#AcademicSky First reaction to the decision letter. (take a deep breath)

Some great visual aids for having conversations that can undo misinformation. Thanks @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social !

#AcademicSky If you're not listening to @llassabe.bsky.social 's podcast American Campus, you're missing out. Latest episode is about sexual harassment on campus americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsychology In 2022 book Pillars of Social Psychology, Miles Hewstone contributed Title? "Meetings with Remarkable Men: A Fortunate Journey in Social Psychology" Also: praises Tajfel (ahem). No mention of Tajfel's treatment of women.

Social psych friends, please help me out with a class discussion by responding to the following (and sharing): What do you see as the biggest challenge for social and personality psychology in the immediate future? What should we as a field be doing better than we are now?

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #Sexism Leave me alone for a few days. Busy with the latest by #LauraBates

Feel like "quiet, piggy" is now part of our vernacular. I realize that using a term can remove the sting of it, that is, to "own" it. But how about we DON'T have this as part of our public discourse? It normalizes something best left unsaid. (ask yourself, would you want your child using it?)

#AcademicSky Needing @zotero.org help please! Two authors working on separate sections of manuscript. Both using Zotero, but using separate libraries. Can we MERGE the Word files into one file? How? cc @kristofdhontphd.bsky.social

#AcademicSky Are you burning yourself out, trying to be superhuman for your students? I just worked on a file on Friday evening to return to a student.... ... because I felt really bad that she had waited (gasp!) 48 hours for a response! Do we put too much pressure on ourselves?

#AcademicSky Giving a talk at a conference

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #ContactResearch There's a TON I disagree with re this paper. I especially balk at this assertion (below). Show me the receipts, please. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

#AcademicSky "This system that benefits me tremendously? Trust me, it's not hurting you" High CO2 emitters underestimate harms of #climatecrisis. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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.

Statement by the International Contact Research Network responding to the recent Bloomberg article on Miles Hewstone and sexual harrassment. "First and foremost, we stand by the victims of these abuses." #AcademicSky #PhdSky #SocialPsyc

Ignoring the science, or taking too long to enact its recommendations, came with a big cost during COVID

#AcademicSky #SocialPsychology is coming to grips with the now-public news that a prominent member of our community has been credibly accused by many women of harassment. As painful as it is, acknowledging such issues is important for moving on and for generating safer work & study spaces.

#AcademicSky "He can't be racist, he studies racism!" "He can't be sexist or a serial harasser of women, he studies feminism or social justice!" Important to not fall for #AcademicMyths

#AcademicSky Using PISA data, analysis shows that: ✳️ traditional teaching methods (lecturing, memorization & repetition of tasks) ==> better math learning. ✳️ "Innovative" teaching ==> worse math learning. Effects amplified among low SES kids. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#AcademicSky Women deserve to study and work in safe places. Period. Let's hope that men in academia start doing more to make this a reality, structurally It's not enough to refrain from personally harassing; we need to change the norms Be an anti-harasser, visibly, not simply a non-harasser

#AcademicSky Reverse p-hacking! Free up your weekends!

3 papers @thelancet.com today on the health dangers of ultraprocessed foods and a call for action The health risks www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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

#PsychSciSky #SocialPsychology #PrejudiceResearch Help me out with stereotype threat I feel that some of field has moved on, saying it's not real But multiple meta-analyses show effects. & there's failed replications but not that many? What's the state of our literature on #StereotypeThreat?

#AcademicSky Advice: in your Abstract, please don't say your "effect size = [value]". There are multiple effect size metrics. Without knowing (e.g., d, g, r), that value doesn't mean much, other than its valence (and sometimes then, not much)

#AcademicSky My students must wear their HODSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING hats at home. Because I never see them wearing them at the university.

I feel like we've jumped the shark when we introduce plant-based rice Say what?

I get it, goals can cause frustration and problems. Especially if unrealistic. Let's not give up on them. They're critical. And part of the human condition. Let's spend more time learning how to set reasonable goals, how to adapt to failures etc. Important to not pathologize everything.

#AcademicSky Was loving movie The Substance. Ending, IMO, ruined it. (no spoilers) I tell this to students all the time: no matter how good the main bulk of text is, you can ruin it all if the ending doesn't work.

We need better #ScienceEducation in schools. Just stop and THINK about these supposed remedies. How could they work? (By what mechanism?) I find that's the most critical question to ask yourself when facing odd claims about how the world works.

🚨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/...

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch If you're a Christian American, and you feel "surrounded" by Muslims (or Jews), take a deep breath. This graphic helps you to identify which group is actually surrounded.

#AcademicSky #healthcare #dementia Liberal (vs conservative) state policies predict less dementia Longitudinal, nationally representative data journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Does anyone know a good, step-by-step introduction to Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling? I’m looking for easy intros, YouTube videos or other resources beyond the classic textbook style for my Master’s-level students. Thanks! 😊 #SEM #multilevel #statistics #ICA @dgpuk-meth.bsky.social

#AcademicSky Time to tackle those manuscript revisions

When AI "workers" eventually unionize.... .... will CEOs lament the "good old days" when they could threaten & intimidate actual workers?

Marc Bekoff, interviewing @drkendracoulter.bsky.social on her new book, The Tortoise Tale. In his words, Dr. Coulter's book is "an eye-opening read". Must check this out. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...

Hi folks! If you are a US-based PhD student interested in the development of gender stereotypes in childhood and do not have summer funding, consider applying for VIPS. Reach out to me by email. This is separate from my previous message about adol/lgbtq projects. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

#AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing How we keep going. And going.

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky Why we need control conditions

Modern humanity in a nutshell

Postdoctoral Researcher Positions!

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch We were talking in class about socialization effects in prejudice. Student shared this provocative image:

Judging from the state of the world, it's fair to say: We've forgotten #LestWeForget

#AcademicSky Going to pay a price, on my student opinion surveys (aka "teaching evaluations").... ....for making my students stick to a deadline they've known about for 10 weeks. Ain't academia fun?

#AcademicSky Serious question Why, in the English language, do we use the term "mirror" to mean both ✳️ reflect back exactly ✳️ reflect back the opposite And... how did we get here?

If someone won't cooperate with you when there IS incentive to cooperate... ...it's extremely unlikely that they will later cooperate with you when there ISN'T any incentive. Just sayin'

We are doing a pilot survey about how prospective PhD students in PSYCHOLOGY make decisions about applying to grad programs. If you are thinking of applying to a program in the future, and have 2-5 minutes to spare, could you take this survey? 🫶 northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#AcademicSky Yeah, the stuff they teach you in school is useless. You know best, right??

#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #PhDLife When your PhD advisor suggests adding Experiment 17 to truly nail down that already-nailed-down effect