I’d be curious about your thoughts on this as a person who has also bounced across contexts.

This is the way

(But so silly that this isn’t just part of the platform)

If a measure of a different, more specific construct is the best measure of a different, broader construct, it isn’t.

Comparative Political Studies - Volume 59, Number 6 Table of contents for Comparative Political Studies, 59, 6

The special issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social “Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies”, co-edited by myself and Isabela Mares, was just published. The issue includes 8 articles, many of which set new research agendas. A🧵w/overview 1/10
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This looks to be a really fascinating special issue 👇

Reports of a third attempted arson attack on Jewish targets in North London this week. It's getting really scary and more people need to start taking it seriously.

Such cool technology

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

Senior Research Associate (RA2386) in University of East Anglia | UEA View details and apply for this Senior Research Associate (RA2386) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Social Sciences School of Psychology Senior Research Associate Ref: RA2386 ...

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #PostDoc #SocialPsychology

My collaborator Rose Meleady is advertising a postdoc position

Requires expertise in intergroup contact/ESM studies

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Rose is excellent -- high competence, high warmth. You'd won't find a better advisor!

A couple of years ago, I stream-of-consciously wrote this guide for how I structure academic papers. We discussed writing in my graduate class today, and I remembered it. Here is the link below if it might be helpful (or give you a different perspective)!

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Not just “top” journals. It’s happening at every journal that I’ve talked with.

Having fun isn't hard, when you've got a library card!

Yes.

New paper out in JPSP with @erichehman.bsky.social! We asked: What is the framework underlying our impressions of environments? Our large bottom-up study shows that people pay attention to 4 factors. We’re calling it the Environment Impressions Model: doi.org/10.1037/pspa...

Post Doc at Uni Tübingen! 100% position for 3 (+3) years; they're looking for somebody to analyze large-scale longitudinal datasets in education research.

Expertise in machine learning is an advantage, commitment to research transparency desirable 😌 proficiency in German beneficial but not required

Shape the future of social science as a PhD student of machine learning-informed theory construction, based on patterns in high-frequency longitudinal data! You will be part of vibrant communities like the INSIGHT Lab, Theory Methods Society, and Tilburg Experience Sampling Center

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Job Vacancies - Universität Bremen Offene Stellen

I am looking for a postdoc to join my team at the University of Bremen. 5-year-contract, top-up to 100% possible for most of the contract period.

Apply by 04 May 2026.

If you have questions about the position, send me an email!

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🚨🚨🚨 International Society for Moral Psychology (ISMP) 🚨🚨🚨

ISMP was formed to create an interdisciplinary and international home for moral psychology, aimed at fostering deeper engagement across traditions, methodologies, and cultural contexts.

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One Size Might Not Fit All: A Tailored Approach to Psychological Intergroup Interventions - Shira Hebel-Sela, Nimrod Nir, Adva Gruenwald, Boaz Hameiri, Eran Halperin, 2026 Despite growing efforts to improve intergroup relations, the effectiveness of psychological intergroup interventions is often limited. We argue this modest impa...

🚨 New publication alert 🚨
Out in PSPB! We tested whether psychological intergroup interventions should be tailored to specific outcomes and specific people. Spoiler: yes.
w/ Adva Gruenwald, Nimrod Nir, @boazhameiri.bsky.social, @eranhalperin75.bsky.social
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Utrecht University is hiring an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Social Data Science - great opportunity for scholars working at the intersection of advanced statistical methods and computational social science research. #AcademicJobs #ComputationalSocialScience

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Arranged in an ordinal scale

EXTRA! EXTRA! The April issue of Political Psychology is hot off the press! With over 40 amazing articles in this issue, we'll be highlighting each in batches. Check out the classifieds here for the first set we're promoting or check out the full issue online: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679221...

It’s their primary anti theft feature

I think that applies to most studies correlating "immorality" with "[insert negatively valence construct]"

Do apply to this six-year research and teaching position! Apart from teaching two classes a term, you should have ample time to focus on your research goals as part of an international department in a great (and affordable) city.

Awards and Grants Awards and Grants

The @bspsuk.bsky.social is now accepting nominations for the Anne Shepherd New Investigator Award. Early career researchers in academia, local or national government within 5 years of PhD/appointment (allowing for career breaks) are eligible. Deadline 30 April

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Great idea to do this!

Predicting relationship quality with itself? A single general factor captures most of the variance across 34 common relationship measures In relationship science, researchers have generated a wide array of constructs and corresponding self-report measures to characterize, explain, and predict relationship quality – the foremost studied ...

New paper, out this week in PLOS One, suggests that most close relationship self-report measures are primarily capturing relationship quality 🧵
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Supremely Polarizing Cambridge Core - American Government, Politics and Policy - Supremely Polarizing

a glimmer of glad tidings. my short book with @matthewhitt.bsky.social — Supremely Polarizing — is available FOR FREE. it nicely summarizes and extends our work on how partisanship shapes support for the Supreme Court. thank you for your attention to this matter.

Overall, we find that efforts to reduce hostility online must consider the broader socio-economic and political contexts. Addressing societal inequalities may be essential to disrupting a mutually reinforcing cycle between societal discontent and aggression on social media.

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