After years of teamwork, I am thrilled that our adversarial collaboration on political ideology and belief rigidity was accepted for publication at Political Psychology! Plus, it's my first Pol Psych pub, so it is doubly exciting! t.co/2TgscFm1J8

Just sent this as an email to my department but figured I'd share more broadly in case it is useful. This describes the procedure happening now for science funding in Congress (@davidimiller.bsky.social can correct me if I got this wrong). Importantly, there are still actions that can be taken.

I’ve called Thom Tillis just about every day for the last month to ask him to oppose this bill—and it looks like he’s officially taking a stand against it and the damage it would cause to North Carolinians! thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Listen to Standing Together leaders Angela Mattar and Itamar Avneri discuss what it means to build a joint struggle against occupation and war and for peace in their conversation on The Harlem Lights podcast:

I never thought it would be possible to give a talk at @socphilpsych.bsky.social and a have gig in the same week! Thanks president @andrewshtulman.bsky.social for reminding us all that imagination is not just for children :)

Do children use counterevidence to change their mind if changing their mind means disagreeing with their ingroup? No! Zoe Finiasz, @tamarkushnir.bsky.social, et al. find that children will refrain from revising their beliefs if their ingroup is defined by that belief. #SPP2025

@tamarkushnir.bsky.social presents a wonderful overview of how imagination and experience combine to help us differentiate actions that are impossible from those that are simply hard.

The ECC lab is going to @srcdorg.bsky.social Minneapolis - Hope to see you there!

I'm thrilled that a version of 'Conscious Artificial Intelligence and Biological Naturalism' has just been accepted as a target article in Behavioural & Brain Sciences 😀 An open-call for commentaries is coming soon www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Exclusive: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Post.

Hello, #psychology friends! Want to make science inclusive? We are hiring a new full-time recruitment coordinator for our Duke Child Studies group! Priority consideration if you apply by 4/18 but we will keep reviewing after that until the position is filled! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29865

Our Duke Child Studies group is hiring a new recruitment coordinator! Come join us!

My lab is hiring a full time lab manager! Come join our terrific team! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29947

Horrible. But important to read and pass on.

University presidents, the time is now! Unshackle the general counsel's office! File all the lawsuits! Release the faculty upon the op-ed sections! Write to your alumni, parents, and donors! You have nothing to lose but a tiny percentage of your enormous endowments... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

We couldn’t be more excited for our amazing recruitment coordinator Sydney who is off to start her PhD this Fall in Educational Psychology (Developmental Sciences) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under the mentorship of Dr. Aixa Marchand! Such a huge deal! 🎉

So happy for Sydney and this next big step! #phdbound

1. This Friday I hosted a workshop on morality with some fabulous humans who took take time out of their lives to talk about ideas with each other. Here is a thread with brief summaries of what folks presented in case you too would like to hear about their science: #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc

#handsoff Topeka KS

Hands off Madison, Wisconsin

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

Lot of people at the mall today. Fight the power

CHICAGO…

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

New work by Mercedes Munoz with @yarrowdunham.bsky.social @olsonista.bsky.social Kristin Pauker & May Ling Halim! White kids are above chance in ingroup biases in attitudes, resource allocation & interpersonal distance; results vary for Black, Latine, & Asian kids online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Yet another example of the lesser-ranked schools taking the stand that the bigger schools are too scared to. Here: even as Ann Arbor caves on DEI, Eastern Michigan does not. The courage of the smaller schools is laudable. The refusal of the bigger schools is frustrating.

I am honored to be giving the Keynote at the 50th anniversary of the Carolinas Conference at Campbell University! #psychology news.campbell.edu/articles/ren...

The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected 👇

Reasoning Algorithms: Online workshop open to all, with a bunch of speakers from cognitive development, primate cognition, neuroscience, and computational modeling 🧪🧠 obssr.od.nih.gov/news-and-eve...

Finally some coverage of NIH grant cancelations that asks lawyers, on the record, "isn't this illegal?" (the answer is "yes") www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...

Done. Please help my Alma mater!

Refuse their war. Refuse their politics of death. (3/3)

Our demand is clear: End the war. Bring back the hostages. Get back to an agreement. Now. We will not play along with Netanyahu and Ben Gvir’s politics of death. Not while bombs fall. Not while Gazan children starve. Not while Palestinian and Israeli families live in constant fear. (2/3)

Another week. More death. More destruction. And still, our government chooses war over life. This war is not protecting us. It’s destroying us. From Haifa to Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — people are showing up, again and again. (1/3)

The only way to stop them and their war is for every one of us to refuse. This war is Netanyahu, Smotrich, and Ben Gvir’s war of choice, and it’s time to refuse to take part in it. It’s time to refuse to die in Netanyahu’s war. (1/5)

Beatings, overcrowding and food deprivation: US deportees face distressing human rights conditions in El Salvador’s mega-prison

Cuts to foreign-aid to agencies like #USAID undermine a crucial foreign-policy tool—soft power—that is often undervalued or ignored within the Trump administration. A political science professor explains why it’s often better than dropping bombs: Matthew Clary, Auburn University #diplomacy

In the latest issue of Science, Henry Farrell, @himself.bsky.social, Cosma Shailizi, James Evans and I make the case for LLM's as powerful, transformative cultural and social technologies, ways for people to learn from other people, rather than intelligent agents. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The platform I run, Children Helping Science, is supported almost entirely by US government science funding, both directly and in collaboration with CHS researchers. Here's the note we sent to users today - we need help gathering your stories and citations! Submit here: forms.gle/zFnzrVURntdZ...

The NIH is propagating institutional bigotry and hatred in arbitrarily terminating funding for a project that aimed to increase representation of the LGBTQ+ community in Alzheimer's research... that is, to make said research more impactful, better & more inclusive With this decision, we all lose.

Check out this amazing story about Mercedes Munoz! "“Duke has taught me that I really enjoy teaching classes and leading undergrads in research. I’m very passionate about maintaining a focus on trying to make the world a better place." #psychology interdisciplinary.duke.edu/news/who-fit...

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan prospect.org/health/2025-...

I wrote a piece for @sciam.bsky.social about why White parents should be talking to their kids about race and racism. It was so great to work with @megha.bsky.social on this piece! Please share! www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

"White parents who see themselves as egalitarian must recognize that the stakes are now higher than ever. If you want to raise children who reject racism rather than passively absorbing it, right now, today, talk with your child about race and racism." www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

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Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

soon enough, the mere presence of black and latino students on campus will be illegal racial discrimination against white students www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

Elon Musk’s terrifying vision for AI; short, urgent new piece at Marcus on AI. I can’t remain silent - and hope you won’t, either. open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...