There's still time to apply (and travel funding for key notes)! Get your abstract in by the 15th. Please share widely!

Kelly Kane@k-a-kane.bsky.social · 2w ago

UPDATE: Marginalia Science x Boston College submissions are due now on *September 15.* If you do research on the margins of social science, please consider applying! #socialscience #psychology #bostoncollege #psychologyconference #psychologyresearch

Saving SBE starts before the bill is written. SBE needs a distinct FY27 appropriation. If your sch. is on the list, get a group of colleagues to meet w your House/Sen. offices. Esp. for Republican seats, direct constituent comms matter. Timeline/templates/updates: www.paigeamormino.com/pages/9337

Paige Amormino - Saving SBE starts before the bill is written.

Right now, NSF SBE does not have its own separate line of funding in the FY2027 budget structure. This matters because if SBE is not specifically protected ...

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After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)

World Central Kitchen | WCK Resumes Limited Hot Meal Service in Gaza After 5-Day Pause

After a five day pause, limited cooking operations resumed today at World Central Kitchen's Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen in Gaza.  This marks the second time in 2025 our hot meal program has been force...

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Our department @yorkpsychology.bsky.social has 2 open lecturer positions (=tenure-track Assistant Prof). Social psych is one of the priority areas, so consider applying if you study social behavior, incl. intergroup relations, culture, environmental or media psych. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

How can norms address climate change? In Current Opinion in Behavioral Science @tabeamhoffmann.bsky.social & I spotlight 3 goals: 1) Use broad signalling systems to boost norm transmission 2) Bolster the signals w/new norm approaches 3) Target change-accelerating outcomes Full article in 🧵...

Hot off the 🌍 press: How will we solve climate change? Comparing 20 approaches, 85% of Americans say we need BOTH behavior & policy change to address climate change! But policymakers lag behind the public in endorsing solutions & underestimate how popular solutions are. 🧵 doi.org/10.1038/s432...

Americans and policymakers underestimate endorsement for the most popular climate solution narrative, combining personal and political action - Communications Earth & Environment

Americans support a range of climate solutions, including both policy and behavioral changes, but the public and elected policymakers often underestimate the popularity of these solutions, according t...

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There are THOUSANDS of protests planned for June 14th all over the country to send a message to Donald Trump that no one wants his birthday military parade in DC that will cost taxpayers millions. #NoKingsProtest You can find a location here: www.nokings.org#map

1/7 🧵 We live in a biased social reality! 🤯 🚨 NEW PAPER: Climate activist stereotypes among the German public and German climate activists. My 1st PhD paper 🤩 in collaboration with @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social

Climate journalists broke a big story during Earth Week with the launch of The 89 Percent Project: Between 80% and 89% of people around the world want their governments to do more on climate change, but, critically, this overwhelming majority doesn't realize its the majority.

Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out. Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it. This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights. Take it here:

To proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below.

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Hot off the press! Want a current compendium of major psychological challenges and solutions to environmental sustainability? Elke Weber & I break down this multifaceted issue in the new, FREE, chapter of The Handbook of Social Psychology, 6th ed: openpublishing.princeton.edu/read/environ...

This is huge 👀 A record-high 48% of US adults anticipate that global warming will pose a serious threat to themselves or their way of life, up from 44% a year ago and 25% in 1997. When that number crosses 50%, we'll finally see some real action. #ClimateChange

🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨 If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way. 🗓 Application review begins April 15 ⏰ Final deadline is April 25 📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP

🚨New PNAS Paper w/@stysyropoulos.bsky.social 🚨 90% of US Christian religious leaders accept humans drive climate change. Sharing this info w/Christians boosts seeing climate action & voting for candidates who take climate action as consistent w/their church's values. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2419705122

Most Christian American religious leaders silently believe in climate change, and informing their congregation can help open dialogue | PNAS

Religious leaders shape the attitudes and beliefs of their congregations. In a nationally representative sample of U.S. religious leaders (N = 1,60...

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For those looking for encouragement to protest against ICE detentions: "a fury of protests across U.S. cities and airports... prompted some citizens to shift their attitudes." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A Change of Heart? Why Individual-Level Public Opinion Shifted Against Trump’s “Muslim Ban” - Political Behavior

Public opinion research suggests that rapid and significant individual-level fluctuations in opinions toward various policies is fairly unexpected absent methodological artifacts. While this may gener...

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Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

There is a rally tonight in Somerville at 5:30.

Hey SPSP members! 👋 Proposed U.S. federal budget cuts would significantly impact psychology funding and research. We just published an Advocacy Alert with actionable steps you can take today. Check out the link for ways to make your voice heard: spsp.org/news/spsp-n...

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.

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Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 2y ago

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans

NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans

The NAACP wants Black Americans to take their purchasing power, which some studies value at over a trillion dollars, to businesses that align with the civil rights group's values.

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you can look at this and say we're divided or you can look at this and say that a majority of americans oppose every one of these things

Opinion Today@opiniontoday.bsky.social · 2y ago

Americans are deeply divided when it comes to the details of President Trump's sweeping crackdown on immigration, according to a new @npr.org / @ipsosus.bsky.social poll. www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...

📖New research suggests that when people understand how income inequality creates disparities in healthcare and education access, they become more likely to support policies addressing economic inequality. Read more in #SPPS: ow.ly/hEaj50UYxse

🔑WRI has identified 6 key opportunities that leaders must embrace to unlock a global #energytransition at the pace and scale the world needs👉 https://buff.ly/4hT9WGK

Years of research suggested that Twitter and other social media apps were vectors of misinformation and propaganda, including from fossil fuel interests.

The 8 talking points fossil fuel companies use to obstruct climate action

New research highlights companies’ “aligned and coordinated” use of Twitter to deny climate change and delay solutions.

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New Review Paper on Climate Change Action📢 How can institutions and social groups help ensure there's positive spillover from one climate action to another (e.g., sustainable lifestyle to climate policy support)? Check out this piece by @anasabherwal.bsky.social and I to find out!

Anandita Sabherwal@anasabherwal.bsky.social · 2y ago

1️⃣ post here! Despite decades of research, why is positive pro-environmental behavioral spillover so hard to achieve? @greggsparkman.bsky.social and my review highlights that social and institutional drivers are needed to spur rapid positive spillover authors.elsevier.com/a/1kK0t8MqMi...

New starter pack! Practitioners + researchers in both mental health & societal well-being, addressing the individual and collective anxiety & grief we feel in response to the climate crisis, as well as understanding + overcoming societal & psychological barriers to climate action. Who'd I miss?

🚨Job Alert 🚨 @povertyscholar.bsky.social and I are hiring a Research Associate to come and work with us! More details about the position are available here: lnkd.in/g-Z6NKwj