Join us for the EASP 2026 Preconference: "Social Psychological Processes of Collective Memory" @easp2026.bsky.social ✨ With @olivierklein.bsky.social @jrvollhardt.bsky.social @michelletwali.bsky.social @elifsandal.bsky.social @laurentlicata.bsky.social Submit here: www.easp.eu/news/itm/cal...

How do authoritarian regimes keep power over people who have left their countries? @fulyafelicity.bsky.social's job market paper “Remote Control: Authoritarian Diaspora Engagement Policies and Emigrant Political Behavior” (and the dissertation from which it draws) answers that question! 🧵

A response by former ISPP leadership to this statement below on Gaza and Israel published last week by current ISPP leadership: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Really useful resource for RAs and others interested in doing field work in international settings, or any rigorous empirical work in social sciences @poverty-action.bsky.social just launched the IPA Knowledge Hub data.poverty-action.org

Do you want to know more about factors associated with civic engagement and collective action? Check out our (@natekruger.bsky.social) latest article on the topic: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our EASP-SPSSI Joint Conference 'Linking Collective Memory and Collective Action' is taking start today with the opening speech by @azick.bsky.social and two great keynote speeches by Prof. William Hirst and @rezartabilali.bsky.social Stay tuned and follow #memoryaction2025 hashtag for the updates.

Just read this 🗞️, thanks to a post from @michelletwali.bsky.social @rezartabilali.bsky.social tells is straight: Without context, we can be exacerbating conflict @helpingkidslab.bsky.social folks, a great read @pacjournal.bsky.social welcomes articles with this context embedded!

Very relevant review paper by my colleague & friend @rezartabilali.bsky.social on why it's crucial that research on intergroup conflict incorporates sociopolitical and historical contexts when studying psychological processes.

In this commentary in Nat. Rev. Psych, I reflect on the need to bring sociopolitical/historical contexts more centrally into soc. psych research on conflict. Reflections draw on tensions I've faced in my work, and critical feedback from participants, practitioners, and colleagues: rdcu.be/etk1f

Join us next week for a discussion on a paper on power & resistance among Kurdish diaspora together with @canancoskan.bsky.social and Hu Young Jeong: tinyurl.com/Kurdish-Power

Excited that our new paper on how Black Americans’ perceptions of ingroup power relate to engagement in resistance is finally out!

"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said." www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

Discussions on inclusivity, representation, and researchers’ responsibility are more important than ever in today’s sociocultural context. A heartfelt thank you to the 80+ participants and our amazing panelists for joining the roundtable and contributing to this vital conversation. 🙌🌐

NSF Halts New Funding and Caps Indirect Rate Costs The National Science Foundation won’t award any new funding “until further notice.” The agency also moved to cap indirect research rates at 15 percent. Meanwhile, President Trump proposed cutting... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4335aRx

The Immigration Hub launched a new site called Disappeared in America. It's a living archive of people caught in Trump’s deportation dragnet. The homie Claudia Hernandez put a lot of work into this. Check it out. “Everyone targeted deserves to be seen, remembered, and defended.”

New paper alert by my incredible colleague @jorgecuartas.bsky.social! In a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies from 92 LMIC, they show that physical punishment is consistently linked to detrimental outcomes for children.

Our Annual Review of Sociology article on conceptualizing and measuring structural racism is now available. Get it while studying racism is still legal. @tyson-brown.bsky.social @pahoman.bsky.social (also, lots of great articles are in this volume). www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Our Florida study with @micapollock.bsky.social and colleagues - still the only study to examine educators’ and parents’ experiences of the full set of K12 education policies in Florida -is described in Freedom to Read’s call: www.freedomtoreadproject.org/the_power_of...

A letter to demand Mahmoud’s release — be careful if you’re a non citizen signing onto documents like this actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

This is not about fighting antisemitism. This is all about silencing opposing views. Today it’s pro-Palestine, tomorrow it’s pro-Ukraine, and then it’s just deporting whomever they don’t like. And then everyone is silent.

This is a very important story. It is also important to understand that this is how ICE operates. They disappear people. Family members and lawyers often cannot get information from ICE about where inmates are located and they cannot contact them. It has been this way for a long time.

Want to support civilian-led mutual aid networks in Sudan AND learn from and with amazing organizers, poets, scholars and artists? Sign up for our Workshops4Sudan at sudansolidarity.com. The line up includes Ruthie Gilmore, @williamcson.bsky.social @raniawrites.bsky.social, Safia El Hillo…(1/2)

I'm hiring a new lab manager! Deadline to apply is April 1st. More details here: www.chicagobooth.edu/-/media/facu... I formed some of my deepest and most impactful partnerships as a lab manager, and it's a position that I highly value. If you are a PI, please circulate to possible applicants!

New open-access study in the Journal of Cognition and Development exploring the potential impact of climate change on families and human development: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Important thread on how lessons of the Holocaust has guided contemporary violence prevention.

Join us in the Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting series next Monday, March 3, for a session with Dr. Azadeh Akbari (and discussants Joshua Uyheng & Ali Teymoori) on "Resistance Within and Against Digital Surveillance Regimes". Registration link and more info on the series in 🧵

The deadline for the Joint SPSSI-EASP conference linking collective memory & collective action is Friday,March 21! Come connect with scholars conducting research in this area. There is no participation fee & accommodation + food will be included. www.easp.eu/getmedia.php...

Broader reminder of what happens when attacks come and we stay silent about them because we don't perceive them as affecting our specific group.

2 of 3 reviewers on my interpretive qualitative paper want intercoder reliability tests, random sample to prevent selection bias, tables w/counts, comparison to those not interviewed, & generalizability. If you are NOT qualified to review qualitative research, please say no to the journal's request.

Important thread.

It will be easy to fall into a pattern of dunking & reacting in these times. Performing disapproval can be a consuming pastime & it is not enough. Refuse to abandon vulnerable people. Build a rebellious culture of care. If you need help, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote a book to assist you.

So many gems in this essay.

More Than a Century After the Tulsa Race Massacre, One Question Endures: What Is Justice? www.nytimes.com/card/2025/01...

5/8. The *targeted universal* approach (emphasizing racial equity benefits) also increased support *and* advocacy intentions among Black and Hispanic respondents. It did NOT reduce policy support or advocacy intentions among White respondents or Republicans (as many people fear).

🚨 New study in PNAS Nexus! Strategic messaging on equity and the Child Tax Credit expansion can build support across racial, ethnic, and political groups. Findings show that well-crafted messages emphasizing shared values and policy benefits can resonate widely. Read more: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

1/8. You might have heard that it’s a bad idea to talk about (racial) inequality and/or equity-enhancing programs and policies. Over the past few years, both scholars and pundits have argued those messages undermine support for important policies. Well, that conclusion may be a bit premature.

We (with Meral Gezici-Yalçın and @michelletwali.bsky.social) are so excited to announce our Joint SPSSI-EASP small conference, will be held on 9-11 July, 2025 @ Bielefeld: “Linking Collective Memory and Collective Action”. Check our CfP here: www.easp.eu/news/itm/?id... Deadline: February 21, 2025

Here is Part I with an introduction that provides context and the first interview with one of the leaders of a farmers alliance. hammerandhope.org/article/suda...

A few months ago some comrades and I put out a piece on Sudan’s counterrevolutionary war for which we interview 4 Sudanese and South Sudanese activists in Sudan/the region. We wanted to center the non-elitist, revolutionary voices of ppl who hve bn organizing agst the Sudanese state for decades.

If you'd like living in the Middle East and looking at the world from a different angle, check out and share these ads for Postdoctoral Fellow (2-yr renewable: apply.interfolio.com/160826) and Lab Manager (1-yr renewable: apply.interfolio.com/160827) and help me build up the Societal Psychology Lab!

This summer, with about a month before school started, I threw out everything for Intro and re-prepped it. I want to do the same this winter break with #socialpsyc. If anyone in socpsyc or polpsy has anything they are willing to share for Social, I'd love to see it!

Are you researching the relationship between collective memory & collective action? Join us for a SPSSI-EASP Small Conference on July 9-11, 2025 in Bielefeld, Germany. It will be a great collaboration and discussion. Deadline for abstracts Feb 21 2025. www.easp.eu/news/itm/cal...

Here’s a chat btwn #NikkiGiovanni & #JamesBaldwin I’ve watched a few times over the yrs. I love how deeply it centers Blackness. Both express skepticism abt Black political representation & discuss diversity of Black views abt so many topics from movements to masculinity. youtu.be/Pg2t5b0m2d4?...

New JPSP article is out, with @jordanaxt.bsky.social, @calvinklai.bsky.social, and many collaborators! We organised a contest study with an open call for interested researchers to submit their discrimination-reduction intervention ideas. doi.org/10.1037/pspa...

Check out a great new blog post by Sana Khan presenting findings from a field experiment in Kenya examining the promise and pitfalls of perspective-taking to improve relations between citizens & refugees: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Excited to share our new paper with @jrvollhardt.bsky.social and Sherief Eldeeb: "Acknowledgment of Collective Victimization: Findings from Four Contexts of Historical Victimization". 1/

Citations in economics reflect scientific influence, elitism, and racial hierarchies about who is allowed to create influential knowledge. Especially bad for Black economists. Samuel Myers, Jr. has been researching this for years, and nice to see this new contribution. www.nber.org/papers/w33150

The basic principle is that reviewers are tired, they're rushed, they're reading your and 10 other grants on top of their normal workload. Anything you can do to make it easy for them will help. Here's a list of my suggestions.