Older generations spent a lot less time parenting. Millennial dads spend nearly as much time parenting as Boomer moms did. Millennial and Gen X moms way more. via The Economist

Fixed it!

I think the funniest thing to me is that the people who are working to create an Artificial General Intelligence is that it’s a bunch of libertarians who have never realised that what makes us smart as humans is community, society, empathy. The things they find an anathema.

🧵New preprint: Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why? To find out, we studied kids, who show the same tendency but *before* political identities take hold. With developmental data, we can see the basic psychological ingredients. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/11

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

This is the @nytimes.com once again whitewashing violence & genocide. He didn’t end “illegal crossings” — wtf even is that — he ended asylum. He didn’t broker a ceasefire; it’s genocide by another name. It’s wild how rotten the storied institutions of this country are showing themselves to be.

No one ever talks about the academic jobs that marginalized folks won’t apply to because of state or institutional reputation for hostility towards their group. Again, who it really at a disadvantage in any job market? 🙃

"Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared." Amazing piece from @joannastern.bsky.social www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Here's the journal version. Glad to join a list of distinguished social psych scholars in this new issue of PIBBS! To complement other articles, ours focus on how to consider and improve standards in data collection & disaggregation, esp of MENA & Asian Americans journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New paper with Esha Naidu and Emmy Reilly! As U.S. campuses grow more diverse, what really matters isn’t just who is on campus—it’s how universities shape interactions. Randomized roommates when supported with institutional backing can strengthen belonging journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Tenure does not exist In America. prof attended a protest and was fired for “interfering with university business” The details in the article are even worse. We’ve seen ucsd skirting this line too with profs who entered encampment, and this shit will embolden school admin

Just finished my last class of the semester🎉Reminded of how much I love teaching this academic writing class for grad students. We focus on improving our writing but also reducing anxiety and becoming a more consistent & productive writer Some of the students favorite writing tips/learnings below:

This is largely indistinguishable from the type of sophistry that created and sustained Jim Crow. And it is designed to accomplish the same ends--locking Black folks out of politics.

ManuscriptCentral Wrapped! In 2025, you submitted 5 papers AND all got rejected 🎉 You spent 💯 minutes in total trying to submit your papers! You reviewed for 10 journals that would never publish your papers ❤️

Gerd Gigerenzer on the legacy of Daniel Kahneman statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/03/g...

The end of coal in California ⬇️

“When you allow a machine to summarize your reading, to generate the ideas for your essay, and then to write that essay, you’re not learning how to read, think, or write.“

"Miles Hewstone no longer holds the honorific title of Emeritus Fellow at New College, which is part of Oxford. He has resigned as a fellow of the British Academy, a respected body that promotes humanities and social sciences." archive.is/2025.11.28-1...

This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).

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

In Oxbridge, there is zero tolerance against bullying and harassment Anyone questioning this commitment will receive a disciplinary, said the pro-VC www.oxfordstudent.com/2025/11/20/b...

Admin at UC have claimed various reasons why they aren’t fighting in court, but they simply are afraid to take on the Feds, believing antagonism will somehow make a terrible situation worse. Thing is, it can’t be much worse, and you can’t placate a bully.

The International Social Cognition Network (ISCON) is pleased to announce Dr. April Bailey as the 2025 winner of the Early Career Award! Dr. Bailey is a Lecturer of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. She earned her B.A. from Colgate University and her PhD in 2019 from Yale University.

I can’t imagine what it was like to be a victim of Hewstone, but I recognise how important this article is for the women he harassed. At the same time, I’m shaken that our community stayed silent for so long. I have deep respect for the women who exposed his wrongdoing.

I know several of the women who were harassed by this guy. They had real courage to testify. He engaged in serious professional retaliation against women. This needs to end. I've seen how many people curry favor with known sexual harassers and how the worst can still manage to leap from job to job.

#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

"Five people said they left Oxford in order to get away from Hewstone." Appalling.

One of the giants of social psychology was a serial sexual harasser. This new report reveals how Miles Hewstone touched, bullied, and sexual harassed numerous women during his 18 years at the University of Oxford. It's amazing how often bullying and sexual harassment go together in academia.

My wife was sexually harassed by Miles Hewstone as a phd student. He was still asked to review her (and other women he harassed) for jobs and promotions. This is so fucked up. Thankfully, she and many other women testified against him and something was finally done. This is her take on his case:

This—on my former university, department, and advisor—is harrowing but required reading for all social psychologists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)

I view this as something we've all suspected, but the stark detail in this paper is shocking and frankly depressing. We're at the end times of online panel-based survey research.

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

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

WE WON!!! The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system. Read the order here:

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

In March, our grant and the broader DoD Minerva social science initiative were terminated. I haven’t said much until now. Thank you to Tim Wilson for inviting me to share. #research #socialscience #sciencepolicy #academia

Check out my work that was recently published in Psychological Science on "The Anticipated Relational Effects of Confronting Bias (or not) in Interracial Friendships" with @mocraig.bsky.social, @rrrianabrown.bsky.social, and Casey McMahon. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In addition to our last #WplusEBSWednesday post, we also want to recommend some cool R color palettes we've come across: First, the MetBrewer palette: github.com/BlakeRMills/... And also the wesanderson palette: github.com/karthik/wesa... What are your favorite R color palettes? Comment below!

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_...

In other news ... If you're looking for me, I'll be changing diapers.

The more I think about this, the more frustrated I get with our leadership. It is hard to see this decision as anything but preemptive compliance.

This is a great opportunity! Jin is a fantastic mentor and is working on exciting research in intra minority relations—apply to his lab if that's your "jam".

Literally just resubmitted a paper on this exact topic, but the interactive graph here is super interesting!! Also highly recommend Melissa Nobles' Shades of Citizenship

Excited to share our new paper with @swaziadam.bsky.social and colleagues! We examined how a quarter-long climate crisis course affected students’ real-world collective action behavior. epo.publia.org/epo/article/...

What?! That's a terrible idea. This program is great in so many ways—not least because it lets us attract fantastic faculty members before anyone else can.

The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.

I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲