Balbir Singh
@balbir.bsky.social
Professor at Mount Holyoke College. Social psychologist, face perception and inter group researcher.
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If you are applying for grad school, I recommend you build time into your process to get feedback on your materials from someone with experience evaluating application documents.
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
If you are applying for grad school, I recommend you build time into your process to get feedback on your materials from someone with experience evaluating application documents.
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This World Series has been unbelievable to follow.
November 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This World Series has been unbelievable to follow.
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I love a good bunt
November 2, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I love a good bunt
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This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball
October 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball
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This is half a mile from my home, and also immediately next to an elementary school. Is there any oversight? Will there be any consequences for this recklessness and cruelty?
Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.
"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...
"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...
October 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This is half a mile from my home, and also immediately next to an elementary school. Is there any oversight? Will there be any consequences for this recklessness and cruelty?
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We're a month further into the job market - how are things looking? The good news is that the market does seem to have been delayed: ~150 new listings have appeared since my last post. The bad news is that the total is still substantially lower than what it was during the covid dip.
October 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We're a month further into the job market - how are things looking? The good news is that the market does seem to have been delayed: ~150 new listings have appeared since my last post. The bad news is that the total is still substantially lower than what it was during the covid dip.
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"we will not stop...We will continue to pursue research questions at the heart of diversity science even as they wain in popularity within the field. We do this, not because we are naïve, but because these questions and this work matters to us and to the communities we care about."
a crowd of people are sitting in a theatre applauding .
ALT: a crowd of people are sitting in a theatre applauding .
media.tenor.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:46 AM
"we will not stop...We will continue to pursue research questions at the heart of diversity science even as they wain in popularity within the field. We do this, not because we are naïve, but because these questions and this work matters to us and to the communities we care about."
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🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych.
Review begins 10/10.
Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵
Review begins 10/10.
Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵
September 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych.
Review begins 10/10.
Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵
Review begins 10/10.
Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵
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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....
The introduction is linked here: doi.org/10.1521/soco....
July 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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....
The introduction is linked here: doi.org/10.1521/soco....
The neuroscience department is full of amazing people! Come join us!
Also if you have questions about what it is like to live/work here, DM me.
Also if you have questions about what it is like to live/work here, DM me.
Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior
Job no: R-0000002388 Position Title: Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior Work Type: Faculty Full time In-Person Start Date: 07/01/2026 Job Description: The Department of Neuroscience and ...
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
July 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The neuroscience department is full of amazing people! Come join us!
Also if you have questions about what it is like to live/work here, DM me.
Also if you have questions about what it is like to live/work here, DM me.
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@stephencolbert.bsky.social you are a national treasure 🙏🏻
July 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
@stephencolbert.bsky.social you are a national treasure 🙏🏻
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🎉New paper out @Psychological Review on the neuroscience of intergroup contact🎉
Led by the fantastic @margaretrwelte.bsky.social and Jas Cloutier!
@apajournals.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Led by the fantastic @margaretrwelte.bsky.social and Jas Cloutier!
@apajournals.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky
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July 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🎉New paper out @Psychological Review on the neuroscience of intergroup contact🎉
Led by the fantastic @margaretrwelte.bsky.social and Jas Cloutier!
@apajournals.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Led by the fantastic @margaretrwelte.bsky.social and Jas Cloutier!
@apajournals.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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Some promising trends in the psychology replication crisis since 2004:
- Fewer studies publish weak p values (.01 < p < .05)
- Studies with weak p values are less likely to get cited
- The % of weak p values (26%) is now roughly what we would expect from studies with 80% power.
- Fewer studies publish weak p values (.01 < p < .05)
- Studies with weak p values are less likely to get cited
- The % of weak p values (26%) is now roughly what we would expect from studies with 80% power.
June 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Some promising trends in the psychology replication crisis since 2004:
- Fewer studies publish weak p values (.01 < p < .05)
- Studies with weak p values are less likely to get cited
- The % of weak p values (26%) is now roughly what we would expect from studies with 80% power.
- Fewer studies publish weak p values (.01 < p < .05)
- Studies with weak p values are less likely to get cited
- The % of weak p values (26%) is now roughly what we would expect from studies with 80% power.
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I'm looking for a new Lab Manager to join me, my amazing incoming PhD students @isabellafavalos.bsky.social and @maceygrisso.bsky.social, and our fantastic undergraduate RAs in the Emotional Lives Lab at UC Riverside.
Sharing would be much appreciated!
jobsportal.ucr.edu/jobs/35754189
Sharing would be much appreciated!
jobsportal.ucr.edu/jobs/35754189
University of California, Riverside - Jobs
UCR is hiring for this great opportunity!
jobsportal.ucr.edu
June 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I'm looking for a new Lab Manager to join me, my amazing incoming PhD students @isabellafavalos.bsky.social and @maceygrisso.bsky.social, and our fantastic undergraduate RAs in the Emotional Lives Lab at UC Riverside.
Sharing would be much appreciated!
jobsportal.ucr.edu/jobs/35754189
Sharing would be much appreciated!
jobsportal.ucr.edu/jobs/35754189
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“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.”
― Toni Morrison
― Toni Morrison
March 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.”
― Toni Morrison
― Toni Morrison
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Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
March 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
I have followed Sam’s work for years. Even though I never met him, he has been a huge influence on my career. He will be missed.
Sam Sommers has been such a wonderful presence in our field and this is such a terrible loss. My first contact with Sam happened when he edited one of my papers. Having an editor who helps you develop is rare and valuable. Sam was that way on all things.
now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...
now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...
Remembering Psychology Professor Sam Sommers
Sam Sommers, longtime professor at Tufts, studied the psychological causes and consequences of racism
now.tufts.edu
March 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I have followed Sam’s work for years. Even though I never met him, he has been a huge influence on my career. He will be missed.
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TFW someone in your family has died, and you're out in public -say, the supermarket- and you look around in awe as everyone else seems to be living their lives as if nothing's happened, while you feel shattered and deep grief.. well, that's precisely how I feel about #democracy in the US right now 💔
March 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
TFW someone in your family has died, and you're out in public -say, the supermarket- and you look around in awe as everyone else seems to be living their lives as if nothing's happened, while you feel shattered and deep grief.. well, that's precisely how I feel about #democracy in the US right now 💔
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Hi everybody! Don't forget to folllow up with the people you made connections with at @spspnews.bsky.social! It's not scary-- just email them!
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(Editor's note: this message is targeting me in particular.)
February 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Hi everybody! Don't forget to folllow up with the people you made connections with at @spspnews.bsky.social! It's not scary-- just email them!
(Editor's note: this message is targeting me in particular.)
(Editor's note: this message is targeting me in particular.)
It was an awesome reunion!
Had a really great time at the Boulder alum pre-conference! It was one of the highlights of being back in Colorado.
CUSP lab for the win!!
@balbir.bsky.social @tiffanyito.bsky.social Christopher Mellinger Erin McPherson Adam Hahn
Bernadette Park and Greg Webster
CUSP lab for the win!!
@balbir.bsky.social @tiffanyito.bsky.social Christopher Mellinger Erin McPherson Adam Hahn
Bernadette Park and Greg Webster
February 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
It was an awesome reunion!
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Western Massachusetts folks:
I asked Congressman Richard Neal last week when he is planning on having a town hall to discuss what he is doing in DC to fight Trump’s actions. I just received a call from him saying he is having a phone town hall tomorrow:
Thursday, Feb. 13, 6:30pm
Call 888-480-3626
I asked Congressman Richard Neal last week when he is planning on having a town hall to discuss what he is doing in DC to fight Trump’s actions. I just received a call from him saying he is having a phone town hall tomorrow:
Thursday, Feb. 13, 6:30pm
Call 888-480-3626
February 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Western Massachusetts folks:
I asked Congressman Richard Neal last week when he is planning on having a town hall to discuss what he is doing in DC to fight Trump’s actions. I just received a call from him saying he is having a phone town hall tomorrow:
Thursday, Feb. 13, 6:30pm
Call 888-480-3626
I asked Congressman Richard Neal last week when he is planning on having a town hall to discuss what he is doing in DC to fight Trump’s actions. I just received a call from him saying he is having a phone town hall tomorrow:
Thursday, Feb. 13, 6:30pm
Call 888-480-3626
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I am worried that scientists will self-censor and not share their work because they view it as trivial relative to what is going on
But let's not participate in the destruction of science.
Please share your work unapologetically and share others' work
Science matters; your science matters!
But let's not participate in the destruction of science.
Please share your work unapologetically and share others' work
Science matters; your science matters!
February 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I am worried that scientists will self-censor and not share their work because they view it as trivial relative to what is going on
But let's not participate in the destruction of science.
Please share your work unapologetically and share others' work
Science matters; your science matters!
But let's not participate in the destruction of science.
Please share your work unapologetically and share others' work
Science matters; your science matters!
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Elon Musk is an unelected billionaire. He should not have access to or control over trillions in Treasury payments. From Social Security, to Medicare, and even tax refunds, this is the American people’s money.
February 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Elon Musk is an unelected billionaire. He should not have access to or control over trillions in Treasury payments. From Social Security, to Medicare, and even tax refunds, this is the American people’s money.
Are you looking for a VAP? Mount Holyoke is looking for a 1-year visitor in developmental/educational psychology!
Come join me!
DM me for the job ad
Come join me!
DM me for the job ad
February 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Are you looking for a VAP? Mount Holyoke is looking for a 1-year visitor in developmental/educational psychology!
Come join me!
DM me for the job ad
Come join me!
DM me for the job ad
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Midterm essay prompt for Stereotyping and Prejudice?
Who gets the benefit of the doubt?A teenager tagged by cops as a gang member b/c he shops at a particular bodega or wears the wrong color? A Black man the NYPD decides is “furtively walking”? OR a white man from apartheid S.A. who posts antisemitic/racist stereotypes & endorses the Nazi adjacent 1/
January 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Midterm essay prompt for Stereotyping and Prejudice?