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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 9h

Do you procrastinate?! ME TOO!! Fortunately it’s not too late to spend a fun Friday evening submitting your app for our TT job in social psych 🔥

Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych.

Review begins 10/10.

Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵

Payne's Prairire, where you could watch the sunset every evening if you came to UF

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 12h

Finally, an award I might stand a chance at winning! 🤣

Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 3d

My undergrads think the Diener Mid-Career Award is hilarious because to them it sounds like it’s for having a “mid” career 🫠

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 16h

*Frantically putting the hyphen back in*

Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 3d

My undergrads think the Diener Mid-Career Award is hilarious because to them it sounds like it’s for having a “mid” career 🫠

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 18h

Today’s the day! Hope to see your application - tell your friends!! 😁

Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych.

Review begins 10/10.

Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · Sep 23

Our new paper shows that men benefit from couples' long-distance joint moves more than women do, in both Germany and Sweden. Is this just b/c men are usually the main breadwinner? No, it's hard to explain the patterns we see w/o a gender norm prioritizing men's careers. www.nber.org/papers/w32970

Moving to Opportunity, Together

Many couples face a trade-off between advancing one spouse’s career or the other’s. We study this trade-off using administrative data from Germany and Sweden. We first conduct an event-study analysis of couples moving across commuting zones and find that relocation increases men’s earnings more than women’s, with strikingly similar patterns in Germany and Sweden. Using a sample of mass layoff events, we then find that couples in both countries are more likely to relocate in response to the man being laid off compared to the woman. We investigate whether these gendered patterns reflect men’s higher potential earnings or a gender norm that prioritizes men’s career advancement. We provide suggestive evidence of a gender norm using variation in norms within Germany. We then develop and estimate a model of household decision-making in which households can place more weight on the income earned by the man compared to the woman.

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 3d

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).

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AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · 1d

Study from @anthropic.com + Turing Institute finds just 250 documents are enough to "poison" any LLM, allowing you to trigger a backdoor with a fixed prompt, here ''

www.anthropic.com/research/sma...

wow LLMs really do learn just like humans

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models

www.anthropic.com

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 16d

New review! We synthesized literature on empathic AI: AI-generated emotional support is rated higher than human responses, but people's knowledge of the source shapes their perceptions. W/ @desmond-ong.bsky.social @amit-goldenberg.bsky.social @anatperry.bsky.social

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

www.science.org

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 1d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 1d

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych.

Review begins 10/10.

Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵

Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 1d

If you applied to our social psych job at Florida (deadline 10/10!), you two could have spent your last couple weeks splish-splashing around!

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Eliana Hadjiandreou @elianahadtime.bsky.social · 2d

Why do we derogate effective altruists, activists, & other radically prosocial individuals? In new work, we discuss how doing good that deviates from social norms gets stigmatized. New preprint w/ @dcameron.bsky.social @tlau.bsky.social @desmond-ong.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 2d

We're excited to announce the recipients of the SPSP Outstanding Single Contribution Awards! Congratulations to Cialdini Prize winners Madalina Vlasceanu and Kim Doell, and Ed O'Brien - winner of the Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize.

Learn more: ow.ly/gEto50X8v6H

Announcing Winners of SPSP’s Outstanding Single Contribution Awards

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Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 2d

Weber State administrators told student they couldn't present their research on the state's anti-DEI law at an on-campus conference on censorship(!) unless they removed all mentions of DEI from their slides

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Weber State Censors, Then Cancels, Censorship Conference

University officials said that several planned presentations violated a Utah state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.

www.insidehighered.com

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 3d

Noooooooooo but yes all the goldens except one are related 😅

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Jibran Khokhar @drjkhokhar.bsky.social · 3d

I definitely feel like a “mid” career scientist right about now!

Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 3d

My undergrads think the Diener Mid-Career Award is hilarious because to them it sounds like it’s for having a “mid” career 🫠

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 3d

UPDATE: If you count unborn golden puppies, it’s now 2:1 (or more!!)

Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 28d

Not convinced? We have the highest golden retriever:faculty ratio* in all of social psychology.

*1:1 as of 9/12/25

Good boys and girls Cora, Bravo, and (mama) Harper

My two golden fuzzballs, Teddy and Thea! Did I mention BEACH?

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 3d

My undergrads think the Diener Mid-Career Award is hilarious because to them it sounds like it’s for having a “mid” career 🫠

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 3d

Just a reminder that Florida is hiring this year - we'd love to see your application! Deadline is 10/10

Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych.

Review begins 10/10.

Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 5d

Get in ya’ll, it’s spooky season in north central Florida!! 😎 🎃 👻

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 6d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 5d

I wouldn’t normally endorse AI prompts but these are indeed essential for all academics.

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 5d

Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...

10 AI Prompts for Academics

making those hard jobs a little easier ...

profserious.substack.com

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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 5d

Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...

10 AI Prompts for Academics

making those hard jobs a little easier ...

profserious.substack.com

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