On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote. zohranfornyc.com/register

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes 1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible. 2. "alignment with Administration priorities" 3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem. a brief 🧵 w/receipts www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

The University of Nebraska looks to join West Virginia University as flagship public universities to cut graduate programs in K-12 and higher ed administration. It's not a great look for land grant missions.

Virginia voters know that starting tomorrow, we get to cast our ballots and make clear — it’s time for a Governor who will stand up for Virginians.

Early voting in Virginia starts tomorrow! I was so excited to join a call with many of our volunteers & organizers across the Commonwealth, who are putting in the work to turn out every voter. I’m so grateful for all their hard work.

Our department at Radford University is hiring a director for a clinical psychology master’s program at the rank of associate or full. The successful candidate will lead the development of the clinical master’s program. Happy to answer questions! jobs.radford.edu/jobs/directo...

⚡ Three days left to submit a poster or roundtable unconference for #SPSP2026! Learn more below and make sure to get your Annual Convention submissions to us before September 18 at 11:59 PM PT! 🔗: ow.ly/81aU50WWN3X#SPSP2026! P.S. Precon submissions will be open until October 23!

Starting November 1st, New Mexico will become the first state to offer free universal childcare to all its residents. It's expected to save families over $12,000 per child annually. This is a huge step forward — and a reminder that we have the power to fix the system.

The right sets the terms of our political discourse in so many ways, one of which is the idea that there isn't enough "debate" and "free speech" on campus. We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/

Too many Virginia families are struggling to keep up with rising costs — and they need immediate relief. As Governor, I’ll work tirelessly on Day One to lower costs — from housing, to healthcare, to energy.

I don’t know why anybody is going along with the course description justification for firing a professor. A class discussion can go anywhere depending on who is in the class and their questions. Everything is political, so what would be off the table for political scientists?

When it comes to filling high-skilled jobs in Virginia, we can’t rely on a one-size-fits-all approach. As Governor, I’ll cut through red tape to ensure that Virginians have the education and training they need to succeed — no matter the path they choose.

I’m so grateful that I have tenure and the academic freedom to call it like I see it. “Dr. Kathleen Bachynski, a professor of public health at Muhlenberg College, described Kennedy’s comments as “absolute gibberish” and slammed the HHS secretary as a “dangerous buffoon” who is “threatening us all.”

Faculty Meeting Icebreakers [SATIRE] "As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? When did you first realize that you would not achieve this dream?" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/fac...

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.

"The ability to tell the truth, especially when it does not suit any particularly partisan aims, is an essential prerequisite for a free society. Scientists can leverage their substantial social standing and trustworthiness to preserve this vital ingredient." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This virtual special collection, The Psychological Science of Anti-Black Racism, an Ongoing Social Problem, highlights a selection of articles published in APS journals over the past decade that explore the enduring problem of anti-Black racism in the U.S. journals.sagepub.com/page/aps/cro...

🚨New Paper Alert🚨 Just published in AJCP - one of my students and I (along with an awesome team of collaborators) explored the ostensible impact of historic redlining practices on contemporary violence exposure risk of adolescents living in those communities. Data and code here: osf.io/ekxmf/

Question for IRB friends. Is the community member’s attendance required to conduct official business? Going over some internal policies, and it isn’t entirely clear to me. Thanks for any help!

I have a hard time believing that voters really care about crime when a plurality voted for a convicted criminal who committed serious crimes against the country and vowed blatant lawbreaking in office. I believe voters care about this subject, but “crime” is not quite it. They mean something else.

Apollo 8: Earthrise RIP Jim Lovell 😢

I contributed to a recent story at WHYY on the termination and then reinstatement of NIH grants. This nupheaval has a lot of ripple effects whyy.org/articles/fed...

My philosophy for getting students writing is that writing needs to be a desirable alternative to outsourcing to the automated syntax generation machine. There's lots of hurdles to clear, but the start is to convey that writing is about more than words. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...

So I vaguely recalled in the wake of Sweeney jeans ad discourse (which I was genuinely trying to avoid) that at some point I thought I learned that Black people gave us jeans — I just couldn’t recall the source until today. There is a doc which this article summarizes, with sources cited. Cheers.

Scientists Discover Gene Responsible For Eating Whole Goddamn Bag Of Chips theonion.com/scienti...

If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal. If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you. Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.

As I detailed in WHITE FLIGHT, segregationists in Atlanta absolutely loved public services -- buses and trolleys, parks and pools, golf courses and tennis courts, etc. -- right until they were forced to desegregate and "stolen" from them. They abandoned them and built up private alternatives.

New paper Terrorism threat predicts conservative reactions, via anger (not fear) psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... I wonder, is this the "new conservatism"? That is, in the past, might rightward shifts been more fear-based, but are now more anger-based? @johnjost.bsky.social, any thoughts?

Students, faculty, and staff fought to fully fund the CSU, winning hundreds of millions of dollars in state support. But now CSU management is breaking its promise by withholding agreed-upon raises, cutting jobs, and continuing to raise tuition. This is an insulting betrayal.

From a paper I just read: the effect of worship attendance on one's willingness to pay higher tax so everyone can have better health care across nations. Note in most nations, the association is positive, though mostly non-significant. Just in the USA where the association is negative & significant.

Our oscillations consensus paper is finally out as a preprint 🤩 thanks to everyone involved arxiv.org/abs/2507.15639

Socioeconomic Status in Social Interactions "Low-SES individuals exhibited greater attunement to others and elicited greater comfort in others than high-SES individuals, but impressions were formed in line with homophily effects." doi.org/10.1177/0956... #SocialPsyc #Sociology

Unionize, unionize, unionize. Even if they pay you well. Even if they are elite. Unionize.

If we want men to be less lonely, we should start by socializing them in boyhood to be part of a shared project of care. Give them dolls, toy kitchens, and tea sets. Ask them to help care for younger children. Expect them to clean up after themselves. Let them feel the work and value of care. 1/

I had a skeet break containment, so if you’re new here, please take a moment to JOIN THE UNION! United Campus Workers of Virginia (UCWVA) at UVA welcomes all faculty, staff, and student-workers as the local chapter of the union serving all Virginia public colleges and universities ucwva.org

The UVA Faculty Senate has voted to approve a resolution of No Confidence in the Board of Visitors

University leaders who do not speak up for higher education and for faculty cannot expect faculty to do media interviews on controversial topics. My own recommendation is that no junior faculty in the country should do any interviews on any controversial topic in this environment.

Biked every day to work from 2009-2018 and never bought a new one after it was stolen from my front porch.

#SocialPsychology #PoliticalPsychology #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky Great to see Jim Sidanius get this honour. What an apt descriptor: #TrailBlazer

The reason @abigailspanberger.com is running a winning campaign is she outperforms the other side in every aspect of campaigning daily. She outworks them by showing up, listening & connecting. Yes, she has a fundraising lead *and* she also has an even more impressive advantage in retail campaigning.

Father’s Day show in the rain 🤘🎸

Chewy training for dog sports….

One month left! Who is coming to my invited talk at APA? #APA2025

A *huge* problem. It also includes search committee positions, review requests, letters of recommendation, P&T reviews (so, so many of these post tenure)—it goes on and on. And the social penalties for women saying no are so dramatically higher than when men say no.

Early voting for the 2025 #Virginia general election begins 11 weeks from today: Friday, Sept. 19. (Fairfax: you’re three weeks from the start of early voting for the #VA11 special election to send @jameswalkinshaw.bsky.social to Congress.) Help out the campaigns. Make a plan to be a Day 1 voter.

Chewy enjoys working from home