There is so much upheaval in the world. @spspnews.bsky.social was a much needed bright spot 🙏

🚨 New paper out! 🚨 Excited to share that our work showing that the self plays an important role in how we visualize novel ingroup members is now out in Self and Identity! With @kyleratner.bsky.social A thread 🧵 youngkihong.com/uploads/PSAI...

Could not be happier for former honors student Anna Sofia Guerra!!!! Anna Sofia just accepted an offer to be a Project Coordinator in Keely Muscatell's lab at UNC!!!

This paper holds a special place in my heart. I was working on an earlier draft (almost 3 years ago!) when my wife went into labor with my son. We still call him Bouba, although lately he has been more of a Kiki ;)

New paper out in JEP:G with Allison Auten and @kyleratner.bsky.social youngkihong.com/uploads/jepg... A thread 🧵

Excited to share that I’ll be joining the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at @colorado.edu as an Assistant Professor this fall! My lab will study social cognition, focusing on the cognitive and neural bases of stereotyping and bias interventions.

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

Excited to be chairing my first ever symposium today at #SPSP2025! We have a great lineup including Suraiya Allidina, @kyleratner.bsky.social, and @leorhackel.bsky.social. Come check it out! @spspnews.bsky.social

Caught a bit of this On Point episode about de-churching. Challenges some of the CW that de-churching is only a phenomenon of the political left. A lot of food for thought for political psychologists www.wbur.org/radio/progra...

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“The system has become so instrumentalized—How can this help me succeed?—that deeper questions about meaning/purpose are off the table, questions like: How do I become a generous human? How do I lead a life of meaning? How do I build good character?”-David Brooks www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

How the Ivy League Broke America

The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.

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NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

📢 New job alert: The Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences at UCSB is hiring a new Director for our Brain Imaging Center! Join us in sunny Santa Barbara and please help spread the word! (Full Professor position—due by Dec 2) 🧠 🌊 recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02858

Brain Imaging Center Director, Psychological & Brain Sciences

University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

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Philip Zimbardo passed away this week at 91. The silence surrounding news of the passing of a scholar of his prominence is very unusual, but won't surprise many who question the authenticity his famous work. To me, it is an ending to a tragic tale of the pursuit of a meaningful intellectual legacy.

Philip Zimbardo Obituary (1933 - 2024) - Legacy Remembers

View Philip G. Zimbardo's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

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Writing this was cathartic! Thank you to my parents & wife for encouraging me to share our story. I hope it resonates w/ others feeling the squeeze of academia, raising kids, & supporting aging parents. www.science.org/content/arti...

After a family health crisis during my sabbatical, I’m trying to embrace the positive

“Academia expects us to hit our professional stride when a lot of us are also trying to start families and support aging parents,” this professor writes

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Yet another beautifully rigorous paper by Youngki Hong that I had the fortune of working on with him! #psychscisky

Attention neuroscientsts! We just launched Neurosynth Compose: A free and open platform for neuroimaging meta-analysis. NS-Compose makes it easy to perform custom neuroimaging meta-analyses without leaving the browser. It's live, check it out! compose.neurosynth.org

Ohio State v Michigan rn! Makes me wonder do these “controlled intergroup conflicts” work like prescribed burns to remove the fuel underlying our racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, us v them competitive nature, etc or instead primes the pump for more??? Depends on whether your team wins the game?!

📣 Seeking PhD applicants passionate about fMRI, EEG, & data science to study race/ethnicity & religion effects on how we see ourselves & world around us. We’re a supportive & hard-working lab committed to open science. Applications due 12/1. Still time to apply — spread the word! spl.psych.ucsb.edu

Does the public hate experiments? No! "We find that 75% support the idea of small-scale evaluations of policies before enacting them at scale." Experimentally varying whether the evaluations are called "experiments" has zero effect on support of experimentation www.iza.org/publications...

🚨 Science Resources for BlueSky 🚨 Scientist? Just joined BlueSky? Here’s four resources you might find useful. #AcademicSky 🧪 🧵 (1) A list of over 130 subject-specific feeds. Find posts by others in your area and use the right tags in your posts to get them seen.

BlueSky Science-Related Feeds

Sheet1 Likes,Name (Click to visit feed),Tags,Contact to ask to be added to contributor list 11,<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ftnzzw4cnon2pzpw7i5m2xu7/feed/aaaiqnkwsgsz6">#AI&HCI</a>,#HCI,...

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Recs for a free social media aggregator to embed posts on my lab website (my old posts from twitter & potentially new ones here)? I use the feed of these posts to share news on my lab website and don't want recent twitter ones to disappear if switch to posting w/ Bluesky. Thanks for any suggestions!

Sharing this R resources database with y'all! For the past 4 years, I have been accumulating resources (mainly free ones) for new & advanced #Rlearners in their programming journey. Feel free to share! resourcesdatabase.com #RStats #RResources #learningR #DataScience #Python #R

resouRces - resouRces: Database of Resources to Learn & Teach R

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