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Shaun Wiley
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Psych Prof • Co-EIC ASAP @SPSSI • multiple identities, allyship, immigration • GSW • opinions my own
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mwkraus.bsky.social
We are doing a pilot survey about how prospective PhD students in PSYCHOLOGY make decisions about applying to grad programs. If you are thinking of applying to a program in the future, and have 2-5 minutes to spare, could you take this survey? 🫶

northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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markrubin.bsky.social
-- Call for Papers --

Special issue on "Intersectionality in Social Psychology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications" in the British Journal of Social Psychology.

Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2025
<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> is an international journal publishing impactful basic and applied social psychological research from all parts of the world.
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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markrubin.bsky.social
Should 'sisters' be doing it by themselves when it comes to gender equality initiatives? Not really, no!

"It [also] matters whether the approach is arguing for a 'we-change' or a 'she-change'.”

Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

BSky author: @shellkryan.bsky.social
While gender equality initiatives have historically been spearheaded by women, male allies' contribution is increasingly recognized—and challenged. Our article examines the pivotal yet neglected intersection of women's leadership and allyship for gender equality. Across two experiments with community samples (total N = 801), we investigate how message framing (common cause vs. women's issue; Experiment 1), intergroup/male versus intragroup/female allies (Experiments 1–2), and transformative versus tokenistic allyship (Experiment 2) affect female leaders' capacity to mobilize both men and women for gender equality. We demonstrate that common cause (vs. women's issue) messages more readily mobilize men for collective action, whereas women's mobilization remains high irrespective of message framing. We also show that a female leader supported by an intergroup/male rather than an intragroup/female ally is more likely to be seen as “one of us,” have greater influence, and be more effective at mobilizing both men and women for collective action (Experiments 1–2). Critically, men are mobilized by transformative allyship (regardless of ally gender) and disengage from both the leader and the cause in response to tokenistic allyship (Experiment 2). While male allies can be important, our results suggest that transformative allyship is essential for mobilization across gender boundaries.
October 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
sw13ley.bsky.social
I’m proud of @kellmswartz.bsky.social for this brilliant piece of scholarship. Happy Pub Day, Kelly!
uvapress.bsky.social UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 21d
Happy #pubday to "Maxims and the Mind: Unknowing in the Early Novel from Bacon to Austen" by Kelly Swartz @kellmswartz.bsky.social!

Correcting the misunderstood role of maxims at the intersection of early science and literature.

www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10157/

#booksky
October 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
October 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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steverathje.bsky.social
🚨 New preprint 🚨

Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions.

Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased!

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thread 🧵
Abstract and results summary
October 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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gelliottmorris.com
A new report from Bright Line Watch finds experts now rate the U.S. as a "mixed" or "illiberal" democracy. The rating is dragged down by Trump's attacks on institutions, a weak legislature, political violence, and partisan gerrymandering www.gelliottmorris.com/p/experts-no...
Experts now rate the U.S. as a "mixed" or "illiberal" democracy
Experts say political violence, Trump's attacks against non-partisan agencies and institutions, and partisan gerrymandering are their top concerns
www.gelliottmorris.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
sw13ley.bsky.social
📍Marked safe from beautiful views and delicious food this summer in Portland.
View of downtown Portland from Mt. Tabor on a summer day. Pollo pibil torta from Güero in Portland. The Mud Sundae with vanilla soft serve, everything cookie chunks, dark chocolate sauce, and maldon sea salt at Cheese and Crack in Portland. Stairs leading down Mt. Tabor through an evergreen forest in Portland on a summer day.
September 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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beatricesternberg.bsky.social
✨ Happy to share our new publication!

Are Dual- (vs. Single-) Identity Affirmation Interventions More Effective for Enhancing Well-Being and Collective Action Intentions Among Minorities?

👉 doi.org/10.1080/1528...

#socialpsyc
@lapps-enosis-up8.bsky.social
@lapps-upn.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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mikiesherrill.bsky.social
This is an illegal and dangerous weaponization of the federal government.

That Jack Ciattarelli and the Trump admin are breaking the law and exposing private records for political gain is a violation of anyone who has ever served.

No veteran's record is safe.
www.cbsnews.com/news/nationa...
Archives errs in releasing too much of Mikie Sherrill's military record to her opponent in governor's race
The National Archives admitted a technician had erred in releasing Rep. Mikie Sherill's "entire record."
www.cbsnews.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
The National Archives under the Trump administration released @mikiesherrill.bsky.social full, unredacted Navy personnel file to Jack Ciattarelli's campaign.

This is an unprecedented and illegal weaponization of the National Archives and private, personal records to attack a political opponent.
September 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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matthewjdowd.bsky.social
One thing you learn in life is that "speaking truth to power" and practicing integrity is easy when your job, your money, your fame, or your office is not on the line. The hard is speaking truth and practicing integrity when any one of those is on the line. That is the test of who you are.
September 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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plumicorns.bsky.social
Dudes rock
Shortly after that standoff, Curtis Evans stood directly in front of the gate with an American flag. The 65-year-old Evanston resident heard about the first protest on social media and came to represent “the ideals that our country stands for.” He said tear gas and pepper balls hurt, but “five minutes later, you’re fine.”
September 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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debrawexler.bsky.social
It's truly hard to believe that it's been 24 years.

As always on this day, from @colsonwhitehead.com: www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...
Excerpt from "The Way We Live Now by Colson Whitehead "We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab, and you had no warning. It was the last time you were going to have Lake Tung Ting shrimp in that entirely suspect Chinese restaurant, and you had no idea. If you had known, perhaps you would have stepped behind the counter and shaken everyone's hand, pulled out the disposable camera and issued posing instructions. But you had no idea. There are unheralded tipping points, a certain number of times that we will unlock the front door of an apartment. At some point you were closer to the last time than you were to the first time, and you didn't even know it. You didn't know that each time you passed the threshold you were saying goodbye."
September 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
In dissent, Justice Sotomayor wrote for the Democratic appointees, “We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.“
SCOTUS conservatives OK Trump admin's racial profiling of Latinos in low-wage jobs
Five of the six Republican appointees to the Supreme Court wrote nothing Monday. But their actions, and Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence, paint an alarming picture.
www.lawdork.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
sw13ley.bsky.social
Useful read for some administrators at my institution…
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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jackiemchen.bsky.social
We're hiring TWO social psychologists (one health, one any area of social) at U of Utah! Pls share widely, and reach out if you have any questions! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/186...
Assistant Professor in Social Psychology
utah.peopleadmin.com
September 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
The mantra for this era is "fuck you, make me."
by-cjewett.bsky.social Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · Aug 28
BREAKING: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

The director of the CDC, Susan Monarez, is refusing to leave her post, despite demands from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that she quit or be fired, per her lawyers.

via @sherylnyt.bsky.social + @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
Trump Administration Live Updates: Health Secretary Tries to Oust C.D.C. Director, but She Refuses to Leave
www.nytimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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bedoyausa.bsky.social
Dear journalists:

The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.

Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
August 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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jfallows.bsky.social
The full 12 minutes of @govpritzker.illinois.gov speech today, which was superb.

(Via Nicole Wallace / @msnbc.com segment.)

www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
'We are watching and taking names': Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker responds to Trump's threats to Chicago
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker holds press conference in response to recent threats made by President Donald Trump to send the national guard to Chicago, in a similar manner that he has done so in Los ...
www.msnbc.com
August 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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goodauth.bsky.social
Embracing populism doesn’t hurt right-wing parties. It may help them.

New research from Western Europe shows that accommodating extremism doesn’t work.

Read the latest from @johnsides.bsky.social: goodauthority.org/news/embraci...
Embracing populism doesn’t hurt right-wing parties. It may help them.
New research from Western Europe shows that accommodating extremism doesn’t work.
goodauthority.org
August 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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theklamorgenroth.bsky.social
I'll be recruiting a grad student to join the UNICORN lab for Fall 2026! If you know any magical students interested in gender/sex, LGBTQ+ issues, intergroup relations, stereotyping & prejudice, social cognition, feminism, issues of bodily autonomy, or anything else I do, please send them my way!
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August 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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mjbsp.bsky.social
Large Language Models Do Not Simulate Human Psychology

arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06950
August 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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stone-lis.bsky.social
We invite applications for two postdoctoral scholars! These 2-year positions start in Aug. 2026 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center in NYC. One is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Apply by Nov. 3!
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
bit.ly/40TZR6J
Applications Are Open for Two Postdoctoral Positions at the GC CUNY Stone Center - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for an eighth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu
August 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM