I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

wrote this line yesterday:

"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."

To build on this, I like @obrian.bsky.social's book here

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Then Marc Hetherington, @jonweiler.bsky.social, and I have a book manuscript under review that tries to help explain these bundled orientations.

Dartmouth response to the Trump Administration Compact

president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...

Cool new study by @joelleforestier.bsky.social @page-gould.bsky.social & Alison Chasteen

Can social media contact reduce prejudice?

#PrejudiceResearch

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Gavin Newsom announces that any California university that caves to Trump and signs his “loyalty pledge” will be immediately defunded.

“CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS.”

We’re hiring in Quantitative Psychology at UNC Chapel Hill!

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the program and please share widely!

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Somebody actually sat down and wrote these two sentences, one after another. www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

We already know that lagged effects in CLPMs are likely to be upwardly biased, but just how easy is it to find significant effects? Way too easy. I tested CLPMS in 100 randomly selected pairs of correlated variables and found significant effects in 98 of them. New preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Incredible that they put this in writing

We are searching for a Professor and Chair of Psychology at Tulane University. I am chairing the search committee and am happy to answer any questions about the position. All inquiries will be treated confidentially. Please share with your networks: apply.interfolio.com/173828

After years of teamwork, I am thrilled that our adversarial collaboration on political ideology and belief rigidity was accepted for publication at Political Psychology! Plus, it's my first Pol Psych pub, so it is doubly exciting! t.co/2TgscFm1J8

'Groupthink' - a zombie idea in social and organizational psychology, from @bpsofficial.bsky.social @psychmag.bsky.social

(Yes there are drives to uncritical conformity in some groups, but that's because of particular group norms not some quality of being a group)

www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Out of everything possible to be known, % of U.S. adult citizens who say humanity has already discovered [most or all | some or nothing] for these fields of study:
Mathematics 48% | 28%
Literature 46% | 26%
Philosophy 31% | 38%
Medicine 19% | 50%
AI 13% | 67%
today.yougov.com/society/arti...

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes

1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible.

2. "alignment with Administration priorities"

3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem.

a brief 🧵 w/receipts

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself?

"fork lady is eroding public confidence."

"ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field."

"lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability."

that's what you sound like.

Im begging the NYT to spend time talking to people who actually teach and work at universities. Especially ones that don't have billion dollar endowments.

My issues are AI use, crumbling infrastructure, vanishing staff, unfunded state mandates, a customer service model of education...

You obviously need to have at least some knowledge of how to code before being able to use AI effectively, but I have found that AI is probably best at coding. Good for doing things you don’t know how to do, and explaining it, but also quite useful for debugging code (“why doesn’t my code work?”)

This is such a nuanced and big-hearted piece on the evolution of autism as a diagnosis, by an anthropologist of mental health who is also the dad of a now-grown daughter on the spectrum. Great reading (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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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Ever needed to measure anything to do with religion and spirituality?

Open access book with 300 (!) scales.

(Incidentally, 300 is wayyyyy too many... but it's nice to have them all in one place).

link.springer.com/book/9783031...

An open endorsement of hate - precisely what you do not want the President to do after an assassination when messages from leaders disavowing violence are especially important www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...