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Robb Willer
@robbwiller.bsky.social
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Professor of Sociology, Psychology, & Org Behavior, Stanford University
Director, Polarization and Social Change Lab, @pascl-stanford.bsky.social
Co-Director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society

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Robb Willer is an American sociologist and social psychologist whose research has examined American politics, political psychology, moral persuasion, and cooperation.

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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · Jun 17
Saturday's No Kings protests were massive, inclusive, and nonviolent. It was an honor to team up with
@owasow.bsky.social to analyze how nonviolent resistance can wins hearts, minds, and elections.

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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · 8h
R.I.P. Jimmy Cliff.

I remember being introduced to Harder They Come for the first time on VHS back in 1987 and being totally transported. It and Cliff's catalogue has that same effect today. And it always will.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=twf7...
Jimmy Cliff- Many Rivers To Cross
YouTube video by rockyfl86
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Kathy E. Gill 🏍️ @kegill.bsky.social · 8h
Wow. “the Democratic Party must now run on the most populist economic platform since the Great Depression [and must] embrace a sweeping, aggressive, unvarnished, unapologetic and altogether unmistakable platform of pure economic rage [to get] out of the abyss.”
Amen.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | James Carville: Out With Woke. In With Rage.
www.nytimes.com

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Politics and Social Change Lab @pascl-stanford.bsky.social · 15h
Thank you to Kasey Rhee for an exciting recent presentation on her work analyzing how party registration has shifted across demographic groups using an unprecedented dataset of six billion voter records! @robbwiller.bsky.social

Reposted by Robb Willer, Rafael H. M. Pereira, Robert C. Richards , and 1 more

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Angela Li @angelamli.bsky.social · 22h
👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.

👩🏻‍💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
Abstract for "The truly isolated: Spatial isolation of advantage in the United States" by Shannon Rieger, Angela Li, and Patrick Sharkey, published at Urban Studies

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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · 5d
What should they have done instead?

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 5d
We should all work to engage in public facing science communication.

One of the most important ways to fight disinformation is to provide more reliable information.

Talk or write about your work and the work in your field. Create systems of trust.

My blog:

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ment...

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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · 5d
I agree. This also highlights the peril of taking a moral purity approach to judging donations. Often, when ppl take money from a morally fraught person or organization, it just amounts to valuable resource redistribution.

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 5d
Horror stories of sexual harassment from Oxford University

'Prof Hewstone turned up unannounced & dropped his trousers ... touched women inappropriately ... made comments about relationships with students'

Oxford will do nothing, betcha

Brutal from Bloomberg

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Oxford University Has Failed Women Over Harassment Concerns, Staff Say
The university has repeatedly been slow to act against male academics accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, a Bloomberg investigation found.
www.bloomberg.com

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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · 7d
Had the pleasure of returning to @hiddenbrain.bsky.social for a follow-up convo with Shankar Vendantam (I’m on in the second half!). I answer questions about how to talk across divides, what to do with people who seem awful, and when to walk away. Check it out 👇

www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/why-...
Why Following Your Dreams Isn't Enough - Hidden Brain Media
Entrepreneurs typically have no shortage of passion. But there are other elements that may matter more when it comes to whether their projects succeed.
www.hiddenbrain.org

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