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Erika J. Rosenberger (she/her)

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Assistant Professor of Psychology at Indiana State University • Social Psychology • language, belonging, identity • lover of food, board games, and furry friends • she/her/hers

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 21/04/2026
The Trump administration is kicking 150,000 Illinoisans off of SNAP on May 1. He's ripping away help from Illinoisans as the cost of their groceries, gas, and utilities continues to rise. Make sure to check your status at abe.illinois.gov.
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150,000 Illinois households may lose federal food assistance beginning May 1
Article Summary Due to changes from President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, some immigrants are no longer eligible
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Erika J. Rosenberger (she/her) @ejrosenberger.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
My last MPA as a grad student was a success! I'm honored to receive the Graduate Student Paper Award and am proud of my undergrad for presenting her first poster (Happy to chat if you missed them!). I love what I do and can't wait to continue my journey as assistant professor ✨️ #2026MPA #MPA2026
Presenting my talk titled "Nonbinary Students' Reactions to 'He or She' vs. 'They' Pronouns" at the Midwestern Psychological Association.Posing with Allison Farrell and my undergraduate Hannah Alvarez in front of the poster Hannah presented at MPA. Fist bumping my advisor Heather Claypool after receiving the Graduate Student Paper Award at MPA.A picture of my Graduate Student Paper Award and my conference badge that has ribbons attached that say, "Award Winner," "she/her," and "Big Cheese."
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.
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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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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
New study finds demand and experimenter bias partly explain the ego-depletion effect Journal: doi.org/10.1007/s121... Open access: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... By @oulmann.bsky.social, @martinhagger.bsky.social, et al.
Over the past decade, the robustness of the ego-depletion effect has been widely questioned. Possible reasons for variations in the ego-depletion effect may be participant expectations of the demand of the upcoming task and experimenter expectations or demand bias. In three experiments we tested the hypothesis that the ego-depletion effect is partly or exclusively attributable to (i) participants’ expectations of the task (Studies 1a and b) and (ii) experimental demand bias (Study 2). In all studies we did not observe a robust ego-depletion effect, and only participants informed that the task was tiring exhibited the effect. Taken together, our findings suggest that participant and experimenter expectations can influence performance in ego-depletion paradigms. However, more research is necessary to determine the extent to which these expectations—rather than other social-motivational factors—drive the effect.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Things are not okay.
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Erika J. Rosenberger (she/her) @ejrosenberger.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
If you're up early, come see my poster examining if attachment predicts blame when people are ghosted! #SPSP2026
Attributions of Ghosting by Attachment Orientation: A Retrospective Approach
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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
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Erika J. Rosenberger (she/her) @ejrosenberger.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I am so excited to share that I will join the Department of Psychology at Indiana State University as an assistant professor this fall! The past 5 years at Miami University flew by. It is a dream come true to work at a wonderful institution like ISU. I'm excited to continue to grow as a professor!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/02/2026
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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.)  If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 29/01/2026
Some anti-vaxeers think polio isn’t a big deal. In the US 1950s, it caused ~20,000 cases of paralysis per year. Iron lungs, crutches, and braces were everyday sites. The Trump administration wants us back in the 1950s. We can’t forget what that means. www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
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Polio Was That Bad
One of RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers recently floated the idea of stopping vaccination against the virus. It would be catastrophic.
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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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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
On this MLK Day, let’s remember that Dr. King believed in America not as it is, but as it could be. Hope is not passive—it’s a commitment to keep bending the arc toward justice. The promise of America is still ours to fulfill.
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Psychology Jobs Three assistant professor positions in health, clinical, or social psychology at the University of Southampton, UK. Closing date: 30 Jan 2026 BSky Contacts: @timwildschut.bsky.social & @denisdrieghe.bsky.social #PsychJobs #SocialPsyc #ClinPsyc #HealthPsyc #PhDSky #AcademicSky
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Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Lecturers in Health/Clinical (mental health)/Social Psychology x 3
The School of Psychology, University of Southampton, is seeking to appoint three permanent lecturers in health, clinical or social psychology to grow our research and contribute to delivery of our und...
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Hirotaka Imada @hirotakaimada.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I am hiring a 4y postdoc for my Leverhulme-funded project on the role of beliefs about what in/outgroup members believe/do about climate change in shaping pro-climate behaviours🌏 Start date: May 2026 at latest Deadline: Feb 8 Please share it widely! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Full-Time, Fixed-Term (48 months)Applications are invited for a 4-year, full-time Postdoctoral Research Assistant position in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. The successful candidate will join Dr. Hirotaka...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Who agrees? ✋
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky Think you can't make a difference? Well, consider the 3.5% rule "if 3.5% of a population protests against a regime, the regime will fail" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
What a world to go to bed thinking about one mass shooting and wake up to news of another, a targeted hate crime, at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. And also in the video where an actual hero, Ahmed al Ahmed chooses not to kill one of the terrorists.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
A horrific attack. No one should be killed because of their religion, identity,culture or nationality. No one at all should fear violence like this. And Ahmed Al Ahmed’s act of courage can be seen by all on video…a man without a gun saving others from men with guns.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
This is what he says when doesn’t care about the people who died
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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Today I and everyday I am: Grateful for Vaccines Grateful for Science Grateful for Public Health Workers Grateful for Doctors Grateful for Nurses Grateful for Scientists Grateful for everyone whose job has been a little harder to do especially this year, yet who keep showing up. #Thanksgiving
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 21/11/2025
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
If someone told me this were AI, I would believe it, because, wut?!
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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I'm back! In this experiment we had 39 participants choose between 8 different PhD programs which varied in terms of region, application materials, prestige, and fees. Importantly, two of the programs had a GRE requirement and two were equivalent but did not:
This is a graph showing which PhD programs people decided to apply to in terms of frequency counts. Participants chose to apply to four schools of the eight in total and overwhelmingly chose the non-GRE required schools even when they were equivalent on all other descriptive characteristics to the GRE schools. Picture shows a graph with frequency of reported intention to apply to schools.
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil... Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy. Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
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Four three-year postdoctoral positions in the project Slow-Motion Democracy - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 25/10/2025
The thing is journalists should constantly be thinking deeply and carefully about their word choices, especially dehumanizing language, and questioning why they use what they use and who benefits from it. The arrogance from the reporter is frankly embarrassing.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
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Eli Finkel @elijfinkel.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
📢POSTDOC POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT📢 @nourkteily.bsky.social & I are recruiting a postdoc in the #LitowitzCenter for Enlightened Disagreement. We seek research excellence regarding navigating conflict. Application deadline: Nov. 17. Salary: ~$80k. facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjQzNw==
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Northwestern Faculty Search -
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 05/10/2025
the abstract for williams & jarvis' 2006 "cyberball" paper, which introduced an ostracism manipulation based on being left out of a ball-passing game
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Tiffany Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... #socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob #psycjobs #psychology 1/n
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Assistant Professor
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Dr. Allison G. Harvey @allisonharvey.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social
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Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?
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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
If you can't be bothered to read, why are trying to be a scientist. Baffling...
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 20/09/2025
Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Nice coverage of our recent work on harm-based moral arguments about women's bodily autonomy! @nadirafaber.bsky.social, @shellkryan.bsky.social, @abiclick29.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/traver...
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The Mistake We Always Make When Talking About Women, By A Psychologist
Why are debates about women’s rights so hard to resolve? New research shows how morality, not policy, shapes the fight over women’s bodies.
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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Looking pretty grim out there :-(.
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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
📣 🚨 Yale Psychology has 3 searches this year! Links below: Quantitative link: apply.interfolio.com/171903 Social link: apply.interfolio.com/171989 Clinical link: apply.interfolio.com/171970
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Erika J. Rosenberger (she/her) @ejrosenberger.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Yesterday was the first day of school for my last year as a student at Miami University. As I'm working on job apps, it hasn't quite hit me yet. It has been a wonderful experience, and I know I will miss this place when it's time to leave. Luckily, learning will continue even after I graduate 🌈
The Psychology Building at Miami University The steps to go up to the Psychology Building at Miami University
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 25/08/2025
I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today. Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American. There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.
Governor JB Pritzker joined elected officials, business, faith, and education leaders, community advocates, and law enforcement leaders to condemn the Trump administration’s plan to deploy the National Guard or active duty military in Chicago despite objections from state and local leadership.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Love how much y’all use this assignment. Keep on keeping on!
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Nour Kteily @nourkteily.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Apply to the awesome DRRC postdoc position at Kellogg. Open to any scholar who studies conflict and cooperation, very broadly construed. We’ve had some amazing people come through over the years. Note the earlier application deadline this year (Nov 1)!
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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 18/07/2025
The duration of long heatwaves increases at an accelerating rate with warming such that a large increase in the risk of long-lasting heatwaves results from relatively modest warming, according to an analysis in Nature Geoscience. go.nature.com/44WkxMB 🧪
This is figure 2, which shows spatial patterns of heatwave duration scales in the current climate.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Stunning. May was brutal for Trump in federal court: 96% loss rate ⚖️. Even GOP-appointed judges have ruled against the admin 72% of the time. District courts are doing their job defending the Constitution. Soon the Supreme Court may be the only court unwilling to defend the rule of law.
Infographic titled “Judges reject Trump at an accelerating pace” with subtitle “Federal district court rulings against the administration.”

The first bar chart, labeled “By month, %”, shows the percentage of federal district court rulings against the Trump administration:
	•	February: 53.8% (7 out of 13)
	•	March: 74.3% (26 out of 35)
	•	April: 76.1% (51 out of 67)
	•	May: 96.3% (26 out of 27)

The second bar chart, labeled “By appointing party, %”, shows rulings against the Trump administration by the party of the judge’s appointing president:
	•	Republican-appointed judges: 72.2% (26 out of 36)
	•	Democratic-appointed judges: 80.4% (74 out of 92)

Source: Bonica, Adam; Sen, Maya, 2025, “Common-space Measures of Judicial Ideology for Federal Judges (2024 update),” https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CK3EEL
Note: Coding scheme details available at data4democracy.substack.com/p/when-judges-become-targets-judicial
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WIRED @wired.com · 12/05/2025
“Unfortunately, right now, it looks like the polluters won.” Experts say that the mass of scientists being forced out of the EPA will slow down any future regulation of chemicals.
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The EPA Will Likely Gut Team That Studies Health Risks From Chemicals
Reorganizations at the EPA may get rid of the agency’s fundamental program for research around the risks of toxic chemicals.
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