it’s fall, that means it’s time for me to nag you into putting fenders on your bike

Part of a new CREP paper out (failing to) replicating Griskevicius et al 2010 in JPSP Using this to plug how I think CREP is a great framework if you teach a Research Methods class, a number of my students ended up as authors, which they found pretty cool 1/3

Collaborative Registered Replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010): Can Pro-environmental Behavior Be Promoted by Priming Status Motivation? a #CREP project with 24 student teams, 6 countries, N~4,000 is now out in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/coll... #OpenScience #Metascience

New job: 2026-28 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Science and Technology Studies Cornell University jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69142

It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Congrats to Dr. Ted Schwaba on receiving the SAGE Early Career Trajectory Award from @spspnews.bsky.social! 👏 This award recognizes the outstanding work that Dr. Schwaba is doing at the cutting edge of psychology and genetics. Full story here: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

American liberals and conservatives (mostly) respond the same to party cues: https://osf.io/yd92v

87-year-old Cecil Williams walked down the runway to "Neva Scared" during Actively Black and Spill's #NYFW show this weekend www.whatimreading.net/p/civil-righ...

For those interested in a neuroscience PhD - the University of Minnesota Graduate Program in Neuroscience www.neuroscience.umn.edu is hosting virtual open house events coming up on Oct 6th and Oct 30th. Learn about the program and meet students and faculty! Register here: forms.gle/kANEp4Fmd3ut...

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🥳 PsyArXiv is back to normal operations 🥳 Thanks to the fantastic team of moderators (thank you all🙏), PsyArXiv has resumed normal operations. You can expect any newly posted or edited preprint to be moderated within 24-72 hours of submission. Learn more from our blog post👇 buff.ly/OtpsKhm

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

A new preprint, lead by lab undergrad Aymin Triki, with machine learning support from @abbycassario.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

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

Please share: Looking for soc scientist experienced in survey research & interested in interdisciplinary work to join our soc/neuro team @UniOldenburg in "HearingTogether" project, associated w/Hearing4All Excellence Cluster, for 4-5y postdoc (TVL13, 100%). Deadline: Oct. 9 uol.de/job731en

I am recruiting (Canadian🇨🇦) graduate students at York University for Fall 2026 in Social and Personality Psychology! If you are interested in misinformation, political polarization, and/or computational social science, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

👇 call for papers on the political psychology of East Asia!

📣 MORAL APPEALS IN POLITICAL COMMUNICATION 📣 New version of @twidmann.bsky.social and my working paper answering: * Have moral appeals increased over time? * Is the tendency to moralize ideologically patterned? * Are some topics consistently more moralized than others? osf.io/preprints/os...

LSE's Department of Methodogy is searching for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. Applicants from across the social sciences are very welcome! Please reach out if you would like any more details.

Psychological Methods invites early-career psychologists to apply to be a 2026 Editorial Fellow. This year kicked off our EF program -- it was enriching for the EFs and rewarding for everyone involved. Let's do it again! For details: www.apa.org/pubs/journal... @apajournals.bsky.social

📢 Trinity College Dublin is hiring an Assistant Professor in Sociology. Full-time, fixed-term role (maternity cover). Early career researchers, including those who’ve just submitted, completed, or are about to complete their PhD are welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Oct 6, 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a...

Benevolent authority beliefs predict public approval in China, but not Japan. At the same time, democratic values were positively associated with public approval in Japan but negatively associated with that in China (in @ispp-pops.bsky.social) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Outstanding new paper on machine learning at AMPPS-- hit the virtual stands this summer. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Call for Papers: Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science is calling for proposals for manuscripts that discuss, demonstrate, and work to enhance replicability and reproducibility of methods research in psychology. Proposals are due by September 15!

All this suggests we should probably stop assuming respondents are insincere when answering questions about "democracy" and, instead, continue caring deeply about the many other challenges involved in measuring these attitudes. (end)

Here, @aarslew.bsky.social and I use the well-demonstrated fact that, in issues where people have incentives to withhold socially undesirable behaviours or opinions, the absence of an interviewer facilitates their expression. (4) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

For potential grad students: if you're interested in this kind of work on assessing and improving close relationships measures, our group just got a grant to do five more years of it. Join our team!

The last article from our August issue is a review by Eric Baldwin of two books looking at the state of radicalization and what it means for US politics. Read the insightful analysis online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

I’m recruiting a PhD student in Social Psychology @ TCU for this application cycle! My lab examines how beliefs and attitudes form, generalize, & shape behavior. We apply this general interest to the study of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and health behavior.

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

🧵 Very excited (w/ @omarjcamanto.bsky.social) to share our preprint tutorial for using our R 📦 dySEM for #dyadic data analysis with latent variables, in cross-sectional data sets. This paper has been literal years in the making, and provides three distinct tutorials. osf.io/preprints/ps...

What drives attitudes towards economic mobility & redistributive policies? Research from Matamoros-Lima et al. in our August issue finds that the perceived difficulty (or ease) in improving socioeconomic status helps to shape support for redistribution. Read open-access: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

🚨We're hiring!🚨 The Dept of Psychology at Rutgers is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology. Review of applications begin on Oct 18. Details here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259... I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵

My lab is hiring a lab manager! Application deadline = 11/1, start date sometime between June & September 2026 (to be arranged with finalist). Please spread the word & apply here: opportunities.columbia.edu/jobs/a3f80f7.... #AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc #psychjobs

Biggest concern in mediation is mediator & outcome confounding, even when X is random. Comparing methods: how the indirect effect acts when errors of M & Y are allowed to correlate is a great option. From Alvarez-Bartolo & MacKinnon journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1... #stats #psych #phdsky

Do you work on the psychology of disinformation? The CIMCYC (UGR), a María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence, is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher. 📍 Granada, Spain 📅 Apply: Sept 15–26, 2025 🧑‍🔬 Postdoc (1 yr, renewable) #SocialPsychology #PsychScience 👉 cimcyc.ugr.es/informacion/...

Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract). www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546... @sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs

4/6 🧵Using survey experiment, Magalhães et al (2025) in @ispp-pops.bsky.social show voters (in 🇵🇹) support weaker due process rights for corruption suspect from opposing party vs their own party. Out-group derogation prevails in-group favoritism in corruption evaluation. https://doi.org/p4qt

Absolutely stoked to share that the @erc.europa.eu decided to support my Starting Grant proposal, INTERVENE, aiming to develop a contextualized data-driven approach for psychological intergroup interventions. So grateful to the support of the ERC, mentors, colleagues and students!

I’m pleased to share that my review of @alexislerner.bsky.social’s new book is out @iajournal.bsky.social. It’s an excellent book that draws attentions to street art as a tool oppositions can use in dictatorships but also how dictators can co-opt such strategies. academic.oup.com/ia/article-a...

Great job at the Pew Research Center for a Computational Social Science Assistant: pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

The College of the Holy Cross is hiring for 2 tenure-track psychology positions: 1 in Cognitive Psychology (specifically, higher-order cognition) and 1 in Developmental Psychology. Please share widely! Developmental job ad: apply.interfolio.com/171704 Cognitive job ad: apply.interfolio.com/171698

📢 We're hiring! 3 lines in CP, IR, and IPE. Come join us in Madrid! I'm not in the committee but more than happy to answer questions (via DM, email) and/or chat.

Our department is hiring! We're looking for a cognitive/developmental psychologist who uses computational approaches to study human cognition and behavior to address learning, development, and education. Feel free to reach out with questions!

Social media *does* have value. See!

We’re hiring an assistant or associate professor to join our psychology department at the University of Illinois Chicago! We’re a vibrant research-active department in a great city, a diverse institution with a purpose-driven mission, and a fun place to work! #psychjobs uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

I'm reviewing applications for the University of Washington's PhD program this fall. Applicants interested in the Clinical Psychology, Social-Personality (emphasis on personality), or Quantitative programs are welcome to apply. More information here: sites.google.com/uw.edu/radla...

What does it mean to be European? Mayer et al.'s article in our August issue looks at adolescents' ideas of European identity in Germany. Read open-access online for how these conceptualizations of identity shape intolerance, support of the EU, and more: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Nice tutorial on taming legends in ggplot2. 👍 I often prefer legends inside the plot, or better yet, direct labels on the plot objects to avoid a legend entirely

Come and work with me in beautiful Ames! isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IowaSt...