We need to change norms around sexual harassment Yesterday Tessa West spoke up about a sexual harassment complaint she filed against John Jost. Not only is he a senior colleague in the dept of psychology, but he is one of the most prominant figures in the field of social and political psychology.

Catastrophic for science.

AILA@aila.org · 3w ago

DHS has published its Final Rule to eliminate "duration of status" for F, J & I nonimmigrants. One of the most significant changes to international student, exchange visitor & foreign media programs in decades, it will be costly, cause chaos, and cut legal immigration.

Thank you for your leadership @holdenthorp.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive

There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...

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Most of the federal agency science budgets goes into the salaries of students and trainees, and the decision to take that money and instead give it to industry and already rich venture capitalists is fundamentally a decision to have many fewer scientists and do far less science in the future.

I am looking for an #SPSP2027 symposium to place some interesting new work on any of the following: interminority solidarity, cross-group friendship, protests, or social injustice more broadly. Please let me know if you are still looking for presenters!

👇🎯 My frustration at the near-total lack of loud, public collective action by university presidents is precisely because of this. The idea that we can just ride out a year or two & it will all be fine & back to business as usual is head-in-the-sand denial. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social · 4w ago

So much of the thinking in academia right now is that soon, the chuds will be gone and things will be back to the way they were before. But undoing the damage the GOP has inflicted in this last 18 months will take a decade, if not more.

Back on my bullsh

Ever since "Blink", I've been uneasy with Malcolm Gladwell's approach to research and writing. I often find it superficial, and am bothered by the way he uses on others' ideas and work without always giving adequate recognition. This thoughtful piece by Carter Harris suggests I'm not alone.

Revisionist Trickery?

Malcolm Gladwell attacked me for something I wrote 25 years ago. Glad I still have the tapes.

carterharriswrites.substack.com

This is the kind of science (tired) parents need.

Nicholas A. Christakis@nachristakis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I've always wondered what possible reason my kids cared if i was holding them while seated or while standing. Well, babies fall asleep faster when you walk while holding them. A 2022 study suggests this “transport response” may have evolved to keep babies quiet if a caregiver is fleeing a predator.

Want to Change Your Life? Become a Dad. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/o...

Opinion | Want to Change Your Life? Become a Dad.

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The best time for scientists to realize that their survival depends on solidarity with humanists was six decades ago, the second best time is now.

Science Magazine@science.org · 2mo ago

The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s

"Britain has created a new breed of political prisoners through the systematic incarceration of people acting to prevent climate breakdown and the annihilation of Gaza." www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may...

New breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise

More people are being jailed in England and Wales as a result of acting to prevent climate breakdown and the war in Gaza, research reveals

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Ok guys should we use the world's remaining carbon budget to A) power the transition to 100% renewables B) power the plagiarism machines that only a tiny managerial minority wants and aren't profitable even though everyone is being forced to use them?

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

Ranking Member Lofgren Reacts to Latest Trump Scheme to Undermine Science | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

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This is correct. Best available estimates suggest that the destruction of USAID, in which musk played a central role, will kill over 14 million people by 2030, 1/3 of them children aged < 5 years www.thelancet.com/article/S014...

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

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Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Elon Musk has also disrupted, by which I mean brutally ended, the lives of over a million poor children and adults globally by means of destroying USAID, but who gives a fuck, right?

The Brauer Lab is hiring a research specialist! We are looking for motivated aspiring researchers to manage the lab and assist with projects. Please consider applying, and spread the word! Applications are due May 20th: wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UW_Madison/j...

The Behavioral Lab at the UCLA Anderson School of Management is looking to hire its next Lab Manager! Applications will be reviewed starting April 30th. jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/10354?l...

Behavioral Lab Manager in Los Angeles, California | The Regents of the University of California on behalf of their Los Angeles Campus

UCLA is hiring a Behavioral Lab Manager in Los Angeles, California. Review all of the job details and apply today!

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#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #PostDoc #SocialPsychology My collaborator Rose Meleady is advertising a postdoc position Requires expertise in intergroup contact/ESM studies vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/21... Rose is excellent -- high competence, high warmth. You'd won't find a better advisor!

Senior Research Associate (RA2386) in University of East Anglia | UEA

View details and apply for this Senior Research Associate (RA2386) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Social Sciences School of Psychology Senior Research Associate Ref: RA2386 ...

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Job alert! @brandonwoo.bsky.social and I are searching for a new lab manager. We are excited to add a new member to our awesome community of soc cog dev researchers! Spread the word :) Full ad here: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03106

Junior Specialist, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences

University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ap.ucsb.edu

bonkers

Eric Budd@ericmbudd.com · 4mo ago

I think the effect here isn't that expensive cars produce a transportation mode shift and more that expensive cars are keeping poorer people poor

This paper claims that watching sports causes zero-sum thinking, with experimental and longitudinal evidence psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Winning a National Science Foundation grant for further exploration, UCSB researchers have found a person’s ideological position in favor of a protest action will often be at odds with the same action carried out by those who align with opposing ideological orientations 🪧 https://ow.ly/JATF50YocEP

Social science research on collective action wins National Science Foundation grant

Social scientist Nils Reimer and his team have secured a three-year National Science Foundation award to study double standards in how people judge protests according to idealogical affiliations.

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I am shocked to see this language from the NSF. “The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”

Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request to Congress

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The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

New preprint out today (osf.io/preprints/ps...). We tested whether AI agents are actually infiltrating online surveys. Spoiler alert: they aren't Thread 🧵 [1/9]

NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October. No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out. Why...? 1/x source: grant-witness.us/funding_curv... 🟦🧠 #academicsky

While the situation is grim at NIH, it's closer to catastrophic at NSF. They're just not able to move any money out the door. It appears OMB has them on lockdown. www.science.org/content/arti....

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

PSA: Grant Witness (@scott-delaney.bsky.social & @noamross.net) now has NIH funding curves à la @jeremymberg.bsky.social. Perhaps Berg curves for NSF will be there soon, too?

A thread on our recent paper (w/Raihan Alam @raihanalam) in PNAS on why punishment often fails and what it means for crime, cooperation, democracy, and the rule of law. I’m super excited for it, it’s the lab’s most extensive experimental work to date. Check it out! 1/ www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....