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Penn State Psychology doing great in terms of NSF funding. That kind of support allows a vibrant research community to thrive. @psuliberalarts.bsky.social @ssripennstate.bsky.social @prcpennstate.bsky.social @rockethics.bsky.social www.psu.edu/news/researc...

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On another note, the EMP Lab will be at @affectscience.bsky.social in Portland, Oregon, for anyone who'd like to chat about empathy, motivated emotion regulation, & moral outrage. My grad student @jdweng.bsky.social will be giving his first external talk on human vs. AI empathy. The coffee awaits!

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Apparently one of my papers on AI "empathy" with @minzlicht.bsky.social was put up as an example in a talk at SPSP. Yet it's one in which we use interdisciplinary dialogue between psychology and philosophy to take an open-minded, broad view on empathy, exploring costs/benefits across modes. Alas...

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This is a great resource for NSF funding by state (to match the NIH state breakdown visualizers). Here is the card by @500womensci.bsky.social for NSF funding in PA

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There are several more local papers and magazines in State College that would be interesting for science outreach. Writing for popular audiences is especially critical now to justify methods and practical relevance of our work.

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🚨New preprint!🚨 Why do people keep signaling virtue in public despite the social costs? We think our public virtue looks principled—but others’ looks like reputation management. Self-serving bias strikes again! Link: shorturl.at/2Sfeh

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I agree with Fonda that empathy isn't weak. Empathy avoidance is the weak move, made by sadly too many people who are unwilling or afraid to put in the effort. And encouraging empathy avoidance as a social norm in others is even worse, a collective inducement to weakness and callousness.

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I'm not sure why the French press has a question mark. Unless it's asking why don't you brew some coffee and write a seed grant application for the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making... #psychscisky #socialpsychology @ssripennstate.bsky.social @rockethics.bsky.social @psuliberalarts.bsky.social

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I've written a free and accessible guide to Cephalopod Sentience with Alex Schnell, Piero Amodio and Peter Morse, stunningly illustrated by Roksolana Tkach. Please download and share! It's worth it for the illustrations alone! 🐙 thebrooksinstitute.org/sites/defaul...

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😡 F'ing ridiculous. After updating its FAQ yesterday, NSF refused to directly answer a simple question: "Will the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) continue to award fellowships in 2025?" GRFPs are a lifeline that support 2,000+ graduate students/year. www.nsf.gov/executive-or...

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Second Pennsylvania university this has happened to in the last few days. It's really tough to consider what early career researchers (prospective grads in this case) are dealing with.

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Folks at Penn State and elsewhere -- I am re-opening the call for proposals for interdisciplinary seed grants ($500-1000) through the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making. The grants support interdisciplinary research on ethics & morality, get us outside traditional silos ssri.psu.edu/news/consort...

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This is going to go on at many universities - the uncertainty will lead to fewer graduate programs. It will hobble scientific research which appears to be the goal.

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“Data erasure has immense social and psychological consequences. The power of this is that it allows people to minimize the experience of entire groups of people.” —Stephanie Fryberg @spspnews.bsky.social presidential plenary #spsp2025

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Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

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Everyone going to #SPSP2025! EMP Lab grad student @jdweng.bsky.social (welcome to BlueSky!) will be presenting two posters on our work on empathic AI. Come say hi to Josh, he's a fantastic scholar, a joy to work with, and I'm proud to see him repping the EMP Lab this year! @spspnews.bsky.social

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Congrats to EMP Lab graduate student @jdweng.bsky.social for getting in to the European Association for Social Psych summer institute in Canterbury, UK! He will be there for the AI workstream to develop his research on empathic AI. Excellent work!

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"Pooling our resources to discover new truths about the universe so that we can all have better lives, to strike back against disease, suffering, poverty, and violence, to reduce ignorance for the benefit of all—that’s literally the most badass thing we do."

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This paper on redemption/moral improvement, first-authored by @dymoral.bsky.social, is now published! Thread below has more info + link to full text. Here's the pretty version: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc @socphilpsych.bsky.social 🧪

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She's been with us across 15 years, from graduate school to the present. A singular critter.

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I grew up in Spotsy county schools, which makes this hit extra hard. Programs like these help kids with disabilities, like my sons, transition into the rest of their lives. State College has a good program for this. Don't mess with kids' lives.

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Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.

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I'm reading the wonderful book "How to Winter" and just finished a chapter on intentionally seeking hygge, awe, and low-arousal positive emotions. As the snow softly falls today and we savor warmth with family, a cozy consciousness seems helpful to rest, conserve energy amidst an uncertain horizon.

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It’s undeniable that Pennsylvania is the home of world class medical research. Without NIH funding due to the administration’s cuts, groundbreaking research is stopped and jobs are lost. Our commonwealth cannot afford that—and the President should reverse course.

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"Either way, these cuts to federal funding threaten to cause enormous economic damage as well, especially in the states where these universities are located. In many states, including Alabama, Pennsylvania, and Missouri, an academic medical research center is the largest employer."

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It's great to see the Climate Consortium of Penn State vocally committed to this fight: www.americaisallin.com/america-all-...

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BREAKING The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders. The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.

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Penn State has halted submission and acceptance of NIH grants pending the resolution of the overhead rate cut. This lost time will never be recovered. The economic cost to Pennsylvania is enormous and the cost to humanity immeasurable.

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Penn State also pausing new NIH submissions and pausing acceptance of new awards. #academicsky

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You can’t have a democracy without libraries. Democracy is a practice. It starts at the local level by building connection and community. So check out what’s going on at your local branch! Reading, learning, listening, chatting, connecting—this is democracy. (Thanks to the creator of this image!)

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not paying indirect costs for research is like only paying the players in the Super Bowl. can't have a Super Bowl without coaches, referees, security, janitors, announcers, stadium staff, and a stadium - and you can't have research without supporting people and facilities

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"Science shouldn’t be a luxury good, but this policy would ensure that only the wealthiest institutions can afford to keep their research programs running at full speed." www.kateringland.com/the-hidden-b...

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Props to Wisc for calling it a "proposed change" 💅

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1/8. This week I had a few different conversations with scholars who, in the face of the attacks on science and institutions of learning in the U.S., are wondering what to do. One suggestion I have is: keep doing your work. It matters in and of itself. Why do I say that? A few reasons.

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