Reposted by Brittany CassidyBrian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I am sad to share that Project Implicit, my first non-profit and foundation of my career, is closing. The IAT website will continue, managed by the next generation of leaders in implicit bias research. Here's the statement I posted to LinkedIn. It didn't vibe right as a bsky thread. 55425
Reposted by Brittany CassidyAmanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Curious about Zenodo as an OSF Project alternative? Here's a short video to get you started: File Uploads, Communities, and generating links for Anonymous Peer Review. youtu.be/jW84PxuJTMwyoutu.beGetting Started with Zenodo (transitioning from OSF Projects)YouTube video by AMANDA MONTOYA 67440
Brittany Cassidy @britcass.bsky.social · 02/09/2026My department is hiring in social psychology! UNCG is a great place to research and work closely with students. We’re a collaborative bunch across the department 😎spartantalent.uncg.eduAssistant Professor of PsychologyThe Department of Psychology at UNC Greensboro invites applications for a tenure-track position in Social Psychology (Assistant Professor) to begin August 1, 2027.We seek someone to join an active and... 065
Reposted by Brittany CassidyBlair Wisco @bwisco.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We are hiring an assistant professor in child clinical psychology! Review ad and apply here: spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/35832 Please repost and share widely! @cppugach.bsky.social @kwapillab.bsky.social @michaeljkane.bsky.social @mikey-jensen.bsky.social @levirbaker.bsky.social 1716
Reposted by Brittany CassidyRuss Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 11/08/2026Many of you will have seen the recent post about changes at OSF. If you'd like to learn more about how to use other services (particularly Zenodo) to share data and code, see my book chapter on resource sharing. bettercode-book.org/book-sharing...bettercode-book.org12 Sharing Research Objects – Better Code, Better Science 317883
Reposted by Brittany CassidyEric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026McGill social psych is now officially hiring at the assistant prof level, hooray Happy to chat with anyone about the position mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree... 05347
Reposted by Brittany CassidyAndy Luttrell @andyluttrell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026When the author queries could be more specific... 1207
Reposted by Brittany CassidyJohn Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Running an experiment to study racial discrimination? Going to use names to signal race? Here's a new tool! This helps you to choose the names you want to use based on: 1.) the strength of the racial signal you want to send 2.) whether you want to hold other factors (e.g., class) constant 17022
Reposted by Brittany CassidyJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026I heard from several sources yesterday that NIH is planning to release a Request for Information (RFI) that apparently will include this: Scores and percentiles for NIH grant applications will not be shared with applicants although they will be provided to NIH program officers and staff. 1/3static.klipy.comHuh KermitALT: Huh Kermit 14159103
Reposted by Brittany CassidyJon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 10/04/2026🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences. Steps to counter this are in motion. If you - have an SBE proposal under review - serve on an SBE grant panel You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2shorturl.atShare Your Story: Impacts of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF)Following the release of the President's Budget Request (PBR) on April 3rd, NSF quickly and quietly took steps to begin to dismantle the SBE Directorate. The Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) wants to hear about how the SBE Directorate at NSF has supported your research and career. Your stories help FABBS communicate to policymakers and the public what’s at stake when the federal government fails to fund critical sciences. We may follow up for clarification, but we will not share your name or institution publicly without your permission. 1174147
Reposted by Brittany CassidyConsortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) @cossa.bsky.social · 09/04/2026FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: COSSA Statement on the President’s FY 2027 Budget Request. Full statement ➡️ cossa.org/wp-content/u... 063
Reposted by Brittany CassidyLeslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 03/04/2026I am shocked to see this language from the NSF. “The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”nsf.govFiscal Year 2027 Budget Request to Congress 44545280
Reposted by Brittany CassidyThekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 23/03/20261/n I'm really excited to share this (open access) paper in which we introduce SCORES (Semantic Clustering of Open Responses via Embedding Similarity) - a user-friendly tool to analyze (short) open-response data. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... With the magical @bpaassen.bsky.social. 31610
Brittany Cassidy @britcass.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Lab fun on the day before Spring Break. Every year, we should take another picture with the background being the previous year’s picture. 000
Brittany Cassidy @britcass.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Are you into Klee or Kandinsky? Social psychology observed at the Art Institute of Chicago. #SPSP2026 1111
Brittany Cassidy @britcass.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Social Cognition Lab grad students brought their A game to #SPSP2026. So proud of their hard work! 0112
Reposted by Brittany CassidySteven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 09/02/2026If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare. 492981602
Brittany Cassidy @britcass.bsky.social · 26/02/2026The Social Cognition Lab is ready to rock and roll at SPSP! So proud of their work and looking forward to their presentations 090
Reposted by Brittany CassidyEric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Postdoc position! Myself and @jordanaxt.bsky.social are seeking applications for a shared post-doctoral researcher at McGill, beginning Fall 2026. Topic area broadly centered on intergroup dynamics, prejudice, discrimination Full description here: hehmanlab.org/ad 1/2hehmanlab.orgad 33950
Reposted by Brittany CassidyJohn Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023... 10412187
Reposted by Brittany CassidyAmy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Study finds framing the gender gap in politics as men's overrepresentation instead of women's underrepresentation increases perceptions that the gap is unjust, making women angry and motivating them to act to narrow it. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wher...psychologytoday.comHow We Present the Political Gender Gap MattersTurning the tables. Is it too many men in positions of political leadership, or too few women? 0226
Reposted by Brittany CassidyPolitics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 29/12/2025📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Mayor Pete is Smart and Elizabeth Warren is Unlikable?", @meredithconroy.bsky.social & co-authors investigate gender differences of warmth coverage of Democratic primary candidates by the media. 🌟 Available #OpenAccess 🌟 gendersky polisky buff.ly/T7T5a7U 21610
Reposted by Brittany CassidySaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/12/2025Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu... 28806313
Reposted by Brittany CassidyNadira Faber @nadirafaber.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Why do people oppose plant-based alternatives to meat? We find it has a lot to do with a symbolic association between meat & masculinity. And with sexism. Open access in SPPS with A. Salmen, V. Krings, & @kristofdhontphd.bsky.social #socialpsyc journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 23310
Reposted by Brittany CassidyJennifer Tackett @jnfrltackett.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Y'all. N>3,800. !!!!!!! Goodness gracious. 65826
Reposted by Brittany CassidyAndrew Mercer @awmercer.bsky.social · 03/11/2025I love this data essay by some of my @pewresearch.org colleagues looking at how the ways that the U.S. Census has measured race and ethnicity have changed over the country's history and how they're poised to change again in 2030.pewresearch.orgCounting Race: How the Census Measures Identity and What Americans Think About ItHow the U.S. government measures race has changed substantially since censuses began in 1790. Today, Americans differ on whether the government should ask about race. 14515
Reposted by Brittany CassidyThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/10/2025After the Louvre jewelry heist on Sunday, a photo distributed by The Associated Press showing three policemen outside the museum — and a sharply-dressed man — confused many people on social media. Who is the dapper man? Is he even real? nyti.ms/42TI9RE 6118726
Reposted by Brittany CassidyJon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 19/09/2025New findings from my lab in Nature Communications suggest that racial stereotypes can lead the brain's perceptual system to temporarily "see" weapons where they don't exist. Led by: @dongwonoh.bsky.social Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/6) 27527
Reposted by Brittany CassidyDan Oh (DongWon) | 오동원 @ohdanieldw.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Six years in the making, a postdoc project with @freemanjb.bsky.social is finally now out in print. Many thanks to Jon and @hennavartiainen.bsky.social and everyone who made this important work possible. 0208
Reposted by Brittany CassidySara Emily Burke @saraburke.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Forms of Psychological Bias Against Transgender Women and Men and People with Nonbinary Gender Identities -- now online at Personality and Social Psychology Review. Main article: doi.org/10.1177/1088... Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #SocialPsychology #IntergroupBias #Transgender #Nonbinarydoi.orgForms of Psychological Bias Against Transgender Women and Men and People With Nonbinary Gender Identities - Sara Emily Burke, Alexandria Jaurique, Benjamin M. Valen, Natalie M. Wittlin, Mackenzie L. M...Academic The present review examines bias against transgender women and men and bias against people with nonbinary gender identities. A central contention is th... 13716
Reposted by Brittany CassidyFranki Kung @frankikung.bsky.social · 09/09/2025FYI - New @spspnews.bsky.social session on Navigating Uncertainty: A Community Conversation on Research Funding Challenges Friday, September 19 2 - 3 PM ET (free and virtual) Sign up: community.spsp.org/events/sNhWo...nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.comSPSP 12010
Reposted by Brittany CassidyHeejung Jung @jungheejung.bsky.social · 04/09/2025New Open dataset alert: 🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience! N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks! 🧵below 411658
Reposted by Brittany CassidyAndrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 15/07/2025More details about this (and a bunch of other little annotations tips and tricks for my #dataviz class) here! #rstats datavizs25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-07...datavizs25.classes.andrewheiss.comSession 9 tips and FAQs – Data Visualization with RUse R, ggplot2, and the principles of graphic design to create beautiful and truthful visualizations of data 26812
Reposted by Brittany CassidyDr. David Miller 🏳️🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 09/07/2025🧪 Translation for NSF folks: Yesterday's SCOTUS decision will likely soon result in these previously blocked actions: -elimination of NSF divisions as an org unit -closing Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM, firing its staff Can still be challenged in court (see below). But still 🤯🤯🤯 22618
Reposted by Brittany CassidyNiv Reggev ניב רגב نيڤ ريچيڤ @nivreggev.bsky.social · 20/06/2025🎉 New face database just dropped! The Israeli Face Database (IFD) is a massive, diverse, and richly annotated set of facial images — now published in Behavior Research Methods. Thread 🧵👇 13719
Brittany Cassidy @britcass.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Attn @michaeljkane.bsky.social —perhaps you didn’t have this in its slushie form 😉 120
Reposted by Brittany CassidyEli Finkel @elijfinkel.bsky.social · 19/05/2025🎇It's #PubDay for THE HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (6e)!🎇 This is the latest edition of the most venerated institution in social psychology, dating back to 1954. Fifty definitive chapters, over 8,000 manuscript pages. (The TOC appears below.) And: IT'S 100% OPEN-ACCESS: www.the-HSP.com.🧵 17631
Reposted by Brittany CassidyNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 13/05/2025"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant." 311286940
Reposted by Brittany CassidyDavid Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social · 12/05/2025I’m thrilled to share my new paper on impression formation & updating in @natrevpsychol.nature.com! In it, I argue that impression formation is fundamentally a learning process. And as such, theories of impression formation should be based on mechanisms of learning and memory. Some key take-aways:nature.comA learning and memory account of impression formation and updating - Nature Reviews PsychologyImpression formation occurs when a perceiver infers another person’s traits, goals and preferences and forms an attitude towards that person. In this Perspective, Amodio describes the unique and inter... 26821
Reposted by Brittany CassidyAmanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 12/05/2025I get this question a lot via email and in class, so I thought I'd write a blog. I don't think the ideas are novel, but rather just synthesizing what others in the field have wrote. Hopefully it's helpful to others (i.e., a quicker read than some of the papers). www.akmontoya.com/post/i-found...akmontoya.comI Found a Significant Indirect Effect, But My Total Effect Is Not Significant! What Do I Do?This question comes up a lot—via email, in workshops, at conferences. You've run a mediation analysis and found a significant indirect effect, but your total effect isn't statistically significant. No... 24214
Reposted by Brittany CassidyDecision & Aging @srndna.bsky.social · 01/05/2025🎧 Catch the new 🎙️Decision & Aging Insights🎙️ "First impressions are everything," 👀 but did you know those impressions can change? @britcass.bsky.social explains her research on person perception and shares why she enjoys mentoring the next generation of researchers. srndna.utdallas.edu/podcast/ 032
Reposted by Brittany CassidyMaureen Ritchey @maureenritchey.bsky.social · 25/04/2025A collection of modules, datasets, and other resources for learning to program in R, geared toward students in psychology and neuroscience: ritcheym.github.io/ppn/ritcheym.github.ioProgramming for Psychology and Neuroscience – PPN 02114
Brittany Cassidy @britcass.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Timely and important work from @hayleyliebenow.bsky.social. You are missed around the lab but we love seeing your journey unfold :) 030
Reposted by Brittany CassidyMichael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 23/04/2025I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below! 339647146
Reposted by Brittany CassidyGabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgNIH cancels its first and largest study centered on womenThe Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings 13026701744
Reposted by Brittany CassidyHeather L Kosakowski @kosakowski.bsky.social · 22/04/2025When you see this image, does it make you wonder what that baby is thinking. Do you think the baby is merely perceiving a set of shapes or do you think that the baby is also inferring meaning from the face they are looking at? (1/5) 1307
Reposted by Brittany CassidyRebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Very excited to share this new paper, out this week. An attempt to express an idea I have been working on for more than a decade. Responses, questions, critiques, suggestions encouraged! 1449
Reposted by Brittany CassidyLisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale 14230681363