My lab (u.osu.edu/spal/) and Ken Fujita’s lab (u.osu.edu/fujita/) at OSU are hiring a joint lab manager (a full-time postgraduate researcher) to start this summer!

Come work in two incredibly fun labs in a thriving social psychology department.

Application and more information soon to come!

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | 2026 Summer Institute in AI Methods for Social Scientists (AIMS)

July 26-31 | Application deadline: May 8

AIMS brings together scholars from across the social sciences for a week of learning, practice & collaboration at CASBS.

AIMS DETAILS and APPLICATION: bit.ly/4muwstd

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

Concerned about the possible dismantling of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Directorate of NSF?? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Find out what's happening and what we can do to protect behavioral science with @fabbs.org Friday April 10th at 1:30 ET. Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Motivated to share our PCAST report on the value of the social and behavioral sciences. Sigh…
www.erichorvitz.com/pcastreports...

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.

If you're working on health topics and are into mobile sensing -- the non-profit data4life supports early-career researchers with access to their GDPR-compliant data collection platform, mentorship, open-access coverage and travel support!

www.data4life.care/en/about-us/...

The Report of Stereotype Threat's Demise Has Been Greatly Exaggerated And why I'm feeling a certain way about it

Today Dominic Packer & @jayvanbavel.bsky.social republished @minzlicht.bsky.social's post about "The Downfall of Stereotype Threat" in their widely-read The Power Of Us newsletter. I felt a certain way about that & the evidence presented there & thought I'd respond:

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and identify new research partners across academic fields? Apply to one of the 2026 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (described in yellow in the attached map) here: sicss.io/locations

How do you measure a threat in the air? Testing the universal, dynamic, and multifaceted nature of social identity threat Using the SITC Inventory, social identity threat is shown to be dynamic, multifaceted, and nearly universal.

New paper out in Science Advances! I'm really (really) proud of this one. Let's get into it. doi.org/10.1126/scia...

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ANES Announcement: Call for Proposals for the ANES 2026 Pilot Study. You can read more information:electionstudies.org/anes-announcement-call-f...

Deadline is 5pm Eastern, Friday, April 17, 2026.

This is why I don’t post very much. It would be great to engage more with folks, but boy is it exhausting! 😞

dplyr 1.2.0 dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited!

- `filter_out()` for dropping rows

- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools

These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!

tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

Further, we find that mentally linking economic disparities to health disparities can increase support for addressing the former (and that many people may make these connections spontaneously when these forms of inequality are mentioned together with or without causal language).

Highlighting health consequences of racial disparities sparks support for action Racial health and physical harm disparities violate morality concerns, motivating action.

Across 6 experiments (5 preregistered), we find that in the context of LGBTQ inequality, health-related disparities garner more support for mitigating action relative to economic- or belonging-based ones (consistent with this team’s prior work on racial inequality (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...).

Health-focused frames mobilize Americans to action to address LGBTQ inequality | PNAS “More than 1 in 8 LGBTQ people live in states where doctors can refuse to treat them.” This headline describes a flurry of laws passed in 2025 allo...

New paper, led by Pia Dietze (newly on bsky! @piadietze.bsky.social) and Riana Brown (@rrrianabrown.bsky.social): www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Call for Proposals: Data Collection for Replication+Novel Political Science Survey Experiments Alexander Coppock and Mary McGrath January 27, 2026 We invite proposals for a survey experiment replication+novel design competition. Se- lected replication+novel design survey experiments will be conducted on large samples of American respondents, quota sampled to match U.S. Census margins and filtered for quality and attention by the survey sample provider Rep Data (repdata.com). Each proposal consists of two parts: (1) a replication study of an existing, previously published survey experiment, and (2) a novel experimental design on a topic of the authors’ choosing. The replication studies and reanalyses of the existing studies will be combined into a meta-paper to be co-authored by all authors of accepted proposals along with the princi- pal investigators (Coppock and McGrath). As a condition for acceptance, authors commit to sharing the data and producing a write-up of the findings from their novel design for submission to a scholarly journal, and public posting of a working paper pre-publication.

🎺 Call for proposals 🎺

1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment
2️⃣ run a novel experiment

on repdata.com

3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies
4️⃣ publish your study

details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_...
applications open Feb 1

please repost!

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!

Data Archivist Position Summary Pew Research Center is seeking a Data Archivist to support our commitment to open science and data transparency. This newly created role will play a key part in enhancing the accessib...

Pew Research Center just posted a brand new opening for a Data Archivist! This is a 2-year, grant-funded position housed within the methods team (the best team obv). Check out the link below for a full description and to apply! #openscience

I'm excited to share that I’ll be reviewing PhD applications this cycle for students interested in working with me starting Summer/Fall 2026.

I’m especially looking for applicants excited about research on trust/persuasion, responses to historical harm, addressing inequality, and/or mindsets.

new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Check out my work that was recently published in Psychological Science on "The Anticipated Relational Effects of Confronting Bias (or not) in Interracial Friendships" with @mocraig.bsky.social, @rrrianabrown.bsky.social, and Casey McMahon.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

a woman in a blue robe is sitting in a kitchen with the word perfect written in front of her . Alt: Dorothy from golden girls making the perfect symbol with the word perfect written in front of her.

10/10. No notes.

Thanks Gordon! 🥳

Three Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States Everyone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg...

Realized I should update that this is now ungated. Everyone can now read, without subscription, the article that one reader described as having "about as close to a plot twist as one will ever see in a review essay." (I loved that comment, which has been making me smile since I read it.)

ISPP Small Grants are back for 2026! 💡 $50k total available; request up to $5k for research or network/workshop projects. Open to current ISPP members. Proposals due Dec 1, 2025. Selection uses a lottery among proposals that meet all criteria. Apply: ispp.org/funding/smal...

Very cool work!

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Family friendly waiting room for participants

Family friendly waiting room, picture shows children's play area

Room for Research Assistants

Come join the Moral Minds Lab as a grad student at MSU! Brand-new lab equipped for child & adult testing, with motivated undergrads in a happy department. 🤩

Learn more: www.moralmindslab.com/join-our-tea...

(P.S. @tedmond.bsky.social is also taking a student!) @msupsychology.bsky.social

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Screenshot from Reddit. User is zensnapple, posting 6 months ago. Thread says "How to turn off Google AI Overview in Chrome SOLVED Open Chrome and put chrome://settings/searchEngines in the search box. A tab will open which brings you to Search Engine > Manage Search Engines and Site Search. Click on the Add button by the Site Search update. A box will open. Fill in the form with the following: Name: AI Free Web Shortcut: @web URL: {google:baseURL}search?q=%s&udm=14 You’ll now see AI Free Web in the list of search engines. Click on the three stacked dots on the right side of AI Free Web on the list. Select Make Default. From now on, google functions pretty much like it did back when it was good. Good luck out there."

A while ago, we started a #FixItFriday tradition. We keep a running list - large & small, digital & analog, anything broken or annoying - and work on it together.

Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...