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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Starting the week strong with a newly accepted paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, co-authored with postdoc @lizsnoland.bsky.social and Sohad Murrar! We merged two largely independent research lines to call for data disaggregation of Asian Americans and MENA Americans

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

all I'm gonna say is that these posts are hours apart

screenshot of a Jacobin post saying "Ironic fascism is a disturbing symptom of the Trumpist right’s mounting ethnonationalism and authoritarianism." with a link to the article "Take the GOP's Nazi group chats Seriously"

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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

It's confirmed: I've lost my dissertation funding. @universityofkansas.bsky.social Students across the US lost FLAS fellowships to study foreign languages and fellowships to conduct dissertation abroad. Contributes to the already precarious challenges to monthly sustenance and dissertation plans.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Today's normalized authoritarianism: Email confirmation that year 4 of our Title VI European Studies grant (& all other NRC/FLAS $ @ @uwmadison.bsky.social) is being held up to ensure "resources are spent in accordance with the President’s priorities & the Department’s statutory responsibilities"

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Yesterday, when the shooter was an imagined trans Muslim woke leftist, it was WAR. Today, when the shooter turns out to be a young, gun-toting white male and the son of a sheriff, it’s “pray.”

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Protestors in Nepal overthrew the government in less than 48 hours due to corruption. They refused a curfew, spread protests across all cities, fought police in roaming street battles, burnt down politicians' houses, stole military weapons, stormed the parliament & burnt it, forced the PM to resign.

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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

When the scientists don't have anything unique to add apart from toeing the line of establishment liberals, tells you all you need to know about 'whitestream' Psychology.

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Trevor Lies @trevorslies.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Do conservatives oppose all environmentalist initiatives, or does the compatibility of conservatism with environmentalism vary by sociocultural context? (more below!) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Conserving nature, resisting change: Political conservatism and evasion of anti-systemic environmentalisms

Conventional wisdom and scientific research suggest that political conservatism is at odds with support for environmentalism. Across two survey studie…

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Franki Kung @frankikung.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I'm disappointed to share that my NSF career grant on anti-Asian dehumanization was terminated. This affects ongoing project activities, which have shown great progress so far, and support for my research team and more. I'm sad to share that the hiring of the postdoc role is currently on pause.

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Gabrielle N. Pfund @gabriellepfund.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

For my multilevel modeling students, I created a tutorial sharing all the main functions I use for data cleaning in R. It took me maaaany years to figure out my cleaning workflow, so I wanted to share it with y'all in case I can save anyone else time :-) sites.google.com/view/gabriel...

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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

It's quite revealing that the group of people who pride themselves on "modernity" and "inclusivity" ensured that one of more prominent genocides of the contemporary was orchestrated and led to it's complete manifestation.

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KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Many national parks sidestep the opportunity to educate millions and to “inspire civic engagement” around the issue of climate, according to @universityofkansas.bsky.social research appearing in the @spssi.bsky.social journal Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. news.ku.edu/news/article...

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Research explores engagement with climate change in state and national parks

Click for more on paper in Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy

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Johanna Ray Vollhardt @jrvollhardt.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

What a week for this to be published, though never not "timely": On "Collective Action Under Repressive Conditions: Integration of Individual, Group, and Structural Level Research, Recommendations, and Reflections" -led by Arin Ayanian, open access here: spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Social scientific research from different traditions on collective action under repressive conditions is fragmented across different levels of analysis. The current paper takes a first step toward re...

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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"Each of us could write extensively about Dr. Thrasher’s positive impact on our lives and the invaluable mentorship, kindness, and generosity he has offered us." dailynorthwestern.com/2025/03/30/l...

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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Part of what is so difficult to stomach about this is that Professor Thrasher's public scholarly work is so thoughtful, rigorous, and in the service of our collective good. The Viral Underclass is an incredible book, and I think about it often.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

A Georgetown University researcher, who was studying and teaching on a student visa, has been detained by federal immigration authorities amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on student activists whom the government accuses of opposing American foreign policy, according to court papers.

Masked agents arrested Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national and postdoctoral fellow, outside his home in Rosslyn, Virginia, on Monday night, his lawyer said in a lawsuit fighting for his immediate release. The agents identified themselves as being with the Department of Homeland Security and told him the government had revoked his visa, the lawsuit says.

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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

WEIRD researchers and their continued erasure of indigenous people. 🥲 If only they'd realize how they continue to enable fascism rather than scapegoating its manifestation. I suppose genocide is their trademark.

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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

What is an intellectual's responsibility when witnessing violence--such as, one of genocide?

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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

~550 Palestinians have been killed by air strikes since the cease fire deal. ~400 alone in the past 24 hours. This discourse is missing on this platform.

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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Few interesting things happened at SPSP: 1) first Critical Psychology preconference--much to learn and grow 👍🏼 2) Kitayama using stereotypes about Africa as a place of wild animals and safaris 😵‍💫 3) SALAAM meet up. We have something unique to contribute here. 🪴

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Hakan Çakmak @hakancakmak.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I'm thrilled to join the EJSP editorial board as a Junior Consulting Editor. I'd like to thank Kim Peters, Kai Epstude (@kaiepstude.bsky.social), and Marco Brambilla for their trust. I’m excited to work with the team and grow in this role by learning from leading experts in our field.

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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Considering racism is built into the structure of everyday ecologies, we reviewed Environmental Psychology journals (JEvP + E&B) to interrogate how the discipline (dis)engages with racism. We discuss a racism-conscious & racism-centering approach to Environmental Psychology.

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Meena Gabeena @meenagabeena.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Read what Hassan Turi from #Parachinar has to say. #Pashtun

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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

It is quite a 'white' sanitized space. The US-centric bubble is growing... Lack of critical voices and international perspectives will only feed US progressives (comfortable) ignorance.

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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Are most American journal staff jobs (post-article acceptance) typically outsourced to Indian workers? (eg. Elsevier, Wiley, Sage etc) Do you know anyone who has written about it? Is this 'another' naturalized inequity of labor that academia is participating in? #AcademicChatter

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👓 Byunghwan 'Ben' Son @textvulture.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

If you're an international student and on the academic job market in this cycle, it is imperative that you talk about H1B with your dept as soon as you accept the offer. It's going to be much slower and messier. Many (small) depts don't know what this is like very well. You need to be proactive.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/06/2024

At least 750,000 people are on the brink of starvation and death in Sudan, where a civil war has left millions of people in chronic hunger, officials said, confirming theories that it's hurtling toward a humanitarian disaster on a scale not seen in decades. nyti.ms/3L3GcJ6

A group of people sitting on a bed. The text reads: "At Least 750,000 on Brink of Starvation and Death in Sudan." Photo by Ivor Prickett for The New York Times.

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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 26/06/2024

However, it is clear that there is a disconnect in the field between less established (and more critical) voices and the more established liberal old guards who are content in their perceptions of progress.

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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 26/06/2024

I have to admit, this recent SPSSI conference was probably one of the more generative conferences I've attended thus far. Really setting the bar for a good program re: scientific research on social issues.

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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Didn't realize the bots would be quick to join this app

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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

Who is going to #SPSSICON24? Here's a few important (and cool) presentations, discussions, and activities for this weekend Share with those interested in learning communities and praxis...

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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

New JSI pub: How does American Social Psychology construct the phenomena of ‘racism’? From a CRT perspective, we investigated this question by considering one of the more prominent representations of the field: textbooks recommended by @spspnews.bsky.social 🧵 URL: doi.org/10.1111/josi...

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A core tenet of Critical Race Theory (CRT) is an understanding of systemic racism as a defining and constitutive feature of the Eurocentric modern order. In contrast to this foundational insight, dis....

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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

In our new publication in Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy, along with @trevorslies.bsky.social, we explored how colonial conceptions of nature/environmental engagement impede discussions about climate change in parks and other 'protected' areas. URL: doi.org/10.1111/asap... (1/3)

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jaboa @jaboa.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

New toolkit from SPSSI: Psychologists' Response to the Violence in Gaza This resource contains learning, guidance, and consideration for psychologists across research, teaching, and practice. www.spssi.org/index.cfm?fu...

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SPSSI | Psychologists Response to the Violence in Gaza

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Salaam Psych @salaampsych.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

We are sharing a letter that we have collectively written addressing the SPSP leadership and its committees regarding the Islamophobic poster approved for presentation at the 2024 annual SPSP convention in San Diego. #IamSALAAM docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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SPSP, We Need to Talk-Public

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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

It's been over 4 months since 300+ psychologists called @spspnews.bsky.social to recognize the escalation in violence in Palestine and support an immediate ceasefire. The most "diverse" leadership of SPSP has maintain its complicit silence in genocide. Here's a summary of events since the letter:

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Summary of Events around SPSP’s Statement(s) on P&I

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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

Statement 1: we are going to punish expressions abt genocide and protect racist harassment Statement 2: we did an oopsie and won't even name the violence. I guess we gotta be more rigorous. As long as you are rigorous you can show data justifying eugenics. 🥰

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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Here are some thoughts on the "islamophobic poster" at the recent @spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social conference. I highlight that this poster incident is a marker of systemic racialization of Muslims Please, read and forward to those who are thinking about what can be done. osf.io/s4mvy

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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

Please suggest people to follow on here :)

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

Super excited to be co-organizing a reception for Asians and Asian diaspora (eg Asian Americans/ British/ Canadians) at #SPSP2024 in San Diego!! It will be on Thursday Feb 8 evening 7pm at the conference center Room 16A! We will hopefully have desserts and drinks! Come hang out!!!

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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

We have a paper under review which investigates how conservation efforts (i.e., the cult of wilderness) is primarily a White right-wing concern. We argue it is more palliative and allows continuation of colonial/extractive engagement with non-human nature. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Eva A. García Ferrés @egarciaferres.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

📣 Exciting but belated news: My first, and first-first author publication is out now in Social and Personality Psychology Compass: "Counterfactual thinking may attenuate polarization of COVID-19 prevention behavior" compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

I wrote a brief reflection about why we did this paper, and why at this time. It's a tribute to people who endure US racism and move forward, making it possible for us to fight for a better world. socialsciences.nature.com/posts/histor...

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History Lessons, Meaning Making, and Asian American Support for Reparations for Black Americans

What can Asian American history teach us about responding to injustice? A personal reflection on the paper, "Reminders of Japanese Redress Increase Asian American Support for Black Reparations."

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