The job market in the age of AI

My fab department is hiring in Clinical at the asst/assoc level! The search is focused on adult psychopathology, brain imaging, or genetics. We have a collaborative, friendly, and supportive department with great conditions for research. Come join us! Ad: lnkd.in/gkJtjCyS

They’re counting on you to sit this one out. Don’t give them what they want. Get loud with your ballot. Drop it off today or hit the polls tomorrow ASAP. #CAVoteYesProp50

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky Congrats to all the new SPSP Fellows! (special shoutout to collaborator @mocraig.bsky.social) See me BIRGING there? You gotta, right?

it’s never to late to stop working for the clampdown; quit and return to the light

No Kings Rally in Culver City, CA. People showed up in neighborhood rallies all across LA today.

Vance is in San Diego today to oversee a celebration of 250 years of the US Marine Corps that includes - shooting live rounds over a busy freeway. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

MIT says it will reject the Trump university compact. USC, when we asked today, declined to take any further position on the proposal. @danielnmiller.bsky.social and I report: www.latimes.com/world-nation...

This is the way www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Much of the coverage of this White House "compact" remains really very bad, including today's headlines about MIT. Read @fishkin.bsky.social on what's actually going on here. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-tru...

Please pay attention www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

@elijfinkel.bsky.social & I are recruiting a postdoc in the #LitowitzCenter for Enlightened Disagreement at Northwestern University. We seek research excellence regarding navigating conflict. Application deadline: Nov. 17. Salary: ~$80k. facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjQzNw==

“Nice university you got there…” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

I'm not going to post another whole thread on this but journalists need to take a serious look under the hood before they glance through this document and conclude that it looks mostly normal. *It looks that way in order to fool you into saying that. That's the point.*

"Trump's 'compact with universities is just extortion... the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it." Very good from UC Berkley law dean Erwin Chemerinsky. Higher ed leaders should all do so, and donors, unions, anyone with influence should pressure them to.

First Trump blackmailed universities into suppressing free speech. Now he’s bribing them with taxpayer dollars to enforce his agenda. Corruption and authoritarianism, plain and simple. No university should cave to this blatantly unconstitutional coercion.

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

Excited to announce that I'll be moving to the Univ of California Irvine @ucirvine.bsky.social next Spring!🌴 Happily, this is not goodbye to Japan as I'll continue my lab @RIKEN_CBS for some time. Help spread the word: the new UCI lab will be hiring, DM or email ([email protected]) if interested!

This is part of a broader effort to use the power of the state to force all aspects of society to conform to MAGA values (Gleichschaltung). Accepting would be an egregious violation of academic freedom. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Every one of these agents must be held accountable for violating the 4th amendment

coming to digital release in December 2025 and print release in February 2026, after a long My-Bloody-Valentine-esque period of gestation

I'm looking forward to this preconference; come join us!

Join the 2025-2026 APSA Public Scholarship Program, and produce summaries of new research published in #APSR. Fellows collaborate w/ journal editors, authors, and APSA staff to share this work thru PSNow and Political Science Today, APSA's member magazine. Apply by October 3rd: buff.ly/zTkn1by

"Data manipulation by the US Gov...makes crucial datasets untrustworthy and unusable. If the US Government secretly changes datasets for political reasons, researchers relying on the data might erroneously recommend ineffective or counterproductive interventions." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I enjoyed the peaceful cherry blossom 🌸 vibes in Portland earlier this year. A beautiful and calm city

Every public university in California is now under political attack by the Trump administration. Its time for the regents and @uofcalifornia.bsky.social and @calstate.bsky.social leadership to get real. Fight back! Your faculty are fighting, why aren't you? www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

I just spent a week in Portland. The city was busy with tourists and locals enjoying late summer. A prosperous downtown. Factually, there is no observable evidence of a city needing military intervention. A reminder that this is not normal. Please pay attention.

NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes 1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible. 2. "alignment with Administration priorities" 3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem. a brief 🧵 w/receipts www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Here is the formal letter the NIH sent today to UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk. “These projects are fully reinstated, and the letter dated July 31, 2025 is rescinded without conditions. Funds will be made available immediately and are no longer suspended, terminated, or restricted.”

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube. It would be a shame for you to share it www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

We're hiring at UNC Political Science! Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Methods (Deadline Oct 24) unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... #polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs

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

NBC News projects: Democrat Adelita Grijalva wins the special election for Arizona House District 7. Grijalva will bring the important 218th signature to the chamber's Epstein files discharge petition — forcing Mike Johnson to handle a fight that has divided his conference.

A campus message today from UCLA vice chancellor for research Roger Wakimoto after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration last night to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in NIH grants: “Our hope is that the agency will abide by the judge’s ruling” www.latimes.com/california/s...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

One theory is that Trump is a shrewd wannabe authoritarian taking calculated steps to consolidate power Another is that he’s always been thin-skinned and driven by personal grievances, but now has the powers of the presidency and he doesn’t care about the long-term damage to the country

This is not freedom

9-0 SCOTUS ruling from last year: “Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”

NEW: A federal judge said today that she’s “inclined” to order the Trump administration to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA grants, the bulk of the remaining grant suspensions at the Westwood campus: www.latimes.com/world-nation...

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...

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

*A lot* of universities have record enrollments this fall, which doesn’t fit claims by some conservatives that families are turning away from higher ed, nor the national media’s narrative about higher ed.

My department @uwmadison.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor with expertise in environmental politics. Send us your application. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Applications due Sunday! Join the APSA #MENA Methods Workshop in Doha, Qatar, Jan 5–8, 2026! This in-person program offers training in participatory and engaged research methods for early-career scholars in the MENA region. buff.ly/4fa3u4v

🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych. Review begins 10/10. Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵

Princeton is running its Presidential Postdoctoral Program again this year. If you are interested in applying to work with me, please reach out by October 10 so that I can consider all interested applicants and support a candidate for my lab this year. dof.princeton.edu/faculty-deve...

For potential grad students: if you're interested in this kind of work on assessing and improving close relationships measures, our group just got a grant to do five more years of it. Join our team!

Bumping up coverage of the other shooting today