ASU Psychology is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Scholar to study contemporary antisemitism (supervised by Drs. Neuberg & Barlev). Full-time research, NIH salary scale, start date Jan 12, 2026 (flexible). Deadline: Dec 17, 2025. More info: apply.interfolio.com/177756

My piece has been published in PNAS today!!! "The importance of local racial demographic changes in democratic erosion in the mass American public" www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.... A few takeaways...

Postdoctoral Researcher Positions!

Unprecedented nepotism & corruption at the highest levels of American government

This is fu*king outrageous! The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards. apnews.com/article/utah...

This excellent WSJ annotation of the Molotov/Ribbentrop … sorry, Witkoff/Dmitriev … “peace deal” for Ukraine shows how ridiculously vague and utterly unworkable this thing is Free link www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Withholding our own tax dollars from us. Intolerable.

BREAKING: Sen. Elissa Slotkin says police responded to her home tonight in response to a bomb threat. Slotkin wasn't at home at the time. This is two days after Trump said Slotkin and other Democrats committed "seditious conspiracy, punishable by death."

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

I'm excited to share that I’ll be reviewing PhD applications this cycle for students interested in working with me starting Summer/Fall 2026. I’m especially looking for applicants excited about research on trust/persuasion, responses to historical harm, addressing inequality, and/or mindsets.

My wife was sexually harassed by Miles Hewstone as a phd student. He was still asked to review her (and other women he harassed) for jobs and promotions. This is so fucked up. Thankfully, she and many other women testified against him and something was finally done. This is her take on his case:

What the fuck?

New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝 We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”

Ought to be front-page headlines.

I really like that NYTimes published interview with their 2 religion reporters on how they cover religion. Interesting conversation with 2 excellent religion reporters who I always read. There are some great thoughts in piece, but there's also a concerning answer. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.

knowing many directly affected, I personally asked some senior male colleagues to speak out about this during my earlier years as a professor, as i felt too vulnerable due to my stage of career.. it was shocking how much this was 'common knowledge' among women and how few male colleagues knew 😔

UCD Graduate Studies and I have produced a Research Group Handbook template for supervisors and researchers. The template outlines core topics, resources, and policies that groups can adapt to their needs. ➡️ Template and details: www.ucd.ie/graduatestud... @ucddublin.bsky.social 1/2

I know several of the women who were harassed by this guy. They had real courage to testify. He engaged in serious professional retaliation against women. This needs to end. I've seen how many people curry favor with known sexual harassers and how the worst can still manage to leap from job to job.

A thread on our recent paper (w/Raihan Alam @raihanalam) in PNAS on why punishment often fails and what it means for crime, cooperation, democracy, and the rule of law. I’m super excited for it, it’s the lab’s most extensive experimental work to date. Check it out! 1/ www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025. US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom. open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...

This is the law. Passed down from our Founding Fathers, to ensure our military upholds its oath to the Constitution — not a king. Given Stephen Miller is directing much of a military policy, he should buff up on the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Stephen Miller thinks reminding people of their oaths of office is “calling for an insurrection,” which should tell you exactly how he feels about the Constitution

🇩🇪Check out this recent article, “Reducing Political Dehumanization by Pairing Facts With Personal Experiences,” published in @ispp-pops.bsky.social by Emily Kubin, Kurt J. Gray, and Christian von Sikorski👇 doi.org/10.1111/pops... #polisky

Federal agents used chemical weapons on Chicagoans at least 49 times — even after a judge said to stop. Contrary to federal claims about attacks on agents, most of these incidents appear to involve nonviolent protesters or bystanders. blockclubchi.co/47PoaXb

This—on my former university, department, and advisor—is harrowing but required reading for all social psychologists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

NEW: The New York Times and KFF surveyed 1,800+ immigrants in the United States. Half of all immigrants say they feel less safe since President Trump took office, and yet the majority are resolved to stay. Check out the poll's findings: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

Seems like it’s high time for slower, more intentional, more community-engaged science. My hope is that hiring and tenure committees start to prioritize this type of work. Adding this to my research method syllabus!

We're hiring a postdoc, to be based at Arizona State University, to research the PSYCHOLOGY OF ANTISEMITISM. Start date as early as Jan-12-25. Email for questions. Details: apply.interfolio.com/177756

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

New levels of shame everyday

Another reminder that if you got students who wanna do a social psych PhD focusing on identities (specifically Asian, Latine, MENA Americans), I’m recruiting! I’m hustling hard here so pls send people my way 😅 see website for details www.pbandjlab.com

Political Gap Between Pastors & Pews “Political partisanship of the average mainline pastor diverges significantly from the politics of the folks sitting in their pews.” Ryan Burge analyzes recent PRRI data to highlight pervasive pattern in Mainline Christianity 👉 open.substack.com/pub/ryanburg...

#OpenAccess from the latest issue of @journalrep.bsky.social#OpenAccess- Racialized Empathy and Attitudes Toward Refugees in the United States - https://cup.org/4oLgJpH - Hannah L. Paul & Courtney J. Nava #JREP10

People value free and fair elections, and prefer living in a country with free and fair elections but with less desirable outcomes (e.g. low levels of wealth) to living in a country without free and fair elections but with better outcomes journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00104140251392539

PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C. The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end. “We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.” current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS

I don’t think US taxpayers should subsidize treason against the United States

I strongly enourage any potential PhD students to apply to Sydney. She does really exciting research on AI and moral cognition and will be starting at NYU in a few months.

The Trump administration is proposing a $980M cut to federal work-study, which supports ~700K students a year and, until now, enjoyed bipartisan support. Work-study boosts belonging and helps with costs, but the average $2.3K earned covers little of today’s tuition. buff.ly/PxdZ8Fh

🚨Out in PNAS🚨 Examining news on 7 platforms: 1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news 2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning 3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Trump is opening an "investigation" because that precludes DOJ from being allowed to release the files.

🚨 New paper alert, at @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social: Classic person perception models argue that group information (e.g., group valence) dominates impression formation, especially in less-than-optimal conditions. But is this really the case? 👉 Read the full paper authors.elsevier.com/a/1m66p51f8w...

Officials in the Trump regime will never miss an opportunity to cash in on their own cruelty.

It's unsettling how many people fell for the claim that an administration that hires open Nazi sympathizers and does a bunch of Nazi-like stuff is "fighting antisemitism." Some want to believe, agreeing with the regime's anti-free-speech and anti-academic freedom goals. But some just fell for it.

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

This is inexcusable. Allegations of abuse inside ICE Broadview facility but ICE destroyed the video evidence. Time to let everyone go -- and then lock up those who destroyed the evidence.

Yesterday was a special day for the REPS Lab because one of our own, #EmilyOrtiz, is now a Doctoral Candidate (Political Science). She does research in political psychology, with emphasis on race and politics 😎 Committee: Me(chair), Natalie Masuoka, Matt Barreto, & Graeme Blair ❤️