I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

Does anyone use #RedCap for child participant database management? If so, would you be willing to share screenshots etc. of what your user interface looks like or share the template, whichever is easier. #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #devpsyc #AcademicSky #cogsci

@npr.org just posted this to their instagram: "Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. It’s the beginning of a new chapter — but we’re not going anywhere."⁠ It's received more than 60k likes in just 30 minutes. www.instagram.com/p/DPREnmwjyBe/

so excited for this!

ISCON now seeking nominations for the 2024 Best Social Cognition Paper Award! This award recognizes an outstanding article (theoretical or empirical) in the field of social cognition. Papers eligible if published in 2024. More info here: www.socialcognition.net/best-paper-a...

New paper out in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology! 🎉 How do we figure out who will accept or reject us in a new group? We show that people generalize relational value across friendship ties—forming a network gradient of approach & avoidance. authors.elsevier.com/a/1lq3x51f8w...

I may be biased, but I love this department! ❤️❤️❤️ Everyone should apply!

Delighted to share that we are currently hiring for a tenure-track position (open rank) in Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at McGill University. Come join a great department! Link to apply: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill....

Check out this new publication @sansmeeting.bsky.social!!!

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New paper! "Reviewing Research on Transgender and Nonbinary People in Social Psychology: Insights and Future Research Directions" With the magical @kirameans.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📣 Join SPSP tomorrow from 2-3 PM ET for a Free-Form Friday session, as three SPSP members who have experienced recent grant terminations share their stories and discuss how they're navigating next steps in their research. Register here: ow.ly/1aKx50WYNwl

Come be my colleague! We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of developmental psychology at the University of Denver. Please share with anyone on the job market this year! jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...

🚨 NEW PREPRINT: Multimodal inference through mental simulation. We examine how people figure out what happened by combining visual and auditory evidence through mental simulation. Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... Code: github.com/cicl-stanfor...

🚨 Exciting News! 🚨 Introducing the @sansmeeting.bsky.social Fellows Program! We are thrilled to recognize SANS members for their scholarship, mentorship, or service! Consider nominating a deserving individual, including yourself! socialaffectiveneuro.org/sans-fellows...

Penn State Psychology is hiring in Child Clinical! Assistant or Associate Professor *This is a 2nd position* We're also hiring in quant-computational. Q's app process: [email protected] Q's position: [email protected], Cynthia Huang-Pollock psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896 I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.

Postdoc @debshulman.bsky.social presenting at BPS Social @bps-social-psych.bsky.social Asking whether contact induces within-person changes in people in ways that can shift attitudes and related variables.

NSF GRFP deadline published! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... End of October! Solicitation seemingly on the way

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI). Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

🚨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. 🧵

Applying to the NSF-GRFP (or another fellowship) on a tight deadline? We built a 7-week guide + timeline to get you from draft to submission. It’s not too late — you’ve got this! ✨ 🔗 cientificolatino.com/apply-in-7-weeks #NSFGRFP #GradSchool #Fellowship

Watch, laugh, and then join us at Stand Together for Higher Ed if you're faculty or staff. If you're not and want to support us, please repost and then call your legislators to demand their support for research, science, free inquiry, and students. ❤️www.standtogetherhighered.org

📢 We are hiring! The Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville is inviting applications for two tenure-track positions in Counseling Psychology: Assistant Professor Assistant or Associate Professor Apply here 👉 apply.interfolio.com/172545

📣 Attention all @sansmeeting.bsky.social members!!! Please share all the cool things you are doing by using this easy-to-use form 👇🏼 Don't be shy! Share with the community! Self-nominations (students, faculty) are what this is about (but also give a shout-out to a friend/colleague)!🥳

🌟 Excited to share that I'm recruiting PhD students in Psychology for my new lab at Rice University this cycle (Signal boost appreciated!) To learn more, check out the Learning & Behavior Change Lab website: www.sinclairlab-rice.com Applications are due Dec 1st: psychology.rice.edu/graduate/pro...

Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience. #neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Interested in applying to graduate programs or research positions in psychology? Want more information and feedback on your submission materials? Then Harvard’s Prospective Ph.D. & RA Event in Psychology (PPREP) Is for you!! psychology.fas.harvard.edu/pprep More info in the link!! Please retweet!

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

Faculty position announcement! Assistant/Associate Professor in Human Development and Family Science and Center for Developmental Science at the University of Georgia @universityofga Find me @FluxSociety #Flux2025 meeting to talk and learn more!! www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/448...

📣 🚨 Yale Psychology has 3 searches this year! Links below: Quantitative link: apply.interfolio.com/171903 Social link: apply.interfolio.com/171989 Clinical link: apply.interfolio.com/171970

🚨New preprint with my stellar student Junsong A Small-World Mind Theory of social cognition doi.org/10.31234/osf... Big network, close connection🤯 It explains why low-dimensional findings dominate & high-dimensional evidence emerges Naturalistic designs matter to understanding the complex mind

The TiCS issue featuring our paper on "A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making" is now available online 😄 Honored to have been a part of this awesome interdisciplinary mega-collab led by Christin Schulze (UNSW Sydney) www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

The psych job market isn’t dead! Join us at UIC!!! We are looking for a clinical psychologist (assistant or associate level)!! Chicago is simply the best, and the department is incredibly lovely! I’m not on search committee, but as the “newest” hire, I’m happy to talk about my experience thus far!

My lab has an open post-doc position! We will begin reviewing applications as they come in. The post-doc will work with a vibrant research team at Penn State in the Department of Psychology and the Child Study Center. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic... 1/3

Our posting is now up for a Lecturer (Asst prof) in Social Psych at the University of Auckland Please apply! Portal closes 20 Oct NZT. That's the 19th stateside bc here in New Zealand we live in the future I'm not on the committee so am unconflicted and happy to chat with interested folks

I was honored by the @psychscience.bsky.social DEI Committee's invitation to help curate this collection of outstanding articles addressing a range of issues related to anti-Black racism. I also couldn't have asked for a more thoughtful and thorough partner in @johnjost.bsky.social. Please share!

So excited to share that my first first-author paper is out in @commspsychol.nature.com 🎉 In a mini-meta analysis of seven studies, we looked at whether loneliness is related to altered expectations of one’s own and others' emotion transitions. www.nature.com/articles/s44... (1/4)

#SocialPsychology #PsychSciSky Submitting an EASP 2026 symposium on intergroup relations, contact, or dehumanization? If you think I could add to your symposium, drop me a DM.

Deadline for these jobs is 5th September, so you've got until next week on Friday to apply! Come join us in beautiful York, complete with Minsters, snickelways, fMRI and OPMs - what more could you ask for?! #neuroskyence #neurojobs #psychscisky #cognition #psychjobs

"While hundreds of millions of dollars in frozen federal research funding has been restored, a smaller subset of grants in areas that are out of favor with the White House, including transgender health, have not. Columbia’s School of Public Health and medical center remain in austerity mode..."

Todd Wolfson, AAUP President, warned of a more “militant” response on campuses in the fall – including possible mass strikes. “We’re going to need to politicize this fight. It’s not an economic strike on our job conditions – it’s a political strike for the future of the sector.” #DefendHigherEd

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

If this is helpful for anyone going on the social psych tenure track job market in US, here are my Colby (in 2018) and UIC (2023) statements: osf.io/ef7s3/files/... My lab website has links to other people's materials. Of course the markets were very different back then. www.pbandjlab.com/resources

@sansmeeting.bsky.social Check out this new amazing work!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! Journals should be putting out these special issues!

My dept at the University of Auckland (NZ) will be hiring in social psych at the junior level this cycle. Official ad to follow It's a big research-active dept with fun colleagues, plus you can commute to uni on a boat, paired with a pleasant walk thru Albert Park (this pic from heading home today)

NEW: McCarthyism returns to immigration law, as @USCIS announces that it will begin screening applicants for immigration benefits for "Anti-America ideologies or activities." The term has no prior precedent in immigration law and its definition is entirely up to the Trump admin.

Deadline Oct 1: Asst prof (tenure track), Cognitive Neurosci., Psychology, DePaul University apply.interfolio.com/169242