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Clara Wilkins

@clarawilkins.bsky.social
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Social Psychologist and Associate Professor @ the University of Washington depts.washington.edu/spia

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Teri Kirby @teriak.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
🧵1/4 New paper alert! psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... Can you celebrate diversity while undermining it? Our new paper in American Psychologist discusses how people/organizations can appear committed to diversity while their conceptualizations of diversity actively undercut it.
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
#PsychSciSky #SocialPsychology #PrejudiceResearch Help me out with stereotype threat I feel that some of field has moved on, saying it's not real But multiple meta-analyses show effects. & there's failed replications but not that many? What's the state of our literature on #StereotypeThreat?
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Amber Williams @amberdw.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I'm really proud of this paper I wrote with my grad student proposing that children's racial biases are driven in part by racial differences in social status. Part of making the world a better place for children of color is ending racial inequity.
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The Role of Social Status in the Development of Racial Bias in Childhood
Racial bias emerges early in a fairly consistent manner in the U.S. and in other societies in which group-based inequality is prevalent. Specifically, White children often show in-group preferences w....
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Nothing is inevitable. Effort is everything. Ignore the polls and run through the tape. Vote: zohranfornyc.com/vote Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv
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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
This SPSP #MemberMonday, explore research from @jinxungoh.bsky.social examining how racial groups perceive competition between Asian Americans and Black Americans. The study reveals complex patterns that may affect intergroup relations and coalition building. 📖: ow.ly/Gqa650WT8qr
Diverse group of people sitting in a circle outdoors, stacking their hands together in a gesture of unity and support.
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
My lab is hiring a lab manager! Application deadline = 11/1, start date sometime between June & September 2026 (to be arranged with finalist). Please spread the word & apply here: opportunities.columbia.edu/jobs/a3f80f7.... #AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc #psychjobs
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Research Staff Assistant - Morningside, New York, United States
Job Type: Support Staff - Non-Union Regular/Temporary: Regular Hours Per Week: 35 Salary Range: $41,000- $41,000 The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of fa...
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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Newly accepted in PSPB! We examined whether Asian and Black Americans perceived one another through a zero-sum lens. Inspired by the SCOTUS affirmative action decisions, I wanted to know if Asians thought they were losing to Black people and how this mindset affects coalition osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Social psychology lost a giant, and I lost a dear friend and collaborator. Still processing the loss of Sam Sommers, and probably will be for some time. Cherish the time you have with your people, folks. now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...
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Remembering Psychology Professor Sam Sommers
Sam Sommers, longtime professor at Tufts, studied the psychological causes and consequences of racism
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reesespeaces.bsky.social @reesespeaces.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Heartening to see…its not dangerous if everyone acts bravely
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Hilary Barth @hilarybarth.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
My academic department (at Wesleyan University, CT, US) is searching for a one-year Visiting Professor position in Developmental Psychology. Great place to teach for a year! Apply here: wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...
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Visiting Professor of Psychology
Visiting Professor in Developmental Psychology. The Department of Psychology at Wesleyan University invites applications for a one-year visiting professor in developmental psychology to begin Septembe...
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Fade Eadeh, Ph.D. @feadeh.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I'm so pumped to be hosting this conference and talk all things justice! All we ask for is an abstract!
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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I’ve been a green card holder since 2005. I am a social scientist researching racism + DEI, and my entire research is listed in this list. I go to protests. Tho I’m afraid of speaking up, I’m much more privileged than most at this moment so I can’t be silent. If you can, speak up for those who can’t
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These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Here’s the reality: This government—despite what they’d have us believe—cannot simply do whatever it wants. The moment we accept that bullshit, we become complicit in this blatantly authoritarian move by the president and his administration. With a loud, collective voice, we must say: fuck this!
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Our paper "The strategic use of harm-based moral arguments in the context of women’s bodily autonomy" is now out in JPSP! 🥳with @shellkryan.bsky.social, @abiclick29.bsky.social, and @nadirafaber.bsky.social. 🧵
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Black Intellect Media @blackintellect.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans
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NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans
The NAACP wants Black Americans to take their purchasing power, which some studies value at over a trillion dollars, to businesses that align with the civil rights group's values.
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ijeomaoluo.bsky.social @ijeomaoluo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
And people like to pretend that we can create systemic change without directly disrupting current systems, but we absolutely cannot. These systems have to be torn down, and how we care for each other will show what we can build in their place.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
8/8. So, if you’re feeling down about these attacks, I understand—I feel that way too. But just remember that they’re not attacking because your work doesn’t matter; they’re attacking *precisely* because it does. So, get some rest, connect with your people, and keep doing it.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
1/8. This week I had a few different conversations with scholars who, in the face of the attacks on science and institutions of learning in the U.S., are wondering what to do. One suggestion I have is: keep doing your work. It matters in and of itself. Why do I say that? A few reasons.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
saw this circulating on Instagram the other day and I can’t stop thinking about it. “Who cares anymore what particular knot they used in the binding?” is such a perfectly expressed repudiation of the “economic anxiety” framing
"Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore. They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?"
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Mikey Pasek @mikeypasek.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Trump's planning to sign an executive order to combat anti-Christian bias. In a recent article in @psychscience.bsky.social, my colleagues (led by @marahalkire.bsky.social) & I show that such political appeals can serve as potent racial dog whistles. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/01/2025
What the NSF is doing this week is damaging *generations* of scientific researchers and American investments in science. Billions of US tax payer dollars in investment, being thrown away, because of a fucking fishing expedition that is intended to terrorize and set the stage for a real witch hunt.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Reporters: Please stop calling things DEI that are not DEI. This is only cementing the propaganda being used to legitimize the dismantling of all types of initiatives that are not DEI as well as legitimize efforts to end civil rights enforcement. Be specific with your language. Be accurate.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs. Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
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Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs
'The American people elected Donald J. Trump to be President of the United States and gave him a mandate to increase the impact of every federal taxpayer dollar. In Fiscal Year 2024. of the nearly $10 trillion that the Federal Government spent, more than $3 trillion was Federal financial assistance, such as grants and loans. Career and political appointees in the Executive Branch have a duty to align Federal spending and action with the will of the American people as expressed through Presidential priorities. Financial assistance should be dedicated to advancing Administration priorities, focusing taxpayer dollars to advance a stronger and safer America, eliminating the financial burden of inflation for citizens, unleashing American energy and manufacturing, ending wokeness" and the weaponization of government, promoting efficiency in government, and Making America Healthy Again. The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve.
This memorandum requires Federal agencies to identify and review all Federal financial assistance programs and supporting activities consistent with the President's policies and requirements. For example, during the initial days of his Administration, President Donald J Trump issued a series of executive orders to protect the American people and safeguard valuable taxpayer resources, including Protecting the American People Against Invasion (Jan. 20, 2025).
Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid (Jan 20, 2025), Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements (Jan. 20, 2025). Unleashing American Energy (Jan. 20.
2025). Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing (Jan. 20.ent these orders, each agency must complete a comprehensive analysis of all jal assistance programs to identify programs, projects, and activities that any of the President's executive orders. In the interian, to the extent applicable law, Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency nay be implicated by the executive orders, including, but not limited to, financial
surice tot foreign nongovernmental organizations, DEL woke gender ideology, and the
pause will provide the Administration time to review agency programs of the funding for those programs consistent with the law and the he temporary pause will become effective on January 28, 2025, at 5:00
rehensive analysis. Federal agencies must immediately deadlines for assistance programs arising while the les must report this information to OMB along with an directs Federal agencies to pause all activities associated
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any programs projects or activities subject to this pause. Each agency must pause. (i) issuance of disbursement of Federal funds under all open awards, and (il) other relevant
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To the extent required by law, Federal agencies may continue nistrative actions. such as closeout of Federal awards (2 CFR 200.344), or expressly required by law
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/01/2025
Remember that California voted to keep legalized slavery for incarcerated people. Many of those fighting these fires are effectively modern day enslaved people. They're forced to risk their lives for their freedom.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I'm going to use this as a moment to give a shout out to Costco. Instead of caving to segregationists, "Costco positions its DEI initiatives as integral to business growth and operational success." www.forbes.com/sites/corinn...
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In Costco’s Defense Of DEI Efforts, Lessons For Business Leaders
Costco’s defense of its DEI efforts holds valuable insights for companies navigating challenges to diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project.

"I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."
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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
🚨In Nature🚨 Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias? We this test empirically & find that conservatives * ARE suspended more * BUT share more misinfo So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature
We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...
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Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
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Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations | PNAS
Disparities continue to pose major challenges in various aspects of science. One such aspect is editorial board composition, which has been shown t...
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