Excited to share new paper w/ @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social: "Veiled Power: How Rosenwald Teachers Quietly Shaped the Civil Rights Movement" The puzzle: did ~5,000 segregated schools built in rural South emphasizing “manual labor” strengthen or weaken Jim Crow? 🧵 omarwasow.com/wasow_grumba...

NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October. No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out. Why...? 1/x source: grant-witness.us/funding_curv... 🟦🧠 #academicsky

When you combine this case with Skrmetti, the Supreme Court has initiated a regime where states can ban medical care to affirm trans youth while states cannot ban efforts to engage in conversion therapy on trans youth. This court is such a joke.

Fixing the NIH by destroying every layer of accountability, crushing the dreams of budding scientists around the nation, and purposefully sowing lies and causing confusion! MIND YOU, Podcast Jay wouldn’t tell me that the polio vaccine was better than the disease. @health.nationalacademies.org wtf

Scientists are fighting for the future of biomedical research in America right now. So please don’t tell me how sitting down with the architects of the destruction of a decades-old legacy of research in the United States is a good idea.

Wow - huge win across the board for plaintiff Kaley G.M. in the landmark social media addiction case against Meta and YouTube. On the heels of Meta's loss in New Mexico just the day before. www.theverge.com/policy/90065...

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

A thousand NYU contingent faculty went on strike Monday and today they have a real contract with real security in one of the most expensive places on earth

Here's a Society Workshop report about using AI models to learn about a new area of knowledge (in this case the psych of inequality). My favorite part of this was when GEMINI referred to our research as "Kraussian" -- the first time it has been referred to in that way (except in my mind, perhaps).

⭐️ Congratulations to the newest class of APS Rising Stars ⭐️ www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...

Here's a Society Workshop report about using AI models to learn about a new area of knowledge (in this case the psych of inequality). My favorite part of this was when GEMINI referred to our research as "Kraussian" -- the first time it has been referred to in that way (except in my mind, perhaps).

Trump's lawless ICE creates nothing but chaos and are completely untrained to conduct airport security. Democrats are ready to fund TSA without giving ICE a blank check. Republicans are blocking it. ICE needs to get the hell out of our airports NOW.

THE NLRB GRANTED OUR ELECTION PETITION! USC non-tenure-track faculty will FINALLY get to vote on our union in April!

quickly reaching the social inequality week in the gradsocial/developmental course I am teaching, or as I call it: @mwkraus.bsky.social and friends week, which is followed two weeks later by the racial socialization and development week, or, as I call it, @sylviapperry.bsky.social and friends' week

Can't imagine these @wnba.com terms with revenue sharing like this without a union! spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The WNBA and its players’ union reached an agreement in principle on a transformational new collective bargaining agreement early Wednesday morning. https://cnn.it/4bF5dHA

friendly reminder that you can in fact decide that queerphobia and transphobia are unacceptable positions for your community to indulge. you can in fact decide that queer and trans safety is more important than the comfort of bigots.

As a prof of physics, I cannot tell you how fucking unhinged it is to want to fuck one of your students. The power differential is enormous & often, so is the age difference. There is nothing sexy about someone who is basically still a kid. Yet things like this happened to me when I was a student

Well this is horrible. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

I've been getting quite a few questions from press, etc. and so wrote up something a little bit longer here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...

"35% of undergraduate women reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact during their time at Cornell, an increase from the 23%...in the 2023 survey. Eight percent of undergraduate men reported nonconsensual sexual contact in 2025, compared to 9% in 2023." www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

This is exactly the type of response that is needed. The university has a lot more allies when the public get to meaningfully interact with us!

This letter from 131 (and counting) Jewish faculty and staff tells the Trump Administration we oppose efforts to attack UCLA in our name. Text linked in comments.

NEW YORK (AP) — The last pro-Palestinian protester in immigration detention after Trump’s campus crackdown has been released.

Follow our work on bluesky @societyworkshop.bsky.social!

The work of science can, and must, extend beyond the hallways and offices of university settings. I am so excited about the possibilities of Society Workshop to engage with scientists and community members alike to bridge the gap and to make real the work that we care so much about.

Are you interested in using science to improve policies and training? Supporting future generations of scholars? Helping to ensure critical knowledge production is not compromised by funding disruption and political interference? Check this out and consider supporting! www.societyworkshop.org

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

Sometimes I feel like academic work is a poor fit for the moment. While the university is under threat, engagement with the public is not incentivized. Along with some friends, we started Society Workshop as a way to bring more social science to the public. www.societyworkshop.org

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

Glad to see this made public today. I responsibly disclosed with OpenAI that high-level information about the private work of students and staff using ChatGPT Edu at several universities can be viewed by thousands of colleagues across their institutions. No fixes were issued after one month.

New paper led by SJ Shao in @commspsychol.nature.com. Across 20 days of EMA (5x daily), momentary loneliness prospectively predicted heightened social threat perception and social withdrawal. Trait loneliness amplified loneliness–rejection coupling and social disengagement @emoriebeck.bsky.social

The World Health Organization warned that the 'black rain' falling in Iran after strikes on oil facilities could cause respiratory ‌problems, and it backed Iran’s advisory urging people to remain indoors reut.rs/4s5G7bI

Despite Portland State faculty & staff securing $311M in higher ed funding, reducing Oregon’s higher ed cuts from 5% to 0%, PSU admin move forward in enacting worst cuts in its history. Why? @psuaaup.bsky.social

1. science is for something more than lines on a cv, conference conversations, h indexes, and society awards. 2. people in social psy have been bravely trying to improve lives thru science for a long time. 3. stopping means the worst people make policy by vibes and w/ their own power in mind

I end my talk these days by reminding the audience that for most scientists, their politics aren't biasing the science, the science is informing their politics. But b/c scientific conclusions are inconvenient for right-wing politics, there is a movement to pretend the causal arrow is reversed.

This is a major development. The American Economic Association (AEA) and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) are the most powerful groups of economists in the world.

My views on activism and politics in science haven't changed much. You can get a pretty good sense of them in the spsp 2024 plenary I gave in San Diego (59:00 min there is this slide): youtu.be/pybPQBLvQeo?...

Also psych/behavior research is dominated by white folks. Which is why people of color deal with "objectivity interrogation" or being interrogated as a person of color for studying their communities, cc @mwkraus.bsky.social @cydneydupree.bsky.social.

lol as a #PhD student, I have very strong opinions (surprise, surprise) about social science findings that generalize human behavior when they only focus on white people.

New from Chyei Vinluan finds that Asian Am workers (1) exp more discrimination working & (2) felt less in control/able to manage conflict in-person v. remotely; and (3) were more inclusive/equitable in policy support after learning about (1) & (2) 🔓🧵 online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Join us this Sunday for a rally against Escondido's maga four: www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen... @indivisible-ncsd.bsky.social @chavinsky.bsky.social

“…both Asian and Black Americans who worked hybrid reported less interpersonal conflict and stress but more positive affect and control when they worked remotely than when in the office”

As a professor, providing accommodations doesn’t impact me at all, and it helps students out. The fact that anyone cares about this is baffling to me. But then I remember that the country is currently run by eugenicist freaks and they’ve just found a new group to hound.

New from Chyei Vinluan finds that Asian Am workers (1) exp more discrimination working & (2) felt less in control/able to manage conflict in-person v. remotely; and (3) were more inclusive/equitable in policy support after learning about (1) & (2) 🔓🧵 online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

I want to take you back, for a moment, to 2020. We are at the beginning of the pandemic and many of us are working remotely. I don't remember this time particularly fondly--this was pre COVID-19 vaccines, and there was a lot of rhetoric around how the virus had come from China. 🧵

I'm drafting a letter to the Provost, who oversees libraries, to highlight how integral it is and why we need to stop cutting funding to it

Today Dominic Packer & @jayvanbavel.bsky.social republished @minzlicht.bsky.social's post about "The Downfall of Stereotype Threat" in their widely-read The Power Of Us newsletter. I felt a certain way about that & the evidence presented there & thought I'd respond:

“The victims were between seven and 12 years old, according to Iran's Tasnim and Fars news agencies.”

THE PRESIDENT OF WESLEYAN ATE TYLER AUSTIN HARPER UP LOL “Harper follows in the grand tradition of Senator Jesse Helms in mocking areas of research he expects will be unpopular with the general public.” www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...