The proposed FY2027 budget calls for eliminating NSF's SBE Directorate, which funds 63% of U.S. academic research in social + psychological sciences. SPSP has put together a member action guide with three steps you can take to help advocate for our field. Start here: https://ow.ly/WIgx50YJU5e

New paper out in Science Advances! I'm really (really) proud of this one. Let's get into it. doi.org/10.1126/scia...

How do you measure a threat in the air? Testing the universal, dynamic, and multifaceted nature of social identity threat

Using the SITC Inventory, social identity threat is shown to be dynamic, multifaceted, and nearly universal.

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Come see our lab’s work at SPSP @spspnews.bsky.social! @junmingzhang.bsky.social will present a poster on the effects of dei removal (Fri 4:40).

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...

Anyone still trying to make the case for the importance of keeping cultural centers and other DEI initiatives on their campus? Sapna Cheryan and I wrote a piece on this for the Purdue Exponent - please share it with others if helpful: www.purdueexponent.org/opinion/lett...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The overlooked benefits of DEI

In this letter to the editor Teri Kirby, a Purdue professor in the college of health and human sciences, and Sapna Cheryan, a professor from the University of Washington, draw on research to emphasize...

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🧵1/4 New paper alert! psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... Can you celebrate diversity while undermining it? Our new paper in American Psychologist discusses how people/organizations can appear committed to diversity while their conceptualizations of diversity actively undercut it.

NEW: A federal judge blocked Trump’s effort to stop funding grants and contracts that have DEI components, saying it is likely viewpoint discrimination and worded so vaguely that it will chill free speech. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

DEI initiatives are still legal. Universities need to stand their ground. A Friday gift to your university's General Counsel Office - courtesy of an all star lineup of civil rights lawyers and scholars. You're going to want to read this.

OGC Memo re Trump DEI and SFFA 2025 02 20.pdf | Powered by Box

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Y'all, I am SO freakin excited to share this paper! Rejected by 4 different journals but now finally out in Sex Roles: "Sex Wars and TERF Wars: The Divisiveness of Who is Included in Feminism" with @teriak.bsky.social, Miriam Zehnter & @shellkryan.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...  🧵

Our lab is looking for a lab manager to work on research on racial and gender disparities, stereotypes, and prejudice (start date flexible). Application deadline 4/8; go to hr.uw.edu/jobs and search for req 232181. Come work with us!

Come see our lab’s work at spsp!!Nicole Pascual is giving a talk on the negative consequences of lean in messages, @junmingzhang.bsky.social _ is giving TWO posters (one on intersectional diversity initiatives), Abi Click on cultural appropriation, Austin Zeng on broadening diversity initiatives!