Good morning #SPSP2026 attendees. We have a busy slate of events today at the Sustainability Preconference. Tune into #SP3Chicago for some highlights! @spspnews.bsky.social

Happy #SPSP2026 week! Not able to make it to the Sustainability Preconference and feeling really sad about it? Never fear! Check out the #SP3Chicago tag on Thursday for updates about the exciting new research being presented.

🌎🌎🌎 👇👇👇 When you register for #SPSP2026, sign up to attend the Sustainability preconference! More info about the precon: tinyurl.com/3a8awt23 Register here: tinyurl.com/8e75wsnz

Don’t forget to register to join us at the #SPSP2026 Sustainability Preconference! We have an exciting lineup of speakers, panelists, and posters around our theme: Integrating Science, Community, and Policy for Sustainable Change. @spspnews.bsky.social

Been working to create more accessible tools for getting started with R for psychologists. GitHub Pages has been a great tool for allowing me to do this (dharaden.github.io/psyc640/). Aiming to create another site for a broader audience and would love suggestions!

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky We all know: humans are very social animals But this study helps to quantify that premise. (even things we "know" to be true need to be shown to be empirically true) People prefer doing almost ALL activities with others (vs alone). journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Has there ever existed a person who has a “to read” pile who has actually finished that pile before adding to it? Or is it the case that if you have such a pile, it is prohibited by some law of nature for it to ever go down to zero?

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Well, it's official. We just received notice that all authors on the Sixth National Climate Assessment have just been released from their roles. The NCA is a vital, Congressionally mandated resource for our nation as we prepare for the impacts of climate change. This is a huge loss.

The NSF has stopped funding research into disinformation, a disinformation researcher highlighted why this is such a bad idea: “We know false information is out there, we know it spreads widely, and it’s important for people’s health and for democracy to understand what we can do about it.”

My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.

I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.

🧪 DOGE is reporting cancelling 402 NSF grants today. And let's recap: this is for awards that NSF has **ALREADY** judged as aligned with its mission in law, which includes broadening participation in STEM. It bears repeating: the law supersedes exec orders. For more: www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

As FEMA gets cut and the climate crisis escalates, the need for climate related disaster mental health will only intensify! Join us for our inaugural series! www.climatepsychology.us/cpa-workshop...

Hey SPSP members! 👋 Proposed U.S. federal budget cuts would significantly impact psychology funding and research. We just published an Advocacy Alert with actionable steps you can take today. Check out the link for ways to make your voice heard: spsp.org/news/spsp-n...

The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach. www.tsunami.gov

Two preconferences, one poster, one symposium, many events, and more reunions than I can count. #SPSP2025 is a wrap and I am so grateful for the reconnection. Until next year!

Last, some highlights from the #EPatSPSP2025 datablitzes: 1) A seriously cool talk by @wnmerrell.bsky.social about how we infer clustered (patchy) resource distribution based on an area’s hierarchicalness (& vice versa). Who knew lobstering could be so socially complex?! #SPSP2025

Last but certainly not least in our fantastic invited lineup, @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social dazzled us with work on gendered perceptions of gossip. (1/3) #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025

Not a researcher who uses LLM currently, but this context is so helpful to consider for future collaborations and beyond!

At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:

@dconroybeam.bsky.social gave all of us the talk we needed to hear about ways to improve our work through more formal theoretical modeling. Clear testable predictions are just as important to field replicability as good methods and analysis! (1/5) #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025 #InDanWeTrust

Biggest take away: Will is awesome. Archeozoology is FANTASTIC. the use of genome studies & his work on horse bones show us how science should be done. Plus the gene culture coevolution leading to the adoption of horse use as opposed to other pack animals 🔥

Will Taylor discussed how the emergence of our partnership with horses revolutionized human history (1/3) #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025

Biggest take away: people say letting others borrow their phone is costly and won’t do it, but then in the field observations THEY ACTUALLY DO IT! Mind the (behavior) gap, it is real! @norabalboa.bsky.social

I’m back at it today with more #EPatSPSP2025 recaps. @norabalboa.bsky.social gave a talk about the challenges of trying to overcome the hypothetical situation-real world behavior gap, in the context of prosocial behavior (1/3) #SPSP2025

So glad to hear that @russellsagefdn.bsky.social and The Spencer Foundation are both remaining committed to funding and supporting #socialpsychology and #diversity science! Thanks @spspnews.bsky.social for bringing these funders here! #SPSP2025

Next up, @joshackman.bsky.social reminded us that disease remains a potent threat post-pandemic, and has been throughout human history - to the point that we’ve got psychological mechanisms dedicated to preventing and coping with it. (1/5) #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025

First @pdurkee.bsky.social discussed the potential for adaptationist models to extend our knowledge of what shapes personality traits… (1/2) #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025

Now that the preconference dust has settled, time for an #EPatSPSP2025 recap! 1st, big thanks to @jessicadayers.bsky.social for making co-organizing fun. 2nd, thanks to our amazing presenters. Last, thanks to our attendees - who registered so quickly that #SPSP2025 kindly moved us to a bigger room!

If you’re still here on Saturday, check out our symposium chaired by @joylosee.bsky.social on threat-politics! #SPSP2025

More SCAPE Lab at SPSP!: Our fantastic research coordinator @willow-rose.bsky.social is presenting her work on the role of mental imagery in shaping pro-environmental intentions at today’s poster session. Social Cog fans, come say hi! #spsp2025

Hello #EPatSPSP2025 attendees, you can get to the four seasons ballroom by going through the “600s” hall to the right of the registration help desk and then taking those stairs down. Our lunch is in the ballroom! #spsp2025

It's almost time for SPSP!! Reminder that hashtags work now so use #SPSP2025 on posts & click on the hashtag to see other posts. But, if you want to see all posts that contain "SPSP" you can use the feed below. Just be warned that it also catches a lot of pspspsp posts. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Excited to chat with people this morning about recent social cognition work that @ashleykrause.bsky.social and I have done. If you’re at the Sustainability Preconference, come say hi! #SP32025 #spsp2025

Y’all!!! 25 YEARS?! #SPSP #SPSPSILVER !!!

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

higher ed is the largest employer in 10 states and in over 60% of the 100 largest cities. destruction of federal research funds is economic sabotage.

This website shows you how many jobs NIH funding creates for your state along with the overall economic activity generated. www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Cuts to the NIH are a strategy to strangle research universities not “reduce waste”

Per usual, thank a librarian!

The thing about science is that if a phenomenon such as climate science weren’t real, they wouldn’t need an executive order forbidding its study. The better we explain the social processes of science, the clearer it will be to everyone that this EO is an admission that climate change is real.

For those outside of academia, the Dept. Education thing is extraordinary interference. I am not allowed to accept grant funding if the sponsor gets a say over what I publish. That's important. It protects me from outside pressure to tank results that are politically or financially inconvenient.

This looks like part of a massive multi-faceted attack on scientists and universities from the Trump admin. They have cancelled funded federal grants, frozen NIH panels, promoted anti-scientific figures and conspiracy theorists like RFK Jr in positions of oversight. This is just beginning…

Years of research suggested that Twitter and other social media apps were vectors of misinformation and propaganda, including from fossil fuel interests.

Come work as a climate postdoc with me, @jenniferhadden.bsky.social and Chris Rea at @climatesollab.bsky.social ! Deadline: January 15, 2025. 🌍 apply.interfolio.com/153582

New JPSP article is out, with @jordanaxt.bsky.social, @calvinklai.bsky.social, and many collaborators! We organised a contest study with an open call for interested researchers to submit their discrimination-reduction intervention ideas. doi.org/10.1037/pspa...