A regime driven by the desire to create social media content for their hardcore fans on the extreme Right. It is an immensely dangerous situation. But I don't think this cruel spectacle is an effective way to consolidate authoritarian rule.

some parents, esp white parents, fail to answer their children's questions about race or provide colorblind messages ("race is not important"). but are these effective? 🗣️ we find they aren't! structural explanations seem to be more constructive (1/5) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

So yeah, this is fundamentally about trans people and that cannot be elided, but the ways in which junior faculty are targeted and disposed of, while academic jobs are increasingly precarized, and political grandstanders seek to influence academic governance are fucking terrifying for everyone.

A couple of decades ago, I went to Oxford University to interview for a postdoc-type position with Miles Hewstone. At the time - and for years afterward - I was disappointed I didn’t get the position. Now, I realize how lucky I was.

According to psychology research, people can abruptly shift left when there is a "threat event" to health care access or threats from pollution and disaster, in a similar manner that the majority went hawkish after 9/11. Anger drives it. This is a rare event that upends the game board of politics.

“Universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”

This whole thread. “Oh no, someone might eat food!” Good. That’s good. “They might buy something they like.” Cool. “They might get a treat!” Also cool.

Turns out I could start a food pantry for students in our department by just asking if we could start a food pantry for students in our department 🤷🏻‍♀️💕 Talked with 3 students this week who are losing SNAP benefits. I’m sure there are many more 😢

It is great that small businesses and local organizations are stepping up to fill gaps in food access while SNAP is frozen, but every story masks a systemic and humiliating failure of the US Government to support its most vulnerable citizens. The GoFundMe-ification of social services makes me sick.

High Quality Research Rarely Informs Classroom Practice. Why? www.edweek.org/leadership/o...

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

One of my favorite studies to teach about: Dr. Anne Becker’s work in Fiji, exploring the introduction of Western television for young girls’ body image and eating behaviors (it’s bad) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12042229/

More Americans are biting their tongues, not because they don’t care, but because they’re afraid to speak. From DEI to the war in Gaza, people are more afraid to speak their minds now than during the Red Scare, according to a political scientist who has been conducting surveys. buff.ly/Ls2m7mv

"Psychology is meant to study humans, not patterns at the output of biased statistical models." It baffles me this needs to be said, but here we are. There are already viral studies from respected scientists suggesting we can learn something about human cognition from LLMs. Scary & disgraceful.

Is Belief in Conspiracies Theories More Prevalent Among Republicans and Conservatives? A recent article in @polbehavior.bsky.social ‬by Enders, Farhart, Miller, Uscinski, Saunders, and Drochon finds the answer is no: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #polisky 🧵(1/7)

From the abstract: “When seeing classrooms with stereotypically masculine (vs. neutral) objects, women perceived less safety, which predicted less engagement, interest, and intentions to recruit others.“

Ending Medicaid in order to build concentration camps. I feel, as always, there should be some kind of nonstop barrage of ads across America, every Democrat on every platform saying something like “Republicans want to end Medicaid in words to build concentration camps.”

Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.

Incredible: 0% of studies funded by the meat industry have found a link between red meat and cardiovascular ill-health. 73% of studies *not* funded by the meat industry have found a link. www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

HAPPY PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈 Under Trump, research using terms like “Trans,” “LGBTQ,” & “Gender identity” is being defunded. These terms reflect real people who deserve science that includes them. Stand with us to protect LGBTQ+ science from political erasure. grant-watch.us/nih-data.html @rcmedphys.bsky.social

A widespread view in psychology is that most cognitive processes are unconscious. In a new paper, I argue that many of these processes may evade consciousness for the same reason the "invisible gorilla" did: People fail to pay attention to them. 🧵 direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

The headline is deeply misleading. You can’t suspend habeas corpus just “for migrants.” As we’ve seen, ICE will pick *anyone* up. If you have legal status but no right to habeas corpus, you’ll have no ability to challenge your detention or deportation. Suspension for some is suspension for all.

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

This gender split is troubling but not surprising. As girls have started out-achieving boys academically, school and related things like reading have come to be seen as "feminine." Which becomes a self-perpetuating cycle, leading some people to view school--and thus reading--as too "girly" for boys.

Hmmm... Disparity: 0-2yr olds being read to every day/nearly every day: 29% of boys; 44% of girls "HarperCollins said that many parents focus on the literacy element of reading, seeing it as a skill, rather than encouraging a love for reading in their children." Concerted cultivation side effect?

It’s a tough time for STEM education research right now, but we are still excited to share our new PNAS paper, “Divergence in children’s gender stereotypes and motivation across STEM fields”! We have big surveys (2,765 students in Grades 1-12), 2 pre-registered studies, and open data. (1/13)

NYU is hiring a Visiting Lecturer in Social Psychology The position is ideal for someone who is applying for academic positions and looking to gain additional research and teaching experience. The salary is $70,000 Applicant review begins MAY 1. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166631

Signal boosting to #devskysci folks working in social cognition/development and methods, or more generally on science in the public interest - can you support a postdoc whose planned post-phd employment was just terminated? #psychscisky #psychsky

So basically there's a cabal of billionaire broligarchs, far right propagandists, and reactionary centrist journalists all on group chats radicalizing together and exerting coordinated narratives and influence on media and politics www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

Could you drive forward initiatives that champion equality, diversity and inclusion across the society? Applications are now open for a Chair to lead our Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Board. Make a meaningful contribution: www.bps.org.uk/elections-2025

“On average, well-being and relationship satisfaction increased leading up to marriage, dropped significantly shortly after marriage, and continued to decline following marriage.” From the abstract

Last night, the Indiana legislature passed a budget bill gutting IU's academic freedom. It: -gives the Governor total control of the Board of Trustees -limits the Faculty Senate to an advisory role -mandates post-tenure productivity/teaching review of faculty -lets the state to ID programs to close

People don’t need to “learn to use AI”. They need to learn how to think and make connections themselves and thus will facilitate their efficient use of whatever technology comes along. Crafting the right prompt for AI doesn’t take AI training, it takes liberal arts training.

Job Alert: We are searching for a postdoc (1 fte, 22 months) for a DFG-funded project on bias reduction via cognitive conflicts. Feel free to contact me via e-mail (address provided in the post) or DM. leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/ux0vb9i0

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women www.science.org/content/arti...

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

My latest for @liberalcurrents.com We need to stop listening to commentators who spent a decade being arrogantly wrong about the fascist threat www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

Does learning that there are lots of atheists reduce distrust of atheists? Grad school me said "sure." In a much more rigorous replication+, Cameron Mackey (:cough: on the market :cough: he's awesome :cough: hire him) and team (+me) compellingly say NO. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In some ways, it's amazing to see the NPR public editor just come out and admit something that many journalism critics have observed: Traditional media outlets focus on covering the controversy around protests (e.g. violence, looting) and ignore the substance of protests.

📈New research shows gender-atypical adolescents face higher rates of social exclusion from peers. This study highlights the challenges of navigating gender norms during this critical developmental period. Read more in #SPPS: ow.ly/PI2Z50VCTrF

Reupping, we start looking next week