Two very interesting papers on how minorities respond to exclusion (having IDs not represented in info + categories presented to them). Somewhat different treatments and outcomes, and diff populations, but I think very parallel in spirit -- one account of mobilization, the other demobilization

Hey #Rstats #Rmarkdown hive mind: trying to do something that should be simple but I can't seem to figure it out: How do I make all the tables align to the left when I knit my PDF?

Engagement is not one thing—it matters not just how deeply, but how we engage with a story. 🔗 Read the article: doi.org/10.1080/1521... #MediaPsychology #NarrativeEngagement #NarrativePersuasion #MetaAnalysis #CommunicationResearch

Engagement Is Not One Thing: A Meta-Analytic Perspective on the Narrative Engagement Scale

Narrative engagement is widely assumed to underlie the persuasive power of stories, yet its internal structure and psychological functions have rarely been examined cumulatively. This meta-analysis...

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📢 New online first article! Is narrative engagement really a single experience? This meta-analysis synthesizes 52 studies (N = 12,705) using the Narrative Engagement Scale (NES) to examine the structure and psychological functions of narrative engagement.

Autopsies of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests often conclude that movements produced tough-on-crime backlash. My new study in Work and Occupations finds a different kind of movement outcome: BLM changed how local reporters cover cops and jails. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Yeah, the entire point of recognizing something as a social construct is to point out that we can always construct something different instead. Which means it’s not fate/nature/the gods, but something WE can act on. It politicizes the thing. Which (some) people will hate.

jadehawk "FREE ŁINK"@jadehawk.bsky.social · 6d ago

i just saw a "social construct meaning bad thing i don't like is actually also how academics use it" take, and i am baffled. even if the academic take is "XYZ is an oppressive social construct", the remedy is to create a more just construct?

Now that all of my dissertation papers have been accepted, I'm making a thread that puts all the papers in the same place! I interviewed local crime journalists to learn more about how the decline of local news, digital publishing, and changing attitudes towards criminal justice affect their work.

New job market paper 🚨 Local newsrooms are cutting crime coverage—but not homicide, which nearly every journalist I interviewed considers too important to skip. So why did so many journalists recount open newsroom disagreements over homicide coverage? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨Job Alert!🚨 Assistant/Associate Professor of Human Communication and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Come join us here in Silicorn Valley! Deadline Sept. 15. #AcademicSky #AcademicJobs illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Perfect example to use for #CMN425 Entertainment and Politics this fall. Rather than a distraction from or impediment to learning, entertainment media may be a gateway into it.

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Some academics turn up their noses at movie adaptations or popular history books, but I call them "gateway drugs" into deeper scholarship. How many of us fell in love with history because a movie (or book) sparked our curiosity first? For me, it was Amadeus - it sent me down an 18thC rabbit hole.

The very presence of these soldiers and settlers is illegal according to international law, see both the International Court of Justice's ruling from July 2024 that deemed Israel's occupation illegal & the UNSCR deeming settlements illegal, therefore it is legal to use force to repel their presence.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2w ago

Killing an illegally-present, occupying soldier is verbatim the most legal thing a person is allowed to do under every single international law.

The University of Chicago Press held its launch meeting for my book today. Respectability Politics will be out Summer 2027, with a cover featuring original letterpress work by the artist Amos Kennedy, Jr. whose work I greatly admire! So excited to share this book with y’all. I’m really proud of it.

This was so much fun! @sabrinacruz.bsky.social is a next-level interviewer. Her enthusiasm and curiosity is contagious. Also, the bit in here about broadcast technology will find its way into a lecture soon! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPw-...

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A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.

White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...

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Engaging in the peer review process—from any position within it—would quickly disabuse anyone of the notion that the academy is full of groupthink. You can’t get even a small group of experts to agree on what is important or appropriate. Half the time they don’t even agree on what *is*.

All I want is a comfy recliner to sit in while I fall asleep reading.

Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 2w ago

What's your old person trait?

And this is why criticisms of work or policies against speech that is “political” are so pernicious. “Political” means many things to many people, and that ontological slipperiness can always be—and often has been—weaponized to censor certain viewpoints, particularly ones that criticize power.

Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 3w ago

I somehow missed that Law & Order made a (not surprisingly really problematic) episode entirely based on one of my colleagues and very loosely based on campus speech debates surrounding Gaza. She writes about it here. h/t @americanstudier.bsky.social

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.

Over a strategic chokepoint, no less!

Gingerspiced@gingerspiced.bsky.social · 3w ago

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

If you think it’s never appropriate to speak ill of the dead, I’m going to need to see your social media history for the week of May 2, 2011.

A newspaper that publishes white supremacists is a white supremacist newspaper.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4w ago

The New York Times platforming a notorious anti-immigration "pro-natalist" white supremacist was an incredibly bad choice, but the decision to illustrate this garbage with the American flag was almost as bad.

Loving this @pbs.org documentary looking at America’s founding through stories of Philadelphia, particularly its Black residents. Featuring my sister, thee Dr. Kelli Racine Barnes!

Becoming American: Philadelphia's Story

“Becoming American” explores the nation’s founding through untold Philadelphian stories.

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Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR

YouTube video by NPR

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Remembering this for #CMN425 Entertainment and Politics this fall. Crazy stuff.

Vajra Chandrasekera@vajra.me · 2mo ago

dire dronexl.co/2026/06/09/p...

The distinction between the right parading around masculinity and their desire to masculinize Michelle Obama seems out of left field and self conflicting until you understand the stereotypes at play… as @stewartcoles.bsky.social and I found in our paper. psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Mona Burns@monaburns.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Full quote: "Shout out to Trump for having the balls to put some shit like this on ... There's only one person more incredible than the Incredible Hulk, and that's my lord and savior Jesus Christ ... Michelle Obama is a man, am I right America?"

Question for #rstats #lavaan folks: I have two mathematically equivalent models. Both have ~12 MVs as indicators of 3 LVs. Model 1 has 3 covariances between those 3 LVs. Model 2 instead has those 3 LVs as indicators of a second-order LV. Model 1 works but Model 2 returns ”Model estimation FAILED!”

Called it! bsky.app/profile/ryan...

Chokely Carmichael🥋@stewartcoles.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Lemme guess: DOGE canceled the screwworm eradication program for being woke or something. One of the documents had the word “biodiversity” in it, so some underqualified schmuck with a very punchable face marked it as DEI.

This skeet hits different in a post-Callais world. Guess we gotta start the blue section back again.

Valentine Barker@valentinebarker.com · 6mo ago

I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own. I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history. 1 square = 1 year.

Laughs in former 4302

Aram Shabanian@aramshabanian.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ahahah

New pub by my grad student, @gnihill.bsky.social. This is her first first-author publication! In this work, she has extended our lab's prior work on how confrontations to prejudice on social media can meaningfully shape perceptions. spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Online confrontations to prejudice can meaningfully shape experiences of racism online for minoritized individuals. We investigate whether confrontation can also operate as an identity safety cue (IS...

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