Working on political psychology research with a focus on East Asia? A new special issue of our journal will center East Asia to broaden the field’s geographic & cultural assumptions. Find the call in the Special Issues section of the link below & consider submitting your work! linktr.ee/POPSjournal

UIUC Political Science is HIRING! Political behavior, broadly defined at the assistant level. Comparative behavior/psych + REP especially encouraged. It's a great place to work on pol beh/psych and UIUC supports partner hires. Here is the ad with all the details: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

In this invited piece for PIBBS I argue that implicit bias education is not inherently worthless but often ineffective (counterproductive) in its current form. I offer recommendations to improve it by making it measurable, agentic, integrated, broad, & evidence-based (MAIBE): osf.io/preprints/ps...

We are searching for a new editor/editorial team for Politics and the Life Sciences. Please share with anyone who may have interest!

As APLS Chair I’m happy to answer questions or chat about this! Please reach out if you’re interested, either here or [email protected]

There’s an art exhibit called Uncaged Art that had made its way around the country over the last 6 years that showcases art made by migrant children. They were kept in a makeshift caged detention center in Texas in 2018. Seems like the appropriate time to share this. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncn...

Since we’re apparently doing this again, let’s talk how Canada set an American steamship on fire and sent it over Niagara Falls, and how that created the legal precedent for when a nation can launch a “preemptive attack.” Thread!

Paper in @pnas.org in which @d-melnikoff.bsky.social and I provide evidence for model-based effects on automatic evaluation. This was a super fun “adversarial” collaboration with 0 adversariality. It may have been nice to be right, but getting it right is nearly as nice: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The Skrmetti decision looks an awful lot like Geduldig v. Aiello (1974), which (obviously wrongly) said that pregnancy discrimination was not sex discrimination. In that case, Congress responded by immediately passing the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. We need policymakers to step up now.

New paper in PSPB! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Well, actually, not "new". We first put this paper online way back Dec 2022... in any case, we think it's really cool! We find that conspiracy believers tend to be overconfident & really don't seem to realize that most disagree with them

This gets papered over as old man yelling at clouds but this is impeachable by itself. Greenland is our ally which has allowed a continual U.S. military presence since WWII, including a vital part of our missile defense and space surveillance. Threatening them is unacceptable.

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

"Visionary, rigorous, and collegial." A bit obsequious, but interesting to see. Thanks for the idea! I also asked it for suggestions on how to write better (increase the sense of urgency, sharpen your call to action, weave in a few human-scale examples, etc.) that were actually pretty useful.

So proud of Ron and all of our EJP students! www.wbez.org/education/20...

It’s a tiny step from “We can revoke your visa/green card for speech we don’t like” to “We can revoke your naturalized citizenship for speech we don’t like,” & if you don’t think that’s coming, I ask you again why you think that & who is going to stop the clearly illegal & unconstitutional things?

Masked plainclothes goons snatching someone who's committed no crime off the street? I'd say we're in the bad place, folks

Canada is a "distraction" until it's really not.

New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS explaining why Americans have treated Trump's threats to Canada as a joke and why that's wrong. campaign-trails.ghost.io/blame-canada/

This is humiliating. This isn't a "disagreement." An unhinged wannabe imperialist wants to take over our closest ally and friend. There should be massive outrage over this and Republicans should be speaking loudly against it. But here one of this administration's "normal" appointees is defending it

Court orders defied. I know some in media and the legal profession say it's not a Constitutional crisis unless the Supreme Court majority says "you absolutely must do this, there is no legal wiggle room" and the president says "I hereby officially defy that court order," but that bar is too high.

This is just blatant weaponization of executive power. It isn't even attempting to utilize any reasonable understanding of the law.

Strongly endorsed. I don't care what Khalil said. What matters most here is the state punished him, without charge or trial, for speech. They disappeared him like in the sort of authoritarian country America used to criticize. Anyone adjudicating the content of his speech is missing the point.

👇🎯 The entire ballgame: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Ugh, this is the worst. Opportunities lost that can not easily be regained. And REUs are specifically designed to identify & support the next generation of scientists coming from under-resourced environments, where they might otherwise be missed.

The ANES is a critically important resource for all of us; especially grad students, early career faculty, and those who can't fund opinion data collection. It's a benchmark. A learning tool. The evidentiary basis of countless studies. I owe so, so much to the ANES. We cannot lose it.

It feels like a lot of pressure to choose what to say in my very first post, but I think this is the most important thing I can offer this morning: www.propublica.org/article/misc...

In print 🙂. I think it’s crucial for political neuroscience to speak to poli sci lit and shed light on how politics works (rather than just the brain). That’s why I’m very proud of this one by myself and Ingrid! @jepsjournal.bsky.social was great, btw. Superb editorial process from start to finish.

This kind of $4 billion cut would mean cuts research to understand how the public evaluates democracy, mapping the universe, developing news drugs to combat infectious disease all to support a company that has done little but blow up a lot of rockets.

We're hiring @uwpolisci.bsky.social & the La Follette School of Public Affairs)! I'm chairing the search committee. Please share with your networks #polisky #PSJMinfo

Know of a great media source that engages with political psych? We're still looking for nominees for the Markwell Media Award!

Nominations open until Jan 15 for the Markwell Media Award from the International Society of Political Psychology. We want to recognize excellent institutions, journalists, or other media sources that engage with political psychology. Nominating statements can be emailed at the link below!

🚨In Science🚨 Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, ya? WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20%! -Lasts over 2mo -Works on entrenched beliefs -Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1/ [X->BSky repost]

Wrote (or read) a great book on mass politics published in 2024? Please (self-)nominate for the ISPP Sears Best Book award! The deadline is December 15. Details here: ispp.org/awards/sears/ We are looking forward to reading your work!

Reposting a paper for new users #polisky Incumbent governments are getting waxed in part due to global economic trends. In @ajpseditor.bsky.social Sebastian Juhl, Laron Williams and I explain why and how electoral results are cross-nationally correlated. Free forever: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

Hi all, the APSR is now also here: @apsrjournal.bsky.social (please, RT or whatever it's called here).

@polbehavior.bsky.social is now here! Please spread the word.

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.

Poland has been so much better on Russia and the Ukraine war than Germany, it's not even close. In general, it's been remarkable to see many Western European countries dither, while Eastern European countries that were occupied or menaced by the Soviet Union going "oh no, never again, no way."

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about 1) how does sleep intersect with politics? 2) does person-first language humanize and could it help with polarization?

If you haven't checked out part 2 of the political psych starter pack for awhile, a variety of additional people have been added over the last weeks

Want to give a good scientific talk? TELL A GOOD STORY. don’t show the audience every result, don’t give us one slide on every paper you’ve ever published. If I want to read your resume, I will. Teach me something, tell me a story.

Hi everyone! Happy to have found so many academics on BlueSky. I am sharing my first solo pub that came out last month in PRQ. In this paper, I examine the relationship between threat and Latino identity in CA during the 1990s. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Cutting NIH funding is not just an attack on science. It's an attack on *scientists.* As I discuss in my book, RFK Jr. speaks the same anti-intellectual language as Trump. He sees govt. sci. as "sock puppets." That's why he'd replace 600 experts w/political loyalists. www.npr.org/2024/11/12/n...

I’m feeling energized after attending the launch of the Kellner Center for Neurogenomics, Behavior, and Society yesterday. It’s exactly the kind of interdisciplinary space that we need to bring together life scientists, social scientists, and practitioners. kellnercenter.illinois.edu

I feel like I have to say this exact thing every day right now.

The starter pack I was searching for but couldn't find. Great for scholars, journalists, and anyone looking for research-based takes on current events. Please reply to this message or DM if you want me to add you, or anyone else, to the list 😊 go.bsky.app/315MyLR

If you're unhappy and unsettled by Trump's election, don't quit. That's just what they want you to do. But that doesn't mean you have to do everything the same. Your media and social media habits, for example. Here's what I'm doing to stay sane, and set myself up to handle what's to come.