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

all I'm gonna say is that these posts are hours apart

It's confirmed: I've lost my dissertation funding. @universityofkansas.bsky.social Students across the US lost FLAS fellowships to study foreign languages and fellowships to conduct dissertation abroad. Contributes to the already precarious challenges to monthly sustenance and dissertation plans.

Today's normalized authoritarianism: Email confirmation that year 4 of our Title VI European Studies grant (& all other NRC/FLAS $ @ @uwmadison.bsky.social) is being held up to ensure "resources are spent in accordance with the President’s priorities & the Department’s statutory responsibilities"

Yesterday, when the shooter was an imagined trans Muslim woke leftist, it was WAR. Today, when the shooter turns out to be a young, gun-toting white male and the son of a sheriff, it’s “pray.”

Protestors in Nepal overthrew the government in less than 48 hours due to corruption. They refused a curfew, spread protests across all cities, fought police in roaming street battles, burnt down politicians' houses, stole military weapons, stormed the parliament & burnt it, forced the PM to resign.

When the scientists don't have anything unique to add apart from toeing the line of establishment liberals, tells you all you need to know about 'whitestream' Psychology.

Do conservatives oppose all environmentalist initiatives, or does the compatibility of conservatism with environmentalism vary by sociocultural context? (more below!) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm disappointed to share that my NSF career grant on anti-Asian dehumanization was terminated. This affects ongoing project activities, which have shown great progress so far, and support for my research team and more. I'm sad to share that the hiring of the postdoc role is currently on pause.

For my multilevel modeling students, I created a tutorial sharing all the main functions I use for data cleaning in R. It took me maaaany years to figure out my cleaning workflow, so I wanted to share it with y'all in case I can save anyone else time :-) sites.google.com/view/gabriel...

It's quite revealing that the group of people who pride themselves on "modernity" and "inclusivity" ensured that one of more prominent genocides of the contemporary was orchestrated and led to it's complete manifestation.

What is the problem here?

Many national parks sidestep the opportunity to educate millions and to “inspire civic engagement” around the issue of climate, according to @universityofkansas.bsky.social research appearing in the @spssi.bsky.social journal Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. news.ku.edu/news/article...

What a week for this to be published, though never not "timely": On "Collective Action Under Repressive Conditions: Integration of Individual, Group, and Structural Level Research, Recommendations, and Reflections" -led by Arin Ayanian, open access here: spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Each of us could write extensively about Dr. Thrasher’s positive impact on our lives and the invaluable mentorship, kindness, and generosity he has offered us." dailynorthwestern.com/2025/03/30/l...

Part of what is so difficult to stomach about this is that Professor Thrasher's public scholarly work is so thoughtful, rigorous, and in the service of our collective good. The Viral Underclass is an incredible book, and I think about it often.

Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

WEIRD researchers and their continued erasure of indigenous people. 🥲 If only they'd realize how they continue to enable fascism rather than scapegoating its manifestation. I suppose genocide is their trademark.

What is an intellectual's responsibility when witnessing violence--such as, one of genocide?

~550 Palestinians have been killed by air strikes since the cease fire deal. ~400 alone in the past 24 hours. This discourse is missing on this platform.

Few interesting things happened at SPSP: 1) first Critical Psychology preconference--much to learn and grow 👍🏼 2) Kitayama using stereotypes about Africa as a place of wild animals and safaris 😵‍💫 3) SALAAM meet up. We have something unique to contribute here. 🪴

I'm thrilled to join the EJSP editorial board as a Junior Consulting Editor. I'd like to thank Kim Peters, Kai Epstude (@kaiepstude.bsky.social), and Marco Brambilla for their trust. I’m excited to work with the team and grow in this role by learning from leading experts in our field.

Considering racism is built into the structure of everyday ecologies, we reviewed Environmental Psychology journals (JEvP + E&B) to interrogate how the discipline (dis)engages with racism. We discuss a racism-conscious & racism-centering approach to Environmental Psychology.

Read what Hassan Turi from #Parachinar has to say. #Pashtun

It is quite a 'white' sanitized space. The US-centric bubble is growing... Lack of critical voices and international perspectives will only feed US progressives (comfortable) ignorance.

Are most American journal staff jobs (post-article acceptance) typically outsourced to Indian workers? (eg. Elsevier, Wiley, Sage etc) Do you know anyone who has written about it? Is this 'another' naturalized inequity of labor that academia is participating in? #AcademicChatter

If you're an international student and on the academic job market in this cycle, it is imperative that you talk about H1B with your dept as soon as you accept the offer. It's going to be much slower and messier. Many (small) depts don't know what this is like very well. You need to be proactive.

At least 750,000 people are on the brink of starvation and death in Sudan, where a civil war has left millions of people in chronic hunger, officials said, confirming theories that it's hurtling toward a humanitarian disaster on a scale not seen in decades. nyti.ms/3L3GcJ6

However, it is clear that there is a disconnect in the field between less established (and more critical) voices and the more established liberal old guards who are content in their perceptions of progress.

I have to admit, this recent SPSSI conference was probably one of the more generative conferences I've attended thus far. Really setting the bar for a good program re: scientific research on social issues.

Didn't realize the bots would be quick to join this app

Who is going to #SPSSICON24? Here's a few important (and cool) presentations, discussions, and activities for this weekend Share with those interested in learning communities and praxis...

New JSI pub: How does American Social Psychology construct the phenomena of ‘racism’? From a CRT perspective, we investigated this question by considering one of the more prominent representations of the field: textbooks recommended by @spspnews.bsky.social 🧵 URL: doi.org/10.1111/josi...

In our new publication in Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy, along with @trevorslies.bsky.social, we explored how colonial conceptions of nature/environmental engagement impede discussions about climate change in parks and other 'protected' areas. URL: doi.org/10.1111/asap... (1/3)

New toolkit from SPSSI: Psychologists' Response to the Violence in Gaza This resource contains learning, guidance, and consideration for psychologists across research, teaching, and practice. www.spssi.org/index.cfm?fu...

We are sharing a letter that we have collectively written addressing the SPSP leadership and its committees regarding the Islamophobic poster approved for presentation at the 2024 annual SPSP convention in San Diego. #IamSALAAM docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Who going to SPSSI? 😌

It's been over 4 months since 300+ psychologists called @spspnews.bsky.social to recognize the escalation in violence in Palestine and support an immediate ceasefire. The most "diverse" leadership of SPSP has maintain its complicit silence in genocide. Here's a summary of events since the letter:

Statement 1: we are going to punish expressions abt genocide and protect racist harassment Statement 2: we did an oopsie and won't even name the violence. I guess we gotta be more rigorous. As long as you are rigorous you can show data justifying eugenics. 🥰

Here are some thoughts on the "islamophobic poster" at the recent @spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social conference. I highlight that this poster incident is a marker of systemic racialization of Muslims Please, read and forward to those who are thinking about what can be done. osf.io/s4mvy

Please suggest people to follow on here :)

Super excited to be co-organizing a reception for Asians and Asian diaspora (eg Asian Americans/ British/ Canadians) at #SPSP2024 in San Diego!! It will be on Thursday Feb 8 evening 7pm at the conference center Room 16A! We will hopefully have desserts and drinks! Come hang out!!!

And then I lost you In a crowd #poetry

We have a paper under review which investigates how conservation efforts (i.e., the cult of wilderness) is primarily a White right-wing concern. We argue it is more palliative and allows continuation of colonial/extractive engagement with non-human nature. osf.io/preprints/ps...

📣 Exciting but belated news: My first, and first-first author publication is out now in Social and Personality Psychology Compass: "Counterfactual thinking may attenuate polarization of COVID-19 prevention behavior" compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I wrote a brief reflection about why we did this paper, and why at this time. It's a tribute to people who endure US racism and move forward, making it possible for us to fight for a better world. socialsciences.nature.com/posts/histor...

An Open Letter from social, political, & personality psychologists to urgently acknowledge Palestinian suffering by Israeli apartheid and demand an immediate cease fire! Please share within your network. @spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...