Our meta-analysis of 60 studies which was published in @mediapsychmep.bsky.social was covered by @spspnews.bsky.social Representation in Media Can Deepen or Undo Prejudice | SPSP spsp.org/news/charact... @stewartcoles.bsky.social @rcgd-isr.bsky.social

Incredible achievement by @ismaharif.bsky.social So proud of you!!!

Congrats to lab member @ismaharif.bsky.social on 4 posters accepted at the 2025 @psychscience.bsky.social (APS) Global Psychological Science Summit! 🧠 He'll present on the cross-domain (media, interpersonal, group) effects of identity threats, alongside posters presented by his mentored students. 👨🏽‍🏫

New work on school cell phone bans just dropped. "Bans...led to a[n] ... increase in student suspensions in the short-term ... but disciplinary actions began to dissipate after the first year." "We find significant improvements in student test scores in the second year of the ban."

New neuroscience research shows that when people try to persuade, their brains sync less and cover fewer ideas. But when they enter a discussion to learn or compromise, their brains diverge in ways that foster creativity, understanding, & shared solutions. www.scientificamerican.com/article/good...

Check out this theory-driven piece offering an important framework for scholars interested in how diverse media content can be used for intergroup socialization. Truly impressive work by @len-s.bsky.social to publish as a sole author while in grad school! @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to @nibasaleem.bsky.social & @ismaharif.bsky.social for receiving a Top Paper Award in the Intergroup Communication division at #ICA25! 🏆 We’re so proud of your well-deserved recognition and the amazing work presented at this year's @icahdq.bsky.social! 🎉 #COMMSky #AcademicSky

Related to @ismaharif.bsky.social research interests within the @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social

Super proud of @len-s.bsky.social for receiving the Dissertation Award for Social Impact for her exciting dissertation proposal! Check out her work with @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social

Hey-o #CommSky!👋🏽 #ICA2025 week = lab squad on the move to Denver! ✈️ Our lab is heading to @icahdq.bsky.social later this week, and we are all super stoked to share the amazing work our lab members have been a part of! #AcademicSky 🥳 👇🏽 Here's where you can find us on Sunday, June 15th for #ICA25 👇🏽

Is that @garciaerick.bsky.social we see? 👀 Come support this awesome team of @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social COMM graduate students (@overbye.bsky.social, Xinyi Zhang, and @laurentwang.bsky.social) on Sunday, June 15th! P.S. We love collaboration with our fellow media labs! @mediaskill.bsky.social ✨

So proud of @nmolinarogers.bsky.social for achieving this milestone! She will be starting her postdoctoral position at UCLA working with the incredible @snsoroka.bsky.social

Very interesting paper! Related to the ideas @ismaharif.bsky.social is working on within the @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social

🧵New publication alert! with @ismaharif.bsky.social Does media shape identity, or does identity guide media use? Our new 3-year study with Muslim American youth tests this bi-directional link @rcgd-isr.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @hcr-journal.bsky.social @theispu.bsky.social

🚨New pub alert! 🚨 Out now in @mediapsychmep.bsky.social, our (w/@nibasaleem.bsky.social, Ian Hawkins, Steve Rains, Dana Mastro) meta-analysis finds that positive depictions of minority groups lead to favorable evaluations, & negative depictions to unfavorable evaluations, by majority group members.

This one was a journey. Jobs changed, roles changed, zip codes changed, babies were born, but the meta-analysis kept going. Grateful to the brilliant team (most not on Sky) who made it happen. @stewartcoles.bsky.social @rcgd-isr.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social

NCA Division Awards deadline is May 15, 2025! If you or your students are doing great work in communication, apply or spread the word. Recognition matters. 🏆💬 #NCA2025 www.natcom.org/nca-national...

Ah yes, masks at protests? Totally unacceptable. But ICE agents pretending to be “police” while covering their faces to arrest someone with a valid student visa? Completely fine, apparently. Love that consistent commitment to free speech and constitutional rights. Really inspiring stuff. 🙃

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

Listen to every word.

Despite the outcry that DEI is "taking over" every industry, newsrooms remain overwhelmingly white and male. And that matters. A LOT. Let’s talk about how media “objectivity” is anything but. 👇🏾 @pewresearch.org

Great talk by @danielbarnett7.bsky.social at #SPSP2025 examining themes within far-right communities. Related to work done by Dr. Ian Hawkins examining SIMCA themes within White nationalists YouTube videos published within New Media & Society doi.org/10.1177/1461...

Wonderful to connect with @sylviapperry.bsky.social at #SPSP2025!!! Here is hoping our shared interests blossom into a new and productive collaboration!!!

Dear American National Election Studies (ANES) User Community, we are pleased to announce the preliminary release of pre-election data for the ANES 2024 Time Series Study. The data and documentation can be downloaded from the study page at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...

Excited to read this paper as it related to the ideas being developed by @ismaharif.bsky.social in @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social examining the potential for AI to be used for divisive topics.

We can't forget a good ol' poster session at #SPSP2025! ✨ Come visit lab member @garciaerick.bsky.social's poster at the Psychology of Media & Technology pre-conference on Thurs, Feb. 20th from 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM [Exhibit D, Exhibit Level]! 📊 See the attached research abstract for more details! ⬇

New postdoc opportunity from Sloan to study how AI impacts scientific research. We have a great community growing around AI/STS at Princeton and I would be very happy to consider supporting applications as a mentor - please email if you are interested! sloan.org/programs/dig...

Can we talk about how food service companies need to stop making us use our names for orders? 😩 It’s awkward for customers and stressful for employees. Just last week at the airport, I got handed a completely new identity. Let me explain… 🧵👇 #NameStruggles

So excited about this nuanced analysis examining the ways in which non-white Americans are thinking about their multiple identities and its social and political consequences for intra and intergroup dynamics. Related to new work by @nmolinarogers.bsky.social within @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social

Relevant to work in progress by @ismaharif.bsky.social within the @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social exploring the benefits of engaging in conversations rather than simply fact checking misinformed beliefs!

Exciting news! Congrats to both @nibasaleem.bsky.social & @ismaharif.bsky.social on their recent paper acceptance for #ICA2025! 📄 It's thrilling to know that our labs' innovative research will be presented at this year's conference. For more information on their paper, see the abstract below! 🎉

More great news! Thrilled to share that another paper was accepted at #ICA2025! A collaborative effort among incredible scholars! ✨ @nmolinarogers.bsky.social, @nibasaleem.bsky.social, @desireeschmuck.bsky.social, @malenao.bsky.social For more information on their paper, see the abstract below! 📄

The OSF is available for preservation of datasets that need saving. osf.io Contact [email protected] if you need assistance

Just called my senators and representative to oppose the federal funding freeze. If you want help deciding what to say my colleagues created this template - customized for Tennessee concerns about research grants but easily modifiable for other states and issues. 1/ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🏆 The ICA Awards deadline is tomorrow, 29 January, at noon Eastern time. Get your nomination in before it's too late! 🏆 https://buff.ly/3WgoaJv

On April 17, 2025 @aaup.bsky.social will bring together major higher ed unions, trade unions, student groups, and allied organizations in the fight to “Free Higher Education.” LEARN MORE: www.dayofactionforhighered.org?source=twitt...

I can't think of a better person to learn about "Longitudinal Data Analysis and Visualization" from than Dr. Andrea Howard, offered in-person in Calgary July 15-16, 2025, at Rocky Mountain Methodology Academy. A trip to Banff is included. More information at haskayne.ucalgary.ca/ccram/academy

Right . . . these programs are what resulted in "shameful discrimination". NASA's own stats about their employees' race were clearly reflecting historically equitable hiring practices

If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

Growing increasingly frustrated with academic reviews: 1 paper stuck in review for 2+ years due to changing editors/reviewers, another rejected after 2 rounds of review over a procedural error, and 1 sent to 8 reviewers. Conference feedback often feels barely read or AI-generated. #AcademicChatter

Exciting and new ways to analyze qualitative data. Seems relevant to many research projects within the @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social

Exciting opportunity for UCSB to find a candidate for the position of "Director of the Pahl Center for the Study of Critical Social Issues". Check out the full position description here: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02896

AI's ability to have personalized and dialogue based conversation might be more effective than other methods to counter misinformation. Very exciting work and related to the ideas being tested by @ismaharif.bsky.social at @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social

Academics researching marginalized communities face intense scrutiny and targeted criticism, yet the support they receive rarely matches the challenges they endure. We need better resources to protect and uplift scholars doing this vital work. #AcademicChatter

Interesting timing: the White House rolls out its strategy to combat Islamophobia in the final month of this administration—right before a new president who plans to reinstate the 'Muslim Ban' takes office. #Islamophobia #PoliticalTheater apnews.com/article/bide...

Relevant to the ideas @ismaharif.bsky.social is developing within the @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social

Love the explanation of how social media is also contributing to critical consciousness and in turn political activism among marginalized youth. We have empirically documented this connection in several papers coming out of @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social.

@nmolinarogers.bsky.social 😅

Application deadline Wednesday

Relates to the work of @len-s.bsky.social that she recently presented at @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social showing media representations and stereotypes of "Asians" most frequently depict East Asians relative to other subgroups. We need to rethink what we know about Asians based on existing research.