ajua duker
ajuaduker.bsky.social
ajua duker
@ajuaduker.bsky.social
asst prof @nyupsych
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I just got an email informing me that my Annual Review on structural racism with @tyson-brown.bsky.social and @pahoman.bsky.social is open access. So, download away.
Advancing the Scientific Study of Structural Racism: Concepts, Measures, and Methods | Annual Reviews
This review provides 10 actionable recommendations for advancing the scientific study of structural racism through theoretically grounded and empirically robust measures and methods. By offering conce...
www.annualreviews.org
July 31, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Care about marginalized people at least as much as you do inanimate objects challenge. Difficulty level: impossible.
“Can ChatGPT experience joy or suffering? Does Gemini deserve human rights?” our tech columnist asks. “Many A.I. experts I know would say no, not yet, not even close. But I was intrigued.”
Should We Start Taking the Welfare of A.I. Seriously?
As artificial intelligence systems become smarter, one A.I. company is trying to figure out what to do if they become conscious.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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🚨🚨 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)
Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology
Dr. Ashwini Ashokkumar’s lab at the Department of Psychology at Harvard University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position to start in Fall 2025. The lab conducts research related to i...
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April 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨

If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way.

🗓 Application review begins April 15
⏰ Final deadline is April 25
📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP
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April 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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🎉 I am THRILLED to announce that I will be starting at Colby College as an assistant prof. Of Psychology In Fall 2025! 🎉

I’ll be starting the ExPo Lab, and will be focused on working with undergraduates to study the causes and consequences of extremism and polarization.
March 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
March 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste.
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...
February 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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DEI is a corporate term, CRT is a legal framework, Black Lives Matter was a political slogan, Staying woke was a colloquialism. It’s not individual terms at fault here, people aren’t being confused into racism.
January 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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The kind of racism Trump & his ilk espouse is old-fashioned, even as it’s dressed up in modern DEI discourse.

They get close to saying it outright but haven’t yet—but make no mistake, they sincerely believe white people are biologically & intellectually superior to nonwhite people.
January 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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#AcademicSky

As an educator, this resonates
January 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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The climate crisis caused an additional six weeks of dangerously hot days in 2024 for the average person, supercharging the fatal impact of heatwaves around the world. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate crisis exposed people to extra six weeks of dangerous heat in 2024
Analysis shows fossil fuels are supercharging heatwaves, leaving millions prone to deadly temperatures
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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Really looking forward to being part of the marginalia x BC colloquium next week!! And had a lot of fun writing up my bit of the newsletter 😊
December 3, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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The postdoc I am doing now—Susan Nolen-Hoeksema postdoc associate at Yale Psychology—is looking for a new fellow for 2025 July! Apply if you are on internship or about to get your PhD: apply.interfolio.com/160599
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December 17, 2024 at 9:30 PM
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🚨Exciting postdoc opportunity!🚨 Applications are now open for the Susan Nolen-Hoeksema postdoctoral fellowship at Yale.

More information & application: apply.interfolio.com/160599

Please share widely!
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December 17, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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Chumbawumba did not adequately prepare me for the number of times I would be knocked down and have to get back up
December 2, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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UnitedHealthcare has been accused of using algorithms to deny treatments and refusing coverage of nursing care to stroke patients. UnitedHealthcare and its parent company now face a class-action lawsuit over its use of the algorithm.
‘Delay, Deny, Defend’: United Has Faced Scrutiny Over Denying Claims
The company has been accused of using algorithms to deny treatments and refusing coverage of nursing care to stroke patients.
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2024 at 4:47 AM
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A lot of people think everything will work out if we just play by the rules but don’t seem to recognize that rules only matter when everyone agrees to follow them and, well, that isn’t our present reality.
December 2, 2024 at 2:22 AM
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"continuing to do and teach science vociferously in the face of political attacks is doubly necessary now"

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scientists as political advocates
Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...
www.science.org
November 25, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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November 24, 2024 at 7:30 PM
🚨App review begins tomorrow!!🚨
NYU Social Psych is conducting a search for 2 OPEN RANK faculty positions! We welcome apps from researchers across all areas/sub-disciplines of social psych, & those w/ strong and/or unique methodological expertise are encouraged to apply.
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September 30, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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"The game plan is simple. Selectively target scholars who study race, who will be primarily scholars of color. Launch an anonymous accusation. Then report on this as newsworthy in right wing media, hoping the mainstream media will pick it up...Institutions don’t have to voluntarily play along."
After Claudine Gay's resignation, Rufo learned that plagiarism was a smear that he could use to attack scholars of race, no matter how flimsy the evidence.

New, from me. Please share if you want people to understand the machinery behind these attacks.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/open-seaso...
March 22, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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Excited to finally share this paper, nearly 5 years in the making! In it, me and co-authors share our thoughts on how (and to what extent) signals from the body map onto affective feelings. Writing this definitely brought forth more questions than answers! authors.elsevier.com/c/1ieTJ4sIRv...
February 22, 2024 at 11:29 PM
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I'm elated to share my PhD keystone paper published
@PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... I've poured my heart & soul into this project since 2016 (8 yrs!) & I'm happy to introduce the Effort Foraging Task to the world #CognitivePsychology #Motivation #Effort #Foraging #DecisionMaking 🧵
January 26, 2024 at 5:58 PM