This year's donation to the @umichlibrary.bsky.social Computer & Video Game Archive: the Game Boy Printer. Took it for one last spin to print pictures of Buddy the cat (1985-2004) and Eddie the postdachsund (201X-2026), and me (1998) and Julian (2026).

Honored to be among the fellows inducted into SESP this year, and equally honored to chair a symposium on institutional interactions with talks from @cydneydupree.bsky.social , Greg Walton, and Nao Hagiwara at SESP 2026. See you in Montreal!

Jennifer Eberhardt and I have a piece out today in Vital City explaining our recent report with the NYPD Monitor and arguing for greater use of AI and computational tools for analysis of police body camera footage to build accountability and trust. www.vitalcitynyc.org/use-ai-to-an...

Use AI to Analyze Bodyworn Camera Footage

Police departments should harness the tech to improve accountability and training.

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Appreciated chatting with Spectrum News about our recent analysis of NYPD body camera footage (available at www.nypdmonitor.org/resources-re...)

AI study uncovers gaps in police stops and consent searches, racial disparities

Using machine learning and natural language processing, researchers reviewed thousands of recorded encounters to determine whether officers followed legal standards for stops and detentions.

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New report led by @robvoigt.bsky.social analyzing NYPD body cam footage. As part of the federal monitorship of the NYPD, we analyze language in over 6,000 BWC recordings to identify under-documented stops and how officers request consent to search. (1/6)

New work led by @whatsinertia.bsky.social, combining fear conditioning and perceptual deindividuation. Conditioned threats spread to more dissimilar Black vs. White targets- findings of interest for soc cognition as well as eyewitness identificatoin. Check it out!

Arshiya Aggarwal@whatsinertia.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New paper in @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social!! 🧵 When people learn to fear one person, who else do they mistake for a threat, and does race shape the pattern? Read here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m~aL51f8~...

ISR is accepting applications for a Social Science and Journalism Visiting Scholar for the 26-27 academic year. This opportunity connects research and journalism through collaboration with @umwallacehouse.bsky.social. Apply by April 15, 2026!

Great clip wrt limits of body cams: "greatest hits" --visual perspective, activation-- and "latest singles" --asymmetries in redactions & transparency. As @robvoigt.bsky.social and I wrote, footage can be useful as data, but needs right org/policies in place journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Police Body Cameras: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Check out how to travel around the world *and through time* for free from the comfort of your chair! At the Computational Social Psych precon this morning!

Nick Camp@ncamp.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Excited to have two MiSL Lab Members presenting at #spsp2025 preconferences! @arajo-eunkyung.bsky.social will be presenting our Street View sampling tools at the Computational Social Psychology preconference as a *featured* data blitz! (paper at guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...)

NOT going to Chicago for #spsp2026? Join us at the Trust and Cooperation Preconference for some work on representations of police and space, and why neighborhoods lowest in trust are seen as deserving less trustworthy officers.

Bolu Dogari, Junior Professional Researcher @rcgd-isr.bsky.social alum, will share how standard preprocessing in EDA/physio studies lead to disparate exclusion of Black people, and what recruitment/QC can do about it- at both Critical Perspectives precon and main #spsp2025 conf!

Excited to have two MiSL Lab Members presenting at #spsp2025 preconferences! @arajo-eunkyung.bsky.social will be presenting our Street View sampling tools at the Computational Social Psychology preconference as a *featured* data blitz! (paper at guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...)

Applications for #UMich #Psychology Diversity Recruitment Weekend are in 2 days! If you are thinking about applying to psychology PhD programs in the future this may be for you! The application is short, but the benefits are big lsa.umich.edu/psych/divers...

Alexandra Rosati@alexrosati.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Considering a #psychology #PhD? University of Michigan’s (free!) online Diversity Recruitment Weekend (Mar 27–28) connects you with UM faculty & grad students. Strengthen your apps & meet with #faculty, including in the #Brain&Behavior area! Apply by Jan 28: lsa.umich.edu/psych/divers...

@umisr.bsky.social is now accepting applications for the 2026 Junior Professional Researcher Program cohort. JPRP is a two-year paid gig for recent college grads who are considering a career in social science research. isr.umich.edu/training-opp...

Junior Professional Researcher Program

Overview The Junior Professional Researcher (JPR) Program is a unique opportunity for recent college graduates from backgrounds underrepresented in research to launch a career in the social sciences a...

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Come to UM* for Diversity Recruitment Weekend! It's a great chance to learn more about the psych department and grad student experience. *(Virtually, trust me, late March is still firmly in "Lion" and not "Lamb" territory).

Alexandra Rosati@alexrosati.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Considering a #psychology #PhD? University of Michigan’s (free!) online Diversity Recruitment Weekend (Mar 27–28) connects you with UM faculty & grad students. Strengthen your apps & meet with #faculty, including in the #Brain&Behavior area! Apply by Jan 28: lsa.umich.edu/psych/divers...

How can psychology help fight poverty? Our @pnas.org article shows how “culturally wise” interventions can support women’s agency and boost poverty reduction (Patrick Premand, Thomas Bossuroy, Abdoulaye Sambo, Hazel Markus, Greg Walton @stanforduniversity.bsky.social): t.co/maI5vf3meP

A reminder that diarization —determining who said what— is really bad on most body cam platforms. This is probably not the “transformative” Axon had in mind…

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7mo ago

“‘The body cam software and the AI report writing software picked up on the movie that was playing in the background, which happened to be ‘The Princess and the Frog…'”

New paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Appreciated the chance to share @arajo-eunkyung.bsky.social and I's work on Streetview Sampling on 🎃! The 📸🚘 costume is only for today, but the methods paper and tools are open access: guilfordjournals.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Come join OS at UM!

Beth Popp Berman@epopppp.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Organizational Studies at UMich is hiring a full-time lecturer. We're a small but growing program with amazing students at a wonderful university. If this ad sounds like you, please apply. apply.interfolio.com/174964

New in JSI (OA): Reckless speeding or tinted windows? We look at racial disparities in reasons why drivers are stopped, their disparate impacts on community trust, and how police departments exacerbate —or mitigate— their impacts through policy. (1/7) spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

SPSSI Journals

Traffic stops are common and consequential for citizens’ legal socialization and for racial gaps in police-community trust. Efforts to change the tenor of police interactions, however, may discount t...

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ICE arrested a dad dropping off his kid at my son's school today. Elementary school. What a fucking world.

Don’t think I will.

🚨 SCOOP🚨: Records obtained by Mother Jones almost uniformly show police departments are deactivating safeguards meant to prevent AI bias while making it difficult or impossible to audit which police reports were generated by AI. @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social reports:

Government documents show police disabling AI oversight tools

Departments aren't reviewing or disclosing AI-written police reports—which are now being used in plea deals.

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This semester, I want my lab to play around with GPT for some content-coding type tasks. Do folks have other recs for accessible methods papers/tutorials, e.g. from @thomasdavidson.bsky.social 's "[special issue](journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... of Soc Methods)?

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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😱gust is here, too soon. If you're teaching a class on racial inequality, policing, and/or institutions, I have a teaching guide on institutional interactions with readings, resources, and a sample syllabus to take the edge off.

The June 2025 special issue of Social Cognition -- Tutorials on Novel Methods and Analyses in Social Cognition, Part 1 -- was guest edited by Jimmy Calanchini, Juliane Degner, and Colin Smith, with support from Bertram Gawronski. The introduction is linked here: doi.org/10.1521/soco....

New from @ara-eunkyung.bsky.social + me: social psychologists are often interested in space, but have to choose between abstractions at high levels of geography or images taken with limited geographic scope. We identify a tool to sample space at scale: mapping platforms, such as Google Street View.

news.ufl.edu/2025/05/anno... I think he’s going to love it there.

DR. SANTA J. ONO UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDED AS SOLE FINALIST FOR UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA’S 14TH PRESIDENT

The University of Florida Presidential Search Committee has unanimously and enthusiastically recommended Santa J. Ono, Ph.D., to be considered by its Board of Trustees as the sole finalist to become t...

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www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/inv... Just noticed this, but the Washington Post no longer tracks police shootings as of this year.

Police shootings database 2015-2024: Search by race, age, department

Filter the Washington Post database, which includes police shooting statistics between January 2015 and December 2024, by unarmed police shootings, race and age of victim and more.

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