Friends don't let friends publish in any Frontiers journal

The Punisher sticker we've needed all along

People on Linkedin: we need to keep up with AI to better innovate and increase productivity! Also people on Linkedin: don't use AI to message me, it's like you don't even care about me 😭 🙃

New pub by my grad student, @gnihill.bsky.social. This is her first first-author publication! In this work, she has extended our lab's prior work on how confrontations to prejudice on social media can meaningfully shape perceptions. spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My approach to methods lecturing lately

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

I think it's hilarious that all these uni presidents are so fucking terrified of the youth disliking them. Like bro you hold all the fucking power here and your pockets are deep, why are you so bothered that college students don't like you? I'm glad we have that power over them...

BRB, pre-registering a study on concordance between tendency to: (1) Rationalize that an LLM must have true intelligence because it demonstrates empathy and kindness and (2) Believe that wait staff are flirting because they smiled

Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Have you noticed many experts say they don't understand AI? What's going on? 🤯 Let us tell you... 1/

How I feel when Canvas is down...

Everytime something big gets hacked I wonder why they don't target student loan or medical loan debt...like just wipe all the data there... better yet, why not shut down something like amazon? i support more technological violence against the 1% please...

LOL Canvas is hacked and down now. I say we just burn it all down and start from scratch?? I'm pro going all analog from now on...

Psych-DS is spellcheck for your datasets, and it has an R package now! Available in beta now, made by the excellent Brian Leonard, instructions here: psych-ds.github.io/psychds-r/

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

What's the personality trait/ideological value thats correlated to pivoting your program of research to be attractive to an authoritarian regime?

1. New paper with @dymoral.bsky.social in press in @journalphp.bsky.social! Main result: race informs how adults use info about intent when making moral judgments. More in thread below, full text here: columbiasamclab.weebly.com/uploads/5/9/.... #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc @socphilpsych.bsky.social

It's like this guy watched LOTR and was like that Sauron guy had a point... I hope Tolkien's ghost finds a way to curse this man.

This articulates well my ambivalence towards her and many of her films. I didnt quite know why until I read this!

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

New publication alert! After four years of analysis, synthesis, and careful writing, I am pleased to announce a brand-new article, “Desistance”: A Multimethod Review of the Literature on Gender Identity Variability in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth (1) 🧵 psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

I often think wow I must not be well connected enough to find support systems that will advocate for me or mentor me to get fancy awards. Then I realize its probably structural. And even after all this I still think maybe I'm just not good at networking. Academia sucks.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

apparently we can ban abortions but we can't ban conversion therapy 🙃

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...