The Trump administration is kicking 150,000 Illinoisans off of SNAP on May 1.
He's ripping away help from Illinoisans as the cost of their groceries, gas, and utilities continues to rise.
Make sure to check your status at abe.illinois.gov.
Presenting my talk titled "Nonbinary Students' Reactions to 'He or She' vs. 'They' Pronouns" at the Midwestern Psychological Association.
Posing with Allison Farrell and my undergraduate Hannah Alvarez in front of the poster Hannah presented at MPA.
Fist bumping my advisor Heather Claypool after receiving the Graduate Student Paper Award at MPA.
A picture of my Graduate Student Paper Award and my conference badge that has ribbons attached that say, "Award Winner," "she/her," and "Big Cheese."
My last MPA as a grad student was a success! I'm honored to receive the Graduate Student Paper Award and am proud of my undergrad for presenting her first poster (Happy to chat if you missed them!).
I love what I do and can't wait to continue my journey as assistant professor ✨️
#2026MPA #MPA2026
This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.
Abstract Free-text responses are a crucial part of psychological research, enabling participants to respond without bias toward a predefined set of answers. Unfortunately, many established methods for analyzing such responses require extensive manual coding, which is time- and resource-intensive. To address this issue, automatic-processing methods based on word embeddings and clustering techniques have been proposed. In this article, we introduce SCORES (Semantic Clustering of Open Responses via Embedding Similarity), a user-friendly, graphical tool that makes such automatic methods easy to use and understand for psychological researchers.
1/n I'm really excited to share this (open access) paper in which we introduce SCORES (Semantic Clustering of Open Responses via Embedding Similarity) - a user-friendly tool to analyze (short) open-response data. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... With the magical @bpaassen.bsky.social.
Over the past decade, the robustness of the ego-depletion effect has been widely questioned. Possible reasons for variations in the ego-depletion effect may be participant expectations of the demand of the upcoming task and experimenter expectations or demand bias. In three experiments we tested the hypothesis that the ego-depletion effect is partly or exclusively attributable to (i) participants’ expectations of the task (Studies 1a and b) and (ii) experimental demand bias (Study 2). In all studies we did not observe a robust ego-depletion effect, and only participants informed that the task was tiring exhibited the effect. Taken together, our findings suggest that participant and experimenter expectations can influence performance in ego-depletion paradigms. However, more research is necessary to determine the extent to which these expectations—rather than other social-motivational factors—drive the effect.
New study finds demand and experimenter bias partly explain the ego-depletion effect
Journal:
doi.org/10.1007/s121...
Open access: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
By @oulmann.bsky.social, @martinhagger.bsky.social, et al.
Things are not okay.
Attributions of Ghosting by Attachment Orientation: A Retrospective Approach
If you're up early, come see my poster examining if attachment predicts blame when people are ghosted! #SPSP2026
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
Indiana State University logo
I am so excited to share that I will join the Department of Psychology at Indiana State University as an assistant professor this fall! The past 5 years at Miami University flew by. It is a dream come true to work at a wonderful institution like ISU. I'm excited to continue to grow as a professor!
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
Postdoc position!
Myself and @jordanaxt.bsky.social are seeking applications for a shared post-doctoral researcher at McGill, beginning Fall 2026.
Topic area broadly centered on intergroup dynamics, prejudice, discrimination
Full description here: hehmanlab.org/ad
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Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
Some anti-vaxeers think polio isn’t a big deal.
In the US 1950s, it caused ~20,000 cases of paralysis per year. Iron lungs, crutches, and braces were everyday sites.
The Trump administration wants us back in the 1950s. We can’t forget what that means.
www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
🧵1/4 New paper alert! psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Can you celebrate diversity while undermining it? Our new paper in American Psychologist discusses how people/organizations can appear committed to diversity while their conceptualizations of diversity actively undercut it.
On this MLK Day, let’s remember that Dr. King believed in America not as it is, but as it could be. Hope is not passive—it’s a commitment to keep bending the arc toward justice. The promise of America is still ours to fulfill.
Psychology Jobs
Three assistant professor positions in health, clinical, or social psychology at the University of Southampton, UK.
Closing date: 30 Jan 2026
BSky Contacts: @timwildschut.bsky.social & @denisdrieghe.bsky.social
#PsychJobs #SocialPsyc #ClinPsyc #HealthPsyc #PhDSky #AcademicSky
I am hiring a 4y postdoc for my Leverhulme-funded project on the role of beliefs about what in/outgroup members believe/do about climate change in shaping pro-climate behaviours🌏
Start date: May 2026 at latest
Deadline: Feb 8
Please share it widely!
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Who agrees? ✋
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
Think you can't make a difference?
Well, consider the 3.5% rule
"if 3.5% of a population protests against a regime, the regime will fail"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
What a world to go to bed thinking about one mass shooting and wake up to news of another, a targeted hate crime, at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. And also in the video where an actual hero, Ahmed al Ahmed chooses not to kill one of the terrorists.
A horrific attack. No one should be killed because of their religion, identity,culture or nationality. No one at all should fear violence like this.
And Ahmed Al Ahmed’s act of courage can be seen by all on video…a man without a gun saving others from men with guns.
This is what he says when doesn’t care about the people who died
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
Today I and everyday I am:
Grateful for Vaccines
Grateful for Science
Grateful for Public Health Workers
Grateful for Doctors
Grateful for Nurses
Grateful for Scientists
Grateful for everyone whose job has been a little harder to do especially this year, yet who keep showing up.
#Thanksgiving
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
If someone told me this were AI, I would believe it, because, wut?!
I'm back! In this experiment we had 39 participants choose between 8 different PhD programs which varied in terms of region, application materials, prestige, and fees. Importantly, two of the programs had a GRE requirement and two were equivalent but did not:
Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil...
Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy.
Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs