It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice. Caveats: -*-*-*-* 
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees 
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases

My first for @bayareacurrent.bsky.social -- A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. It’s part of a long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground at our expense. People have had enough. bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-l...

Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil... Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy. Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs

"Under my leadership, we have instituted an assessment program where we assess how we assess what we already assessed, using learning outcomes that include all of the buzzwords someone in admin told us were important."

@joannaschug.bsky.social leads a paper on gendered racial stereotypes. They show that the civil rights movement coincided with a rise in language about black men, but not black women www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our "Historical Psychology" special issue is now out in CRESP! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Co-edited with @mohammadatari.bsky.social and featuring historical perspectives on love, racial identity, emotion expression, well-being, collectivism, religion, and more! Brief 🧵

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

Friends, if you have the means to donate to a local food pantry financially via online giving, I highly encourage you to do that. But I don’t want to discount the importance of actually showing up at the pantry, even if it is just to drop off food. (1/5)

For those who don’t know, Lina Khan gave tech bros hell AND her ass to kiss when she was FTC chair. She was busting monopolies left and right. Gave Amazon and Meta the finger too. This is an EXCELLENT addition to his team.

The more I think about this, the more frustrated I get with our leadership. It is hard to see this decision as anything but preemptive compliance.

In Maine, voters yesterday were asked to vote on a set of election changes that would have made voting more difficult. The question went down in flames, with 63% voting against it. But importantly, it was unpopular even in _many_ places that Trump won last year. Voters want to make voting easier!

Rob Chavez gives the helpful/correct answer below, but here's another thought: Your preprint gets to be your director's cut. Put that baby on OSF or Zenodo and add a link in your figure caption.

For each additional moral–emotional word in a social media post, the number of shares increases 13% Our new meta-analysis finds robust evidence of moral contagion (N=4,821,006) The moral contagion effect is even stronger in larger, pre-registered studies (17%). academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Anyway, as social science research has found over the years, the threat of wealthy people fleeing is hot air. They are well aware that policies that build/invest in social infrastructure benefit them too. www.sup.org/books/sociol...

Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown": 「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」 -魯迅，故鄉 #everynightapoem

I don’t know why, but I continue to be surprised at the level of vitriolic racism dished out by this sitting Senator. Disgusting.

New work on resource possession + hierarchy regulation! Do the faces on the left and right look different to you? They were generated using a reverse correlation task by UK ps asked to visualize “poor people”: 🟩 Generated by egalitarians (low SDO) 🟥 Generated by anti-egalitarians (high SDO)

This is a great opportunity! Jin is a fantastic mentor and is working on exciting research in intra minority relations—apply to his lab if that's your "jam".

On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com

Interested in doing a PhD at the intersection of human and machine cognition? ✨ I'm recruiting students for Fall 2026! ✨ Topics of interest include pragmatics, metacognition, reasoning, & interpretability (in humans and AI). Check out JHU's mentoring program (due 11/15) for help with your SoP 👇

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Mackenzie Scott continues building up American society, when so many billionaires are content to rip it down.

Happy to share that my new book with Jeff Berry and Jim Glaser is now available from @uchicagopress.bsky.social! (preorder elsewhere til 12/2, but available now through Chicago) 🧵 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Literally just resubmitted a paper on this exact topic, but the interactive graph here is super interesting!! Also highly recommend Melissa Nobles' Shades of Citizenship

I love this data essay by some of my @pewresearch.org colleagues looking at how the ways that the U.S. Census has measured race and ethnicity have changed over the country's history and how they're poised to change again in 2030.

Paid summer research opportunity for undergraduates at MIT. Applicants must be undergraduates at a USA institution. Deadline: Jan 20. Info sessions: 11/6 and 12/10 - mit.zoom.us/meeting/regi... **Please Share**

Oh this was the video that (some) people on here were baselessly saying had to be AI because it was so insane. Anyway this is standard ICE operating procedure now: crash into your car, violently drag you through the street at gunpoint, & then have tricia mclaughlin lie that you were assaulting them

How do I become Professor Lord Sir Goh?

And here's the paper, led by the incredible Silvia Mari, in which we find that stronger beliefs in traditional gender roles is associated with less voting intention across 18 countries. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Now that I don’t live in Maine, I’m finally watching It to conquer my fear of clowns… this is a bad idea lol

Really excited to share my first solo-authored article, out now in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin! I test when and why Democrats and Republicans differ in their tolerance for undemocratic actions. 🧵

The combination of the shutdown and the Trump tax cut bill’s measures coming into effect highlights the fact that the welfare state is essential to the survival for tens of millions because the American political economy systematically fails to produce adequate income, healthcare, and housing.

A reminder that I’m accepting applications for PhD students!

will kim is still in ICE detention

You in fact can't talk about the history of the labor movement without talking about multi-ethnic coalitions. The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was initially composed of Jewish and Italian immigrants, but later grew to Black, Puerto Rican, Chinese, and Filipino workers.

Thrilled to share that I am planning to admit a grad student and will be reviewing applications to the clinical psychology PhD program at Miami University! Excited to mentor and learn from future mentees! For information about my lab and application FAQ, check out: www.seahpepl.com/joincontact-...

PhD applications for Cognitive and Psychological Sciences at Brown (@browncopsy.bsky.social) are due on December 1st. We have a great community, so please apply, share with your students, etc. Read more on our fancy new website here: copsy.brown.edu/graduate-study

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

I'm recruiting PhD students for my lab at Northwestern! I'm reviewing applications for the Department of Psychology for the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and Clinical areas, due 12/1. 🧠 Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...

I often hear from jr faculty in SLAC and postdocs that they want more reviewing experience. This is a great idea to connect editors to potential reviewers, so sign up to review for our top social-personality journals!!

Take this quiz to die instantly www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/

I just know that Bates and Colby are pissed they didn't produce a stellar candidate like Mamdani 🤣 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

I covered Karim Bettache's PSPR paper on capitalism and cultural syndrome today. Turns out I should have just shown this video www.youtube.com/shorts/cD7kG...

Reminder to apply to the DRRC postdoc fellowship! Deadline is this week.

More Vanderbilt hiring! Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Computation & Psychology, College of Connected Computing We're searching for multiple Assistant (tenure-track), Associate, and Full Professors working at the intersection of psychology with computation or AI. 1/

I will be reviewing graduate student applications in the Social Psychology Area at Miami University for the 2025–2026 application cycle (Ph.D. start date: Fall 2026). Learn more about the Affective Science & Psychophysiology Lab and how to apply on the “Join Us” tab at www.darwinguevarra.com

Judy DeLoache passed away yesterday. She was a brilliant scientist and giant in the field of developmental psychology. She will be missed dearly.

dope academic position alert: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05162