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Media MOSAIC Lab @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

[1/2] 📢 We’re recruiting a fully funded PhD student to join @nibasaleem.bsky.social’s lab at UC Santa Barbara in Fall 2027! We study media effects, intergroup communication, stereotyping/prejudice, race/ethnicity/religion & social psychology. All backgrounds + international applicants welcome!

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Media MOSAIC Lab @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🎉 Congrats to @nibasaleem.bsky.social on receiving NCA’s Communication & Social Cognition Division Distinguished Article Award! Their meta-analysis examines 5+ decades of research on how media portrayals of minority groups shape intergroup attitudes. #NCA2026 #commsky

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Media MOSAIC Lab @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We’re excited to share that @ismaharif.bsky.social has received the National University of Singapore Development Grant to study how generative AI may shape intergroup communication! Data collection will begin in Fall 2026. #commsky #nus #mediamosaic #AI

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Media MOSAIC Lab @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We’re excited to announce that research from our lab led by both @ismaharif.bsky.social and @qiyaopeng.bsky.social has received the Top Paper Student Award from the Communication and Social Cognition Division at this year’s National Communication Association Annual Convention! #NCA2026

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...

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Which Data Repository Should You Use?

The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...

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Qiyao Peng @qiyaopeng.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Two highlights from #AEJMC2026: presented my generative AI & persuasion research at the PR Division Grad Student Showcase 🎤 and received the Mass Comm & Society Division Student Research Award 🏆. On the job market for Fall 2027! qiyaopeng.com

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Partisans have inaccurate perceptions of their political opponents. But a 10 min conversation with a "outgroup" chatbot can correct these erroneous beliefs & reduce partisan hostility Synthetic contact with outgroups can improve our perceptions and reduce intergroup bias arxiv.org/pdf/2607.02181

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Media MOSAIC Lab @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

New research from @yqpan.bsky.social @stephanieherrera.bsky.social @yifeiw1.bsky.social examines how AI is portrayed in the U.S. news from an integrated threat theoretical perspective, identifying 5 major topics surrounding AI-threat coverage. Read more here: doi.org/10.1080/0883... #AI #commsky

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Media MOSAIC Lab @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Communicating risk helps people make informed decisions. But what happens when risk perceptions are elevated over time? With students Tammy Teo and Cameron Tan, @ismaharif.bsky.social found that increasing perceived risk predict later declines in well-being. Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/aphw...

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Most of the statistical tests you learned in stats class — t-test, ANOVA, correlation — are actually special cases of a single thing: linear regression. Ch 7 of Experimentology argues that thinking in models, not tests, is more flexible and a better foundation for theory. 🧵 experimentology.io

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Laura Bringmann 🟥 @bringmannlaura.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Have you seen MATILDA (matilda.fss.uu.nl)? Which stands for Measurement, Analysis & Theory for Intensive Longitudinal Data. MATILDA is a website with educational articles that help researchers align theory, measurement, and analysis when studying processes using intensive longitudinal data.

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Media MOSAIC Lab @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It’s a wrap! We’re closing out the academic year with our final lab meeting for the quarter with @stephanieherrera.bsky.social presenting her MA thesis research work for the Summer. Next up: finals, grading, and a well-earned Summer break! 🌴🧉✈️

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Ismaharif I. @ismaharif.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Honored to receive the Putnam Interdisciplinary Scholar Award from the department for the work I do! I’m grateful to my mentors, colleagues and friends who have supported and challenged me along my career to be both social psychologist and communication scientist! 🎉 #commsky #ucsb #nusingapore

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Media MOSAIC Lab @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Excited for #ICA26 starting today! Do check out our lab's @yqpan.bsky.social @ismaharif.bsky.social @stephanieherrera.bsky.social work on identity threats, emotions and media framing if you're in town! 💻💬🌍 #ICA2026 #ICA26 #commsky #psych

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

ManyBabies ManyBirds ManyDogs It sounds like scientists are assembling an army of cuteness.

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

New pub by my grad student, @gnihill.bsky.social. This is her first first-author publication! In this work, she has extended our lab's prior work on how confrontations to prejudice on social media can meaningfully shape perceptions. spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Online confrontations to prejudice can meaningfully shape experiences of racism online for minoritized individuals. We investigate whether confrontation can also operate as an identity safety cue (IS...

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Identity Map 2.0 is now live. 🎉 Map your identities, visualize how they overlap, and get a personalized complexity score. The new version also measures how much your political identity influences the rest of your worldview, helping reveal potential biases you may not have noticed.

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The Groups You Belong to Are Shaping What You Believe. Here's How to See It.

My free Identity Map tool is updated: see how your social groups could make you vulnerable to believing misinformation.

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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Our new pub is out! We argue that any future scholarship on the politics of inequality should center the people. We call this the PUBLIC framework (Pluralistic methods, UnBiased perspectives, Local dynamics, Intersectional understanding, & Critical of power). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Psychological approaches to the study of the politics of inequality are welcome and warranted because psychology
is foundational to understanding inequality, including ways to rectify it. Whereas some approaches narrow political
psychology’s focus through a lens of a particular discipline and definition of inequality (Connolly et al., 2026), our
focus is to center the public. That is, psychology is best situated to study the politics of inequality if it approaches the
problem of inequality from a broader perspective: that of people—a perspective that goes well beyond a small handful
of academic disciplines or socioeconomic strata. To accomplish this goal, we propose a pluralistic, unbiased, local,
intersectional, and critical (PUBLIC) approach to the political psychology of inequality. A PUBLIC approach should be
pluralistic in its application of evidence and ways of knowing; unbiased in the perspectives that it centers; local in its
focus on psychology, politics, and impact; intersectional in its understanding of inequality and solidarity; and critical
in its analysis of power and advantage. Implications for policy and collective action are highlighted.

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William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

✨New paper out @nature.com ✨ For 8 weeks around the 2024 US election, we randomly assigned 2,000 people to use social media algos we built ourselves. Do engagement-based algorithms amplify intergroup, moral & emotional (IME) content—and does that distort how we see political norms? 🧵🔗 👇

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Our newest paper presents a novel and accessible approach using LLMS to analyze texts for positive (national identification, patriotism) & defensive (nationalism, national narcissism) national identities We tested 13 million words from social media, surveys, and political speeches in 25 languages.

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Prof Andy Field @profandyfield.com · 20/05/2026

As already mentioned, I'm re-vampiong my youtube channel. Just dropped the first few R videos. I'll be doing SPSS and R throughout the rest of the year if all goes to plan. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Discover Statistics Using R and RStudio - YouTube

Tutorials showing how to fit statistical models using R. Accompanies my book Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/dis...

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Media MOSAIC Lab @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

📢 When do social media users participate politically online? In a study led by @yqpan.bsky.social, social media social capital played a key role, amplifying engagement but also reflecting gender differences in digital participation. Read more here! doi.org/10.1080/1520... #commsky

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Sacha Epskamp @sachaepskamp.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I spent the past semester building interactive teaching apps with AI-assisted coding. I used my personal website to share them with my students, but that makes them hard to find for other educators. So I built Galvoro — galvoro.app

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Media MOSAIC Lab @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Do check out @nibasaleem.bsky.social talk tomorrow if you're attending PRIEC at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social! 📅 May 8 | 1:30–2:50 PM (PT) 📍 HSSB 6020, UC Santa Barbara

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Dan McNeish @dmcneish.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

New paper— everyone is collecting intensive longitudinal data but recent review studies report that less than half of studies consider measurement/psychometrics. The paper covers a few foundational psychometric methods for ILD and provides a shiny app to apply them link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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A primer on intensive longitudinal psychometrics - Behavior Research Methods

Many intensive longitudinal studies are interested in topics that are not always amenable to direct physical measurement and instead are often theorized as latent constructs (e.g., affect, emotion, mo...

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Media MOSAIC Lab @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

📢 New research with @stephtorrespantoja.bsky.social , Julian Unkel, Lisa Rhee, @nibasaleem.bsky.social, and @joebayer.bsky.social What counts as “social media”? We find major disagreement across platforms and age groups, with implications for how people perceive its effects and role in society.

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Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

It takes a village to produce research with impact. This is the idea that motivated us to write this paper, published today. Kudos to the team: @lluisdanus.bsky.social @william-dinneen.bsky.social @carotorreblanca.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Climate change impacts are here, but public support for action remains polarized. Which climate messages move people? In a ~13,500-person megastudy, we tested 10 of the most-cited messages. Six increased pro-environmental attitudes in the U.S.—but only by 1–4 percentage points. 🧵

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Ketika Garg @ketikagarg.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

New preprint w/ @fearbrain.bsky.social, Bo Zhang, @aanixel.bsky.social & @pandascholar.bsky.social where we examine online political debates to understand how interactions become hostile using data from Reddit, real-time online chat experiments & brain imaging during chats - osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

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Media MOSAIC Lab @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Missed @nibasaleem.bsky.social talk at the International Society for Research on Aggression Speaker Series this year? You can now watch it online here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Yf... #commsky #ucsb

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2026 ISRA Seapker Series - Dr. Muniba Saleem

YouTube video by ISRA Society

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Isaias Ghezae @isaiasghezae.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

🚨New Working Paper!🚨 How do Americans mentally map political coalitions? We often talk as if U.S. politics is just two sorted camps. But when people think about which groups go with which, the picture is more complicated. 🧵👇

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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

🚨New WP: Can an AI voter guide (grounded in information from a nonpartisan, fact-checked source) help voters’ decision making? 🚨 We built and evaluated an LLM-based chatbot that provided voting info in CA & TX (N=2,474) right before the 2024 election. 🧵👇

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

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The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention

Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...

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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Last day of #SANS2026! Today, @rachaelkee.bsky.social will present her poster introducing Inoxity. It’s an open source iOS app that allows for high-throughput collection of EMA and bio-behavioral data. What can you do with high-throughput data? Check her preprint! doi.org/10.33767/osf...

Research poster by Kee, Madgula, and Huskey introducing Inoxity, an open-source iOS platform for high-throughput data collection. Inoxity integrates passive sleep tracking, Apple Screen Time capture, and EMA surveys to study sleep–media dynamics in real-world settings. An N=1 proof-of-concept shows strong agreement with Apple Health sleep stage data.

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Human Communication Research @hcr-journal.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

New in HCR: Zhu et al. (2026) find that larger choice sets increased overall and cross-cutting news selection. Choice set composition shaped cross-cutting exposure, but attitudes and behavioral intentions did not significantly change in the short term. Read: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/...

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The power of context: how choice set size and composition influence overall and cross-cutting news exposure

Abstract. In times of diverse media choices, the context in which choices are made can influence news exposure and opinion change. Inspired by the marketin

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Travis Lim @travislim.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

New paper out in JPSP with @erichehman.bsky.social! We asked: What is the framework underlying our impressions of environments? Our large bottom-up study shows that people pay attention to 4 factors. We’re calling it the Environment Impressions Model: doi.org/10.1037/pspa...

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Ismaharif I. @ismaharif.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

My lab @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social started research on the communication processes involved in intergroup contact and it does makes sense with more intergroup communication (if any) taking place digitally rather than face-to-face, especially for divisive contexts.

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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This paper claims that watching sports causes zero-sum thinking, with experimental and longitudinal evidence psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Winning a National Science Foundation grant for further exploration, UCSB researchers have found a person’s ideological position in favor of a protest action will often be at odds with the same action carried out by those who align with opposing ideological orientations 🪧 ow.ly/JATF50YocEP

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Social science research on collective action wins National Science Foundation grant

Social scientist Nils Reimer and his team have secured a three-year National Science Foundation award to study double standards in how people judge protests according to idealogical affiliations.

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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

@nature.com has published three groundbreaking papers on reproducibility, analytical robustness, and replicability across the social sciences. Sincere thanks are due to the many folks who contributed to these projects. It’s painstaking work, and a great service to social science.

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

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SCORE | Center for Open Science

SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science. Here’s what we found 👇

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Ismaharif I. @ismaharif.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

After a decade since conceptualizing it, our paper on goal communication is finally out! 🎉 doi.org/10.1007/s110... We often talk about our goals with our family, friends or colleagues. We tell them what we’ve been up to, celebrate successes or vent about frustrations. (1/3) 🧵

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

A new paper in Science measured the prevalence of social sycophancy across 11 leading large language models. The model’s responses were nearly 50% more sycophantic than humans’, even when users engaged in unethical, illegal, or harmful behaviors. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Interesting new bot-detection strategy in online samples: academic.oup.com/jcr/advance-...

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Muniba Saleem @nibasaleem.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Apply for NCA Division awards by March 25! Mass Comm Division (for which I am the VP) has three awards, Teaching Award, Service Award, and Dissertation Award. Consider nominating yourself or others who are eligible! #NCA2026 www.natcom.org/2026-interes...

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2026 Interest Group Awards: Call for Nominations - National Communication Association

Award Calls by Interest Group Award descriptions, nomination criteria, and submission information can be found by clicking on the name of the Interest Group below. Please note that Interest Groups not...

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Philine Widmer @phinifa.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Can feed algorithms shape what people think about politics? Our paper "The Political Effects of X's Feed Algorithm" is out today in Nature and answers "Yes." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality of others living in the country as bad than good. Canada is on the opposiite end of the spectrum--they overwhelmingly see their neighbors as morally good pewrsr.ch/4ubNwaM

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