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How to organise undergraduate lab training: evidence from 10 working social science research labs The impacts of undergraduate research experiences are multiple and varied. Working in traditional laboratories (e.g. in the bench sciences) fosters many skills, including independence and critical ...

This paper by Alissa Ruth and colleagues on incorporating students into social science labs looks important for those of us doing this and those who could:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Under Pam Bondi, DOJ failed survivors: missed deadlines, withheld millions of files, and illegally redacted thousands.

We cannot allow this to stand. Release all the files. Put Bondi under oath. Survivors deserve the truth, and they deserve it now.

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.

Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities

www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

I just applied to these this year (Radcliffe, Princeton, Guggenheim) and got zero. Of course they're all long shots. But being at an excellent public university that serves the people of Illinois apparently makes it an EXTRA long shot. Which kinda hurts even though I already suspected as much.

Visitor Experience Associate, IS-1001-07 Job Opening: Visitor Experience Associate, IS-1001-07 at National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.

DC area folks - great opportunity: 10 front line visitor experience associate jobs just opened at our museum! trustcareers.si.edu/postings/33b...

Tell Congress to Save NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate! On April 3, the Trump Administration released its budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2027. In it, the Administration states its intent to dismantle the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Social, Beh...

Tell Congress to Save NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate! Under 2 mins. Potentially huge impact. Don't wait. Do it now. #SaveSocialScience

www.congressweb.com/COSSA/58?fra...

Make checks payable to Rutgers University

I've been working on an IRB application for a minimal risk study that we have been engaged in for years and it's taken me weeks to pull everything together. Would seriously love for this to be simpler than it is. Also, since when do we pay IRB for review?

Pam Bondi knows why the files remain hidden and why illegal redactions were made.

She must come before the Committee.

If she doesn’t, we must immediately hold her in contempt.

Full statement ⬇️

"While there is no current consensus, we do not advocate for a single definition and contend that a lack of unanimity is not inherently problematic."

Kristen Hawkes and RU team plus Jess smiling on stage.

We met the legend last night. Got food poisoning. Worth it.

This has become a Comer Cover-up. Comer is shielding Bondi from a bipartisan subpoena she is legally required to honor — even after being fired.

She buried 2.5 million Epstein files. Testify or face contempt, Pam Bondi.

Survivors deserve justice.

Cuts social science out of NSF. The budget is a disaster. Congress can ensure that doesn’t happen.

In a sane world, he'd be removed from office for this

(1/2) Unhinged. Out of control. Criminal.

It’s past time for Congress to end Trump’s dangerous war in Iran before it and he spirals even further out of control.

Yay thank you! Every call matters!

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At the Capitol again today trying to make inroads on the disastrous plans to kill social science at the NSF. Your turn. Call your reps. Tell them Congress must act to preserve funding for SBE. Seriously. Today.

Looking beyond grades to discover academic potential. Resonates (for different reasons).

www.science.org/content/arti...

Woman and man smiling next to Rutgers podium.

Had a very fun day and evening hosting Chris Kuzawa from Harvard HEB, who delivered a fascinating talk on brain development and policy implications in kids.

Red States: We're going to cut all the programs that don't support our theology
Blue States: We're going to cut the same programs, but because they don't support the business school

If you want to see something very scary in terms of the future of innovation and scientific leadership in the United States, look no further than today's Whitehouse budget request:

www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

If Humans Evolved to Cooperate, Why Is Cooperation So Hard? Psychologist Nichola Raihani explains why cooperation breaks down and how we can work together for a better world.

@nicholaraihani.bsky.social wise words:

"It’s ... when the state provides material security ... that people can afford to expand their social networks..., bc they’re not so reliant on highly interdependent interaction partners to meet ... basic needs."

greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

Last day to register for EHBEA is tomorrow (1 April). The programme is now published and looks great! Really good to see so many papers focused on advancing methods and theory in the discipline 😊

Amen. Assertion will never be the same as evidence.

SUFS NoKings3 Accessible Rally — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE NO KINGS 3 ACCESSIBLE RALLY organized by Stand Up for Science - An online and inclusive rally for everyone, everywhere, on March 28th, 12:30 - 2PM CT followed by live stream of the national flagship ...

SUFS has an internet based protest fyi. Accessible.

www.standupforscience.net/sufs-nk3

Taken at the Tidal Basin yesterday. I’m calling this one Infinite Hope.

If you feel like you don't know what you don't know about accessibility, it can help to follow folks who discuss assistive technology, accessibility and disability. Here's a list of people who post a lot about those.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Congrats to Sam! @ssurlacher.bsky.social and to Herman Pontzer and Kate Clancy!

A woman with long hair, and pink square glasses and a red fleece smiling on a ski slope.

evolveD lab member Dhruti Patel has won a scholarship for a summer project on social networks and metabolic health. Congratulations, Dhruti!

www.evolvedlab.net/events