Watching the Baltimore Orioles over the last 20 years also increases masochism.

MST3K 424: Manos The Hands of Fate (FULL MOVIE) YouTube video by MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000

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Recruitment graphic for the Social Science and Journalism Visiting Scholar program emphasizing the theme where social science meets journalism and the application deadline of April 15, 2026; visible text reads Where Social Science Meets Journalism, Social Science and Journalism Visiting Scholar, and Apply by April 15, 2026, with icons representing research and reporting including a laptop with charts, bar chart cards, checklist, press badge, notepad and pencil, microphone, and a network node symbol.

ISR is accepting applications for a Social Science and Journalism Visiting Scholar for the 26-27 academic year. This opportunity connects research and journalism through collaboration with @umwallacehouse.bsky.social.

Apply by April 15, 2026!

Police Body Cameras: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

Great clip wrt limits of body cams: "greatest hits" --visual perspective, activation-- and "latest singles" --asymmetries in redactions & transparency. As @robvoigt.bsky.social and I wrote, footage can be useful as data, but needs right org/policies in place journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

While they're at it, can they do a cease and desist for this 💩

Besides "using your imagination".

Check out how to travel around the world *and through time* for free from the comfort of your chair! At the Computational Social Psych precon this morning!

NOT interested in social psychology? Close this tab!

NOT attending #spsp2026 in any way, shape, or form? Here's the paper! spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

NOT registered for the Trust and Cooperation Preconference? Come by the session Racial Justice Intervention Research within the Translational Research Framework and check out how police policies influence interactions!

NOT going to Chicago for #spsp2026? Join us at the Trust and Cooperation Preconference for some work on representations of police and space, and why neighborhoods lowest in trust are seen as deserving less trustworthy officers.

Bolu Dogari, Junior Professional Researcher @rcgd-isr.bsky.social alum, will share how standard preprocessing in EDA/physio studies lead to disparate exclusion of Black people, and what recruitment/QC can do about it- at both Critical Perspectives precon and main #spsp2025 conf!

Excited to have two MiSL Lab Members presenting at #spsp2025 preconferences!

@arajo-eunkyung.bsky.social will be presenting our Street View sampling tools at the Computational Social Psychology preconference as a *featured* data blitz! (paper at guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...)

Is there proper distance to call them CW II? Or is it one protracted intergenerational conflict...

SPSP 2026 Annual Convention Whova Web Portal February 24 – 28, 2026, Chicago, IL

And my lab manager @arajo-eunkyung.bsky.social is talking about some of these tools at SPSP, which might be useful! guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...

The Wilderness Downtown Check out Arcade Fire's new interactive HTML5 music experience, “The Wilderness Downtown”.

Cool work! I always thought this music video did a good job working in places for extra oomph with Google Street View: www.thewildernessdowntown.com

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Applications for #UMich #Psychology Diversity Recruitment Weekend are in 2 days! If you are thinking about applying to psychology PhD programs in the future this may be for you! The application is short, but the benefits are big
lsa.umich.edu/psych/divers...

Also interesting is the finding from @elizabethlinos.bsky.social that the most effective to diversify the force in recruitment is not targeting egalitarians but just widening the pool, period, w/ challenge/financial benefits of position.

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journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Both misconduct and lethal force spread across social networks: the apples and the barrel.

Late adolescents entering college intending a career as police officers hold more right-leaning views than their peers | PNAS One longstanding explanation for bias and excessive force in policing is selection—the assertion that those who select to work in law enforcement a...

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Here's another datapoint with adolescents. And the link to SDO and use of force among White police officers. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Junior Professional Researcher Program Overview The Junior Professional Researcher (JPR) Program is a unique opportunity for recent college graduates from backgrounds underrepresented in research to launch a career in the social sciences a...

@umisr.bsky.social is now accepting applications for the 2026 Junior Professional Researcher Program cohort.

JPRP is a two-year paid gig for recent college grads who are considering a career in social science research.

isr.umich.edu/training-opp...

Keep in mind the 2% rate of return defrays some of the cost, and the additional hour lets you get in all three hot dogs before 9:30.

Come to UM* for Diversity Recruitment Weekend! It's a great chance to learn more about the psych department and grad student experience.

*(Virtually, trust me, late March is still firmly in "Lion" and not "Lamb" territory).

How can psychology help fight poverty? Our
@pnas.org article shows how “culturally wise” interventions can support women’s agency and boost poverty reduction (Patrick Premand, Thomas Bossuroy, Abdoulaye Sambo, Hazel Markus, Greg Walton @stanforduniversity.bsky.social): t.co/maI5vf3meP

As an em-dash using, lazy email preambling, triplet enjoying writer, I'm not just anxious about being mistaken for an AI- I'm terrified.

Body camera footage as data: Using natural language processing to monitor policing at scale & in depth - Nicholas P. Camp, Rob Voigt, 2024 Officer-worn body cameras are ubiquitous in modern law enforcement as a tool for accountability. The cameras’ mere presence may deter bad behavior, and recordin...

The irony is that AI could play an important role in police oversight- such as flagging videos for noncompliance or identifying disparities journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1... @robvoigt.bsky.social and I described how these technical limitations, combined with industry incentives, can lead to products for law enforcement and stymie body cam analyses for the public good.

A reminder that diarization —determining who said what— is really bad on most body cam platforms. This is probably not the “transformative” Axon had in mind…

Maybe they were sick with the flue.