Excited to share that former SAMC Lab grad student @dymoral.bsky.social has accepted a postdoc at @cornellbctr.bsky.social. He'll be studying purpose, identity, and well-being among adolescents and adults. Sad not to have Daniel in the lab anymore & also very excited for his new adventure! 🎉🎉🎉

For folks interested in applying to work with me as a grad student, see below for: More info about SBU's Cognitive Science PhD program: www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/psyc... More info about my lab and work: rmpillai.com

Yesterday, families of transgender children in ND lost their lawsuit against our anti-gender-affirming care law. If you are able, consider supporting this (or any other) organization that will help them get the care they need to thrive as themselves. southernequality.org/nd/

I am beyond excited to officially announce that I have accepted a TT Assistant Professor of Psychology position at Warren Wilson College. The next 3 weeks will be filled with packing and last minute Hawaiʻi adventures before we make our way to Asheville, North Carolina!

The Association of Religion Data Archives (@religiondata.bsky.social) is one of the central programs of the Center. The ARDA contains more than 90 learning modules on religion data, including notable topics such as religious views on homosexuality. Learn more at www.thearda.com/categories/t....

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Dissertation Dedication: “I wrote a song for all those nice little Jewish kids who don't get to hear any Chanukah songs” Adam Sandler, Chanukah song, Saturday Night Live December 3, 1994

Full circle moment as I reread Many Forms of Culture (Cohen, 2009) and found notes written in from the summer before I started grad school about Religious v. Cultural Jews — next week I defend my dissertation focused on understanding different facets of Jewish Identity.

Had a great time at @spspnews.bsky.social this past week! Every year, I leave the conference reminded why I love my work and academic support system so much — even with 7 inches of unexpected snow ❄️❄️❄️

By pawpular request, I've migrated over to this other side! Please help me find my furriends on here and tell them to follow me. Woof!

Sharing my posters from the religion pre-con and opening poster session at @spspnews.bsky.social I presented some of my Jewish ID diss. results and a side project about religion and political beliefs! Also, shameless plug, I am on the post-doc market if you are looking for a post-doc! :)

Are you an undergrad/early grad student Coming to SPSP in Denver and want to chat about how to pick a Thesis or Dissertation topic? Sign up using the link below for my mentoring session on Saturday the 22nd at 9:30! (I am table #20) www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D44A8...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

Officially running the last of my dissertation surveys! If you are eligible please consider taking this survey :) Feel free to share with others who are interested in participating! manoahawaiiss.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Ending the year with my commentary with Joni officially in press! Check out this special issue focused on The Cognitive Science of Religion and our commentary titled "Integrating culture into the cognitive study of religion" 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Starting winter break off early with picking up our newest foster cat, Beerus from the Hawaiian humane society! She is around a year old and will be with us for a few weeks as she recovers from femur surgery. She will be our 23rd foster since starting in 2022!

*my psy 100 students discussing the Stanford prison experiment*: I just love how camp they were with it

Found my new data analysis procrastination hobby -- looking through all the palettes on the R palette finder to make my graphs fun 🤩 📊 r-graph-gallery.com/color-palett...

Or to uber drivers — I’ve faced many attempts at uber evangelism by making that mistake 🙃

Boosting my intro thread with all the new folks on 🦋! I study how we think about our own religious and cultural IDs, how those IDs impact our thoughts and behaviors in both secular and religious settings, and the boundaries we may draw when deciding to include/exclude others from our social ID

New to BlueSky? Interested in Psychology? Click on this post and scroll up for a thread of 40 starter packs containing experts in different areas of psychology. #Psychology #AcademicSky #EduSky 🧪

Goodreads is owned by Amazon & there is an AMAZING alternative‼️ The StoryGraph is a black women-owned competitor to GoodReads with better UI in my opinion. When you sign up you can even transfer your data from Goodreads to StoryGraph!

The starter pack I was looking for but couldn't find: Social psychologists who study diversity, equity, inclusivity, and related topics, broadly construed. DM me if you want to be added (or removed)! #PsychSci #socialpsyc go.bsky.app/MAoGLF4

Currently recruiting Jewish participants to chat with me about what being Jewish means to them -- part of my dissertation work! Feel free to send to those you think might be interested :)

As the semester starts this week, I wanted to officially mention that I will be on the post-doc/job market this cycle! My research broadly focuses on how our religious and cultural identity may impact our identity, thoughts, and behaviors 🧵

Join me at the @SPSPnews mentoring session to chat about navigating graduate school as a first-generation college student! As an undergrad I attended the same session as a mentee, and I am thrilled to be able to be on the mentor side this year! www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D44A8...

Been lurking and reposting but figured I should make an official intro! Hi academic friends new and old! My name is Hannah, I’m a PhD student studying religion and culture at the University of Hawaii at Manoa 🌈 happy to be here ☺️

⚠️ Please repost to spread the word! We have a page on our Resources for Researchers site now ALL about applying to psychology (clinical and non-clinical)/neuro graduate PhD programs! Tips from start-to-finish, example statements! www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...

Are you willing to complete a quick (~10 min) survey? Click here to participate: tinyurl.com/UCMPsychSurv... The students in the psych capstone class that I help teach put together this survey to collect data for their mini-research projects. Please share/retweet & thank u for participating!

we've now moved 325 people from psych twitter to #psychscisky there's a waitlist of ~40 psych folks wanting to join; please send more codes to Lisa or me (email or DM @samuelmehr or @lkfazio on twitter) so we can migrate them ! 🚀🚀