1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.

There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

My department at Imperial College London is hiring! We're looking for scholars who study "inclusivity," broadly defined. Applicants can be from any research area including OB, social psychology, sociology, and entrepreneurship. Deadline Sept 15.

www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

www.psypost.org/trump-suppor... Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism

"Platforms are calibrated to capture attention by amplifying moralized and emotional content. This can have benefits, such as raising awareness of injustices by propagating expressions of outrage," explains @stefanleach.bsky.social phys.org/news/2025-05...

Now out in JPSP (open access paper):
"Lifestyle Polarization on a College Campus: Do Liberals and Conservatives Behave Differently in Everyday Life?"
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

w/ @dianamejordan.bsky.social, Sam Gosling, and Gabriella Harari

🚨🚨 I’m looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join my lab at Harvard's Psychology Department starting Fall 2025 🚨📣

Please share widely and spread the word to interested candidates! 🧵

🗓 Application review begins April 30

Apply here: rb.gy/k7q9kf (1/2)

🚨New Preprint (wish it were less timely)🚨
We map everyday behavioral patterns of authoritarians using smartphone data, providing an updated portrait of authoritarianism in the digital age. w/ Timo Koch, @clemensstachl.bsky.social, @dracek.bsky.social, Ramona Schoedel, et al
osf.io/preprints/ps...

This summer, UCL Computer Science and Imperial College Business School will host the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) – London from June 16–25, 2025!

Please apply! The summer school is free, and I'll be giving a talk! For details and application info: lnkd.in/ezurESRd

Sanaz Talaifar: smart phone passive sensing study: Liberals have less fun than conservatives (they are on social media lot...). Also, people vastly overestimate daily routine differences among lib vs conservatives
#spsp2025 #comppsych