Tamar Kushnir
@tamarkushnir.bsky.social
Cognitive Scientist/Developmental Psychologist studying little scientists’ minds and social imaginations | runner | musician | mom | talks to trees (she/her)
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After years of teamwork, I am thrilled that our adversarial collaboration on political ideology and belief rigidity was accepted for publication at Political Psychology! Plus, it's my first Pol Psych pub, so it is doubly exciting! t.co/2TgscFm1J8
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/4wmx2_v2
t.co
August 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
After years of teamwork, I am thrilled that our adversarial collaboration on political ideology and belief rigidity was accepted for publication at Political Psychology! Plus, it's my first Pol Psych pub, so it is doubly exciting! t.co/2TgscFm1J8
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Just sent this as an email to my department but figured I'd share more broadly in case it is useful. This describes the procedure happening now for science funding in Congress (@davidimiller.bsky.social can correct me if I got this wrong). Importantly, there are still actions that can be taken.
Science Funding Process
=====Written July 11 2025====== Hi all, Just wanted to share some information that is likely relevant to a lot of us, but not always easy to understand, about federal science budget procedure (feel f...
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July 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Just sent this as an email to my department but figured I'd share more broadly in case it is useful. This describes the procedure happening now for science funding in Congress (@davidimiller.bsky.social can correct me if I got this wrong). Importantly, there are still actions that can be taken.
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I’ve called Thom Tillis just about every day for the last month to ask him to oppose this bill—and it looks like he’s officially taking a stand against it and the damage it would cause to North Carolinians!
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
Tillis becomes third GOP senator to oppose Trump’ s big, beautiful bill
North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis (R) announced after a meeting with Senate GOP leaders and colleagues Saturday afternoon that he will vote “no” on both the motion to proceed and final passage of the…
thehill.com
June 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I’ve called Thom Tillis just about every day for the last month to ask him to oppose this bill—and it looks like he’s officially taking a stand against it and the damage it would cause to North Carolinians!
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
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Listen to Standing Together leaders Angela Mattar and Itamar Avneri discuss what it means to build a joint struggle against occupation and war and for peace in their conversation on The Harlem Lights podcast:
June 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Listen to Standing Together leaders Angela Mattar and Itamar Avneri discuss what it means to build a joint struggle against occupation and war and for peace in their conversation on The Harlem Lights podcast:
I never thought it would be possible to give a talk at @socphilpsych.bsky.social and a have gig in the same week! Thanks president @andrewshtulman.bsky.social for reminding us all that imagination is not just for children :)
The highlight of Day 2 was @tamarkushnir.bsky.social singing “Pure Imagination” at a restaurant in Ithaca—a song by she dedicated to me. 😊
June 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I never thought it would be possible to give a talk at @socphilpsych.bsky.social and a have gig in the same week! Thanks president @andrewshtulman.bsky.social for reminding us all that imagination is not just for children :)
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Do children use counterevidence to change their mind if changing their mind means disagreeing with their ingroup? No! Zoe Finiasz, @tamarkushnir.bsky.social, et al. find that children will refrain from revising their beliefs if their ingroup is defined by that belief. #SPP2025
June 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Do children use counterevidence to change their mind if changing their mind means disagreeing with their ingroup? No! Zoe Finiasz, @tamarkushnir.bsky.social, et al. find that children will refrain from revising their beliefs if their ingroup is defined by that belief. #SPP2025
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@tamarkushnir.bsky.social presents a wonderful overview of how imagination and experience combine to help us differentiate actions that are impossible from those that are simply hard.
June 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
@tamarkushnir.bsky.social presents a wonderful overview of how imagination and experience combine to help us differentiate actions that are impossible from those that are simply hard.
The ECC lab is going to @srcdorg.bsky.social Minneapolis - Hope to see you there!
April 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The ECC lab is going to @srcdorg.bsky.social Minneapolis - Hope to see you there!
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I'm thrilled that a version of 'Conscious Artificial Intelligence and Biological Naturalism' has just been accepted as a target article in Behavioural & Brain Sciences
😀 An open-call for commentaries is coming soon www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
😀 An open-call for commentaries is coming soon www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
April 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I'm thrilled that a version of 'Conscious Artificial Intelligence and Biological Naturalism' has just been accepted as a target article in Behavioural & Brain Sciences
😀 An open-call for commentaries is coming soon www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
😀 An open-call for commentaries is coming soon www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Exclusive: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Post.
Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label
The immigrants who have requested a reversal and been reinstated in Social Security databases include a Haitian asylum seeker and a minor child.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Exclusive: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Post.
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Hello, #psychology friends! Want to make science inclusive? We are hiring a new full-time recruitment coordinator for our Duke Child Studies group! Priority consideration if you apply by 4/18 but we will keep reviewing after that until the position is filled!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29865
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29865
a yellow sign that says we 're hiring
ALT: a yellow sign that says we 're hiring
media.tenor.com
March 31, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Hello, #psychology friends! Want to make science inclusive? We are hiring a new full-time recruitment coordinator for our Duke Child Studies group! Priority consideration if you apply by 4/18 but we will keep reviewing after that until the position is filled!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29865
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29865
Our Duke Child Studies group is hiring a new recruitment coordinator! Come join us!
Hi again! You may have noticed our position for a new recruitment coordinator was paused for a new approval process, but the posting is back up now and we extended the priority deadline to 5/2!! Please share! ⭐️
Hello, #psychology friends! Want to make science inclusive? We are hiring a new full-time recruitment coordinator for our Duke Child Studies group! Priority consideration if you apply by 4/18 but we will keep reviewing after that until the position is filled!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29865
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29865
April 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Our Duke Child Studies group is hiring a new recruitment coordinator! Come join us!
My lab is hiring a full time lab manager! Come join our terrific team! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29947
Duke University, Psychology and Neuroscience
Job #AJO29947, Associate in Research, Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US
academicjobsonline.org
April 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
My lab is hiring a full time lab manager! Come join our terrific team! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29947
Horrible. But important to read and pass on.
Not brown-skinned, not male, and no visible tattoos, if any.... No one is safe.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Horrible. But important to read and pass on.
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University presidents, the time is now! Unshackle the general counsel's office! File all the lawsuits! Release the faculty upon the op-ed sections! Write to your alumni, parents, and donors! You have nothing to lose but a tiny percentage of your enormous endowments... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern
The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
University presidents, the time is now! Unshackle the general counsel's office! File all the lawsuits! Release the faculty upon the op-ed sections! Write to your alumni, parents, and donors! You have nothing to lose but a tiny percentage of your enormous endowments... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
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We couldn’t be more excited for our amazing recruitment coordinator Sydney who is off to start her PhD this Fall in Educational Psychology (Developmental Sciences) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under the mentorship of Dr. Aixa Marchand! Such a huge deal! 🎉
April 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We couldn’t be more excited for our amazing recruitment coordinator Sydney who is off to start her PhD this Fall in Educational Psychology (Developmental Sciences) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under the mentorship of Dr. Aixa Marchand! Such a huge deal! 🎉
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So happy for Sydney and this next big step! #phdbound
We couldn’t be more excited for our amazing recruitment coordinator Sydney who is off to start her PhD this Fall in Educational Psychology (Developmental Sciences) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under the mentorship of Dr. Aixa Marchand! Such a huge deal! 🎉
April 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
So happy for Sydney and this next big step! #phdbound
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1. This Friday I hosted a workshop on morality with some fabulous humans who took take time out of their lives to talk about ideas with each other. Here is a thread with brief summaries of what folks presented in case you too would like to hear about their science:
#PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc
#PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc
April 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
1. This Friday I hosted a workshop on morality with some fabulous humans who took take time out of their lives to talk about ideas with each other. Here is a thread with brief summaries of what folks presented in case you too would like to hear about their science:
#PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc
#PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc
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Hands off Madison, Wisconsin
April 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Hands off Madison, Wisconsin
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I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
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Lot of people at the mall today. Fight the power
April 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Lot of people at the mall today. Fight the power
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This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
April 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.