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Nils Reimer

@reimtime.bsky.social
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Social Psychologist | Intergroup Relations, Social Injustice, Social Change | Quantitative Methods | Assistant Professor @ucsb.bsky.social | he/him

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 5h
For all my cognitive friends who are familiar with the duck-rabbit, now comes the goat-bird! Going into my lectures!
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I am sad to share that Project Implicit, my first non-profit and foundation of my career, is closing. The IAT website will continue, managed by the next generation of leaders in implicit bias research. Here's the statement I posted to LinkedIn. It didn't vibe right as a bsky thread.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Cas is absolutely right. Here's a great new paper (open access, so freely available to all) that makes the case: doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right
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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Out today in @journalrep.bsky.social , lead by one of our talented PhD students, Emily Ortiz 💯😎 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Right-Wing Shift? Evaluating Authoritarianism, Social Dominance, and System Justification Among People of Color Before and After the 2024 Election | Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics | Cambridg...
Right-Wing Shift? Evaluating Authoritarianism, Social Dominance, and System Justification Among People of Color Before and After the 2024 Election
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The politicization & illegal cancellation of federal research funding is an existential crisis for every research university in the country, especially flagship R1 publics. Again, you would think university presidents would speak up, loudly & collectively, about this. Alas. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.
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OSF Changes | Center for Open Science
We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We need to change norms around sexual harassment Yesterday Tessa West spoke up about a sexual harassment complaint she filed against John Jost. Not only is he a senior colleague in the dept of psychology, but he is one of the most prominant figures in the field of social and political psychology.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Catastrophic for science.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Thank you for your leadership @holdenthorp.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive
There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Most of the federal agency science budgets goes into the salaries of students and trainees, and the decision to take that money and instead give it to industry and already rich venture capitalists is fundamentally a decision to have many fewer scientists and do far less science in the future.
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Nils Reimer @reimtime.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I am looking for an #SPSP2027 symposium to place some interesting new work on any of the following: interminority solidarity, cross-group friendship, protests, or social injustice more broadly. Please let me know if you are still looking for presenters!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
👇🎯 My frustration at the near-total lack of loud, public collective action by university presidents is precisely because of this. The idea that we can just ride out a year or two & it will all be fine & back to business as usual is head-in-the-sand denial. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Brandon T. Snider @brandontsnider.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Back on my bullsh
an image that has boxes and a flow chart- GET A NEW IDEA > START A NEW PROJECT > TELL EVERYONE. the pattern repeats circularly, ignoring the box that says FINISH PROJECT
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Joe Árvai @joearvai.org · 17/06/2026
Ever since "Blink", I've been uneasy with Malcolm Gladwell's approach to research and writing. I often find it superficial, and am bothered by the way he uses on others' ideas and work without always giving adequate recognition. This thoughtful piece by Carter Harris suggests I'm not alone.
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Revisionist Trickery?
Malcolm Gladwell attacked me for something I wrote 25 years ago. Glad I still have the tapes.
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Nils Reimer @reimtime.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This is the kind of science (tired) parents need.
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Want to Change Your Life? Become a Dad. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/o...
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Opinion | Want to Change Your Life? Become a Dad.
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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The best time for scientists to realize that their survival depends on solidarity with humanists was six decades ago, the second best time is now.
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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
"Britain has created a new breed of political prisoners through the systematic incarceration of people acting to prevent climate breakdown and the annihilation of Gaza." www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may...
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New breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise
More people are being jailed in England and Wales as a result of acting to prevent climate breakdown and the war in Gaza, research reveals
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 25/04/2026
Ok guys should we use the world's remaining carbon budget to A) power the transition to 100% renewables B) power the plagiarism machines that only a tiny managerial minority wants and aren't profitable even though everyone is being forced to use them?
A chart of potential data center emissions showing that they will emit more co2 than entire countries
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.
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Ranking Member Lofgren Reacts to Latest Trump Scheme to Undermine Science | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
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Markus Brauer @markusbrauer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The Brauer Lab is hiring a research specialist! We are looking for motivated aspiring researchers to manage the lab and assist with projects. Please consider applying, and spread the word! Applications are due May 20th: wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UW_Madison/j...
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Research Specialist
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process. Job Category: Academic Staff Employment T...
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Stephen Spiller @spillersas.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The Behavioral Lab at the UCLA Anderson School of Management is looking to hire its next Lab Manager! Applications will be reviewed starting April 30th. jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/10354?l...
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Behavioral Lab Manager in Los Angeles, California | The Regents of the University of California on behalf of their Los Angeles Campus
UCLA is hiring a Behavioral Lab Manager in Los Angeles, California. Review all of the job details and apply today!
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #PostDoc #SocialPsychology My collaborator Rose Meleady is advertising a postdoc position Requires expertise in intergroup contact/ESM studies vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/21... Rose is excellent -- high competence, high warmth. You'd won't find a better advisor!
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Senior Research Associate (RA2386) in University of East Anglia | UEA
View details and apply for this Senior Research Associate (RA2386) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Social Sciences School of Psychology Senior Research Associate Ref: RA2386 ...
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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Job alert! @brandonwoo.bsky.social and I are searching for a new lab manager. We are excited to add a new member to our awesome community of soc cog dev researchers! Spread the word :) Full ad here: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03106
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Junior Specialist, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!
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Eric Budd @ericmbudd.com · 13/04/2026
bonkers
As Detroit sold more luxury vehicles, the number of inexpensive cars on the market dwindled

Average transaction price by category, adjusted for inflation

50 models in 2012 to 20 models in 2026, For less than $35k

80 models in 2012 to 90 models in 2026, $35k to $60k

120 models in 2012 to 150 models in 2026, $60k or more
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Julia Bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Glad we have a comprehensive article on the intra-community split in the Ngogo chimpanzees. It was shocking to see chimps that once had close, intimate friendships become violent, lethal enemies within just a couple of years! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Lethal conflict after group fission in wild chimpanzees
Territorial conflicts in animals can inform aspects of human warfare, but civil war, with its shifting group identities, has not been previously observed. We report a rare, permanent fission in the largest-known group of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)...
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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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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I am shocked to see this language from the NSF. “The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”
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Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request to Congress
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...
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Andrew Gordon @andrewgordon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
New preprint out today (osf.io/preprints/ps...). We tested whether AI agents are actually infiltrating online surveys. Spoiler alert: they aren't Thread 🧵 [1/9]
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October. No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out. Why...? 1/x source: grant-witness.us/funding_curv... 🟦🧠 #academicsky
A line graph showing awards over time at NSF's SBE. The line for this year, 2026, is extremely FLAT compared to prior years. By this time in 2025, 179 grants had been awarded. In 2021, it was 243. This year... 16.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
While the situation is grim at NIH, it's closer to catastrophic at NSF. They're just not able to move any money out the door. It appears OMB has them on lockdown. www.science.org/content/arti....
Figure showing NSF funding curve in 2026 compared to prior years.  The line is nearly at zero as of mid February.  As Science and Nature have reported, NIH and NSF have made only a relative handful of new grants since their 2026 appropriations became law, partly because of the OMB delays. A new rumor among the U.S. academic community is that, even after OMB signs off, it will hold agencies to the levels Trump requested for them in May 2025 rather than the more generous amounts Congress approved. For NSF, which received an appropriation of $8.8 billion, a version of those rumors holds that OMB must approve any spending above the president’s request of $3.9 billion—and that any additional outlays must clearly align with the administration’s priorities.
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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
A thread on our recent paper (w/Raihan Alam @raihanalam) in PNAS on why punishment often fails and what it means for crime, cooperation, democracy, and the rule of law. I’m super excited for it, it’s the lab’s most extensive experimental work to date. Check it out! 1/ www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.
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Merrick R. Osborne @merrickosborne.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
New paper out in Social Psychological and Personality Science with @mohammadatari.bsky.social! We ask: How does moral diversity shape communities’ responses to norm violations? Across 7 studies (N = 235k+), we find a surprisingly consistent pattern. tinyurl.com/48tp5k6j
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Fascinating new study about men’s friendships. There’s a lot of evidence here that the “male loneliness crisis” is actually a white, wealthy man problem. Other men are building friendships with similar depth to women’s friendships.
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Are White Men Missing Out?: Differences in Friendship Closeness by Gender and Ethnoracial Identity - Sex Roles
Sex Roles - Research has consistently found that boys’ and men’s friendships are less close, intimate, supportive, and satisfying than girls’ and women’s...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
“The most dangerous threat to Black studies right now is not coming from the federal government… It is coming from institutions that have decided, in advance, that accommodation is the same thing as survival.”
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Entertaining and interesting post by @kurtjgray.bsky.social on how science works using his own research on moral psychology in contrast to @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social's work.
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When Jon Haidt Called Me a Cheater
Science, Snark, and the Moral Mind
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Kristina Olson @olsonista.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Our lab has a new postdoc position that is ideal for someone interested in a career in data science or statistical consulting and an interest in gender diversity / trans health. apply.interfolio.com/182278
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Oleg Urminsky @olegurminsky.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
When you collect data online, are the results from humans or AI? In a project led by Booth PhD student Grace Zhang, we estimate the prevalence of AI agents on commonly used survey platforms: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵
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Karin Fischer @karinfischer.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
NEW: The bad news about international-student enrollments at American colleges just got worse. An exclusive @chronicle.com analysis of just-released State Department data shows new visa issuances in the summer of 2025 dropped by more than a third. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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The Drop in International Students Last Year Was Worse Than We Thought
Visa issuances nosedived 36 percent, possibly reflecting weakening global interest in studying in the United States.
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
After nearly a decade measuring American public support for political violence, @nathankalmoe.bsky.social and I have published a somewhat comprehensive guide to measuring these attitudes. This includes historical comparisons and responses to common critiques. doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
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How to Measure Public Support for Political Violence
Abstract. With low but rising levels of violent political threats and violent acts by civilians in the United States, researchers increasingly want to meas
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 06/03/2026
By moving right on immigration & other key issues, and generally coming off as incompetent (esp on cost of living), UK Labour is losing vote share to left-wing parties AND to right-leaning ones. This is what happens when a party appeases its opponents & loses its core identity.
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Nils Reimer @reimtime.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This is so bleak. If U.S. American science is ever to recover, we might need to rebuilt the NSF from the ground up.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation. “I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”
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NSF officials break silence on how AI and quantum now drive agency grantmaking
Leaders acknowledge White House role in controversial moves
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"
10 hour study with me at Columbia showing lunch Her in the libraryDHS illegally arrested me please help

Text against image of her knees
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