I'd rather picture books & children's books where boys just happen to have long hair or a pink coat, or be best friends with a girl who enjoys the same activities as them, or where a monster character is a she rather than a he, or where girls are naughty at school & boys are kind.

New #PSPR research explores how men's feelings, thoughts, and behaviors are affected by masculinity threats. The strongest consequences emerged when the trigger leads to men themselves concluding their masculinity is inadequate. Read more: https://ow.ly/LF8o50YMHGV

The proposed FY2027 budget calls for eliminating NSF's SBE Directorate, which funds 63% of U.S. academic research in social + psychological sciences. SPSP has put together a member action guide with three steps you can take to help advocate for our field. Start here: https://ow.ly/WIgx50YJU5e

hi if you’re canadian and you hate the horrible LED headlights that are way too bright you have until april 20th (blaze it) to complain to transport canada about it in this survey

Great article from @avial.bsky.social and @adamstanaland.bsky.social about how boys are motivated to avoid femininity by age 5. Their results show that the problematic trend that "masculine" things are cool for everyone but "feminine" things are only for girls/women starts early.

Take, for instance, fields long dominated by women —gender studies & the humanities & social sciences, the disciplines most frequently written off as ‘useless’, or of ‘no value to society’. Unsurprisingly,these are now among the most aggressively targeted. thenoosphere.substack.com/p/anti-intel...

we made covid restrictions, not covid, the enemy, success was defined as 'getting back to normal' & in doing so, we missed the opportunity to normalise very lost cost behaviours that would, cumulatively, save a lot of lives

Woke professors should fight back on #highered attacks by demanding "viewpoint diversity" among American CEOs. www.nber.org/papers/w30183 #academicsky

YES THE COATS.

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

This is troubling for multiple reasons, but one big one is companies won’t want to invest in R&D and clinical trials if they don’t think they can get a fair regulatory review—which is at the end of a long and extremely expensive process. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...

There are a lot of lies and rage-baiting about immigrants, so from time to time I want to correct the record.

New research finds that debunking disinformation works better than prebunking when there is a time delay. Correcting false claims after people encounter them reduced trust in disinformation for at least two weeks across multiple topics. Read more in #PSPB: https://ow.ly/QE9h50Y7Q7W

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

New paper in PSPB on the benefits of giving positive feedback to students, especially from underrepresented groups. Although not the norm in STEM, giving positive feedback boosts self-efficacy and belonging, which increases STEM performance, attitudes, interest journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Remembering when I posted this photo from Glasgow and a guy’s daughter, sheltering from a hurricane in Florida, saw it and drew this amazing sketch to pass the time. My question is, why invest in AI when we have immensely talented humans all around us more in need of investment?

The NEW LIST OF PROHIBITED TERMS . . . www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n... #AcademicSky #BlackSky #8647

"Prestige bias" is one of the strongest forms of bias in academia. Reviewers rank paper submissions from top-20 institutions and non-students higher, but this goes away with blinded reviews. haruka-uchida.github.io/websitefiles...

Wanna see a visual on the result of the Republican attack on public health? I’ve got you covered. This is from Pew Research Center’s most recent survey, showing a 27% drop in Republican support for school vaccine requirements from 2016-2025.

Wizened Millennials sneering at Gen Alpha: I told you the old ways are best (Gen X, petting its moldering set of the 1983 World Book Encyclopedia: Soon. Soon.)

Cool work, thread 🧵

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

I should mention this again: Worldbuilders Market worldbuildersmarket.com/search?q=mar... has Murderbot and Sanctuary Moon merchandise where the proceeds go to charity. At this point as far as I know there is no other licensed official merchandise.

They literally ruin everything they touch

This is a correct framework. Generally, environmental factors linked with increased autism risk occur in late pregnancy and include immune response to illness. (But not postnatal, only prenatal) A powerful protection for that is to be vaccinated.

A woman from the FDA’s Center for Devices & Radiological Health explains how her entire department was gutted That means there’s no staff to alert you if your pacemaker is recalled If an implantable device in your body is toxic or broken This could have catastrophic health impacts & cost lives

"Correlation is not cognition" as @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social says

Gender pay gap S Korea 31% Israel 25% Japan 21% Canada 17% US 17% Mexico 17% UK 15% Germany 14% Turkey 10% France 9% Spain 7% Italy 3% Belgium 1%

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service. Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

When we think of sexism, it's easy to think of *active* efforts to discriminate against women. But sexism also operates *passively* - like through our inaction on issues like childcare and paid family leave. In that context, return-to-office policies are sexist in consequence, even if not in design.

Also, I know it is a small point in the overall march towards fascism, but the idea that gender is performative and a spectrum is backed by science. The *actual* “gender ideology” is being imposed by the folks who insist, against fact and reason, on a strict binary.

There are two competing narratives on this: science changed, or Republicans changed. You can figure out for yourself which one is more likely.

A) This is an interesting finding B) It is from a June poll C) Not linking to your sources when sharing poll data is profoundly annoying behavior D) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...

🇩🇪 3-year universal basic income (UBI) study, in which n=120 received UBI, n=1500 did not. Website is pretty neat, check it out for core findings. www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en

The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs

WORK! The Sociology Department at Utrecht University is hiring a new assistant prof, with expertise on migration/integration/polarization/stratification. Come join us! www.uu.nl/organisatie/...

probably one of the most important lines of empirical research on this topic

Our paper about gender segregation in both men-dominated AND women-majority fields is now out at Sex Roles! rdcu.be/eAuNQ (doi.org/10.1007/s111...)

This administration has thrown literal grenades at the rickety foundations of American academia, and for some reason, neither the national media nor university administrations are actually talking about as the economic, social, political and cultural threat/crisis it is. What a terrible loss.

This reminds me of this excellent new article that shows how ChatGPT actually increase language anxiety and linguistic insecurity for Chinese international students for found themselves relying on it more and more in ways that took away their voice. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

Watching YouTube videos about fluid dynamics and carefully rearranging fans through my apartment trying to get yesterday's hot air out before it heats up for the day!

No one wants to hear this, but it’s true. Either we can value education — not for a select few but for anyone willing to put in the effort — and provide the requisite resources, or we can watch it become a pursuit available only to an elite minority, with everyone else getting a cheap facsimile

Genuinely, Germany was *THE PLACE* science was done. If you wanted to study Physics, or Psychology, or Medicine, you learned German. And then.

Again, you cannot unplug 1/4-1/5 of an R1 university's budget & expect the same quantity or quality of "things" on campus. The math simply doesn't work. And pretending it does & we can uphold our "core values," & not talking loudly & publicly about how it doesn't, is not a strategy. It's madness.

A PhD-level expert isn’t someone who can answer any question off the top of their head. A PhD-level expert is someone who will stare at some piece of information, say, “that doesn’t seem right,” and then spend enormous amounts of time obsessively hunting down every piece of information they can…