art, I want to frame it and hang it on my wall!

Study looks interesting. Longitudinal examination of prejudice & well-being among ethnic MAJORITY adolescents Finds downward spiralling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... #PrejudiceResearch

I'm looking forward to seeing @hankgreen.bsky.social complain about the ordering of today's Connections categories.

TRANSPHOBES EAT SHIT AND DIE ALONE

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

If your employer refuses to review you for tenure with no written policy explaining that choice, you can sue them for breach of contract. Ask me how I know.

Last year, Illinois abolished requiring prior authorization for inpatient mental health care — and now, we're extending it to outpatient care. Patients and their doctors should be in control of decisions about their care, not insurance companies.

So this report was written by an llm complete with ai-hallucinated citations, right? www.npr.org/2025/05/29/n...

A red flag if ever there was one: The Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is selectively approving tenure bids, without explanation or comment. www.chronicle.com/article/at-c...

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

Want to increase access to mental health care in Illinois? Send a letter to your State senator in support of HB 1085 which will increase the number of mental health providers who take your insurance. Send the letter using this link: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

Do you field online surveys and experiments? Ever get back text responses that look unusually diplomatic and polished? In this paper, now out at Sociological Methods & Research, we study the emerging use of AI among online study participants.

Hey friends-- do you know anyone who has a space for a FREE awesome PhD student interested in minority stress among gender/sexual minorities? Please share broadly-- Hunter earned an NSF GRFP and will lose the opportunity to use it if we can't place him with lab.

I think it's awesome that so many people with autism have productive lives and relationships. But there are also people with autism who struggle to live in our neurotypical world, and guess what? RFK Jr.'s anti-science crusade won't do shit to help them and their families, either.

Indeed, Chicago. You are on notice.

Anti-trans policies don't just hurt trans people. They hurt anyone who doesn't fit neatly into a pink box or a blue one. And they hurt the rest of us by creating pressure to ensure that we always fit neatly into our box.

My office phone just rang. Truly shocking occurence, I barely know what's happening-- it plays a little tune, apparently?! But plot twist! It was IT calling to say they're removing inactive phones, and can they remove this one? Yes. Yes, they can.

Do evolutionary hypotheses about physical attraction hold up cross-culturally? Nope, according to @drboothroyd.bsky.social’s #ehbea2025 plenary

Man, Cadbury Creme Eggs still hit.

Hi folks-- does anyone have a recommendation for ESM/EMA data collections tools? I'm most concerned about delivery of surveys on a participant-chosen time schedule, triggered by participants' completion of an intake survey. Free/inexpensive is also very desirable.

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) has a bill to return tariff authority to Congress. If it were to pass, the purposeless tariffs would end. Speaker Johnson is blocking it. Call your member of Congress, R or D, & urge a discharge petition on the bill, which forces a vote. U.S. Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

Would anyone like to join me in setting up a GoFundMe for a noble cause...?

This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.

From the Stanley Vanity Fair interview. I think the system as it is now is super unhealthy with a few superstars who can easily move and everyone else no matter how talented not given a second look. And already if you’re in that category you are lucky bc most phds do not get tenure track positions.

I'm teaching Social Psych for the first time since 2020 and boy are the jokes in my slides out of date...

With age, I am understanding things I never understood when I was younger. ONE of those things, is the value of doing Fucking Anything™. Taking ANY action, inspires other people to take action. This ripple effect is more powerful than the original Anything™ you do.

I can't. How are we supposed to function if we can't trust the safety of our food and medications? How are we supposed to live here?

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

In November, I tried to use a Mail Merge to tell all my students where to go to take their final exam. It took days of fussing with Word/Outlook, but I was finally able to get a message through. Today Outlook decided to send one of those failed messages to all 120 of my (former) students.