New paper out in Social Psychological and Personality Science with @mohammadatari.bsky.social! We ask: How does moral diversity shape communities’ responses to norm violations? Across 7 studies (N = 235k+), we find a surprisingly consistent pattern. tinyurl.com/48tp5k6j

So much love and solidarity to Ana Murguia, Debra Rojas, Dolores Huerta, and every other survivor. Chavez was just a man; women like them, then and now, are the true heroes of the farmworkers’ movement.

Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how you’re not a slaver.

Lots of good gems here - definitely worth your time "If you think Claude Code is a better social scientist than you, then you’re probably right. But that means, at some point, you stopped trying to answer interesting/puzzling questions and started trying to win the publish-the-most-articles race."

I made a bingo card

Let's say I'm a researcher in a politically controversial topic: flu and hepatitis vaccines for children. I study interventions to increase vaccine uptake. Would I be doing "activist science" given the anti-vaxx political movement & anti-vaxx govt actions here in the US? (Inspired by #SPSP2026)

New paper out in Science Advances! I'm really (really) proud of this one. Let's get into it. doi.org/10.1126/scia...

They ran out of rooms by the time I checked in for SPSP so I ended up getting the suite, so after party in my room I guess?? This is practically a studio apartment...bigger than the one I lived in Toronto for sure 🤣

Instead of yawning when I see all the talks/posters at SPSP that are about AI, I can now say "this is contributing to a scientific monoculture" 🥸

New post! "Valuing the Process vs. the Product in Research," in which I try to describe some of the tensions around using GenAI/LLMs in scientific research, and why it can be so difficult to have productive conversations on the topic. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/valuing-th...

but also, it's not that good at summarizing

I feel like more people need to watch Star Trek. Like, AI would be cool and all if it actually freed us up to be creative, explore, and have dialogue. But it's just making us all poor and dumb. Current AI is not freeing us from capitalism but ensuring we stay in the trenches!!!

Hey kids, an alternative is that you can totally skip getting a degree by just dropping out and you know what, that is FREE. You might even get some refunds!!

I learned there is a hotpot place right near the conference center for SPSP and now my only priority is to find someone who will go eat hotpot with me.

I don’t think he code switched once, for real. Respect. 🫡

Ocasio gang rise up 🙌🏽🇵🇷

YOU BETTER SHOUT OUT ALL OF AMERICA

Every university that capitulated to Trump’s financial demands looks so fucking stupid right now

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

HUGE UPDATE: we confronted Congressman Tom Suozzi. He is one of seven Democrats casting the decisive votes to increase ICE funding by $10,000,000,000. Hideous, grotesque, fascist-loving coward, this man has blood on his hands. We will not forgive and we will not forget.

Yesterday in my seminar our topic was alt right extremism (I swear I dont plan the timing) and everyone got to vent (incl myself!!) But I also saw so much heart, passion, and critical thinking in what students had to say. It makes me hopeful for a brighter future.

Either AI chatbots are spoofing as university students or AI tech companies are hiring undergrad interns to try get the attention of faculty to participate in their AI market research. I thought book publishers ambushing me in my office was annoying...but this is another level...

Hahaha I literally just made this point to my class today...make em say the full thing out loud!

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.