Syed Muhammad Omar
@nafsiatmahir.bsky.social
Decolonial psychology | PhDing at Uni of Kansas
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Starting the week strong with a newly accepted paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, co-authored with postdoc @lizsnoland.bsky.social and Sohad Murrar! We merged two largely independent research lines to call for data disaggregation of Asian Americans and MENA Americans
Unpacking Broad Racial Labels: The Disaggregation of Data on Race and Ethnicity: https://osf.io/eyv7b
November 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Starting the week strong with a newly accepted paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, co-authored with postdoc @lizsnoland.bsky.social and Sohad Murrar! We merged two largely independent research lines to call for data disaggregation of Asian Americans and MENA Americans
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all I'm gonna say is that these posts are hours apart
October 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
all I'm gonna say is that these posts are hours apart
It's confirmed: I've lost my dissertation funding. @universityofkansas.bsky.social
Students across the US lost FLAS fellowships to study foreign languages and fellowships to conduct dissertation abroad.
Contributes to the already precarious challenges to monthly sustenance and dissertation plans.
Students across the US lost FLAS fellowships to study foreign languages and fellowships to conduct dissertation abroad.
Contributes to the already precarious challenges to monthly sustenance and dissertation plans.
And now, since our Dean wrote this (www.jsonline.com/story/opinio...), we've all received letters informing us year 4 of our NRC/FLAS grants has been cancelled.
International & foreign language education is "not a priority of the administration."
The party of national security something something
International & foreign language education is "not a priority of the administration."
The party of national security something something
September 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It's confirmed: I've lost my dissertation funding. @universityofkansas.bsky.social
Students across the US lost FLAS fellowships to study foreign languages and fellowships to conduct dissertation abroad.
Contributes to the already precarious challenges to monthly sustenance and dissertation plans.
Students across the US lost FLAS fellowships to study foreign languages and fellowships to conduct dissertation abroad.
Contributes to the already precarious challenges to monthly sustenance and dissertation plans.
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Today's normalized authoritarianism: Email confirmation that year 4 of our Title VI European Studies grant (& all other NRC/FLAS $ @ @uwmadison.bsky.social) is being held up to ensure "resources are spent in accordance with the President’s priorities & the Department’s statutory responsibilities"
Yes, we’re literally about to zero out funding for every Title VI area studies center at every university in the country, along with FLAS fellowship funding. A generation of human capital that feeds into our diplomatic & intelligence corps that will simply not exist. National security madness.
Another angle to this. They've defunded the university language programs their diplomatic corps come from or go to to upskill. They can't even build back this expertise in the future even if they want to.
September 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Today's normalized authoritarianism: Email confirmation that year 4 of our Title VI European Studies grant (& all other NRC/FLAS $ @ @uwmadison.bsky.social) is being held up to ensure "resources are spent in accordance with the President’s priorities & the Department’s statutory responsibilities"
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Yesterday, when the shooter was an imagined trans Muslim woke leftist, it was WAR.
Today, when the shooter turns out to be a young, gun-toting white male and the son of a sheriff, it’s “pray.”
Today, when the shooter turns out to be a young, gun-toting white male and the son of a sheriff, it’s “pray.”
September 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Yesterday, when the shooter was an imagined trans Muslim woke leftist, it was WAR.
Today, when the shooter turns out to be a young, gun-toting white male and the son of a sheriff, it’s “pray.”
Today, when the shooter turns out to be a young, gun-toting white male and the son of a sheriff, it’s “pray.”
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Protestors in Nepal overthrew the government in less than 48 hours due to corruption. They refused a curfew, spread protests across all cities, fought police in roaming street battles, burnt down politicians' houses, stole military weapons, stormed the parliament & burnt it, forced the PM to resign.
September 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Protestors in Nepal overthrew the government in less than 48 hours due to corruption. They refused a curfew, spread protests across all cities, fought police in roaming street battles, burnt down politicians' houses, stole military weapons, stormed the parliament & burnt it, forced the PM to resign.
When the scientists don't have anything unique to add apart from toeing the line of establishment liberals, tells you all you need to know about 'whitestream' Psychology.
ISPP Special Statement on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza and Israel – August 25, 2025
August 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
When the scientists don't have anything unique to add apart from toeing the line of establishment liberals, tells you all you need to know about 'whitestream' Psychology.
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Do conservatives oppose all environmentalist initiatives, or does the compatibility of conservatism with environmentalism vary by sociocultural context? (more below!)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Conserving nature, resisting change: Political conservatism and evasion of anti-systemic environmentalisms
Conventional wisdom and scientific research suggest that political conservatism is at odds with support for environmentalism. Across two survey studie…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Do conservatives oppose all environmentalist initiatives, or does the compatibility of conservatism with environmentalism vary by sociocultural context? (more below!)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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I'm disappointed to share that my NSF career grant on anti-Asian dehumanization was terminated. This affects ongoing project activities, which have shown great progress so far, and support for my research team and more.
I'm sad to share that the hiring of the postdoc role is currently on pause.
I'm sad to share that the hiring of the postdoc role is currently on pause.
We're hiring a Postdoctoral Scholar! Come join our @conflictcollab.bsky.social at Purdue PSY in the fall 🎉
The role involves opportunities to research and lead writing projects on humanizing organization, conflict mgnt, workplace discrimination, goals, and more! drive.google.com/file/d/1tke0...
The role involves opportunities to research and lead writing projects on humanizing organization, conflict mgnt, workplace discrimination, goals, and more! drive.google.com/file/d/1tke0...
Conflict Collab_Postdoctoral Research Associate Ad.pdf
drive.google.com
April 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I'm disappointed to share that my NSF career grant on anti-Asian dehumanization was terminated. This affects ongoing project activities, which have shown great progress so far, and support for my research team and more.
I'm sad to share that the hiring of the postdoc role is currently on pause.
I'm sad to share that the hiring of the postdoc role is currently on pause.
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For my multilevel modeling students, I created a tutorial sharing all the main functions I use for data cleaning in R.
It took me maaaany years to figure out my cleaning workflow, so I wanted to share it with y'all in case I can save anyone else time :-)
sites.google.com/view/gabriel...
It took me maaaany years to figure out my cleaning workflow, so I wanted to share it with y'all in case I can save anyone else time :-)
sites.google.com/view/gabriel...
April 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
For my multilevel modeling students, I created a tutorial sharing all the main functions I use for data cleaning in R.
It took me maaaany years to figure out my cleaning workflow, so I wanted to share it with y'all in case I can save anyone else time :-)
sites.google.com/view/gabriel...
It took me maaaany years to figure out my cleaning workflow, so I wanted to share it with y'all in case I can save anyone else time :-)
sites.google.com/view/gabriel...
It's quite revealing that the group of people who pride themselves on "modernity" and "inclusivity" ensured that one of more prominent genocides of the contemporary was orchestrated and led to it's complete manifestation.
The writer Richard Hanania once said that he hated bespoke pronouns “more than genocide”, according to www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
It feels revealing that this position is so hard for me to accept. Do we properly understand how threatened some people feel by modernism and inclusivity?
It feels revealing that this position is so hard for me to accept. Do we properly understand how threatened some people feel by modernism and inclusivity?
Opinion | The Vibe Shifts Against the Right
People who once found right-wing ideas scintillating are having second thoughts as they watch Trump put those ideas into practice.
www.nytimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It's quite revealing that the group of people who pride themselves on "modernity" and "inclusivity" ensured that one of more prominent genocides of the contemporary was orchestrated and led to it's complete manifestation.
What is the problem here?
“.. judging only from price action, we are suddenly witnessing a comprehensive turn away from US assets (stocks, USTs, corporate credit and the dollar). this is the single most important theme to monitor over coming weeks. .. for the moment capital is flowing out of the US.”
- GS Desk/Pasquariello
- GS Desk/Pasquariello
April 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
What is the problem here?
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Many national parks sidestep the opportunity to educate millions and to “inspire civic engagement” around the issue of climate, according to @universityofkansas.bsky.social research appearing in the @spssi.bsky.social journal Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy.
news.ku.edu/news/article...
news.ku.edu/news/article...
Research explores engagement with climate change in state and national parks
Click for more on paper in Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy
news.ku.edu
April 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Many national parks sidestep the opportunity to educate millions and to “inspire civic engagement” around the issue of climate, according to @universityofkansas.bsky.social research appearing in the @spssi.bsky.social journal Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy.
news.ku.edu/news/article...
news.ku.edu/news/article...
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What a week for this to be published, though never not "timely": On "Collective Action Under Repressive Conditions: Integration of Individual, Group, and Structural Level Research, Recommendations, and Reflections" -led by Arin Ayanian, open access here: spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
SPSSI Journals
Social scientific research from different traditions on collective action under repressive conditions is fragmented across different levels of analysis. The current paper takes a first step toward re...
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
What a week for this to be published, though never not "timely": On "Collective Action Under Repressive Conditions: Integration of Individual, Group, and Structural Level Research, Recommendations, and Reflections" -led by Arin Ayanian, open access here: spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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"Each of us could write extensively about Dr. Thrasher’s positive impact on our lives and the invaluable mentorship, kindness, and generosity he has offered us."
dailynorthwestern.com/2025/03/30/l...
dailynorthwestern.com/2025/03/30/l...
dailynorthwestern.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"Each of us could write extensively about Dr. Thrasher’s positive impact on our lives and the invaluable mentorship, kindness, and generosity he has offered us."
dailynorthwestern.com/2025/03/30/l...
dailynorthwestern.com/2025/03/30/l...
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Part of what is so difficult to stomach about this is that Professor Thrasher's public scholarly work is so thoughtful, rigorous, and in the service of our collective good. The Viral Underclass is an incredible book, and I think about it often.
My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...
March 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Part of what is so difficult to stomach about this is that Professor Thrasher's public scholarly work is so thoughtful, rigorous, and in the service of our collective good. The Viral Underclass is an incredible book, and I think about it often.
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Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
March 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
WEIRD researchers and their continued erasure of indigenous people. 🥲
If only they'd realize how they continue to enable fascism rather than scapegoating its manifestation.
I suppose genocide is their trademark.
If only they'd realize how they continue to enable fascism rather than scapegoating its manifestation.
I suppose genocide is their trademark.
Here's a picture of my Cornell lab with all the immigrants removed (all of us).
March 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
WEIRD researchers and their continued erasure of indigenous people. 🥲
If only they'd realize how they continue to enable fascism rather than scapegoating its manifestation.
I suppose genocide is their trademark.
If only they'd realize how they continue to enable fascism rather than scapegoating its manifestation.
I suppose genocide is their trademark.
What is an intellectual's responsibility when witnessing violence--such as, one of genocide?
March 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
What is an intellectual's responsibility when witnessing violence--such as, one of genocide?
~550 Palestinians have been killed by air strikes since the cease fire deal. ~400 alone in the past 24 hours.
This discourse is missing on this platform.
This discourse is missing on this platform.
March 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
~550 Palestinians have been killed by air strikes since the cease fire deal. ~400 alone in the past 24 hours.
This discourse is missing on this platform.
This discourse is missing on this platform.
Few interesting things happened at SPSP:
1) first Critical Psychology preconference--much to learn and grow 👍🏼
2) Kitayama using stereotypes about Africa as a place of wild animals and safaris 😵💫
3) SALAAM meet up. We have something unique to contribute here. 🪴
1) first Critical Psychology preconference--much to learn and grow 👍🏼
2) Kitayama using stereotypes about Africa as a place of wild animals and safaris 😵💫
3) SALAAM meet up. We have something unique to contribute here. 🪴
February 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Few interesting things happened at SPSP:
1) first Critical Psychology preconference--much to learn and grow 👍🏼
2) Kitayama using stereotypes about Africa as a place of wild animals and safaris 😵💫
3) SALAAM meet up. We have something unique to contribute here. 🪴
1) first Critical Psychology preconference--much to learn and grow 👍🏼
2) Kitayama using stereotypes about Africa as a place of wild animals and safaris 😵💫
3) SALAAM meet up. We have something unique to contribute here. 🪴
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I'm thrilled to join the EJSP editorial board as a Junior Consulting Editor. I'd like to thank Kim Peters, Kai Epstude (@kaiepstude.bsky.social), and Marco Brambilla for their trust. I’m excited to work with the team and grow in this role by learning from leading experts in our field.
January 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I'm thrilled to join the EJSP editorial board as a Junior Consulting Editor. I'd like to thank Kim Peters, Kai Epstude (@kaiepstude.bsky.social), and Marco Brambilla for their trust. I’m excited to work with the team and grow in this role by learning from leading experts in our field.
Considering racism is built into the structure of everyday ecologies, we reviewed Environmental Psychology journals (JEvP + E&B) to interrogate how the discipline (dis)engages with racism.
We discuss a racism-conscious & racism-centering approach to Environmental Psychology.
We discuss a racism-conscious & racism-centering approach to Environmental Psychology.
In a new JEvP article, we present findings from a critical review asking whether the discipline of Environmental Psychology (EP) can serve as a useful site for the psychological study of structural racism. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵 (1/6)
November 29, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Considering racism is built into the structure of everyday ecologies, we reviewed Environmental Psychology journals (JEvP + E&B) to interrogate how the discipline (dis)engages with racism.
We discuss a racism-conscious & racism-centering approach to Environmental Psychology.
We discuss a racism-conscious & racism-centering approach to Environmental Psychology.
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Read what Hassan Turi from #Parachinar has to say. #Pashtun
November 23, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Read what Hassan Turi from #Parachinar has to say. #Pashtun