You might think your job has your back, but when push comes to shove, workers often learn that HR's first priority is to protect the company--even when that comes at their expense. In our new paper at ASAP, @mwkraus.bsky.social and I explore how these experiences shape workers' union attitudes.

Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was shot & killed by ICE on Sept 12 ICE chased Jaime Alanis off the roof of a greenhouse; he broke his neck & died on July 12 ICE chased Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez into traffic where he was hit & killed on Aug 14 Josué Castro Rivera was killed the same way on Oct 23

reason.com/2026/01/08/y... #ProudBlue. Trump Regime says it is illegal to record ICE. They are 100% wrong. We have a constitutional right to engage with and film public servants. ICE has no special dispensation that allows them to usurp our constitutional rights. Film ICE. Address your grievances

All of these news stories about the government's actions make me think of research on institutional betrayal. "Institutional betrayal happens when an institution...fails to protect or actively harms someone who relies on it." www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/iden...

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

fun fact about that Rose Bowl in 1917: UO didn't have money to send the team to Pasadena, so they sold the campus bookstore. The company that ran it was so awful that in 1920 students, faculty, and staff raised money to buy it. The Duck Store is the nonprofit co-op they established 105 years ago.

Palantir, Sauron … It’s like they skimmed LOTR but didn’t understand it, particularly the warnings.

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

Make no mistake we're all next. Academics need to stand as well collective of we're to resist. That means putting your career on the line for the most vulnerable in our field.

Not that NIH was ever gonna fund me ever anyways but there goes any semblance of a shot at it 🤣

🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

Submitted two papers today and the last of 2025. This semester has been rough… 10/10 do not recommend. Gonna cry and vomit from exhaustion. Wake me up when it’s 2026.

1st paper in thread. The 2nd & my last submitted paper of 2025 is my big theory paper that took over a year to write. Some of you have generously invited me to speak about it but very few have seen the paper. I propose what I call Racial Contrast Theory, to examine Black-Asian relations osf.io/easwg

New paper building a theory of stereotype negotiation. How people don't just let stereotypes happen to them; instead they constantly and actively navigate social impressions and others' evaluations by @cydneydupree.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great news: finally Miles Hewstone is exposed. I stopped citing him years ago, I warned friends/colleagues when I saw them publishing together, I informed as many people as possible about him. We all did. Had this piece been published 15 years ago, everyone would have already known. Shame on Oxford.

These young people are, in their own way, teaching seminars on identity every time they post. And it reminds me that the best social science takes what folks already sense about the world and treats it with the theoretical and empirical seriousness it deserves. www.instagram.com/reel/DQ-1vvq...

Starting the week strong with a newly accepted paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, co-authored with postdoc @lizsnoland.bsky.social and Sohad Murrar! We merged two largely independent research lines to call for data disaggregation of Asian Americans and MENA Americans

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

too real lol

bringing this to the next faculty meeting where we discuss admissions 🤣

I'm back! In this experiment we had 39 participants choose between 8 different PhD programs which varied in terms of region, application materials, prestige, and fees. Importantly, two of the programs had a GRE requirement and two were equivalent but did not:

I wonder if this has to do with the fact that it's harder to get funding for basic science research. Anyway, happy to die on my non-funded basic science hill 👋

Area Man Afraid Some Woman Might Come Out Of The Woodwork To Hold Him Accountable For Something https://theonion.com/area-man-afraid-some-woman-might-come-out-of-the-woodwo-1820345646/

Congrats to Japan for winning the world series 😂

if its any solace blue jays fan, at least you're not american

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

One of the things that I find so frustrating about academics who have gone all in on AI is their failure to recognize how much their own thinking was shaped by the very tasks of reading and writing that they are now dismissing as obsolete.

the amount of academic research now using llms in research (synthetic data generation, to classify, annotate, or analyse large scale data, etc) is astounding. remember, just cus use of llms in research is becoming normalised does NOT erase the fact it degrades the research & undermine your results

So apparently, the US Gov, in their most recent series of dog whistles, are pulling LOTR references and are outright saying that their fascist reign of terror is akin to protecting the Shire. Absolutely fucking not. The comparison is a straightforward dogwhistle, don't let them confuse you.

I really hate that most of the actual research papers people share now are on Linkedin. If I have to learn how to do Linkedin speak to stay up to date on academia I may just become one of those hermit academics that doesn't socialize anymore...😭

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" 🔥🔥🔥

AWS outage and Canvas is down...we should just cancel today right??

omg this is why i dont like smart tech in my house, no amazon echo or ring door cam, or any of that stuff! i knew this day was coming!!!

lab heads have two moods:

🚨new article!🚨 led by former postdoc Grace Reid, with Ariana Orvell, Emily Foster-Hanson, & undergrad Selim Yigit! We consider what soc-cog abilities children have at diff ages and how that impacts what they learn from racial socialization messages compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM. Hope this helps

Can I just say this is so on brand for Portland? I love it.

Seems to me that those who want to humanize robots are fine with dehumanizing actual humans. But what do I know.

Social psychologists can know better than anyone in psychology that we do not want to let QRPs ruin trust in our science, again. “Ultimately, contemporary AI is research misconduct.”

Why was Emmett Till killed? Because a white woman told a lie. Why was Black Wall Street burned down? Because a white woman told a lie. And why did Kyren Lacy take his own life? Because a white woman told a lie. Our society infantilizes white women, so much so that we forget they owned slaves too.

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman. Amplify amplify amplify please.

shout out to the merriam-webster marketing team 👏😂

Last Friday, Curtis Phills and I ran our first conference! Introducing CODES. The Consortium of Oregon Diversity and Equity Scholars! We were excited to bring together folks across Oregon who do diversity science work. We need community more than ever. Hope we can continue this in future years...

Professors be like: “YES my symposium was rejected! I don’t have to present! 🥳” “🤬 My symposium was accepted and now I have to do work at the conference! Guess I’ll make my talk on the flight Urgh 😭”

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

If you can't be bothered to read, why are trying to be a scientist. Baffling...

"we will not stop...We will continue to pursue research questions at the heart of diversity science even as they wain in popularity within the field. We do this, not because we are naïve, but because these questions and this work matters to us and to the communities we care about."

My latest piece, on apprenticeship, artificial intelligence, and intrinsic motivation. Handcrafted from the heart. Please, share and enjoy. open.substack.com/pub/robchave...