National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year. So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝

Wow, how bad has he gotten that they've made him take 3 dementia tests now?

Nowhere is precarious manhood more evident than in the current Republican administration.

Fascinating new study about men’s friendships. There’s a lot of evidence here that the “male loneliness crisis” is actually a white, wealthy man problem. Other men are building friendships with similar depth to women’s friendships.

New paper alert: RJ Kubicki & I review transgender workplace harassment: prevalence and forms; factors that contribute to its occurrence; outcomes; reduction & prevention. A takeaway: current scientific & legal harassment definitions don't account for many harassment experiences of trans folks.

This is making my brain explode.

1. Attacks on LGBTQ+ people have always been tied with the erosion of democracy. Now, a bill has just been passed in Florida that lets DeSantis remove elected officials for promoting pride/LGBTQ+ people in their official capacity. No court hearing necessary. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Beautiful new paper by @thomastalhelm.bsky.social and colleagues in which they looked at differences in collectivism in China across regions and time, using behavioral indicators like living arrangement, employment, and transportation.

#TrumpIsAPathologicalLiar Mr. Peace President was a sham as was the Board of Peace each rogue leader and no European nations paying him $1Billion to join. #ResistanceUnited #NoWarInIran

New paper alert w/ JJ Jordan. 2 studies examined barriers to communicating sexual consent. People believed their peers & partners are less likely to ask for consent & hold more negative attitudes about consent than they do. Men (straight & gay) expressed masculinity concerns. osf.io/preprints/ps...

I haven't seen conservatives get this upset about a Superbowl halftime show since, I don't know...last year with Kendrick Lamar? Or 2023 with Rihanna? Or the 2022 rap medley? Or maybe Beyonce?

The U.S. anti-trans backlash has not let up. But the good news is that these bills are increasingly unpopular with the public. Polling shows that people think anti-trans Republicans have gone too far and by a large margin (+22, according to a Fox News poll) trust Democrats more on trans issues.

My new favorite hobby is watching videos of restaurants refuse service to ICE agents.

To state the obvious...

"But Wiles conceded that attacking targets on Venezuela’s mainland would force Trump to get congressional approval. 'If he were to authorize some activity on land, then it’s war, then [we’d need] Congress.'" - WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Nov 2, 2025 interview www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Grading essays from a grad seminar in 2025 now means first having a reaction, "wow, this is really good; they seemed to have really grasped the material at a deep level" followed by a second reaction, "this feels like AI."

"Replication rates are higher than experts predicted and p-hacking is much less common than we expected!" replications.clearerthinking.org/three-surpri...

New paper by my student, Becky Upton: Across 60 countries, those countries with higher beliefs that manhood is a precarious social status tened to have more violence against women, attitudes more condoning of violence, and weaker legal protections for violence against women.

It's time to remove laptops from classrooms. 24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images. The pen is mightier than the keyboard.

Concur. "the Replacements’ 1984 masterpiece Let It Be might be the greatest rock ’n’ roll album ever made about growing up, if not exactly getting old."

Chimpanzees use 22 types of tools in the wild but they are capable of doomscrolling like the rest of us. This video of Sugriva using Instagram is shocking because it's so similar to how humans use social media--engaging with content that triggers our emotions, like images of our friends and foes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Other trans journalists have also covered Mamdani’s incredible ad. It was so meaningful to so many.

This is social psychology at its best. Great study. Change is hard.

"Conversion therapy" is abuse.

"We were breaking our own rules by providing access to an employer that thinks, in the words of Trump’s executive order, identifying as transgender violates “a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle.”"

This is an absurd and offensive overreach of non-experts telling experts what to teach. What's next, climate scientists can't talk about global warming? Biologists can't talk about evolution?

Besides being another example of how Republicans try to blame everything on trans people, this is a reflection of how little Trump understands about trans identity. What does "want to have transgender for everybody" even mean? I want transgender folks to be happy, safe and free from govt intrusion.

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This 2022 article by Mernyk and colleagues seems especially timely right now. "exaggerated perceptions of rival partisans’ support for violence are a major cause of partisans’ own support for partisan violence." www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Spread the word: We're hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of South Florida Department of Psychology in Tampa. We will begin reviewing applications October 17th. nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Longitudinal study in New Zealand (N = 61,750) finds gender is becoming more central to women’s identity across the lifespan and young men are starting to increasingly distance themselves from their gender. #SocialPsyc

As a professor who researches and teaches about the psychology of gender in a red state, I'm surprised I haven't had a knock on my door yet.

A story in the NY Times today featuring my work with Jennifer Bosson on precarious manhood and its implications for men's health.

New in PN: Trump isn't the solution to the "crisis of manhood," he's the problem "The more obvious the alteration in a woman’s appearance — even to the point of grotesqueness — the more she's shown her commitment to serve him. No one needs to tell Noem to get back in her place. She’s already there"

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities. It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree. Likely to enter force within days.

"Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity 'by 2026 at the latest', according to new forecasts from the International Energy Agency (IEA)."

New preprint! We developed new measurement tools to examine moralization in ~2B Twitter/X & Reddit posts and ~5M traditional media texts. Key finding: moralization increased markedly on social media from 2013-2021; more than traditional media; associated with multiple user dynamics 🧵👇

From the August Harper's Magazine index. Is the era of quick online data collection for psychologists coming to an end? Back to the lab?

#Baltimore Mayor #BrandonScott invested in 42 summer youth camps, 29 literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 11 p.m, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe fun, & opened several schools up for summer classes. Crime is down 62%. 🔥🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.

No bathroom is safe for transgender people.

Utah legislators passed a bill banning gender affirming care two years ago, justifying it by claiming the science wasn't there yet. They ordered a review. The review is out, finding unequivocally that affirming care helps trans folks.Now the people who ordered the review are dismissing the science.

The APA released a statement condemning the Trump administration's Anti-trans review. "Research clearly shows that supportive mental health care greatly reduces the risk of depression, suicide, and other negative outcomes for transgender and nonbinary youth." updates.apaservices.org/statement-on...

1/5 I am pleased to announce a new paper, based on a talk I gave last year at the annual meeting of the Human Biology Association. This link is open 4 a free read for a while but eventually it will get pay-walled because I can't afford open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

LGBTQ employees often engage in “covering” behaviors to avoid discrimination at work, such as changing their physical appearance and avoiding talking about their social lives at work. Trans employees are about twice as likely as LGBQ employees to engage in covering behaviors. bit.ly/LGBTworkplace

Stunning & original experimental work from Mosul Shared victimisation (at hands of ISIS) increases support for LGBT+ communities among locals. Effects - in part - driven by increased empathy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Just discovered this excellent paper on mediation analysis in Psych Methods. The focus defining various effects; I really appreciate how the authors contrast the "traditional" approach with "causal" mediation analysis. Great job picking up readers where they are! www.researchgate.net/publication/...