Great list. Learned a lot from it. dorsaamir.medium.com/modest-advic...

“Psychologists are more like activists or maybe lawyers, and our data are simply things we use to persuade, but the ideas are true, regardless of the data... we could be more like philosophers and simply rely on logic to make our cases.” open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...

🚨 Call for Abstracts! I'm excited to announce the 2nd workshop on Directions of Polarization, Social Norms, and Trust in Societies @ MIT on Dec 5-6 Keynotes from @bgoldberg.bsky.social & @adamberinsky.bsky.social 🗓️ Deadline to submit: July 14, 2025 🔗 sites.google.com/view/polariz...

Nick epley is hiring a new asst director: uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Soon, I will (excitingly) be starting my PhD at USC, which means I’ll (sadly) be leaving my pre-doc position with Emma Levine and Jane Risen. We are accepting applicants now! Please share! chicagobooth.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Soon, I will (excitingly) be starting my PhD at USC, which means I’ll (sadly) be leaving my pre-doc position with Emma Levine and Jane Risen. We are accepting applicants now! Please share! chicagobooth.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I am hiring a new Lab Manager to help run the NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation. We start reviewing apps on MAY 1st and it pays over $58,000. Please share with anyone who might be interested! Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166620 See more details below:

Genuinely curious what apologetics for this might sound like. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/w...

WTF www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

Politics 101 — Being predictable to your allies matters podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

“Low hoot,” … appears to mean something like “I am excited.” “High hoot” … may mean “Pay attention to me.” But the combination of the two calls doesn’t simply mean “I am excited, pay attention to me”; instead, it conveys a more nuanced message. www.science.org/content/arti...

He saw me

Its always cool to hear a conversation between two legends: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

By dragging nets across the seafloor, fishers not only kill countless sensitive species but also weaken the ocean’s natural carbon sink, equivalent to losing 2 to 8 million tons of CO₂ absorption each year. Another reason to cut fish from your diet! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Trump administration to cut vaccination funds. "The loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result," reports @stephanienolen.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

I'll be in London on 12 June for an event at the Royal Institution Theatre: The Mystery of Morality. I'll be joined by Richard Swinburne, Jessica Frazier, and Alex O’Connor to discuss animals, machines, and the origin of ethics.

NEW: Erdogan has banned protests in Turkey. He has threatened to arrest anyone attending one. This is the people’s response. Fighting for their democracy with another vast gathering in Istanbul tonight. #Turkey 🇹🇷 (🎥 Credit: Özgür Özel - Chairman, Republican People’s Party)

Excited to share that I will be joining USC Marshall later this year as a PhD student in consumer behavior!!

My latest on Openly Fallible: ryanbruno.substack.com/p/on-tragedy...

Yikes. Extensions like roundtable.ai will soon become necessary for online research. Roundtable detects fraud and bots through checks like typing patterns and text analysis. Check it out here: roundtable.ai

Um? Since when has LA had robot delivery drivers? And why are they so polite? This is gregory

A new working paper with Daniel Banki, @urisohn.bsky.social and Robert Walatka, just submitted to SSRN. The paper is comment on Ryan Oprea's recent AER paper. The paper is processing, but you, my friends, get early entry. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I'm hiring a lab manager to start this summer/fall, to work on transformative experience, identity change, and empathy in the digital age. Details here: www.crockettlab.org/research-spe... Please share!

"Trump disavowed the plan during the campaign. He was lying when he did so. Now its authors are his most effective henchmen, and unlike the situation he faced in 2017, Trump can now combine expertise and loyalty in the same body of staffers." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.

I was trying to make my girlfriend feel better over text and she told me to just ask chatgpt how to comfort your girlfriend. So I did what she asked and it worked…even though she knew i was using it. Al isnt far from surpassing humans as superior lovers…

My latest on Openly Fallible: ryanbruno.substack.com/p/conspiracy...

Postdoc announcement! The cdr is hiring a #behavioralscience researcher who excels in statistics & research methods. Learn more & apply: uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

🚨 New Paper alert! 🚨 Koch, Dotsch, Imhoff, Unkelbach, & @hansalves.bsky.social (2025). Ideological beliefs as cues to exploitation-exploration [email protected] . https://buff.ly/4gGQsoW This paper has a long story to it. Sorry, but I will not spare you.

New paper: We combine evidence from a survey (correlational), bank spending data, and online experiments to show that job loss increases risk taking. Joint work with @abbysussman.bsky.social, Carlos Vazquez-Hernandez, Daniel O'Leary, and Jennifer Trueblood

Two political psych starter packs! Both have been around, but 2 has had a lot more people added. Check them out if you haven’t already 1: go.bsky.app/T2Uc2Bx 2: go.bsky.app/43FXWwj

Yup

I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine

Lotta good quotables here but here is one: “Most of the time, if you no longer trust the experts, you’ve started trusting someone’s uncle.” open.substack.com/pub/samharri...

Postdoc position: The CDR is hiring a principal researcher / content expert at Mindworks. PhD required. Learn more & apply: uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

In my book, Twilight of Democracy, I described how autocratic regimes use conspiracy theories as loyalty tests.

appreciated this analysis of American culture by @arthurcdent.bsky.social “[In America] everyone has got main character syndrome, but in a pretty good way”

Moral psychology postdoc opportunity at the University of Toronto! Please repost, and pass on to anyone you think might be interested.

Obsessed with replying to “well, actually” accounts on social media? You may be wasting your time on AI-backed bots prompted to disagree with you. youtu.be/rpOkrxxpTcE?...

What an amazing statistic. Planes are so safe that passenger safety can be measured in light-years!

“How many other people are in this position, too ill and poor to afford affordable housing?” And too poor to be homeless?” If you have ever asked, “why don’t they just go to a homeless shelter,” or “why don’t they just get a job?”: Read this. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

I love how easy Bluesky makes it to find cool papers to read

You can now set chatgpt as your default search engine: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/chatg...

Though I’m not sure this holds true for conservatives

I don’t think any other platform is this good at allowing you to curate your own feed

Spending a month on Bluesky has created a whole new model of a fight we need to be having right now. Not liberal vs. conservative or whatever, but respect vs manipulation. I am tired of being manipulated everywhere I go. That’s why I like it here, I feel like I’m in charge for once.