TWO social psychologists got it!!!! Congrats to Mina Cikara and @olsonista.bsky.social !!!!

Thanks, Steven. I appreciate it. 🙏

Algorithms Don't Need Your Surname to Guess Your Caste. That's a Problem A Dalit student graduating in the mid-2020s will encounter screening systems built on decades of unequal hiring, skewed promotion data, and biased public records. Unless institutions change how algori...

www.theindiaforum.in/caste/algori...

We-Search Lab We-Search Lab

We study identity, group dynamics, language, & politics.

Especially encouraging applicants with experience/background in managing and analyzing data.

Lab + research: www.ashwinia.com

Happy to answer quick questions by DM!

Research Assistant II Company Description: By working at Harvard University, you join a vibrant community that advances Harvard's world-changing mission in meaningful ways, inspires innovation and collaboration, and builds...

🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Pre-doc Researcher/Lab Manager! 🚨🚨

Full-time pre-doc research opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026).

Review begins April 10
Apply: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUnive...

Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇

Alabama set to execute man who did not kill anyone Unless Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey intervenes, Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75, will be executed Thursday. He is among thousands in America convicted under a controversial felony murder law.

Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.

New work from @drsanaz.bsky.social : using smart phone sensing data, one of the biggest predictors of people higher on authoritarian measure was Facebook and social media use #spsp

Hi Louisa, sorry about the DM thing. 😄 Would you mind emailing please?

We-Search Lab We-Search Lab

Especially encouraging applicants with computational, big data, and/or experimental expertise!

Lab + research: www.ashwinia.com

Happy to answer quick questions by DM!

🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Postdoc! 🚨🚨

Postdoc opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026).

We study identity, group dynamics, language, & politics.

Rolling review begins 3/14
Apply: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15806

Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇

Pastel sketch of ladies assembling to attend a May Ball

Shawls, pastel (one of my old May Week theme drawings)
#Cambridge #mayball #pastel

Conference Details

Call for Papers: Workshop on Contention Under Repression

We invite scholars in the Greater Boston area to submit proposals for a one-day workshop on 4/17 on collective action, civil society, contentious politics, etc. across global contexts

Details: tinyurl.com/wrkshp417

Submission Deadline: 3/15

Research Associate in Psychology Dr. Eric Shuman at the University of Virginia invites applications for a post-doctoral research associate with expertise in the social psychology of social protest, social change, and/or in big data, ...

I am looking to recruit a postdoc to join my lab next fall, & work on projects focused on online mobilization with social media datasets - see more details here: bit.ly/4r49x9b . If anyone knows of someone with relevant skills who is looking for a postdoc- please pass this on!

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

🚨New Paper🚨

Elected officials are increasingly extreme.

E.g., a recent analysis of 84,000 state-level candidates found that extreme candidates are now winning at the highest rates in 30 years.

Why are people increasingly drawn to extreme candidates?

📣📣We're going for round two!!!📣📣

I'll be reviewing graduate applicants again this year. Come join my growing lab!

Info about the lab: joelleforestier.com
Info about the social program: www.psychology.pitt.edu/graduate/soc...

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Congratulations Emma!!! 🥳🥳🥳

Opinion | Holy Water Couldn’t Save My Husband. MAHA Wouldn’t Have Either.

If you knew Mike (well first you’d be laughing because he was just so funny) you’d know he would be so pissed at these cuts to scientific research and the peddling of magic & mysticism to good people yearning for control. I hope he knows his story continues to matter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...

Opinion | This Is What Makes Protests Successful

Read our @nytimes.com op-ed to see some of the history and research behind this strategy →

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...

Science abstract: POLICING High-frequency location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding Pradhi Aggarwal1, Alec Brandon2*, Ariel Goldszmidt3, Justin Holz4, John A. List3, Ian Muir5, Gregory Sun6, Thomas Yu7 Prior research on racial profiling has found that in encounters with law enforcement, minorities are punished more severely than white civilians. Less is known about the causes of these encounters and their implications for our understanding of racial profiling. Using high-frequency location data of rideshare drivers in Florida (N = 222,838 individuals), we estimate the effect of driver race on citations and fines for speeding using 19.3 million location pings. Compared with a white driver traveling the same speed, we find that racial or ethnic minority drivers are 24 to 33% more likely to be cited for speeding and pay 23 to 34% more money in fines. We find no evidence that accident and reoffense rates explain these estimates, which suggests that an animus against minorities underlies our results.

missed this last month: data science informing psych, sociology, polisci

in Lyft data (222K drivers), Black or minority drivers get speeding tickets 1/3 more often **when they are known to be going the same speed**

beautiful work, it's racial profiling, case closed

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We are extremely pleased to announce the preliminary release of the combined pre-election and post-election dataset for the ANES 2024 Time Series Study!

The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...

Best,

The ANES Team

Congratulations to psychologists Rich Petty, Phoebe Ellsworth, BJ Casey, Jamie Pennebaker, & Alison Gopnik on their election to the National Academy of Sciences today!!

email starting, "The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has undertaken a review of its award portfolio. Each award was carefully and individually reviewed, and the agency has determined that termination of certain awards is necessary because they are not in alignment with current NSF priorites."

yesterday, my postdoc funding (salary and research funds) was cancelled by the National Science Foundation, effective immediately. I received the same generic, vaguely threatening, typo-ridden email as many of my colleagues who have had their awards terminated recently. (1/n)

Thanks so much Claire 🙏

My lab conducts research on questions at the intersection of identity, politics, language, and group dynamics.

Lab website: www.ashwinia.com

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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)

Congratulations to the newest class of APS Rising Stars ⭐! www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...