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Dr. Hannah Volpert-Esmond @hvolpertesmond.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Are you a social psych person who studies things related to culture, social dynamics, contextually situated groups or just want to live in the southwest and eat amazing Mexican food? Apply to our position! We’re hiring at the asst prof level in psych utep.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

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Dr. Hannah Volpert-Esmond @hvolpertesmond.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

We (UT at El Paso) are hiring! Assistant prof in psych, preferred areas are social, health and/or cultural psych or some combo. Link for ad: utep.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta... Please reach out for questions about position, department or El Paso!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I'm stepping on the theme of Chris' book here but, we have an extremely toxic information environment controlled by wealthy oligarchs who have aligned themselves with Trump, the whole point is to manipulate people into making poor decisions. bsky.app/profile/chri...

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 27/02/2025

My captain, my king

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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

This is the way.

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Angie Gutierrez @aegutierrez.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Very excited to share that our paper on Latino group identity is out! In this article @profdanielle.bsky.social and I discuss how for Puerto Ricans in the U.S. skin tone and racial identification impact feelings of group closeness to Latinos and Black linked fate. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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More than brown: how race and skin tone matter for Latino group identity

How can we more accurately measure racial identity among Latinos? Does Latinos’ self-described race and/or skin color influence feelings of closeness with racial rather than ethnic groups? This art...

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Worried for your friends in universities affected by cuts, closures, state interference, or other threats? Wish you could help, but don't know how? This free resource contains practical and reassuring advice for them. All you have to do is pass it on. theresearchcompanion.com/supporting-i...

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Supporting each other through difficult and challenging times - The Research Companion

Science, healthcare and education are threatened worldwide. Here are some starter ideas for ways to work together to share and save vital information. And to care for one another.

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Oren Gur @orengur.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania has indirect rate of 70%, but they probably didn’t want to list that atop Harvard because defunding a children’s hospital might be perceived as problematic. This is devastating

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

If you're an NSF PI like me, you might be wondering: Will my grant be suspended or terminated next week? A few key things to know: First off, remember that NSF is **congressionally mandated** to evaluate broader impacts. And laws like CHIPS and Science supersede EOs. But also... 🧵 thread

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/01/2025

Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This is Phyllis Fong. I very much respect that she made them physically remove her from her office, which remains hers by right, because she hasn’t been legally terminated.

Phyllis Fong, looking badass in a blue collared shirt w/ an expression that is determined and unamused.

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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy (pro orph) @bitterkarella.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

they changed the definition of child for literally one kind of medical care. fuck these ghouls to the deepest layer of hell

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Ike Silver @ikesilver.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

New work out in JEP:Gen with @erikakirgios.bsky.social and Edward Chang! How do historically marginalized job applicants respond to concrete, quantified diversity commitments in job ads? We conducted a large, preregistered field experiment to find out…

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Angie Ocampo-Roland @angieocampo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

My paper exploring the relationship between group prototypicality and how it impacts how boundaries are defined, is officially online! 🧵👇

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🎃🧛🏾Vita Ahhhh-yala👻🙀 @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Wearing a mask in public indoors is better than any stupid fuckin icon or flag you add to your social media to show "what an ally" you are! Wear the mask, normalize that shit, contribute tangibly to the safety and wellness of your community!

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Leia @galaxyrabbit.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Ok #booksky, let’s talk. 👎🏼Goodreads, owned by Amazon, fuels its monopoly on books. 👍🏼StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform, offers an ethical, ad-free alternative with mood-based recommendations, user control over data, and a focus on inclusivity. Support diversity over corporate power!

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Melissa Baker @melissabaker.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

“It’s weird you felt comfortable saying that” is also a good one

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 18/12/2024

That has been a common theme in lines of research that have struggled to replicate. It was (and still is) a big part of social psych. I was literally taught in a social psych seminar in grad school that “strong effects from subtle manipulations” is a cornerstone of the field

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 18/12/2024

This is a pretty good take for an admittedly unformed one. It’s also worth pointing out that the part of the stereotype threat theory that’s falling is NOT the idea that stereotypes are threatening. It’s that you can turn that on and off through subtle environmental cues

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Dr. Hannah Volpert-Esmond @hvolpertesmond.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

What is happening in Gaza is beyond evil. Since becoming a parent, the suffering of children feels so much more visceral, but you shouldn’t need that to be able to say this is wrong.

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Myra Batchelder @myrabatchelder.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"We cannot talk about Covid in the past tense. It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and long Covid, and it still kills." - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General malaysia.news.yahoo.com/world-might-...

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WHO: World might want to forget about Covid-19, but we cannot afford to

World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on average, about 1,000 deaths from Covid-19 were reported to WHO each week. This figure only includes the countries th...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 11/12/2024

This looks *extremely* neat. Kristoffer consistently provides exceptionally useful tools and visualizations 🤩

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 02/12/2024

Woohoo, our paper is live! This haiku summarizes it best: Raw model results? Stop! Hard to understand! Use {marginaleffects}

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paolo @paolopalma.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

It’s interesting that we have discourse all the time on how LORs are the most biased sources for things like grad admissions, but they seem to be what’s mitigating the effects of bias in people’s subjective evaluations of objective metrics

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Tressie McMillan Cottom, who I'm lucky to call friend, is doing the best work I've seen so far mapping the ecosystem that produced Nov. 5th results. This piece is but one of what will apparently be a few, but hits so many clear notes: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

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Opinion | How Trump Tapped Into America’s Online Spaces and Took Control

Trump excelled at tapping into the information ecosystems where minority and young voters express their identity.

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Matthew Thomas Miller (He/Him) @mtmiller.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Interested in academic labor? Gotta read this whole absolutely 🔥 speech the VP of our faculty union, @uam-umd.bsky.social, gave today in front of USM Board of Regents & UMD President.

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Markus Brauer @markusbrauer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

New publication alert! 🚨 My former graduate student (Dr. Naomi Isenberg) and I have a new paper in Scientific Reports about how Americans underestimate diversity support and that correcting this boosts inclusion. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Diversity and inclusion have greater support than most Americans think - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Diversity and inclusion have greater support than most Americans think

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 19/11/2024

We Grow the World Together is a vital anthology exploring the intersections between caregiving and abolition. For every copy we sell on our website this month, we'll send a free copy through our Books Not Bars program to a reader who is currently incarcerated.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

We conclude by noting that attitude change as a goal does little to change the social power dynamics in which racism thrives. It's based on the hope that racist speakers will refrain from such behavior out of the goodness of their heart. Norm-setting addresses power dynamics. 6/7

Screenshot of last paragraph of article Coles and Lane (2023)

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 19/11/2024

Excited to discover this today. Norm-setting: extremely cool!

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Melissa Baker @melissabaker.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Since my whole feed seems to be about it right now, I did the mandatory compliance training for Texas universities last month & there was nothing about allowable language. The SB17 portion also explicitly stated it only applies to DEI centers, nothing else. I’m teaching a REP class next semester 🤷‍♀️

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hi everyone. I'm a social psychologist by training but also dabble in developmental and health psychology. My work explores White people's willingness to confront their own racial biases, the consequences of this awareness (or lack thereof), and how they socialize their children about racism.

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Kim Chaney @kimechaney.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Researching identity safety cues? Submit to our Special Issue call at Journal of Social Issues, "Identity Safety Cues in Context: Advancing the Role of Group Status, Interpersonal Dynamics, and Systemic Events in Identity Safety Cues" - due Dec. 31st! spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

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Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Immigration Realities is a thorough, research-based analysis that debunks widespread myths about immigration. It presents an alternative view. A valuable resource for readers interested in an evidence-based understanding of migration, a thoughtful approach to policy & dialogue. shorturl.at/aurvA

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Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions - ECPS

Kenes, Bulent. (2024). “Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions.” ECPS Book Reviews. European Center for Populism Studies. November 11, 2024.

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Amanda Sahar d’Urso @asdurso.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

REP Starter Pack go.bsky.app/GxR7Bkf

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

If you want to know what is the primary determinant of people's views on the economy, & whether they think "inflation" is a problem, it's this chart on media use. More than any other factor you can think of. We tried them all. But it's not really about education. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 15/11/2024

published this on November 10, 2023 www.teenvogue.com/story/biden-...

On November 7, four national youth organizations - March for Our Lives, Sunrise Movement, United We Dream, and Gen Z for Change - published a letter to the Biden administration that warned, "The position of your administration is badly out of step with young people and the positions of Democratic voters, whom have been shown to support a ceasefire by supermajorities in multiple polls. This is already becoming an issue we are hearing about from thousands of young people across the country. We cannot explain your position to the people of our
generation."

Teen Vogue has consistently covered why
Gen Z is unenthused about a Biden presidency part two, or a Biden-Trump redo, in 2024. Earlier this year,
contributor Rachel Janfaza observed this reluctance regarding Biden vs. Trump in Teen Vogue.
And, as NBC News noted in its coverage of the November 7 letter from youth organizations, many youth voters have already threatened to remove their votes in 2024 over what they see as Biden's inconsistency. In the spring, for example, climate advocates were crushed by Biden's decision to approve an oil project despite activist pushback. We may be seeing the same disconnect due to the ceasefire: Last week, a Quinnipiac University poll found that only 21% of respondents under age 35 approved of Biden's Israel policy.

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Daniel Delgado #CeasefireNow @ddelgadovive.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

"For the first time in U.S. history, there will be a vote in Congress to block weapons to Israel." Contact your Senators ASAP to ask them to support Senator Sanders's resolution to block a $20 billion weapons shipments to Israel. www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/ema...

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Email your Senators: No more weapons to Israel. - JVP

Email your Senators now and tell them to support Senator Sanders' bill to end weapons shipments to Israel and to support a full arms embargo on the Israeli government.

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

A lot of people have shared this poem over the past week. It’s a sentiment I think about a lot, especially now. I hope everyone is doing what they need to take care of themselves. One step at a time. One day at a time.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

I put together this starter pack of sociologists (and adjacent scholars) who study race and ethnicity. If you would like to be added, just let me know in the replies! go.bsky.app/GbS4DAs

The thumbnail for the starter pack Sociologists Studying Race and Ethnicity

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