Please share! "Science friends, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received an NSF EGFP grant which allows us to fund students who received an honorable mention on their GRFP application (anytime in the last 3 years) at full GRFP rate for a 3 year period..." 1/3 etap.nsf.gov/award/8556/o...

The classic Racial Dot Map inspired me and a whole generation of mapmakers. Today, I'm publishing a modern take on this map, built with the geospatial tools I've been developing over the past decade. Interact with the map here: walker-data.com/maps/census-...

Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Is social media truly making us more politically polarized, or does it simply over-represent our most extreme opinions? In our new preprint, @small-schulz.bsky.social and I present *punishing evidence* that social media systematically overrepresents users’ most extreme political opinions. 1/n

Heading to Chicago for #SPSP2026? Come check out work from our lab! 🙂 We’re presenting 2 talks & 2 posters on interventions to promote confrontations of sexism, identity safety cues, multiracial identity, and stereotyping about nationality.

Project Implicit is facing an existential threat. After almost 30 years, 60 million visitors, and hundreds of published papers, funding for our work has disappeared. We’ve never held a fundraising drive before, but we need your support to keep our site running. Please consider donating! 🙏

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Project Implicit is a research nonprofit behind tools millions use to understand bias. Like many public science orgs, sustaining this work has become increasingly difficult. We are at risk of closing without additional support. Help protect this impt work by donating here: 4agc.com/donate/impli...

New post-doc position working with me in a new lab at @snfagora.bsky.social ! It's one year appointment, renewable for up to 5 years. The position includes data analysis and independent research, mentorship of lab members, and participation in SNF Agora Institute life. apply.interfolio.com/178796

New write-up of our political scandal experiments for SPSP's (@spspnews.bsky.social) blog. We find that partisan voters allow politicians to get away with hostile, defensive "explanations" for scandal, esp when the politician is high-status and when party goals are at stake spsp.org/news/charact...

We're recruiting PhD students to join us at Nebraska! Spreading word: Whether you (or your student's) current home is in Psych or PoliSci, if you're interested in political psych, you could be a great fit. I run a joint lab (www.pierceekstrom.com/ekstromlab) with Ingrid Haas (paclab.unl.edu). 1/3

Why most polls overstate support for political violence www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...

Why most polls overstate support for political violence

Misperceptions about the popularity of violence increase public support for it — but you can help change that.

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ISPP Small Grants are back for 2026! 💡 $50k total available; request up to $5k for research or network/workshop projects. Open to current ISPP members. Proposals due Dec 1, 2025. Selection uses a lottery among proposals that meet all criteria. Apply: ispp.org/funding/smal...

We argue that moral expressions—that signal one’s sense of right and wrong—are highly sensitive to social norms. These norms can amplify moral expressions (eg social media) or restrain them (eg work settings) See our new paper on How Social Influence Shapes Moral Expression: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Our paper on partisan reactions to political scandal is officially published in PSPB: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Partisans were more receptive to defensive, hostile "explanations" for misconduct from in-(vs out-)party politicians. Seems driven by desire to win > identity-protective motive

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🌟 Excited to share that I'm recruiting PhD students in Psychology for my new lab at Rice University this cycle (Signal boost appreciated!) To learn more, check out the Learning & Behavior Change Lab website: www.sinclairlab-rice.com Applications are due Dec 1st: psychology.rice.edu/graduate/pro...

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The Learning & Behavior Change Lab at Rice University, directed by Dr. Sinclair

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CYFS research affiliate Jenna Finch, asst professor of psychology, is exploring the factors that shape students’ transitions from second to third grade. ▶️ Watch news story via KMTV 3 News Now: www.3newsnow.com/lincoln/unl-... #EdResearch #STEM #EarlyMath #NUforNE #GoBigResearch #NSFfunded

Here's a treat for state politics and policy researchers: Ethan Dee and I published a dataset in Nature: Scientific Data with the universe of state legislative bills since ~2009 coded by 28 policy areas. We used a machine learning model built off open source components.

Policy agendas of the American state legislatures - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Policy agendas of the American state legislatures

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The political slant of psych research (e.g., left vs. right) is not related to replicability, although more slant (in any direction) may be associated with less replicability journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New preprint with my grad advisee, Zeenat Ahmed. When and why do Americans prioritize party wins over democracy? Not because they don’t know what democracy is. Maybe, sometimes bc they don’t notice that in-partisans are violating democratic principles. There are some caveats. osf.io/preprints/os....

Come join us! I have startup funds to hire a postdoc for Fall 2025 at Rutgers to study intergroup relations. The job ad is at jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/249... & evaluations begin in 1 wk (5/16) w rolling evaluation. See 🧵below for a write-up on what I'm looking for in a postdoc. Please share widely!

Last call for ISPP 2025 Awards Nominations! (@polpsyispp.bsky.social) I'm helping review for two early-career paper awards. -"Early career"=within 8 yrs of PhD. -Awards are for papers presented this past year at ISPP (in Santiago). -Nominees must be current ISPP members. ispp.org/awards/sigel/

New JPSP article is out, with @jordanaxt.bsky.social, @calvinklai.bsky.social, and many collaborators! We organised a contest study with an open call for interested researchers to submit their discrimination-reduction intervention ideas. doi.org/10.1037/pspa...

Want to learn more about machine learning with a healthy dose of memes and jokes? Check out this new beginners guide, written by our very own, very talented London Wolff: londonwolff.github.io/machine_lear... No background in ML needed (although some familiarity with R is helpful).

Curtis Phills and I are hiring a full-time lab manager here at the University of Oregon, where we are co-leading the C-squared Lab. If you are interested in stereotypes, prejudice, diversity, and social cognition, please apply! Job ad here: tinyurl.com/c2labmanager

UNL Poli Sci is hiring an assistant prof in Race & Ethnic Politics! employment.unl.edu/postings/92973 "The position is open with respect to particular subfields, though candidates with an interest in or research focus in public policy are especially encouraged to apply."

Come join us at Nebraska! My department is searching in REP with a policy emphasis. Not on committee but happy to answer questions. Job ad here: employment.unl.edu/postings/92973

🌟New paper! Grace Drake, Jenn Beatty, & I argue that diversity training (DT) is best understood as teaching. Seeing DT as just teaching illuminates many ways we could make trainings so much more effective than they are currently! Link: osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/6

New paper in PSPB on partisan reactions to political scandal: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... Partisans were more receptive to defensive, hostile "explanations" for misbehavior from in-(vs out-)party politicians. Seems to be driven by desire to win > identity-protective motives but both matter

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Hi political science/ psych friends, what are some good and crucial research that I should know about the influence of local vs federal governments on influencing/ predicting/ shaping people's beliefs and attitudes (broadly defined)??

My colleagues are hiring an RA! Looking for recent college grads: employment.unl.edu/postings/90660 Job is to support a grant-funded project on foreign-policy decision-making in Congress, including some neuro stuff. 30 hrs with benefits, about $17/hr, in-person Please share w/ anyone interested

It's my 1st grad student's 1st SPSP! Come see Zeenat Ahmed present her poster: Party over democracy: When do Americans stand by democratic principles? For once, the news is not all bad. Friday morning session, 8 AM. @spspnews.bsky.social