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Brittany Cassidy

@britcass.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Psychology at UNCG. Doer of social psychology. Lover of running, Radiohead, oysters, and coastal breezes. I specialize in attaining long term goals. www.uncgsocialcognition.com

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I 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.
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Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Curious 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/jW84PxuJTMw
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Getting Started with Zenodo (transitioning from OSF Projects)
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Brittany Cassidy @britcass.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My 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 😎
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Assistant Professor of Psychology
The 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...
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Blair Wisco @bwisco.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We 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
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 11/08/2026
Many 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...
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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
McGill 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...
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Andy Luttrell @andyluttrell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When the author queries could be more specific...
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Running 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
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I 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. 1/3
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Huh Kermit
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Jon 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/xuKw2
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Share 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.
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Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) @cossa.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: COSSA Statement on the President’s FY 2027 Budget Request. Full statement ➡️ cossa.org/wp-content/u...
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I 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.”
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Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request to Congress
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
1/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.
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Free-text responses are a crucial part of psychological research, enabling participants to respond without bias toward a predefined set of answers. Unfortunately, many established methods for analyzing such responses require extensive manual coding, which is time- and resource-intensive. To address this issue, automatic-processing methods based on word embeddings and clustering techniques have been proposed. In this article, we introduce SCORES (Semantic Clustering of Open Responses via Embedding Similarity), a user-friendly, graphical tool that makes such automatic methods easy to use and understand for psychological researchers.
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Brittany Cassidy @britcass.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Lab fun on the day before Spring Break. Every year, we should take another picture with the background being the previous year’s picture.
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Brittany Cassidy @britcass.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Are you into Klee or Kandinsky? Social psychology observed at the Art Institute of Chicago. #SPSP2026
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Brittany Cassidy @britcass.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Social Cognition Lab grad students brought their A game to #SPSP2026. So proud of their hard work!
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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
If 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.
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Brittany Cassidy @britcass.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The Social Cognition Lab is ready to rock and roll at SPSP! So proud of their work and looking forward to their presentations
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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Postdoc 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 1/2
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Are 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...
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Study 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...
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How We Present the Political Gender Gap Matters
Turning the tables. Is it too many men in positions of political leadership, or too few women?
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Politics & 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
Research Article titled "Mayor Pete is Smart and Elizabeth Warren is Unlikable? Coverage of Warmth and Competence Traits in the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary" by Meredith Conroy, Erin Cassese, Dhrumil Mehta, Ciera Hammond, Linda Beail, Al Johri, Sean Long, and Dominik Stecula.
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/12/2025
Big 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...
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Nadira Faber @nadirafaber.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Why 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/...
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Jennifer Tackett @jnfrltackett.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Y'all. N>3,800. !!!!!!! Goodness gracious.
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Andrew Mercer @awmercer.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I 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.
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Counting Race: How the Census Measures Identity and What Americans Think About It
How 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.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/10/2025
After 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
A uniformed police officer stands beside a silver car. A person in a brown hat, black coat and vest stands with an umbrella.
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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
New 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)
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Dan Oh (DongWon) | 오동원 @ohdanieldw.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Six 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.
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Sara Emily Burke @saraburke.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Forms 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 #Nonbinary
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Forms 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...
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Franki Kung @frankikung.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
FYI - 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...
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Heejung Jung @jungheejung.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
New 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
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 15/07/2025
More 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...
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Session 9 tips and FAQs – Data Visualization with R
Use R, ggplot2, and the principles of graphic design to create beautiful and truthful visualizations of data
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Dr. 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 🤯🤯🤯
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Niv 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 🧵👇
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Brittany Cassidy @britcass.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Attn @michaeljkane.bsky.social —perhaps you didn’t have this in its slushie form 😉
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Eli 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.🧵
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Needhi 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."
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David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I’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:
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A learning and memory account of impression formation and updating - Nature Reviews Psychology
Impression 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...
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Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I 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...
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I 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...
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Decision & 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/
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Maureen Ritchey @maureenritchey.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
A collection of modules, datasets, and other resources for learning to program in R, geared toward students in psychology and neuroscience: ritcheym.github.io/ppn/
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Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience – PPN
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Brittany Cassidy @britcass.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Timely and important work from @hayleyliebenow.bsky.social. You are missed around the lab but we love seeing your journey unfold :)
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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I 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!
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Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Well 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...
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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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Heather L Kosakowski @kosakowski.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
When 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)
Video of a baby on its parent's chest looking at the parent's face and smiling.
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Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Very 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!
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Can 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
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