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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · 14h

Come join OS at UM!

Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 14h

Organizational Studies at UMich is hiring a full-time lecturer. We're a small but growing program with amazing students at a wonderful university. If this ad sounds like you, please apply. apply.interfolio.com/174964

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Job Summary:

The Interdisciplinary Program in Organizational Studies in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan seeks applicants for a full time Lecturer III position to begin August 25, 2026. Organizational Studies is a small but growing selective undergraduate major in the arts and sciences. This is a non-tenure track position with a university year appointment. The initial appointment period will be four (4) years, and the appointment may be renewed (based on programmatic need, funding, and performance). The appointment is subject to final approval by the college.

Responsibilities:

Duties and responsibilities for this Lecturer III position are expected to include four (4) undergraduate courses per year, including both lectures and seminars, as well as departmental service, including undergraduate advising and mentoring equivalent to a third class per semester, and service on appropriate committees. Candidates may also contribute to our core class rotation (micro-organizational behavior, macro-organizational theory, and research methods), depending on program needs and candidate background. A typical full-time (100% effort) load for a Lecturer III in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts is three courses per semester, or the equivalent in administrative and/or service duties.
Qualifications

Qualifications:

Qualified candidates will have a Ph.D. in a relevant social/behavioral science or professional discipline prior to the start date of the position and a range of instructional expertise. Candidates must be able to teach lower- and upper-level classes relevant to the study of organizations that are grounded in social/behavioral science and appeal to students looking to develop practical, transferable skills. Candidates must also be capable of teaching at least one and preferably two of our core classes (micro-organizational behavior, macro-organizational theory, and research methods). We espec…

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · 13d

Me shaking my head in Orioles

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · 23d

Not as fun as either, but Mapillary has free API calls

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · 25d

We should make police interactions more respectful. However, enforcement is an investigatory tool, it undermines these goals. Interactions can’t build trust if they start with a lie. As traffic stops become the vehicle for investigation and immigration enforcement, the costs will be severe. (7/7)

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · 25d

Because they entail so much choice, however, police departments can rein in discretionary stops. We found one directive in which merely advised officers to curtail equipment stops reduced racial gaps in stop rates, by bringing down the high number of equipment stops of Black drivers (6/7)

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · 25d

This context means different things to Black and White drivers. We asked DMV customers to listen to recordings of equipment + moving stops and report their trust in the officer. White participants were generally trusting, but Black customers were skeptical of officers in high-discretion stops. (5/7)

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · 25d

Looking across a range of agencies, we find that stops of Black drivers are much more likely to be for minor offenses relative to Whites, particularly in urban police departments. Statewide agencies, focus on enforcement rather than investigation, show no disparities in discretionary context (4/7)

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · 25d

Every driver is breaking some traffic law at some time. However, officers have more choice in enforcing some offenses (broken taillight) than others (drunk driving). Minor stops are ambiguous: all the more so since police are permitted and encouraged to use them as a pretext for investigation. (3/7)

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · 25d

Psychologists (including me) have thought about how officers talk with citizens, and the benefits of making stop interactions more respectful. But, a narrow focus on what goes on during stops overlooks the decision that leads to those stops in the first place (2/7). academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Leveraging body-worn camera footage to assess the effects of training on officer communication during traffic stops

Abstract. Can training police officers on how to best interact with the public actually improve their interactions with community members? This has been a

academic.oup.com

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · 25d

New in JSI (OA): Reckless speeding or tinted windows? We look at racial disparities in reasons why drivers are stopped, their disparate impacts on community trust, and how police departments exacerbate —or mitigate— their impacts through policy. (1/7)
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

SPSSI Journals

Traffic stops are common and consequential for citizens’ legal socialization and for racial gaps in police-community trust. Efforts to change the tenor of police interactions, however, may discount t...

spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · Sep 10

Interesting, I recall postings being free, and you could pay to make it a featured listing. I guess they changed the policy 😔 Have you posted to the jobs wiki? sites.google.com/view/psychjo...

New Psych Job Wiki - Research Assist. & Lab Manager

Psych Jobs 2025-2026 Welcome to the Predoc Positions page. All jobs listed below are predoc and lab manager positions. If the start dates are not Spring 2026 or Fall 2026, you will see an asterisk nex...

sites.google.com

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · Sep 4

ICE arrested a dad dropping off his kid at my son's school today. Elementary school. What a fucking world.

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · Aug 19

Don’t think I will.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Aug 15

🚨 SCOOP🚨: Records obtained by Mother Jones almost uniformly show police departments are deactivating safeguards meant to prevent AI bias while making it difficult or impossible to audit which police reports were generated by AI.

@tekendra-parmar.bsky.social reports:

Government documents show police disabling AI oversight tools

Departments aren't reviewing or disclosing AI-written police reports—which are now being used in plea deals.

www.motherjones.com

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · Aug 15

Is there a second page to generate the readings, slides, assignments, lecture recordings, and Simpsons references?

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · Aug 14

Other examples: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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

Start Generating: Harnessing Generative Artificial Intelligence for Sociological Research - Thomas Davidson, 2024

How can generative artificial intelligence (GAI) be used for sociological research? The author explores applications to the study of text and images across mult...

journals.sagepub.com

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · Aug 14

This semester, I want my lab to play around with GPT for some content-coding type tasks. Do folks have other recs for accessible methods papers/tutorials, e.g. from @thomasdavidson.bsky.social 's "[special issue](journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... of Soc Methods)?

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · Aug 7

Whether interdependent cultures promote harmony or have different forms of conflict relative to independent cultures www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Ingroup vigilance in collectivistic cultures | PNAS

Collectivistic cultures have been characterized as having harmonious, cooperative ingroup relationships. However, we find evidence that people in c...

www.pnas.org

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · Aug 6

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · Aug 1

And you can find the accompanying (short! assignable!) theory paper here:

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · Aug 1

😱gust is here, too soon. If you're teaching a class on racial inequality, policing, and/or institutions, I have a teaching guide on institutional interactions with readings, resources, and a sample syllabus to take the edge off.

deepblue.lib.umich.edu

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Keith Maddox @maddblackprof.bsky.social · Jul 14

The June 2025 special issue of Social Cognition -- Tutorials on Novel Methods and Analyses in Social Cognition, Part 1 -- was guest edited by Jimmy Calanchini, Juliane Degner, and Colin Smith, with support from Bertram Gawronski.

The introduction is linked here: doi.org/10.1521/soco....

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · Jul 8

This is a methods paper for a platform that didn’t exist until 15 years after Barker’s passing.

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · Jul 7

Thanks @jimmycalanchini.bsky.social and @maddblackprof.bsky.social for organizing the special issue of Social Cognition, which is a must-read. Also thanks to my in-laws for walking my dog Eddie, also visible on Street View

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · Jul 7

You can read the paper here (open access). Streetscape images can be a flexible source of stimuli, given their scale and resolution. We hope our tools can help bridge the micro and macro in the field, letting us ask and answer new questions about how people think about the contexts around them.

Streetscapes at Scale: Mapping Platform APIs as a Tool to Sample Space | Social Cognition

We introduce a ubiquitous but overlooked resource for studying the psychology of space: street-level imagery—streetscapes—from mapping platforms such as Google Street View, Apple Maps, and Mapillary. Relative to other sources of stimuli, streetscapes are unique in their ecological validity, their spatial resolution, their geographic scope, and their scale. To capitalize on these strengths, researchers can repurpose tools that mapping platforms maintain for software developers. Using these Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), one can sample a massive number of streetscape stimuli with minimal cost. This tutorial introduces the reader to a programmatic approach to sampling streetscapes with mapping APIs. We provide the reader with both concrete examples in the most common mapping platform, Google Street View, and a general procedure they can tailor to their platform and research question of choice.

guilfordjournals.com

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