Excellent reporting by @dangaristo.bsky.social on the NSF SBE situation, and what appears to be its de facto dismantling—funding virtually no awards since October—against the clear intent of Congress

🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences. Steps to counter this are in motion. If you - have an SBE proposal under review - serve on an SBE grant panel You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2

It’s time yall! I’m excited to co-organize a symposium with @freemanjb.bsky.social at @spspnews.bsky.social this week!! Come by Friday morning (8am, room 450B) to see some amazing talks by phenomenal researchers! @xallysie.bsky.social @chujunlin.bsky.social @whatsinertia.bsky.social #SPSP2026

I’m excited to share my 1st first-authored paper, “Distinct portions of superior temporal sulcus combine auditory representations with different visual streams” (with @mtfang.bsky.social and @steanze.bsky.social ), now out in The Journal of Neuroscience! www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Democracy Forward & I filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Census Bureau, seeking the release of data from its testing of sexual orientation & gender identity questions in the nation's most important annual demographic survey, key to upholding LGBTQ+ rights. democracyforward.org/updates/sogi... (1/4)

New findings from my lab in Nature Communications suggest that racial stereotypes can lead the brain's perceptual system to temporarily "see" weapons where they don't exist. Led by: @dongwonoh.bsky.social Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/6)

Three @spspnews.bsky.social members will discuss their grant terminations and next steps, followed by Q&A, story sharing, and community discussion. Moderator: Cynthia L. Pickett, Professor; Past SPSP President Speakers: @lkfazio.bsky.social, @freemanjb.bsky.social, and @frankikung.bsky.social

The Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (@fabbs.org) is searching for a short-term technology policy fellow. Great opportunity for a new PhD interested in policy, maybe before a research postdoc or faculty position: fabbs.org/news/2025/08...

First paper from my lab out @commspsychol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44271-025-00275-w Latent factor models are popular for mental representation of people, e.g. warmth & competence But we show in naturalistic contexts, more complex representations are needed: high-dimensional networks

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/...

In a TiCS paper, @chujunlin.bsky.social & I propose a high-dimensional model of social impressions. Existing models focus on 2–4 latent dimensions (e.g. trustworthy/warm), but they often fall apart across different contexts, cultures, & perceivers. We need a paradigm shift. shorturl.at/7GD1n (1/8)

Want your NIH and NSF program officers and division directors to be fired and turned into political appointees? Deadline extended: 3 days left! Already 33,000+ public comments Comments can tank a proposed rule in court. 📣 Oppose the rule with a brief comment: shorturl.at/WKuBj

So thrilled @youngkihong.bsky.social will be starting up at UC Boulder!

Join our @erc.europa.eu funded lab @ki.se! We're hiring a postdoc to explore how humans learn from each other — with fMRI, modeling, & behavioral experiments. 🧠👫 A chance to lead cutting-edge work in social neuro & computational psychology. Apply: shorturl.at/GJQuW

Thrilled that @chujunlin.bsky.social is joining us this July!

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

New NSF FAQ is posted. The 5 new priorities presumably don’t demolish science-wide funding. Good news-ish. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

Thanks to scienceimpacts.org for mapping the impacts of cutting NIH indirect costs & making it easy for local news to focus on the impacts to their community Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for helping researchers write op-eds for their hometown newspapers about the impacts on science 4/

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com

🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵 On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE). The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases: "not subject to appeal"

Job alert 🚨 We’re hiring a full-time research staff assistant at Columbia starting Fall 2025! The position will focus on several topics in the lab, including the cognitive & neural mechanisms underlying dynamic social perception using fMRI & natural language processing. Link: freemanlab.org/ra2025

Very proud to finally share our latest paper "Person Knowledge is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames within Separate Brain Systems," officially out at Psych Science. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm THRILLED to announce that this fall, I will be joining the Psychological and Brain Sciences department at Dartmouth as a PhD student!!! I'll will be working with the amazing @markthornton.bsky.social and the SCRAP Lab! 🌲🧠

🧪I'm not surprised, but very disappointed... Sexual orientation, gender Qs cut from U.S. Ph.D. grad survey @science.org At @aaas.org we worked with @freemanjb.bsky.social & many incredible partners on this- won't stop. The World Needs Science & Science Needs Everyone! www.science.org/content/arti...

As expected, NSF is cutting gender and sexual orientation data on U.S. STEM workforce surveys (on shaky legal ground). I'm grateful that following my request (shorturl.at/9rFMW) OMB required NSF to post an official rationale, which will be crucial to how we'll restore these questions in the future.

Postdoctoral Position, full ad here: hehmanlab.org/ad Drs. Jordan Axt and Eric Hehman are seeking applications for a jointly funded Post-Doctoral Researcher, beginning Fall 2025. Topic area would broadly be centered on intergroup dynamics and prejudice. 1/2

NEW: Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.)& Trump's former NatSec Advisor Matt Pottinger make the case that funding for scientific R&D isn't a gift to academia. It's vital to U.S. national security, as China, the United States' primary strategic adversary, is already investing heavily in R&D. shorturl.at/PgUK0

Gabriel Fajardo & @freemanjb.bsky.social have created a new connectionist model of trait formation (impression from faces). High dimension, dynamic models may buy us better model outcomes and situational variability #spsp2025 #comppsych

Check out the lab's presentations at #SPSP2025! cc @gabefajardo.bsky.social, @youngkihong.bsky.social, @samklein.bsky.social, Maryam Bin Meshar, John Andrew Chwe, Bastian Weitz

NSF may be rolling back data collection on gender, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation in its national surveys of the US scientific workforce - undermining transparency and an accurate picture of STEM. In a letter last week, I argue these actions likely violate federal law. shorturl.at/IsiWm

Wyd at 8AM this Saturday? If at #SPSP2025 in Denver, and willing to tolerate such an aggressive time slot, please join us for our symposium on High-Dimensional Social Cognition, featuring @gandalfnicolas.bsky.social , @chujunlin.bsky.social, @joshcjackson.bsky.social, and myself

Excited to announce that Columbia's Department of Psychology is hiring a tenure-track faculty member! Emphasis on multi-method expertise and research programs that complement current strengths in the Department. Come join us! Review begins Nov. 1: apply.interfolio.com/157376

New from the lab led by J Chwe in Journal of Neuroscience! People represent faces in a 2D trustworthiness-dominance space in the brain, via both an implicit system involved in activating concepts from visual cues, and an explicit system involved in social reasoning www.jneurosci.org/content/44/3...

New in Psych Science led by Youngki Hong: Facial stereotypes (e.g., trustworthiness) lead to consequential biases in criminal sentencing, hiring, and politics. We show these biases can be eliminated via a training that dismantles the associations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... (1/6)

Hey Bluesky 👋 Columbia is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in social psychology. Emphasis on multi-method expertise, e.g., computational approaches to studying social behavior, psychophysiology, big data, & other novel methods. Review begins October 1. Come join us! apply.interfolio.com/131473