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This is about the fifth major university who announced reductions in PhD admissions this week in response to federal research cuts. Absolutely awful for students who are trying to get into grad school right now.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

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)

submitted 8 days ago • 68 comments

I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

submitted 8 days ago • 30 comments

NEW: The National Science Foundation fired nearly 170 workers this morning. They include people who had already cleared their one-year probationary period only to have it changed to two years earlier this month. @kimzetter.bsky.social reports for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/nation...

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

Recently read @kurtjgray.bsky.social’s new book Outraged and it is great! Highly recommend for anyone interested in moral psych!

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

Gonna be teaching a one credit excel class for our psych undergrads later this spring… what are some things you do in excel often and/or something you wish you learned you could do in Excel a long time ago!?

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

submitted 30 days ago • 64 comments

Higher regional temperatures linked to greater helping of strangers. Curious given the repeated links between heat and aggression. Suppose it's more evidence that altruism and aggression often co-exist and not polar opposites. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

Highly recommend the new Stanford Prison Experiment doc! A few of the most interesting things I learned from it: - Zimbardo claims guards made the rules and their behavior occurred naturally… but archival evidence shows there was a day of training for the guards and some were told to “be tougher” 🧵

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

Can we reduce polarization with empathy? Just published a new (replication) study with @mrooduijn.bsky.social and Matthijs Gillissen showing that different components of empathy have quite different effects [1/5] www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 73 days ago • 9 comments

New paper out in PSPB: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... We investigated whether historical Ku Klux Klan presence in an area is associated with higher levels of modern-day implicit bias.

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

Two political psych starter packs! Both have been around, but 2 has had a lot more people added. Check them out if you haven’t already 1: go.bsky.app/T2Uc2Bx 2: go.bsky.app/43FXWwj

submitted 75 days ago • 10 comments

"Interacting as equals reduces partisan polarization in Mexico" w Ken Greene, Erin Rossiter, and Enrique Seira. Fresh off the press: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Ungated version: ssrn.com/abstract=445....

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Nicholas Jover needs his own song at this point. Any ideas, @arseblog.com ? #Arsenal

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Assignment: Final Presentation Assistant professor: "Choose an article, and prepare a presentation for class" Associate professor: "Chose a PEER-REVIEWED PRIMARY RESEARCH article and prepare a 15 MINUTE presentation ABOUT THIS ARTICLE for class USING POWERPOINT"

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

I include this in most shareable R scripts I write

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Seems like my old post is getting some traction with new followers. With just 10 days left, here's a reminder that I will be reviewing PhD applications in social-personality psych for my lab at UIC. Details & research priorities are on my lab website. Please let you students/ lab managers know!

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

Created an affective polarization starter pack! Please share if you’re interested in this topic and self-nominate if you study affective polarization (broadly defined). Looking forward to connecting with some more people and learning about your cool research and opinions!

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Academic? New to Bluesky? Recommendation: put your research interests in your bio, to gain followers. Okay: Social [or other] Psychologist Better: Social [or other] Psychologist studying X, Y, Z Help us to find and follow you!

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

going to create a starter pack for researchers studying in-group/out-group dynamics and leave about half the relevant people out of it

submitted 103 days ago • 27 comments

People who read letters of rec for potential grad students… how much does it matter if the letter writer includes the name of your school in the letter? E.g. admission to “Belmont University” vs “your program”? Trying to decide if it’s worth my time to change the university name on all of these LORs

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

Happy fall from Annie and Miel!

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

Looking for information about journal turnaround times? Scirev.org crowd-sources data from journals across all fields then anonymously compiles it. Help the scientific community by sharing a bit of your publication data today!

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve heard other people suggest doing this before… I have 12 students and counting who I am writing letters for this semester and am tempted to use this approach… my only worry is it might hurt their application. Does anyone know how these types of responses are received by admissions committees?

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

"you will not be asked to write a full letter of recommendation, we will only ask you a series of short-answer essays" oh my god, please don't describe that as if you're doing me a favor.

submitted 142 days ago • 17 comments

A good rule of thumb: for the most part, people (even you! even me!) are incapable of identifying the actual causes of their opinions. Asking them will yield many interesting stories, but rarely the actual cause.

submitted 142 days ago • 4 comments

I took an MLM class in grad school in which I learned just enough to be dangerous, but not enough to do multilevel modeling well… but I recently stumbled upon some slides from @page-gould.bsky.social‘s MLM workshop from 2013 and they are PHENOMENAL! Highly recommend: www.page-gould.com/mlm/aps/

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

send your papers to Open Mind!!! the journal, started by the wonderful Richard Aslin, is leading the way for serious outlets for science that are free to publish in and free to read, funded by universities themselves I'm not exactly uncritical of harvard — this is SUCH a good use of crimson $$$$

submitted 155 days ago • 1 comment

Social Psychology at the University of Virginia is hiring at the Assistant Professor level!! We're open to all social psych research areas. Please spread the word! #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky apply.interfolio.com/152802 psychology.as.virginia.edu/social-psych...

submitted 176 days ago • 0 comments

New pre-print out with Cheryl Kaiser: “Family Ties: Perceived College Student-Parent Political Differences and Relationship Quality” We survey college student-parent dyads to test if perceived political difference predicts worse relationship quality and find… not really! osf.io/preprints/ps...

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve up my pedagogy game from “What questions do you have for me” to “Turn to your classmate and brainstorm some questions students might have but are too shy to ask.” It worked ridiculously well.

submitted 185 days ago • 32 comments

Stoked to have been awarded a grant (with Cheryl Kaiser) from the John Templeton Foundation to study whether intraindividual increases in religiosity leads to reductions in affective polarization! Can’t wait to get started! 😁 www.belmont.edu/stories/arti...

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

Excited to announce that I'll be recruiting a graduate student to join us here in the Empathy & Moral Psychology (EMP) Lab during this application season, to start in fall 2025. Come join our team to study empathy, outrage, and morality at Penn State Psychology! 1/n

submitted 197 days ago • 2 comments