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minh-duc pham, phd
@mdphamm.bsky.social
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scholar-activist; postdoc @ Columbia; psychologist studying discrimination, activism, & intraminority solidarity through a critical lens *on the job market*

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mwkraus.bsky.social
We're doing summerpsych.com again this year!

PhD curious undergrads, come hang out at the CSI lab, help us push forward a project and develop your social science chops Applications are due March 1st:
the Summer Internship
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January 22, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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mwkraus.bsky.social
New paper, conceived of and led by Chyei Vinluan on how people tend to think of Asian Ams as overrepresented in STEM, but that this ISN'T true when considering ethnic subgroups now available at @commspsychol.nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
The misperception of Asian subgroup representation in STEM - Communications Psychology
People are unaware of inequalities in Asian subgroup representation in STEM and base their perceptions on group typicality beliefs. Interventions informing about Asian STEM representation increase sup...
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January 21, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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canancoskan.bsky.social
📢Fresh article out:

Comparing the White racial contract (Mills) in the U.S. and the Turkishness contract (Ünlü) in Turkey through mixed-methods, Ekin, Ludwin and I exposed how "peace" is used to maintain the status quo rather than achieve justice.

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TITLE: Privileged representations of peace: Perpetuating systemic violence AUTHORS: Ekin Birdir, Ludwin Molina, canan coşkan ABSTRACT: Privileged representations of peace: Perpetuating systemic violenceEkin Birdir, Ludwin Molina, canan coşkanAbstractSocial psychological research typically focuses on promoting peace between groups in conflict by fostering intergroup harmony through prejudice reduction or advancing social justice through collective action. Unfortunately, these investigations rarely consider the mainstream discursive structures and epistemic engagement that normalize collective ethnic/racial violence. We addressed this gap with two mixed-method (i.e., qualitative and quantitative) studies in two contexts (Turkey and the United States), utilizing decolonial frameworks informed by liberation psychology, critical race theory and privileged ethnic/racial (Turkishness and White racial) contracts. Comparative analysis of meta-representations of peace among Turks (Study 1; N = 116) and White Americans (Study 2; N = 151) exposed the overlapping (i.e., negative peace and reliance on the nation-state order) and divergent (i.e., assimilative inclusion and neoliberal individuality) elements of privileged epistemic engagement with peace that align with Turkishness and White racial contracts, perpetuating collective violence. Furthermore, both Turks' and White Americans' ethnic/racial identity endorsement predicted higher perceptions of the state/military contribution to peace, suggesting the role of racial privilege in maintaining systemic violence. To our knowledge, this work is the first social psychological investigation of the Turkishness contract and the comparative analysis of privileged meta-representations of peace.
January 19, 2026 at 9:24 AM
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mwkraus.bsky.social
"The mission of HR is to help you thrive at work." This sounds good, but what happens when your organization shifts its priorities away from yours?

New work by @megan-elaine-burns.bsky.social suggests that unions become more appealing!

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SPSSI Journals
As workplace inequality persists, understanding the psychological processes motivating collective action engagement becomes imperative. In one domain of collective action, labor unionization, members...
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January 12, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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hirotakaimada.bsky.social
I am hiring a 4y postdoc for my Leverhulme-funded project on the role of beliefs about what in/outgroup members believe/do about climate change in shaping pro-climate behaviours🌏

Start date: May 2026 at latest
Deadline: Feb 8

Please share it widely!

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Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Full-Time, Fixed-Term (48 months)Applications are invited for a 4-year, full-time Postdoctoral Research Assistant position in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. The successful candidate will join Dr. Hirotaka...
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January 9, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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cip.uw.edu
We're currently accepting applications to hire up to two @cip.uw.edu postdoctoral scholars to join our team in Seattle. The priority deadline to apply is January 15, 2026.

For the position description, salary range, qualifications and application process, click here: apply.interfolio.com/177901
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December 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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drjuandeltoro.bsky.social
🚨 Are you looking for a postdoc or know of someone looking? If so, there is a postdoc opportunity at the University of Chicago to work with faculty, including my former postdoc mentor Dr. Ming-Te Wang!

See attached ad for details!
January 6, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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drfbzen.bsky.social
Haven’t seen this reported in the UK news at all. My colleagues there report that faculty members were also stopped and prevented from entering campus.

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UPDATE: Three Palestinian students wounded as Israeli forces storm Birzeit University campus
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January 6, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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sarahegaither.bsky.social
Latino voters are often treated as a single bloc. Our new paper led by Mercedes Muñoz surveys Mexican and Cuban Americans, finding higher traditionalism, machismo, and income predicts voting for Trump over Harris. Latino voters are not a monolith.
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SPSSI Journals
Despite Latino Americans’ consistent support for the Democratic Party over the last five decades, the number of Latino Americans who voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election grew by 1...
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December 31, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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jem.yaps.fyi
✍🏽 I’ve been thinking about “The Psychology of Becoming a Border”, how people themselves *become* borders

This essay traces bordered perception (what it surveils, attends to, seeks out) and how colorist/imperialist visual imaginaries activate & normalize the sensory detection of “removables”
Gazing like a border
What does bordered perception attend to, seek out, surveil?
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December 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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jrvollhardt.bsky.social
Now out in Political Psychology and open access, led by Helin Ünal: "Beliefs about collective victimization in contexts of ongoing and historical oppression: A Q methodology study among Kurds from Turkey and Northern Kurdistan in Germany" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
December 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
mdphamm.bsky.social
💫 Now in PSPR: We theorize a strength-based solidarity framework, wherein members of different marginalized groups recognize common identity-conscious strengths (e.g., community strength, resilience) and work to improve each other's lived experiences. 1/6

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December 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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allipatter.bsky.social
I’m hiring a predoctoral fellow for the 2026-2027 AY with possibility of a second year. This is a great position for someone interested in pursuing a Ph.D. or who wants more hands-on experience doing research. Please apply/share! Happy to answer questions!

tobin.yale.edu/opportunitie...
CSAP Predoc: Polarization and Inequality in the U.S. Criminal Legal System
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December 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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lilymasonphd.bsky.social
New post-doc position working with me in a new lab at @snfagora.bsky.social ! It's one year appointment, renewable for up to 5 years. The position includes data analysis and independent research, mentorship of lab members, and participation in SNF Agora Institute life.

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December 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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hebagowayed.bsky.social
A few friends are managing threats to renewal in academia (mid tenure review specifically) due to Palestine position — anyone gone through that/ dealing now that’s open to chatting? If so DM.
December 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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markrubin.bsky.social
Minority Power

"Marginalized groups develop sophisticated alternative conceptualizations of power as collective resistance, cultural preservation and mutual aid that enable transformation despite structural disadvantages."

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This article synthesizes cutting-edge research from our special issue examining power across groups, communities and nations to advance a fundamental reconceptualization that reveals power's inherent plurality, dynamism and cultural embeddedness. Drawing on evidence from a diverse set of countries and innovative methodologies, we demonstrate that traditional definitions of power as asymmetric resource control fail to capture its real-world complexity. The collected research reveals three critical insights. First, power operates through multiple, intersecting mechanisms—from ideological frameworks like hegemonic masculinity to seemingly benevolent helping behaviours that maintain hierarchies. Second, power's meaning and operation vary dramatically across cultural contexts, with the power-status relationship ranging from nearly synonymous in some societies to entirely disconnected in others. Third, marginalized groups develop sophisticated alternative conceptualizations of power as collective resistance, cultural preservation and mutual aid that enable transformation despite structural disadvantages. These findings necessitate theoretical frameworks that accommodate power's plurality while identifying general principles, examining dynamic processes rather than static attributes and integrating multiple levels of analysis. We argue for moving beyond imposed definitions to understand how diverse groups conceptualize their own agency, examining not just domination but resistance and developing interventions that promote more equitable power distributions.
December 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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teriak.bsky.social
🧵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.
December 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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hebagowayed.bsky.social
The things we are forced to manage through Gofundme as a human race are absurd — feeding people through a genocide as our taxes go to kill them, housing people through a fire as not enough of our taxes go to save them.

All in the world’s richest country.
January 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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williamngiam.github.io
Announcing a side-project that I have been working on for the past few months – introducing quokka, a free-to-use, in-browser app for qualitative coding. My goal was to make an app that was fairly intuitive and flexible so that it could fit most workflows. An app demo here: youtu.be/9jJK70W0hAI?...
quokka – an in-browser qualitative analysis app
YouTube video by Dr William Ngiam
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January 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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pamherd.bsky.social
Interested in adding questions to the 2026 General Social Survey? You can propose to have items added (at no cost to you!). Read this thread for tips about how to write a strong proposal. 1/ gss.norc.org/content/dam/...
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January 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM