New paper in @nature.com with @lukebeehewitt.bsky.social, @isaiasghezae.bsky.social, & @robbwiller.bsky.social: Can LLMs predict results of social science experiments? Across 70 experiments, we find a strong correspondence (r=.85) between predicted and observed effects. doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧵

🚨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. 🧵👇

It was a huge honor to welcome everyone to the Mind & Machine Alignment Summit to discuss how to make the future of AI go well. Computer scientists, social scientists, and policy experts offered unique perspectives on steering AI toward human flourishing. 🧵

Honoured to share our new paper in @nature.com today. Across 12 countries in eastern and southern Africa and Southeast Asia, 1 in 6 internet-using children had experienced technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse. A thread 🧵

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Nature research paper: Technology mediation in child sexual exploitation and abuse in Africa and Asia go.nature.com/4fbTNyk

🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨 in Science Advances. We meta-reanalyze 100 conjoint experiments to assess which immigrants citizens prefer around the world. Our evidence reinforces existing findings, identifies novel insights, and provides a basis for future research 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Which immigrants do citizens prefer? A meta-reanalysis of 100 conjoint experiments

Meta-reanalysis of 100 conjoint experiments reveals patterns of similarity and variation in public immigration preferences worldwide.

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3/4. If you do those things, it will not necessarily make the world less chaotic...but, it will provide you with the community needed to get you through whatever life may throw your way...having that strong sense of community will be one of the greatest sources of satisfaction in your life."

2/4. "In a world that glorifies the artificial, I encourage you to cherish real intelligence. Nurture it as if your health and well-being depend on it—because it does. Invest in the people around you, and allow them to invest in you...

...and this video of @nmalhotra.bsky.social and me discussing the study! www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2E3...

Political economist + sociologist's tourney tests climate change messages | Uncommon Collaborators

YouTube video by Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

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For a short, public-facing overview of implications for talking about climate change across political divides, @woods.stanford.edu has a helpful explainer here: woods.stanford.edu/news/how-talk-about-climate-change-across-political-divides

How to talk about climate change across political divides

As climate impacts intensify while political progress remains stalled, new Stanford research examines which messages can shift public beliefs across partisan divides and strengthen climate communicati...

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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. 🧵

TWO social psychologists got it!!!! Congrats to Mina Cikara and @olsonista.bsky.social !!!!

Guggenheim Foundation@guggfellows.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're thrilled to announce our 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows. Huge congratulations to these 223 exceptional individuals in the Creative Arts, Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and a range of interdisciplinary fields. You can find out more at www.gf.org. 🎉

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Algorithms Don't Need Your Surname to Guess Your Caste. That's a Problem

A Dalit student graduating in the mid-2020s will encounter screening systems built on decades of unequal hiring, skewed promotion data, and biased public records. Unless institutions change how algori...

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🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Pre-doc Researcher/Lab Manager! 🚨🚨 Full-time pre-doc research opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026). Review begins April 10 Apply: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUnive... Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇

Research Assistant II

Company Description: By working at Harvard University, you join a vibrant community that advances Harvard's world-changing mission in meaningful ways, inspires innovation and collaboration, and builds...

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Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.

Alabama set to execute man who did not kill anyone

Unless Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey intervenes, Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75, will be executed Thursday. He is among thousands in America convicted under a controversial felony murder law.

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New work from @drsanaz.bsky.social : using smart phone sensing data, one of the biggest predictors of people higher on authoritarian measure was Facebook and social media use #spsp

🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Postdoc! 🚨🚨 Postdoc opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026). We study identity, group dynamics, language, & politics. Rolling review begins 3/14 Apply: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15806 Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇

Shawls, pastel (one of my old May Week theme drawings) #Cambridge #mayball #pastel

Call for Papers: Workshop on Contention Under Repression We invite scholars in the Greater Boston area to submit proposals for a one-day workshop on 4/17 on collective action, civil society, contentious politics, etc. across global contexts Details: tinyurl.com/wrkshp417 Submission Deadline: 3/15

I am looking to recruit a postdoc to join my lab next fall, & work on projects focused on online mobilization with social media datasets - see more details here: bit.ly/4r49x9b . If anyone knows of someone with relevant skills who is looking for a postdoc- please pass this on!

Research Associate in Psychology

Dr. Eric Shuman at the University of Virginia invites applications for a post-doctoral research associate with expertise in the social psychology of social protest, social change, and/or in big data, ...

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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

🚨New Paper🚨 Elected officials are increasingly extreme. E.g., a recent analysis of 84,000 state-level candidates found that extreme candidates are now winning at the highest rates in 30 years. Why are people increasingly drawn to extreme candidates?

📣📣We're going for round two!!!📣📣 I'll be reviewing graduate applicants again this year. Come join my growing lab! Info about the lab: joelleforestier.com Info about the social program: www.psychology.pitt.edu/graduate/soc...

Identity & Intergroup Relations Lab

Identity & Intergroup Relations Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, directed by Dr. Joel Le Forestier, studying intergroup experiences, prejudice, and interventions.

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Joel Le Forestier@joelleforestier.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣📣BIG NEWS:📣📣 I'll be accepting (a) graduate student(s) this cycle to come work with me at Pitt starting Fall 2025!!! If you want to work on understanding and improving people's intergroup experiences, please apply! Info about the lab: joelleforestier.com

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

If you knew Mike (well first you’d be laughing because he was just so funny) you’d know he would be so pissed at these cuts to scientific research and the peddling of magic & mysticism to good people yearning for control. I hope he knows his story continues to matter: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...

Opinion | Holy Water Couldn’t Save My Husband. MAHA Wouldn’t Have Either.

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Read our @nytimes.com op-ed to see some of the history and research behind this strategy → www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...

Opinion | This Is What Makes Protests Successful

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missed this last month: data science informing psych, sociology, polisci in Lyft data (222K drivers), Black or minority drivers get speeding tickets 1/3 more often **when they are known to be going the same speed** beautiful work, it's racial profiling, case closed www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We are extremely pleased to announce the preliminary release of the combined pre-election and post-election dataset for the ANES 2024 Time Series Study! The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/... Best, The ANES Team

Congratulations to psychologists Rich Petty, Phoebe Ellsworth, BJ Casey, Jamie Pennebaker, & Alison Gopnik on their election to the National Academy of Sciences today!!