Franki Kung
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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.
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.
December 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
🧵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.
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.
Are you an editor for a psych or neuroscience journal? Join our supportive global community and safe space to connect and share strategies, challenges, and resources.
You're not alone in this!
You're not alone in this!
We’re excited to announce the launch of the third cohort of our Editor Learning Community!
This ELC will create a space for editors to share strategies, challenges, and opportunities to improve peer review — read more here: go.iu.edu/8wnE
Interested editors can complete our interest survey here:
This ELC will create a space for editors to share strategies, challenges, and opportunities to improve peer review — read more here: go.iu.edu/8wnE
Interested editors can complete our interest survey here:
Editor Learning Community with Reviewer Zero
Join Reviewer Zero for a learning community to support editors who are interested in improving psychology and neuroscience by including a broader range of people, topics, and methods. Our goal is to c...
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December 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Are you an editor for a psych or neuroscience journal? Join our supportive global community and safe space to connect and share strategies, challenges, and resources.
You're not alone in this!
You're not alone in this!
A new @spspnews.bsky.social virtual session on global publishing experience: 8 - 9 AM ET on December 5. 🎉
Bring your stories and ideas to help make publishing more inclusive.
Registration is free and open to all (SPSP and non-SPSP members): us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi....
Feel free to share!
Bring your stories and ideas to help make publishing more inclusive.
Registration is free and open to all (SPSP and non-SPSP members): us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi....
Feel free to share!
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A new @spspnews.bsky.social virtual session on global publishing experience: 8 - 9 AM ET on December 5. 🎉
Bring your stories and ideas to help make publishing more inclusive.
Registration is free and open to all (SPSP and non-SPSP members): us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi....
Feel free to share!
Bring your stories and ideas to help make publishing more inclusive.
Registration is free and open to all (SPSP and non-SPSP members): us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi....
Feel free to share!
Interested in a career teaching I-O PSY?
Consider this full-time Lecturer position (4 courses per semester; renewable) at @purduepsych.bsky.social @purduehhs.bsky.social 🎉 Come join us and be our colleague!!
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Consider this full-time Lecturer position (4 courses per semester; renewable) at @purduepsych.bsky.social @purduehhs.bsky.social 🎉 Come join us and be our colleague!!
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November 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Interested in a career teaching I-O PSY?
Consider this full-time Lecturer position (4 courses per semester; renewable) at @purduepsych.bsky.social @purduehhs.bsky.social 🎉 Come join us and be our colleague!!
lnkd.in/dE4K8kYP
Consider this full-time Lecturer position (4 courses per semester; renewable) at @purduepsych.bsky.social @purduehhs.bsky.social 🎉 Come join us and be our colleague!!
lnkd.in/dE4K8kYP
Two @spspnews.bsky.social committees unite for a global conversation on publishing!
Friday, Nov 14
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET
Do you publish in social and personality journals? Have Qs or stories to share? Curious abt the latest resources and opportunities? Join us! community.spsp.org/events/NNh2R...
Friday, Nov 14
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET
Do you publish in social and personality journals? Have Qs or stories to share? Curious abt the latest resources and opportunities? Join us! community.spsp.org/events/NNh2R...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Two @spspnews.bsky.social committees unite for a global conversation on publishing!
Friday, Nov 14
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET
Do you publish in social and personality journals? Have Qs or stories to share? Curious abt the latest resources and opportunities? Join us! community.spsp.org/events/NNh2R...
Friday, Nov 14
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET
Do you publish in social and personality journals? Have Qs or stories to share? Curious abt the latest resources and opportunities? Join us! community.spsp.org/events/NNh2R...
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Want to join our organizing committee? There's still time to apply!
🚨 We are seeking a Digital Presence Coordinator!
Open to psych/neuro grad students, postdocs & faculty who are passionate about improving fairness in peer review.
Job details:
💻 Managing website, socials, newsletters
🕒 4–8 hrs/month | 💵 $500 honorarium | 📅 1-year term
Apply 👉 go.iu.edu/8vxh
Open to psych/neuro grad students, postdocs & faculty who are passionate about improving fairness in peer review.
Job details:
💻 Managing website, socials, newsletters
🕒 4–8 hrs/month | 💵 $500 honorarium | 📅 1-year term
Apply 👉 go.iu.edu/8vxh
go.iu.edu
October 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Want to join our organizing committee? There's still time to apply!
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Open-access publication alert!! This is a special one; it represents two years of work with an amazing team of researchers, teachers, educational stakeholders, and technology experts to identify infrastructure that would advance equity in STEM education: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A field-initiated vision of research infrastructure for STEM education - International Journal of STEM Education
STEM education research has historically been under-equipped, relying on standardized tests and questionnaires while other fields deploy space telescopes and particle accelerators. What would happen i...
link.springer.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Open-access publication alert!! This is a special one; it represents two years of work with an amazing team of researchers, teachers, educational stakeholders, and technology experts to identify infrastructure that would advance equity in STEM education: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by Franki Kung
You’re ready to submit your first paper. What happens next?
Our workshop, Peer Review 101: Responding Effectively to Reviews, will help you understand how peer review works and provide you with concrete tools so you can respond to a reviewer comments.
Join us 12-1:30pm ET 10/30/25. Register here:
Our workshop, Peer Review 101: Responding Effectively to Reviews, will help you understand how peer review works and provide you with concrete tools so you can respond to a reviewer comments.
Join us 12-1:30pm ET 10/30/25. Register here:
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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October 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
You’re ready to submit your first paper. What happens next?
Our workshop, Peer Review 101: Responding Effectively to Reviews, will help you understand how peer review works and provide you with concrete tools so you can respond to a reviewer comments.
Join us 12-1:30pm ET 10/30/25. Register here:
Our workshop, Peer Review 101: Responding Effectively to Reviews, will help you understand how peer review works and provide you with concrete tools so you can respond to a reviewer comments.
Join us 12-1:30pm ET 10/30/25. Register here:
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🚨 We are seeking a Digital Presence Coordinator!
Open to psych/neuro grad students, postdocs & faculty who are passionate about improving fairness in peer review.
Job details:
💻 Managing website, socials, newsletters
🕒 4–8 hrs/month | 💵 $500 honorarium | 📅 1-year term
Apply 👉 go.iu.edu/8vxh
Open to psych/neuro grad students, postdocs & faculty who are passionate about improving fairness in peer review.
Job details:
💻 Managing website, socials, newsletters
🕒 4–8 hrs/month | 💵 $500 honorarium | 📅 1-year term
Apply 👉 go.iu.edu/8vxh
go.iu.edu
October 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
🚨 We are seeking a Digital Presence Coordinator!
Open to psych/neuro grad students, postdocs & faculty who are passionate about improving fairness in peer review.
Job details:
💻 Managing website, socials, newsletters
🕒 4–8 hrs/month | 💵 $500 honorarium | 📅 1-year term
Apply 👉 go.iu.edu/8vxh
Open to psych/neuro grad students, postdocs & faculty who are passionate about improving fairness in peer review.
Job details:
💻 Managing website, socials, newsletters
🕒 4–8 hrs/month | 💵 $500 honorarium | 📅 1-year term
Apply 👉 go.iu.edu/8vxh
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📣 🧪 Update: #GRFP petition went to #NSF and OSTP (w/ the growing* comments list) yesterday.
We are now working to get these impacts in front of Congress, so PLEASE keep signing/sharing the petition!
*nearly 900!
@danielbolnick.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social
We are now working to get these impacts in front of Congress, so PLEASE keep signing/sharing the petition!
*nearly 900!
@danielbolnick.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social
🧪 Were you one of the many thousands of STEM students (and mentors) impacted by the sudden change in #NSF #GRFP eligibility last week?
We created a petition to NSF leadership and Congress to reverse the changes - please sign and share your stories here!!
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
We created a petition to NSF leadership and Congress to reverse the changes - please sign and share your stories here!!
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition
laurenkuehne.github.io
October 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
📣 🧪 Update: #GRFP petition went to #NSF and OSTP (w/ the growing* comments list) yesterday.
We are now working to get these impacts in front of Congress, so PLEASE keep signing/sharing the petition!
*nearly 900!
@danielbolnick.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social
We are now working to get these impacts in front of Congress, so PLEASE keep signing/sharing the petition!
*nearly 900!
@danielbolnick.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social
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Three conversations I'm excited to be a part of this week 🧪:
1) Fri Sept 19th 2pm ET join me, @frankikung.bsky.social, Jon Freeman and Cynthia Pickett for an @spspnews.bsky.social virtual conversation on grant terminations and research funding challenges spsp.org/professional...
1) Fri Sept 19th 2pm ET join me, @frankikung.bsky.social, Jon Freeman and Cynthia Pickett for an @spspnews.bsky.social virtual conversation on grant terminations and research funding challenges spsp.org/professional...
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September 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Three conversations I'm excited to be a part of this week 🧪:
1) Fri Sept 19th 2pm ET join me, @frankikung.bsky.social, Jon Freeman and Cynthia Pickett for an @spspnews.bsky.social virtual conversation on grant terminations and research funding challenges spsp.org/professional...
1) Fri Sept 19th 2pm ET join me, @frankikung.bsky.social, Jon Freeman and Cynthia Pickett for an @spspnews.bsky.social virtual conversation on grant terminations and research funding challenges spsp.org/professional...
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What's going on with politically-motivated terminations of federal grants? How should social psychologists react and respond? Where do we go from here? No good answers but join me and other affected researchers for a virtual discussion next Friday.
FYI - New @spspnews.bsky.social session on Navigating Uncertainty: A Community Conversation on Research Funding Challenges
Friday, September 19
2 - 3 PM ET (free and virtual)
Sign up: community.spsp.org/events/sNhWo...
Friday, September 19
2 - 3 PM ET (free and virtual)
Sign up: community.spsp.org/events/sNhWo...
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September 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
What's going on with politically-motivated terminations of federal grants? How should social psychologists react and respond? Where do we go from here? No good answers but join me and other affected researchers for a virtual discussion next Friday.
FYI - New @spspnews.bsky.social session on Navigating Uncertainty: A Community Conversation on Research Funding Challenges
Friday, September 19
2 - 3 PM ET (free and virtual)
Sign up: community.spsp.org/events/sNhWo...
Friday, September 19
2 - 3 PM ET (free and virtual)
Sign up: community.spsp.org/events/sNhWo...
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September 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
FYI - New @spspnews.bsky.social session on Navigating Uncertainty: A Community Conversation on Research Funding Challenges
Friday, September 19
2 - 3 PM ET (free and virtual)
Sign up: community.spsp.org/events/sNhWo...
Friday, September 19
2 - 3 PM ET (free and virtual)
Sign up: community.spsp.org/events/sNhWo...
This special issue "invites submissions on research areas recently de-prioritized and/or de-funded that address or discuss how social cognition approaches can aid in the understanding of these critical societal issues."
Plz consider submitting!
Plz consider submitting!
Social Cognition invites papers for a special issue on disrupted scholarship guest edited by Galen Bodenhausen, Jacqueline Chen, & Franki Kung.
bit.ly/3HkcyBf
bit.ly/3HkcyBf
Call for Papers Indomitable Science: Social Cognition Scholarship amid Disruption.docx
Call for Papers: Special Collection Indomitable Science: Social Cognition Scholarship amid Disruption Deadline for Letters of Intent: October 15, 2025 (https://bit.ly/4mlowtf) Guest Editors: Gale...
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August 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This special issue "invites submissions on research areas recently de-prioritized and/or de-funded that address or discuss how social cognition approaches can aid in the understanding of these critical societal issues."
Plz consider submitting!
Plz consider submitting!
Reposted by Franki Kung
How can developmental science journals promote equity, transparency, and shared responsibility?
Join us August 13, 2pm ET, for “Editors for an Inclusive Future: A Community Conversation” tinyurl.com/DevEditors @lehersingh.bsky.social @mattgoldrick.bsky.social
Join us August 13, 2pm ET, for “Editors for an Inclusive Future: A Community Conversation” tinyurl.com/DevEditors @lehersingh.bsky.social @mattgoldrick.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
How can developmental science journals promote equity, transparency, and shared responsibility?
Join us August 13, 2pm ET, for “Editors for an Inclusive Future: A Community Conversation” tinyurl.com/DevEditors @lehersingh.bsky.social @mattgoldrick.bsky.social
Join us August 13, 2pm ET, for “Editors for an Inclusive Future: A Community Conversation” tinyurl.com/DevEditors @lehersingh.bsky.social @mattgoldrick.bsky.social
Congratulations Rick!! 🎉 You will be missed here. Looking forward to seeing all that you'll accomplish @cuny.edu ❤️
I’ve defended my dissertation and wrapped up 5 years of my PhD! Grateful to my advisor, committee, mentors, colleagues, students, friends, and family. I’m thrilled to be joining Baruch College, CUNY as an Assistant Professor in I-O Psychology and to start this new chapter in NYC!
July 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Congratulations Rick!! 🎉 You will be missed here. Looking forward to seeing all that you'll accomplish @cuny.edu ❤️
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Happy to report that the @sparksociety.bsky.social NSF grant has been reinstated!
June 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Happy to report that the @sparksociety.bsky.social NSF grant has been reinstated!
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🧪 National Science Foundation update alert ⚠️⚠️
NSF just made a **lot** of updates to its "priorities" page.
It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad.
❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards.
The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
1/8... 🧵
NSF just made a **lot** of updates to its "priorities" page.
It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad.
❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards.
The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
1/8... 🧵
May 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
🧪 National Science Foundation update alert ⚠️⚠️
NSF just made a **lot** of updates to its "priorities" page.
It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad.
❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards.
The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
1/8... 🧵
NSF just made a **lot** of updates to its "priorities" page.
It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad.
❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards.
The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
1/8... 🧵
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Job alert! We're now accepting applications for a Postdoc Research Fellow who will work with restricted and hard-to-access data related to the sources of class-based income #inequality on cutting-edge research topics. Apply by June 15! 👇 myumi.ch/155qg
#academicjobmarket #nowhiring #academicsky
#academicjobmarket #nowhiring #academicsky
May 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Job alert! We're now accepting applications for a Postdoc Research Fellow who will work with restricted and hard-to-access data related to the sources of class-based income #inequality on cutting-edge research topics. Apply by June 15! 👇 myumi.ch/155qg
#academicjobmarket #nowhiring #academicsky
#academicjobmarket #nowhiring #academicsky
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Today (April 30) is the day! Please support DEI Science #purduedayofgiving by donating at purdue.university/HHSConsortium 🎉🎉
Your contributions will support research, future scholars, education, outreach, and more.
No gift is too small - together, let's make a difference!
Your contributions will support research, future scholars, education, outreach, and more.
No gift is too small - together, let's make a difference!
April 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Today (April 30) is the day! Please support DEI Science #purduedayofgiving by donating at purdue.university/HHSConsortium 🎉🎉
Your contributions will support research, future scholars, education, outreach, and more.
No gift is too small - together, let's make a difference!
Your contributions will support research, future scholars, education, outreach, and more.
No gift is too small - together, let's make a difference!
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I feel so honored to be President-Elect of @sansmeeting.bsky.social.
These are dark times for science, but together we are stronger.
With President @dfareri.bsky.social, I look forward to advocating for science, bringing together our community, and finding a path forward.
These are dark times for science, but together we are stronger.
With President @dfareri.bsky.social, I look forward to advocating for science, bringing together our community, and finding a path forward.
Introducing our new president Dominic Fareri and @jenikubota.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I feel so honored to be President-Elect of @sansmeeting.bsky.social.
These are dark times for science, but together we are stronger.
With President @dfareri.bsky.social, I look forward to advocating for science, bringing together our community, and finding a path forward.
These are dark times for science, but together we are stronger.
With President @dfareri.bsky.social, I look forward to advocating for science, bringing together our community, and finding a path forward.
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“These reinstatements show us that legal action still has the power to hold the federal government accountable to its obligations.”
🎤
🎤
These NIH Grants Were Terminated. Now They’re Back.
A handful of scientists whose funding was canceled by the Trump administration are now seeing those decisions reversed — and it’s not always clear why.
www.chronicle.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
“These reinstatements show us that legal action still has the power to hold the federal government accountable to its obligations.”
🎤
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DEI Science Consortium @deiscience.bsky.social #purdueuniversity is not slowing down. We're expanding our efforts to support DEI scholars and scholarship - Boiler up!
On April 30, you can help us make a difference. Let's do this together.
#PurdueDayofGiving @aauppurdue.bsky.social
On April 30, you can help us make a difference. Let's do this together.
#PurdueDayofGiving @aauppurdue.bsky.social
Get ready to support Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Science on Purdue Day of Giving (April 30)!
You can help us make a difference in improving lives and communities by donating to the HHS DEI Science Consortium via this link purdue.university/HHSConsortium on April 30.
Please spread the word!
You can help us make a difference in improving lives and communities by donating to the HHS DEI Science Consortium via this link purdue.university/HHSConsortium on April 30.
Please spread the word!
Support College of Health and Human Sciences | Purdue Day of Giving 2025
I’m ready to support College of Health and Human Sciences on April 30, 2025 during Purdue Day of Giving 2025. Learn more about College of Health and Human Sciences and all the other units participating in Purdue Day of Giving 2025.
purdue.university
April 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
DEI Science Consortium @deiscience.bsky.social #purdueuniversity is not slowing down. We're expanding our efforts to support DEI scholars and scholarship - Boiler up!
On April 30, you can help us make a difference. Let's do this together.
#PurdueDayofGiving @aauppurdue.bsky.social
On April 30, you can help us make a difference. Let's do this together.
#PurdueDayofGiving @aauppurdue.bsky.social
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Like many others, Angela, Kelci, and I were disappointed to learn that the NSF grant supporting Flourish was terminated last week. Flourish remains committed, now more than ever, to our mission of uplifting pre-tenure faculty of color in psychology. Learn more & spread the word about our community.
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April 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Like many others, Angela, Kelci, and I were disappointed to learn that the NSF grant supporting Flourish was terminated last week. Flourish remains committed, now more than ever, to our mission of uplifting pre-tenure faculty of color in psychology. Learn more & spread the word about our community.
Reposted by Franki Kung
Unfortunately, the NSF grant that supports our work has been terminated. This is a setback, but our mission has not changed. We will continue to work hard on making cognitive science a more inclusive field. Stay tuned for upcoming events.
April 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Unfortunately, the NSF grant that supports our work has been terminated. This is a setback, but our mission has not changed. We will continue to work hard on making cognitive science a more inclusive field. Stay tuned for upcoming events.