We cannot allow this to stand anymore! We have prepared a petition calling for a boycott of the next ISPP 2026 conference in Newcastle, UK, unless the Executive Committee resigns or responds to our concerns. Please read and sign the petition here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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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...

A response by former ISPP leadership to this statement below on Gaza and Israel published last week by current ISPP leadership: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Sorry to hear about the new Florida man (TM) www.cleveland19.com/2025/09/02/v...

Academics: In non-facism or genocide related news, the Alaska Summit card gives 3x on foreign transactions. And guess what, Prolific purchases are a foreign transaction. Alaska Airlines is great for both AA and Alaska air flights.

Many thanks to Seattle University College of Arts and Sciences for co-sponsoring the International Society for Justice Research conference in Seattle. What a great experience for all who joined us! Special thanks to Mark Petterson for the terrific write-up! www.seattleu.edu/newsroom/202...

Scientific organizations should reflect the population that they’re serving. SPSSI ROCKS!

Stony Brook is hiring in political psychology (assistant professor). Please Share! Feel free to reach out if you have question. For more information: apply.interfolio.com/170193

Nice write-up by Alan Lambert and I on our work on threat, emotions, and politics! spsp.org/news/charact...

Glad you all were able to hear my work with @michaeledemfiagbenu Michael Edem Fiagbenu on police violence towards the general public, but most prominently Black and Brown individuals.

Our second panel at the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making's Political Divisions event was on emotions. Here is @feadeh.bsky.social on emotions and policing policy @ssripennstate.bsky.social @psuliberalarts.bsky.social @rockethics.bsky.social #socialpsych #psychscisky youtu.be/JpFI96mHAgs?...

How do folks deal with skew from programs like LIWC? I'm getting skews in the range of 3 to 6 and I don't think a log transformation makes sense, but would love to hear what you do!

Question for those of you who study realistic/symbolic threat in intergroup/immigrant contexts: In stephan, ybarra, bachman 1999 are realistic and symbolic threat scales mislabeled in the appendix? Has anyone else run into this question? Thank you!

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After seeing some great news today media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2l...

Hakeem Jeffries' brother endorses Zohran Mamdani ––>

The people who lost children and other loved ones in the Texas floods are owed honest answers from officials. They should be told why flash flood warnings issued hours earlier were not conveyed to people in the path of the water. They don’t need more prayers from politicians. They need answers.

I was thrilled to co-host with @bakiner.bsky.social the International Society for Justice Research conference, featuring justice scholars from around the world. Thanks to Dr. Crystal Hall, Karam Dana (@karamdana.bsky.social), and Dr. Pilar Margarita Hernández Escontrías for brilliant keynotes!

Delighted that the symposia I organized with Crystal Shackelford (and featuring @ajuaduker.bsky.social and @sakierahudson.bsky.social ) was accepted at the Society for Experimental Social Psychology's annual Conference. Emotions and politics will be the theme of our session! See you in Lisbon!

Invite me for a talk, get a small batch roast of coffee :)

Spoke to detained Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri's wife in her first—heartbreaking—interview. At one point she recalls her son—who she tried shielding from it all—overhearing what happened as she spoke to lawyers. He quietly approached, hugged her, and said "Inshallah my father will come soon."

They stole her parents

Settle a Debate: French or German Bread?

Despite knowing the people on the search warrant weren't there, the ICE arrest team STILL took this family's phones, laptops, and life savings — and refused to leave a BUSINESS CARD so they could ask to get it back! This stuff is sadly not unique to ICE; it happens with regular police raids too.

Looking for TNT crew at halftime. The Heat are gone fishing at halftime

SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me. This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.

Everyone has already made this point but reiterating that US citizens cannot be ‘deported’ and using that language does the mainstreaming and propaganda work of the fascists who want to make it sound normal to kidnap, disappear, and traffic people based on their ethnicity or politics

They are deporting citizens and arresting judges

Fight back. Wannabe dictators often cave in if it's too much trouble. And even if they don't? If you're gonna lose, lose fighting back rather than giving them what they want.

Every member of the administration should resign; every Republican in the Senate should demand immediate impeachment and removal. It is not an exaggeration or hyperbole to say that he is an authoritarian bent on destroying American democracy.

Silly question. Running a mixed model anova and a journal is asking for 95% CIs on effect sizes. I assume I could just run these as a regression but could use some help!

Beyond vital political stakes, it also looks like admin misread the narrative, too. They tried to pitch “MS-13 illegal” and assumed story would end there. Instead it’s become a daily, episodic, human-interest and court drama about a wrongfully deported loving husband, union-member and caregiver.

Now available online! psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

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The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

If you are the *editor in chief* of a journal and you send a personal email two days after a late review was due, you better believe that I will not be reviewing for this journal again.

It's easy to hear this and think--well, at least they're only deporting citizens who are "heinous, violent criminals who have broken the law repeatedly." But our country already has a history of criminalizing citizens for made-up "infractions." If you don't know what I mean, Google the Black Codes.

The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

🚨 TODAY: BRUTAL SETTLER ATTACK LEAVES 5 HOSPITALIZED IN JINBA, MASAFER YATTA, WEST BANK 🚨 Every story of Israel's violence against Palestinians deserves the level of recognition and outrage that we saw over the attack on No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal. 1/ 📷 IG: @mahmoud.photography97

What does it mean????!

Coming soon! This paper was a whole journey to get in

NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk's attorneys—now including the ACLU!—describe her arrest and detention as "part of a concerted and systemic effort by Trump administration officials to punish students and others identified with pro-Palestine activism." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Extremely disappointing & cowardly. The American Psychological Association is rescinding diversity requirements. Not due to any actual mandate from the federal government, but only because it may *someday* face pressure from the government www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...

I feel like we just continue to run into racist things the apa has done for dozens and dozens of years

Acceptances for ISJR 2025 are out! See you in Seattle! www.seattleu.edu/arts-science...

It's a minor point amidst the serial violations of due process occurring here, but one of Trump's conditions to Columbia University for retaining funding was to ban masks. But the people sweeping up students are masked armed security officials.

Yup medium.com/@zahachem15/...